A full blown relationship would be Dating Catwoman. The yay tropes are about subtext between people who couldn't plausibly be in a textual relationship. (the other two are about straight people of the same sex, and relatives.)
The straight examples of the yays would be cases when it's unrequited by both parties, it just unintentionally sounds like they are in a relationship.
A Big Bad openly having a crush on The Hero, or the Big Bad and the Hero falling in love with each other aren't Foe Yay any more than gay people falling in love with each other is Ho Yay.
edited 12th Nov '10 6:53:07 AM by EternalSeptember
I did not say they would be in a full-blown relationship but that it would RESEMBLE one, as opposed to RESEMBLING unrequited love. I really do not know how to describe this. Is requited a real word?
edited 12th Nov '10 7:12:21 AM by neoYTPism
Like, only one of the two characters accidentally sounding like he has a crush on the other one?
I dont think that we have a trope for that.
edited 12th Nov '10 7:16:33 AM by EternalSeptember
Should we?
If it's just making it look like one having a crush on another it's still the Yay tropes.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
The yay tropes are a mess we are just trying to sort out
, this is probably the worst time to randomly launch a subtrope that is unrelated to these other issues.
I know there are a wide variety of X-Yay tropes, but I wonder if any of them exist to address Foe Yay that specifically resembles unrequited love rather than a full-blown relationship.
edited 12th Nov '10 2:23:20 AM by neoYTPism