Re: Re: Scooby Most Likely to Become Pregnant in a B/W fic?

["tater" <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's also reasonable from a biological point of view.  A fetus is 
> scentifically described as a parasite, living off the mother; it robs its 
> mother of resources and energy.  The early stages of a pregnacy are 
> described as flu-like symptoms.  How would the slayer healing factor react 
> to this?  There's a rare condition where a woman cannot bring a child to 
> term because her body rejects it as foriegn body.  Would the slayer's body 
> react any different?  It makes sense that the slayer would automatically 
> reject a pregnancy, probably even before she was even aware that she was 
> ever pregnant.
>
> Also, it would make sense that the PTB would even prevent her from even 
> having periods in the first place.  I mean, what would a woman smell like 
> to vampires during that time?  Like blood in the water to sharks, I 
> imagine.  Would a slayer be able to survive if, for three days every 
> month, she attracted every single vampire for miles around?  The fights 
> she had on those days would be brutal and endless.  Vamp after vamp, 
> singly and in groups, fight after fight, from dusk to dawn.  They'd lose a 
> slayer every month if that were true.


On both the issue of pregnancy and the issue of periods, consider the fact 
that fertility and menstruation are basically controlled by hormones.  A 
slayer is pretty much on a constant hormone high.  Adrenalin, epinephrin, 
probably has elevated testosterone levels to make her more aggressive. 
Cosidering that anything from low body fat to not getting enough sleep is 
sufficient to throw off many women's cycles, and slayers would be prone to 
both, then throwing in the hormone high a slayer must be on pretty much all 
the time, I'd be suprised if any slayer had anything remotely resembling 
normal fertility.

On the actual subject of this thread, Willow is the Scooby most often 
pregnant by default.  The reasons why it wouldn't be Buffy or Faith are 
stronger than the reasons it wouldn't be Willow, therefore, Willow it is. 
Sometimes it's not that there are reasons for something, so much as the lack 
of reasons against something.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!) 



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