and the miracle at Darna took place over the course of raising some kids for 15 years.
I like that idea, except that we'd have to believe the creators are lying to us again. Because everything indicates that Sety, Fala, Baldo, etc were the actual warriors and not offspring of whoever the original Chosen Twelve were. Otherwise, it makes more sense than believing in some kind of blood-brother fusion.
It seems to resemble some sort of three-way codominance, not unlike snapdragons and the like, to which either parent can contribute up to two features.
That's the only way it seems remotely plausible. It absolutely cannot be a basic dominant/recessive inheritance. But the fact that identical twins Adean and Briggid have two different holy blood statuses says to me it's not really following rules of science. It's... magic. Unless we want to do some hand-waving about how they're really not identical, they just are the kind of twins who look identical but aren't. :/
Or do you mean it just doesn't follow a formal makes-magic-sense rule?
Yeah, I was trying to say it was out of step with a typical way of constructing a magical bloodline, not to mention out of step with the way things appear to work in some other FE 'verses, what with genderlocked weapons. I ended up over-editing that bit because I was about to fall asleep.
I'd been under the impression that it was a temporary thing when encountering your divine weapon for the first time.
That would make sense, but I'm talking about the moment where Finn spots Altenna as an enemy unit. If someone can ID another person as a major carrier of holy blood by their aura-- even IF we decide to qualify that by hypothesizing the aura only kicks in when they also have their holy weapon-- then there are a lot of WTF plotholes all of a sudden. It'd be awfully hard for Sety to do his Magi Squad rescue work with any kind of subtlety if he's glowing green. And that loser who pretends to be Shanan, fake Balmunk and all, is made of even more fail than he already was... and everyone who fell for it is made of yet more fail.
And if they just flat-out have some kind of detectable aura, regardless of whether they have their holy weapon, then the "revelation" of all these secret identities (Briggid, Dierdre, Julia) is seriously... hamstrung.
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Date: 2012-03-10 03:33 am (UTC)I like that idea, except that we'd have to believe the creators are lying to us again. Because everything indicates that Sety, Fala, Baldo, etc were the actual warriors and not offspring of whoever the original Chosen Twelve were. Otherwise, it makes more sense than believing in some kind of blood-brother fusion.
It seems to resemble some sort of three-way codominance, not unlike snapdragons and the like, to which either parent can contribute up to two features.
That's the only way it seems remotely plausible. It absolutely cannot be a basic dominant/recessive inheritance. But the fact that identical twins Adean and Briggid have two different holy blood statuses says to me it's not really following rules of science. It's... magic. Unless we want to do some hand-waving about how they're really not identical, they just are the kind of twins who look identical but aren't. :/
Or do you mean it just doesn't follow a formal makes-magic-sense rule?
Yeah, I was trying to say it was out of step with a typical way of constructing a magical bloodline, not to mention out of step with the way things appear to work in some other FE 'verses, what with genderlocked weapons. I ended up over-editing that bit because I was about to fall asleep.
I'd been under the impression that it was a temporary thing when encountering your divine weapon for the first time.
That would make sense, but I'm talking about the moment where Finn spots Altenna as an enemy unit. If someone can ID another person as a major carrier of holy blood by their aura-- even IF we decide to qualify that by hypothesizing the aura only kicks in when they also have their holy weapon-- then there are a lot of WTF plotholes all of a sudden. It'd be awfully hard for Sety to do his Magi Squad rescue work with any kind of subtlety if he's glowing green. And that loser who pretends to be Shanan, fake Balmunk and all, is made of even more fail than he already was... and everyone who fell for it is made of yet more fail.
And if they just flat-out have some kind of detectable aura, regardless of whether they have their holy weapon, then the "revelation" of all these secret identities (Briggid, Dierdre, Julia) is seriously... hamstrung.