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before i reply to the kinda hurtful thing: cooper used to 'practice his lines' with a little janey. in the beginning he'd start out saying different parts of the script dramatically to make her giggle. by the end of it, he forgot about his lines and played with his daughter who would run around screaming as the daddy monster chased her.
that is janey's first real memory of her dad. she still remembers that, even in the wasteland.
norm has to meet the parents eventually, and i think about that. poor lil buddy. esp since his dad is a superfan, and works for her mom.
We should talk more about Janey actually finding Cooper in the Wasteland. Apart from not recognizing him, I don't think she'd be afraid of him. I also don't think she'd trust him because she doesn't remember much of how she got put in a vault. She remembers being with him and then nothing. She probably has questions for him, including why he'd let them do that to her. She thought she'd be safer with him.
This is a gentle reminder that Janey is likely a few years older than Lucy in the Shady Sands Arc and many of her main verses , and we should not forget that she is pre-war, too. Yeah, it’s a wasteland, but she’s going to be able to recognize some things. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy writing her younger than Lucy but in most main verses, she just isn’t. She has seven years on her from jump at a minimum.
That Janey is not nearly as nice and will not hesitate to shoot first and ask later.
I’ll always give an indication to her age in main verses, because I write an entire range and different scenarios. Just. I think about that Janey a lot.
her dad would’ve been proud of her, I think.
cooper: this is my new girlfriend barb, bc lbr you're all thinking it: i could be a better boyfriend than him janey: aight i'mma eat outside.
my child thinks lucy is super neat, but she should try her hand at explosives.
i don't think people understand how important barb and janey's relationship is in most of my verses. for a majority of them, she's the primary parent and refuses to say a bad word about her ex-husband. cooper isn't the one dealing with the outbursts and hormones, because his ex-wife won't paint a bad picture of the man, so he is still janey's hero. it isn't cooper who has to hear how much she hates him or deal with the fallout of whatever she comes swinging with. barb does. i just think he should appreciate not being the bad parent on top of not always really being a parent to her at all depending on what is being written? she learns to appreciate everything her mother did, but it doesn't mean her teenage/early adult years weren't rough.
Janey was named after her grandma, but no one will tell her where Joann came from.
Janey: GO AHEAD. Get me ANY stepdad, mom! Also Janey, seeing Henry MacLean: NOT THAT ONE.
the world is probably lucky in the verses the Howard’s aren’t together and actively avoid each other. they probably couldn’t do casual right and give janey a sibling she didn’t know she wanted.
helluva graduation gift, mom and dad.
janey wants to name her sibling josie or james. barb, cooper do not let her name ur divorce baby.
Janey would be an awesome big sister to divorce baby. She’d probably act better too. After the ur replacing me wtf wears off.
How would Janey feel with a step sibling?
that is a good question, and I cannot imagine she’d be as accepting of a step sibling as she would one where the grounds are even like divorce baby. I guess it would depend on how the relationship is before there is one.
If there’s a strained/bad one, she’s going to assume she was being replaced if she’s a teen or younger. She’s dealing with hormones and teen logic. She would be hard to convince that she was more than just a memory from a former life, and I doubt the relationship would be good with the child either. She would be pretty shut off immediately about it.
If there’s a good relationship with the parent in question, she may feel a little better about it and not revolt if given time to come to terms with it.
in no case should one of her parents drop the news on her that she’s going to have a step sibling without both of them (being her parents who have a constant of joint parenting) being there to ease the blow and weather the storm.
divorce baby looks more like cooper where janey looks more like barb.
would cooper name a baby after a dead president too? we think it’s likely.
I think it’s important to note that divorce baby is not the same as a step sibling for janey, because it would not be that big of a change for her. she is, for the most part, parented by both her parents, so a happy little fwb baby wouldn’t shake the foundation of the parenting scenario, but she is still a teen and will not feel the same about a step sibling. a step sibling is a change to not only her, but it changes the parenting dynamic and she’s going to react to a step sibling like any teenager would. and that probably won’t be well. she might warm up to the idea, but she won’t if you:
-drop it on her without both of her parents there to combat any negative feelings from jump.
-don’t let her decide how much contact she wants, which could be none.
-tell her that’s how it is, because her feelings are valid too.
in this next chapter, we’re gonna talk about why janey has issues with the overall problem, change:
other than it would be hard for her to accept an extra parent, you’ve gotta consider, at the base of it all, she has a mom and she has a dad. she’s also autistic and resists things that cause change. not everyone they bring home is a winner, okay? her resistance to change will not change regardless of age, which is why it’s important for both of her parents to be there for major changes. because she is going to internalize change as something she did wrong.
it’s just who she is. she can be convinced with them agreeing that the change isn’t as bad as her brain is making it, because mom and dad are her constant. if they’re making the change together, it’s not as scary and overwhelming.
some things she just won’t agree with them on. It’s how they approach it and her that makes all the difference.
in the ideal divorce baby world, it is a boy. to complete the family set. as for step anything, she might do better with it if barb had one first, bc she would be living with that stepparent and her mom more often than not. it would make transition easier. good luck with that happening tho. barb is focused on work and being the best mom ever. janey isn’t complaining. it could be a hank maclean baby.
Janey is going to get sent to stay with her Grandparents before she gets to meet any future sibling. She probably shouldn’t have jaywalked so many times. She hates Louisiana.
I’ve decided cooper howard deserves a life of ONLY daughters.