CB fic idea

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I had this thought late last night. It was for a Cowboy Bebop fic.

I guess there's all these cliche fics where Faye gets pregnant with Spike's child. I've only read one of them, so I'm going with everyone else's assumption that there are a lot out there.

Now, I was thinking I could take that, and fuck with that idea and turn it into something else.

So I say that Spike and Faye slept together before the end of the series, and she gets pregant. Everything else goes along as you know (except with that one glaring difference at the very end that I'm not going into because this is a spoiler free post, but you all know what I'm talking about, happens in Bebop fic all the time). Flash forward 10 years. Let's say, Spike's was put into a coma for most of those years. The Bebop crew has broken up, scattered, fate unknown to each other.

One day Spike comes across a little boy. A strange little boy.

We (audience, and eventually Spike too) find out that it's Faye's son-- by him. But the clincher? Faye's dead.

That's right, this wouldn't be a sappy cliche FxS fic. Nope. Faye's dead, her son's an orphan, and this is all giving Spike a major headache.

I like this idea, because I could have good Spike character angst, I could ponder on what a child from Spike & Faye (half raised by Faye and half orphan) would be like...and I could possibly have flashback!smut, if I'm feeling really ambitious. I could have Spike/Julia angst, and Spike/Faye angst, and lots of stuff.

You few Bebop fans... would you read this?

I've never written Bebop fic before.

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What would their son from Spike and Faye look like?

I'm thinking Spike's brown-red eyes, very dark hair-- either blue-purple or black, like Faye's but darker. But curly, like Spike's. Small for his age, but with promise to grow taller. Almost unhealthily thin. Pretty face, kind of like the way Elijah Wood looked when he was a really young child actor.

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& what's with that lantern jaw action?!

this is why i don't read manga for things that are already anime. i'm hot for rei from MARS.

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Did you read the horrible Gundam Wing series manga? Not only is the art bad, but the writing's the most fucked up WRONG shit ever. The only good parts are the parodies in the back. However, the manga for the specials Blind Target, Episode Zero, and Ground Zero are done by other people, and are very attractive as well as nicely written.