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Swallowfeather and rinabean have both said what I was going to: the defining characteristic of a platonic male-female friendship is that you discuss your love-lives with each other.
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[quote=Lydia_Ember] I really don't see how this is a problem. If they would never date, then don't have either consider it. Sounds obvious, but true. If you want them to be he siblings that aren't,...
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Have them discuss romantic relationships. That makes it harder to read their platonic relationship as 'unspoken sexual tension' or whatever. If one talks about how they don't have a crush on anyone,...
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I don't think it's a "not comfortable" thing, and there's definitely no issue with complimenting your friends, if they look nice that day, or they did something well, but I sort of find that a...
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Small habits about each other that they really hate. I have a friend who I adore, but never dated because there were just so many little things about her that I knew would drive me to the edge if we...
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Also, you should read Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan, if you haven't already...and at least go back and read all the Tony and Paul stuff if you have. They're pretty much the bestest...
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Yes. I'm bi, and I would date people of whatever gender, and I don't have a problem saying those things to any of my friends, no matter their gender/sex or orientation.
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The fastest way to make a platonic friendship unconvincing is to have either or both parties draw attention to how freaking platonic it is. People who honestly don't think about jumping each other's...
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[quote=Lydia_Ember] I really don't see how this is a problem. If they would never date, then don't have either consider it. Sounds obvious, but true. If you want them to be he siblings that aren't,...
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Have them tease each other, laugh together,and hate each other sometimes. Make fun of each other for their faults, but still help each other out. No flirting, kissing, anything like that. I like...
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Same boat, I'm perfectly comfortable telling my male and female close friends that I love them, or that they're looking like an attractive individual. I'd say I'm more comfortable saying these things...
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Two things I think would help: - have some hint of of the notion of romance between them be brought up (maybe by a third party) and have them look at each other and kind of wrinkle their noses. Or...
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But is it the same with friends of whichever gender you would date?
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I like the idea that they had one date long ago that didn't work. Like, they have opposite views of what's romantic, and would laugh at the others, or have such wildly different views on things that it...
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Maybe they went on one date and realized they were not suited for a romantic relationship for some reason, but they got along really well. Maybe it was a blind date.
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I know you said YMMV, but yeah, that isn't at all how I relate to my friends. I tell my friends I love them and that they look good all the time--well, I only tell them they look good when they look...
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Maybe give one of the two (or both), another longstanding relationship with someone else? And maybe even have the other mc like him or her a lot?
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You know... I had two characters like this in my current WIP (well, he's dead now, but still). I never even considered trying to point it out that they weren't romantically involved. They just......
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Another way to make a situation where they'd never consider dating: Make one of them gay.
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I will just throw this out there: other than the obvious, there's a difference between a romantic relationship and a close friendship in what they will say to each other (in my experience; YMMV). In a...
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