Warning Glossary
| Term |
Meaning |
| AU |
Alternate 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 |
| Fluff |
Humour, is likely to contain a lot of OOC |
| Lemon |
Contains a VERY explicit sexual scene, described in graphic detail |
| Lime |
Contains an implicit sexual encounter |
| NCS |
Non-Consensual Sex. ie, rape |
| OC |
Includes an original character |
| OOC |
Out-Of-Character: denotes some characters acting in a manner difficult to reconcile with the Gundam Wing anime itself |
| 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 |
| Shojo ai |
Girl/girl romantic love |
| Shotacon |
Sexual relationship between a child or an underage character and an adult |
| Songfic |
Using a song's lyrics as a background |
| Squick |
Includes some gross concept or disgusting description that makes you go 'ewww!' |
| 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. |
| 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). eg, 6x9, 13x6, 6x2 etc... |