This troper is often accused of being interested in whoever the girl he hang out with the most is. In fairness, I treat all girls as if they were my sister (being kind, opening doors, comforting them etcetera) which probably seems like being interested in them and so it's just a matter of whoever is seen with me the most is thought of as my love interest.

This troper and his best friend are like brother and sister - she is at my dorm very often, and has spent more than one night there. She even once slept in my dorm room (admittedly, I was on the far side of the country at the time). And there is precisely zero chance of us ever dating. She is my best friend, and if anything were ever to happen to her, I'm going to make use of those martial arts classes I took. But SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. Mind you, if reality is a TV show, then someone is probably shipping us.

Updating to add that we've actually gone to the point of calling each other brother and sister. We've even listed each other as siblings on Facebook.

When This Troper is asked if she and her best guy friend are dating (this happens quite frequently, much to our unending annoyance), we tell them we are exactly this.

This troper and her best friend are somewhat like this. Lots of people have assumed he has or had a crush on me (whether he did or not is unknown), but we are not dating. This got a bit better once this troper came out of the closet.

This troper and her male best friend are polar opposites (I'm very passionate, creative, art-and-language oriented; he's very reserved, analytical, math-and science oriented) We've been best friends for eight years. If my life were a fandom, the leading 'ship would be he and I, despite having zero romantic interest EVER- it's gotten to the point where when people ask if I'm dating him, I answer "I would, if it wouldn't be incest." People don't usually bug me about it after that.

This troper had a relationship like this in high school. Unfortunately, our peers constantly asking us about our relationship eventually drove her insane, and she began to want to see less and less of me...right when I realized I had liked her all along. Whoops. Sadly, the relationship was never salvaged.

This Troper had this happen with his best friend, but it ended before High School. When she moved to Georgia. I was not amused.

Switch the genders and that is ''exactly'' what happened to this Troper. We're still friends (Which drives his girlfriend insane), but we're not as close as we once were.

Also happened to this troper. I was so tearful when our friendship died...

This troper's been told that her best friend has to be a male clone of her. Which is actually believable, but it would make our reputation more than a little Squicky...

KrazehPenguin and all his friends fit together like some big family.

This is how I see my close male friend, who was my "date" to both junior and senior prom. My mom seems to ship it enough that when I told her we went this photo booth at our Senior All Night Party where they "married" us, she seemed actually excited, despite it being a joke. She denies it whenever I point it out, but she's always saying things like "He's such a good ''friend'' for you!"

Hah, this troper has a guy friend she's known since preschool-- we fight, tease each other, share some interests, are pretty close-- kids at our school are SURE we "like" each other. Once, we were doing a play and tons of kids (who didn't know us) asked us if we were brother and sister. We replied: "We might as well be."

This troper and her best friend have been HeterosexualLifePartners since middle school. While everyone (including our parents!) assumed we had a thing for each other for quite some time, we had similar thoughts to the above--"If we DID date, it would effectively be incest." Luckily, if RealLife is a TV show, there's zero chance of anyone {{shipping}} us now, due to the fact that said best friend has come out, and now probably has legions of {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s as an adorable, {{Keet}}-y {{Uke}}.

This troper as a situation like this, where we treat each other as 'the sister I never had' and 'the brother I never wanted'. It helps that her father thinks I'm gay, so he doesn't mind it when she comes to my place and we just talk until the sun rises. Her last boyfriend didn't find it so funny, though...

This troper and his best friend have known each other since before we could talk, and now we're both well into college, but people think of us as PlatonicLifePartners, so things that would be normally taboo for two people of the opposite sex are ignored with us. NotWhatItLooksLike situations were really not what they looked like, but there was some fun in tricking people in to thinking that we were doing ThisAndThat.

This troper met his best friend four or five years ago, and instantly fell in love with her. Turns out, despite it being OVER THE INTERNETS (Yes, on a video game. It was THAT NERDY,) she was around his age, interested in everything he was interested in, we got along perfectly, etc...cut to a few months back, this troper is brokenhearted...for about five minutes. Cut to yesterday, and he finally, finally, after so much work, got to the point, "I love you...but you're like my little sister, now." And goddamn it, it certainly took enough work.

RadioactiveZombie's best friend of last year (we seriously need to get back in touch - DAMN YOU, COMPUTER!) was an attractive girl... and yet, we've never flirted with each other.

This troper used to have a bit of an UnresolvedSexualTension with an acquaintance of his for about a year in high school. He knew it, she knew it, everyone who had seen them in the same room together knew it. Unfortunately, he was too chickenshit to do anything about it for a full year, and even then it was more "getting to know her with the intention of maybe perhaps eventually going on a date with her potentially." To this day, we both not only deny that we're dating to anyone who asks ''and'' any attraction before becoming friends, but we just outright cut out the middleman of confusion with "we're just friends... LikeBrotherAndSister" and go straight to "We're siblings, that's disgusting, go away.

This troper is asexual. She has fallen in love with one guy in her life. She has a lot of good male friends. Nobody ever, EVER believes this speech.

I do.

This Troper has to consistently convince strangers that he is not in fact dating his best female friend. It has gotten to the point where he gets increasingly frustrated with the claim, even stating a non-existent familial relationship to shut them up.

This troper and his best friend are often accused of being gay despite the fact that he's in a long term monogamous relationship with his girlfriend and this troper dates women. Like Brother and Brother I guess?

This troper and his girlfrien often do things to make us like this.

* A RealLife example with this troper's brother and his friend (1 year his junior). Hilariously, the rumor that they were 'an item' was so pervasive that she had to continue defending their pseudo-sibling status ''after he'd graduated.'' Even as his own sister, I would attest that they were solidly LikeBrotherAndSister. (This troper more or less 'adopted' her in the process, as well.)

This troper agrees with the above troper, having been in a relationship like this in highschool. In fact, the same rumors chased him around as well, to the point where the official boyfriend of his "adopted sister" was just about ready to punch his lights out.

This female troper is like brother and sister with this one guy she has known for 8 months so far. It just gets slightly creepy when he starts making sexual comments towards her...but nothing would ever happen between us because he's been crushing on this one girl from his high school for 2 years and I would never be interested in him after the whole practically-siblings thing was established (plus I've been crushing on/flirting with a lot of other guys)..Unfortunately [at least] one mutual friend has suggested that we were or were going to end up as a couple because we hung out a lot with each other for awhile

This troper has a friend like this. We met in my first year of college, we established that we have a hell of a lot in common, we're both bitter smartasses with daddy issues, and I felt there was something there for a while, but she's taken, so we've stuck to the whole LikeBrotherAndSister shtick, and I'm really not complaining. She makes for an awesome sister.

This troper has a female friend with whom he can talk about pretty much anything, for hours on end, as if they'd known each other as well as siblings. There's never been any romantic subtext, and her boyfriend is almost as close a friend with this troper as well. Meanwhile, said boyfriend's parents have at one point or another expressed suspicion that this troper and the female friend are hooking up. Argh. Thank heavens that said boyfriend doesn't believe it for a second.

Interlocking story with two of these; Girl 1 is one of my best friends. When we first became friends everyone who was anyone thought we were clandestinely doin' it(she had a boyfriend at the time). But it wasn't like that....until I suddenly realized that I was completely in love with her. There is also girl 2, who I really do have no romantic feelings for, despite her being a very good lookin' lady. Girl 2 was also madly in love with girl 1. Long story short, all three of us were hurt in the end, though I have largely kept my pain a secret. I realized that Girl 2 and I had this sort of thing going on for two reasons. One, Girl 2 didn't want to smoke(not tobacco, people) with me and me alone, because she thought that we might end up making out, and that it would be incest. I am inclined to agree. Reason number 2; Girl 2 was emo-ing over Girl 1 to this troper, and despite the fact that I am still pretty head over heels for girl 1, I am considering punching her in the face(just once, but with some effort) for what she(fairly unintentionally) did to Girl 2.

This troper has this with a girl he met in the first year of college. We bonded over our mutual geekiness (I introduced her to Firefly and BSG, she got me into Series/DoctorWho) and a couple of contemporaneous relationship issues, and for a while there a lot of people assumed we were together thanks to all the bickering. Rather worryingly, a good friend and my ex both thought we would end up together. I eventually started saying we were like the Doctor and Donna. Then we argued over who got to be the Doctor, and if we could be someone other than Ten. Yeah...

This troper has a pen-pal of almost a year. She can confidentally say that he is her best friend on this Earth and she worries about him and they're very close. BUT IT IS A PURELY _SIBLING-LIKE_ RELTIONSHIP. But if I so much as mention that he threatened a guy who wanted to date me or that he sent his birthday present poem to me at exactly midnight EVERYONE thinks it's a romance! God, man, we're like CONFIDANTES!! I am FED UP with having to deal with the accusation every freaking time! Can't a girl talk about her best friend anymore??!?!? Phew. Sorry for the rant.

I understand the person above in that one of my best friends since I was five is a girl who I literally view like a sister. I have given the If you ever do anything to hurt her spech to three different guys, and have been forced to back it up once as well. When she was involved in a serious car accident I went into BSOD for three weeks after which I remarked to her that I felt as bad as I would have done had my actual sister been hurt.

This troper's family has semi adopted someone. It's gotten to the point of this discussion: Me: She's like a sister to me. Other person: You mean she's a good friend? Me: No. I hate her. She's really like a sister.

This troper strives to be the 'world's greatest big brother' due to being (essentially) an only child; I've got more sisters than I can count, really. I'd have to say the one I care for the most would have to be a girl I met on an MMO. I've known her for the past two years and have seen her (slowly) grow up, so it makes me feel like I've done something really important by bein' there for her.

This troper and his partner look very similar and often got mistaken for brother and sister. Then we kiss rather more passionately than is common for blood relations, and people get squicked.

This troper and his best friend, Kelly. They met in January 2009 during the Otronicon game/simulator convention when his band for the Rock Band competition randomly grabbed her on the basis that having a cute girl would make the judges give them a higher score by default. When in the same building, the two of them are inseperable and she once called him asking him to come over and cuddle with her while she watched ''Dead Silence'' because she doesn't have her boyfriend's number. Speaking of which, she's admitted she likes this troper more than her boyfriend in the first place.

Oh, and as of August 29, 2009, they're dating now.

Oh, and now both this troper's AND Kelly's mothers want them dating now.

Generally, this is what happens with gay guys and straight all females.

This troper likes to adopt people. I tend to talk to them on my phone late at night, prompting 'Calling your boyfriend?' from my family. I usually reply 'No, that would be incest.'

This troper and her two best friends. Unfortunately, people keep assuming us to be in a three-way lesbian relationship. WE'RE NOT, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SACRED IN THIS WORLD. And, due to this trope, this troper's love life is doomed to crash and burn since she has a horrible crush on one of the two best friends.

This troper and her best friend who she has known since early childhood. It all started because their moms are best friends since high school and keeping it after since, and the friendship seems to grow on their son and daughter too. Both moms are so proud that even themselves announced to their other friends and colleagues that their children are as close as brother and sister (and always get the reply: "Why don't you just get them both engaged and married?"). Unfortunately this makes this troper develop a crush to so called brother and bouncing between the status {{Unlucky Childhood Friend}} and {{Victorious Childhood Friend}} until now.

This troper has been best friends with this guy since first grade. We're really close in our friendship being that we've been friends the longest out of anyone else. I've told him before myself that he's like the brother I never had. Twice before, people have actually asked us if we were brother and sister.

This lurker and his 95% lesbian friend. Our coupled friends are, of course, shipping us despite the fact that we are both more attracted to my actual sister than to each other (ie. 0% for me, considerably higher for her)

This troper has three very close friends I consider to be my siblings, and one actual biological brother. Questions have been raised for all three non-biological sibs. I'm a girl. The one girl is asexual, one of the guys is gay, and the other guy is emotionally unavailable for several reasons. Add in the fact that the only one whose personality would make any kind of good match is my biological brother and that some of the age gaps are fairly wide. On top of that, people really seem to enjoy shipping my biological brother and non-bio sister who he also considers to be his sister.

When This Troper realised his love for his best friend will be forever unrequited, in a final attempt to clarify things (and maybe get the girl), told her something in the lines of: "You know, I can't see a time when I like you only as a friend, at the most I might treat you like a sister". Then she took it literally and replied "Well, that's just fine, you more than a friend to me too, but I feel no attraction towards you, so yeah, let's have it that way". Since then, she calls me 'brother' and I ended myself calling her 'little sister', much to the chagrin of people around us who even today like to ship us together, which is sometimes creepy (I still have feelings for her somehow), but otherwise, I don't mind and I'm always the first one to support her with all of her crushes. Lovers come, overs go, but we're still togerher -'cause we're bro' and sis.

This Troper, with EVERY SINGLE GIRL HE'S EVER DATED (save the current one, thank god). It's like they don't even notice my attraction to them in that way at all. Partly my own fault, as I tend to be rather slow on building up a relationship. But, for a time, I was afraid I was going to end up a perpetual UnluckyChildhoodFriend.

This Troper is like this with her best friend. Everyone is convinced we are going out with eachother, and I do think hes good looking and a great guy, but it would just seem wrong if we started going out. We are alike in a lot of ways, and scarily, think alike.

The Troper and his best friend, although when it's just us two, we're pretty far from a platonic relationship. Half the time she tells me things she probably wouldn't have told her other best friends who were girls. And we've both seen each other various states of undress, and admitted we both find each other attractive, as well as flirt a lot. But don't let anybody WE know know that!

This Troper and his best friend. We're both gay and bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, but there isn't a hint of sexual attraction in the slightest. This Troper's family and friends are constantly {{Shipping}} the two of us.

This Troper's mother had a good female friend in school, who had a girl that he grew up with, and despite not looking that much alike, were at least once confused to be siblings when they were children. She has started telling this to other people, and he quickly latched onto the idea, although his little sister teases them.

This female troper and her best friend have been LikeBrotherAndSister since kindergarten. So much so that even after I moved to a private school (in the same city as the public school, incidentally) and neither saw nor heard from him for 6 years until I moved back, we were instantly best friends again like we'd never been separated. We've often crashed at each others houses after playing video games into the wee hours of the morning, though as soon as we admit to that, people automatically assume the worst or that we're 'an item'. Which is beyond irritating. Luckily, we go to separate schools (he moved away this time; unrelated reasons) so we don't have to deal with the immaturity of our peers. We're still teased incessantly, though people usually shut up when I ask if they're fans of incest.

This troper has a male best friend who has compared how he feels about her to how he feels about his sister. Very disappointing for this troper, who feels a bit stronger than that about him. That having been said, we've both agreed we're PlatonicLifePartners, and this troper can only conclude that AllLoveIsUnrequited.

One of this troper's best friends is female, and he thinks of her this way. Semi-Deconstruction (?) in that this troper takes family VERY seriously, and becomes absolutely enraged upon anyone aware of their relationship suggesting that they only call themselves siblings because the girl doesn't date younger men.

This troper got a text from her male friend saying that he saw her as a sister. Granted, there was a lot more to it than that.

This troper has a rather lengthy story leading up to this. We lived around the corner from each other our entire lives, right up until she moved to university. We went to the same school and were always in the same classes. During very young childhood, we were really good friends. Then all of a sudden at about seven years old she started making fun of me/hitting me/teasing me etc. The relationship fell away for a while then, until we became friendly again at around ten. Then, this troper developed a crush on her, and admitted it to her in a very unsubtle and indirect way (though it was explicitly stated). Then we became fairly distant for about two years. Then I began to get over the crush and we went through a period of hating each other. Then at around fifteen we became lose friends again, then by chance fell into the same crowd of people at sixteen/seventeen, mostly due to a failed romantic relationship I had with her best friend. And for the past three/four years we've been LikeBrotherAndSister. Made better now by the fact that she has finally got herself a boyfriend, so now there's a way to get people to believe that we aren't interested in each other like that. And if he hurts her (unlikely, he's a nice guy) I'd smash his nose in. I think this qualifies, no? It may even qualify for UnluckyChildhoodFriend, as I'm still convinced there was a significant quantity of reciprocity of my affections for her, but in all honesty she's not my type. I don't lose any sleep over it.

This troper is like this with her closest friend. We didn't grow up together and didn't meet until this troper was fourteen and he was in his late teens. The fansite we met on jokes that we'd be a perfect match, if it wasn't for the sheer distance between us and the fact that this troper bats for the other team.

I've got a friend like this. Our common ground being a love affair with ''{{Pokemon}}'' and being geniuses. But yeah. We get along well, talk and joke often, but, like real siblings, never once have we breached the subject of relationships or feelings about others (unless we're ragging on someone). There is no spark. Luckily, no one seems to believe otherwise.

The only reasons that people never assume that my "brother" and I are dating are because we've often joked about us being separated at birth/actually brother and sister (we have the same hair color, complexion, eye color, etc, etc., so we occasionally make that joke to substitute teachers) and he has a girlfriend that he quite obviously loves very much, and I get along with her very well. But we stick up for each other and all that sibling-y stuff.

What's really funny is he has the same birthday as my younger sister, just three years earlier, and looks more related to me than she does.

No matter how many times this troper pulls this card, her friends are convinced that me and my best guy friend are the perfect couple. And we've been shipped together since day 1, which was over four years ago. Thankfully, I have one supporter in a friend who told me that she cannot see me and this boy together at all. Now to try and convince everyone else...

This troper had this experience in first year high school. With a new student, no less. Who ACTUALLY called me an older brother. She doesn't call me that anymore, however. Back then, I was still recovering from a shipping incident, and, predictably, I was shipped with her for the rest of the year. Granted, it was sort of true, because I did have a crush on her, but we were still friends even after that.

Me and my best friend are really close and think of eachother as brother and sister. We are often shipped by other people we know, as we are both asexual and are not interested in other people in that way. We are so alike, more than any other people I have ever met. We share the same interests and have a similar personality-we could be twins!

In High School this female troper's best friends were a group of four guys who were all like my big brothers. The entirety of high school, everyone would ask which one I was dating, and I would respond "None of them. W is like my brother, so are X, Y and Z, and I don't think X, Y, and Z's girlfriends would appreciate it much either!" Though, there were incidents of crushing involved in the quintet at some points, turning it into a LoveDodecahedron that's HilariousInHindsight, but most often this trope was firmly in play. To this day, three of them are still like my big brothers. It was subverted though; the fourth is now my fiance.

This troper and her friend have been like this for years. It's a really exaggerated example though, because we actually fight regularly like I do with my real brother.

When this troper's boyfriend in high school broke up with her, he made a comment saying my best friend and I would make a better couple, when he was truly like a brother to me. Doubly hilarious when said best friend disclosed the fact that he was gay...

This troper's best friend has told her she's like a little sister to him, and she thinks of him like a big brother. He's also happily married. This does not stop many of her friends from continually asking whether or not there's anything between them, or if he's attracted to her, despite protests that they really are like brother and sister.

im a male teen, i knew this adult male who had been divorced and remaried, his daughter from his last marriage lives in another state, when she came to visit once and i met her for the first time, i kinda belived i liked her, but as i got to know her more(and as i relized she didnt like me that way) my relationship with her has gotten to be like this trope taken up to an eleven, aside from my family i love her more then any other human on this earth, but not in a sexual way at all, we have both called each other brother and sister many times. its a shame that we dont live in the same state, though we txt constantly. its interesting to note that i havnt had a serious crush since meeting her, i guess shes all the love i need...

This pageless troper has a pair of acquaintances who were frequently asked if they were dating. Apparently it was this trope being inverted, for the followup was generally a query about their biological relation to one another. Subverted in that they did eventually go in for a romantic overture.

This Troper used to be like this. Constantly being shipped. Check. Sibling-like arguments: Check. ''Actually being referred to'' as a brother (even though he isn't): Check. Mostly averted now.

Tropers/CorruptMaleMenace was recently forced to grudgingly admit this sort of a relationship with one of the girls in his uni-based {{Nakama}}, thus arguably downgrading him from CardCarryingVillain to JerkWithAHeartOfGold. It was kinda obvious anyway though - to the point where there were some Shippers On Deck despite CMM being asexual.

I have a very strange (and infamous) case of this for Mana Emiya...

This troper is said by my friend to be her older brother on acount of me being 6"1 and her being 4"11 acctualy being a age older then her being extremly protective of her slight aversion of the fact that she has said before she does have a crush on said troper

Myself and my cousins. Not sure it really counts, and I very rarely get to see them, but since I'm an only child, I don't get many chances to act like an older brother.

This troper and one of her best friends. Everyone assumes we are dating, which is pretty much the only thing that can get me to go out of ShrinkingViolet mode around non-friends at school. Admittedly, said close friend used to have a crush on me, but... yeah, life's a lot less complicated now that I don't have to avoid him due to that fact and the fact that some of his friends used to go around shipping us (also much to my annoyance). XD

Same troper again, we also have people convinced we're either blood siblings or adopted siblings.

This troper has a friend with whom he's only known for two years. When the two of us are together, people tend to laugh and tell us we're like brothers and sisters, the way we interact. "Hey - wait, what?" "Wha?" "Wha?" "Shut up, you sound stupid." "HEY! You sound worse." yap yap yap. :) Thing is, I think we both have feelings for each other and to top it off, I have a girlfriend I love. So, her and I haven't hung out for ages - I don't even say hi to her anymore. It hurts, but I love my girlfriend and I know I would choose her over my 'sister'. However, that didn't stop her friends from shipping her and I together when she and I ended up together on the bus ride to and back several snowboarding trips with our high school. We both lean down to pick up something after something slips out of her hands and lands on the floor, we bump our heads into each other and look up only to be face to face. Less then a second later, genre-savvy me turns at lightning speeds to see her two friends looking rather excited and one with her jaw dropped. xD! It didn't help that the day she got sick while she was there, I was the one who took care of her and she ended up sleeping on my shoulder on the way back. Yes, this no longer fits the trope, no, I don't feel like myself today, and yes, I needed to write this down somewhere. next troper feel free to get rid of this. ^^

How many times was I sleep troping on this page again? I'm basically the only person "sis" trusts. At all. Including (most?) of her actual family.

This Troper and her best male friend are definitely this. We've only known each other for about four years now, but we are ridiculously close and I probably get to hear more about his relationship than his current girlfriend does. Apparently, he also wards off certain boys that he thinks are bad news for this Troper, which is something she only recently found out about.