Just something I wrote as part of my character’s file, to better understand him. Also, this is something I don’t get either, about how cousin love is viewed by some cultures as opposed to other consanguineous relationships:

S.C. fully acknowledges that his relationship with his cousin is an incestuous one. He would readily admit that. But he doesn’t see it as a crime or as a kink or a fetish – but rather, as just a fact, that they are related. He gets very confused when he sees that some people overlook cousin love as [consensual] incest and don’t define it as such… he feels half relieved he doesn’t have to deal with the stigma other couples may have but is also utterly confused about the exception. It doesn’t make any sense to him. It’s like people see cousins almost as not being related at all…