justanorthernlight

Challenge #4

In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

For Babylon 5, I want an explanation of how/whether the telepathy gene can conceivably skip a generation and what happens to non-telepaths born to two members of the Psi Corps.

It must happen, because there are no canonical hints or implications that Ivanova's brother Ganya was also a telepath, and the Corps doesn't treat it as suspicious or impossible that Ivanova could be a mundane when her mother was a telepath. To borrow a term from Harry Potter, there must be some telepath equivalent of Squibs.

Are there support groups for kids whose entire families are members of the Psi Corps, who are perpetual outsiders with both the Corps and the world of the Mundanes? Do those kids get put straight into foster-care or are they raised in the Corps? Are they ever pressured into doing some kind of liaison job between the Corps and the rest of human civilization? Do they run away and form their own communes? 

(Also, and only semi-related, post season 5 Lise Hampton-Edgars-Garibaldi uses her billions of credits to sue her first husband for joint custody of their daughter and/or uses the media to draw attention to inequality in how Earth and Mars citizens get treated in the courts and effect some positive change other people who have been in her situation.)

Hey-o, look it's my first fanvid!
Fandom: Babylon 5
Music: "Poor Atlas" by Dessa
Crossposted to AO3

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