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november

Erichthonios was born to Athena and Lahabrea. Later, Athena gave Pandaemonium life in an act of mad science. (Both characters do consider Athena their mother.)

Are Eric and Pandaemonium half-brothers, or something else? Basically I'm asking which is *more fundamental* to the definition of "half-sibling":

Or maybe even... Since Erichthonios shares Pandaemonium's mother but also has a second, different parent, Eric is Pandaemonium's half-brother... but since all (one) of Pandaemonium's parent is also Eric's parent, Pandaemonium is Eric's full brother?

Help. I'm between patches with nothing to do.

@november I'd say "half-sibling" implies an even number of parents. I would, therefore, say that the term doesn't apply at all but, if you were to force it to apply, I'd say Eric is Pandaemonium's full-brother (all of Pandaemonium's parentage applies to Eric) while Pandaemonium is Eric's half-brother (half of Eric's parentage applies to Pandaemonium). You could side-step all that by just referring to them as brothers.

@StarkRG Yeah I usually do just that! Someone I was talking to got confused about it and I went "well, technically they're half-brothers" and then that one little part of my brain went "are you sure about that?"