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[alixtii]

You guys do realize I spent all day at work today with visions of Cuckoocest running through my head, right?

All gorram day.

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[faith-chaos.livejournal.com]

But is it really incest if they are all, biologically speaking, the same person? It's kinda confusing.

And I find incest [in fiction and/or when there's no issue of consent] doesn't squick me out. Huh.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

The great thing about science fiction is that we're not the first ones to have this discussion.

Lazarus Long's (female) clones, Lapus Lazuli and Lorelai Lee, used the "it's masturbation, not incest" argument on him at or around their eighteenth birthday. I don't think he bought it (especially since the fact remains that he raised them as his sisters/daughters), but it'd take a superhuman man to resist Laz and Lor, and he wasn't up to it.

Since the Cuckoos share not only a genotype but also a consciousness, however, the "it's masturbation" argument is probably more convincing in this case.

Obviously, it takes a lot for an incest pairing to squick me out, although of course it isn't impossible.

[faith-chaos.livejournal.com]

Yup-yup, sci-fi fans are made of win. And interesting on what you said, though in that case, being a different gender, they're not the same person anymore, in fact, I don't think they qualify as clones, since at least some of their genetic make up is different [if only the Y chromosome], but yeah, good argument, and good excuse too. I still have no idea who either of these characters are though... :)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I always assumed that Lazarus' X chromosome was simply doubled, so that Laz and Lor don't have any genetic material that Lazarus doesn't have, although of course it's not the same exact configuration.

I've written Laz&Lor fic, but I'm not what else I can say to explain who they are in addition what I've only said. It was only intended to be an illustrative example.