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Snowflake Challenge - Day 8 - The Incest Poll

Hello! This is a post about fictional incest, please don't open it if it squicks you!
Mostly I'm curious about which "borderline" incest situations count as incest ships to you.

By taking this poll, you consent that it is about fictional situations and that "it is incest" absolutely not implies that it's wrong writing about it.

Poll #28245 Does this count as incest?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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First Cousins

Yes
6 (37.5%)

No
6 (37.5%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
4 (25.0%)

Second cousins or more (from the same important, close-knit family)

Yes
4 (25.0%)

No
10 (62.5%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
2 (12.5%)

Sworn siblings

Yes
2 (12.5%)

No
11 (68.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
3 (18.8%)

Not blood related, their respective parents married when they were tiny

Yes
8 (50.0%)

No
3 (18.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
5 (31.2%)

Not blood related, their respective parents married when they were teens

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
10 (66.7%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
5 (33.3%)

Not blood related, their respective parents married when they were adult

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
15 (93.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
1 (6.2%)

Legally adopted siblings, raised together

Yes
10 (62.5%)

No
3 (18.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
3 (18.8%)

Legally adopted siblings, not raised together (adult adoption or estrangement)

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
12 (75.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
4 (25.0%)

Parent figure/child figure, no legal adoption

Yes
7 (43.8%)

No
3 (18.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
6 (37.5%)

Raised together with clear acknowledgement one person is the child of the family and the other a ward

Yes
5 (31.2%)

No
5 (31.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
6 (37.5%)

In-laws - Dating sibling's spouse / spouse's sibling

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
16 (100.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
0 (0.0%)

In-laws - Dating kid's spouse / spouse's parent

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
16 (100.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
0 (0.0%)

In-laws - Dating parent's spouse / spouse's child

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
13 (81.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
2 (12.5%)

Selfcest (time travel)

Yes
3 (18.8%)

No
10 (62.5%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
3 (18.8%)

Selfcest (alternate universe)

Yes
3 (18.8%)

No
11 (68.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
2 (12.5%)

Selfcest (cloning)

Yes
4 (25.0%)

No
8 (50.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
4 (25.0%)

Alternate universe version of a family member

Yes
5 (31.2%)

No
1 (6.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
10 (62.5%)

Clone of a family member

Yes
6 (37.5%)

No
1 (6.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
9 (56.2%)

Very close childhood friends (could be labelled "like siblings")

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
15 (93.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
1 (6.2%)

Immortal ancestor/mostly human many generations descendant

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
13 (81.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
2 (12.5%)

Creator/Artificial creation

Yes
2 (12.5%)

No
9 (56.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
5 (31.2%)

Two artificial creations from the same creator

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
12 (75.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
3 (18.8%)

Anyone/shapeless entity who takes the shape of a family member

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
9 (56.2%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
6 (37.5%)

Mentor/Student since childhood

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
14 (87.5%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
1 (6.2%)

Poly V where two siblings are dating the same person at the same time

Yes
1 (6.2%)

No
12 (75.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
3 (18.8%)

One blood family and one adopted family of the same person, never met before

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
15 (93.8%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
1 (6.2%)

Schrödinger's siblings (one of them might be an illegitimate member of the family, but no one actually knows)

Yes
2 (12.5%)

No
4 (25.0%)

It depends (you can elaborate in a comment)
10 (62.5%)

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This was interesting. I tried to guess which fandoms they were; I came up with Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Loki, You've Got Mail, Wuthering Heights, etc.

This poll seems like a prime example of the "it's complicated" status message.

Ha ha, some of them! Tell me more about You've got mail? I haven't seen it, didn't even know incest was a theme?

I had a version with examples, but I hadn't examples for all of them, and also, questions on dremwidth are short. Here are some of my drafts.

* First cousins
Ciel/Elizabeth (Kuroshitsuji), Shaolan/Meilin (Card Captor Sakura), Antigone/Creon (Greek mythology)

* Second cousins or more (from the same important, close-knit family)
Arwen/Aragorn (Lord of the Rings), Hatsuharu/Rin (Fruits Basket)

* Sworn siblings
Odin/Loki (Norse mythology), Nie Mingjue/Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen (The Untamed)

* Not blood related, their respective parents married when they were teens
Yuzu/Mei (Citrus), Miki/Yuu (Marmelade Boy)

* Legally adopted siblings, raised together
Dexter/Deb (Dexter), Thor/Loki (Marvel)

* Parent figure/child figure, no legal adoption
Jinx/Silco (Arcane)

* Raised together with clear acknowledgement one person is the child of the family and the other a >
Wei Wuxian/Jiang Cheng (The Untamed), Viktor/Elizabeth (Frankenstein), Kazuya/Lee (Tekken)

* In-laws - Dating kid's spouse / spouse's parent
Ruth/Naomi (Bible),

* Selfcest (alternate universe)
Loki/Sylvie (Loki tv)

* Selfcest (cloning)
Beth/Alison (Orphan Black)

* Alternate universe version of a family member
Cop Rick/Cop Morty (Rick and Morty)

* Very close childhood friends (could be labelled "like siblings")
Jonathan/Mina (Dracula), Kuroo/Kenma (Haikyuu)

* Immortal ancestor/mostly human many generations descendant
Zeus/Alcmene (Greek myth), Farouk/Berenilde (La passe-miroir)

* Creator/Artificial creation
Frankenstein/his creature (Frankenstein

* Anyone/shapeless entity who takes the shape of a family member
Ciel/Sebastian (Black Butler)

* Mentor/Student since childhood
Obiwan/Anakin (Star Wars),

* Schrödinger's siblings (one of them might be an illegitimate member of the family, but no one act>
Catherine/Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), Ivan/Smerdyakov (Brothers Karamazov)

In You've Got Mail, Joe Fox's ex-girlfriend married his dad (or grandad, I'm not sure because I watched this a long time ago). I categorized them under the "in-laws: dating spouse's parent".

Greek myth has a lot of incest because of Zeus.

Oooh, thank you. Though it's different when there wasn't any marriage, and so no one was ever officially part of the family.

It's not only Zeus! Honestly Hera being his sister is the least of the problems they had (they didn't even grow up together) and all previous generations were incestuous too! His parents were brother and sister! The parents of his parents were mother and child! You can't blame Zeus for all the incest.
He agreed to Hades/Persephone but it wasn't his idea, and I'm not even talking about incest among humans!

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