Okay, with a bit more details under my belt: How about Jackie and Daneel have known each other pretty much forever, same preschool, same school, everything. They didn't end up very alike in personality but they're essentially siblings so they stuck together to a degree anyway.
Didn't change when Jackie got together with a young woman named Char some... twenty-ish years ago. Daneel probably heard from Jackie about the little oops that was Char getting pregnant, and that they made some kind of deal with the Producers so the baby could live, but that was all very just-so-you-know-why-I'm-distracted-don't-tell-anyone.
Fast forward to five years ago, when Jackie's partner vanished.
And then fast forward again a bit to perhaps two years ago when Jackie told Daneel that his gf had been turned into a mythic and the Producers had lied to them when they made their deal about the baby, and that he has a plan for how to make the whole mythic program go bust.
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Didn't change when Jackie got together with a young woman named Char some... twenty-ish years ago. Daneel probably heard from Jackie about the little oops that was Char getting pregnant, and that they made some kind of deal with the Producers so the baby could live, but that was all very just-so-you-know-why-I'm-distracted-don't-tell-anyone.
Fast forward to five years ago, when Jackie's partner vanished.
And then fast forward again a bit to perhaps two years ago when Jackie told Daneel that his gf had been turned into a mythic and the Producers had lied to them when they made their deal about the baby, and that he has a plan for how to make the whole mythic program go bust.