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When writing Kid Fic, it's of course necessary to come up with an identity for the child. This can be an interesting and fun experience - different traits from the two parents are passed on in unique and sometimes unexpected ways (some genetic traits even skip a generation!), forming a new, wholly original person. Of course, certain fans have seemed to miss out on this concept, and as such make children that simply resemble one, or both, of the parents, with no original or unexpected traits. This may carry over to things like hairstyle (and colour), personality traits, and talents.

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  • When writing Kid Fic, it's of course necessary to come up with an identity for the child. This can be an interesting and fun experience - different traits from the two parents are passed on in unique and sometimes unexpected ways (some genetic traits even skip a generation!), forming a new, wholly original person. Of course, certain fans have seemed to miss out on this concept, and as such make children that simply resemble one, or both, of the parents, with no original or unexpected traits. This may carry over to things like hairstyle (and colour), personality traits, and talents.
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  • When writing Kid Fic, it's of course necessary to come up with an identity for the child. This can be an interesting and fun experience - different traits from the two parents are passed on in unique and sometimes unexpected ways (some genetic traits even skip a generation!), forming a new, wholly original person. Of course, certain fans have seemed to miss out on this concept, and as such make children that simply resemble one, or both, of the parents, with no original or unexpected traits. This may carry over to things like hairstyle (and colour), personality traits, and talents. Of course, even this is beyond the grasp of certain fans, and thusly they just begin mashing up traits of the two parents. Now this is where the trope comes into play: Say Alice and Bob just got their freak on, What's the little bundle of joy gonna look like? Like Alice? Bob? A randomly decided combination of both parents through a complex series of gene combinations? .... HEEEECK NO. Thats no fun at all. What about two-toned hair? Sure! Add in a different-colored eye from each parent! And why wouldn't Alice and Bob name their child Balice? This is a very special form of You Fail Biology Forever and Lego Genetics. And even if you don't worry about that kind of thing, it's still about as unoriginal as a child character can get. Compare Gender Equals Breed. Subtrope of All Genes Are Codominant. Examples of Patchwork Kids include:
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