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** For that matter, Grifen and Magot. Grifen is Magot's squad leader but they're still a couple.
* [[Honor Harrington]]/[[The Brigadier|Hamish Alexander]]. Forty years her senior and consistently outranking her, Ham always was a [[Mentor Ship|mentor and authority figure]] for Honor, even before they hit it off. Somewhat subverted by the fact that they were acutely aware of the consequences (Hamish was, [[Tenchi Solution|and still is]], [[Happily Married]], after all!), and [[Wangst|almost worked themselves into nervous breakdowns]] (and Honor was taken prisoner and [[Not Quite Dead|presumed dead]] for several years) trying to pretend that nothing happened at all, and overall [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Earned Their Happy Ending]].
** Also, Hamish and Honor did not actually start dating until after Honor's promotion to fleet admiral, which put the final nail in their former mentor/protege relationship and made them professional equals. At present, Hamish is again her nominal superior as First Space Lord, but if the Judge Advocate General of the RMN (who was ''actually consulted'') says that their current relationship doesn't violate regs, then it doesn't. Lastly, being 40 years older than someone is less of a gap in a society where the average life expectancy is 250–300 years and the younger person in the relationship is still in her mid-60s.
* In [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''[[The Paladin (novel)|The Paladin]]'', [[Master Swordsman]] Shoka and his peasant-girl student Taizu end up in a relationship, despite the teacher/student power imbalance, their social class imbalance, and the fact that Shoka is just under 40 and Taizu is about sixteen when they meet (although more like 18 when the relationship begins). Things are, in the end, more equal than they sound, because she's far from the passively obedient type.
** Also from Cherryh, in the ''Morgaine'' series Vanye feared it was literally a sin for him to fall in love with Morgaine, partly because he thought she was ''[[The Fair Folk|qhal]]'' and therefore soulless, but also because he was pledged to her service and found that confusing (since normally a warrior could only be pledged to the service of a ''male'' noble).
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* Charlotte Bronte features a [[Teacher-Student Romance]] [[Official Couple]] in ''The Professor'' and an employee/employer couple in ''[[Jane Eyre]]''.
* ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' displays much Septimus/Jenna-[[Shipping]] despite the fact that canonically a Wizard/Princess relationship is a taboo in the Castle due tot he political consequences and rivalry between them.
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