Enemyslash

Enemyslash is the term for slash between characters who are canonically enemies, antagonists, or rivals, sometimes to the point of obsession. Slashers who like enemyslash read the sparks and anger that fly between these characters as a form of UST, and think that nothing says love like a black eye or a night spent handcuffed to the railing outside your beloved's apartment. Skinner/Krycek in this case
It has been referred to as the "fight-fight-shag model" of slash. dsudis, Nothing to see here, move along Posted Dec. 16, 2007. Last accessed November 16, 2008 The TVTropes wiki calls it Foe Yay (a riff on the similar concept HoYay) and gives this description:
"So there's these two guys, right? And they spend 95% of their time thinking about each other, what the other one's planning or doing, and whenever they converse their dialogue is incredibly emotionally charged. Fortunately, there's a nice family-friendly explanation: they're arch-enemies, right? Right..." Tvtropes, Foe Yay wiki entry Last accessed November 16, 2008
On the Con.txt list of suggested panels for 2006, the appeal of enemyslash is described as follows: 
It's all those heated glares and the way they turn being enemies into a shared obsession: when they're saying "I hate you" in canon, we're sure what they mean is "I love you." Proposed panel description for Con.txt 2006 Posted May 31, 2005. Last accessed November 16, 2008
==Enemy Het==
"Enemy het" does not really exist as a specific genre (although when it is written it is sometimes called hatesex.) This is, perhaps, primarily because relatively few source texts have a canon male/female hero and nemesis pairing with this type of violent, dynamic, mutually obsessive relationship. Examples include Avon/Servalan in Blake's 7 and possibly Kira/Dukat in Star Trek: DS9. Another is the canon Alejandro/Heather in Total Drama.
==Types==
Sometimes enemyslash pairings are deadly enemies from day one, such as Xena/Callisto or Blake/Travis, and spend a lot of time trying to kill each other.
It is also extremely common for enemyslash pairings to have been very close friends at one point, but become enemies because of a falling-out or sudden yet inevitable betrayal. (In Smallville fandom, the inevitable final break between Clark Kent and Lex Luthor was often referred to as "the Rift.")
Often, as in classic enemyslash pairings like The Doctor/The Master or Giles/Ethan, "the Rift" happens before the start of canon, and so if fans want to see the "good times" in the relationship, or are curious about the exact circumstances of the rift, they have to write it for themselves. 
In non-sf/f shows, enemyslash is usually less about a dramatic battle between arch-enemies, and more about characters who are simply forced to work together but strongly dislike each other, such as House/Foreman. However, unlike buddyslash, in which the characters may not like each other at first, in enemyslash the obsession never becomes a friendship.
===Issues in Fanworks===
Complaints about enemyslash fanworks tend towards the extremes: either they stay enemies, and reviewers complain that their relationship isn't plausible, or by page two, they're already all fluffy-bunnies about each other, and reviewers complain that they're being written OOC, or in a way that takes all of the fun of enemyslash out of the story.
==Fan Comments==
==Example Pairings==
*Alejandro/Noah from Total Drama
*anyone/Darth Maul from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
*Angel/Spike, Giles/Ethan and Lindsey/Angel from Jossverse
*Ash/Gary, later Ash/Paul from Pokémon (anime)
*Aya/Schuldig from Weiß Kreuz
*Batman/Joker from Nolanverse
*Blake/Travis from Blake's 7
*Char Aznable/Amuro Ray from Gundam
*Charles Xavier/Erik Lensherr, Erik "Killmonger" Stevens/T'Challa, and Reed Richards/Dr. Doom (after their 'rift') from Marvel Universe
*Crichton/Scorpius from Farscape
*Clark Kent/Lex Luthor from DC Universe
*Danny/Vlad from Danny Phantom
*Doctor/Master from Doctor Who
*Duncan/Harold from Total Drama
*Doug Funnie/Roger Klotz from Doug
*Edward Elric/Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist
*Ephraim/Lyon from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (after Lyon's possession by the Demon King)
*Eric Cartman/Kyle Broflofski from South Park
*Erik/Raoul from Phantom of the Opera
*Felix/Dimitri or Felix/Sylvain from Fire Emblem: Three Houses (on the Crimson Flower route)
*Fuuma/Kamui and Seishirou x Subaru from Tokyo Babylon, X/1999, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
*Guts/Griffith (after their 'rift') from Berserk
*Goku/Vegeta from Dragonball
*Gwen/Heather from Total Drama
*Harry/Draco, Snape/Sirius and Dumbledore/Grindelwald (after their 'rift') from Harry Potter
*Heather/Leshawna from Total Drama.
*Ilithiya/Lucretia from Spartacus
*Iori x Kyo from The King of Fighters
*James Bond/Le Chiffre and James Bond/Raoul Silva from James Bond
*Jet/Zuko, Zuko/Aang, and Zuko/Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender
*John Sheppard/Todd from Stargate Atlantis
*Kim Possible/Shego from Kim Possible
*Keith/Lotor and Shiro/Sendak from Voltron: Legendary Defender
*Kel/Aubrey from OMORI
*L/Light from Death Note
*Lelouch/Suzaku from Code Geass
*Leo/Takumi from Fire Emblem Fates (on routes not Revelation)
*Libby Chessler/Sabrina Spellman from Sabrina the Teenage Witch
*Link/Ganondorf and Zelda/Ganondorf (and Link/Zelda/Ganondorf) from Legend of Zelda
*MacGyver/Murdock from MacGyver
*Mohinder/Sylar from Heroes
*Mulder/Krycek and Skinner/Krycek from The X-Files
*Muraki/Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei
*Nick/LaCroix from Forever Knight
*Naruto/Sasuke and Itachi/Sasuke from Naruto
*Ogata/Vasily from Golden Kamuy
*Ogata/Usami from Golden Kamuy
*Robert Cross/Alex Mercer from Prototype
*Sephiroth/Cloud from Final Fantasy VII
*Shadow the Hedgehog/Sonic the Hedgehog from Sonic the Hedgehog
*Sherlock/Moriarty from Sherlock (BBC)
*Squall/Seifer from Final Fantasy VIII
*Zenos yae Galvus/Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy XIV
==References==
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