Incesty Pairings

[deird_lj]

So, I come bearing pollage.

I've seen a lot of conversations about fanfic recently, in which people have discussed different pairings and said "That pairing squicks me out. It's... almost incestuous."

And I was wondering which pairings are most likely to strike people that way.


So, under the cut is a poll, full of pairings!
Rate each pairing from 1 (not incestuous in the slightest) to 10 (really really incestuous and squicky).




[Poll #1524132]


Questions? Comments?

Comments

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

So far I'm the only one who sees anything even remotely incestual about Faith/Robin.

Robin never told Faith "you remind me of my mother"... though he did say that to Buffy. :-)

But just because someone reminds you of their mother doesn't mean you're committing incest if you sleep with them, unless they really are your mother.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Which is why I said "remote." Maybe it was just so I could get a pun out of Faith calling him "motherfucker" later on. :-)

ETA: but seriously... the guy's entire life has been hung up on the fact that his mother was a Slayer. So what does he do when he meets two Slayers for real? He dates one (and gives her his mother's weapons) and beds the other.

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Lots of guys in real life are hung up on their mother and expect their romantic partners to "be like Mom". Doesn't strike me as incestuous so much as immature.

And, to be fair, a lot of women seek out men who remind them of their father, unconsciously or not.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

True, true. If there were a value between 0 and 1, I'd probably go with that for Robin - I'd say it's more than absolutely nothing, but not enough to be measurable. As in "there's no cannibalism in the Royal Navy, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount." :-)

...I don't know why I'm arguing this so hard.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I never thought of that.

Hmmmmm.