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MegaJ
Since: Oct, 2009
ChloeJessica
Since: Jun, 2020
Chabal2
Since: Jan, 2010
Semitura
Since: Feb, 2022
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
2022-07-12 13:38:59
Values Dissonance can get involved here on a few fronts, too- the gap between things like If It's You, It's Okay and Heterosexual Life-Partners can get hazy when you're viewing it through the writings of a 5th century monk who Talks Like a Simile.
Edited by Scorpion451

Bob and Pat (both male) are in love and in a relationship together. They are clearly depicted as lovers through paintings, writtings, ect. However, thousand of years laters an historian discovers those paintings/writtings only to conclude that Bob and Pat were just really close friends.
So, is there a trope name for this? Where two people of the same sex is clearly meant to be a couple, only for someone else to brush it off as them being just good friends?
Example: Aquiles and Patroclus were lovers, and there's no denying that, but some historians brushed their relationship and concluded that "oh, they just where really good friends!"
Edited by Semitura