Heheh... Yeah, this page was Martin's idea, just doing another page here just to have the news of Vespi's pregnancy sinking in on the pair of them. Made sense given just how incredible the news was.
Like I said, our Discord had managed to figure this news out early, and with it semi-figured-out I floated the idea to another reader who wasn't part of the Discord community. He shot back that Jake being a dad wasn't a big deal because "He basically already is one." Thought it was a funny enough point to have Vespi throw that out.
Need to get to writing more scripts soon, but next page'll cut away from these two and get back to the kids. ^^
Yeah, this is a fun moment. Next page was actually written before this one but I pointed out we kind of needed to do something first to let the whole thing sink in and really cement that yes, it is Jake's.
Like Adam said, that's one other bit of foreshadowing we were doing, that bit of Jake talking about his cellmate waking up. Think it probably takes a lot for Jake to describe something as awkward but that'd probably about do it.
It's not really been gone into before I don't think but there is an overall idea that Vespi's had some health issues in the past stemming from her backstory we nudged at during her nightmare. Don't know when we'll get the chance to go into that but might hear more about it at some point, think for now it does kind of work better having it be kind of a mysterious point about her.
Heh. Yeah, part of the appeal of having Jake and Vespi having a baby is that the pregnancy can be as long or as short as we need it to be. I dunno about having the baby grow up super fast, though.
I should specify that to us Pixie are distinct from Fey. .... I kinda need to clarify that now since we've been wanting to do stuff with actual Fey since like, the start of the comic.
So she is preggers with a half fae this will be really cool and will the have the baby in normal human time or will she have it sooner since he is not human?
Heh. The answer on that is that the pregnancy will go on for "as long as we need it to." That's a big plus to this whole thing, we can stretch it out or cut it short to fit our needs.
I should specify that to us Pixie are distinct from Fey. .... I kinda need to clarify that now since we've been wanting to do stuff with actual Fey since like, the start of the comic.