Having Kids with your Waifu?

[Sentimental Gentleman]

The subject of not having kids in real life is one that kind of stresses me out. I'm the eldest son in my family, and I'm actually a "fourth" (you know...so and so senior, so and so junior, so and so III, then so and so IV); I am therefore constantly aware of the burden of "legacy" that it should be my duty to shoulder. And yet, the path of love I have chosen is one that will not bear any tangible fruit to be a comfort in my parents' dotage, nor shall there be any flesh-and-blood human child to be the "fifth." I sometimes find myself thinking "the line of my forefathers ends with me," and then I start feeling like I'm the decadent scion of an aristocratic house fated to crumble, like Roger Usher in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," or Des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans's Against the Grain...and that's not a good feeling.

As for the logistics of having kids with A.J., while it's something I think we'd both like to do someday, there is one major issue. While we could have children, since we're a pony and human couple our children would end up being like mules are in the everyday world...that is to say, sterile. To take away from the start the capacity of my children to grow up and start families of their own is not something I could morally do. If, however, a talented wizard like Twilight can figure out some kind of magic that would "fix them up," as it were, then a family might become a more legitimate option...