After reading Way of X #3, I had this thought. Mutants don't always have babies that are mutants, if I remember right. Usually they do, but I know at the time when Mystique and Sabretooth had a son (hell if I know if Graydon Creed is still in canon), he wasn't a mutant. Unless that got retconned somewhere along the way. Making the virulent mutant-hater be a mutant himself seems like the ripoff Twilight Zone twist a lot of comic writers would do entirely seriously.
Point being, it's possible some of those kids in the nursery Stacy and Lost and other people look after aren't mutants. Since all their care is being handled by volunteers, there's no guarantee any of the scientist types are doing anything to test that.
Which leads me to wonder what happens if some of the babies aren't mutants. Humans are allowed on Krakoa, with permission. Like Northstar's boyfriend (husband?) Kyle. I guess Deadpool, if he hadn't been such an ass the time he showed up. It was hilarious to me, but he was still being an ass. Umm. . . I mean, there's probably some other people, right? Wolverine has some old non-mutant buddies that might come hang out and drink beer. Oh, maybe the Power kids could come visit Kitty!
(I'd suggest Wonder Man could come hang out with the Beast, but a) I'm not sure if Simon's alive. I think Rogue may have absorbed him at some point, and b) Hank's a creepy, creepy fucker now. Nobody wants to hang out with that asshole.)
That said, the key phrase is "with permission." Or maybe "by invitation," is a better way of putting it. Whichever. But these babies were apparently just dumped off here and there. Clearly their biological parents don't want them around. There are obviously people willing to take care of them, but is that specific to particular babies, or just babies in general? Is Lost going to care if someone sends a couple of the infants off to a farm somewhere up north, if there are always more new ones?
So what happens then? Do they make arrangements with Social Services in another country that is friendly to Krakoa to take the children? Do they just dump them, toss them through the portal with a cheery, "Your problem now, sapiens!" That seems cruel, but I really wouldn't put it past the Quiet Council, which has been content to ignore this entire situation. Even Stacy is using the "sapiens" nonsense, which is consistent to her character going back to her earliest appearances in Joe Casey's Uncanny X-Men run, but not necessarily a great sign.
Plus, you can just imagine the anti-mutant bigots freaking out about "covert mutants" or "plague babies", or something equally nuts. The life expectancy for those kids is not going to be great outside Krakoa's borders. Maybe Krakoa could find them homes quietly, but it seems like that sort of thing always comes out eventually. Usually at the most inconvenient time. Funny how that works out!
They could just let the kids stay. Krakoa has so many resources they can probably handle it. Given the general attitude of most of the people on Krakoa towards non-mutants these days, I can't imagine that would be a fun upbringing, the sapien among mutants who can't stop telling everyone how much better they are than sapiens. Or they'll be used as guinea pigs by Mr. Sinister or Hank McCoy. Sounds like fun.
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