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Post by opalgirl on Apr 30, 2009 6:49:52 GMT 10
So. Everybody knows about Aly and Nawat's quasi-canon triplets (if not, see here). Is anybody else going to throw the future book these kids appear in across the room if they *all* look just alike (they're fraternal, not identical)? Sibling resemblance, similar traits... but they shouldn't be identical because they're not. And the red hair. I could buy one being redheaded. But not all of them. That would just break suspension of disbelief for me. (And they'd stand out like sore thumbs in Rajumat.) When I read that they were triplets, it kinda boggled the mind. Tammy's world may have excellent medical care, but how often would a midwife have seen or handled a multiple birth? (Multiple births became statistically more common with our modern use of fertility treatments.) /rant-ish. |
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Post by boosette on Apr 30, 2009 7:13:32 GMT 10
... Where does she say they're all red-heads?
I actually like them much more upon the revelation that one (I *still* can't tell them apart) of the three is a little person.
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Post by opalgirl on Apr 30, 2009 7:25:55 GMT 10
No. She doesn't. I was being hypothetical - IF they're all redheads, it would break things for me.
Also, I took things down the last time I saw something about the triplets, since I couldn't sort them out either.
Ochobai and Ulasu are girls and Junim's male, apparently.
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Post by boosette on Apr 30, 2009 7:41:12 GMT 10
Ooooooooooooooooooh. (Color my reading comprehension terrible)
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Post by Anaroriel on Apr 30, 2009 8:13:20 GMT 10
Is it just me, or are those hideous names?
I can't imagine Tammy making them all redheads. I thought she got over the "weird looks" after SotL?
Not that redheads are weird, mind you...
Actually, I think it would make more sense if they were black haired like Nawat. After all, they are crow offspring, right?
And I wonder what that means, being half-animal. Would their minds be normal? *ponders*
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Post by Cass on Apr 30, 2009 8:19:51 GMT 10
I wonder if one of them has wild magic?
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Post by Anaroriel on Apr 30, 2009 8:21:27 GMT 10
Maybe a different strain of it. Otherwise people like Stefan don't really make any sense.
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Post by boosette on Apr 30, 2009 9:13:52 GMT 10
I bet at least one has bird-and-or-crow magic.
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Post by opalgirl on Apr 30, 2009 10:46:01 GMT 10
Don't forget Uncle Kyprioth.  And Grandda George and Great-Grandda Myles. (Holy crap, Myles is a great-grandfather. I'd love to hear that conversation with Alanna.) Tammy says Nawat gets to take the kids to see Grandma and Grandda (presumably because Aly can't go). You KNOW George will 'corrupt' them and send them home. Just to mess with Aly. Can you imagine the conversation, when the triplets get to that age where asking questions is fun?: Kids: "So Da's a CROW?" Aly: "No. Not anymore." Kids: *'buh?' faces* "But he was a crow?" Aly: "... Yes." Kids: "Wait... what? How? Ma?" Aly: "Ask your father." |
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Post by rubberduck on Apr 30, 2009 16:44:47 GMT 10
hahaha, I actually dont find it all that surprising that she had triplets.. Nawat still is a crow really. And crows/birds are known to lay more than one egg! So it kinda does make sense.
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Post by Amdillae on Apr 30, 2009 22:10:08 GMT 10
When I read that they were triplets, it kinda boggled the mind. Tammy's world may have excellent medical care, but how often would a midwife have seen or handled a multiple birth? (Multiple births became statistically more common with our modern use of fertility treatments.) While it is true that we have never seen triplets in the Tortall universe before we have seen two sets of twins, Aly and Alan, Alanna and Thom. While the triplets may have been a shock considering that the father in this case in by birth a crow, I would think that the fact we have triplets would be the least of midwife's worries (assuming she had the whole story of course ;D) |
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Post by Lisa on May 1, 2009 7:46:25 GMT 10
I do like the fact that the two sets of twins are fraternal and from the same line - i.e., Alanna and her mother could simply be the kind of women who occasionally drop two eggs at once. It's known to happen, and reproductive traits are commonly passed from mother to daughter.
For that matter, Ali have fraternal triplets is interesting, too.
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Post by Katty on May 10, 2009 11:06:09 GMT 10
Especially since twins/multiple births seem to run in the family  |
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Post by Cass on May 10, 2009 13:29:10 GMT 10
Yeah. The triplets being triplets isn't unthinkable.
Multiple births plus crow daddy equals three eggs.
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Post by Fox on May 10, 2009 22:04:24 GMT 10
I can understand the logic behind the triplets, but it does grate on me a bit.
Perhaps it would have been more interesting/believable if one of her babies (either one of the triplets, or an extra fourth baby) had died at birth? (Does that sound really cruel?)
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Post by Anaroriel on May 11, 2009 7:39:14 GMT 10
Well, one is a dwarf... isn't that believable enough? I have neighbors who are four (quatruplets?) and one of them is very small.
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Post by anilaurel on May 11, 2009 9:59:22 GMT 10
People who are twins, triplets, etc. are generally smaller seeing as they both have to fit in a similar space. Women can only stretch so far.
Sometimes they are all small or a few, my neighbor has triplets (shudder) and they are smaller than other children their age.
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Post by Wild on May 12, 2009 5:35:54 GMT 10
It used to bother me when I first learned about the triplets but not so much anymore. Although I'm not overly fond of the names at all, I kinda feel sorry for them actually.
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Post by Cass on May 12, 2009 6:18:23 GMT 10
I think that there's got to be a really interesting dynamic there.
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Post by Katty on May 12, 2009 10:01:20 GMT 10
Yeah, I don't like the names either, but I suppose Aly gave them Kyprish names because she'll be raising them in the Copper Isles. Something like Alan or George, for example, would stick out like a sore thumb.
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Post by shangleopard on May 12, 2009 15:08:40 GMT 10
Sorry, sorta backtracking, but...
I was thinking that one of them, (perhaps the more 'lurian' looking one) would have brown hair? (Aly's reddish-blond and Nawat's black, and possibly some of George's genes that skipped Aly?) And then the other two black? (One brown-black and one blue-black if they all have to be different)
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Post by lhazel on May 14, 2009 5:13:49 GMT 10
Lurian?
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Post by Cass on May 14, 2009 6:01:38 GMT 10
Luarin, I think.
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Post by kaossparrow on May 14, 2009 6:27:04 GMT 10
Is it just me, or are those hideous names? It seems a little explanation is in ordeder here. Tammy says that it isn't good to name children after dead people. So: Ochobu Ulasim Junai Take the last syllable of each name and transfer it to the name below (except Jun ai goes up). Aly named her babies in honor of 3 important friends who died in the war. |
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Post by opalgirl on May 14, 2009 7:00:13 GMT 10
The Isles generally dislike naming children after people directly, if I recall... So this means? Aly plays Scrabble too!/dork. I will find it somewhat irritating if all three of those kids look so much alike that only Aly and Nawat can tell them apart. Nawat is not necessarily human, so we don't know how his genes will work, but it would be nice if one popped up with a brown hair gene from George. |
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Post by Rojo on May 14, 2009 11:31:37 GMT 10
I wonder if any of them will have a form of wild magic.
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Post by rubberduck on May 14, 2009 11:53:51 GMT 10
Now there's a question... Though I'm thinking it will just be a thing with birds? Maybe?
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Post by shangleopard on May 16, 2009 9:15:56 GMT 10
I've read a couple fics where the kids have Nawat's ability to shapeshift into crows...
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Post by Anaroriel on May 17, 2009 12:28:58 GMT 10
Well, I knew that, but it doesn't make them any less hideous, in my opinion.
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And Grandda George and Great-Grandda Myles. (Holy crap, Myles is a great-grandfather. I'd love to hear that conversation with Alanna.)
