Basic Trope: A fanfiction where two characters of the same gender are dating/having sex/married/etc even though those characters are not romantically attracted to each other in canon.
- Straight: In the TV show Alice and the Crew, Alice and Bob are engaged, Carol has a crush on Dave, and Eric and Fred are a gay couple. However, in a fanfiction, Alice is dating Carol.
- Exaggerated: The fanfiction keeps Eric and Fred together and ships Bob with Dave and Alice with Carol.
- Downplayed:
- The fanfic is about Carol being attracted to Alice but not the other way round.
- The fanfic mentions that Alice and Carol used to be together.
- Alice and Carol are together in the fanfic, but it's not the main point.
- Justified:
- Alice and Carol are actually bisexual and either
- Alice and Bob broke up and Carol lost interested in Dave,
- Bob and Dave were never born or
- the fanfiction is set before they became interested in Bob and Dave.
- Alice and Carol are actually bisexual and either
- Inverted: The fanfiction pairs Alice with Eric.
- Subverted:
- It appears that Alice and Carol are making out but it turns out to be All Just a Dream.
- It turns out that Alice imagined the whole thing.
- They seem like they were having sex but they weren't.
- It turns out that Alice and/or Carol were under mind-control while acting romantic.
- They were on what looked like a date, but wasn't really.
- Fred said that Alice and Carol were going out but it turned out he was wrong.
- Double Subverted:
- The dream leads the dreamer to be attracted to the other person.
- Alice was imagining making out with Carol because she was in love with her.
- Even though they weren't having sex then, they're still a couple.
- They then hook up for real.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice and Carol are on what seems to be a date but it turned out they were just hanging out, but then Eric says they're a couple, but Fred says, "No, they're not," then Alice appears to be having sex with Carol but really they just had a Suggestive Collision...
- The fanfic ships Alice with Carol, Bob with Original Character Greta, keeps Eric and Fred together, and ships Dave with another OC named Henry.
- Averted: The fanfic does not ship, or it ships Carol and Dave instead.
- Enforced: The fanfic was written in response to a request for a story which ships Alice and Carol.
- Lampshaded: "Drat! I was going to marry Alice and now she's with Carol! I didn't even know either of them swung that way!"
- Invoked: In the fanfic, Dave sets Alice up with Carol.
- Exploited: Carol's crush on Dave is one-sided, so Dave is glad that Carol is out of his hair.
- Defied: The fanfiction is about Alice and Carol refusing to get together.
- Discussed: "Are Alice and Carol dating?"
- Conversed: "Why did that writer ship Alice and Carol? It's not like Alice and the Crew doesn't have a gay couple, Eric and Fred are together!"
- Implied: There is lots of intentional Ho Yay between Alice and Carol in the fanfiction.
- Deconstructed: Bob is very sad that his former fiancee is now dating Carol, which makes him a bit sore at them both.
- Reconstructed: He gets over it.
- Played for Laughs: It's like a Romantic Comedy fic.
- Played for Drama: Alice and Carol have relationship problems.
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