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KD Since: May, 2009
2024-09-17 05:17:41

Not Quite Human is the index for this situation, and there are a lot of specific tropes for many different situations. See especially Uneven Hybrid, like they're 95% human and 5% Powerful Magic Creature due to having a great-great-great grandsomething that wasn't human.

I'm not sure what you mean by having ancestry not from a specific source though. Mystical Pregnancy of their great (great great) grandmother? Still seems like Uneven Hybrid if the character is certain that they're "95% human and 5% something else".

Edited by KD
NorskDaedalus Since: Sep, 2024
2024-09-17 07:29:29

Hmm, okay, it looks like it might not exist then, because all of them are too specific for the trope I'm thinking of. A good example would be, what trope would a DND Sorcerer fall under, where they inherited their powers from somewhere, and that source could be a great-great grandfather who was a dragon, or because their grandmother was a goddess, or because they have Royal Blood. Basically, "this person is magic because of who they're descended from," without inherently specifying what they're descended from. That index doesn't include instances of Superpowerful Genetics, for instance.

Edit: Born Winner is a bit of what I'm talking about, but ends up being more broad than I'm looking for, which is when someone has special abilities specifically thanks to who they're descended from, and doesn't really cover just a generic 'Mage born of mages.'

Edited by NorskDaedalus
BeerBaron Since: Mar, 2012
2024-09-17 07:42:45

Keeping in mind that Tropes Are Flexible, would Superpowerful Genetics not simply cover it? A form of "empowerment" (superpowers in the classic sense, magical ability, whatever) passed through the bloodline?

More basically, there's In the Blood. Specifically the "...a person's ancestry can determine their genes and, to a lesser extent, their personality, and even their talents, but in fiction, this extends to skills, superpowers, and even moral alignment..." part.

NorskDaedalus Since: Sep, 2024
2024-09-17 07:44:13

It's probably somewhere between In the Blood and Superpowerful Genetics, so I'll just go with those for now, thanks!

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