I come straight from reading this story https://archiveofourown.org/works/30049236

and help I need to gush about it! Fake married! Opera! Emotional rifts! Protagoneil babies! I can't even begin to imagine the beauty of said baby 😻 Nothing says "hope" like a little one! And yes, Neil, we know that you love him and that you always want to have David's back, but you were a lunatic for taking this job. Oh my god, can you imagine the Protagonist as Neil's pregnancy progresses? A bundle of joy, angst and worry all rolled up into one maybe?

gush away, anon! i myself was a blubbering mess at the end of the fic lmao

and yes, there’s just something incredibly beautiful about a protagoneil baby. i’m not usually inclined towards pregnancy plots and kidfics unless they’re already part of canon itself, but protagoneil with children just feels so natural to me. it raises the stakes and shines on their personal hopes so much more, as well as underlining the narrative contrast with sator. they’re bringing a child into a world that they’re determined to save, as opposed to sator who already knows he’s gonna destroy the world and had a child anyway.

also since when neil is not a lunatic? 🤣 david’s gonna have his hands full trying to appeal to neil’s saner side and convince him to sit out field missions. wheeler and ives are already backing off from this latest spousal drama. tenet’s medical and logistics are both simultaneously horrified and joyful at the baby revelation.

neil ends up in multiple tea sessions with barbara, and also alternating between helping to babysit her own toddler son and concocting even crazier plans for his fellow agents (”okay fine i can’t go out there, so you get to do this for me instead”)

thank u @nooowestayandgetcaught for sending us all down into this tenet baby spiral!