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Trying to build the rubric properly. Rivals? Opposing sides? Personal grudge? Does professional competition count, or is that just workplace tension?

Nishant Kumar
Started the club
One trope, examined to destruction. We rank them, we argue, and we throw out the ones that are really just "he was rude once at a party". This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
Trying to build the rubric properly. Rivals? Opposing sides? Personal grudge? Does professional competition count, or is that just workplace tension?
Suggestion: if swapping the romance out for a straight rivalry plot would still leave you with a story, they're enemies. If it would leave you with nothing, they're strangers who bickered.