found family is a good (gay) trope but tbh i’m wary of it these days bc i feel like it’s reached a critical mass of people weaponising found family as a concept as a foil for implying gay sexual and/or romantic content between characters (who are absolutely not related by blood/marriage/bond/etc in the source material) is predatory or incestual or w/e, and getting away with it because they’re not explicitly being homophobic in an easy to read, easily identified fashion.

just say X/Y is your notp and you prefer them in gen/as friends, easy done. there’s no reason to go full maude flanders and weep about the sanctity of male friendship and/or create from whole cloth increasingly bananas incestual interpretations as the nuclear option of wiping out gay interpretations, you feel me? relax. let it go. use a tag blocker if a non-found family character combo really wiggles your jello, ‘cause ultimately the only person who can moderate your own experience is you.

(but also i guess maybe indulge in some introspection as to why 'actually i think they’re brothers’ is the automatic fallback to shut down gay interpretations or why people feel such a burning need to wig out about how X/Y is so bad and unwholesome without ever getting to the heart of the matter (ie 'i don’t like it because i just don’t like it’) but, hey, one step at a time)