zenosanalytic:

deliverusfromsburb:

balencia said: Technically, Dad Egbert/Crocker is also born normally. 

See, I don’t know about that. If Dad Egbert was the biological son of Jane + random person and Dad Crocker was the biological son of John + someone, why would he be identical in both universes? And it’s not just the symbolic artstyle – John recognizes him immediately. The Nature Of Dad is a mystery to me. 

Hmmm…

Some Headcanon Possibilities:

1. John and Jane are genetically identical? And so were the people they had Dad!Crockerbert with??
2. Was gonna suggest Dad might also be an adoptee, but isn’t it mentioned canon that Jane and John are his bio parents? Looking at the wiki just now maybe not, so he could be.
   2a. It just occurred to me for the first time that, John and Dad!Crocker was not only John being given Jane’s Dad reunion, but also Dad!Crocker meeting his own long-dead father, but as a kid? Who he’d probably recognize pretty easily since Crockerberts keep photo albums and family mementos everywhere?? That makes the whole sitch even weirder, even if it does -partially- explain why Dad!Crocker would be so happy to see him.
3. John and Jane are genetically identical, and there’s something particular to paradox-goo-based-genetics that is overriding, ensuring that the offspring of Players are exact reiterations of themselves across all timelines and continuities, just like their parents.
4. Dad’s a Guardian and Guardians, due to the role they play in Players’ lives Pre-Game, are kept consistent across iterations by The Game.
   4a. The prob with this would be that we see part of the Players’ responsibility in The Game is to create themselves, so presumably if this were the case John would have also been asked to carry out the tl engineering needed to create Dad in both Timelines.
5. Dad!Egbert and Dad!Crocker aren’t actually identical, just close enough in appearance to fulfill the same archetype in John’s mind at the moment of their “reunion”. John seems to be living in his house alone at the very end, so it may be that, with time, John noticed the differences, physical and otherwise, between Dad!C and his Dad.
6. Total story convenience and there actually is no textual, non-meta, explanation for it.

Ok that’s what I can think of rn.