Applejack announces to her friends that she and her brother are engaged and are set marry. Her friends are all very happy and supportive of this with the exclusion of Twilight who cannot fathom this atrocity.
What kind of sick pony would marry their own brother?!
Twilight must put a stop to this at any cost.
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Welp, I'm speechless.
Pretty darn funny, it needs some editing though to fix some spelling and tense errors.
A new fic by the guy that brought us Sweet Lemonade...
This should be interesting lol
#tyrantsparkle
This is, strangely enough, a very interesting premise. I think I will keep a look out for the next chapter here.
This strange and yet funny at the same time.
dis gon be gud
This is an interesting universe to be in. I'm not saying it's a good or bad one, that's based on personal opinion. But I liked to think on how things turned out if religion didn't strictly forbid incestuous relationship. Many theories are coming out of my head, and people would pick the most logical assumption of them all.
Anyway, this is an interesting universe to visit in. I'll keep an eye on this.
Ah ha . Ok. I see. I just don't know but I will track.
I re-read the first few paragraphs several times thinking this had going to be a big misunderstanding of some sort ... nope!
I eagerly await more!
She's right! Both the Apple and Pie families seem to have far more female ponies than males. Excepting for the moment the possibility of magical lesbian spawn, some breeding with other families would be necessary to keep the family propagating.
So it might not be taboo, but calling it a "tradition" is almost certainly an exaggeration.
Check-and-MATE.
Well, so much for Fluttermac.
I hope Twilight has a better opinion of lesbianism than she does of incest.
Heh. Mudpony.
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You already have an example to work off of. The British royal family, increases in the number of rare traits that pop up. Generally bad ones because the good ones became fixed. It also steadily decreases the variety in the gene pool, generally considered a bad thing. This is because any new genomes come across solely through mutation, rather than that and new combinations of chromosomes.
This is also discounting the general social reason to discourage incest in close family members. It changes a relations ship that most count as essential/important. If they have power, older/younger, then there is a great risk that they might have been raised or pressured to take this position.
Racist imperialistic bigoted nosy Twilight is... best... Twi...light...?
Meanwhile Celestia's up in the castle about ready to use the new riding crop on Luna, so Twilight's not getting any royal backup on this one. I can see it now.
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Probably the best example is the Hapsburg royal line from (primarily) Austria (and other various countries around Europe). Their generations of politically motivated inbreeding lead a number of various mental illnesses and to the "Hapsburg jaw" (Prognathism); in the case of Charles II of Spain, the latter was so severe that he could not speak or chew properly.
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Honestly, there probably wouldn't be any noticeable difference, at least at first glance.
It was mentioned, and it's true, that Charles Hapsburg was pretty screwed up, but he's also the first and generally only example people will pull. Same token, take a look at Cleopatra's family tree. Seriously, I won't spoil it, but remember that she was considered a very capable ruler. Neither of these mean too terribly much either since both were the products of aggressive inbreeding programs. If you're looking at populations with genetic problems, you're usually looking at isolated (and usually artificially isolated) groups like the Amish, or a group where a genetic disease is actually beneficial. Sickle-cell anemia is common in places with malaria, for instance, because the one that hinders a person protects against the one that outright kills them.
Religion, and we're mostly talking Leviticus here, really doesn't prevent incest all that much, at least not past siblings or parents and children, or, oddly explicitly, having an affair with your father in law. Some do, granted, especially more recently, but there's a discussion of doctrine vs scripture in there. Catholics allow second cousin marriages and first cousins marriages are fairly common worldwide. What you see now, again worldwide, is probably about as bad as it'd ever get.
I don't claim to have read a full body of work on it, but I have done some. In the first generation, two close relatives have about the odds of a birth defect as a non-related couple who are both 35 when they have the child, about double, and about half of a couple at 40. This does compound very quickly, of course, but not in the way I find people assume. Aside from livable recessive problems like hemophilia, etc, which can happen anyway and basically couldn't be weeded out of a population if you tried, the really nasty stuff usually just kills the child, often very early in a pregnancy. As a result, birth rates plummet and infant mortality goes up. Those that avoid both of those are generally okay.
Personal thoughts, maybe, but I think you may wind up with a few families with strict traditions for intermarrying that would, as a result, be prone to genetic disorders, losing their infant children and constantly dwindling due to that and members leaving to avoid doing that to themselves and their children, and their own fertility problems. People who'd maintain the practice (not the allowance, mind) even in light of what's going on would probably be quite zealous about the whole thing rather than just being a tradition. In other words, no part of this would be done casually. And we're back to isolated groups again.
I could see them being looked down on by their neighbours for the practice and forcing their children to marry who they dictated. Assuming marriage is viewed more in the modern and not joining families and alliances and such. Those who'd in-marry on their own would likely not be in the numbers to really matter. Otherwise, you'd hit the same issues in wild animal populations.
This is HILARIOUS!
Great, now I have to find It'll be Okay with a country accent! Thanks, Twilight!
Exciting and funny to read! Can't wait for more
Why do I feel like this has Discord written all over it?
When's the next chapter?
Inbreed, inbreen everywhere