r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Totoro1985 • 4d ago
Nichole's paternity Question
So Serena eventually gets pregnant by Fred, which means that somehow he was fertile as well in the end.
Just wondering, I presume that while June was regularly sleeping with Nick by choice, the monthly ceremony was also regularly performed.
Does this mean that there could be a slight chance that Nichole is Fred's and not Nick's after all?
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u/rapt2right 4d ago edited 4d ago
No. It's been confirmed repeatedly by the show's writers and producers that Nick is Nicole's father....and neither the Canadian government nor the international authorities would have held on to that diplomatic hand grenade without verifying June's claims about the baby's paternity. It's not spelled out that a DNA test was done but it would have been, politically, far easier to send Nicole back to Gilead but with the biological parents both wanting her to stay in Canada they had a duty to leave her in Luke's care. If Fred could have proven paternity, they'd have honored his parental rights. (Maybe after negotiating some conditions or concessions)