#was in my drafts for almost a year holy shit
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Firstly, thank you so much for your tags! I really appreciate them, and I was most concerned about how I did the hairline so I’m glad you liked it!
Secondly, a word of advice. Do not ever, ever, ever write an essay on here. Do it on Wordpad, or Word, or Google Drive, or literally anything else I swear to fuck. Copy it to your clipboard every once and awhile? Not enough. You will forget, and copy something else, and before you can copy your thirteen-paragraph-and-growing monster of an opinion on belly buttons and cloning, your computer is going to crash.
Alright, that said, in the original essay I started with a paragraph of I don’t know’s. I think, at this given point, with how many Wikipedia pages I have researched and scoured and ripped my hair out over within the last three hours, and how many literal theses I went through, I maybe know a little. Enough to formulate a solid opinion? No, because I am indecisive, but certainly enough to inform (most importantly, to inflict).
Placental mammals (Placentalia) are the only animals to ever be born with belly buttons, because the umbilical cord is what feeds the fetus. They are us: we are them. They give birth to relatively large babies and have no epipubic bones (bones extending forward from the pelvis).
We also know that Jango Fett is human, or at least mostly human enough that it’s never brought up. Adittionally, looking at Attack of the Clones, I am almost positive you can see umbilical cord looking things.
While the star wars wiki says the clones recieved nutrients through a “nutrient bath,” but unless the nutrients are fat-soluble they’d never make it past the first layer of skin. You know, unless there was a tube that brought the nutrients to the body. While babies in the womb do swallow some amniotic fluid, this can’t supplement the nutrients required to thrive.
While there are some fat-soluble nutrients, most of the ones necessary for a baby to thrive aren’t. So, the clones would need a sort of umbilical cord, and some kind of placenta.
Whether the pseudo-placentas are indivual or shared would dictate how the clones grow. If all clones have individual placentas, they each have equal oppurtunity to grow to the same capacity. However, the placentas are shared, there is high chance that some clones would get more nutrients and others would get less.
This raises questions about variations in clone height, weight, and development, but the short answer is yes, they probably have some kind of bellybutton, even if it’s just surgical scarring from the removal of the pseudo-umbilical cord.
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