I agree. There was a time when I thought River might have had a different father, but I don't believe so anymore. While there is an extremely small possibility that River wasn't John's biological child, I believe he was. Sometimes children look like one parent and not the other. Sometimes children don't look either parent. And sometimes siblings just don't look like each other. It doesn't mean that a parent isn't their biological parent or that a sibling isn't their full sibling. Also, sometimes looks change as a person gets older. Hair darkens, features change, etc. There's a picture of Joaquin when he was child where you can definitely see the resemblance between him and River, it was just obvious that their nose shape was different. I have my own experience with that, for example, when I compare pictures of myself to those of my brother when we around the age of 3 or 4, there is definitely a resemblance, but by the time we were in second grade, the resemblance was gone. Now as adults, my brother and I don't look alike. My brother doesn't look like my father at all, and I look nothing like my mother, and have never looked like her, even when I was a small child, I never resembled her. In River's case, he definitely took after his mother's looks a lot. As to why he didn't look like his siblings, I think it's just because he looked a lot like his mom and Rain and Joaquin look like their father and nothing like their mother. Summer and Liberty look like a mixture of both their parents. It makes sense in a family of five kids that two would look like their dad, one like his mom, and two would be a perfect blend of mom and dad. And we never got to see River as a man in his 30s and 40s. It's also very likely that River has some features of a paternal grandparent, aunt/uncle, cousin, etc. I have another personal experience with this. While I don't look like my mother and a lot of her family, there is an aunt who has similar facial features to me, and there are more distant relatives that I do resemble in looks. There are features that I don't know where they came from. For example, my nose, which is very upturned. Neither my parents nor by brother have a nose resembling mine, and neither does any aunt, uncle, grandparent, or cousin that I've seen. Genotypes and how they translate into phenotypes is an extremely complicated thing. So I have absolutely no doubt that John was River's biological father and that he was a full brother to his four siblings.
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