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Working Title: Babies Ever After: From YKTTW
- The Harry Potter epilogue, naturally.
Ophicius: The epilogue didn't have any babies - the youngest kid was about nine.
Goldfritha: This is neither very suitable nor very accurate in itself:
- "Once she has a ring on her finger, the romance heroine must bear her hero's children. If she's had past fertility issues, they are only a terrible lie told to her by her hateful and infertile former husband to hide the fact that the problem was his. On the latter, she must find out the lie only when the hero gets her pregnant, preferably the first time they have sex. A heroine never adopts children or takes in foster children, but she must instantly fall in love with the very young children of a tragically widowed hero; said children will also love the heroine on first sight and insist on calling her "Mama." --Lynn Viehl.
lee4hmz: For future reference (and because I'm not sure this belongs on the main page), it was this picture
◊ that inspired me to YKTTW this in the first place. Just thought you'd like to know. :D
Goldfritha: Awwwww!
Donteatacowman: Does the Twilight example really count? The baby wasn't just at the ending, her birth was the driving force of the last book, and was pretty much the entire plot. Doubly so once she was actually born.
Goldfritha: You have a point there. This is babies in the Denouement.
This...
- The end of Sailor Moon. The Sailor Senshi are all married and have daughters. Usagi has a second daughter named Kousagi.
...comes from the one-shot parody manga Parallel Sailor Moon, which technically has nothing to do with the main storyline, so I don't see how this can count. The only thing close to the trope that you can get from the actual manga is Usagi feeling that she is pregnant with Chibi-Usa during the wedding ceremony.
