I think I had a brief toying with a (half) brothers ship a long time ago, but these days, it's more a squick to me. I don't think I'd read or write it. If a ship was revealed to be related, I am not sure what I would do - depends how attached I was, I guess, and what the relationship was.
Of course, both in real life and fiction throughout various cultures, people have been marrying their relatives, including uncles marrying their nieces so it isn't unique to Richard III. I mean, if you look at Jane Austen alone: Darcy was intended to marry his first cousin and in Mansfield Park, the endgame ship were first cousins too.
Blood is not the only factor. A little like the Betty and Jughead argument, I've seen people say Barry and Iris on The Flash are too incest-y because they grew up in the same house and see Joe as a father/father figure but in that case as well as many others like it, I think how they saw each other would make or break it for me.
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Date: 2023-09-24 06:34 am (UTC)Of course, both in real life and fiction throughout various cultures, people have been marrying their relatives, including uncles marrying their nieces so it isn't unique to Richard III. I mean, if you look at Jane Austen alone: Darcy was intended to marry his first cousin and in Mansfield Park, the endgame ship were first cousins too.
Blood is not the only factor. A little like the Betty and Jughead argument, I've seen people say Barry and Iris on The Flash are too incest-y because they grew up in the same house and see Joe as a father/father figure but in that case as well as many others like it, I think how they saw each other would make or break it for me.