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

[elizahonig.livejournal.com]

Rowan (whom, we remember from recent fanfic, has a horse farm somewhere in Northern California and comes to do the occasional architecture lecture at Berkeley and eat fine food) will be one of the divorced. Her first partner (I don't care whether male or female, and I'm figuring she doesn't care either) will ultimately decide that she doesn't share enough of herself and is incapable of really deep love, and will find somebody less cool/confident but more loving and empathetic. Their relationship will have been childless, largely because Rowan always made plain that she wasn't going to be a "mommy" type for anybody.

Rowan will spend some time dealing with this break-up, raising horses and designing high-end ranch buildings, and coming to understand herself and what being alone really means. Finally, on one of her architecture trips into Berkeley, she will meet a glamorous (female) art historian with three charming daughters adopted from various Eurasian countries. She will fall completely in love and slip seamlessly into a kind of brusque, amusing, slightly detached parental role. She will introduce these urban, cosmopolitan yet eccentric kids to the joys of riding and the country life. They will adore her as much as their mother does.

OK, so I'm into projection. Who isn't? I always adored Rowan from the distance created by fiction vs. reality, but feel that I'm now ready for her!

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

*smiles blissfully* But are your daughters ready for Sophia Marlow-Law as a cousin and Lawrie as an auntie? ;)

(Please note, all, that I really don't think of Triptych (http://rose-and-lizard.livejournal.com/17761.html) as in any way an authorised version of the Marlow futures! There is room for all of us to play in the world AF created. Though as I was saying to coughingbear a while back, I do have trouble sometimes remembering that, for example, the incident where Nicola visits the village school on horseback happened in forester48's Esther's Term (http://forester48.livejournal.com/1798.html) and not in canon.)

[elizahonig.livejournal.com]

*smiles blissfully* But are your daughters ready for Sophia Marlow-Law as a cousin and Lawrie as an auntie? ;)

Oh my yes. My oldest daughter (age 10) is a truly excellent ballet dancer who loves staging performances and dreams of attending the San Francisco School of Ballet. As real life and fiction come together here, I can see some unexpected Forest/Noel Streatfield crossovers. Hideous competition and envy from Sophia Marlow-Law, while [Rowan's] daughter Margaret is wifty and eccentric and completely unaware of how annoying her natural talent is to those around her. The fact that Margaret lived in an orphanage for the first 7 years of her life will simply add to the Streatfieldishness of it all.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

They sound like great kids.

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

yes, am perfectly happy with this scenario for Rowan. Good. That's HER future settled then!