Chal's situation was an actual emergency. Tory's oopsie pregnancy was a fun bonus baby, as Tory was a parent many times over. In fact Tory had even very recently adopted Chal herself as Tory's own daughter, for even though Chal was a whole young adult, after the several years of painstaking rehabilitation that Chal had undergone to break free from a lifetime as [[Thanatos]]' supervillain kid, she was in need of a parental support system and family of her very own, craving it despite how she cursed and spit otherwise. Though she'd come a huge way from how she'd started in her own arc, Chal at this point was firstly, still coming to terms with even accepting a parental relationship; and secondly, with the help of her beloved long-term boyfriend [[Bel]] had very recently experienced a revelation about her own gender, realizing after all this time that she was actually a girl. Chal after being in a very not okay place for a very long time, and though she was still wound up and bitterly fragile like she always was, had finally found herself in a tentative path forward steadily the past few months. Then she, and with all of her simmering, festering, specifically parental-related trauma, discovered she was ''pregnant'' of all things, Bel accidentally having knocked her up - and Chal's entire world SHATTERED.

More about Chal's specific history and especially about her baby is located upon her own pages. For now, the sake of relevance on baby Celos' page, when given the options of how to handle this pregnancy, Chal decided finally that instead of aborting it, she would give it away. Though being a parent was a literal nightmare to Chal and always had been, there was something about the baby being ''Bel's'' that wobbled her resolve. She didn't ''want'' a baby then, but she also realized she didn't want to get rid of it completely. Throughout all of this chaos, Tory remained at Chal's side He was Chal's adoptive father now and had been entrusted with her well-being, and making sure Chal was okay was Tory's number one priority. And now, for her sake, as Chal expressed her anxieties and hesitations, Tory volunteered to adopt Chal and Bel's baby himself, offering to raise it as his and Maci's. This way anyway, they could be as close or as far to the baby as they wanted, living in the palace with Tory, and they could trust that Tory would give the baby a good home. Tory would of course allow her and Bel to have whatever sort of relationship they felt comfortable having with N once she was born and had grown up. Overwhelmed, floored at the gesture of such kindness, and eager to be rid of the thing, Chal agreed.

Once Chal's unborn baby had grown enough to be immortal, Ilythia transferred the baby, a little girl, to Tory's womb for the duration of her development. Through this entire process, not one person noticed that Tory's existing baby were actually twins. Completely identical and tangled on top of each other, possessing strange daemonic weaselly features and constantly shapeshifting back and forth and back, Ilythia and Hecate each assumed one twin was the other's tail or limb or torso. Tory's artificial twin pregnancy was in reality an artificial triplet pregnancy.

Eventually, as the babies grew, Maci and Tory chose the name "Celos" for their son, and Chal and Bel shyly chose to name the baby they'd given up at Tory's offer, calling her "[[Enodia]]," or "N" for short. When alarm bells were raised about N's possible appearance, the horrible traits of [[Ker]] being detected among Ilythia's sonogram, Tory arranged with Loki for Chal, [[Libby]] (Chal's sister, or well, close enough long story), and [[Bel]] to see a hologram projection of Enodia in the womb. Pawing around magically within Tory's womb, Loki was also able to show Maci and Tory their one son Celos, and in the action of doing so, ''he'' discovered the third baby hiding inside behind his brother.

...However Loki, in typical obnoxious Loki fashion, did not say one single word about it.

Tory was overdue by the time Ilythia finally actually discovered and announced he was carrying three and not two, during a routine checkup to see when the babies could be induced - and then, surprise! Panicking for a name since the twins - no, triplets, were set to come out any day, Tory and Maci landed on "Pyralis" as the second. Many years ago, before Neo had been born, they had discussed the name Pyralis for a baby boy. It hadn't felt right for the baby who would end up being Neo, but it felt right now. [[File:twiplet_minus_one.png|thumb|link=https://64.media.tumblr.com/245ef20a12c413798d1e0f41f3813998/d40f23368f8a9f20-74/s1280x1920/b8af7edf1803856f15532789e5bc00c089d830aa.png|Tory (orange) and Maci (pink), with a newborn baby N and Celos.]]

Tory eventually was so overdue that Hecate and Ilythia did end up inducing labor. Even with the powers and assistence of those two midwifery goddesses, the birth of the triplets was long and ardous, stretching across three days. Pyralis was the first born, then baby N. Celos was born last, on the third day, giving the twins non-consecutive birth dates.

The epilogue to Celos and his siblings is that following the birth of the not-triplets, Chal and Bel came round to meet baby N, and unexpectedly Chal completely fell in love. Spending more and more time visiting her, eventually Chal and Bel approached Tory about being more involved in N's life than they'd expected... and then confessed they wished to adopt her back. Tory of course wholeheartedly encouraged them to follow their hearts, assuring them that he'd support them in every way he could if they wanted to try being N's active parents after all. They did. N lost her technical triplet status as she returned to the arms of Chal and Bel, though the time she'd spent in the womb with Celos and his brother had created a bond between them. Her honorary triplet status persists, as Celos and Pyralis are overjoyed each baby playdate to see their former wombmate in the flesh.