History Main / ChildOfForbiddenLove

* Cassie, from Edward Or Ford's WesternAnimation/GravityFalls ''Unexpected'' FanFiction AU, is this as the daughter of Dipper and Mabel. [[{{Twincest}} Gue]][[IncestYay ss]] [[BrotherSisterIncest why]].

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'' storyline, [[MeaningfulName Kitsune]] Kurita is the secret son of Victor Steiner-Davion, the golden boy of the Federated Commonwealth's ruling family, and Omiko Kurita, daughter of the ruling house of the Draconis Combine. Years after his birth and his mother's assassination, his induction as a Knight of the Republic of the Sphere involves his revealing his true parentage to all attending... none the least surprised being [[LukeYouAreMyFather Victor himself]]. In the aftermath, several reactionary Draconis conspirators committed ritual suicide after learning their prospective puppet ruler was "tainted" by the blood of their historical arch-enemy, and their counterpart hardliners in the Federated Suns painted Omiko as a Kurita harlot who seduced gallant Victor. As for Victor himself? He was just glad some tangible legacy of his lost love endured.

* Reiner Braun in Manga/AttackOnTitan was told that he was this by his mother Karina. As she is an Eldian and his father being a Marleyan, and since unions between the two race was forbidden by the laws of Marley because of Eldians were "the children of the Devil", they had be separated. [[spoiler:Subversive, it's later revealed that Reiner's father actually wanted nothing do to with him or his mother as he already had a family. It's implied that Karina is just using her son to get back at her lover for leaving her.]]

* Reiner Braun in Manga/AttackOnTitan was told that he was this by his mother Karina. As she is is Eldian and his father being a Marleyan, and since unions between the two race was forbidden by the laws of Marley because of Eldians were "the children of the Devil", they had be separated. (spoiler:Subversive, it's later revealed that Reiner's father actually wanted to him or his mother as he already had a family. It's implied that Karina is just using her son to get back at her lover for leaving her.

* ''Manga/Attack on Titan''

* The protagonist of the first ''ComicBook/DragonAge'' comic book, Gleam, is the daughter of a mage and a Templar -- the Templar Order being the mages' watchdogs and [[MageKiller executioners]], intimate relationships between them and their charges are among the most taboo things in Thedas.

* Luke and Leia of ''Franchise/StarWars'' are the love children of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, who married each other in secret. Anakin's love for his wife is [[LoveMakesYouEvil what caused his]] StartOfDarkness, and his [[LoveRedeems love for his son]] is what caused his [[HeelFaceTurn return to the Light]].

* The ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Adventure of the Priory School", the person responsible for kidnapping the Duke's son is [[spoiler:his secretary]], who is the Duke's love child from a girl he could not marry and [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. Since he couldn't punish him without thinking of his lost love, the kid grew up into criminal habits, especially once he learned he'd never inherit the title or fortune.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outrageous Okona" the Expies of Romeo and Juliet are expecting a child. She tells her father that the eponymous Okona is the father because she's afraid of starting a war between their planets.

* ''[[Series/Charmed1998 Charmed]]'' used this to bring in a previously unknown fourth sister after the oldest was [[McLeaned killed off]]. The sisters' mother had an affair with her Whitelighter after her marriage fell apart, which was ''strictly'' forbidden, as second daughter Piper was [[GenerationXerox intimately familiar with]]. The resulting pregnancy was covered up and the baby given up for adoption for fear that the rest of the family would be punished by association. Amazingly enough, this was not an AssPull; Paige was introduced at the start of Season 4, while [[ArcWelding the affair that resulted in her conception was revealed back in Season 2]]. Piper's own half-Whitelighter children are not examples because their parents' relationship was no longer forbidden by the time they were born.

* "Love Child", by Music/TheSupremes, in which the singer felt the stigma of being a "love child" and doesn't want to go all the way with the man she's addressing out of fear of conceiving another love child.

* Alistair from ''Videogame/DragonAgeOrigins'' tells you he is the love child of [[spoiler: King Marric and a female servant]]. This is a big plot point later on as he has the right to [[spoiler:take the throne]]. The prequel novels make it clear that the truth was more complicated; [[spoiler:Marric really was his father, but the Elven Grey Warden mage Fiona was his real mother. She asked Marric to lie about it since being the child of any of those carries considerable social stigma. The woman he claimed was the mother was just a random woman who died in childbirth that he never met. Alistair never learns the truth.]]

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Ivy and Mint, children of a couple who was prosecuted for being Somnian and Lunarian.
* In ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}'', the titular character is the result of a forbidden union between her mother, the Umbra Witch Rosa, and her father, the Lumen Sage Balder. As a punishment, Rosa was eternally imprisioned, while Balder was exiled from his clan.

See also JustForFun/XMeetsY, when the term "love child" is used to describe a mix of two different things.

A child conceived between two parents drawn by [[StarCrossedLovers forbidden love]]. The added passion and excitement of the situation makes the child "special", at least in the eyes of one or both parents, because this is the "reward" for consummating with the person they truly wanted to.

* Cassie, from Edward Or Ford's WesternAnimation/GravityFalls ''Unexpected'' FanFiction AU, is this as the daughter of Dipper and Mabel. [[{{Twincest}} Guess]] [[BrotherSisterIncest why]].

* Alistair from ''Videogame/DragonAgeOrigins'' tells you he is the love child of [[spoiler: King Marric and an unseen female Elf]]. This is a big plot point later on as he has the right to [[spoiler:take the throne]].

* ''Series/Charmed'' used this to bring in a previously unknown fourth sister after the oldest was [[McLeaned killed off]]. The sisters' mother had an affair with her Whitelighter after her marriage fell apart, which was ''strictly'' forbidden, as second daughter Piper was [[GenerationXerox intimately familiar with]]. The resulting pregnancy was covered up and the baby given up for adoption for fear that the rest of the family would be punished by association. Amazingly enough, this was not an AssPull; Paige was introduced at the start of Season 4, while [[ArcWelding the affair that resulted in her conception was revealed back in Season 2]]. Piper's own half-Whitelighter children are not examples because their parents' relationship was no longer forbidden by the time they were born.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jon Snow is the product of a secret affair between [[spoiler:Lyanna Stark]] and [[spoiler:Rhaegar Targaryen]], the latter of whom's [[spoiler:alleged kidnapping of the former sparked a massive, continent-spanning civil war]]. After [[spoiler:Lyanna]] suffered DeathByChildbirth, [[spoiler:her brother Eddard]] adopted Jon, claiming he was his own bastard son to protect him from Rhaegar's enemies.

See also, JustForFun/XMeetsY, when the term "love child" is used to describe a mix of two different things.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In the past, Princess Scarlet faked her death so that she can be with her lover, Kyros, who's a former criminal and thus won't have the public hounding them; together, they concieved a child, Rebecca, whom the two (especially Kyros) really dote on. Played with in that, in the end, it's revealed that people in her kingdom knew all along that the two are together and they're mostly okay with them (and Rebecca).

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* Luke and Leia of ''Franchise/StarWars'' are the love children of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala, who married each other in secret. Anakin's love for his wife is [[LoveMakesYouEvil what caused his]] StartOfDarkness, and his [[LoveRedeems love for his son]] is what caused his [[HeelFaceTurn return to the Light]].

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* ''[[Videogame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur V]]'' introduces Xiba, a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for one of the protagonists of the previous games, Kilik. The suspicious similarity is later revealed to be because he's Kilik's son, fathered with his LoveInterest from the previous games, Xianghua. The two lovers consummated their love and then Kilik disappeared, never knowing he'd fathered a son. When Xianghua went home, she was at first rejected by her family for giving birth to some unknown person's bastard son, but she and her [[ArrangedMarriage betrothed husband]] made special arrangements to see that Xiba was protected and that Xianghua could visit him every once in a while.
* The canonically male PlayerCharacter of the original ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and his companion Bastila Shan married and had a son--in secret, because they were both members of the Jedi Order and were not allowed to even think of falling in love with each other. Their son, however, wasn't Force-sensitive and continued the Shan bloodline, which produced several powerful Jedi, like the Grand Master Satele seen in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''.
* ''VideoGame/{{A Very Long Rope To The Top Of The Sky}}'': Ivy and Mint, children of a couple who was prosecuted for being Somnian and Lunarian.

* In the ''TabletopGames/Battletech'' storyline, [[MeaningfulName Kitsune]] Kurita is the secret son of Victor Steiner-Davion, the golden boy of the Federated Commonwealth's ruling family, and Omiko Kurita, daughter of the ruling house of the Draconis Combine. Years after his birth and his mother's assassination, his induction as a Knight of the Republic of the Sphere involves his revealing his true parentage to all attending... none the least surprised being [[LukeYouAreMyFather Victor himself]]. In the aftermath, several reactionary Draconis conspirators committed ritual suicide after learning their prospective puppet ruler was "tainted" by the blood of their historical arch-enemy, and their counterpart hardliners in the Federated Suns painted Omiko as a Kurita harlot who seduced gallant Victor. As for Victor himself? He was just glad some tangible legacy of his lost love endured.

* Dante, protagonist of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', is the HalfHumanHybrid of a demon named Sparda and the human woman from whom he learned the value of humanity.

* The premise of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' is that the protagonist is the HalfHumanHybrid of a demon named Sparda and the human woman from whom he learned the value of humanity.

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