[ SECRET POST #5947 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5947 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think this is it, really. It's part of the wish fulfillment aspect of plots and characters like that - someone who's powerful, special, with the ability to take charge of their own fate, who has multiple people who are in love with them, etc. etc. I don't like love triangles myself, but their appeal for most readers make it hard to escape.

[feotakahari]

I guess I don’t see the appeal in stringing someone along who you don’t commit to. It makes me think of M Butterfly, where the guy deliberately ignores his love interest because it turns him on to think she needs him more than he needs her. (Then it turns out he’s the one who truly needs his imagined version of her.)

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - I don't think there needs to be anyone stringing anyone else along, though? Love triangles usually form because the person at the top of the triangle is torn between two choices, not in love with one and not invested with the other but playing headgames with them just for fun. I think it'd be less of an annoying trope if more writers made the two choices genuinely equal, good, and compelling, but this generally doesn't happen.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--yeah, I'm not big into love triangles either, but a sizable chunk of the target audience must be, or writers and/or publishing houses think they are.

If I like all three sides of a love triangle and think they could learn to get on together, I tend to ignore canon and assume they'll end up an OT3.

Sometimes one of the two love interests is bland as beige and the other is absolutely beautiful but eats puppies and I'm always disappointed in my hope of a single and happy protag.

Sometimes both LIs have personalities, unlike the protagonist, and I'll ship them together instead.

But the rarest experience I ever have, reading or watching these things, is feeling genuinely conflicted along with the protagonist.