Laryna6, thank you for the reviews! (One on each of my stories)
I did look at tumbler but I don't understand the platform (don't use them normally) so I'm just posting here after all.
Elpida Etrama di Astraea – The star of extreme hope.
Cadis Etrama di Raizel – The rose of extreme blood.
Frankenstein – Spear? It was the only alternative to 'crazy scientist character' I found. Ironic
The plot bunny – Raizel leaves Frankenstein with their child so he wouldn't follow him to eternal sleep. Came to me after Laryna6 introduced to idea that nobles were asexual, so gender didn't matter, I don't like the idea of 'human pregnancy' for men. Never really considered the implications of not human life form beyond the powers and longevity before...
There were so many ways this could happen. I couldn't see Raizel forcing a new born on anyone in the end (it was in my thoughts). So Frankenstein must have consented at some point, but perhaps he didn't know what he was agreeing to because of the language barrier or a Noble idiom that he never had the chance to pick up as a human? Originally I wanted him to be so grieved that he tried to resurrect Raizel (a traditional Frankenstein plot) and ended up with 'their' child instead, but that would be an insult.
The idiom I was thinking of was something like, 'I wish to spend eternity with you.' Which given a nobles 'life is synonyms with eternity' makes it turn form share my life with you to have/create a life with you. Then Frankenstein discovered what Raizel thought he meant, considered the implications and decided he wanted to go through with it any way, Raizel having already agreed.
Those were all creation fics that ended with Astraea's birth. What's the point of giving them a child if that is all you do? She would be a whole new character. All these things happened between the two of them, Frankenstein and Raizel. So the question, 'what are the other members of the house hold doing?' That thought popped up, because if we were still in the comic they would get involved, so the two must be on their own. How everyone else discovered this and reacted became the current story. With Astraea in the starring role because let's face it she's a sweetie, she should be if I expressed her right anyway.
There was also the question, 'how do nobles give birth if they don't carry children to term?'I came up with a ritual where both parents gave up a part of their soul, healable but weakening in long/medium term(human time) portion, channelled it into 'runes' drawn with blood and after a few hours of commitment/ritual all these elements combine to form a child. Whoever draws the 'runes' in blood will be seen as the 'sire', which in this case was Raizel because there was no guarantee that human blood would work. A single Parent could also use up a lot of soul to have a child alone which permitted the plot bunny that Frankenstein only discovered the child after Raizel died, that was quickly dashed.
That nobles have to give up part of their soul would explain why they don't take children lightly. It also gave Raizel a stabilizing effect to stop his spiritual bleeding because if this is how all Nobles reproduce they must have a way to recover their soul better after having a child. It wasn't complete because he would have sent it to Frankenstein, humans don't have those innate methods.
All of the above pondering was why I wanted to force info dumps into the story, all these ideas and they don't get known! They are very different story types so it really didn't work. Anyway I hope you liked my work, even if I did post it all 'first draft' unedited.
Did anyone look up the meaning of Astraea's name? I spent a bit of time on it. I tried to make it similar to Raizel's while still being individual. The definition can be seen at the top of the page, literally translated, but there are some extra historic meanings embodied in it as well.