Familicide Mega-Thread

[Math_Mage]

Oh, right. Need to remember to interpret the spell correctly.

It is not just blood relatives, it is also the relatives of those, and so on. How far it goes is unclear. Many people claim that it is only two steps, but this is disproven by the comic.

Wrong.

The dragon which started the Draketooth clan is according to Blackwing not the dragon, but just one of the dragons V killed. Which is consistent with the ABD saying she had only one child.

Correct, Girard's grandfather was a blood relative of ABD.

The Draketooths were not blood relatives of the ABD just possibly relatives of relatives.

Wrong. Since Girard's grandfather was a blood relative of ABD, Girard is also a blood relative of ABD. If your brother is your blood relative, your brother's grandson is as well, as you share a bloodline. The same goes for the other Draketooths. Hence all Draketooths were killed as blood relatives of ABD.

The fact that it killed Penelope too, who were not a Draketooth but only related through her child gives it a step more. Killing hers and Tarquins hypothetical child would be yet another.

Wrong. Since Penelope's child was killed as a blood relative of ABD under Clause 1 of Familicide, Penelope was killed as a blood relative of an ABD relative under Clause 2 of Familicide. Penelope's family, those who share her blood (and her child's), would also fall under Clause 2--including a hypothetical child by Tarquin. Nowhere is a third iteration required, let alone a fourth.

V's line about the innocents peoples families also being dead down to the last cousin further corroborates this.

Wrong. Your cousin is your blood relative; hence the same step of Familicide that kills you kills your cousin; hence no additional step is required to kill your cousin, or any of your other blood relatives.

The thing is if it is not limited in the number of recursions, then almost all humans at all should be dead.

Good thing it's limited, then.