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- Basic Trope: A couple that is sexually involved with one another, but not an Official Couple.
- Played Straight: Alice and Bob have sex, and are good friends with one another, but not boyfriend and girlfriend.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob do nothing else together except have sex.
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob are an Official Couple but don't have sex.
- Alice and Bob are Like Brother and Sister.
- Justified:
- Alice and/or Bob are involved with other people
- Alice and Bob want sex, but not necessarily to be tied down.
- Alice and Bob are going for a Relationship Upgrade. (YMMV as to whether they're going about it the right way or not.)
- Alice and Bob are always in the mood, and trust each other.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are attracted to one another, but the attraction is where it stops.
- Double Subverted: Until they have a little too much to drink at a party and end up in bed together.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob used to be a couple, but decided they're better as friends, yet they still love sex together.
- Deconstructed: It can lead to all sorts of awkwardness, especially if one is falling in love with the other, who isn't interested.
- Reconstructed: Everyone is on the same page, and does not have any unrealistic expectations as to where this is (or may be) going. And who knows? It might become a real relationship with time anyway.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob have had sex with all their friends.
- Lampshaded: "You're just friends, but you have sex every week?" "Pretty much, yeah." "I'd kill for a friendship like that..."
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob do not have sex.
- Alice and Bob are an Official Couple.
- Enforced: They're teasing the shippers.
- Invoked: Alice, unhappy in her relationship with Charles, is comforted (and ultimately seduced) by her friend Bob.
- Exploited: Bob and Alice stay friends with each other for the sex.
- Defied: Alice and Bob agree not to let raging hormones lead them to risk ruining their friendship
- Played For Laughs: What Did I Do Last Night?
- An Alpha Bitch tries to break up Alice and Bob, only for her jaw to drop when she learns of their not-a-couple status.
- Played For Drama: Almost always is.
- Alice gets pregnant with Bob's child and the two are forced to give a relationship a try. However the two aren't ready for a relationship, especially not one with a kid, and the strain of adapting tells on both of them.
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