Is Mrs. Kersh one of Pennywise's offspring?

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Religiously_Unkind

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I know it's unlikely but she had that line that went something like "My faddah shat me out of his *******!"

Pennywise would have laid a lot of eggs over the years and some of them must have hatched, so I guess that could mean there are others like him in Derry and other places. The creature in The Library Police could have been one of his offspring, and lets not forget
Dandillo (hope i'm spelling that right) DT book 7.

What do you think?
 
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Robert Gray

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I know it's unlikely but she had that line that went something like "My faddah shat me out of his *******!"

Pennywise would have laid a lot of eggs over the years and some of them must have hatched, so I guess that could mean there are others like him in Derry and other places. The creature in The Library Police could have been one of his offspring, and lets not forget
Dandillo (hope i'm spelling that right) DT book 7.

What do you think?

It is an interesting idea, but the book is pretty clear that all manifestations of It are still just It. Think about Patrick and Bev. In their scene, it is even worded it that very way, that one part of It drove Patrick into the arms of another part of It. None of the many faces, avatars, if you will, are really It. The physical forms are interchangeable and largely disposable. For example, it wasn't the silver slug that was really dangerous to the monster; it was the Loser's collective belief in the silver that was deadly. It is the same concept of it not being the cross that is repugnant to vampires, but rather the holder's faith. "You have to have faith for that to work on me Mr. Vincent," Jerry Dandridge, Fright Night. Spiritual entities, even those which manifest or inhabit physical bodies, are more or less immortal and vulnerable only to spiritual power. Faith and belief, in this context, are interchangeable. Vampires aren't actually anything more than ghosts. In the traditional lore they even had ghost-like powers. It is only in the modern day that we have redefined them into physical creatures. The monster that "haunts" Derry is likewise a spiritual entity, an unholy ghost of unimaginable power.

So coming back from this tangent, Mrs. Kersh isn't a spawn of It, but simply part of it. She is just one more special effect in the haunted house. It may look like lots of things are bumping around and doing things in that haunted house, but nine times out of ten it is just one, very busy spirit. :)
 

Pop Rocks

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I agree with the above post, I think another reason for that scene was to show that IT was a creature than can reproduce at will. In other words it doesn't need a mate to reproduce. There are some species of snakes on Earth that have both reproductive organs and reproduce at will. "My mother was also my fadder," IT says at one point. That only makes sense if you have one parent.

What we aren't considering is that IT is more than likely the offspring of something. Or maybe there isn't any sense differentiating between different "generations" of IT. They would probably behave identically with little to no difference from their "parent", in my opinion. The more I think about it, the more I start to doubt that IT is a single, unique entity.