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[Shoruke]

Okay... so, as we all hopefully know, new dwarven mothers carry their offspring around with them until the child is old enough to walk on its own.

This is, in actuality, NOT the best-case scenario in certain cases.

One of my hunters (this was a whie ago, I forgot her name) bore her husband's child. She carried the child around with her while she hunted, and that was fine for a while. She was a good hunter and kept her child safe. Until, one day, she was ambushed by goblins. She shot two of them, and then judiciously decided to book it towards the fortress. The goblin bowmen shot in her general direction for a while. One of them eventually had a lucky shot, and hit the hunter. Right in the (get ready for it) BABY on her back. The ambush was defeated, all goblins killed, and their stuff melted/traded away. But one dwarf was injured. The huntress mother carried her baby around still, disregarding the baby's crying. The baby, unable to rest in a 'hospital' bed, had one broken and one mangled arm, one broken leg, and some bruises in other places (the bruises healed, actually). Then, on the baby's third birthday, it was old enough (not necessarily healthy enough) to walk, so the nuntress mother simply dropped the baby on the ground and left it there while she continued her hunt. The baby was rescued, given a bed, food, and water, and eventually recovered. It took two years.

A year afterwards, an update came out ad the world was deleted so I could try out the new features =P

[Christes]

0.o

I once had an elite marksdwarf carry her baby with her out on patrol.  A snatcher ran up and took the baby.  She unloaded on him with her crossbow, killing the goblin AND the baby.  OOPS! >.<

Anyway, she was a little sad afterwards, but it was okay since she had such an awesome dining room to eat in.

[Shoruke]

Yes, I simply LOVE how eating decently offsets the emotional pain of having your relatives killed/kidnapped/otherwise-removed-from-your-world.

[Paul]

"My wife, two sons, and three daughters all died in a horrible drawbridge accident? Oh, man... now im only slightly happy"

"My masterpiece kitten tallow biscuit was eaten by a rat? Oh, the indignity! All must DIE!"

Heh, I've had dwarves kill their children while tantruming because of a single 'lost masterpiece' bolt being carried off the map in the head of a goblin that my marksdwarves shot. Or 'losing a masterpiece' when a roach eats the last piece of the gigantic 80 part masterpiece meal, and then going on a rampage and killing everyone nearby (again, usually their own children - those buggers follow em everywhere).

Apparently dwarves don't care much for family, but they'll be damned before they lose that really nice plump helmet seed biscuit that they cooked that one day.

[Teeto_K]

You know, I mean, I don't mean to undermine the dwarfiness of dwarves, but I always took the fact that quality of life helps stop crippling insanity in the face of tragedy to be something that makes sense.

Humans don't "Always without exception" go on destructive rampages, commit murder, engage in vandalism, or worse, go uncontrollably berserk, incoherently mad, or despairingly suicidal, over the loss of friend or family. In fact, the tendency for people tends to be to cope.

However, a person in a desperate enough situation, or psychologically vulnerable to doing so, might just.

Most humans don't have legendary dining rooms. Granted, dwarves seem inherently less... "stable" than your average human, but as it is, I merely sleep in a "great" bedroom, and have held a meeting in a poor setting recently, yet I wouldn't even consider suicide or murder except in insanely extreme circumstances.

[motorbitch]

"My wife...

omg this is so trure.. cant stop lauging, but people here are about to watch a film. hopefully they will not kill me, our dining room is far aside of being legendary ^^

[Grath]

I had a hammerdwarf carry her kid into melee combat
First axegoblin strike went through the baby's neck.
She's learning to cope with tragedy. Wasn't too sad though.