In this one particular circumstance, Jono would be just as likely to thump Hannibal back.
//It's not what I would do that I'm afraid of,// he replied, furrowing his eyebrows at him. //It would be disgustingly irresponsible for me to parent a child that might end up sharing my mutation, or as a target of the bloody cult that my family was a part of for thousands of years. Yes, there are good possibilities, there's Angela and JJ, there's Kathe and Elizabeth and so on, but most of them were children. There's good odds that the youngest of them still haven't manifested as mutants. But then there are the ones I haven't been shown. Out of countless possibilities, you mean to tell me that it wouldn't be cruel to any potential son or daughter to bring them into the world knowing there are high odds they'll go through the same hell that I did, or worse given Raven's parentage? Based on a half-dozen examples hand-picked by the island out of infinite possibilities?//
He narrowed his eyes a little and got right back to glowering at the floor.
//If you have a genetic condition that you're guaranteed to pass along to your offspring, something that could potentially cause them years of suffering, and you choose to pass those genes on regardless...//
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Re: NFB!
Date: 2014-12-18 08:06 pm (UTC)//It's not what I would do that I'm afraid of,// he replied, furrowing his eyebrows at him. //It would be disgustingly irresponsible for me to parent a child that might end up sharing my mutation, or as a target of the bloody cult that my family was a part of for thousands of years. Yes, there are good possibilities, there's Angela and JJ, there's Kathe and Elizabeth and so on, but most of them were children. There's good odds that the youngest of them still haven't manifested as mutants. But then there are the ones I haven't been shown. Out of countless possibilities, you mean to tell me that it wouldn't be cruel to any potential son or daughter to bring them into the world knowing there are high odds they'll go through the same hell that I did, or worse given Raven's parentage? Based on a half-dozen examples hand-picked by the island out of infinite possibilities?//
He narrowed his eyes a little and got right back to glowering at the floor.
//If you have a genetic condition that you're guaranteed to pass along to your offspring, something that could potentially cause them years of suffering, and you choose to pass those genes on regardless...//