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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
sohibil
Since: Dec, 2020
2021-09-30 05:45:14
^^ Just to be sure, are you certain you didn't mix it up? Eve has feelings for Charles and in the end she has Bob for ... himself? Wait, What?
Edited by sohibil
Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)

Is there a trope for a relationship dynamic where a character approves of or engineers a relationship between two other characters, so as to leave a fourth character single (and willing to settle)?
For instance, if both Bob and Charles have feelings for Alice, and Eve's in love with Charles. Eve might set up Alice and Bob, or help Bob out, so Alice is off the picture and she can have Bob for himself.