Adair's Links
Mag is one of the good ones. She's not freaked out by Adair's...inconsistencies...which makes her *actual* friendship material. People like that are hard to come by. Usually Adair has to cut her losses and run before her friends realize something is wrong. Without that being a problem, Ada has had decades to spend with Magdala. She's seen her start her career, forge lifelong friendships, sow the wild seeds of youth, get pregnant, start a family, get older, see her kid graduate and start her own career, forge her own lifelong friendships, retire....get older.... In causing the other to truly feel her own mortality (or lack thereof), these two are evenly matched.
Adair is unlike any other creature Magdala has ever met. She seems to pop in and out of existence in unlikely places, never ages, and knows more about the workings of time, space, matter, and existence in general than anyone has any right to know. But Mag thinks that's pretty cool and hasn't bothered to pry. At least, not *too* much. She met Ada on her first ship assignment and has had her as a member of her own crew several times throughout her career. She counts her as one of her oldest friends, even if it is a little weird knowing she'll probably be around for lifetimes after she's gone.
Another failed attempt to recreate Adair's species since she sorta fucked everything up reproduction-wise when she made an unholy pact to save her dying people and blah blah blah it's not important. But! He carries on a great deal of her people's DNA. Mostly hers. He's basically Adair 2.0. She didn't really raise him, though, so he's like...her son? But not??? It's weird.
His...mom? Kind of???