Iranai Akuyaku Reijou, Waga Kuni de Hikitorimasu wa - Yuushuu na Go-reijoukata wo Tsuihou da Nante Orokana Mane, Kuni wo Horoboshimashite yo? - Vol. …

[GreenDude1]

I mean... bloodline purity is an international thing. It's gross, but most royal lineages are highly incestuous. Japan does kind of glorify it for some reason, but having a Eurocentric royal family engage in sibling incest is probably the most realistic part of this entire story

actually the church forbid direct brother sister marriage and so European royalty would practice cousin marriage instead.

 

[Psychronia]

On one hand, it's certainly a major diplomatic blunder of the country here to allow someone so woefully unequipped for rubbing elbows with royalty to appear here. The brother is also quite a fool and it seems like the priestess here is someone who has also read the story.

But also.
In any other case, I feel like the country is the one at fault for summoning (ergo, kidnapping) a person from another world in the first place, and I don't think otherworlders are obliged to obey custom in such cases.

 

[CountryMage]

Wait a minute he was engaged to his sister? Now I'm glad that the engagement was annulled. Why does Japan try to put incest into everything? It's disgusting.

That might be normal for the Japanese peasantry on their tiny island, but it's even more prominent in European royalty, where their level of inbreeding was so bad that one king's autopsy allegedly found that his brain or heart looked like a roasted walnut.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

Firstly incest also very common in royalty in Europe. It is why the habsburg jaw defect occurred. Secondly adopted finances to protect them socially before they came of age to marry was also a practice.

 

[jrocker]

So the priestess of prophecy is a reincarnated from her world not just a reincarnated in the novel/game world? Otherwise how would she know if a character wasn't supposed to be there if they didn't play the same game

 

[Pinnaclen]

And I thought I was bad reading… Holy sh@t this Idiot was engaged to his sister.

they might be hapsburgmaxxing

 

[KuroZer0]

they might be hapsburgmaxxing

Not sure what that means but it does sound concerning.

 

[Castiron]

Not sure what that means but it does sound concerning.

That Hapsburgs are the royal family that ruled over Austria-Hungary, Spain during the Renaissance, and basically Germany + the Netherlands and Belgium before they were countries.

They're infamous for cousin and uncle/niece marriage to keep land in the family, to the point that Charles II of Spain was so inbred that he was severely mentally handicapped, was naturally infertile, and in general "astounded Christendom by continuing to live" (real quote).

So yeah, I don't care how sexy your cousin is, don't touch them.

 

[thycondrius]

Oh, so another reincarnator, but this one is a bitch

 

[Antairan]

Wait a minute he was engaged to his sister? Now I'm glad that the engagement was annulled. Why does Japan try to put incest into everything? It's disgusting.

Someone didn't take history class very seriously

 

[GreenDude1]

Someone didn't take history class very seriously

Brother sister marriage was banned by the church. That's why European royalty would always marry their cousins instead of their siblings. Also this is a manga written by an author in modern day. They don't have to add incest. Nothing about the story would change if she wasn't his sister.

 

[legendaryswordsman]

Wait a minute he was engaged to his sister? Now I'm glad that the engagement was annulled. Why does Japan try to put incest into everything? It's disgusting.

It's not so much Japan it's just medieval times they did that, ensure blood purity and all that

 

[legendaryswordsman]

And I thought I was bad reading… Holy sh@t this Idiot was engaged to his sister.

They are of a different sub race so even with beam blood related it wouldn't be that big of a deal and in old times it wasn't weird to marry your relative

 

[GreenDude1]

It's not so much Japan it's just medieval times they did that, ensure blood purity and all that

This is a manga written by a modern person with magic and non-human species. He could have made them not be related and it would have changed nothing in the story.

 

[legendaryswordsman]

This is a manga written by a modern person with magic and non-human species. He could have made them not be related and it would have changed nothing in the story.

They are different races so I think it's less of an issue. To some blood purity is important, it's an accurate reflection of the past

 

[GreenDude1]

They are different races so I think it's less of an issue. To some blood purity is important, it's an accurate reflection of the past

Why does this need to be an accurate reflection of the past? It literally has magic. It's fantasy. Do you not understand how imagination works? What part of this series told you that the author is making an effort to be historically accurate?

 

[Nekotofu]

Came uninvited
Pointing her finger towards a noble

Yep, she gonna die.

 

[Cobaltzero]

Wait a minute he was engaged to his sister? Now I'm glad that the engagement was annulled. Why does Japan try to put incest into everything? It's disgusting.

Dawg... check out the WREATHS that irl noble bloodlines look like. first cousins, uncles and nieces. aunts and nephews. half siblings and adopted siblings weren't safe either...
And Japan has the "Hikaru Genji Plan" from The Tales of Genji, where the titular Genji raised the daughter of his deceased friend to become his perfect woman... and then tried it AGAIN years later until his wife stopped him and told him she remembered when he was talking that way to her.

 

[Cobaltzero]

That might be normal for the Japanese peasantry on their tiny island, but it's even more prominent in European royalty, where their level of inbreeding was so bad that one king's autopsy allegedly found that his brain or heart looked like a roasted walnut.

The Hapsburg autoposy.
One of the most inbred nobile lines that existed. that particular branch died off, but there's a bit of it left in the Windsor royal line.

You can GENERALLY get away with cosanguinous (cousin) relations a few times every couple generations without TOO much trouble out side roughly a doubled chance for negative recessive trait expression and a marginally higher rate of birth defects, but the Hapsburgs did it for GENERATION UPON GENERATION. Sibling relations are similar, but the negative trait expression has an even higher chance and the rate of birth defects is higher too. again, you can get away with it once OCCASIONALLY, but the inbreeding coefficient is a BAD THING to fuck with unless you are deliberately going out of your way to LOWER it (Outbreeding)

Biology has a nifty little psychological trick to cut incest off at the pass too. The Westermack Effect essentially triggers a "This is family" response to people's you grow up around, which causes them to not be viewed as suitable partners. It also why stories of siblings who grew up separately and met later in life and only being grossed out AFTER the reveal is a thing, Westermack didn't trigger... it's also why someone you want to date saying "You're like a sibling to me" is so bad, you got Westermack'd.

 

[GreenDude1]

Dawg... check out the WREATHS that irl noble bloodlines look like. first cousins, uncles and nieces. aunts and nephews. half siblings and adopted siblings weren't safe either...
And Japan has the "Hikaru Genji Plan" from The Takes of Genji, where the titular Genji raised the daughter of his deceased friend to become his perfect woman... and then tried it AGAIN years later until his wife stopped him and told him she remembered when he was talking that way to her.

This is a fantasy story with magic and Dragons. There is literally no reason to include incest. There is nothing realistic in this series so why should it have to be realistic when it comes to Medieval relationships?