1 | ->''"For some of this mythical goodness, try throwing relatives of [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] into your campaigns. Imagine if the paladin finds the evil necromancer is her father. Or the grizzled space-freighter captain learns that one of the new crew recruits is the daughter he never knew about. Or two [=PCs=] discover they're half-siblings! ''The dwarf'' and the ''elf''!"'' |
2 | -->-- ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' |
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4 | As ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and god knows how many {{Soap Opera}}s and {{Comic Book}}s, have shown, writers love revealing unexpected relations between characters. |
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6 | !!Tropes: |
7 | [floatboxright: |
8 | Related: |
9 | + DysfunctionalFamilyIndex |
10 | + FamilyTropes |
11 | + TheParentTrope |
12 | + SiblingTropes |
13 | ] |
14 | [[index]] |
15 | * CainAndAbelAndSeth: Sibling dynamic is shaken up by the revelation they have another sibling. |
16 | * DaddyDNATest: A man takes a test to find out if he is a child's father. |
17 | * DeceptiveLegacy: A character finds out they were lied to about one or both parents. |
18 | * DisappointingHeritageReveal: A character finds out about their ancestors and isn't impressed. |
19 | * EveryoneIsRelated: The majority of the main cast are related to each other. |
20 | * FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: A character finds out that how they're related to a family member is different from what they believed. |
21 | * HereditaryTwinhood: Twins foreshadowing more twin relatives. |
22 | * HybridAllAlong: A character raised as one species discovers their true parentage. |
23 | * IAmNotYourFather: A character's parent reveals to them they're actually not their parent. |
24 | * LongLostRelative: A character meets a relative that disappeared long ago. |
25 | * LukeIAmYourFather: A character reveals they are the parent of another character. |
26 | * LukeIMightBeYourFather: A character reveals they ''might'' be another character's parent. |
27 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: A character reveals they are another character's child. |
28 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A man cannot be certain if a child is his and can only go by the mother's word. |
29 | * MistakenForIncest: Two characters in a romantic relationship are mistakenly assumed to be biologically related. |
30 | * MistakenForRelated: When people think that they or someone else are blood related, but they're wrong. |
31 | * MysteriousParent: A character's MissingMom or DisappearedDad is revealed to be significant in some way to the story. |
32 | * NotActuallyHisChild: A man finds out his child isn't biologically his. |
33 | * NotBloodSiblings: Can be used as a twist; siblings are revealed to not be biologically-related, such as via adoption, usually so they can date without it being too incestuous. |
34 | * ObliviousAdoption: A character didn't realize they were adopted. |
35 | * OneTwinMustDie: Having twins is considered bad luck in this setting and so one must be disposed of. |
36 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: A character discovers they are descended from a royal family. |
37 | * RefusedReunion: A character who's missing and/or presumed dead turns out to be alive but chooses not to see or inform their family about their existence because they'd be better off not knowing. |
38 | * RelativeError: Siblings are mistaken for lovers by another character who didn't know they were related. |
39 | * SameRaceMeansRelated: Characters of the same ethnic background are assumed or revealed to be related. |
40 | * SameSurnameMeansRelated: Two characters who have the same surname are probably related. |
41 | * SecretLegacy: A character discovers their parents are special in some way and so are they. |
42 | * SecretOtherFamily: A character has another family their relatives didn't know about. |
43 | * SeparatedAtBirth: Twins who were separated when they were born are reunited. |
44 | * SurpriseIncest: Characters discover they're blood related after getting romantically/sexually involved. |
45 | * SwitchedAtBirth: Newborn babies are switched (either accidentally or deliberately) so they end up with different families. |
46 | * UnknownRelative: The identity of a character's close relative is unknown to them, the audience or both. |
47 | * UnpleasantParentReveal: A character discovers an AwfulTruth about their parent(s). |
48 | * WhosYourDaddy: Not knowing who your father is causes lots of drama. |
49 | * YourSonAllAlong: A character finds out they're actually the parent of a child they know, but were unaware they were related to. |
50 | [[/index]] |
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