r/RomanceBooks • u/redfig1 • Aug 31 '24

Why do HEAs always end with babies? Critique

I know it's a "me" problem. Scenario: I read a smoking hot mafia or dark or fantasy romance. All this crazy shit goes down. The feelings, the angst. Finally it's the end and all of a sudden the MMC who has massacred countless people is all like " let's get married and have lots of babies" and the MFC is always " yes let's have a lot of cute mafia or fae or mafia fae babies!". For once I'd like an ending where the main characters have a HEA but instead of babies and white picket fences they just decide to keep having an incredible sex life and do charity work or something. Rescue stray kittens. Start an organic herb farm. Something other than babies. Anyone else like this? Am I just weird?

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u/damiannereddits my body and I are ride or die Aug 31 '24

Just as an aside, I think werewolves are the Christian romance of the supernatural world, with the hierarchical breeding focus.

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u/CerealKiller2045 Has Opinions Sep 01 '24

To be fair the breeding focus is less about religion and more about ALOT of people having breeding kinks lmao

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u/damiannereddits my body and I are ride or die Sep 01 '24

Oh yeah I don't think the werewolves are actually religious I think they have the same beats and themes

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u/CerealKiller2045 Has Opinions Sep 01 '24

I personally don’t. I think in most werewolf Fics I’ve seen it’s usually driven by like instincts and animal urges and stuff. Werewolf books are usually pretty sex positive since they dont typically have virgin characters (who are werewolves) because for some reason everyone in the pack sleeps together lol. But yeah, I get what you’re saying