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Kissing cousins is still kinda gross. :/

 

Cade might not care all that much. You never know.

 

Good point.

 

This reminds me of that 30 Rock episode where Liz unknowingly dated her distant cousin - when they found out about it they each said what would be a not weird distance to date - he said "fifth" and she said "no way, never"

I believe that in times past, marrying anything closer than four or five degrees of affinity required a papal dispensation.

 

Also, Jacen/Tahiri happened.

 

Also how bout Luke/Shira Brie?

 

And yeah, my aunt and uncle are something like fifth cousins (moral: don't marry a girl from your small home town).

That reminds me of some advice one of my former co-workers (whose family has many ties throughout the area) said his father gave out when he was growing up: Date in the valley, but don't sleep in the valley.

I do believe that marriage between cousins used to be a great deal more acceptable than it is now. Though generally not like Wuthering Heights--where the Second Catherine (the daughter of the first Catherine, and yes, I know it is confusing) marries both of her first cousins in succession without ever meeting another eligible man. Or another person in her peer group. Or another human being outside the Earnshaw and Linton households, period. That novel really is just saturated with incestuous vibes, though I rather doubt it was intentional on Emily Bronte's part.

 

I'm not an expert on the Legacy characters, but my understanding is that Cade is the great-grandson of Ben (and thus the great-great-grandson of Luke) and that Marasiah is the great-granddaughter of Jaina (and thus the great-great-granddaughter of Leia)—right? The way I always keep track of these kind of cousin relationships is like so:

• Siblings share parents;
• first cousins share grandparents;
• second cousins share great-grandparents;
• third cousins share great-great-grandparents;
• fourth cousins share great-great-great-grandparents;
• etc.

So if that's the case, then these two share great-great-great grandparents (namely, Anakin and Padmé) and would count as fourth cousins. I may be wrong about their exact relationship, though (the Wook wasn't very clear)—but fourth cousins still seems to me to be pushing the envelope a bit.

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez toys with the theme throughout One Hundred Years of Solitude and the last Aureliano and last Amaranta Ursula get a son with a pig tail. Then again, that's just one of the numerous surreal themes in the book.

 

Well it wasn't genuine-as she was an imperial agent the whole time.

 

See, fourth cousins doesn't squick me out at all, because I probably have hundreds of relatives at that level and have never met most of them. (just on my dad's maternal side, 3 greats grandpa had 5 children who lived to adulthood. If each successive generation had 3 kids per person, that would be 405 people who share great-great-great-grandparents with me.)

EDIT: ok, I'm doing the math wrong on this, because I can't figure out how many are truly 4th cousins, and which are cousins x-times removed.

 

Here. This may help the discussion.

 

Are we sure Cade isn't Ben's grandson?

So issues of Incest aside-do you think Cade and Marasiah would work as a couple?

 

If you want to write Cade/Marasiah, go for it. We've established that it's far enough apart to not count as incest.

 

Didn't you mean Legacy?

 

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At this point, I am going to do some basic housekeeping, propose a discussion topic for the little of September we have left and brainstorm on the challenge idea with you all. All suggestions and ideas are welcome. This is a great thread and it should be more active, but that's a given.

CHALLENGE #1 - UNFIXABLE ISSUES - RESULTS

Only two people have voted in our first challenge, each for a different story, so after some thinking, I decided that both people who received votes in this challenge should be the joint winners.

Congratulations, Briannakin ( Abating Hope) and Raissa Baiard (You've Been Thinkin' And I've Been Drinkin') - you have won our first challenge!

A new challenge will be posted in a couple of days, so our schedule would not clash with those of the Bring Back the OC Revolution and Fanon threads, thus giving everybody enough time to participate in all three. I have a couple of ideas written down, but if you have one, too, please send me a message or suggest it here. Either way round is fine by me!

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Discussion #3 - The First Time I Caught A Glimpse Of You​

Some beings fall in love at the first sight. We all know how one certain young slave reacted upon seeing a certain royal disguised as a mere handmaiden. Some, however, take a long time to process, understand and make sense of their feelings - one certain flyboy and one certain princess come to mind. Of course, there is a whole spectrum of situations and the duration of the process of falling in love depends on various circumstances.

But either way, each being remembers that first time they caught a glimpse of that stranger in the crowd. Let's talk about that moment. When did your characters spot one another? Was it love or lust at the first sight, or did they absolutely hate each other? What kind of a situation was this? Tell us more...

If you're new and would like to give your two credits on one of the previous discussion topics, you're welcome to.

Note: if you wrote about the first time your characters met, do feel free to include a link to the story/chapter. If your OTP is canon or Legends-canon, feel free to reference the book, comic, video game or whichever other medium. There will always be somebody who doesn't know.

 

Of course. I need to go through the OP and clarify some more things, but that would be one of them.

Hope that, by doing so, we're not stealing traffic from the NSWFF or something? Mira_Jade, are you OK with this?

 

Congrats to Raissa Baiard and Briannakin for their wins! Nice job!

I also love the L/M meeting since it was such a switch up from Luke's previous lady friends. We had Gaeriel Captison who was kinda like the high school crush girlfriend (it seemed he was more into her than she was into him), there was Shira Brie who, well, that didn't work out, there was the whole Callista thing (which I suppose we won't get into ). So when he meets Mara and her first reaction is literally to kill him, it got my interest. She was such an intense character and she has such a powerful personality that finally there was someone who would give Luke a run for his money. And the idea of Luke softening her up so that she would even be receptive to love was the challenge facing her. It was fun to see their antagonism (at least on her part) turn to stiff cooperation to gradual respect and then to love. You knew from the start that their relationship was going to change both of them in a very fundamental way.



As for my OCs Blue and Bree Solo and their OTP, they meet in chapter 1 of [link=http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...hallenge-final-authors-replies.50023681/]True Blue [/link]. He saw her first. Bree was sitting in the rain, trying to figure out how to stowaway onto the ship that Blue worked on. He recognized that she was hurt, so he used his medical pass to get her on board as a patient. He could have ignored her but there was something about Bree that really caught his eye. She was different from the other passengers, and he suspected (correctly) that she wasn't an actual refugee at all. When he approached her and touched her elbow to try to direct her, she almost bit his head off. He kinda liked that she had spark even when she was obviously in pain. There was mutual physical attraction on both their parts (once Bree realized that he was doing her a tremendous favor and stopped being so defensive). When he took his jacket's hood off and she got a good look at him she realized how handsome he was and she kept glancing back at him as she walked down the ship's corridor. He stood there and rather boldly watched her walk the whole way. Later, in the sequel, he confesses that he fell in love with her the first week he met her. So for Blue it was curiosity followed by physical attraction then pretty closely by love. Bree was initially taken aback by his action, but she soon realized he meant well and then she was definitely physically attracted to him almost immediately.