Sweet home alabama

@Phantom Rider  
Yeah, the way I see it, Cady is happy with anypony being in any relationship where they are happily in love with somepony else - after all, love is love; the rest is just details. :)
 
As to Twiley and Shiny’s parents…maybe they just like to live in a permanent state of pleasant denial? :P

You know what I wanna know? What Twilight Velvet and Night Light will think about their kids being in a relationship like this.
 
(I don’t ask what Cadence thinks; we pretty much all headcanon her as into pretty much everything, don’t we?)
 
@SunnyCharm  
We need more cheesy domestic stuff!

One of the cuter Shining Sparkle babies I’ve seen. I live for this cheesy domestic stuff.

cool

@Wryte  
Let’s be fair, a pony with webbed toes actually would be pretty shocking.

@CrashGordon94  
Here and here

@Wryte  
Might I ask to see where you got this information from? A Private Message is fine if you prefer.

@The Smiling Pony  
Eeyup, that’s the one I was thinking of.

@Wryte  
It’s on >>270059, here

@The Smiling Pony  
Huh. I must’ve been thinking of a different image, then.

@Wryte  
I checked the logs, nothing here was ever deleted. You posted this, though.

@CrashGordon94
 
Huh. I had an entire post about this earlier, but apparently it was deleted. Short version, yes, incest between immediate family members doubles the normal chances of birth defects for the child of non-related parents… from 2% to 4%. And the birth defects in question are more like webbed toes or asthma, not having extra limbs or a hemorrhaging brain.
 
The kinds of absolute genetic disasters we’ve been culturally trained to think of any time incest comes up, people like Charles II of Spain, were the results of generations upon generations of intense inbreeding, which stack the doubling effect over and over from the base 2%, to 4%, to 8%, and so on.
 
Historically, this usually comes as a result of royal families marrying themselves over and over to keep the dynasty to themselves, or due to a community’s geographic isolation making it difficult to find someone they weren’t related to in the first place, such as hillbillies. It wasn’t just that King Whatshisface married his sister; it was that their kid married his cousin, and their kid married his aunt, and their kid married her nephew, and their kid married her cousin (who was the son of another brother and sister pair), and so on and so on.
 
So unless Twilight’s mom and dad were secretly brother and sister as well all along, there’s only a 2% greater chance that the baby in the cart isn’t perfectly normal.

@CrashGordon94  
Your username suggests you’re around 20. I suggest you live up to that age and do some research on the subject.

@The Smiling Pony What if we wanted to prevent such a genetic travesty by instead of killing it, forcibly breeding it with a recently-abducted malnourished pegasus kid?
 
@Psychopomf Considering she’s got a pet dragon, wouldn’t that be more like Daenerys?  
 
…Wait, no, nevermind. Viserys it is!

@The Smiling Pony  
Somehow, I find that hard to believe to be honest.

@CrashGordon94  
It takes generations of continued incest for their to be notable chance of anomalies.
 
Nevermind that it’s still a child. It’s not like incest is going to suddenly produce Satan.

@The Smiling Pony  
Nothing, the freak IS a product of incest and all.

@CrashGordon94  
You want to murder a child? Wtf is wrong with you?

Who’s ready to put down the freak baby?  

@Background Pony #C62D  
I’ll do it later.

@Background Pony #C62D  
Hmmmm…  
Royalty: Check  
Incestuous: Check  
Long-Term: Let’s put that one under pending, shall we?

@HighRollerHydra  
The odds of birth defects are actually considerably lower than the average schmo on the street tends to believe. The screwed up royal families everybody knows about had “kept the power in the family” for centuries. With no magic and no “Twi or Shiny conveniently turns out to be adopted” loophole, odds favor the kid being perfectly fine. No, really, look it up.

Maybe Twilight is helping Shining getting food for her niece or vice versa.