Seduction — Tag Meaning
A tag for deliberate, strategic romantic or sexual pursuit — one character setting out to win another with charm as the weapon of choice. It powers spy fic honeypot plots, courtesan AUs, and comedies where the seducer catastrophically catches feelings.
What to Expect From "Seduction" Fics
Expect calculated charm, power play between pursuer and pursued, and frequently a seduction plan ruined by genuine love.
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Sexual Tension
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Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents
Issues the cast codenames and cover identities: rival operatives assigned to seduce each other, handler/agent codependency, double agents lying to everyone including themselves. The genre inherits Bond's glamour and le Carré's paranoia in whatever ratio the author prefers, and trust — who has it, who's faking it — is always the real mission.
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Falling In Love
Tags the process itself as the story's subject — not the meeting, not the confession, but the slow interior shift from noticing to needing. These fics dwell on the granular evidence of falling: cataloguing laughs, missing someone mid-sentence, the day a name starts meaning something else.
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