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Love triangles make for an interesting story and really help readers (or viewers) get invested and pick a side. Which team are you on?
One of my favorite love triangles is Elena, Damon, and Stefan from the Vampire Diaries (the TV show, I haven’t read the books yet). I have practically had pom poms and a team jersey for Damon since the get-go.
At the end of the first season, when Damon and Elena kissed, I was elated. Buh-bye, Stefan. BUT…then…it happened. I won’t say what it was in case you haven’t seen it, but what a shock. I really didn’t see that coming…at all.
I am still team Delena. I haven’t seen the latest season (I’m a Netflix watcher) so no spoilers, please.
Anyway…I adore love triangles for all the emotional ups and downs they bring. It’s evidenced in my Transformed stories. There are quite a few triangles. I didn’t mean for it to work out that way, but that’s how it did.
It starts out with Alexis choosing between Cliff and Tanner. She makes her choice, and then…surprise! That one gets complicated and messy, and then Alexis loses her memory…and things really get sticky. It’s pretty astonishing that Alexis actually makes a choice in the fourth book.
…And even though she made her final choice, that isn’t going to be the end of the love triangles for this series. No spoilers for the books to come, but someone else will find herself in the middle of one…and I can’t wait! I’m practically giddy to start writing that.
What fictional love triangle is your favorite?
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I have to admit, not a fan of all love triangles, but the one between Jonathan Harker, Mina and Dracula is always interesting when it shows up in the films (or Jonathan, Lucy and Dracula if you look at the Frank Langella version :)). I always find myself wanting them to end up a threesome ;).
Tasha
Love triangles certainly add tension to a story, but I nearly always end up feeling sorry for one of the three, the one who gets left out. Sometimes I do think, like Tasha, that they’d be better off just ending up as a trio 🙂
Sophie
The most recent one I read was the Anita Blake/Jean-Claude/Richard one of the Anita Blake books. Yeah, I am REALLY behind.
But trios are good too!
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Timothy S. Brannan
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I have a hard tine with love triangles. They’re so painful. So not how I could imagine my life. If the writer does a good job, the reader is torn, just like the character in the story. I’m decisive. I fall out of love with the “chooser” if they continue to waffle or choose the “wrong” one. Too much drama for me! Although I can handle it easier for TV or movies – I’m much deeper connected with a book.
I never understood why it’s Delena/Stelena instead of Elenamon and Elenafan… and I was pretty heartbroken for Stefan. I really wanted them together. I used to watch daytime soap operas, and got caught up in some of those love triangles. I’m having trouble thinking of one I really like, because lately, whenever a love triangle gets introduced, I feel manipulated because it’s so CLEAR which pair belongs together.
I originally had planned on a love triangle in my book two, but it’s turning into a love square – 4 sides or four people. LOL! However, love triangles are always fun scenarios to read.
I think love triangles as a method have been really over-used lately. They don’t draw me in any more, they just make me upset, “not again”. There are so many other ways to make a story interesting and it feels like it’s a lazy way to keep the tension. On the other hand, they obviously work, otherwise nobody would use them, right? 🙂