Incest Is Relative

""Welcum ta Meryod! We're all family heer!""

- Meryod citizen, Lunar: The Silver Star

Incest is a romantic or sexual relationship between close blood relations, which is taboo in most, if not all, societies -- primarily because it leads to birth defects. Or because it counts as abuse of power, where an older, trusted member of the family uses his status to get sex from a another family member.

But this taboo is precisely is what is so exciting to writers, as incest creates an instant conflict between characters who would normally like each other, and a reason to have a really long Will They or Won't They? But it's also exciting to writers for other reasons. Writing is a way to explore ideas without actually doing them (we hope!).

This page is the supertrope of the Incest Tropes. Look to see if it goes there before adding examples here.