#first cousins

[tyler-the-gay-cousin-lover]

Equal rights ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💖

I'm Tyler, and my boyfriend Martin is one of my first cousins. Bigots who hate on cousin romance and/or gay romance will never bring Martin and I down. Love is love and no bigot can take our right to love who we love away from us. Equal rights includes cousin couple's right to be together. Straight cousin couples and gay cousin couples matter just as much as straight non-cousin couples and gay non-cousin couples. Believe in equal rights ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💖

[love-and-nature]

I'm Sarah Partridge-Cuthbert. My husband Max Cuthbert is one of my first cousins. My cousin Max & I are happily married, so bigots can go f''' themselves. I don't care what bigots what, I dress like this for my cousin Max.

[shipcestuous-two]

Fallout (spoilers!)

@bourbonthesecond: The new Fallout show has canon incest. The lead has been fooling around with her cousin but breaks it off for an arranged marriage. It's apparently enough of a feature in Vault life that they have laws against it but it seems to be fairly culturally accepted. He's heartbroken and rebounds with her best friend.

Anon:  I imagine you must have gotten a number of asks about this by now but!! I just watched the Fallout show with my partners and I'm not over the canonical cousin-incest that takes place in Vault 33 lmao. Episode 1 has characters casually talking about fooling around with their cousins as kids (before moving on to "real" relationships for the sake of procreation), and the protagonist's cousin is openly in love with her. She turns him down, but to me they felt like that had more chemistry than she did with her actual love interest lol.

I really enjoyed Fallout (a couple things about it make me scratch my head but I enjoyed the ride either way) and I’ve seen it twice now. 

It’s clear that, at least in Vault 33, fooling around with your cousin is no big deal. I’m not familiar with the games, so help me out here if you know for sure, but the vaults seem to have 100-200 people if they’re full. While I can see how that would lend itself to cousins fooling around, from lack of selection, it’s also not like there wasn’t anyone else she could be with. 

Lucy states that her reproductive organs are intact and she maintains good hygiene, but she hasn’t been able to find a suitable marriage partner in their vault. 

So, except for Chet being her cousin, and she agrees that cousins shouldn’t have children together, she considers him a suitable marriage partner. (Given their limited gene pool, cousins really shouldn’t be having children together in that context, probably. But how long before they’re all cousins anyway? Maybe it’s a pointless delaying of the inevitable.)

She tells her friend Steph that after ten years of “cousin stuff”, she’s ready for the real thing. It’s unclear if she and Chet were having sex, it kind of sounds like they weren’t doing the kind of stuff that could have gotten her pregnant. But ten years! That’s a long time. 

This whole thing was a little strange, because it’s played for laughs, but there’s just a little more to it than that. Chet is in love with Lucy, it wasn’t just fooling around for him. And Lucy says that everyone knows he’s in love with her. No one cares about that either, but they all follow the rule that she and Chet can’t marry. So that was interesting point #1. Interesting point #2 is that Chet is one of the main characters in the Vault 33. He’s secondary character overall. He could have easily just been a throw away character never mentioned again. Interesting point #3 is that Chet being in love with Lucy gets mentioned again, a couple of episodes later. In a rather sad way, when Norm suggests that Chet came with him to investigate Vault 32 because he’s still in love with Lucy and being with Norm reminds him of Lucy. It’s like, ok, make me cry. Why is this so sad!

While it isn’t discussed explicitly after that, it’s pretty clear that Chet isn’t happy with Steph. For more than one reason, but probably mainly because he’s still in love with Lucy. 

I assume, given the circumstances, that Chet is the maternal cousin of Lucy and Norm. While Chet and Norm spent quite a few scenes together, I didn’t like that they never referenced that they were cousins, too. This is a tangent, but when Chet was sent to live in Vault 32, Norm called him a coward instead of being like, “Bye, Cousin. I’ll miss you!” But I think he was just bad at showing that he felt abandoned and that now he would be alone with all of his questions. But what I’m really getting at is that Norm had lost his mother, his father, and Lucy, and then his cousin gets sent to live in the other vault and they’ll only see each other every three years, if even. 

I also wanted to note that Norm calls Chet a coward, which was really hypocritical since we know Norm feels guilty about hiding during the big fight, but which also isn’t fair because when Lucy wanted to go to the surface, Chet wanted to go with her and she had to drug him to stop him. 

I really can’t believe that the show has a tortured canon cousins relationship, with sympathetic unrequited love and the two of them forbidden from marrying. 

While of course Lucy has a canon love interest on the surface and likely won’t be back to Vault 33 anytime soon, it is kind of fun that her arranged marriage, her “real thing” ended up being a man who tried to kill her. It’s like, Chet is looking pretty good right now, isn’t he? 

[gavin-is-hot-for-his-cousin]

Love is love

My name is Gavin. My girlfriend is my cousin Anna. Anna and I are first cousins, and if you have a problem with that than stay away from my blog you bigot because my blog is pro-love not pro-hate.

[imhere-imqueer-ilikedeer]

fuck I just realized Percy and annabeth are first cousins once removed. That puts this ship in an entirely different perspective. I am now mildly disgusted

[passionate-1st-cousins]

Federico and Valentina (first cousin couple from the show on Netflix The Five Juanas)

[i-am-my-mans-so-pretty-cousin]

I am my man's so pretty cousin.💕

I am new to tumblr. And my name is Christina. And the man I am dating is my cute as fuck first cousin who's name is Eric. My cousin Eric and I make love all the time.😊💕

[my-cousin-is-my-loyal-boyfriend]

Love is love

I'm Laura. My cute cousin Richard is my loyal boyfriend. My cute cousin Richard & I are first cousins but love is love, & we are happy together, & there is nothing wrong with that.

[beautiful-cowgirl-sarah]

My name is Sarah. And the above quote is just one of the things I love about my vegan cousin Eric. Eric is one of my first cousins, and he is also my boyfriend. And even through I do care about animals, and am dating a vegan man, I myself am not a vegan. But I don't have to be a vegan to be with a vegan. Eric my vegan cousin cares about my health even way more than he cares about animals. Eric loves me. Eric and I are a very happy couple.💕😊

[my-cousin-is-my-cute-boyfriend]

Love is love, & my cousin is my cute boyfriend!

I'm Chloe. My cousin Kevin is my cute boyfriend. Kevin & I are first cousins but love is love & we're happy together & there is nothing wrong with that!

[supergirlissupermansgirlfriend]

Love is love

I am Katherine. I am a bisexual woman. And the straight man I am proudly dating is my cousin Jack. Jack and I are first cousins in love❣💕

[supergirlisdatingsuperman]

I'm proudly dating my cousin & we kiss like this 💕

I'm Lindsey. My boyfriend Chris is my first cousin 💕

[mycousinismydreamgirl]

Love is love

I'm Ewan. I'm dating the woman of my dreams, & she's my cousin Serena. Serena is my first cousin, & we are happy together.

[shipcestuous-two]

I don't know if the Kushiel's Dart series has been mentioned before, but in the second trilogy, the hero Imriel falls in love with and marries his cousin Sidonie.

I think this is the first time for those two. Thank you! That sounds very nice.

[my-cousin-is-my-hot-loverboy]

I’m Wanda LaChance-Cohen. My husband Elijah Cohen is one of my first cousins. My man Elijah is cute as fuck, & he is all mine. My husband Elijah & I love making love to this song but of course we love making love in general.

[my-cousin-and-i-are-cute-couple]

I'm Alice. I'm happily married to my first cousin. He & I sometimes play this game with only each other while we are in our underwear then we take a romantic shower together. First cousin couples can be so cute.😊💕