What Does This Mean?
Fanfiction label for a story whose main couple is already together when the story begins, so the plot skips the "getting together" stage and focuses on life as a couple. It is used as a tag on archives, where it is the opposite of a first-meeting or first-time story.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""She skipped the slow-burn stories and went straight to the established relationship tag for a cozy read.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Archive of Our Own lists "Established Relationship" as a freeform tag with 775,486 works under it when its page was opened. Fan-wiki sources describe it as a genre in which the focus characters are assumed or stated to be romantically involved from the start, and note it is often applied to works where the pair are not a couple in the source material. No dated first use found yet.
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