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Part 14 of Aunt Marga and Niece Britta , Part 14 of Fandom-Free Bingo: Aunt and Niece
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2026-10-09
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It's too Complex: Not Oedipus, Not Electra Either (Fandom-Free Bingo 4.2026: Aunt and Niece)

Summary:

Aunt Marga and niece Britta (minimum 42 & 22, 20 years age difference) are in a secret relationship. A slice of life story.

Fandom-Free Bingo: April 2026 Alternative for the card AU: "Oedipus." (The event is on Tumblr.)

Yes, the beginning of the title is a word play.

Notes:

Regarding the title. When a girl | woman has more-than-platonic feelings for a woman relative, it's lesbian version of Oedipus complex, right? (A girl | woman instead of son and another much older woman relative instead of Mum.) Sounds easy?
BUT there's Electra complex which is a girl who has more-than-platonic feelings for dad. It has got complicated suddenly.
I tried to find the answer more than 10 years ago. No results, unfortunately.
Let's say, some of too difficult meanings don't have words for them yet. As for feelings, they're valid, and as long as nothing bad as the result, they deserve to exist. Besides, we don't have to tell others everything about ourselves. Haters gonna hate anyway.

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"Not everything needs to have a label, but how is it called when a woman or a girl has more-than-platonic feelings for a woman relative?"

"And how is it called when the feelings are mutual?" Marga responded and sat near Britra on the couch.

"It's too complex."

"It is. Oedipus complex is son's feeling towards mum, and Electra complex is daughter's feelings towards dad."

"On top of that, you're not my parent."

" . . . and we hadn't seen each other often before the Summer when you were 16."

"Our own Lesbos with age-aporopriate activities," Britta smiled.

"If I had to create a label for our type of relationship, I'd name it "Lesbos complex."

"Aaahhh . . . my very own Sappho. She was a teacher, and you taught me a lot."

"Before we had gone all the way, I had had almost no practice, theory mostly."

"Anyway, I looove to discover new things with you, sexual or not."

Marga embraced Britta. "So do I, my love."