Examples of Love Triangles in Fan Works.
- Ancient Languages has two triangles.
- Jared↔Lyla Jared↔Rachel, from a flashback in chapter 9. Jared and Lyla almost married, but on the wedding day, Lyla found the sexual affair between Jared and Rachel. Lyla ran away from the wedding, and decided that she no longer wanted the love of any man.
- Lyla←Elhael Lyla←Glorfindel. Both male elves want Lyla, and Lyla likes both. Elhael and Glorfindel become rivals as they compete for access to Lyla. There is also confusion over whether each edge is a romance or just a friendship.
- Antipodes: Between Jigsaw, Tiptoe, and Incendia. Jigsaw and Tiptoe get together early in the story, but Incendia later develops feelings for Tiptoe, which are also reciprocated. However, because Tiptoe and Jigsaw are happily together, Incendia steps back.
- In Avengers: Infinite Wars, after the Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) are displaced to another galaxy and become involved in the Clone Wars, a key relationship in the storyline is the triad dynamic that forms between Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Jedi Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee. Word of God confirms that this relationship is based on all three being attracted to different qualities in each other, as Ahsoka and Barriss share their history as Jedi who want to change the Order while Peter and Ahsoka have similar personalities even as he and Barriss share an inclination towards intellectual pursuits.
- The Bolt Chronicles: A disagreement between Bolt and another male canine over a mutual love interest precipitates the climactic all-out dog fight in "The Wind." When his drug-addled ex Mary runs off to the city, Bolt follows, hoping to bring her back to the country and dry her out. He encounters her abusive current boyfriend Ike and the two battle to the death over her. The unappreciative Mary disappears with yet another dog, who can supply her with pills in exchange for sex.
- In the first story of Bound Destinies Trilogy, Sheik is revealed to have fallen for Link who is already in a romantic relationship with Zelda. In the second installment, Malon has a crush on Link but again, he is in love with Zelda.
- Bride of Discord had one as a major subplot, involving Applejack who has a crush on Spike, Spike who has his long standing crush on Rarity and is blind to Applejack's attraction to him, and Rarity who doesn't take Spike's crush seriously and instead has her eyes set on Fancy Pants. Spike and Applejack eventually end up together. Also doubles as Interspecies Romance, Spike is a dragon while the others are ponies.
- In The Matrix fanfiction Bringing Me To Life, there's Cypher who's in love with Apoc, while Apoc has a crush on Neo and then Cypher develops a crush on Neo, Neo, meanwhile, doesn't notice either of them.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Andy is in love with Maria, but she's infatuated with Calvin, who doesn't really care much about romance and ends up attracting the ire of Andy.
- A Carousel of Agony
is a RWBY drabble involving this. Pyrrha has a crush on Jaune, who has a crush on Weiss. Weiss, however, likes Pyrrha and asks her out to the dance. Pyrrha had actually wanted to go with Jaune, but she agrees to Weiss' request. - In Cat's In The Cradle, Kyoko Kirigiri is in love with Makoto Naegi, but Makoto and Sayaka Maizono love each other.
- crawlersout: One is developing between Tom Riddle and Gellert Grindelwald with Fem!Harry Potter in the middle. That being said, no one is aware of it because Tom is currently ten and neither he nor Harry are able to comprehend the romantic undertones of their relationship yet. They're there, it's just that Tom hasn't hit puberty yet while Harry's main goal is to Raise Him Right This Time.
- Decks Fall Everyone Dies:
- Joey is mutual with both Duke and Tristan. This leads to a Murder the Hypotenuse situation.
- Kaiba is mutual with both Bandit Keith and Yugi. But Bandit Keith is more like a customer/opponent than an actual lover, and Yugi seems to have come to terms with this fact.
- Demigod Power had a massive one which went on for approximately a year, between the resident Unwanted Harem and Knight Templar Big Bad. It was only recently resolved with the Knight Templar's death.
- The risque Touhou Project doujinshi "Doll Suite" takes the usual love triangle of Marisa/Alice/Patchouli and throws it affair territory, with Alice pursuing the other two. Marisa, in particular, seems unhappy about having to share Alice with Patchouli, but ends up agreeing to play nice.
- Duran And Kiyohime's Omake Theater: Mai is still trying to choose between Reito and Tate. Both men are okay with it, apparently believing that they have a strong enough argument in their favor that they'll eventually be the one to win Mai over.
- The Ending of the End - Love and Tolerance Edition has one as a fairly minor subplot between Starlight, Trixie, and Sunburst. It's implied that Starlight and Sunburst hooked up at the end.
- In Family Guy Fanon, a love square forms between Meg, Kevin, Neil and Anthony. Meg has a crush on Kevin, can't stand Neil and is neutral towards Anthony (at least for now). Kevin sees Meg as a friend, but barely acknowledges her flirting advances, while being neutral towards Neil and Anthony. Neil has a major crush on Meg that she constantly rejects his asks for a date, and is jealous towards Kevin and Anthony, seeing them as pawns that are driving Meg away from him. Anthony also has a crush on Meg, is neutral towards Kevin, but can't stand Neil like Meg. This ends up becoming a normal love triangle when Kevin leaves in Season 4.
- The Flower Princess and the Alchemist is an interesting case. There is a love triangle between Edward, Orihime, and Ichigo. Ichigo, in this situation, is more or less an Unknown Rival since he and Ed have never met. The love triangle starts as a Type 5 (Edward is attracted to Orihime, Orihime is in love with Ichigo, and Ichigo is just clueless about love), but soon turns into a Type 10 (Orihime is still in love with Ichigo, but she's also starting to grow feelings for Ed) as the story progresses.
- Four Deadly Secrets has two triangles, Alice-Miltia-Ruby and Miltia-Ruby-Weiss.
- In Hellsister Trilogy, Brainiac 5 is in love with Supergirl, who is in a relationship with fellow Legionnaire Dev-Em.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Germany and Japan both love Italy. Let's just say neither was happy about the competition. Later, Italy asked both Germany and Japan out. They agreed because they wanted to make their precious Italy happy even if it involved sharing him. Ended in polyamory.
- In the Twilight fic "Gifted", Bella basically has such a relationship with Rosalie and Emmett. While Rosalie and Emmett were already married before Bella came to Forks, Bella falls in love with Rosalie while becoming close friends with Emmett. Rosalie soon realises that she has similar feelings for Bella, and Emmett makes it clear that he accepts the addition of Bella to their relationship. While Emmett and Bella aren't romantically and sexually attracted to each other, they each accept the other's relationship with Rosalie and consider each other good friends; at one point Bella even finds herself watching Emmett and Rosalie have sex from a distance, and makes it clear that she feels that Rosalie's heart is big enough to love her and Emmett separately rather than feeling jealous.
- This is the situation that The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu is building to between Shen Qingqiu, Yue Qingyuan and Liu Qingge. So far, however, only Yue Qingyuan and Liu Qingge are thinking of it in terms of polyamory, as Shen Qingqiu remains Oblivious to Love despite clearly harbouring strong feelings for both of them.
- This is a major plot point in MLP fic Hands — Andrew and Twilight Sparkle end up in a relationship together, but an awkward situation with some pheromone-emitting flowers causes a mutual attraction between him and Fluttershy that only strengthens over time. One offscreen cat fight and a lot of awkwardness later, and the three of them ultimately agree to give a polygamous relationship a shot. And all things considered, it seems to be working out pretty well. And now Chrysalis is trying to get in on the act.
- Harry and the Shipgirls:
- While Harry gets a large Battle Harem of Shipgirls, Abyssals, and other girls, they all decide to form relationships amongst each other to reduce the risk of infighting.
- Akaga and Kaga have feelings for each other, as shown in one Christmas party where they got drunk and Akagi got caught mining Kaga's mouth for Bauxite. Later, they heard Taichi Ono do a cover of Kaga Misaki, and wound up becoming his girlfriends.
- The Bleach fanfiction Heirverse includes one with Gin/Aizen/Momo, an Imaginary Love Triangle of Kisuke/Aizen/Gin and a variation on Psychotic Love Triangle with Aizen-Jac/Orihime/Ulq and Gin/Aizen/Orihime. In which Jac wants Orihime and so influences him and strips away his memories.
- In Hot Under The Collar Remus is sought after by brothers Sirius and Regulus.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey: It's revealed during the Aphrodite arc that both Jimmy and Simone have crushes on Jade. Though since she appears to be Oblivious to Love, nothing really comes of it.
- Katawa Shoujo Blooper Reel, which sets up the game as having Animated Actors, sees Rin and Emi fall the hardest for Hisao. Rin makes it well-known that she not only wouldn't mind sharing, she'd prefer it. Hisao is perfectly fine with this idea, but Emi isn't, hence the placement (although Rin and Emi still are friends just like in canon).
- In Lost in Camelot, Bo initially thinks she's avoiding the kind of love triangle she had to face in the future when she forms an intimate relationship with Merlin after arriving in Camelot, but events lead to Kenzi realising that Merlin and Morgana have feelings for each other, and when Morgana witnesses an intimate moment between Bo and Merlin, Bo realises that Morgana is in love with Merlin as well. Fortunately, Kenzi is able to help Bo consider an alternative to either staying with Merlin and leaving Morgana miserable or breaking up with Merlin so that he can be with Morgana; unlike her dynamic with Dyson and Lauren in 2012, here Bo's potential partners genuinely like each other as well as her, which prompts Kenzi to suggest a triad rather than 'pick a team'.
- Misfiled Dreams: As Emily puts it, Jenny is attracted to Ash, Emily, and the relationship Ash and Emily have.
- My Immortal: Harry/Vampire and Draco/Darko/Drako are both utterly in love with Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, but that doesn't stop them from having an active sexual relation with each other.
- In Naruto Veangance Revelaitons, Naruto still loves Sakura and resents Ronan for stealing her away. Sakura is quick to point out how much better Ronan is than Naruto, but is willing to have sex with him on a whim.
- Many Neon Genesis Evangelion fics further explore the canon love triangles:
- A Crown of Stars: Shinji and Asuka love each other and are finally starting out a relationship. However Rei likes Shinji and she refuses to believe Asuka can open up to Shinji or care about him like she does because she is jealous. On the other hand Asuka does not appreciate Rei meddling with their relationship now they are finally getting their act together.
- Advice and Trust: Asuka and Shinji liked each other, and Rei liked Shinji. At the beginning Asuka was jealous but she got over it when she and Rei became friends. However, as the bonds between the three pilots became stronger, Rei fell for both. Yet she will do nothing because she does not want to disrupt their relationship.
- The Child of Love: Shinji liked Asuka but he was too afraid of being rejected to confess, Asuka liked Shinji but she was too afraid of being rejected to admit it to herself, and Rei liked Shinji and she was jealous, but she did not want to interfere. After a while Shinji and Asuka got together, and Rei made Asuka jealous until Rei explained she did not intend to take Shinji away from her.
- Children of an Elder God: During their first battles together Rei fell for Shinji. Then Asuka came along and as soon as she started to get familiar with Shinji, Rei was very, very jealous. Both girls competed over Shinji until he chose Asuka.
- Doing It Right This Time: Subverted. Asuka and Rei love Shinji, and Shinji spends a while agonising over having to choose between them… only to be informed he does not have to make a choice because both girls like each other and him.
- Evangelion 303 features three:
- Asuka and Shinji love each other. Jessika is Asuka's best friend and is secretly in love with her. However she never said anything.
- And then you have Asuka/Jessika/Mandy. Mandy was Jessika's girlfriend and hated Asuka because she thought that Jessika had been unfaithful. However Jessika never cheated, and Asuka never knew of her friend's real feelings.
- Rei/Kaworu/Saburo. Kaworu and Rei like spending time together, and Rei likes Kaworu but she is uncertain of what kind of relationship Kaworu wants. Saburo is Kaworu's ex-boyfriend. He broke up with Kaworu because he felt ignored and was jealous of Kaworu's relationship with Rei. He wants Kaworu back, but Kaworu wants nothing with him now; ironically, Kaworu and Rei became closer after Saburo dumped Kaworu.
- HERZ: Asuka and Shinji love each other, and Kurumi loves Shinji. She has been chasing him since they were high-schoolers despite of having absolutely no chance.
- Higher Learning: Misato and Kaji liked each other even after breaking up many years ago, but they were wary about restarting their relationship. Then Misato met her pilots' new teach, Kaoru, and she liked him. He felt drawn to her and they started out a short-lived relationship.
- Last Child of Krypton: Shinji likes Asuka, Asuka likes Kaji, Kaji likes Misato. Gradually Asuka fell for Shinji, and allowed herself open up to him after realizing her crush towards Kaji was hopeless.
- The One I Love Is...: The Asuka/Shinji/Rei love triangle drives the plot. Rei realizes she likes Shinji and he likes her... but he is falling for Asuka. Since she does not want to lose him to the other girl she starts to express her feelings openly, in turn forcing Asuka to acknowledge and display she loves Shinji openly. Meanwhile Shinji likes both girls and he is afraid of hurting either of them.
- Scar Tissue: The Asuka/Shinji/Rei triangle is downplayed because after returning from Instrumentality, Rei decides to act like Shinji's sister, but Asuka and Rei are still jealous of each other.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Shinji liked Asuka who liked Kaji who liked Misato. To hilariously complicate things further, Misato thought for a while that Shinji had a crush on her. Anyway Asuka gradually fell for Shinji and stopped to have a crush on Kaji.
- The fanfic Never the Twain Shall Meet has many girls admiring Touma thanks to his tendency to help others, but the only two individuals who actually make serious efforts in winning his affection are Misaka Mikoto and, thanks to Divine Intervention, Saten Ruiko, who had never been close to Touma in original reality. Needless to say, the relationship between Misaka Mikoto and Saten Ruiko become sour after they know both of them are pinning on the same guy. Though they managed to "reconcile" in the last arc of the story, Nothing Is the Same Anymore, as words that had been said cannot be unsaid and deeds that had been done cannot be undone. After long and agonizing trials, the triangle eventually ends in Saten Ruiko's "victory" despite everyone in Academy City are initially against her being with Touma except for few individuals.note
- In New Hope University: Major In Murder, at the start of Chapter IV, Saya, the protagonist, is in love with Lucina(not that Lucina), but Lucina gets together with Katy instead.
- The tags for Nights End, Days Begun make it quite clear that the endgame will have Izuku, Ochako, and Himiko in this relationship.
- On the BLU team, Sniper and Spy vie for Scout's affections in the Team Fortress 2 fic Paternal. Sniper calls it quits after realizing he's too old for Scout and Spy wins, though the three remain friends.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: Misty and Iris are both attracted to Ash, with Ash only seeing them as friends (and possibly having feelings for them that he doesn't recognize yet). Of course, with Anabel joining them, it quickly ceases to be a triangle.
- Power Chord: High School Musical has one between Luna, Sam, and Carol. Luna and Sam have been in a relationship in the past and still have lingering feelings in the present, while Luna has a crush on Carol, which causes Sam to get jealous later on.
- Racer and the Geek appears to have a formenting one between Rainbow Dash, Sunny Breeze, and Faraday. Given that the author is Kalash93, anything is possible.
- In the wrestling story, The Return-Remixed, Ashley Massaro has the hots for Edge, who has no interest in her. When she finds out it's because he's already dating Kennedi Korklan, Ashley tries to Murder the Hypotenuse during a match. This leads Edge (who had been neutral up to this point) to throw his support behind against DEAR and helps the other Divas to unite and become the Diva Army.
- Sailormoon Millennia Trilogy: This is a major inter-Senshi conflict in the Neo saga. Seishi and Kasumi both have romantic feelings for Ryuu, and while at first Ryuu is only interested in Seishi, he also falls in love with Kasumi partway through the story and can't bear to reject either of them.
- In this Saki fan work, it's suggested that Miharu has a crush on Kana, who has a crush on Mihoko, who has a crush on Hisa.
- Shared Strength has Sinon and Asuna agreeing to share Kirito after Asuna nearly dies, Kirito reluctantly agrees.
- Ino's role in the love triangle with Sakura and Sasuke in canon is replaced with Karin in Son of the Sannin since she hates Sasuke due to her father being killed during the Uchiha Insurrection. Karin would later end up with Neji in the lead up to the Chunnin Exam finals, while Sakura and Sasuke start dating after the Time Skip.
- In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX fanfic, State of the Meta, the protagonist, Jamie Lancaster, finds himself attracted to both Alexis Rhodes and Erin Reid, who are both attracted to him as well. A Running Gag in the story is Jamie lamenting the situation, and denying that he's a harem protagonist.
- In Pokémon: The Series fanfic Symbiosis, Captain Torch has feelings for Sabrina and Atsushi, whom are both in a relationship with each other.
- From Chapter 4 onwards of The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy, Vincenzo falls in love with Luca, who is already head over heels for Alberto.
- In the Tamers Forever Series one exists between Takeru, Kari and Pauline. You'd be surprised by how many people are Takeru/Pauline shippers.
- There's More Magic Out There: Kagami is in love with both Marinette and Adrien, though believes she can only pick one. Meanwhile, while Marinette and Adrien aren't dating, it's clear to everyone, including Kagami, that the two have feelings for each other.
- In A Thing of Vikings, Hiccup takes Wulfhild, Princess of Norway and sister of King Magnus the Good, as a concubine after marrying Astrid, for diplomatic reasons in order to prevent Einar Thambarskelfir from turning Magnus's nobles against their king. Initially the relationship is sexless until all three parties realize how miserable the situation is making them. Hiccup and Astrid end up welcoming Wulfhild into their bed, and over time each of the three realize that they are deeply in love with the other two.
- To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) has three:
- Barry/Iris/Eddie: Barry and Eddie are both in love with Iris, who is with Eddie but slowly becoming aware she may also have feelings for Barry. A later chapter confirms that Barry will be the one to marry Iris in the end, but it's not exactly clear how yet.
- Oliver/Laurel/Tommy: Tommy has feelings for Laurel, while Laurel has unresolved feelings for Oliver, stemming from before the Gambit. Oliver is starting to realize he might have feelings for Laurel, but has yet to act on them.
- Laurel/Oliver/Nyssa: Laurel and Nyssa both have feelings for Oliver, and Oliver has feelings for both, which is partially why he has yet to act on them. It's also a strange case, in that Laurel and Nyssa are unaware of each other.
- A viral Tumblr/DA comic shows Mario and Bowser both being rejected by Peach, at which point Bowser puts on the Super Crown from the Switch version of New Super Mario Bros. U (which normally turns Toadette into Peach), turning him into a version of Peach, and the two go off together.
- A tragic example in Two Sides of a Coin when Kanril Eleya encounters her Old Flame Jerrod Dalton. She's in a relationship with Reshek Gaarra (they've married by "A Changed World") but Dalton is still in love with her, as he confesses while dying of severe radiation poisoning.
- The Miraculous Ladybug fanfic Untouchable Face features this particular arrangement. Marinette and Adrien have finally gotten together, and they are perfect for each other. They are almost absurdly in love and happier than they have ever been before. Alya knows this, and she would never want to ruin it. But she can't help wishing that Marinette would look at her the way she looks at Adrien...
- Vow of Nudity: One story revolves around a love quadrangle in the fairy realm. The Horned Queen kidnaps a village woman and turns her into her consort, but a local bandit leader lusts after her, kidnaps her and presses his trapmaster into filling their hideout with defenses to protect her. But the trapmaster falls in love with her, turns his traps against his own team, and escapes with her to the material plane. Which is all well and good, until decades later when their orphaned daughter winds up trapped in the fairy realm and is forced to deal with the consequences of her parents' actions...
- In Warp, Vicky and Dean are ridiculously devoted to each other. Amy is in love with Vicky, but her feelings are unrequited. Moreover, Vicky is scared of Amy's obsessiveness and jealousy.
- The Wild Horse Thesis: Ranma, Rei, and Asuka compete but eventually wind up in polyamory.
- In Where Talent Goes on Vacation, Kurogane, who's gay, has a crush on Kojima, who's heterosexual and has a crush on Azuki, who's rather disgusted by his Dogged Nice Guy personality and even wishes he'd get together with Kurogane.
- Who's Got My Gum: Hiro, Honey, and GoGo have this sort of relationship; Hiro loves Honey, but notGoGo. Honey loves GoGo. but not Hiro. GoGo loves Hiro, but not Honey Lemon. They decide the best course of action is for the three of them to date each other since they'll all get what they want and no one will get their heart broken. Eventually, they all grow to romantically love each other and not just the one person they were initially interested in.
- You Got HaruhiRolled!, a collection of one-shot Crack Fics, has a chapter in which the “Anti-SOS Brigade” are in a hilariously dysfunctional version: Kuyou has a crush on Fujiwara, which is not reciprocated at all because Kuyou is an Uncanny Valley Girl. Fujiwara himself pervs on Kyoko (who once caught him peeking on her in the shower), while Kyoko is lesbian for Sasaki, as a parody of her being one of Sasaki’s espers. As for Sasaki herself, she notices none of this because her love interest is her reflection.
- Crystal Robot’s Invader Zim fic, AZADR Story, starts off with this love triangle. Dib is dating Original Character Cassie, Cassie is Zim’s sister, and Zim is attracted to Dib. Later on, Zim and Cassie switch places, until eventually, Cassie’s relationship with Dib dwindles to a close friendship.
