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Nobody asked but I'm excited about this, so here's a headcanon/theory I have that I'm adding into my Smurfs fanfic. Please hear me out:
When a baby Smurf is delivered by stork to a village, it's because it had no capable guardian. The loss of their guardian turns the moon physically blue- it doesn't have to be an actual blue moon. Papa used Baby's arrival to convince his Smurfs this is how Smurfs are born, but Smurfs are hermaphroditic and do actually reproduce sexually. Papa is just embarrassed by the whole idea of talking about it.
I also hc that both Papa and Willow's villages are formed entirely out of Smurfs that have been delivered by stork. This is because neither found a partner and so were able to adopt and raise new baby Smurfs from other parents, rather than having their own. It's kinda similar to kea (alpine parrots native to New Zealand) that don't find partners - they run schools for groups of young kea to learn kea skills.
And some things I have considered:
Wild- got lost but was adopted by squirrels before the stork could take him to a village. The squirrels were deemed worthy parents and so wild was left with them.
Baby delivered to wrong village in comic (this theory only works for the lost village/ntob timeline) - he's actually a 'girl' smurf with alopecia and was meant for the girls' village, but the stork got mixed up because he was hairless and it thought he was a true hairless Smurf like the rest of the 'boy' Smurfs. In reality he will never be able to grow hair, even at Papa's age.
The system is to help prevent the already dwindling Smurf population from falling even further. It's just an idea and I'm sure there are holes but yk
Fun to think about :)
Also I consider the 'boy' Smurfs to just be hairless Smurfs, and 'girl' Smurfs to just be Smurfs with head hair.
Kinda like a dog breed situation, where each one finds more familiarity with their own breed and so the storks group them together.