To answer your last question, yes. If by "interacting in terms of a relationship" you mean "having sex." Which you may not. I can be alarmingly obtuse at times.
But if the interaction is in any way in the context of a relationship, then yes. The / can still be present, even if it's not the sole point of the fic. However, I'd say that was entirely at the author's discretion. As is everything, really.
Well I mean, not having explicit sex, possibly not kissing, possibly only fighting without fighting about the relationship but that they are involved is there because a) it's canon and b) a relationship feeds the dynamic of, say, fighst even if those fights aren't relationship centred. Jack ticking out over Lisa can be fed by the relationship dynamic without that dynamic having ever been made explicit in the story.
ot's the grey area inbetween where Jack and Ianto are involved but for the scenes of a fic that involvement is in the background. Does that automatically make it gen?
Putting in a / rather than a , guarantees more readers. Just from a commercial standpoint (which would need to be evaluated, I'm just putting it out there as a hypothesis not as a statement of fact)
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Date: 2009-04-14 09:35 am (UTC)But if the interaction is in any way in the context of a relationship, then yes. The / can still be present, even if it's not the sole point of the fic. However, I'd say that was entirely at the author's discretion. As is everything, really.
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Date: 2009-04-14 09:43 am (UTC)ot's the grey area inbetween where Jack and Ianto are involved but for the scenes of a fic that involvement is in the background. Does that automatically make it gen?
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Date: 2009-04-14 11:50 am (UTC)