[He hesitates and then very soothingly strokes over Ikki's crest as gently as possible.]
[It's a reasonable question. For a little brother anyway.]
No, we're not. [Closes his eyes and pets more.] Even though I haven't been sent home yet, Robin has, her nakama have, and she is not truly free here.
Aside from which, I wouldn't feel right having kids that way, even in our own world. My devil fruit wouldn't pass on, and... [He promised Robin not to explain about the World Government, poneglyphs, and he's 100% certain her mother goes with that category.] Robin has circumstances of her own. Our crews, our families are not even one. If I ever do have kids, because life settles down enough to enable it, I'd want to do it my father's way and adopt reckless runaways like me, anyway.
[More pets.] I do love Robin very much, and if we had a kid... [He gives an incredibly sad smile.] I would love that too. But we take measures to be careful about avoiding that. Just as I took measures with any partner I had before Robin, eh.
Ikki, I don't know if your mother wanted kids. And you certainly know I'm not about to try to breed an army of infants. I can't even train my own crew. I could barely teach Law how to control his haki, eh. Sex isn't supposed to be about just having kids. It's the only way to birth kids, aye, but there are a million reasons to have sex, and many of the ways don't produce children.
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[It's a reasonable question. For a little brother anyway.]
No, we're not. [Closes his eyes and pets more.] Even though I haven't been sent home yet, Robin has, her nakama have, and she is not truly free here.
Aside from which, I wouldn't feel right having kids that way, even in our own world. My devil fruit wouldn't pass on, and... [He promised Robin not to explain about the World Government, poneglyphs, and he's 100% certain her mother goes with that category.] Robin has circumstances of her own. Our crews, our families are not even one. If I ever do have kids, because life settles down enough to enable it, I'd want to do it my father's way and adopt reckless runaways like me, anyway.
[More pets.] I do love Robin very much, and if we had a kid... [He gives an incredibly sad smile.] I would love that too. But we take measures to be careful about avoiding that. Just as I took measures with any partner I had before Robin, eh.
Ikki, I don't know if your mother wanted kids. And you certainly know I'm not about to try to breed an army of infants. I can't even train my own crew. I could barely teach Law how to control his haki, eh. Sex isn't supposed to be about just having kids. It's the only way to birth kids, aye, but there are a million reasons to have sex, and many of the ways don't produce children.