Unrequited Affections Exchange

Preliminary tag list for this year’s freeforms.

Relationship believed to be only sexual
In Denial
Obsessive Love
Hanahaki
Unidirectional soulmates
Feelings used to be mutual
Pining for superior/inferior
Incompatible sexualities
A giving B emotional support while pining
B is incapable of love (e.g. robot, alien)
B tries to help A find love with someone else
B plays on A's pining for personal gain
B tries and fails to love A
B hates A
A is a B copycat
B is mourning a third party
A hurts B because they love them
A murders the hypotenuse
Cultural differences lead to missed signals
A matchmakes B with another character
A watches B's relationship with another character from the outside

Merged tags:
A misunderstands their relationship with B (Combination of A thinks B is in a relationship with someone else+A thinks B sees them as family)

A's feelings are hidden from B (Combination of A deliberately hides feelings from B; A's feelings are obvious but B is oblivious; B doesn't know A exists; A thinks B hates them)

A has unconditional loyalty towards B (Combination of A would follow B anywhere; A learns to accept B won't return their feelings; A has no hope of B returning their feelings but loves them anyway)

A has to watch B in a relationship with someone else (Combination of A has to watch B in a happy relationship with someone else; A has to watch B in an unhappy relationship with someone else)

Forbidden Relationship (also includes Either A or B refuses to engage in a forbidden relationship)

-The first round will focus exclusively on 2-person couples. This might
change for the next round. As such, all tags featuring C will not qualify
this round, but have a good chance of doing so in future rounds.

Merged:
-All ‘pining for the enemy’ tropes into one tag, ’Pining for the enemy/rival’
-All ‘Pining for superior’/’Pining for inferior’ into one tag, ’Pining for superior/inferior’

-‘Pining for B while with B’ into ‘Relationship believed to be
only sexual’