[The elevator arrives and with the press of a button, the doors close in front of them... allowing Ryuji's route of final escape to gently slip away.]
I deny the very basis of your assumption! There are multiple methods of reproduction that yield offspring without involving penetration.
A single individual can produce offspring asexually through multiple methods. While my work with aquatic beings is limited, Turbellarian flatworms are capable of fission. Creatures who can separate their bodies into head and tail regions then regenerate the missing half and create two new organisms. Coral are quite capable of reproduction through budding. The original organism experiences an outgrowth on part of it's body. The separation of this growth creates a new individual, smaller than it's prior host. If an entity is capable of fragmentation, and the parts are big enough, a separate individual will regrow from each part. Surely even you cannot be ignorant of the abilities of certain sea stars. A new creature can be regenerated from a broken arm and a piece of their central discs.
Of course these are all low-level entities. The true power of asexual reproduction lies in parthenogenesis, where eggs develop without being fertilized. Typically it's observed in invertebrates such as ants, wasps, and bees. However! Some vertebrate creatures are also capable of being able to reproduce through parthenogenesis. Two komodo dragons, a hammerhead shark, and a blacktop shark have all been documented as having produced parthenogenic young when the females have been isolated from males!
Even in sexual reproduction it is not a finite necessity to bring forth new life into this world. Hermaphrodites are entities that encompass both male and female reproductive systems within one entity. While they prefer to mate, they can also be capable of self fertilization.
External fertilization usually occurs in aquatic environments where both eggs and sperm are released into the water. After the sperm reaches the egg, fertilization takes place--[Please tell me you hit a floor button, Ryuji.]
[His finger was on the button all along, but then Gundam just starts going off on this pedantic rant about animal fucking? Is that what he's talking about? Ryuji stares at him, not really hearing what he's saying but more about how passionate he is about the things he's going on about, focusing in only when he hears things like "asexual" and "eggs" and suddenly Ryuji is just lost in his head for a few moments.
Actually.
It goes something like.
Sweat, baby, sweat, baby sex is a Texas drought me And you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel Nuts, yes, I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert And you're getting two thumbs up You've had enough of two-hand touch, You want it rough, you're out of bounds I want you smothered, want you covered.]
[The door closes and it's just two dudes, in an elevator- one who just talked about reproductive qualities of whatever, and the other thinking about bad touch, 5 feet away from each other because they're not gay.]
Uhhh...
[He thinks about that for a second.
Is it worth it to explain? Probably not. It'll make him look weirder.]
You ever do one of those science experiments in class? The one with the toothpicks and the potatoes and you make 'em sprout? Definitely can reproduce.
That just gets a rise out of Ryuji. Growing potatoes gets you closer to god? He starts to laugh, and then it just spreads outward from there, straight through to his shoulders and his chest, and as he centers himself, he gives Gundam an arm around the shoulder gesture, careful to note that there are probably hamsters in his scarf.]
Dude, hash browns are pretty much, like, getting as close to godhood as it gets. [GOD WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS, GUNDAM?]
And it's Waffle House, by the way. [Whether or not the experiment is beneath him, man he'd kill a guy for some golden browns right now.]
We got cooler experiments to run. [He points to his room. Right. They have highly important life altering things to do here.]
[Being able to grow anything with someone's own two hands implies a mastery over the art of creation itself!]
That's a rather generous description. [Anytime his mother prepared them they tended to be simultaneously drenched in grease and irrevocably burnt beyond the realm of recognition. Less hashbrowned and more hashblackened.
Gundam sees Ryuji's arm moving to wrap around him and quickly ducks to evade it. Then rolls out of the elevator, across the hall, and jumps up in front of Ryuji's door like he planned to do that the entire time.]
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[The elevator arrives and with the press of a button, the doors close in front of them... allowing Ryuji's route of final escape to gently slip away.]
I deny the very basis of your assumption! There are multiple methods of reproduction that yield offspring without involving penetration.
A single individual can produce offspring asexually through multiple methods. While my work with aquatic beings is limited, Turbellarian flatworms are capable of fission. Creatures who can separate their bodies into head and tail regions then regenerate the missing half and create two new organisms. Coral are quite capable of reproduction through budding. The original organism experiences an outgrowth on part of it's body. The separation of this growth creates a new individual, smaller than it's prior host. If an entity is capable of fragmentation, and the parts are big enough, a separate individual will regrow from each part. Surely even you cannot be ignorant of the abilities of certain sea stars. A new creature can be regenerated from a broken arm and a piece of their central discs.
Of course these are all low-level entities. The true power of asexual reproduction lies in parthenogenesis, where eggs develop without being fertilized. Typically it's observed in invertebrates such as ants, wasps, and bees. However! Some vertebrate creatures are also capable of being able to reproduce through parthenogenesis. Two komodo dragons, a hammerhead shark, and a blacktop shark have all been documented as having produced parthenogenic young when the females have been isolated from males!
Even in sexual reproduction it is not a finite necessity to bring forth new life into this world. Hermaphrodites are entities that encompass both male and female reproductive systems within one entity. While they prefer to mate, they can also be capable of self fertilization.
External fertilization usually occurs in aquatic environments where both eggs and sperm are released into the water. After the sperm reaches the egg, fertilization takes place--[Please tell me you hit a floor button, Ryuji.]
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Actually.
It goes something like.
Sweat, baby, sweat, baby sex is a Texas drought me
And you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about
So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel
Nuts, yes, I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert
And you're getting two thumbs up
You've had enough of two-hand touch,
You want it rough, you're out of bounds
I want you smothered, want you covered.]
Like my Waffle House hash browns.
[Wait, what?
He shakes his head and presses "4."]
...Dude.
i'm dying
--what?
[H-hash browns?]
Fried potatoes... are not sentient beings. They are incapable of any form of reproduction!
LMAO IM GLAD
Uhhh...
[He thinks about that for a second.
Is it worth it to explain? Probably not. It'll make him look weirder.]
You ever do one of those science experiments in class? The one with the toothpicks and the potatoes and you make 'em sprout? Definitely can reproduce.
[So we'll just talk about spud spunk instead.]
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A potato yielding sprouts is entirely different from a cooked entity bringing forth new life into this world.
[The experiment itself sounds rather juvenile, but he's not uninterested.]
Yet I am not familiar with such a rite. Go on.
[If a class activity involved any form of partner, Gundam would bail to seek refuge in the nurse's office.
For. Uh. Their safety. Obviously.]
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Nah, man, you don't cook the potato, you let it sit in a jar of water with toothpicks holding it up.
[It's not a rite, it's the only B he's ever gotten in science.
The elevator door opens, giving way to the familiar scene of a still-TP'ed hall. Is anyone ever going to fix that? Probably not.]
And then after a while, it starts growing roots and a buncha sprouts come outta it like giant beanstalks. It looks hella alien.
[Regular Mark Watney over here.]
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You are the one who suggested the possibility of "hash brown fertilization" within the House of Waffles!
[You know. Outloud. Even Gundam thinks this is an absurd conversation.]
Do not try to perplex me so inadequately!
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Kekeke... Potatoes. How forgiving. How amusing!
I suppose in the pursuit of mastery over life itself, one must start somewhere. However, small a step.
[Said the guy who could not get a pumpkin to grow.]
As a breeder of fearsome hell beasts such an experiment is beneath me.
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attempt... to imitate... godhood.
That just gets a rise out of Ryuji. Growing potatoes gets you closer to god? He starts to laugh, and then it just spreads outward from there, straight through to his shoulders and his chest, and as he centers himself, he gives Gundam an arm around the shoulder gesture, careful to note that there are probably hamsters in his scarf.]
Dude, hash browns are pretty much, like, getting as close to godhood as it gets. [GOD WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS, GUNDAM?]
And it's Waffle House, by the way. [Whether or not the experiment is beneath him, man he'd kill a guy for some golden browns right now.]
We got cooler experiments to run. [He points to his room. Right. They have highly important life altering things to do here.]
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That's a rather generous description. [Anytime his mother prepared them they tended to be simultaneously drenched in grease and irrevocably burnt beyond the realm of recognition. Less hashbrowned and more hashblackened.
Of course he ate them regardless but-- blegh...]
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Gundam sees Ryuji's arm moving to wrap around him and quickly ducks to evade it. Then rolls out of the elevator, across the hall, and jumps up in front of Ryuji's door like he planned to do that the entire time.]
O-onward!