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[Inspired by secret #7]

What's your typical reaction to love triangles in fiction, FS? Do you usually take a side? Do you ship the two rivals? Ship them all as an OT3? Turn off the TV/throw the book at the wall in frustration?

Being the contrary person I am, my solution to love triangles is to ship them all with other people. For example: if A and B are fighting over C, I'll start shipping A with D, B with E, and C with F. There, everyone's happy and I don't have to watch A and B's tantrums anymore.

In fact, now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever shipped A/C or B/C, or even A/B or A/B/C. Huh. Am I the only one that does this?

Re: Love triangles?

dreemyweird - 2014-12-06 21:57 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Love triangles?

(Anonymous) - 2014-12-06 22:01 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2014-12-06 22:50 (UTC) - Expand

Tbh, I usually don't care, especially if it's just for drama.

I ship the ones who aren't Ron Weasley.

"oh not *again*, fuck that shit, I hope they all stay single!"

It depends. Love triangles like the ones in Twilight tick me off because the guys usually act like complete douchebags and treat the woman like a prize. I like love triangles like the one in The Hunger Games (if you'd even really call that a proper love triangle) because Gale and Peeta didn't especially dislike each other (Gale even mentioned that he found it impossible to hate Peeta because he thought he was a genuinely kind person) and they both respected the idea that Katniss should be with whoever she wants to be with, even if they were still a little jealous. I also really liked the scene where Peeta gave Katniss a locket with pictures of her most dear people in it and he thought to include a picture of Gale because he understood and respected the fact that Gale was an important person in her life. So yeah, I can stomach love triangles of that sort. I do actually ship Gale/Peeta though. I kind of like to toy around with the idea of Gale/Katniss/Peeta but I freely acknowledge the fact that it just wouldn't work, especially considering the events of the last book.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-12-06 22:29 (UTC) - Expand

Whether I take a side depends on how they all behave. Usually I get terribly frustrated.

I hate them. They're usually a lazy plot device because the author can't think of a more compelling story, so they fall back on this lame cliché.

I like them as long as they go somewhere and don't just hover indefinitely over whatever they're in, and as long as they don't make the characters act vicious or idiotic, and as long as the characters are all decently interesting to start.

This doesn't happen that often I dont think

I generally end up shipping both of the potential pairings, but separately. For example, if A and B are fighting over C, I'll ship A/C and B/C. I rarely if ever ship A/B or A/B/C, though. (Fortunately, my current fandom of choice has very few canon love triangles, so it's not really much of an issue.)

I LOATHE them but I'll usually end up picking a side.

If I don't like the canon pair, though, I'll just have then amicably break up very early on and then ship my OTP for the vast majority of the story.

But love triangles in fiction always seem like SO MUCH unnecessary drama.

I rarely ship OT3s. I have a couple -- like Tony/Pepper/Steve -- but they're rather rare for me.

I wish they weren't the go-to device to create drama, but if a story I like has one, I do usually end up picking a side when it's boy/girl/boy.

If the love triangle is set up as "dangerous, exciting guy" vs "boring, safe guy", I'm most likely to side with the safe guy. (And then the safe guy gets derailed into an asshole to justify the girl leaving him for the exciting guy who wasn't such a jerk after all, just misunderstood.)

If the love triangle is girl/boy/girl, I'll probably wish the girls would just decide to stop fighting over the guy and become happy together.

I don't like them, and it's especially annoying because in the instances I do end up shipping two of the characters in it, it's always the two characters who don't get together... and I know my tropes enough to know it's not going to happen even while I'm reading/watching it so it's quadruple annoying.

I hate them, especially when the "nice girl next door" type ends up stealing the guy, and we're supposed to root for her. Nope. Sorry. You stop being a sweet, nice character when you steal someone's boyfriend, no matter how many layers of makeup they're wearing.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-12-07 01:21 (UTC) - Expand

I tend to start shipping the rivals with each other.

I can't stand them typically, they tend to take over and distract from the main plot. Sometimes I pick a side but these days I usually end up wishing all of the characters would just leave each other alone forever.

I do think it can be done in a way that isn't infuriating though, just most of the time this doesn't happen(and it's mostly used for cheap relationship drama).

I'm mostly annoyed by love triangles, and I only take sides if I like one of the characters very much. I very rarely go for OT3s as a solution, at most I could accept a V-relationship. All depending on the characters, of course, but most of my reactions go in the direction of "nope, do not want".

I like them more if the person in the center has some kind of affection to both suitors. I am so NHF that creepy stalker-suitor hanging around after being definitively rejected.

Like, I'm pretty darn interested in Helix's situation with Julia and the Farragut brothers. I'm sure in S2 they'll be going into exactly what was up with Julia/Peter while she was married to Alan, because there has got to be something more to it, something probably connected to the mythology arc.

I usually really dislike them and honestly just do not care whom anyone ends up with.

However, what amuses me is that the one semi-triangle I'm currently okay with (Kaladin/Shallan/Adolin in 'Stormlight Archive') is also the only one that I've ever been able to genuinely see as an OT3. Annnnd that's how I'm shipping it, despite knowing it ain't gonna happen, ha.

I hate love triangles. Threesomes I can do, but I have no mote patience for triangles and will stop consuming anything that *relies* on them as main plot. Sideplot I can sometimes stomach.

As for shipping, I'll gi with whomever has the most chemistry or is the least jerky. That's why when made to thunk about it, I'm Team Edward.

Usually can't stand them because they're an easy way to create drama, but it depends on the people involved and how it plays out. I didn't mind Scott/Allison/Isaac on Teen Wolf, for example.

Depends on the specific characters. Yes, I get tired of B and C both after A permutation, but usually only because the guy I don't like is the main/endgame love interest. Uhg. Always goes for the jerk/bad boys with a "heart of gold" endgame. Stooooooooop.

But yeah, I usually ship A/non endgame love interest, or the two rivals, B/C.

I always have a hard time figuring out what the big deal is about the center person and why the other two can't get over their indecisive ass and move on. Lost was the worst case of this. But a triangle can be fun when there are weird twists to it and when it's just a side element that doesn't take over the plot, like in Hannibal. It was hilarious to me that the guy who looked for all the world like the safer, more stable option is in fact a cannibalistic serial killer. I always like to see the fallacy that "I've known x for y amount of years and therefore he's a wonderful person who can't possibly have any dark secrets" exploded in some spectacular way. They got a really interesting and deeply sad sex scene out of it as well.

Honestly I just pay more attention to other aspects.