Shall we put it bluntly? Heron King and Queen GOT IT ON!
Embarrassing Yvain aside...you know, in Stefan's case, perhaps being Branded is more of a...recessive gene? Like the whole blue eyes deal, and needing one gene from each parent, who might not even know they're carrying a recessive gene because they both have brown eyes? (Remind me to tell you why /I/ have blue eyes, sometime. It's a bit long to put here, but the story is great for amusing my science teachers~)
I'm sure you've thought of that already, though...
BUT. Creatures do NOT NECESSARILY have to be of the same species to procreate. Have you not heard of ligers and tigons? (Sure, their metabolism and etc. is WHACKED due to inter-species breeding, but...it's possible. AND their lil' liger offspring are fertile, too.)
/Will stop pretending I can discuss biology on your level xD.
Real life genetics is hardly that simple. In this case, it's an entire species. Your idea works as well.
My personal theory was that a transposable element acts as an... the equivalent would be the hox gene. In other words, due to the existence/activation of a certain thing, a certain group of other things would be activated. You could, theoretically, come up with a whole bunch of mechanisms for that, although that'd be straight theoryhammer territory.
Right. Perhaps "offsprings capable of reproduction" would be a better term. However, I'll take Stefan's statement as canon. Although, he's been hanging out in the desert for a long time, so that could be it too.
The thing that bugs me is why bird/beast laguz couldn't interbreed, yet bird-beorc and beast-beorc can both work. My theory is still the lethal genotype as above.
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Plural?
...So, uh...Herons are quite the uh...
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Embarrassing Yvain aside...you know, in Stefan's case, perhaps being Branded is more of a...recessive gene? Like the whole blue eyes deal, and needing one gene from each parent, who might not even know they're carrying a recessive gene because they both have brown eyes? (Remind me to tell you why /I/ have blue eyes, sometime. It's a bit long to put here, but the story is great for amusing my science teachers~)
I'm sure you've thought of that already, though...
BUT. Creatures do NOT NECESSARILY have to be of the same species to procreate. Have you not heard of ligers and tigons? (Sure, their metabolism and etc. is WHACKED due to inter-species breeding, but...it's possible. AND their lil' liger offspring are fertile, too.)
/Will stop pretending I can discuss biology on your level xD.
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My personal theory was that a transposable element acts as an... the equivalent would be the hox gene. In other words, due to the existence/activation of a certain thing, a certain group of other things would be activated. You could, theoretically, come up with a whole bunch of mechanisms for that, although that'd be straight theoryhammer territory.
Right. Perhaps "offsprings capable of reproduction" would be a better term. However, I'll take Stefan's statement as canon. Although, he's been hanging out in the desert for a long time, so that could be it too.
The thing that bugs me is why bird/beast laguz couldn't interbreed, yet bird-beorc and beast-beorc can both work. My theory is still the lethal genotype as above.
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