Children of Characters — Tag Meaning
The canonical tag for fics featuring the next generation: the canon characters' kids, whether canon-established or fan-invented. Next-gen fic lets authors extend a story past its ending — exploring inheritance, legacy, and what the heroes' children make of their parents' famous lives.
What to Expect From "Children of Characters" Fics
Offspring as significant characters, with parent-child echoes and generational contrast as the main attractions.
How to find Children of Characters fics on AO3
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Original Child Character(s)
The canonical disclosure that the fic's child characters are the author's inventions rather than canon figures — the baby acquired, the kid adopted, the daughter imagined for a beloved ship. It manages expectations for readers who track original characters and serves the kid-fic economy's constant demand for new children.
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Kid Fic
The canonical tag for fic featuring characters raising or caring for children — their own, adopted, acquired by plot contrivance, or de-aged teammates. A genre with decades of history, kid fic transplants beloved characters into parenthood and watches what it reveals about them.
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Parenthood
The umbrella tag for being a parent as subject matter: the exhaustion, terror, and transcendence of raising a person. Fanfic uses it to project beloved characters into the role — testing how a soldier, a genius, or a former villain handles bedtime negotiations and school plays.
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Married Life
Where Married Couple states a fact, Married Life makes it the subject: the fic explores what marriage is actually like for these characters day to day — negotiating careers, raising kids, weathering rough patches, growing old. It is future-fic's favorite lens for beloved ships.
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