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WIP of a family tree of Prima Genetrix Anima(e) (pdf download is clear but file visible here is low resolution)

In a time before Pony... anime and Roman (alternate/)history weighed heavily on my disposable energy. Having seen Centurii-chan pop up now and again as I've browsed Pinterest these last few years (especially her selfie with Caesar at the Rubicon), I eventually tripped into a compulsion of seeing a family tree of anime legionary girls.

What would it take for such an outward appearance and personality to be accepted as a soldier on the limes and not just some camp follower? It had to have been an old introduction, at a time when Roman culture was most vulnerable to exceptions.

And I wanted to see the Genetrices in every time period.

"Through the centuries, the gens Genetrix became a persistent name in the yearly campaigns of Rome, a living myth of an ancient family where only daughters are born, and of which all follow their progenitor's tradition of service to the military. A service which ended only with death, or the proscribed 'no less than twenty and no more than twenty-five' years of soldiering."

It's a silly timeline when considering

basic genetics,

the realities of ancient cultures'/traditions' inertia,

that I'm using Autocad and convoluted excel formulae to build the tree,

and that the Genetrices, in order to be taken seriously consistently, seemed to require them to generally be Mary-Sues -how else could this gens stay physically competitive for centuries yet not be presumed a threat to a "male profession" or to "traditional values" at large and seen as 'a problem' that needed to be 'tamed'? Sure there were gladiatrices, but you know how the laws around the arena and 'polite company' always went.

But it's been terribly enjoyable visualising the juxtaposition, seeing the numbers and charts, and messing around with history while not knowing where I'm going with it.

Description

WIP of a family tree of Prima Genetrix Anima(e) (pdf download is clear but file visible here is low resolution)

In a time before Pony... anime and Roman (alternate/)history weighed heavily on my disposable energy. Having seen Centurii-chan pop up now and again as I've browsed Pinterest these last few years (especially her selfie with Caesar at the Rubicon), I eventually tripped into a compulsion of seeing a family tree of anime legionary girls.

What would it take for such an outward appearance and personality to be accepted as a soldier on the limes and not just some camp follower? It had to have been an old introduction, at a time when Roman culture was most vulnerable to exceptions.

And I wanted to see the Genetrices in every time period.

"Through the centuries, the gens Genetrix became a persistent name in the yearly campaigns of Rome, a living myth of an ancient family where only daughters are born, and of which all follow their progenitor's tradition of service to the military. A service which ended only with death, or the proscribed 'no less than twenty and no more than twenty-five' years of soldiering."

It's a silly timeline when considering

basic genetics,

the realities of ancient cultures'/traditions' inertia,

that I'm using Autocad and convoluted excel formulae to build the tree,

and that the Genetrices, in order to be taken seriously consistently, seemed to require them to generally be Mary-Sues -how else could this gens stay physically competitive for centuries yet not be presumed a threat to a "male profession" or to "traditional values" at large and seen as 'a problem' that needed to be 'tamed'? Sure there were gladiatrices, but you know how the laws around the arena and 'polite company' always went.

But it's been terribly enjoyable visualising the juxtaposition, seeing the numbers and charts, and messing around with history while not knowing where I'm going with it.