yall i KNOW its not incest i mentioned it in my comment lmao, my point is that in the real world, theoretically, in reaction to, whatever, it kinda is weird and probably would be referred to as "incest", emphasis on the quotations. generally, fiction never really acknowledges it in this context because it Technically isnt and it also is, you know fiction. which is why i was so shocked.. almost like it broke the fourth wall or something lmao
I also think it depends WHEN they were raised together. Like if one was adopted at 15 and the other was 16, they obviously aren’t going to feel like siblings. But if one was adopted at 0 and the other was 1, then I don’t think it should feel any different than a blood sibling (depending on how the parents treated them both and didn’t outcast one, ofc). Ya know? Lol
its such a fine line to tread on and i think its so gross when people try to defend and say 'they aren't related by blood' because thats fr the same excuse all porn uses to make incest porn lol
like honestly im more mad if some defends themselves saying 'its not incest if they aren't related by blood!' than saying they're fr into incest because bffr having a familial relationship doesnt just involve blood it involves your relationship dynamic as well. If you see each other as siblings and you were raised like that you are siblings!!
i mean they refer to eachother as siblings but it doesn't rlly seem like they actually see each other that way. plus dojun mentioned that it took him a while to start calling his adoptive mom 'mom' and not 'auntie' so he probably didn't consider himself a part of their family at first either. also i call one of my friends my sibling sometimes (since apparently we bicker like siblings???) but i don't see them as family in that way. not to mention family doesn't have one definition lol a lot of my friends are like family to me but not the way my parents / grandparents
/ aunts / uncles / cousins are.
tl;dr why do you want this to be incest so bad
HELP I DIDNT THINK THE AUTHOR WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE INCEST PART??? got me fucked uppp bls usually dont even acknowledge it, or consider it "ok" bc theyre not related (in this case) so it caught me so off guard