they sure did :’) sex and romance have just really never been a priority in his life, he kind of viewed them as these things that happen to other people and that just weren’t ever going to be a part of his life, and he honestly didn’t mind.
i headcanon him as a demisexual and for most of his life the only person he had a proper relationship with was papyrus, so he didn’t really have chances to be romantically/sexually interested in anyone. even after the brothers joined the gang and sans fell for toriel and started yearning for a romantic relationship with her, he still figured it was just an impossible pipe dream that would never actually happen.
even so, virginity was never really a problem for him and he didn’t think much of it, until after it was taken from him. i can imagine a scene where sometime after finding out about the abuse toriel tries to somewhat awkwardly reassure sans that he doesn’t have to let the awful negative experiences sully sex as a whole for him, that he should try to focus on the positive experiences he’s had in the past instead of the negative ones. and sans just kind of stares at his toes silently and doesn’t say anything and eventually toriel just goes “………..oh”
in re: not liking pinecest, yesss man, definitely haha. i’ve never straight up loathed it or anything, but my romantic!pinecest love waxes and wanes and this blog becomes active/inactive along with it. when i love it i really love it, but when i don’t… idk if you have sibs you are close to, you know that it’s its own kind of bond, and the Pines twins have that x1000, and sometimes the idea of (just me personally) messing around with that rubs me the wrong way, so i’ll take a step back. aaaand then a few weeks or months will go by and i’ll read a rad pcest fic and be like just kidding i love pinecest and the cycle starts anew, lmao.
@ my first encounter with pinecest, the whole reason i started shipping it was because watching them… idk ya just can’t help but notice what a solid team they make, and i’m not talkin romantic stuff here just like.. i don’t think i’ve ever gotten attached to a pair of characters as fast as i did with dipper and mabel, just the way they talked to each other and cared for each other, you can’t help but go full on starry-eyed ‘awwwwwwww’. and idk, i just wanted the pines twins to stay together, and hang out and go adventuring and be a big deal (the biggest deal) to each other forevermore. haha i mean i seriously could not bear the thought of them doing the (sadly) normal sib deal of growing apart with time. and personal experience/dumb ol society had warped my brain into thinking that the only way to get someone to stick around through thick n thin, like truly prioritize you as their numero uno for the long term, is to be in a romantic relationship with them… which is lame and not true and i hate that i still lowkey believe that (seriously not a great way to think, as i’m pretty sure i’m aromantic lolz)
soo not proud of how the idea of pinecest came into my head, but it did, and it was back when only the first 6 or 7 episodes had aired so far, and i was like ‘would dipper/mabel shit even exist out there?? is that a thing??’ (what a naive little double lmao), and i looked it up ‘out of curiosity,’ and lo and behold, it existed. there wasn’t much content out there but some of the fics that did exist were sooo friggin good… haha i definitely wouldn’t be here (still applies to this day) without the existence of other people’s insanely awesome and in-character fanfiction. i really love how subtle this ship can be, when you first start to blur that line between ‘tight sibs’ and ‘uhhh that might be questionable’, so i ate up stuff likethis (first pcest fic i ever read and still one of my faves). haha i really did not want to admit that i shipped this amazing crack ship at first. i was only into subtle pinecest. or secret one-sided pinecest. or ‘open to interpretation’ pinecest (see:my first fic and my first comic, lolz), like i refused to draw them actually kissing and stuff for the longest time. aaaand as you can see it slowly escalated from there… haha you consume enough quality fan content, get enough positive feedback on your own stuff, and geek out about enough pcest headcanons with the peeps you meet through the ship along the way, and one day you’ll realize that your desensitized ass has gone from ‘i ship it but not really in a sexual way and i’m no i am noT gonna draw them kissing’ to ‘eyyy time to draw them making out for the eleventeenth time and finish up this 20000 word fic about them banging, aint no thang,’ and that you’ve put out so much friggin content on your incest shipping blog that a shitton of people (along w/ google) directly associate your blog name with the whole damn ship and vice versa. lmao infinity.
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