IN> Grigori Reproduction (Re: APG Errata Submitted)

[Jonathan Lang]

Elizabeth McCoy wrote:
> "Others allow or encourage the parents to engage in "sex,"
> interleaving their Forces and souls that they may best share the
> harmonies and themes that they love, joining in a moment of glory
> that is culminated by the Archangel's gentle weaving together of
> some of those Forces to form a new being."
>
> I am not entirely happy with the last part of the last sentence, but my
> brain is, today, goo. So I'm letting it "sit" for a while until I can
> figure out something better. (Anyone suggesting ideas may or may not
> get recorded for doing so, depending on the state of the goo.)

I'm assuming that the goal here is to portray a celestial analog to
intercourse, but to do so in a way that highlights practical benefits
of such an approach.  In that vein, I'd replace the "culmination" with
the "climactic moment".  Similarly, I'd remove the gentleness of the
Archangel's actions: the moment of conception would seem likely to be
intense; and gentleness is not a term that I tend to associate with
intensity.  From a strictly pragmatic point of view, the benefits of
this approach would appear to be two-fold: the angels have more say in
how their child will turn out; and the archangel, by outsourcing some
of the construction decisions to the parents, has an easier task.
This would imply that Jean, for instance, would probably eschew the
intercourse approach in favor of the more micromanagement-ish "take
what I need, then build a new angel from it" angle.

The end result:

"Others enable the parents to intermingle their Forces and souls - an
experience not unlike sex - so that they may best share the harmonies
and themes that they love; this leads to a climactic moment when the
Archangel unites the Forces most in tune with each other to form a new
being."

> >3. if two Grigori vessels procreate, the result should be a human.
>
> My first reaction to this line: "!!!?!!!"

I can't say that I'm surprised at your reaction.  :)

> If two Grigori vessels mate, the result is nothing, for thematic reasons,
> I think. Eugh.

Got it.  While I saw some potential in the idea that Grigori
interbreeding producing monstrosities, I can see how that would get
trumped by the idea that angels (even Grigori) should not be able to
produce anything fundamentally human without human assistance.

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang