Talk:Book 8: Legacy/@comment-38868122-20190408050449/@comment-38833839-20190409062012

As much as I would like for Livvy to be Sophie's mom (because Livvy is awesome!), genetics wise it's not likely, but possible if very specific genes were inherited and expressed. Unless Mr. Forkle messed with Sophie's genes for things like eye, skin, and hair color instead of using her biological parent's genes, then it is sadly improbible for Livvy to be Sophie's genetic mother. Why is this, you may ask? Well, using my limited knowledge of genetics, let's take a look: First, eye color. In humans, blue eyes are recessive and brown are dominant, but this should be comepletely ignored because Sophie's eyes are only brown because of Alicorn DNA and elves all have blue eyes anyway. Next, hair color. Sophie has blonde hair, Livvy has black/dark brown (it's unclear the exact shade). While not certain, it is believed that blond hair is recessive and black/brown dominant, making it fairly unlikely that Livvy's hair color genes could result in Sophie's light blonde hair. Finally, skin color. Livvy has "dark skin", not very specific as to tone (according to her wiki page), Sophie has pale skin- again, tone/shade not specified. Skin color is polygenic, which means that many genes influnce what skin color a person has, and why siblings often have slighty different skin tones. While pretty unlikely, it's entirely possible that Sophie could genetically be Livvy's daughter. I'm not an expert of genetics at all, and remember, genetics can be pretty unpredictable at times- that's why there are so many lovely combinations of features.

Except for ONE THING!

Mr.Forkle told Sophie her parents were NOT a part of the Black Swan (according to the wiki page), so basically this explination is not necessary. :D Thanks for reading lol