Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

[Elemental]

You're exactly right, and I wanted to touch on a morally grey area while letting you fill in the gaps and draw your own conclusions. And the problem is that there are only so many red-headed nobles. The Ashblades aren't inbreeding, but that doesn't mean they can shack up with commoners either.

Technically, they can marry commoners. I'm not sure how this works in Laria, but it shouldn't be too hard to elevate a common family to nobility for "services to the kingdom" or "feats of great valour" or "just being generally awesome and nice to everybody".

They just need to do it a lot, make sure those families have a proclivity for red hair and no one will notice anything for a while. Then when the Ashblades have introduces a constitution and a parliament in one or two centuries no one will care very much about tracing the lineage of every single queen since the beginning of the Ashblade dynasty.

Or find a kindly copper dragon to marry into their family...

[Asta Kask]

Re: Inbreeding - see also the genealogy of King Carlos II of Spain

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[SamBurke]

Worst. ADVISOR. EVER.

[Hiro Protagonest]

...Do those wings have jets on them?

[t209]

Re: Inbreeding - see also the genealogy of King Carlos II of Spain

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How many of the fans have played Crusader Kings 2? This is a lesson to those who wanted to make their bloodline look like the ones from Deliverance.

[Asta Kask]

No, but Serrin's going to fix that. She's the mad scientist wizard.

[t209]

...Do those wings have jets on them?

I hope she brought out death mask of angel spacemarine and their (Yuck!) Armor (Sanguinary Guard reference).

[Silverraptor]

Technically, they can marry commoners. I'm not sure how this works in Laria, but it shouldn't be too hard to elevate a common family to nobility for "services to the kingdom" or "feats of great valour" or "just being generally awesome and nice to everybody".

They just need to do it a lot, make sure those families have a proclivity for red hair and no one will notice anything for a while. Then when the Ashblades have introduces a constitution and a parliament in one or two centuries no one will care very much about tracing the lineage of every single queen since the beginning of the Ashblade dynasty.

Or find a kindly copper dragon to marry into their family...

Lucrid and Saphrin did it. Although that was just a regular noble family and no "Becoming King" situation to deal with.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Lucrid and Saphrin did it. Although that was just a regular noble family and no "Becoming King" situation to deal with.

Also, Lucrid was an arcane spellcaster, he saved Saphrin, and he didn't have an easy time winning over the Peakane family at first.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Hey Coffee, is this you?

[SamBurke]

Hey Coffee, is this you?

OH NOES. GOtta hate when people track all your personalities down...

[Silverraptor]

Also, Lucrid was an arcane spellcaster, he saved Saphrin, and he didn't have an easy time winning over the Peakane family at first.

Well, true. There's all of those reasons, if you want to get technical about this sort of thing.

[Lix Lorn]

OH NOES. GOtta hate when people track all your personalities down...

Her pokemon fics are awesome. A couple of bits got headcanoned for me.

[OoTLink]

I like :D the pokemon stories too :D

Also, the "nothing could possibly go wrong" trope is already kinda played out by the Giant. You sure you wanna play that card? XD

[Asta Kask]

Hey Coffee, is this you?

If it's not her then she has a twin sister somewhere.

Personally I fancy to think of Coffee as a bit like Agatha Heterodyne on coffee.

[SamBurke]

Her pokemon fics are awesome. A couple of bits got headcanoned for me.

Not saying they weren't. Despite not playing the game, I'm tempted to read some myself...

[Lix Lorn]

Personally I fancy to think of Coffee as a bit like Agatha Heterodyne on coffee.

Not enough collateral damage.
And the word balloons aren't spiky enough. xD

[pwning doodes]

This is amazing! I haven't read all the strips yet, but I'm so grateful for ths new comic to read while The Giant recovers fom his thimb injury. Thank you, CoffeeIncluded!

[Qwertystop]

Wait... Coffee? I started reading Alphabet Soup after that link to your fanfics got posted, and...

In chapter 27. You said Brycen was an actor. But wasn't that written a while before BW2 came out? How did you know? (Or was it mentioned somewhere in 1 that I missed?)

[Lix Lorn]

Wait... Coffee? I started reading Alphabet Soup after that link to your fanfics got posted, and...

In chapter 27. You said Brycen was an actor. But wasn't that written a while before BW2 came out? How did you know? (Or was it mentioned somewhere in 1 that I missed?)

Coffee confirmed for secret Nintendo employee?!

[Silverraptor]

Coffee confirmed for secret Nintendo employee?!

Ahhh!

Crap! Coffee, they found out! We have to get out of here!

[Lix Lorn]

Oh, don't worry. What with X and Y, I feel quite well disposed right now.

If Fennekin's final form is fire/fighting I will hunt you down.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Oh, don't worry. What with X and Y, I feel quite well disposed right now.

If Fennekin's final form is fire/fighting I will hunt you down.

>_> want some help with that? I am seriously getting tired of that type combination.

[SamBurke]

>_> want some help with that? I am seriously getting tired of that type combination.

We'll change it to Fire/Water. That should make it better.

[Lix Lorn]

Me, you, and everyone who plays pokemon. xD

[CoffeeIncluded]

Haha, no it was confirmed when Black and White came out. I can't remember where right off the bat though, sorry.

[SamBurke]

Haha, no it was confirmed when Black and White came out. I can't remember where right off the bat though, sorry.

Sigh... so I can't make a crossover fanfic in which you used time travel to steal the one secret necessary to complete YOUR Crossover Fanfic?

[Seer_of_Heart]

Sorry for being so unobservant but I have a question. Why is it a problem if they no longer have red hair? Also, aren't there explanations that could be used in a world with magic for hair of descendants becoming brown for example. A random genetic mutation wouldn't work but claiming a curse did it certainly could couldn't it?

[MichaelGoldclaw]

I would like to point out that there is a recruitment thread for a murphy's law (which is the preferred) or OOTS (the setting of course, nothing involoving the main stories of the 2) 3.5 game http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267814

thought i'd advertise it here since it is relevant to the topic.

[SamBurke]

I would like to point out that there is a recruitment thread for a murphy's law (which is the preferred) or OOTS (the setting of course, nothing involoving the main stories of the 2) 3.5 game http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267814

thought i'd advertise it here since it is relevant to the topic.

HMMMM. All my yes.