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It\'s a sequential editing problem. I cleaned it up a bit, the trope is meant to be characters who appear to the audience as homosexual couples but who in their universe are something clearly distinct from real-life queer people.
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It\\\'s a sequential editing problem. I cleaned it up a bit, the trope is meant to be characters who appear to the audience as homosexual couples but who in the context of their universe are something clearly distinct from real-life queer people, or on the flip side, treated as queer people in their universe but who are/can be seen as distinct from real queers in the minds of the audience. The asari are perfect examples of the first (look gay, aren\\\'t); gay elves or vampires are usually perfect examples of the second (are gay, but you can have them without the real-world baggage). The first form is nearly always UnfortunateImplications territory. The second form is more like FantasticRacism in that it\\\'s a narrative device used to deal with a real issue in metaphorical form rather than directly, or to allow inclusion of the thing without unwanted real-world connotations. Remember TropesAreNotBad!
