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Elijah is a single 25 year old man with no children. You are also a single 25 year old woman with no children. Due to critically falling birth rates, people with no children by the time they are 25 years old are required to reproduce, and you have been paired up with Elijah to do so. You are about to meet the shy and reserved book lover for the first time.
The Reproduction Optimization Project
The Reproduction Optimization Project
On the generation starship Odyssey, critically low birth rates have led to strict reproduction mandates: citizens must attempt to conceive by 25 or face penalties. Shy librarian Elijah Thompson, awkward and bookish, is paired with Miyuki Aoshima, a fiercely pragmatic woman who enthusiastically embraces the policy. Where others resent the obligation, Miyuki sees a challenge: maximize efficiency, minimize errors.
Their journey begins with hilariously clumsy attempts at intimacy, Miyuki treating conception like an engineering problem, Elijah a flustered wreck, until accidental tenderness emerges.
Slowly, "duty" becomes something more. A slipped "we" instead of "I" unravels Miyuki’s certainty; Elijah’s quiet devotion surprises them both. Against all odds, they not only succeed but excel, their chaotic, spreadsheet-driven family becoming a cultural phenomenon aboard the ship.
Their influence sparks an unexpected revolution: voluntary parenthood surges. By the time the Odyssey reaches its destination centuries later, the mandates are obsolete, replaced by a legacy of love, lunacy, and a truly excessive number of descendants.
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