John throwing bucket on Jane like Nannasprite did with him, Jane throwing a pie in his face just like Nannasprite did with him, their shirt expressions, and then both Dad’s standing there, pfffff
…No, I hadn’t. That seems a bit absurd. I mean, I know Hussie mentions IRL people in Homestuck, but making up a kid as one of their characters? I do think there’s a high chance he’s adopted though. I mean, technically the players are their own self contained species. Who knows if they can even have kids with normal humans.
I have (sorta) debunked the idea that Dad is Nanna/Harry Anderson’s child before but lets do it again.
Nanna was born in 1910, Harry Anderson was born in 1952. That means that when he was born, Nanna was already 42. The average age of menopause is 51 (according to Wikipedia), but lets just give Nanna as a Life player the upper age of 55. When Nanna was 55, Harry Anderson was 13. So yeah, the only way that Dad would be the child of Harry Anderson and Nanna would be to make Nanna a child rapist.
This sounds like a shitpost but seriously how in the fuck did John and Jane bang two totally different people and end up creating the same fucking person
You know since this post has been on my dash a couple of times today and the origin of Dad is still a fandom debate, might as well apply some science to it.
B1 Dad is the uncle of B2 Dad, that means on average there should be 25% genetic similarity between them. However it can get as high as 32%. Given their similarity we can probably assume it is likely higher than not.
We are never shown or given any detail regarding Mr. Egbert or Mrs. Crocker. But given Nanna and Poppop grew up around the same place, it is entirely possible that their partners also came from the same place and perhaps are even related. If we assume Mr. Egbert and Mrs. Crocker happened to be siblings than that also makes the Dads cousins.
Cousins are on average 12.5% genetically similar, but for the Dads that would put them at a total of 37.% likely similarity (if combined with the average for aunt/uncles and niece/nephews). However cousins can get as high as 22% similar and if we combine that with the 32% high from early, it means the two Dads could be up to 55% genetically the same, even greater then the percentage of similarity between a parent and child.
so i have this really self indulgent “no sburb and everything is okay, also its humanstuck(?)” au where mom & dad meet at a single parent meet up, hit it off, eventually get married and also mom goes to rehab etc etc but most importantly john and rose become step siblings and eventually gay sibling solidarity. but the first meeting goes something like this
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