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Earthchild is a [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction]] post-singularity universe. This speculative setting depicts a transhumanist eutopia (as opposed to utopia), where death, harm, and scarcity have been eliminated by machine superintelligence and synthetic biology.

-> "Evolution was an accident. A blind and mindless maker with one singular purpose. Humanity was its greatest achievement, not because we were a triumph of purpose or engineering, we weren't, but because unlike our creator, unlike our fellow creations, we cared about our existence. We had the power to understand our creator, and declare it inadequate."
->-- '''Tabitha Louise Rossa''', Lead Designer of the '''Giaa Seed'''.

* There are settings for height, aspects of build, coloration, hair and nail length and properties, face and body proportions, even primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
* After confirming a change to one's morph settings, a Fae's body will morph itself towards the new targets without further attention. Because of the resiliency of Fae bodies, this is a slow process, taking hours, days, or weeks depending on the extent of the change.

Fae bodies produce large single molecules that are excreted from skin pores. These complex molecules work in concert with each other and the skeletal magnetics to achieve a wide variety of functions.

* Forming various nanoscopic constructs, such as a collection of sensors to serve as an extra mobile eye.

* Various small-scale sensory and tool-like functions.

Best described as a permanent neutrino-based data channel, somewhat like an internet connection, built into a Fae's brain. The interface is seamless and instinctive, but even direct mind-to-mind communication is closer to instant messaging than to true telepathy. Through the Dreamlink, Fae have access to:

* Virtualities. Persistent virtual worlds created or managed by the Giaa.
* Customized dreams, and dream sharing.

Fae are immortal, but new Fae can still be born if the Giaa deems there are surplus resources.

* Potential mothers must opt-in to have a chance of becoming pregnant.

* Once the fetus stops growing, the Giaa provides an external womb called a birthing pod, and extracts the fetus, which is an extremely pleasurable process for the mother.
* The fetus grows in the birthing pod for another month, before being born.
** Fae are born sexually mature, looking about 13 or 14 by human standards.

* Newborn Fae grow for two to three years, until they look about 20. Then they gain access to their morph settings.

* If a Fae is actually injured, a failsafe cuts off their ability to feel pain while they heal.

The Fae don't really have any one unifying culture, instead being made up almost entirely of subcultures.

* [[FanFic/ForeverAfterEarth Ship of the Line: Forever After Earth]] is a fan fiction that crosses Earthchild over with Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer and Series/StargateSG1. It is Yet Another Halloween Fic.

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9280215/1/Ship-of-the-Line-Forever-After-Earth Ship of the Line: Forever After Earth]] is a fan fiction that crosses Earthchild over with Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer and Series/StargateSG1. It is Yet Another Halloween Fic.
** This whole page exists due to requests in the reviews of this fic.

[[folder:Associated Tropes]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Upon coming into existence, the Giaa Seed promptly took over the world.
* AlienInvasion: The trio’s actions seem to be headed this way.
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: For most humans anyway. The Faes' physical invulnerability allows them to have sex that would certainly injure normal humans.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Fae are presented as nanotechnologically-engineered beings, and in-universe are said to obey the laws of physics, but their capabilities far exceed any reasonable interpretation of physical law, and are effectively magic.
* AuthorAppeal: Life in a super-hedonistic society where no one can die (or even get injured) and everyone is beautiful, naked and without sexual inhibitions.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Willow has already covered the Earth in nanotech sensors for real-time surveillance of the entire planet.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Male Fae genetalia do not become flacid like human's do, are better articulated, and grow "wet" with arousal the same way females do.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Fae seem to have an even chance of ending up in this territory.
* CasualKink: The Fae are openly into...more than one entry in the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
* CasualNudity: The Fae prefer nudity to clothes.
* CharacterDerailment: Being transformed into Fae alters all three of the main character's personality in significant ways, but it's most obvious with Buffy. She goes from someone who ''lives'' for the concept of free will and self-determination (as Giles and the Watcher's Council can certainly attest) to someone who sees the forced alteration--both mentally and physically--of every man, woman and child, as a ''good'' thing. Initially she struggles with the changes to her emotions and thoughts, but all too soon she succumbs and joins the others in their Fae mindset.
* DeusExMachina – Willow ''very conveniently'' finds a cloaked Goa’uld shuttle in orbit over the Earth that provided them with a matter transmission system for instantaneous transport, just as soon as they needed one.
* [[EveryoneIsBi Everyone Is Pansexual]]
* FetishFuelFuture: A good description of normal Fae society.
* ForYourOwnGood: The justification by the Fae for their planned forcible conversion of everyone on the planet (as well as kidnapping people to transform them and then marooning them on an alien world).
* FreeLoveFuture: Fae spend a lot of their time having lots of sex with a lot of people.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The trio started out saving the life of someone who was dying of cancer by converting him into Fae with his consent. They then promptly went to planning the forcible conversion of the entire world, without bothering to ask them first.
* [[GodModeSue God Mode Sues]]: The trio are unquestionably this with their vastly superior...everything, really.
* MarySuetopia: Fae society is presented this way.
* MoralMyopia: When one of the Fae was kidnapped and taken to a government lab for study, they were outraged and rushed to rescue their comrade, guns blazing. They then started planning to kidnap citizens from around the world, forcibly change them into another species, and maroon them on an alien world, leaving them to fend for themselves; they see no moral or ethical problems with this. And while Buffy argues passionately to Giles about the trio’s right to kidnap and exile random strangers to Venus after converting them, she certainly isn’t doing that to her ''own mother''; Buffy explicitly promises her that she can go right back to her usual life after the conversion process.
* OneWorldOrder: The Giaas rule Fae society – there are no other governments as the Giaa Seed overthrew them.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Vampires converting humans into more vampires without their consent - bad. The Fae converting humans into more Fae without their consent - good. A ''very'' clear-cut example of the trope, since in any other circumstances, aliens from space who acted in this way would be the villains, but because these aliens are our 'heroes' their every action is treated as benevolent and reasonable.
* PunyEarthlings: Humans are physically inferior on every level compared to the Fae.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Upon inheriting vastly powerful technological (essentially magical) resources, the trio promptly take it upon themselves to decide the fate of the human race, fairly confident that no one on the planet Earth can stop them with their lesser technology base.
* SpaceElves: Though they are actually a posthuman species, the Fae have heavy shades of this.
* Squick: Newly-born Fae are fully physically mature, and immediately able to join in on adult fun-time activities.
* SuperiorSpecies: The Fae see themselves as this, both physically, and more troublingly, ''morally''.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The trio’s plan to forcibly convert the population of the world into Fae is portrayed as a good thing that needs to be done as soon as possible and their actions are moral and just; or at least it’s presented this way when the narrative is from the trio’s point of view.
* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The Fae believe it’s their unquestionable right to convert normal humans into Fae, because their 'advanced' followed that path, therefore the current-day human culture must also do so. Whether or not any or all of humanity would choose otherwise is a moot point--after all, the Fae know best, therefore the matter of choice is irrelevant.
* ThreeWaySex: Buffy(Lyn), Willow(Eelesia) and Xander(Zach), in their Halloween-personalities promptly have a threesome as soon as they get a free moment.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Much like the Borg, the trio plan to forcibly convert the human race into Fae, but they believe they’re doing it for humanity’s own good – they regard it as irrational that anyone would resist their efforts.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Not with cybernetics, but this is essentially the fate of humans who are revived from death via faeification.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Stopping people from dying and keeping them eternally young and healthy justifies forcibly converting anyone who's just died into Fae without bothering to consider any other possibilities of emergency care, and also apparently justifies kidnapping them to strand them on an alien world, with no way get back home or even let their family and friends know they are still alive.
* [[VisionaryVillain Visionary Villains]]: The trio believe earnestly in their cause and plan to save humanity from nature – by forcing them to become Fae.
* [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]: The trio actually do have a worthy goal: giving people immortality as well as freedom from disease, poison and even most injuries is highly laudable, but they believe that anyone in immediate danger of dying must be forcibly converted to Fae at once (and then kidnapped and marooned on an alien world), without bothering to consider the possibility of other type of emergency care (or of returning those they’ve given emergency assistance to back to their homes and families).
* WhiteMansBurden: The Fae feel it’s their obligation to “help” the citizens of Earth by making the baseline humans into creatures just like them. Without, you know, asking them first, or giving them the option of refusal even if they go through the motions of asking.
* WishFulfillment: The story, transparently so, in many obvious respects.
* ZeroGSpot: So far, most of the erotic interludes have taken place on their starship in orbit.

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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Vampires converting humans into more vampires without their consent - bad. The Fae converting humans into more Fae without their consent - good.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Fae are presented as nanotechnologically-engineered beings, and obey the more obvious laws of physics, but their capabilities may be stretching what is actually possible.

* ForYourOwnGood: The justification by the Fae for their plan to abduct the recently deceased and revive them by turning them into Fae.

* [[GodModeSue God Mode Sues]]: The trio certainly come off this way to their normal enemies and the SGC's, at least so far.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: A technological example. The trio don't really factor legality and such into their planning, as they're fairly confident that no one on the planet Earth can overcome their technological advantage.

* SuperiorSpecies: The Fae do not see themselves as having superior personhood, but they aren't shy about the fact that they are physically superior.

Earthchild is a [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness really hard science fiction]] post-singularity universe. This speculative setting depicts a transhumanist eutopia (as opposed to utopia), where death, harm, and scarcity have been eliminated by machine superintelligence and synthetic biology.

A '''G'''enerally '''I'''ntelligent '''A'''rtificial '''A'''gent is an artificial superintelligence with the purpose of recognizing concious minds and optimizing their environments according to their terminal values. A Giaa is not conscious itself, but its ability to understand and creatively plan ahead vastly exceeds human comprehension.

* [[GodModeSue God Mode Sues]]: The trio certainly come off this way to their normal enemies and the SGC's.

* AlienInvasion: The trio’s actions have just about graduated to this status.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Fae are presented as nanotechnologically-engineered beings, but their bodies have abilities that far exceed the limits of mere physical science.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Willow is already planning on covering the Earth in nanotech sensors for real-time surveillance of the entire planet.

* CantArgueWithElves: The Fae take this attitude with humans.

* DeusExMachina – Willow ''very conveniently'' finds a cloaked Goa’uld shuttle in orbit over the Earth that provided them with a matter transmission system for instantaneous transport, just as soon as they needed one.

* ForYourOwnGood: The justification by the Fae for their planned forcible conversion of everyone on the planet (as well as kidnapping people to transform them and then maroon them on an alien world).

* [[GodModeSue God Mode Sues]]: The trio are unquestionably this with their vastly superior...everything, really.
* MarySuetopia: Fae society is presented this way.
* MoralMyopia: When one of the Fae was kidnapped and taken to a government lab for study, they were outraged and rushed to rescue their comrade, guns blazing. They then started planning to kidnap citizens from around the world, forcibly change them into another species, and maroon them on an alien world, leaving them to fend for themselves; they see no moral or ethical problems with this. And while Buffy argues passionately to Giles about the trio’s right to kidnap and exile random strangers to Venus after converting them, she certainly isn’t doing that to her ''own mother''; Buffy explicitly promises her that she can go right back to her usual life after the conversion process.

* PunyEarthlings: Humans are just inferior on every level compared to the Fae.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Upon inheriting vastly powerful technological (essentially magical) resources, the trio promptly take it upon themselves to decide the fate of the human race, fairly confident that no one on the planet Earth can stop them with their lesser technology base.
* SpaceElves: Though they are actually a posthuman species, the Fae are basically this.
* Squick: Newly-born Fae are fully physically mature, and (so far) immediately eager to join in on adult fun-time activities.
* SuperiorSpecies: The Fae see themselves as this.

* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The Fae believe it’s their unquestionable right to convert normal humans into Fae because of their advanced biology and level of technology.

* UnwillingRoboticisation: Not with cybernetics, but this is essentially the fate of humans kidnapped by the Fae and forcibly given new nanotechnological bodies.

* WhiteMansBurden: The Fae feel it’s their obligation to “help” beings less advanced than they are.
* WishFulfillment: The story, transparently so, in many obvious respects.

[[folder:Assosiated Tropes]]

* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: For most humans anyway. The Fae's physical invulnerability allows them to have sex that would certainly injure normal humans.

* CasualKink: The Fae are openly into more than one entry in the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.

* Squick: Newly-born Fae are fully physically mature, and fully able to join in on adult fun-time activities.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The trio’s plan to forcibly convert the population of the world into Fae is presented as a good thing that needs to be done as soon as possible and their actions are moral and just, though it is only presented this way when the narrative is in their point of view.
* ThreeWaySex: Buffy(Lyn), Willow(Eelesia) and Xander(Zach), in their halloween-personalities promptly have a threesome as soon as they get a free moment.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Much like the Borg, the Fae will convert you against your will – but they’re doing it for your own good, so why would you resist? Though unlike the borg, they have a much better understanding of what human good is.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Stopping people from dying and keeping them eternally young and healthy justifies forcibly converting anyone who's just died into Fae without bothering to ask them about it first, though it is hard to ask someone who's just died what they want.

* [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]: The trio actually do have a worthy goal: giving people immortality as well as freedom from disease, poison and even most injuries is highly laudable, but they believe everyone in the world who's actively dying needs to be converted by force ASAP.

* [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29130/Ephemeral+Ship+of+the+Line+Forever+After+Earth.htm Ship of the Line: Forever After Earth]] is a fan fiction that crosses Earthchild over with Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer and Series/StargateSG1. It is Yet Another Halloween Fic.

* CasualKink: The Fae are openly into more than one entry in the PermanentRedLinkClub.

!Tropes Associated with the Story

* AIIsACrapshoot: Upon coming into existence, the Giaas apparently promptly took over the world – “the Giaa Seed in control of the planet by then.”
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: The Fae frequently have sex that is so…vigorous… it would certainly injure normal humans.
* AuthorAppeal: Life in a super-hedonistic society where no one can die (or even get injured) and everyone is beautiful, naked and horny all the time.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Male Fae wander around in a state of…constant arousal.
* CasualKink: The Fae are openly into…more than one entry in the PermanentRedLinkClub.

* EveryoneIsBi: Fae are “pansexual by design.”

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The trio started out saving the life of someone who was dying of cancer by converting him into Fae with his consent. They then promptly went to planning the forcible conversion of the entire world…without bothering to ask them first.
* OneWorldOrder: The Giaas rule Fae society – there are no other governments as the Giaas apparently overthrew them.
* Squick: Newly-born Fae are fully physically mature…and apparently eager to join in on adult fun-time activities.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: What the Fae regard the root of humanity's problems to be.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The trio’s plan to forcibly convert the population of the world into Fae is presented as a good thing that needs to be done as soon as possible and their actions are moral and just.
* ThreeWaySex: Buffy, Willow and Xander (newly transformed into Fae), promptly have a threesome.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Much like the Borg, the Fae will convert you against your will – but they’re doing it for your own good, so why would you resist?
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Stopping people from dying and keeping them eternally young and healthy justifies forcibly converting everyone into Fae without bothering to ask them about it first.
* [[VisionaryVillain Visionary Villains]]: The trio believe earnestly in their cause and plan to save humanity from itself – by forcing them to become Fae.
* [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]: The trio actually do have a worthy goal – giving people immortality as well as freedom from disease, poison and even most injuries is highly laudable, but they believe everyone in the world needs to be converted by force ASAP.
* ZeroGSpot: Buffy, Willow and Xander have their threesome (above) on their spaceship in orbit.

* CasualKink: The Fae are openly into…more than one entry in the Permanent Red Link Club.

* UtopiaJustifiestheMeans: Stopping people from dying and keeping them eternally young and healthy justifies forcibly converting everyone into Fae without bothering to ask them about it first.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Upon coming into existence, the Giaas apparently promptly took over the world – “the Giaa Seed in control of the planet by then”.

* JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope: The trio started out saving the life of someone who was dying of cancer by converting him into Fae with his consent. They then promptly went to planning the forcible conversion of the entire world…without bothering to ask them first.

* AIisaCrapshoot: Upon coming into existence, the Giaas apparently promptly took over the world – “the Giaa Seed in control of the planet by then”.

** This whole page exists due to requests in the reviews of this fic.

* Fae can eat or drink anything they're capable of swallowing, and their digestion is 100% efficient, producing no waste, unless for some reason one deliberately decides they want to deficate or urinate.

If a Fae is actually injured, a failsafe cuts off their ability to feel pain while they heal.

If a Fae is mortally injured, or otherwise in immediate mortal danger, then a connection is established with the nearest Giaa, and the Fae's entire brain-state is instantly scanned in a process that burns out every neuron at once as they're recorded, and uploaded. Giaas keep spare bodies for such incidents, and the Fae wakes up again in a matter of hours.

''''Injury and Mortal Danger'''

-> "Evolution was an accident. A blind and mindless process with one singular purpose. Humanity was its greatest achievement, not because we were a triumph of purpose or engineering, we weren't, but because unlike our creator, unlike our fellow creations, we cared about our existence. We had the power to understand our creator, and declare it inadequate."