blood brother

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Riding shotgun was Sumlin’s military blood brother, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Jarvis, a soldier on active-duty from Fort Bragg’s 18th Ordnance Company in North Carolina — Sumlin’s old unit.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021

It’s also an origin story for Tomisaburo, or Storm Shadow — the prominent hero/villain and blood brother to Snake Eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021

It opens with the lines: “My blood brother is an immigrant / A beautiful immigrant.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020

He feels he must go to save Bon, his blood brother, from dying in what he’s sure will be a suicide mission.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

“Did you not swear back then, great Odin, that you would drink at a banqueting table only if Loki, your sworn blood brother, drank with you?”

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman