Hybrid Breakdown in Peasant - Noble Pairings

 Many adorn themselves with brands. They try, for example, to join house adidas, wearing adidas colours, adidas arms, adidas seals, in the hope that they will receive the patronage of the great lord adidas. 

 House nintendo and house sega inspire particularly virulent loyalty, as another example. 

 I personally find this wholly repugnant. I would much rather die than subordinate myself to some dumbass piker and his tasteless logo. I value a good butler very highly, and perhaps in part because I could and would never do that myself.

 

 The reason you shouldn't sire bastards is they will get genes for both at the same time. The genes for the capacity to be a loyal or even fervent retainer, plus the urge to form and wear your own arms. If the child accepts his own place in the world according to his limited abilities, he will find himself indelibly repugnant and surrounded by repugnant fellows who are more or less the same as he is. Else the child can embrace the vainglorious crusade to attempt to form his own house, dooming himself to permanent failure and loserhood. 

 You have perhaps met someone with this personality. Once or twice. The best are the kind who strut like a peacock and demand subservience while also wearing a literal adidas sweater or hoodie.

 Anyway, that's why bastards are such bastards, even if [legitimized] by the acknowledgement of the father. The constant internal strife becomes, inevitably, external strife. Nobody could withstand those internal stresses, it will always end up being everyone's problem. Bastards cannot mind their own business.