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⌈ Secret Post #3046 ⌋

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[Beyonce Knowles]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Spec Ops: The Line]

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[Cell Block Tango]

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[Mortal Kombat]

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[Captain America/Kingsman: The Secret Service]

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[Blake's 7/"Orbit"]

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[Henry V]

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As others have suggested, it's probably because the audience for that particular scenario is pretty limited. If you clearly label a fic as unrequited without the happy ending, your readership won't be especially high (if that matters to you), and if you decide not to make it clear that the ship will not be together at the end of the fic, then that's asking for trouble. For better or worse, the majority expectation in shippy fic is that the ship winds up together. That's the fantasy, that's the thing a lot of shippers expect fandom to fix from the original canon.

Another aspect of the trope, at least in my experience with admittedly crappy fandoms, is that it tends to get trotted out as a form of character bashing. The hated character will spend a fic pining over their love interest only to watch them stroll into to sunset with the character the author actually likes. Another spin on that is that if you do write an unrequited fic with the best intentions, haters of that character will take it as some kind of manifesto to "prove" that the ship isn't meant to be together.

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