Yo there's people actually simping for the butler tho, I mean if you want to, there's no "...

They are related. For one blood relations do not determine whether they are siblings. For two, in either case, they're half-siblings as it was stated in the first ch@pter.

Ah yes I forgot, that's true, she's a bastard, I completely forgot, *wheeze* that's even worse








Also, yes, blood relations do determine if they're siblings or not, what are you saying? If you're talking about how one can grow up to become someone's brother or sister, that's still different, in that case we can say they're brothers in their hearts or something but that still doesn't change the fact that they aren't really brothers...

Wait, explain the "blood relations do not determine whether they are siblings" part, I wanna see if I'm getting you wrong or something else.

So you do know you're giving preferential treatment to blood related siblings over step, foster and adopted siblings... right? Glad to know that my cousins aren't my cousins just because they're parent married into my family. Yes that is what you're saying because despite how she was treated Adele was also adopted by the duke. And you should at least know that, just like orange hair, despite the fact he still doesn't know that they're half-siblings. But you're basically saying that that doesn't matter when you use a throwaway comment to describe their relationship then say it doesn't apply just because you forgot Adele was the duke's blood related daughter. I have no idea what else you thought I could have meant by blood relations either. Blood related means sharing the same blood running through their veins. I have no idea how anyone could use that to apply it to adopted, foster or step siblings. But as you can see despite not being blood related they are still referred to as siblings. Bnao.

I should add: you are also not even considered a sibling to someone who is blood related to you if you are given up for adoption to a different family. Which is why it should pretty obvious that as I said blood relations do not determine whether you are siblings.

I don't favor blood relationships over not blood relationships related, that's not what I said, I'm saying that if you look at any dictionary and if you search for siblings, it's two people born from the same parents so blood related (step siblings are the same, two people born from at least one same parent or becomes siblings via their parent's remarriage) when you say siblings, you directly think about two people blood related, not siblings, from "heart" or adopted children. People can grow up with other and call them their siblings but they can't be real siblings (from a biological perspective, they're not related by blood) however of course they can be "siblings" (in their heart where their friendship is deep or something)

Adoption is kinda special, you're siblings by the law.

I'm saying this because for example, I have a sister but we have so opposite personalities that if we weren't blood related, I wouldn't present her to strangers as my sister, I don't think we would even hang out together if we weren't. Still, we are so she IS my sibling.

Just as you can be siblings in your heads and act like siblings when you're not, the contrary can apply on real siblings, they don't get along just because they're blood related.

Also, you don't present your friends as your sisters or brothers to strangers, it's rare for close friends to call themselves siblings, they can count as one but they're not, the only countries where they do, it's maybe in Japan, China but I'm not even sure if they do in real life.