AO3 has 114 works tagged "mutually unrequited". They're not all by the same author, so I assume the tag has to have some generally-understood meaning. Can anyone explain to me what that meaning is?
He. My first thought was to do some kind of emotional quantum superposition where two people simultaneously were and weren't interested in each other at the same time. Which would be a really interesting mechanic to play with, if you could figure out howinhell to communicate that via prose.
...and is also unlikely to be a widely-used trope on AO3.
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...and is also unlikely to be a widely-used trope on AO3.