#except i’d say keigo doesn’t have *as* much sway over reader as charles has over camilla

[inkykeiji]

Hi clari!! I am in LOVE with your new fic, felt so bad for reader since I’ve been in her spot before :( I wanted to know, what does keigo actually feel about his sister?

hello anon!! thank you, i am super happy to hear it!!! <33 yes, she’s in a very sticky and complex situation where the ‘right’ thing to do depends heavily on who you ask :// good question!! for the most part, i leave it ambiguous on purpose, for two reasons: 1. i’m not into explicitly writing full-blood incest and 2. so each and every (real) reader can interpret it however they’d like to, based on the information i’ve given in the text and how they personally feel (aka if they don’t want to see it as incest, or romantic, they don’t have to, etc etc etc).

with that being said, as the author i write their relationship with romantic undertones. keigo has a huge crush on her—most definitely feels love for her that stretches far beyond the bounds of familial, but it isn’t something he acts upon because he knows it’s wrong and doesn’t want to subject his little sister to something like that, something so vile and heinous.

as always, you are more than welcome to interpret reader and her feelings for him however you’d like to, but again as the author i write her in a way where she does feel something for him, but she isn’t in love with him the way keigo is in love with her; it’s more of a guilt thing mixed with the tiniest hint of truth. in other words, she has feelings for him that tiptoe across the line of familial, but the intensity is nothing compared to what keigo experiences, and it all comes with a hefty amount of accountability, a sort of obligation, almost. this is why, in the warnings of part one there’s a warning about their questionably close sibling relationship. it’s there, tingeing all of their interactions, buried just beneath the surface of every touch and discussion, but it isn’t obvious. dabi can absolutely see it, though.