strangetomato | Cousincest, or "How to get around the game's family ties in three easy steps."

Remember this post about Audrey Broke and Alonzo Burb in my last version of Pleasantview? A helpful anon recently pointed out (via Formspring - feel free to ask me a question, if ya wanna) that they're actually related. Audrey is the daughter of Daniel Pleasant and Kaylynn Langerak and Alonzo is the son of John and Jennifer Burb, which makes them... wait for it... FIRST cousins. Eeep! That's a little close for comfort.

It's funny I didn't pick up on it, but I can always blame it on the fact that adoption erases the old family tree in favour of the adopted family's. Audrey was not longer linked to Daniel, so the relationship didn't show up. And in story terms, they probably wouldn't have known about it either, so it really could have happened. It certainly creates some drama, in true Pleasantview fashion.

It won't be an issue anymore, since I didn't clone off those two for the uberhood (I stuck to the essential characters only), so there'll be an Audrey and Alonzo (I'll reuse the names), but they probably won't be dating this time.

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That's interesting. I don't even know if it's legal for them to get married or not here, because I don't know of any examples.

I didn't mean to sound judgemental about it. It's just a cultural thing, and my own family is very close-knit, so my first cousins feel more like siblings to me.

I don't think that you sounded judgemental at all and even though I hardly know most of my cousins, I can't imagine having any kind of romantic relationship with them since I KNOW that they're my cousins.
I was just trying to clarify that it's not illegal here, just not very common (or accepted).

Cousincest, or "How to get around the game's family ties in three easy steps."

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