>>100788786>The same goes for any non family member as well.Except they were family.
>Never said it was, i said it was a good development from strangers to friends and that their relationship hrowing closer than that would have been believableMaybe, but never happened in the end. It'd be incest anyway.
>Nothing you said was exclusively familial though. Everything you mentioned is and would hold true regardless of blood relation. I don't think I needed to, it was because most people tend to think that's exclusively how non family relationships starts, forgetting family love is shown in a similar way, how happened with them.
>You keep acting as if a lack of explicit romantic interest is proof that their relationship is completely familialNot really, they were also friends, but still cousins. And never acted in a different way, so there was no romantic interest at all as how some people still claim.
>Correction: they still acted like how any close friends often do.Close cousins can also be friendly and almost like brothers even, if you are close enough to them, and that's completely normal. They were cousins and then friends, so just close cousins.