Talk:Mel/@comment-23853048-20181001034223/@comment-26956659-20181004112912

phrases don't really have a gender. They can multiply through core mitosis by themselves or core fusion (like the sex cell), so "female" phrase can have children with other "female" and "male" with "male". But for Mel and Ende, we don't really know how they conceive Alice. Even the characters are surprised that they can conceive a child...