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09/19/2001 Entry: "The Great Billy Theory, And How It All Fell Down."

So close! I was so close to a brilliantly fangirlish theory, and then it all FELL THROUGH!
So I'll share anyway. What the heck, it was great for five minutes.

Basic genetics holds that brown eyes (B) are dominant over blue eyes (b). I won't be getting into Mendel squares here or anything, but basically, if you have brown eyes, it means one of your parents HAD to have brown eyes too.
Okay. So. I was paging through Xenogears: Perfect Works, and I hit the page about Billy. (Ha ha, I bet you thought this was going to be about Bart. Nyah nyah.)
Billy has blue eyes.
Jessie, his father, has blue eyes.
Primera, his little sister... has brown eyes.
Which means that Raquel, her mother, HAD to have brown eyes.
If that's so... why doesn't Billy have brown eyes?

My god! Who's Billy's mother? Jessie, who WERE you sleeping with?!

But of course, it all falls through. Raquel could easily have been Bb, which would have made her have brown eyes but be carrying a recessive blue-eyes gene; therefore it's all possible and I'm out one incredibly pointless theory.

Damn! And here I was having SO much fun!

Replies: add your comment: currently 7 comments

When Jessie, Citan and Sigurd have....a little too much and "Dance with a Smiley Face Painted on Your Stomach", who KNOWS that they will do next, Moon...

Posted by Wolf @ 09/19/2001 11:32 AM EST

...yesss, but if Citan and/or Sigurd are Billy's *mother*, that's a little TOO much... ^_^;;

Posted by StB @ 09/19/2001 03:27 PM EST

You guys read my mind...

*snif* I'm so proud. I've trained you guys so well.

Posted by Mooncalf @ 09/19/2001 04:08 PM EST

The question isn't who Jessie was sleeping with, but it's who was Raquel sleeping with! Stein could be Prim's father! The whore! AAAAAAAH!!!!!!! *runs off cackling madly*

Posted by Lea @ 09/19/2001 10:01 PM EST

I learned from the Master. ^_'

Posted by Wolf @ 09/20/2001 12:21 AM EST

You know, what I never heard in those basic bio classes is what gene sets were responsible for hazel or green eyes... whether its another possible gene in the same location, or a different location entirely... relative dominance compared to the other traits... hmmmm.... *wanders off into realms of pointless intellectual curiousity*

Posted by Nathan @ 09/21/2001 04:43 AM EST

As I remember from high-school Bio 2 (err...), there are more possibilities than the binary B and b - if...I...recall... correctly. O_o Or it may well be a combination of genes; hair color is controlled by several genes, I think.

Err, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing; quieting now.

Posted by StB @ 09/21/2001 10:02 AM EST