A. Meeting Virginia and her first child

Posted by: Erika on: January 5, 2012

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This is Virginia Mondiale. She’s a young woman from Bridgeport, freshly graduated in genetic sciences. She’s an incredibly intelligent person, although not very caring of other people’s feeling, with the only exception of her own family. What a pity that she doesn’t have one! But that’s going to change, and very soon…

Virginia Mondiale: Family Oriented, Genius, Hopeless Romantic, Natural Cook, Nurturing

Name meaning: Virginia is a US state, but it also have an interesting ironic side, considering the amount of children she’s going to have. Mondiale is an Italian surname that means “all over the world”.

Virginia has chosen Appaloosa Plain as her new city. In fact, it seems to be a quiet city, which is fundamental to the Plan, but full of young men – which is important as well. Also, the fact that an incredibly high number of children are born there every day, according to the newspaper, leads Virginia to think that there must be something in the air that makes women so very prolific… and that’s part of the Plan, too.

That’s her new home. It’s not very big, or well furnished, because she’s a bit short on money, and she isn’t going to find a work – the Plan doesn’t include any yet. But it does include learning painting and logic, so Virginia has bought the tools that are going to help her.

On her first day in Appaloosa Plain, Virginia heads to the library to study: she needs to plan her every step with the utter care, to avoid mistakes. It’s a fortune that she’s such a genius that Logic isn’t hard to learn for her.

But, in the library, she also finds the time to meet someone. This is Bertrand Bedlington, Virginia’s first friend in Appaloosa Plain.

Soon, she decides that he will be her first mate. Because that’s her Plan. She wants to study the genetic differences among the Sim kind. Virginia is strongly convinced that it is a very important subject to be studied for the benefit of the all Sim kind, but all the universities to which she wrote refused to grant her any funds for her research, and she’s stubbornly chosen to do it all on her own. She will bear 26 children at least, every one of them with a different father, so that she will have enough genetic material to study, even tough all the children will have their mother in common.

Bertrand Bedlington is going to be the first father in a long line. He will provide her a child, because Virginia has decided so, and she doesn’t care if he or her pregnant wife don’t agree.

Virginia doesn’t waste any time in inviting her new friend Bertrand to her small home, so that they can get to know better. She even gets him to sleep at her home, in her bed, although they don’t do anything else than sleeping… unfortunately.

The next day, after Bertrand departures to bring his wife to the hospital, so that she can give birth to little Courtney-boy, Virginia returns to the library to study: if she has to bear 26 children, she needs to find a way to live enough to do so. What’s better than science, then?

During one of her session study, one of the million women in Appaloosa Palin that are giving birth in this period decides to make her labour start in the library. Even though Virginia has studied a lot to prepare her for what’s is going to come, she freaks out much more than the girl’s husband… is that her future? Motherhood, 26 labours and births, and genetic studies?

Flirting with 26 different men over the course of the year, just like Kanoa Parrot is doing with Imogen Pelly while his wife Jazlyn is giving birth right next to him?

Well, Virginia is not an indecisive person, and the answer is “yes”. 26 babies are her future, and she doesn’t want to wait to have the first. A date with Bertram at the theatre seems the right occasion to provide herself with it…

And the next morning it appears that it worked!

And, after a day of vomiting in the toilet, Virginia has the certainty that she was right! Her firstborn is on its way!

Virginia is very happy, and tries her best to appear self confident, but the truth is that she’s very scared: she spends hours in the library, studying for her coming adventure.

Although she also remembers to make some new acquaintances, so that she will know the best to father her second child.

After all those hours of preparation, Virginia is anxious to meet her child… so much to dream of it in bed.

…and when the time comes, she’s calm and collected, and she remembers to breath in the correct way, although she does regret not having someone to comfort her and bring her to the hospital.

But her home birth proceeds perfectly, and a little boy is born! Meet Amerigo Mondiale!

Amerigo Mondiale: Heavy Sleeper, Genius.
Conceived in the Theatre.
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Named after the masculine italian name that inspired the name of the continent America.