"No, Faerie, you can't have my firstborn because a daemon has a lien on it. You can subordinate to theirs to get my second, you can have them subordinate for the second, or find some way to share up to two children as-yet-unborn. Or, you can not offer me such things..."
A.K.A. prelude to the worst/best second "mortgage" negotiations ever
P.S. the collateral is their soul, so having one child is already expected
That's a scenario rife with possibilities! Everybody involved seems up on their laws and loopholes -- at least according to their own people's customs. I wonder if there's wiggle room in the interpretation somewhere.
Does adoption count? Do the kids have to be 100% human? Can the human go sign a third contract with something scary who thinks it would be a hoot to be legally some human's child, then get a chance to wreak havoc in another realm?
(And if the kid has to be the human's biological child, what if that human seduces the boss of one of the other two? Or them?)
There are many ways this could get far messier than any of them signed up for.
Colossians 1:18 (NKJV) -
And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Their firstborn son loves to sleep in the arms of the snake-father. He put his back to the sun and listened to the rustling of plants and the rustle of book pages
I have a question, why did rumple want everyones fucking firstborns like to eat them? put them in baby races? make the firstborns fight to the death? like why. What does he even do with them?
✨ "I Peter, by Aslan's gift, by choice, by prescription, and by conquest, High King over all the kings of Narnia, Emperor of the Lonely Isles, Lord of Cair Paravel and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the lion..." ✨
Do I like Alicent x Aegon more than other ships because the actors and the relationship dynamic is great or because as a firstborn child my relationship with my mother is as complex as them and we both love each other but are never able to express it and just keep on hurting each other while the other is never able to realise it ????