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It's called queer platonic relationship ! It's something that can happen between aroace people. Maybe one of them is aro and not the other, and maybe they both are ACE. (We don't know exactly about their respective libido and need for sexual action, right ? It seems to me they could totally be asexual. But i haven't read the half of it.) You have read the totality of it, what do you think ?? Could they be aro ? Could they be asexual ?? It's possible to identify as hetero/bi , but aro. And greysexual or something. (Or asexual.)
People that are Aro don't feel the need for kissing, holding hands and stuff like pda. But they can still truly feel bonded to someone and want to somehow be their lifepartner. It's '' commited love-friendship for life ''
WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS
I bought the remaining 20 chapters on webcomics and honestly I wish I never read the ending ╥﹏╥ It was wholesome because they kinda(?) profess their love. They both say that they love each other in the last chapter, and that even if they don't understand their sexualities they both feel love and want to remain together in the future.
But they spent like way too much of the final chaps giving Ian a love rival and making Justin and some other girl 'like' each other. Then the resolution was really rushed and the ending itself after that was even more rushed.
I wish this story never ended, and the fact that it ended without even a kiss or a canonized romantic relationship between Ian and Justin after all these years of reading this story kinda makes me sad tbh.