Conversation at Saint Marry's in Proven Guilty makes it clear that while Nelson was Molly's boyfriend he was also the father of the baby and in Molly's words 'they did not even know what they were doing'. I don't have the books on me because I'm on holiday, but I posted the quote previously here somewhere.
First, thank you for humoring me.
The implication is that Rosie and Nelson had a sexual encounter while stoned out of their gourds.
Molly blaming Nelson for that while absolving Rosie is unreasonable. Believably unreasonable, but still unreasonable.
Im not sure what the state of availability of paternity tests was in 2006, but I would think the second month of pregnancy would be too early for them to decide Nelson was the parent, especially since the previous miscarriage makes it clear that she was sexually active with her boyfriend. A Dresdenverse plothole, probably.
Rosie's actual boyfriend is dead.
Its still really strange that Rosie is not actually talking about the dude she was actually dating who died.
As opposed to the dude who is Molly's ex.
You could also stick demons in their devices and make them spit out their banking information. Hollow Mind Possession works wonders... scary scary wonders.
Yeah.If we werent trying to be halfway legit, an Exalt in modern society has many options for seed money.
Just taking a Greyhound bus down to the Mexican border, flying across and tracking down the local cartel boss and operation, then and cutting into his safe would give Molly a couple duffelbags of drug money with no trail.
Dont even have to go down into Mexico. I suspect there's a cartel operation on the eastern seaboard with a fair bit of cash.
Eh. At least the mildly less bad version of that vote won. Silver linings I suppose.
Have you read the discussion?
@DragonParadox I
believe the consensus is to back out of providing help while offering token assistance to save face. Because it will consume too much AP, and teenage problems are boring and this is her own fault anyway for being a low willpower build.
At least thats what I got from the discussion.
No offense, but you are reading things that noone has said or implied.
Giving Rosie money is the low investment, easy option.
Thats just handing her a lottery ticket after she turns 18, or hooking her up with a trust fund.
We are offering open-ended help, which is worth vastly more in value, and requires significantly more resource investment.
Ah. Good old "money doesnt matter it's your fault you are poor and miserable."
Coupled with the equally reliable. "Money wont help people." "God will help people." "The free market will help people." And of course. "Someone else will help people." Good old American middleclass standby.
There is a difference between welfare payments and rent support, and having six or seven figures dropped on you out of the blue.
Its a demonstrated fact that an unexpected windfall of lifechanging money often leaves the recipient worse off than before.
They have no experience handling that much money, it generates interfamilial tensions, and it draws opportunists like shit on a stick draws flies. Its happened to lottery winners and people who became abruptly successful, like new musicians or actors.
Combine this with Rosie being a teenage heroin addict with little life experience, a shaky support structure and a Willpower of 2, and thats a recipe for disaster. There's every chance that dumping five million dollars on Rosie right now with no further intervention would be a major contributory factor in her ending up dead in five years. No cap.
Money is very nice, and will solve a great bulk of the problems of very many people.
Rosie is not many people.
Money does not solve her problems, not when the cause was not lack of money in the first place.
You cant just spend your way to mental and social stability.
You cant spend your way to managing a newly awakened magical talent.
like honestly other than being a shit person if we give her the money and time to not have to work (or at least not work away from the kid) when taking care of said baby other than just being a shit person how does she fuck up having a baby? Plenty of mothers have been as young as her age is not the only qualifier for what ruins being a parent.
Raising a kid is Serious Business.
Carrying a pregnancy to term is a noshit life-changing event, and an actual life-threatening event for a significant number of women for reasons of everything from gestational diabetes to preeclampsia to abruptio placenta and DIC.
Then you have to actually raise the shapeless mass of protoplasm into a halfway functional human being through late night wakeup calls, childhood health issues and ethical crises, while somehow keeping them from killing themselves in the interim because they know no better.
You havent had your heart jump into your throat until a baby escape artist attempts to defenestrate themselves from a multistory building, or runs into traffic the moment your back is turned, or attempts to stick a metal fork in an electric socket.
And thats just the first couple of years.
Every new parent has stories if you can get them to repeat them to you.
There's a reason why first time parents in human history had an extended family to lean on, with people who had done this before and who could sub in and give them time off, allow them to vent, provide advice.
This shit is hard.
And she's got no partner to share the load; her actual boyfriend is dead, and Nelson got mindfucked worse than she did, and wont be in any state to be anybody's co-parent while recovering from what Molly's black magic did to his mental stability.
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