Continuation of the Marlow line

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

The discussion about Kay below made me wonder how many children each of the Marlows would end up producing. I hope this hasn't been discussed before - if so I apologise! My thoughts are as follows:

Giles - lots, of course. Borne by a meek and long-suffering wife?
Kay - not sure. Maybe two, by a later marriage.
Rowan - I haven't decided whether Rowan will settle down in a same-sex partnership, in which case I don't think she will bother with children, or whether she will marry, initially decline children, but then suddenly decide in her mid-thirties that her biological clock is ticking and ultimately end up with two sons.
Ann - Ann will marry mid-twenties and - ironically and unfairly - have great difficulty conceiving. They will adopt two children before she finally produces a daughter.
Ginty - boy and girl? Followed by divorce?
Peter - don't know. Perhaps he will surprise everyone by becoming the real pater familias?
Nick - I reckon four boys, and would quite like them to be by Robert Anquetil.
Lawrie - after a succession of affairs with her leading men (and because she likes to shock and likes the attention probably a couple of leading ladies too), Lawrie will settle down with a somewhat older and very dashing film star, will initially reject the idea of children, but aged 37 will suddenly decide she wants one and immediately and without difficulty produce a daughter, which will really rub Ann's nose in it.

What does everyone else think?

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I reckon Peter's record with Fob makes him good father material.

I think I'd have to read well-written Nicola/Robert to sell me on it - the age gap makes me a bit queasy, which I don't think would bother me if Nicola's main ambition was, say, to win the Ashes with the first mixed England cricket team, but since she's so focused on things nautical and he's already been there and done that...

I can absolutely see small blond children of Rowan's showing up at the Westbridge Infants, meeting a very right-on teacher say 'Now, you have two mummies and that's absolutely OK', looking at each other in very infant-Nick-and-Lawrie perplexity and then saying politely 'We also have New Forest ponies and pigs.'

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That's interesting that you think that Rowan would have children in a heterosexual relationship but not a same-sex one. Why the difference? I'm not entirely convinced about the inevitability of the "biological clock", but I can't imagine that any ticking would be silenced just because she was gay.

I really don't know why so many people peg Ginty for divorce.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I agree about Lawrie, except I think she'll produce twins (or even triplets) and have them acting in films aged 6 weeks. Film companies love multiple births to actors, as it means they can use both/all to play the same baby (there's strict rules on how long an infant can "act" for, so two or three looking the same doubles or triples the shooting time).

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the other day that Lawrie might do a bit of a Gwyneth Paltrow and end up with Jan Scott's hairy rock band brother. With offspring called, perhaps, Plum and Zerubabel Scott?

And I also agree that there is no real reason to write off Ginty's future just because the Merricks don't fancy her as a future DIL. Outside the Marlowverse she would come across as a very normal teenage girl. I don't think many of us would want to feel we hadn't developed as a person since we were 15.

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

But you've given them all children - too much Marlow spawn, and frankly, I see the Marlows as less baby-happy (in the sense of trigger-happy) than that.

Let's see - Karen is put off for life by Chas, Rose and Fob and does not reproduce, either with Edwin, or in her subsequent relationship with one of her doctoral students, when she is a classics don at St Hilda's.

Children would mess with Nicola's solo sailing tours.

No one will let the insufferably smug Giles close enough to them to give him a chance to reproduce.

Fob grows up to be a dark, chunky, smouldering femme fatale, pursues Peter till he gives in and they have two children, one dark and square-set, the other thin and blonde.

Lawrie gets pregnant by one of her leading men, but decides that Lady Macbeth can't really have a bump, so terminates the pregnancy in 'the Play is All' mode. Ann is horrified. Lawrie rolls her eyes, unable to believe in such wetness, but is subsequently more careful about the pill.

The reproductive fates of the other Marlows are hidden from me... But Patrick is gay, and eventually rejects Catholicism violently, forming a lifelong relationship with a taciturn local farmer, with whom he hunts, hawks and is blissfully happy.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

If you're reading my fic you'll find out exactly how many children they each have and in what circumstances!