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| rdfs:comment | - Gold Reward File:GoldIcon.png Reputation Disposition Type Creatures Enemies Quest ID Separated at Birth is a quest in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Someone in Cheydinhal has been impersonating Reynald Jemane, and the Hero has been asked to investigate.
- A plot in which two siblings (usually identical twins) who were separated at birth now meet up as youngsters or adults. Usually the twins are mistaken for one another by family/friends and Hilarity Ensues (e.g. The Parent Trap). Often the two characters were previously unhappy with their lots in life, but after having walked a mile in somebody else's shoes, they gain a new appreciation for what they have. Notice that Separated at Birth doesn't have to apply literally - their parents might have divorced, and each parent took one kid and neither kid was told of the other's existence, but before that they were one family for some time. But Separated At Birth, especially if combined with Death by Childbirth, can make for so much drama.
- Separated by Birth is a theory that explains how any two people who bear no obvious relationship to one another can look like identical twins. The theory suggests that two such dissimilar people actually begin life by sharing the same womb, but that shortly after being born, one of the two is carried off by Gypsies, and raised as one of them.
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| abstract | - A plot in which two siblings (usually identical twins) who were separated at birth now meet up as youngsters or adults. Usually the twins are mistaken for one another by family/friends and Hilarity Ensues (e.g. The Parent Trap). Often the two characters were previously unhappy with their lots in life, but after having walked a mile in somebody else's shoes, they gain a new appreciation for what they have. Notice that Separated at Birth doesn't have to apply literally - their parents might have divorced, and each parent took one kid and neither kid was told of the other's existence, but before that they were one family for some time. But Separated At Birth, especially if combined with Death by Childbirth, can make for so much drama. A plot which sometimes rises from this is Twincest. This is also a good way to drop an Evil Twin on your doorstep, though that variant is a Dead Horse Trope by now. A Speculative Fiction variant is Split At Birth. Sub-trope of Long-Lost Relative. Compare Switched At Birth, where one baby is swapped for another. For twins literally separated at birth, see Conjoined Twins. Examples of Separated at Birth include:
- Gold Reward File:GoldIcon.png Reputation Disposition Type Creatures Enemies Quest ID Separated at Birth is a quest in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Someone in Cheydinhal has been impersonating Reynald Jemane, and the Hero has been asked to investigate.
- Separated by Birth is a theory that explains how any two people who bear no obvious relationship to one another can look like identical twins. The theory suggests that two such dissimilar people actually begin life by sharing the same womb, but that shortly after being born, one of the two is carried off by Gypsies, and raised as one of them. The scandal was uncovered by Spy Magazine in the 1980s, itself the victim of the "Separated at News-stand Theory" — which states that the more popular a magazine is, the more it will be copied, thus rendering it less relevant and causing advertising revenues to fall, which in turn leads to its ultimate closure.
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