"theyre cousins but thats not really really incest"
I dont at all disagree it's 100% true but thats hilarious phrasing lol
What are your top incest ships though or pairs you think are or arent incest others might not expect?
answering this today cause 1 August 2025 marks the day that you cannot marry your cousin in my country anymore. true end of the habsburg era.
anyway. lol thank you XD having grown up with the knowledge of the technical possibility of being able to marry one of my cousins I never really thought of that as incest (especially because I see my cousins like twice a year so we aren't super close, almost like siblings like a lot of people I know).
anyway. here we go! my top incest and "incest" ships:
WalesEng: I'm not sure I saw this ship anywhere before I talked about it as a side pairing for a ScotEng scenario so it feels like I've been there since the beginning of the ship (though I might not actually have been). I've been into Stridercest ever since I read homestuck and WalesEng has DirkDave energy ❤️
UkUs: "Eww you can't ship england and america they are father and son/brothers!!1!1!" okay fuck you I ship them even if they are related. bitch. America and his overprotective yet emotionally unavailalbe daddy? England and his little brother that is a little too clingy? so many great possibilities! 💚
CanAme: Or AmeCan, but personally I prefer top!Canada for this ship. It's nice when he gets to be the dominant part in this often very unbalanced powerplay of a brotherly relationship. I also love the nyo version of this ship or mixing up the male x fem characters. Or shipping all four of them with each other. 🧡
ScotEng: Let's be real, neon got me into that one and I don't regret it. Though I recently discovered the joy of big brother Scot with his little minx of a sister nyo!Eng and I'm obsessed with that flavour of ScotEng. 🩵
NorIce: I always thought they are cute, but then I read a fic where Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are cousins who are basically a polycule (though Sweden bring in his boyfriend Finland who is on it too hehe) and Iceland as Norway's brother is their cousin too but no (yet) in on their little orgies. but Norway very much ends up fantasising about what if he is. Love big brother Nor. 💜
FraMona: Depends on how you see their relationship if this is proper incest, but I do ship France x Monaco. She's so fun as a character to me and I love seeing a ladylike-seeming girl like her tormenting the hell out of a horny bastard like France. 💛
BritEng: This is extremely niche. I think there are two people out there who ship this and I am one of them - Britannia x England. aka England x his mum. I don't remember if we see Britannia in canon, the ship is based on my friend's OC who you can imagine to look somewhat like Christina Hendrix if that helps. She's a hot milf/cougar who loves boys. And boys love her. Also for additional fun I sometimes throw Wales or Scot into this too. 🩷
I also like some other (potential) incest ships like Itacest, some 1p x 2p ships (like for England or Italy) and then there's also Benelux, FACE, Nordics, UK as a polycule. Possibilties and creativity are endless with so many characters in hetalia and so many ambiguous ways to interpret the relationship between characters!