Back to the upload grind for today! We're still in '23 here, and our young Definitely-Not-A-Princess-In-Secret has three digitama on the way. Gleam's a big fan of romanticism so she's overjoyed that she got pregnant on her 'wedding' night when she reunited with Umbra.
Now, regular fans of Digimon may be like... How in gods name is a MORPHOMON gonna fit three digitama inside her?
The answer is, she's not! Pregnancy and reproduction in Digimon D&D leans on the more techno/xeno side of things.
On doing the dirty, unlike biological creatures, you actually get pregnant more or less immediately, and we have a dice rolling system for determining if it happens and how many eggs you get out of it. Digimon usually have one egg, but if you Nat 20 the initial roll, you then get to roll an additional D3+1, guaranteeing twins at least, but up to four eggs at one time.
Rose once used Inspiration to ensure she got knocked up, lmao.
Pregnancy isn't exactly physical, as there is no actual egg forming inside the mother, but there are definitely physical symptoms! Weight gain, tiredness, whatever the player wants to include really, as well as the signature baby bump. Most importantly, as a result of the data being redirected to forming their offspring, evolution progress is halted for both parents. Both mother/carrier and father/donor basically stop gaining exp and their growing egg gets it instead.
After two weeks, the data is uploaded remotely to Primary Village, clearing the mother of symptoms and removing the exp lock. Extra eggs means extra data to process, so every additional one adds an extra two weeks to the 'gestation' period. Gleam here, with triplets, ended up pregnant for a month and a half. Once they arrive in Primary Village, it takes another month for the egg to hatch, though the parents can come and pick up the egg at any point too.
Culturally speaking, there's no shame in having an egg and not going to pick it up, because of the nature of Primary Village and the small groups of 'feral' digimon outside the large settlements who are always happy to welcome new datalines to their metaphorical gene pool. But if you make a habit of it, you'll probably get a bad reputation with your neighbors, since birth control is widely available and fully effective if you actually take it.
The caretaker of primary village can access the baby's data, even inside the egg, to make sure it's going to the correct parents, and currently has a policy of not releasing any eggs without at least one parent present, though she'll make exceptions if you make arrangements ahead of time. The eggs start out in splotchy tie-dye colors, and settle into their proper markings after a week or so.
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