Warning Glossary
| Term |
Meaning |
| AU |
Alternative Universe |
| Angst |
Includes emotional pain, likely to make you reach for your hankerchiefs |
 Deathfic |
Includes a character's death |
| Depression |
One of the characters suffers from depression |
| Fem-slash |
Very much like slash, but between women |
 |
I will use this when the author is on a roll and is producing really, really quickly. Or when I especially like that particular fic. |
 Fluff |
Humour, is likely to contain a lot of OOC |
| Incest |
It means that two family members love each other in the lovers sense. |
 Lemon |
Contains a VERY explicit sexual scene, described in graphic detail |
 Lime |
Contains an implicit sexual encounter |
| Mpreg |
Male pregnancies, where a guy can become pregnant |
| NCS |
Non-Consensual Sex. ie, rape |
| OC |
Includes an original character |
| OFC |
Original Female Character |
| OMC |
Original Male Character |
| OOC |
Out-Of-Character: denotes some characters acting in a manner difficult to reconcile with the Gundam Wing anime itself |
| Pre-slash |
It's where you get that funny little feeling that two guys are going to get together. |
| PWP |
Plot, What Plot? Sheer smut, unencumbered by a plot |
 Sap |
A lot of tears and OOC as characters act in a 'Love Story' fashion, never mind their real character |
| Seme |
The 'top' dominant sexual partner |
 Shounen ai |
Boy/boy romantic love |
 Shoujo ai |
Girl/girl romantic love |
| Shotacon |
Sexual relationship between a child or an underage character and an adult |
| Slash |
Boy/boy or man/man sexual relationship, but while yaoi is used in anime fandoms, slash is more common for movie/book fandoms |
| Songfic |
Using a song's lyrics as a background |
| Squick |
Includes some gross concept or disgusting description that makes you go 'ewww!' |
| Twincest |
Incest between twins, as in twins are in a romantic relationship with each other. |
| TWT |
Timeline, What Timeline? indicates that the story will not bother with the niceties of sticking to the Gundam Wing timeline (49 episodes plus the OVA 'Endless Waltz', along with the handful of official mangas -the Episode Zero and Blind Target mangas-) |
| Uke |
The 'bottom' submissive sexual partner |
| Violence |
Not only for generic mission-related stuff, but mostly when it was affecting the char's personally |
| Yaoi |
Boy/boy or man/man sexual relationship |
| Yuri |
Girl/girl or woman/woman sexual relationship |
| + |
Denotes a romantic relationship only. Sometimes an author will choose to let the reader know that the relationship is a friendly one instead of a romantic by stating it like 1+2 (friendly). However, most of the time, it'll be a romantic relationship. |
| x |
Means a sexual relationship, often explicitly described, but also implied. The seme is to the left of the x sign, the uke to the right. This expresses who is the dominant partner in the relationship in the sexual sense (so in a heterosexual relationship, it would always be male x female, unless it is a female domination fic). eg, 6x9, 13x6, 6x2, 1x2, etc... |
| / |
I adopt this use for when numbers are not available to represent the pairing. It can be interpreted as either + and/or x from above. eg, Hiei/Kurama, Tala/Kai, etc... |
| Combination of Names in Pairing |
Lately, people have been getting away from the +, x, and / notations for the pairings. They've taken to combining the couple's names to denote a pairing. eg, Snarry would be a Severus Snape and Harry Potter pairing. |
