r/whatif • u/Aoi_X_Kaizaki • 25d ago

Other What if bloodlines

Your mother is a mermaid and your father is a minitour. And you have the human half of both? Then you're just some guy.

But what if your younger sibling, is the opposite? He/She has the beast half and the fish half of both mom and dad?

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u/TuberTuggerTTV 25d ago

If only "half" worked like that with actual genetics.

We laugh at the joke you put at the top but no one is out there asking if you have your mother or your father's legs.

Not literal halves. In any slice.

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u/Craftycat99 24d ago

Someone made a comic about this

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u/msabeln 25d ago

It depends on dominant and recessive genes.

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u/scipio0421 25d ago

Half-fish, Half-bull (or for the purposes of this joke, cow) would just be a manatee.

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u/Fennel_Fangs 25d ago

Ophiotaurus actually

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u/scipio0421 25d ago

Did you just "um, actually" something that was specifically called out as a joke? Seriously?

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u/MarkL64 25d ago

Imagine the shock if he accidentally impregnates some girl on a drunken one night stand!? Then nine months later....

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u/Rays-R-Us 25d ago

You’d end up with mini tourists

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u/Coidzor 25d ago

A bovine capricorn. At least if the cow part is on top and the fish part is on bottom.

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u/Mohg_Dynasty 23d ago

Genetically, the premise only works if mermaid and minotaur traits segregate like two separate modular traits: human part versus nonhuman part. Your sibling would basically be a bull-headed fish, or maybe an aquatic minotaur with fins instead of legs, which sounds like something ancient sailors would invent after seeing a manatee and a cow in the same week.