A little inspired by a previous prompt about siblings: going through Copley's records the team somehow discovers that immortality might actually be genetic, it just skips a lot of generations. So: two of them have a common ancestor some centuries/millennia back. They could technically be in a romantic/sexual relationship, since plenty of people irl likely have a great-great-great-great-someone in common without it being an issue, so I'm down with that.
I'd really love an exploration (as serious or as comedic as you'd like!) of what this means both across such huge stretches of time, and with such huge age gaps between some of them. Maybe it's not as simple as Andy being everyone's 100x-great-aunt. Maybe one of them had a child from before they became immortal and a couple of centuries later, boom! They're a great-great-etc-grandparent.
Nevertheless, they'd been a found family much longer than they've known they're genetically related, so that always comes first. It doesn't change how they feel about the others, i.e. of course they have Emotions about being related, but their relationship doesn't become extra-special within the group.
+ would love if it was Nile finding out she's related to one of them, because being so new she still struggles with leaving her actual family and feels displaced, and this helps a little. + if you want to take the sadder, more serious route: the person they're related to was Lykon.
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Gen, related across the centuries
Date: 2021-01-05 07:27 am (UTC)I'd really love an exploration (as serious or as comedic as you'd like!) of what this means both across such huge stretches of time, and with such huge age gaps between some of them. Maybe it's not as simple as Andy being everyone's 100x-great-aunt. Maybe one of them had a child from before they became immortal and a couple of centuries later, boom! They're a great-great-etc-grandparent.
Nevertheless, they'd been a found family much longer than they've known they're genetically related, so that always comes first. It doesn't change how they feel about the others, i.e. of course they have Emotions about being related, but their relationship doesn't become extra-special within the group.
+ would love if it was Nile finding out she's related to one of them, because being so new she still struggles with leaving her actual family and feels displaced, and this helps a little.
+ if you want to take the sadder, more serious route: the person they're related to was Lykon.