History WMG / SpyXFamily

It will feature a slightly older Anya, Bond and Yor and/or Loid holding one or more children that they had during the timeskip.

** Semi-jossed, at the chapter 95, [[Spoiler:Anya reveals Damian her secret]] but he doesn't believe her

** Semi-jossed, at the chapter 95, [[Spoiler: InternalReveal/Anya reveals Damian her secret]] but he doesn't believe her

During the Inusan Crisis Arc, WISE theorised that the only way the student terrorists were being secretly backed by an outside third party, and this turns out to be correct. After the real Desmond stepped down as Prime Minister of Ostania years before the series started, his security weakened just enough for a spy working for a hostile power to pull a flawless KillAndReplace on him. Melinda worked out the truth about her husband, but he was able to terrorise her into not exposing him by threatening that if she tried, he'd simply vanish and Damian (who Melinda believes, possibly erroneously, to have been fathered by the imposter rather than the real Donovan) would be executed by the SSS as the son of an enemy, which is the source of Melinda's complicated contradictory feelings towards Damian, believing him to be the only thing forcing her to protect her husband's murderer. The spy's goal is to run an ''extremely'' long-term con to manipulate Ostania and Westalis into an all-out war for the benefit of his home country, which will swoop in and conquer both in the name of "restoring peace" once they've utterly devastated each other. Also, he worked out who Twilight really is the first time he encountered "Loid" and is planning to manipulate him for his own ends. Because he's such a flawless master spy, the only thing that will end up giving him away is Anya's mind-reading.

* Another thing we've seen is that appearances don't always match what people are like inside. Despite how scary Desmond might look, one of the first things we see him do in Mission 38 is smile and dismiss <Twilight's> apology as unnecessary. The most unpleasant thing he did in that mission was an incredibly exasperated sigh at Damien being upset his father had no intention to seek retribution for Anya striking him, a childish and vengeful idea.

** ''Short Mission 11'' implies that it is "Ania".

[[WMG:Melinda's simultaneous love and hatred for Damien has a much simpler reason]]
Namely, he's a living reminder of the fact Donovan will never love her. Donovan as depicted is an extreme paranoiac who considers everyone strangers, even his own flesh and blood, so the idea of him having ''any'' form of sexual desire/love or the like seems odd. Melinda meanwhile hates him with a passion to the point she only calls him "that man", and Damien mentioning him triggers her feelings of hatred.

Her reason for hating Donovan could be as simple as the fact that the two were in an ArrangedMarriage of sorts, and that while she ''tried'' to love him and put in the effort to make the marriage work, Donovan kept her at arms length the entire time. And whereas their first child, Demetrius, had to be conceived so the Desmond family could have an heir, Melinda likely convinced Donovan to conceive Damien thinking that a baby conceived out of love rather than duty would bring them together, especially since Demetrius was already TheAce and didn't need to take up their focus... only to realize Donovan just ''doesn't care'' about her ''or'' their kids. It was Damien's birth that made her realize just how little she actually mattered to Donovan, and while she loves Damien as his mother, she also hates him for being a living reminder of the fact that everything she did for Donovan was AllForNothing. He's her "treasure" since he's her precious son, but he's her "curse" since his very existence reminds her of the years she wasted loving a man who wouldn't love her back.