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"OH MY GOD LEMON!"
"What is it Rainbow?!"
"We're related!"
"Wait, really?"
"Yeah, we share a great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother!"
"...."
"What?"
"You did an Internet search on 'most distant relationship a person can have,' didn't you?"
"I... yeah. Okay, yeah, this was a stupid prank."
"Look, Dash, rule of thumb: if you're not genetically fourth cousins or closer, you're not genetically related. So that's... great-great-great-grandmother or closer in ancestry. Beyond that things get muddy fast."
"I just... your family tree is kind of like an ongoing melodrama."
"I know. Believe it or not, I was dating a guy for a while and it ended up turning out we were half-siblings."
"Wait, really?"
"Yeah, apparently my dad divorced his mom before having the fling that made me. Good thing we never made it past second base, right?"
"Aren't you not-dating Sunny Flare?"
"Eh. This lemon zests both ways."
"Uh..."
"Yeah, if you don't get that joke, we're definitely not related."
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How zesty.
“You don’t know us well enough to understand us, Lemon. We all end up related somehow. It turns out we’re all descended from a kid Adagio had with a Greek prince about 3,000 years back and, a bit closer, Applejack and Pinkie are fifth cousins. So, yeah, that ‘more distant than fourth cousins’ rule doesn’t really apply to us.”
All of Europe's high aristocracy is supposedly descended from Muhammed because of a Fatimid princess one of the Spanish kinglets married in the early Middle Ages. Geneology can be hilarious.
Now I'm picturing a child from an unusually stable genome who, due to endogamic customs and the operation of insane statistical improbability, is conceived as an exact genetic twin of her twenty times great grandmother.
And also her 15th great, and 7th. In fact, they crop up in the region once every half dozen generations or so, like a mystical standing wave of Her.
It isn't the same person, nor even the same soul or anything supernatural. It is simply the action of a genetic strange attractor throwing out the same result again and again.
And yet, they always exert an outsize influence upon their nation. They have been prophets, oracles, warrior queens and cult leaders. One led a rebellion that overthrew a dynasty. Another was the driving force behind a bloody Inquisition that dismantled the cult that one of the others had founded. A third was a saint who established quietist foundations throughout the land.
The only thing each instantation of the Woman has brought with her is her genes, and the promise of Change.
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I see you've read a certain Dazzlings being reformed fic, can't remember the name of it right now.
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I think she means that if it's futher than fourth cousins than it doesn't matter. Personally, I feel like that's a generous distance.