Tom and Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss?
Tom and Ruth Pinch in Martin Chuzzlewit?
Dr. Prunsquallor and his sister Irma in Titus Groan?
Valentine and Ender and/or Peter Wiggin in Ender’s Game?
Hansel and Gretel?
The brother and sister in the film You Can Count on Me…it’s been so long since I’ve seen it, but I recall that it was a good exploration of the relationship.
Nicholas and Kate in Nicholas Nickleby have such a deep relationship that at the end they seriously consider “living only for each other” (chastely) even when each of them has a lover eager for marriage.
Ron Mclarty’s Memory of Running
Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
Well, since comics are included, Aurora and Northstar.
Garth & Ayla Ranzz a/k/a The Legion of Super-Heroes Lightning Lad and Light/Lightning Lass.
Is Lightning Lord (Mekt Ranzz) still their older sibling in the new continuity?
There lies incest. At least a tad, if Skald is looking to avoid it altogether.
How about Franny and Zooey from, um,** Franny and Zooey?**
A healthier bro-sis relationship in the same novel is Captain Walton, narraor of the framing device, and his sister, recipient of the letters containing this narration. We never really get to know her, but those are way cooler letters than I ever sent my sisters.
Oh! How about Claudia and Jamie Kincaid in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler?
Yes, but he doesn’t use the name Lightning Lord, just going byMekt. I always thought there was something creepy in Garty & Ayla’s closeness and Mekt’s encroachment on it, but apparently on their home planet of Winath that is the norm.
Also Benny and Joon.
Meg and Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time.
Jane Austen herself had such close relationships with her family - particularly her sister, that her books often have that factor. Sense and Sensibility has the functional and very different Dashwood sisters - and the mismatched Ferrars. Northanger Abbey has Catherine and James, the Thorpes and the Tilneys. I think only Emma is the exception, with few really close family relationships.
The original Scarface. Tony Carmonte is very close and protective of his sister Francesca. Too protective ("You’re don’t sound like a brother. More like . . . . "). But there’s no actual incest involved, though the final shootout has overtones of sex in the violence.
Didn’t the brother and sister, Cathy Dollanganger and Chris Dollanganger (doppelganger, I get it) in that dreadful series Flowers in the Attic* get into this strange vibe after awhile? Being locked in the attic can do that to you, but still. Didn’t quite go all the way to incest though, just utter dependence in the absence of a sane mother.
- I read it one summer when I had absolutely nothing else to read.
Little Women?
Oh, yes it did. See posts #2 and #3.
And my bad . . . . memory. I wiped that out. And I forgot the prohibition against suckitude.
Ewwwww (on everything)!