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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 8107546, member: 24754"]It initially said "Married", but there were a handful of couplings in there that didn't involve marriage, so I figured it'd make sense to call it something else. "Had sex" seemed a bit bland, and it seemed like a good opportunity to go for some humor, so I picked the fairly innocent "Hunched".</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually grew up in Indiana, so if it's something that people haven't heard of then maybe it was a "midwestern thing". It may have also been a temporal thing as well, as it was popular during my childhood and teenage years (80's-90's), but I don't hear it much anymore. In any case, I figured people would figure out what it meant <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I initially tried to put them in chronological order from left to right, but ended up having to sacrifice that type of indicator to ensure that subsequent pairings between offspring would align. I didn't think about using vertical positioning indicators though. That's a good idea, I'll give it a shot!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Correct. I was going to try to force it in there, but I wasn't sure how to do it because that part of the tree is already super spaghetti bowled. They also didn't have any offspring, so it didn't seem that important. But, now that you bring it up, it does seem entertaining enough to try and include on it's own merits. I mean, how many people are forced to divorce the wife that they love in order to marry the wife's stepmom, who also happens to be a stepsister, that they hate?!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it can work if I switch Julia and Attica around. But unfortunately, there's no way to have Vipsania vertically above Julia, so the vertical indicator of chronology would have to be sacrificed. Incest and intergenerational hunching makes for really difficult family trees! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 8107546, member: 24754"]It initially said "Married", but there were a handful of couplings in there that didn't involve marriage, so I figured it'd make sense to call it something else. "Had sex" seemed a bit bland, and it seemed like a good opportunity to go for some humor, so I picked the fairly innocent "Hunched". I actually grew up in Indiana, so if it's something that people haven't heard of then maybe it was a "midwestern thing". It may have also been a temporal thing as well, as it was popular during my childhood and teenage years (80's-90's), but I don't hear it much anymore. In any case, I figured people would figure out what it meant :woot: I initially tried to put them in chronological order from left to right, but ended up having to sacrifice that type of indicator to ensure that subsequent pairings between offspring would align. I didn't think about using vertical positioning indicators though. That's a good idea, I'll give it a shot! Correct. I was going to try to force it in there, but I wasn't sure how to do it because that part of the tree is already super spaghetti bowled. They also didn't have any offspring, so it didn't seem that important. But, now that you bring it up, it does seem entertaining enough to try and include on it's own merits. I mean, how many people are forced to divorce the wife that they love in order to marry the wife's stepmom, who also happens to be a stepsister, that they hate?! I think it can work if I switch Julia and Attica around. But unfortunately, there's no way to have Vipsania vertically above Julia, so the vertical indicator of chronology would have to be sacrificed. Incest and intergenerational hunching makes for really difficult family trees! :([/QUOTE]
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