Noblesse Oblige [Znt/SI]
trooperist
Cinnamon Roll AI
Yeah it's not exactly ideal, but it's not like he could do anything else given the lack of DNA testing and detect magic. Plus he had to do it for 27 different kids. Stick to what works, in this case being black hair generally trumps other hair colors in the genetics department. It's a lot simpler and at least everyone can see you at least tried your best with some sort of logic to sort out the truth.
Dorben
Mediocre RS Player
CUT THEM ALL IN TWINE!
- Pronouns
- she/her
No, I mean its a poor argument in that it can easily be applied to accuse Henry of being a bastard. He'll make himself a lovely glass house if he upholds this argument.
his argument was that he had a spell to discover the truth. the genetics was for his own peace of mind.
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He's just using it as the start of a way to extract the truth from commoners. If he's telling the truth or not doesn't really matter here. Hell, as far as most nobles are concerned he could have straight up told baseless barefaced lies to get them to properly tell the truth and no one would care...
- Location
- Lynn, MA
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Considering that his twin shares her parent's hair color, and that twins necessarily have to share parentage he can be fairly secure in that his house is not made of glass for this argument. In other words if the same argument was applied to his hair it would fail because of his twin's, which you seem to have forgotten he has.
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A firing squad taking aim to you and your family after your lie was caught is an excellent motivator to fess up too.
If anyone of the plaintiffs were idiots gunning for a Darwin award and kept insisting on their lie, then I think Henry would've just had the musketeers fire at the ceiling then had the plaintiff escorted into a holding cell. The roar of a dozen muskets would've been a deterrent for any further shenanigans in his investigation.
If anyone of the plaintiffs were idiots gunning for a Darwin award and kept insisting on their lie, then I think Henry would've just had the musketeers fire at the ceiling then had the plaintiff escorted into a holding cell. The roar of a dozen muskets would've been a deterrent for any further shenanigans in his investigation.
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EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
I'm sure after he returns home, Knight-Captain Castlemorre will settle down for a few rounds of drinks with his buddies.
"The Heavy Wind's son, eh? So how's he like?"
"Vicious."
"The Heavy Wind's son, eh? So how's he like?"
"Vicious."
- Pronouns
- she/her
Considering Henry declares nobles who fail their duties to have the rights of commoners, the local nobility might start to care a lot about wheter or not he uses bullshit to justify his actions.
Nope, cattelya has PINK hair like Karin. By Henry's argument his dark hair should be the result of his father having dark hair. But the Duke is blonde.
Walker of the Yellow Path
Ho There!
- Location
- The Land of Memes
But he did ask for the hair colors of his grandparents as well, so since we don't know his grandparents hair colors, he could pass his own test.
Chargone
Invisable operator
- Location
- New Zealand
You'll note he looked not only at the kid's hair colour, and the mother's, but also the mother's parents, and the Bishop's parents hair colours.
As for Henry's dark/black hair, well, that's an easy one to answer. if one of Karin's parents had dark hair, and the other pink, and pink is dominant over black, the problem is solved.
Bonus points: IRL, there's a type of blonde that is dominant over pretty much everything else. Admittedly, it's only really found in some tribes in Australia, from memory, but blonde being more dominant than black is a possible thing. So even if Karin etc. have blonde hair rather than anime pink, it still potentially works.
The only real problem is, honestly, that we have no idea if the pattern of dominant and recessive hair colours in Halk matches that of IRL earth.
edit: Luftpanzer ritter* everywhere!
*i feel like this should really all be one word. i have no idea if that's the case and probably spelled it wrong regardless.
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Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
Dark Pink Hair. You'll never convince me otherwise, shade couldn't convince me otherwise.
Taisei
Conglomeration of past failures
He can be secure in the knowledge that he came from his mother... which truly doesn't mean anything. No one would make the accusation, but it would be easy to say he isn't the son of Duke de La Valliere if he has black hair and his sister has the same hair color as their mother.
In any case- I actually can't recall if his hair color was mentioned in the story. I just assumed it was pink or blonde. Maybe people are drawing details from other Shade fics?
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People are missing the point on Henry's "Paternity Test": get the uneducated commoner gold diggers weeded out and confess their lies.
Henry is fully aware that his test was bullshit. I mean he even said it in the update how lucky he was:
He's definitely not using that same 'test' to accuse a noble or heir of being illegitimate. Get your GoT plot devices out of this story please.
Henry is fully aware that his test was bullshit. I mean he even said it in the update how lucky he was:
He might've observed the predominant hair color in the village and used it to his advantage. If the village had a healthy mix of hair colors, or if the priest grew up with hazel or blond hair, he would've used another 'test'.
He's definitely not using that same 'test' to accuse a noble or heir of being illegitimate. Get your GoT plot devices out of this story please.
If he start bullshitting with Nobles, maybe. But so far, he only did the focused bullshit to make people come clear against commoners. And again, even if he did with nobles, he's not just bullshitting and carrying on with it, he's using it as a lever to make them think they have to come clear, and then carrying on with what they just admitted. And people are not going to care if the interrogation was not all that nice, not in a pseudo-post-medieval setting like ZnT.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
- Location
- Latin America
Galia is more like a fucked merging of France and Spain, with a significant part of Spain and not Portugal being underwater.
Invading magical not Russia sounds like a great idea
I guess winters are milder in magical Siberia.
I guess in canon the Elven lands are considered better because the traders from Rub al Kali (that the elves usually let pass through) can be used to get an accurate picture of the layout of the Elven lands.
Its the choice between the invincible* enemy that you know everything about and the unknown crap in not Russia.
- Location
- Earth
Would you like to reread your argument? Because you are arguing that twins can come from two different fathers. If you accept Cattelya is the daughter of the Duke, and Henry is her twin, then Henry is the son of the Duke. That make sense to you?
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- she/her
Cattelya has PINK hair. By the hair color bullshit she doesn't prove Duke is their father.
He's saying that Cattleya doesn't have to have been the daughter of the Duke, because she had her mother's hair, not her father's.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
- Location
- Latin America
His hair is (has to) dark purple like his grandfather, Karin is the daughter of a mistress of the former King, making the current Queen her half sister.
Tasoli
Life is for Living
- Location
- Behind the Keyboard.
You are missing the grantparents colors. Without it you can't prove anything. Plus there is always looking at eye colors.
- Pronouns
- she/her
The Grandparent Vallieres have never gotten a physical description and this bolded part is most definitely fanon.