User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20170424001125/@comment-28358106-20170424033714

Thomas pauses, his Gin halfway up, then puts it back down. "Really? Never?  She'll be happy to hear that.  Well..."

He sets his drink on the table. "Normal Golems, if they're given the correct runic algorithm, can reproduce like any Mamono. The baby grows inside of them, being built by the mother's body.  But Golems give birth to other Golems, both looking humanoid.  Regina and the girls are different."

He pauses, thinking on how to continue. "I'll put it like this. Regina's body only builds a Rune Core, which is the heart, soul, and power source of the Golem child. It's pretty small, about the size of an orange, so when she's pregnant, she just gets a little bump.  The Core is born through the torso segment on her stomach, and has to be manually removed.  It's a...taxing process.  There's a lot involved in the seperation of the Core from her body.  Because her kind absorb SE and DE both, the baby's Core is dependent on the mother for energy, so the seperation literally is like taking a piece of the mother away, like removing an extra heart and brain.  The mother suffers a drastic drop in energy."

"Imprinted on the Core are the specifications for building the new body. Nominally, the new form represents aspects of both parents, and also represents a part of the mother's personality.  At least, that's as close as I can figure.  There's still a lot of reasoning behind the whole process that I haven't yet figured out.  Regina and the girls are different, but I can't quite understand how.  They're far more complex than a normal Golem.  I just don't know enough about their kind yet, and I still don't know where Regina is from."

He pauses, a change coming over his features, as if he suddenly becomes somewhat tired. "It was...difficult for Regina when Gemmi was born. Very difficult.  In all honesty, if Lucida hadn't given her extra core to her, she probably wouldn't..."

He stops and stares into the fire, a thought consuming his mind.