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Lover and Beloved

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Lover and Beloved	comment	Say Bob and Charles are not family, but are close to one another. Really close. Bob is younger than Charles, and Charles is quite happy to take Bob under his wing. He guides Bob to his place, whether in the world or simply in one social circle. However, Bob and Charles' affection for each other is a bit more than fatherly. This dynamic applies to a gay male couple (or simply an ambiguous one) in which one partner is much older and acts as a mentor to another. In this dynamic, Charles is most often powerful and successful, and Bob is most often physically attractive in one way or another. This trope originates in ancient Greece, with their custom of pederasty. The Greek words for this trope are erastÃªs (á¼�Ï�Î±ÏƒÏ„Î®Ï‚, "lover") and erÃ´menos (á¼�Ï�ÏŽÎ¼ÎµÎ½Î¿Ï‚ "beloved"). A very similar system developed independently in Japan, where the partners are the nenja ("man who loves") and his wakashÅ« ("young person").note wakashu technically covers any boy between early childhood and adulthood, and was also used outside of relationship contexts, but by the end of the Edo period it pretty much meant "uke". High-ranking Chinese courtiers and Buddhist monks also took younger male lovers fairly often, but in a less formal system than in Greece and Japan. Greek accounts of the Persians, Spanish accounts of the Maya, and Roman accounts of the Celts also all describe similar pederastic institutions, although in the latter two cases, this might have been to demonize the conquered cultures. All but a Forgotten Trope nowadays, especially since some of these relationships involve underage teens, leading to implications that modern gay writers would rather avoid. It may, however, show up in The Twink's Coming-Out Story, and the social circle the older partner leads the younger into is likely to be the gay community. Modern Yaoi has a similar (although less stratified) version of this trope: Seme and Uke. Subtrope and sister trope of other tropes like Age-Gap Romance, Teacher/Student Romance, Sexy Mentor, Mentor Ship, and Mentor in Queerness. No Real Life Examples, Please! noreallife This includes any real person describing their own relationships, or their personal interest in such relationships, regardless of medium.
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Lover and Beloved / int_11e72865	comment	In Victim (1961), which uses elements of the plot of Different from the Others, a lawyer nearing 40 gets to know a young man about half that, who hero-worships him and with whom he shares a mutual attraction, though the older guy breaks it off because "he was getting too fond of me" — or, as his wife suggests, "you were getting too fond of him". Said young man has also had a relationship with a middle-aged bookshop owner, who is deeply in love with him and wants to give him a home and a job for life.
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Lover and Beloved / int_16fc4335	comment	In Magic's Price of the Heralds of Valdemar series, Vanyel's DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest, Stefan, is much younger than he is. Initially Vanyel plays the mentor role to the young bard, refusing even the slightest hint of sexual attraction, but eventually the lifebond between the two becomes impossible to deny.
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Lover and Beloved / int_1b9ff217	comment	Comes up in If by Lindsay Anderson, set in a Boarding School for boys thirteen to eighteen, where it's common and accepted for older boys to take a shine to younger ones. One of the three main characters has a relationship with a younger boy, of whom he's protective, but who seems to be a more mature person than his lover.
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Lover and Beloved / int_1e53d816	comment	In Seraphina, Seraphina suspects that Viridius, the elderly court composer, and his protÃ©gÃ© Lars have this sort of relationship, and itâ€™s ambiguous for a good part of the novel. Lars is definitely an adult and at least older than Seraphina, but the age difference is at least several decades.
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Lover and Beloved / int_1ec90b13	comment	Tipping the Velvet (2002): A number of the rich lesbians in Ms. Lethaby's circle have partners much younger than them who are kept women. Nan is Diana's Beloved ostensibly, though she's more essentially a sex slave.
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Lover and Beloved / int_1ef6a11b	comment	The Nightrunner series has Seregil in the mentor role and Alec as the student. Interestingly, it was the inequality in this pairing that kept Seregil distant for some time. After two books worth of subtext, they finally received an upgrade. In an inversion of the trope, it is Alec's increasing maturity and skills that bring them together.
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Lover and Beloved / int_2dca1b85	comment	Call Me by Your Name (2017) along with the novel it's based on is a modern example, being about the relationship of 17-year-old Elio and 24-year-old American academic Oliver. Slightly subverted in that Elio is the one to more actively pursue the relationship, but in the end, Oliver, with a single intimate touch, is the one to initiate it.
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Lover and Beloved / int_31b9ac04	comment	In Edward II, a character recites a list of famous male/male couples, justifying homosexual relationships by saying that "The mightiest kings have had their minions...And not kings only, but the wisest men." Most of these are lover/beloved couples: Hercules and Hylas, Tully and Octavius, Socrates and Alcibiades, Achilles and Patroclus — Achilles and Patroclus are not said to be lovers in the Iliad but were seen as erastes and eromenos by later Greeks, although in the Iliad Patroclus is the elder. Alexander and Hephaestion, who were coevals, are also mentioned in the list. The historical Edward and his boyfriend Gaveston were actually the same age, but lover/beloved was the predominant homosexual trope in Marlowe's day: people learned the trope from the Greek and Roman classics they read at school, as the list shows.
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Lover and Beloved / int_362f7325	comment	In Marginal, there are no women in the world and humans are an all-male One-Gender Race, except for a queen bee-like individual who produces babies called "Mother". Thus, Lover and Beloved becomes the norm: men adopt and mentor youths (called "Iroko" i.e. "coloured child" due to a mark on their skin which shows that they are not mature), who in return act as passive sexual partners until they come of age.
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Lover and Beloved / int_36c89d24	comment	The latter half of season three of Hannibal reveals this as its endgame for Will and the titular psychopath. While Will is an adult in his early thirties, he's about a decade younger than Hannibal, highly vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation, and quite easy on the eyes; Hannibal in return is older, highly educated, appreciative of the Classics in art, music, and philosophy, and has rather epicurean tastes. What starts out as an amusing side project to see how far Will can be pushed before he snaps becomes something else entirely as Lector becomes more and more obsessed with proving to Will that they are the same. Hannibal instructs Will on a wide variety of subjects and the two have a series-long, protracted debate about the ethics of murder, and artistic perception and appreciation of suffering as divine. Ultimately, Will capitulates, working with Hannibal to violently murder another serial killer and afterwards admitting that he thought of it as beautiful, before embracing Hannibal and throwing them both off a cliff and into the sea. Season three's Italian setting and continual references to Greco-Roman art, philosophy, and aesthetics cement the connection.
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Lover and Beloved / int_3c38c613	comment	In some interpretations, The Merchant of Venice. There's a lot of Ho Yay between Antonio and Bassanio and Antonio, who is somewhat older than Bassanio, guarantees a big loan so that Bassanio can marry, in the process putting himself at risk of death at the hands of Shylock, whom he despises for being a Jew. In some readings the relationship is seen this way: Bassanio has a good male buddy his own age, but his boyfriend is the older, richer man Antonio. The rather reckless, youthful Bassanio is sincerely fond of Antonio but is also well aware that he has Antonio wrapped around his little finger; he wheedles money out of him and then proceeds to go off with a girl. The self-sacrificing Antonio, who loves Bassanio more than Bassanio loves him, watches and even facilitates this, keeping a lid on his own private pain over his love for Bassanio. All this is classic Lover and Beloved. Other readings, however, see a fully mutual love affair between Antonio and Bassanio, with Bassanio marrying Portia largely for her money, though he does declare his love for her. Still, other readings see no sexual or romantic relationship between the two, with Antonio's love for Bassanio wholly unrequited, and yet others interpret Antonio and Bassanio simply as Heterosexual Life-Partners.
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Lover and Beloved / int_444f7f18	comment	Anafiel Delaunay and Alcuin in Kushiel's Dart. Alcuin has to do a bit of convincing to get Delaunay to notice him, as the older man did see himself in more of a parental role... although as he had already trained the boy to work as a prostitute, he couldn't exactly claim Alcuin was too young or too innocent.
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Lover and Beloved / int_456b7a5e	comment	Achilles and Patroclus in Troilus and Cressida probably are an example of this. At any rate, Thersites refers to Patroclus as Achilles' "masculine whore", and Patroclus is highly offended at the insulting choice of words but doesn't deny it.
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Lover and Beloved / int_543bfacd	comment	This is one possible interpretation of Van Helsing's relationship with his former pupil Seward in Dracula - they have their fair share of pederastic Subtext. Stoker was likely queer himself.
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Lover and Beloved / int_59c598df	comment	At the beginning of Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ganymede is seen sitting on Jove's lap coquetting away in order to get more presents from Jove.
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Lover and Beloved / int_5fcbab07	comment	In Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, Plachta is Sophie's Really 700 Years Old alchemy teacher. Their relationship is extremely romantic in tone, especially after Sophie uses her alchemy to give Plachta a humanoid body. By the end of the game, they're "looking forward to spending more time with each other." In the next game, Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey, they're travelling to the Examination together, though by that time their relationship is one of equals, as Sophie has become a master alchemist in her own right. However, the later-released Interquel, Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream, has Sophie describe Plachta as "like family", which might make the nature of their relationship more ambiguous.
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Lover and Beloved / int_5fcca902	comment	In Three, the two Spartan noblemen and close friends Kleomenes and Tyrtaios had this relationship in the past, although according to Ancient Greek mores the sexual part of it ended when Tyrtaios finished puberty.
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Lover and Beloved / int_663064e3	comment	These Words Are True and Faithful initially plays this straight with Ernie and Sam, who, over the course of the book, are 39-41 and 26-28, respectively. However, it is later deconstructed, as Ernie lacks the emotional stability to continue in the role that he has adopted, and Sam eventually has to assume the role of teacher.
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Lover and Beloved / int_6664e2ff	comment	Queer as Folk (US) had this kind of relationship in the alpha couple after a while, although it didn't follow the classical formula of the older guy being the more enthusiastic. Part of the point was that the younger guy was very enthusiastic and sure of what he wanted; it was a deliberate subversion. Another part of the point was to have the younger guy be just under the age of consent and the school-leaving age, so he was 17 in the American version, 15 in the British version. As is often the case, the impact of the boy's youth is softened by using Dawson Casting: the actor playing the boy in the UK version was 18, and taller than his adult lover; in the US version he was 23! In the UK series the adult lover, who is 29 in both versions, says that a teacher had anal sex with him when he was 12.
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Lover and Beloved / int_7080f41f	comment	Gods and Monsters (1998), a fictionalised depiction of the last days of James Whale. Whale is famous both for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein and for being openly gay in 1950s Hollywood. The film portrays him becoming attracted to his new gardener, a handsome young ex-Marine. The gardener is straight but Whale assures him he has no sexual intentions. This turns out not to be the case, and the gardener freaks out.
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Lover and Beloved / int_70baf96e	comment	Briefly mentioned in The Lion in Winter. King Henry says to his mistress Alais, "In my time I've known contessas, milkmaids, courtesans and novices, whores, gypsies, jades and little boys, but nowhere in God's western world have I found anyone to love but you." Richard The Lion Heart and Philip II of France are depicted as having had an affair two years before the action when Richard was 24 and Philip was 15. Philip tells Richard that he is no longer "the boy you taught to hunt... you running first, me scrambling after."
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Lover and Beloved / int_762b740c	comment	The 1990 novel Love and Death on Long Island is an updated riff on Death in Venice, but rendered less squicky and more humorous by the fact that the beloved is a Teen Idol actor in his early twenties.
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Lover and Beloved / int_82a6f3fe	comment	The Lost Boys, a 1978 BBC miniseries by Andrew Birkin. It's a fictionalised account of J. M. Barrie's (Peter Pan) relationships with the five Llewellyn Davies boys.
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Lover and Beloved / int_858624ba	comment	Will on Will & Grace found himself in a relationship like this, by accident. At first he thought he had just made a generous new friend, but freaked when he realized what he was getting into, then decided it actually wouldn't be a bad thing, THEN found himself to have been quickly replaced by an even younger and more attractive man. Earlier in the series, Will, then probably 35, briefly dated Scott, "23 and 3/4" — though when Scott initially asked Will out, Scott said he was 24 and thought Will was 27. Will felt embarrassed about Scott's age and broke it off with him. Married, middle-aged Beverley Leslie has a long-term relationship with his much younger "business associate" Benji. The finale has Jack become Leslie's new "associate" for purely financial motives (until a gust of wind carries the tiny man off a balcony and he inherits his fortune).
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Lover and Beloved / int_8a95e28c	comment	Reservoir Dogs (1992) has been interpreted this way, given that a popular reading is that the relationship between Mr. White and the younger Mr. Orange carries Homoerotic Subtext. In this case the "beloved" isn't what he seems, acting almost as a male Femme Fatale if you subscribe to the queer reading.
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Lover and Beloved / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Possibly subverted on Glee. Blaine is initially set up as Kurt's Sexy Mentor, and he helps Kurt deal with bullying, but it's later revealed that Blaine is actually younger than Kurt.
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Lover and Beloved / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome: There is a rare Gender-Inverted Trope example with Servilla, in her late 40s to early 50s, teaching a teenage Octavia about the joys of sapphic love. It doesn't last long, though, as Servilla is very clearly manipulating Octavia for political purposes. People also believe that 50-year-old Caesar and teenage Octavian were a thing because they saw them leave a lonely room at the same time. Turns out Octavian was just helping his great-uncle with a seizure. It's made even more awkward in that his mother congratulated him on his "catch."
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Lover and Beloved / int_9002e9b8	comment	The Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice, which has Gustav Aschenbach falling hard for fourteen-year-old Tadzio and constructing an elaborate fantasy concerning this trope about him. He never does act on his feelings for him, but his refusal to leave Venice because of his desire for the boy leads to him contracting and dying of the cholera that is sweeping the city. Thomas Mann quotes from the Phaedrus in this.
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Lover and Beloved / int_937bee09	comment	Pariah: Laura admits that she loves Alike and takes her under her wing as Alike grows into her identity as a lesbian.
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Lover and Beloved / int_951c41c1	comment	Marty's title in the credits of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 is "The Man Who Dagda Loved", Dagda being one of the game's Crutch Characters and being old enough to have a daughter who is also a player unit. Due to Thracia 776 being famously low on character development for minor characters, however, this dynamic is somewhat of an Informed Attribute.
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Lover and Beloved / int_9a29f3a4	comment	In Top 10, Da Chief Steve Traynor and his partner Wulf have been a couple for about 50 years, but the prequel graphic novel The 49ers revealed that their relationship started when Steve was still a teenager and Wulf was about eight years older. It attempts to avoid the more dubious elements of this trope by having Steve actively pursue Wulf, and Wulf at one point explicitly challenges Steve about whether he's emotionally mature enough for a relationship.
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Lover and Beloved / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell; although never said outright, they were possibly in this relationship during Loras' time as Renly's squire. A less extreme example as Loras is only 4 years younger than Lord Renly.
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Lover and Beloved / int_a52b58cb	comment	Gender-swapped in MÃ¤dchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform) (1931), based on Christa Winsloe's play Gestern and Heute, which itself is based on her novel Das Kind Manuela, in turn based on Winsloe's experiences at school. The school in the film is, like Winsloe's, a single-sex Boarding School for the daughters of the upper classes, and is run on very strict lines. The young Scripture teacher, FrÃ¤ulein von Bernburg, is the only adult there who shows the girls any kindness or affection, and as a result, many of them fall for her. Sensitive, motherless Manuela von Meinhardis, fourteen and a half years old, falls particularly hard, and FrÃ¤ulein von Bernburg seems to have feelings for Manuela in return, though, as she explains to Manuela, she can't play favorites. When Manuela accidentally gets drunk and proclaims her love in front of the entire school and the headmistress, the horrified headmistress comes down hard on her, and she nearly kills herself. In the novel and the play, she does kill herself. The film was a big hit on the lesbian scene in Berlin, which at that point was quite active and open. The Nazis, irked less by the film's homosexual content than by its portrayal of the schoolgirls collectively rising up against authority, tried to destroy all copies of it, but fortunately failed. The United States government attempted to ban the film, but Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded them not to.
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Lover and Beloved / int_b8a652cb	comment	Little Miss Sunshine, a popular family comedy from 2006. Frank, a renowned Proust scholar (Proust was gay) fell in love with a male graduate student of his. This younger man left him — for another older man, Frank's rival Proust scholar. Being upset, Frank acted up and got kicked out of his job. Then he couldn't pay the rent and got kicked out of his apartment. Then he found out that his rival in love and work had won an honour instead of him. So he slit his wrists...but he survived. The film begins with him in hospital.
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Lover and Beloved / int_b99da0d	comment	In Marvel's The Incredible Hercules, most of the Greek gods assume (incorrectly) that Hercules and Amadeus Cho have this relationship. Amadeus always angrily corrects them. At one point, when Hercules was asked to compare his recent companions to his legendary companions, he feigned ignorance when it came to Amadeus Cho due to this; the answer that he was thinking but didn't voice was Hylas.
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Lover and Beloved / int_b99df4d7	comment	Inverted and deconstructed in Loveless. The older partner, Soubi's, "name" is Beloved and he has been trained to submit to whoever is the Sacrifice in his pairings. The much younger Ritsuka's "name" is Loveless; he struggles between his affection for Soubi and his own submissive personality that his brother took advantage of.
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Lover and Beloved / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	The Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: The Da Vinci Disappearance single-player DLC depicts the relationship between Leonardo and his young pupil Salai. Leonardo tries to dance around the true nature of the relationship in front of his friend Ezio; Ezio has no reason to think it's wrong, as his philosophy is basically anything goes. Or more precisely, "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
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Lover and Beloved / int_bce8560e	comment	Parodied on In Living Color!, as in the first edition of Men on Film Camp Gay critic Blaine Edwards says he disliked The Karate Kid Part III because it had too much fighting and no romance between the two lead characters. Given the terms he uses, Blaine is clearly describing this trope. Although co-reviewer Antoine Merriweather, also Camp Gay, felt the violence made the movie more arousing to him, he agreed with Blaine that having this sort of relationship between the two main characters would have been great. Notably, it's the only sketch to feature the duo that had anything to do with this trope.
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Lover and Beloved / int_bdae670d	comment	Yuri and Victor's relationship gradually takes on more and more aspects of this in Yuri!!! on Ice, though the age difference is downplayed since Victor is only four years older than Yuri. Victor coaches and mentors Yuri to become a better figure skater, and Yuri learns to become more confident in his skating. The subtext between them becomes very hard to ignore... at least until episode 7, when Victor kisses Yuri and they become the Official Couple, and by episode 10 they're engaged.
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Lover and Beloved / int_c1e17180	comment	This is the dynamic between Gulcasa and Nessiah in Blaze Union, where Nessiah plays the role of caretaker, confidant, and kingmaker to the more inexperienced and emotionally vulnerable Gulcasa. Of note is the fact that while Nessiah is definitely much older, the two are about the same age physically, and Nessiah is also the smaller and more delicate of the pair. Over time, the two of them shed this trope as Gulcasa becomes more emotionally dominant and Nessiah more dependent.
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Lover and Beloved / int_c43df4d8	comment	In a way, this trope also reflects the relationship between Jack, when he was a young man, and the Ninth Doctor on Doctor Who. Sexual attraction only played a minor role, at least from the Doctor's point of view, but the Doctor did take on a mentor role and guided Jack on a better path in life.
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Lover and Beloved / int_c5e69cfa	comment	Lolita is, of course, chiefly about a man sexually attracted to girls 9-14 years old and his passion for his 12-year-old stepdaughter, whose life he ruins. The homosexual version crops up with a minor character, a French expatriate named Gaston Grodin, who becomes friends with Humbert Humbert, the protagonist. Grodin is a professor of French at the local college. He and Humbert play chess together (Grodin is a terrible chess player) and Grodin kindly gives Humbert various presents, surpluses from gifts given to him by the neighbourhood ladies — he's popular in the neighbourhood. He also has a liking for young boys, which nobody seems to have noticed except Humbert. He keeps, and shows to Humbert, an album of snapshots of the local lads; in his basement, he has pistols and tiger-skins and other things likely to appeal to the boys, whom he invites round. Once, he and Humbert go to the theatre together, Humbert taking Lolita and Gaston taking a local boy, whose father is away that night. Humbert says that Grodin eventually got involved in a sale histoire (a nasty business), "in Naples of all places", and got into trouble.
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Lover and Beloved / int_c76c990d	comment	Swordspoint: The Fall of the Kings centers on the relationship between 28-year-old university professor Basil St Cloud and 20-year-old nobleman and student Theron Campion. Basil is The Bear and Theron is a Pretty Boy. Avoids the Squick factor due to the characters' ages and the fact that it's not quite a conventional Teacher/Student Romance, as Theron isn't Basil's student, but the age difference and mentor relationship are there, not to mention the focus on Basil's intellect and Theron's beauty.
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Lover and Beloved / int_d4de82c6	comment	In Magpie Murders, successful crime author Alan Conway and his "boyfriend", a prostitute who is young enough to be his zon.
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Lover and Beloved / int_d92ff551	comment	In Sith Academy, a parody of Star Wars with Darth Maul as the Villain Protagonist, this is pretty much standard for Jedi Masters and their Padawans, with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi's relationship being especially saccharine at times. A number of stories mention former male Padawans of Mace Windu, and even Yoda gets into the act with his students. It's hinted that Teacher Student Romances are equally common for Jedi partnerships where both are female, or when one is male and the other female, but no couples of these sorts appear in the stories. Curiously, even though Sidious is homosexual and Maul is bisexual, it's explicitly mentioned that relationships are forbidden between a Sith Master and apprentice because they would either be too competitive with each other or else tend to mellow out and lose their edge. This doesn't stop either of them from having War Ship trysts with the Jedi, however.
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Lover and Beloved / int_dd5e97c1	comment	Seigi and Richard, of The Case Files of Jeweler Richard. Richard, eight years older, a wealthy and successful businessman, is college student Seigi's mentor in not only gemstones, but in life, culture, and definitely queerness. They call each other "partners" by the end of volume ten, but Seigi is also still serving as Richard's secretary.
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Lover and Beloved / int_de164100	comment	In Victor/Victoria (1982), this trope is Victoria's cover story: she disguises herself as a young man in this sort of relationship with the older Toddy.
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Lover and Beloved / int_e5ea79ee	comment	In The Authority, the Midnighter and Apollo are much the same chronological age, but the emotional contrast between the cynical, jaded and violent Midnighter and the much more optimistic and joyful Apollo gives them a touch of this relationship dynamic.
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Lover and Beloved / int_ec19bd89	comment	Much of Saiyuki is set in Buddhist temples and there are in-story references to master/acolyte relationships (specifically a possible relationship between Sanzo (then Koryuu) and his fond foster-father Koumyou). There's also quite a bit of Ho Yay enthusiasm for Sanzo and Goku. Note that all the in-canon references to this are nasty rumors being spread about the main characters, all of which are unfounded. Specifically, Kouryuu and Koumyou's relationship is explicitly NOT like that despite the talkers. One of the things that makes the scene where a newly-crowned Sanzo leaves the temple and is nearly raped by bandits so poignant is his realization of how much his foster father had sheltered him from such things. Sanzo and Goku were probably intended to be a lot closer to this trope so the fangirls could squee, while not being quite as squicky as the pre-pubescent Kouryuu and middle-aged Koumyou. Ukoku and Kami, the unfortunate slave boy he takes in as an experiment to see what Koumyou sees in Kouryuu, probably play this trope a lot straighter, if about fifty times more disturbingly.
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Lover and Beloved / int_f076d6fd	comment	ZÃ©ro de conduite (Zero for Conduct), a 1933 film by Jean Vigo, the story of a rebellion at a boys' Boarding School. An older and a younger boy have a homoerotic friendship, while the science teacher seems keen on patting the head and hands of the long-haired, 'sissy' younger boy.
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Lover and Beloved / int_f614ba1a	comment	Surprisingly overt in 1940 Hollywood production Strange Cargo, about prisoners escaping from Devil's Island. Moll and Dufond are coded as gay lovers. The hardened, brutal Moll is surprisingly affectionate and gentle with the younger, fresh-faced, decidedly less masculine Dufond. Moll promises Dufond good times and excitement if they stick together after making their escape. And after Dufond dies of exposure and dehydration, Moll compares himself and Dufond to Verne and Julie (Verne being another escaped prisoner, Julie The Chanteuse who went with him), wondering if Julie will miss Verne like he misses Dufond.
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Lover and Beloved / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): In vampire terms, Lestat de Lioncourt is Louis de Pointe du Lac's maker (the vampire who turned him), and his express purpose for doing this is so that Louis becomes his eternal lover. "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self" focuses on Louis' experience as a fledgling vampire with Lestat (who is much older than him) as his teacher in vampirism, while also being involved in what Lestat calls a "vampire romance."
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Lover and Beloved / int_f7868769	comment	Luna Nera: In a Gender-Inverted Example, the elderly chief witch Tebe is in a relationship with the middle-aged Janara, whom she taught magic.
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Lover and Beloved / int_fa1f2bfb	comment	Played with in Havemercy. Roy is older and definitely a mentor for Hal, but is reluctant about entering a relationship with him for precisely that reason. He doesn't want to take advantage, and in fact, it's Hal who ends up as the pursuer for much of the novel.
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Lover and Beloved / int_fd48231e	comment	Fellow Travelers: Hawkins Fuller teaches his younger lover Timothy Laughlin about the political intrigue that occurs around Capitol Hill, and he also introduces Tim to gay bars as part of the latter's "education," as Hawk calls it. He even sounds paternal in episode 5 when he utters to Tim "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
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