Heya - I'm still around. Still pondering how to weave my two stories together... AND get enough time to play them to see what happens. I'm a couple days into Leon's toddlerhood, but I'm kind also working backwards. I might not be able to post much till I see the end of this since I'm kind of writing out of order...of course it might not END up being out of order in the final version, but it's kind of fun to see the story unfold this way.
What I DO know is that Blaze won't be reaching out to the other parents. Leon (the child) will when he gets older. I've set it up that he was in a life support pod thing when they crashed and he was in stasis, so they didn't wake him (or the other stasis children) until they knew how to do that safely. Helps explain away age differences so you're welcome to the idea.
Penelope still will be reaching out as her kid is not part of the official study, government plan, so she's more lost and looking for little Hannah's parents.
Just had an idea as I was noodling today. Might there be a special high school that some of our kids could go to? I remember reading a book as a kid (The Girl with the Silver Eyes - if you're curious). The kids in that book find others who are weird like them and then the story ends with them talking about maybe trying out the special school that the scientist type adults wanted them to join. They knew some of it would be like being lab rats but if I recall correctly they decided to try it out. The book, of course, ended at this time. But I wondered since I have two kids, if they might not just put some of them together and see what happens. Not all of them of course, different studies, different countries....but...does this mesh with anyone's story? Maybe just for the final years of HS? Let me know if you're interested.
That said I am having a terrible time not clicking on poor Leon's portrait. It's not normally me physically clicking on him, but sometimes I'll spacebar to move the plumbob from over Blaze's head and then I'll realize that selected Leon. Gah. And I'm dying to know how he's doing on his traits! So far i've clicked off without spoiling anything.
