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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:
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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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