LMB Family Tree - 04/27/12 03:24 PM
Recently, when I was working on one of the images for the "LMB Monitor Board" thread I used some genogram symbols in the logo I made for Shining Son. That got me thinking... I wonder what a full family tree for the LMB would look like.
WARNING: There are spoilers in the image - don't click it if you don't want to know.
Using Cobie's "fast facts" thread, the LMB wiki, and a couple other sources, I put together this first draft below.
It's very rough and only based upon the info I was able to glean, so there are likely huge gaps and possible misconnections, but I figure it's a good place to start to soliciting feedback for revision.
A couple notes:
- As I didn't want any unconnected islands of characters, I've only put in those that I could connect to the main tree through either familial, romantic, or otherwise established very close relationships (ex. Rocky being Tim's mentor, Cobie and Mystery Lad having been college roomates, or the Everday Girl/Holly Honey/My Whee Fem having been orphans together).
- Resultingly there are some notable ommisions including, but not limited to: Nightcrawler, Candle, Dedman/Viridis, Fanfic Lady, Fat Cramer, Kent, and cleome (among many others).
- The hierarchy is mostly generational, as much as possible, but not entirely. Basically, "home row" is the third from the bottom, with mostly LMBers. Moving down from that point, the next row is non LMB supporting characters (relations, spouses, etc) and the bottom row are the younger characters (young LMB members, children of the LMB). Moving up from "home row" is the "parental" row - but also includes older LMB members such as Abin or Faraway Lad. I've also included Tempest's Avalon characters here as simply a matter of convenience. Above that is the "grandparents" row, but also includes Matlock as he is far older than he looks (He was already old enough to have been on the police force, facing off against the Yellow Kid 60 years ago). The House of Rockhopper then goes one generation higher, but that's an artifact of the software I used (see below). There is then a gap (I should somehow note this that separates a few characters into the far distant past (Pornis, The One Called the One, Numnuts, STU, Pagan Lass, and Stoopid Cat)
- There are a lot of invididuals listed as unknown. Some of these are legitimate (such as EDE's mystery wife) but a lot of them are artifacts of the genogram software needing to have parents listed in order to indicate siblings. The worst example of this is that, in order to show Sketch Lad and his cousins, I needed to go back two generations of "unknowns".
- Varying levels of romantic relationships are represented. I haven't done a legend yet, but basically, here's a guide:
Square - Male
Circle - Female
Diamond - Multiple individuals
An "X" through any of those is deceased
Black - Married
Black with X - Widowed
Brown (crossed)- Marriage Dissolved
Blue (Dashed with Solid underline) - Committed Relationship
Blue (Dashed crossed) - Former committed relationship
Blue (Dashed) - Adopted
Blue (Dotted) - Casual Relationship (short term, or just a date or two)
Blue (Dashed and Dotted) - Very short term/one night stand
Pink - Love Affair
Red - Coercion of some type
Grey (dotted) - Unknown
Grey (arrow) - Minor crush in the direction of the arrow
Green (double) - Very tight friendship/mentoring
Green (circles) - Spiritual connection
Red (squiggly) - Inheritence of a criminal legacy
Red (Triple) - Robot duplicate magically given sentience, changed into a humanoid, and later killed ( )
Grey dots between siblings indicate twins/triplets
- There are a couple of odd things that I couldn't full represent (Shark Lad and his "siblings" as genetically engineered, the SHAKES androids, the essense of Hugh Taylor being transferred between women prior to birth, etc.) but I did the best I could, and I think it's mostly self explanatory.
Anyway, take a look, let me know what I missed, got wrong, or otherwise just plain lied about.
Click to enlange:
WARNING: There are spoilers in the image - don't click it if you don't want to know.
Using Cobie's "fast facts" thread, the LMB wiki, and a couple other sources, I put together this first draft below.
It's very rough and only based upon the info I was able to glean, so there are likely huge gaps and possible misconnections, but I figure it's a good place to start to soliciting feedback for revision.
A couple notes:
- As I didn't want any unconnected islands of characters, I've only put in those that I could connect to the main tree through either familial, romantic, or otherwise established very close relationships (ex. Rocky being Tim's mentor, Cobie and Mystery Lad having been college roomates, or the Everday Girl/Holly Honey/My Whee Fem having been orphans together).
- Resultingly there are some notable ommisions including, but not limited to: Nightcrawler, Candle, Dedman/Viridis, Fanfic Lady, Fat Cramer, Kent, and cleome (among many others).
- The hierarchy is mostly generational, as much as possible, but not entirely. Basically, "home row" is the third from the bottom, with mostly LMBers. Moving down from that point, the next row is non LMB supporting characters (relations, spouses, etc) and the bottom row are the younger characters (young LMB members, children of the LMB). Moving up from "home row" is the "parental" row - but also includes older LMB members such as Abin or Faraway Lad. I've also included Tempest's Avalon characters here as simply a matter of convenience. Above that is the "grandparents" row, but also includes Matlock as he is far older than he looks (He was already old enough to have been on the police force, facing off against the Yellow Kid 60 years ago). The House of Rockhopper then goes one generation higher, but that's an artifact of the software I used (see below). There is then a gap (I should somehow note this that separates a few characters into the far distant past (Pornis, The One Called the One, Numnuts, STU, Pagan Lass, and Stoopid Cat)
- There are a lot of invididuals listed as unknown. Some of these are legitimate (such as EDE's mystery wife) but a lot of them are artifacts of the genogram software needing to have parents listed in order to indicate siblings. The worst example of this is that, in order to show Sketch Lad and his cousins, I needed to go back two generations of "unknowns".
- Varying levels of romantic relationships are represented. I haven't done a legend yet, but basically, here's a guide:
Square - Male
Circle - Female
Diamond - Multiple individuals
An "X" through any of those is deceased
Black - Married
Black with X - Widowed
Brown (crossed)- Marriage Dissolved
Blue (Dashed with Solid underline) - Committed Relationship
Blue (Dashed crossed) - Former committed relationship
Blue (Dashed) - Adopted
Blue (Dotted) - Casual Relationship (short term, or just a date or two)
Blue (Dashed and Dotted) - Very short term/one night stand
Pink - Love Affair
Red - Coercion of some type
Grey (dotted) - Unknown
Grey (arrow) - Minor crush in the direction of the arrow
Green (double) - Very tight friendship/mentoring
Green (circles) - Spiritual connection
Red (squiggly) - Inheritence of a criminal legacy
Red (Triple) - Robot duplicate magically given sentience, changed into a humanoid, and later killed ( )
Grey dots between siblings indicate twins/triplets
- There are a couple of odd things that I couldn't full represent (Shark Lad and his "siblings" as genetically engineered, the SHAKES androids, the essense of Hugh Taylor being transferred between women prior to birth, etc.) but I did the best I could, and I think it's mostly self explanatory.
Anyway, take a look, let me know what I missed, got wrong, or otherwise just plain lied about.
Click to enlange: