In Another Life
An Alternate Universe where Laura and Keith stayed together and had kids, suggested by Prosepro7!
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Ok, everyone here is adorable XD Wait... Does that mean... Their kids are half kinds?
it's so cute, but also I'm going to cry D:
Love it in a heartbreaking type way. Would be fun to see Keith somehow have a fox child that looked like Laura, which would also help irradiate the child bearing issues with Natani.
Like the "Therie & Daniels" and "Roselyn & Rose" (which I affectionately refer to as "Rose Red Rain") MiniKinds, here we have "Laura & Keith" MiniKinds in another what-if-scenario. Love it! Though personally, I would have preferred it if the daughter was the one in the Basitin cape, while the son seemed more Keidran.
Keith misses out on so many sexy bath house shenanigans in this timeline.
Like discovering Natani’s missing some “junk”, and Alaric teasing him half to death.
This is painful but beautiful at the same time😢😖😭
I only just saw this...YES!!!!!!! Oh thank you Tom I was having a bad day and you made me feel so much better
*Continuously slams head into wall saying* "Why, why, why..." after a couple hours of slamming someone taps him on the shoulder and asks "Are you alrigh-" is interrupted by "WHY DOESN'T THIS EXIST"
I will be very disappointed in all of you if this isn't voted in to be coloured.
It would be nice if Tom make a comic about the first meet between Keith and Laura. Like “The Dragon Masquerade” do, only involving Keith and Laura. With Laura sister's playing as main villain :)
And now I'm sad again.
Poor Laura ............. Trace thinks to Saria , time to time . But Keith has already forgotten his fiancee , it seems X_X
This needs to be marked as inappropriate cuz it shows that they had kids and that means they had sex and sex is inappropriate and needs to be hidden on Patreon.
i assume that's a joke, or by that logic everything living is inappropriate, even though that's not that far off the mark.
I'm trying to figure out how the fuck this is possible until I remember Ephemeral broke the laws of nature. Gee thank god Tom included that line in the comic or else 90% of these side ships would NEVER work out as well as they look.
Technically we don’t know for sure if Ephemural made it possible for all cross-species relations or not. As far as the context and info I have goes, Ephemural (Neutrality), being the “god/dess” over the Keidran, had selected Flora as the savior of the Keidran race, the one who would defeat Trace Legacy, who was the champion of the mask over the humans, Chaos. Knowing that chaos would continue to seek the keidran’s destruction, and since their bond was strong enough to defeat her, she allowed the pregnancy to occur, so that even if Trace relapsed, their child would survive, and, bearing Keidran blood, can allow the Keidran reborn even should the rest be destroyed. In my head-canon, yes, all Humans and Keidran, and hopefully Basitin and Keidran, can have children.
It's too sweet... I can't take it !!! Hearth overloading
What's the difference between Keidran and Basitins in the first place? I've never quite grasped the biological distinction, if there is one... Anybody?
^That's literally the entire difference right there. Good work dude. :)
Awwwww
ah.....
and the two children are basitin even though they were born from a mix species
They’ve got several traits from our sweet little vixen here.
lmao was laura having the anime death hair intentional? i reckon so XD
Probs. Given that if my symbiosis theory doesn’t hold water she would pass far before Keith or their kids.
A beautiful dream. And a "if" who haunted Keith and Laura like a nightmare for years.
Some alternate universes seem much more pleasant than others, great image.
I really like the trend of posting characters potential kids.
The only ones that won’t be allowed would be things that are presently or might be possible in the comic. Examples of children who can’t be sketched include any Human/Tiger hybrid (because Trace and Flora’s), Keith and Natani having a child (It can happen, but I didn’t say it will), Raine & Sythe’s (or red’s), Maren & Sythe (or red’s). Ones that should be allowed include any Non-Canon or impossible pairings, like Sythe and Fem-Red (fur or no), Evals and Fem-Mike, Kathrin and Eric, or Kathrin and Zen.
I guess Keith grew out of looking cute. Not completely though, he'll always be adorable. Just like the kids!
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Beautiful
Laura no! Take your hair down before it's too late!!!
Awwwww! 8D 💕
The boy looks like his father but he has his mother's eyes.
Now, could we have an alternate universe where Keith and Alaric? >///>
My only question is how would the life spans work you know. Bastians live about as long as humans and keidrians live to be around 20ish.
<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/Maeve-Age-703155784" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/Maeve-Age-703155784</a> Bumps that up to about 25.
No. My shipping is conflicted!
This need to be colored.
Then Keith woke up and he realized it just a dream and screamed at the top of his lungs.
...and Natani snuggled him up EXTRA close with dat assassin grip and put an end to all that pesky screaming.
What a beautiful picture! I love the clean line work and the expressions on everyone! It's nice to see this alternate universe take on what could have been had Keith and Laura stayed together. I always did like her design. Hopefully in the future we can get more AU sketches or glimpses of things to come, it's always such a joy to see new artwork.
YES
I adore this, so much <3 <br>The Basitin tail with fox markings is super cute! I also like what Laura's done with her hair.
So Keidran and Basitin can reproduce together. They seem to be a happy Family. The kids got the ears from the father. But the smile definitifely is from the mother.
Unfortunately not canon. But we can hope that, if not the way they are now (which I see as the most likely plausibility), with Natani and Keith being Genderbent (Maletani and FemKeith) we can see a hybrid.
Love how feisty their daughter looks here! Complete tomboy! :3
A world where nothing bad happened between Keith and Laura, and Keith has a reason to smile
Hey Tom im really curious now if your open to answering this question. As far as crossbreeding and so on what species in the twokinds universe can actually have offspring together?. And can all keidran regardless of the subtypes they are as we know there are a bunch also have offspring together resulting in very mixed children? canonically.
Well I believe Kat is a mix between a Feline keidran and something else ( or something like that) and it’s the reason she is unable to have kids.
Wait... would that make their children the first keidran-basitin hybrid? Well recorded at least
I think so
i have been infected with the sad's.
“Don’t be sad. Get Glad!”
Reminds me of this timeline... <i>PLUS KIDS!</i> :D (<i>so adorable!</i>) <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/It-Could-Have-Been-129780642" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/It-Could-Have-Been-129780642</a>
Yes indeed! I did have that drawing in mind when I sketched this one. I'd consider it essentially a sequel.
<b>STORY-COMMENT™</b> Laura: <“Keith. Our kids are rather rambunctious.”> Keith: <“Yes Laura. With how Juliet roughhouses with Mickel it wouldn’t surprise me if she grows up to be our little warrior princess.”> Laura: <“Mickel doesn’t really fight back though. In fact he usually tries stopping it. I wonder if he’ll help unite our peoples when he grows up.”> Keith: *Hugs Laura, lovingly rubbing her belly* <“I guess we’ll find out eventually.”> *Kisses Laura on the head* Meanwhile, across the sea… Natani: {“Albion! Where’d our pup go! I can’t find her anywhere!”} Albion: {“Yes Natani! She’s gone over to tussle with Zen and Lillith’s daughter.”} Natani: {“That girl stresses me out.”} Albion: *Walks over to Natani and starts Rubbing her shoulders* {“At least, my King, she can’t just cross the ocean on some wild adventure with Lady Saria and Trace.”} Natani: *Making “Funny Noises”* {“Don’t…”} *Pants* {“…encourage her.”} Meanwhile, at the Vaughan Residence. Kathrin: “Roderick! Where’s my boy!?” Roderick: “Mrs. Vaughan, I am unaware of his present whereabouts” Kathrin: “Eric! Harold’s Up To No Good Again!” Eric (Who tinkers with things in this AU): *Runs into the room with an odd piece of equipment on his head.* “It’s a good thing I made this special helmet then! It can show where residual heat was so I can follow his trail.” Roderick: Ow! Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan, I believe I have found him.” *Moves arm forward, with the child Nomming on his sleeve.* “A habit I believe he picked up from the RiftWall East’s Tavernkeeper’s Daughter.” Eric: “Aaw! I didn’t get to test my invention.” Kathrin: “You want to hang out with that Maeve Girl don’t you?” Harold: *Nods* Kathrin: “Up to another trip to Edinmire Eric?” Eric: “I’ll see if I can get a Kruzin™ Lined up with Capt. Evals. Mike’s on his honeymoon right now. Apparently he fell in love with a dragoness.” Yes. I mean for this story comment to combine the “Raine Rose” AU, “Natani & Zen Adelaide” AU, and This “Laura &Keith Keiser” AU as one.
cute .w.
Very cool. ❤️
Guys expect one with Natani....
Why not I mean...
Oh my god this is the cutest thing ever
Seems to be 2 very different ends of the gene pool
Oh my God the kids are adorable
I thought you said “These <b>Kits</b> are adorable.” Which is funny because Fox and Rabbit (which the Basitin are slightly based on) babies are called Kits.
This is so precious omg
Would this alternate universe be the one where Keith and Laura never had the conflicts that separated them from getting married and they stayed together since?
I wonder what Keith and Nat's kid's would look like.. maybe not as different, just less foxy.
I bet it would be a decent amount different because foxes and wolves don’t look too similar. Also, unfortunately its a potential spoiler, because we never know if Natani will eventually want pups with Keith.
Fuck ;-;
Keith looks like a very proud Father! :) I wonder how long a Basitin/Keidren lives for; considering the life span difference.
Keith looks very happy
We need names for the kids. I'd go with Alice and James because they seem to be the kind to go for 'normal' names
Hey guys, it's a miracle! I came back to...............Yep. dead again. TTTTTTTHANKS. =3
Welp, I’ll go find the crash cart and prime the AED. Don’t need you staying dead.
The girl looks kinda like Maddie
Wow. This is adorable xD
Omg, that's adorable
So this is what fox-basitin hybrids look like. Pretty cute.
Damn cute! ...now... how long will they live?
Theoretically either as long as a human, or somewhere midway. What I hope is the former. The reason… Fetuses have a symbiotic biology with the mother. For example if the mother suffers an injury, the fetus can adjust in a way that it provides the mother with cells that can help make repairs. This means that a mother can, and likely does, have cells from their children in their body, years down the road, if not for the remainder of their lives. My Head-Canon is that a Human/Basitin and Keidran Hybrid fetus might be able to rewire the aging process for the mother, extending her life. Good news for female Keidran in a relationship with a Human or Basitin, she lives longer, Bad news for the male Keidran, and females not in said relationship, no such symbiosis. But, if Legacy Life Extension Inc.® (in this AU) does some research involving the Mothers of Hybrid Lovechildren, I’m sure that they can discover the life extending agent and produce a hormone or other therapy to extend the life of all Keidran.
This is so sweet!
So wholesome