they're not even related
That’s not the point. As I mentioned before, even it’s not biologically considered incest, they’re still siblings and I just don’t understand why authors feel the need to add such messy dynamics when they could do anything they wanted to give the MC multiple interests without having to look in the family. I’m irritated because when this development pops up, there are usually still weird social dynamics between the family members and their history.
I’ve dropped all but one comic with this trope I’ve ever tried because the dynamics were off, creepy, or problematic. The one that I kept reading was between two college age people who hadn’t met until their parents started dating. My point is that this trope 99.99% brings creepy, sketchy, or inexcusable behaviors/dynamics, and it’s just not necessary.
havent read this yet but can agree fake brother/ step sibling premise it is... its always been an ugly ass trope, but i guess it feels a lot more intimate bc it can set up the whole premise of yearning, or like the feeling of their being a certain tension between person a and person b but bc of certain constraints they cant act upon it until both parties just... let loose.
sorry if i'm not making any sense but like the only thing i can really correlate to my line of thinking is (if you've played or know about it) love and deep space where caleb (one of the "routes") grew up with mc in the same house and even were raised as sibling bc they shared the same grandma (not their actual grandma) but they are NOT related but i guess there was always tension in their home between the two. and a lot of people LOOOOOVE that trope so its just idk i guess the yearning of wanting someone except it has the underlying of feelings of going against nature ... but i do agree that such tropes are messy and can be hella weird.
omg yes u literally took the words outta my mouth..
i still feel iffy abt caleb's trope bc of this like girl...
idk tho bc i feel like u can def tell when it's like a sibling bond or a childhood friend bond; and in this situation is so much like a sibling bond esp under the premise of them both growing up under the same set of parents rather than in lds its rather just the grandma and not actually their parents... ykwim?? idk this trope is just so weird idk why the human population likes it.
Why is it that so many comics with a lot of romantic leads have to make one of them a family member?! I’m not touching that shit with a ten foot pole. I don’t care if its their distant cousin eight times removed or their step sibling, it’s unnecessarily fucked up and messy either way. Very creepy and out of the norm, so I tend to wonder a bit about the author’s personal interest in the topic.