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** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
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** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve. [[spoiler:Snape and Lily Potter ''nee'' Evans were childhood sweethearts, but fell out when Snape became involved with the far-right gangs at Hogwarts that birthed the Death Eaters; she married his ArchEnemy James Potter. Snape never really got over her.]]
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* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}} series.
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* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}} ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'' series.
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** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Éowyn develops a crush on Aragorn, but Aragorn has been in love with Arwen about twice as long as Éowyn has been alive. She ends up falling in love with Faramir in ''The Return of the King'' and both couples end up HappilyMarried.
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** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Éowyn develops a crush on Aragorn, but Aragorn has been in love with Arwen about twice as long as Éowyn has been alive. She ends up falling This one is resolved via PairTheSpares: Éowyn gets over her crush on Aragorn, then falls in love with Faramir in ''The Return of the King'' and both couples end up finish the series HappilyMarried.
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* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito has been with Asuna as the OfficialCouple since midway through the Aincrad Arc, but the series has a minor RunningGag of the latest female {{Deuteragonist}} always developing a crush on him, including [[KissingCousins his cousin]] (whom he lives with) at one point. The other girls invariably drop the subject the minute they see him with Asuna.
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* In Tom Clancy's ''Literature/TheCardinalOfTheKremlin'', a woman (A) is desperately in love with another woman (B), who is in a committed relationship and engaged to a geeky young male major (C) responsible for an American secret weapons program. When circumstances separate B from C, in no small part due to A's treasonous efforts, B is devastated and A tries to show B how much she loves her. The love remains unrequited, which shatters A so badly that she gives up everything she knows under interrogation.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie used this as a setup between three central characters in several of her mystery novels, such as ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'' and ''Literature/FiveLittlePigs'', as well as the short story [[Literature/MurderInTheMews "Triangle at Rhodes".]] [[spoiler:In these cases, the mystery hinges on the fact that the reader has been goaded into [[ReverseRelationshipReveal seeing the triangle the wrong way round.]]]]
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* In ''Arrow's Fall'' of the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, this is what Dirk thinks is occurring in the LoveTriangle between himself, Kris, and Talia. Of course, he and Talia are really [[MindlinkMates lifebonded]] but are in denial about it, while Kris and Talia did in fact have an affair that is now over. Add in a healthy dose of PoorCommunicationKills and DrowningMySorrows, and it takes Kris' actual death, Talia's near-death, and something akin to divine intervention to sort things out.
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* The Thai NarrativePoem ''Literature/KhunChangKhunPhaen'', has Khun Chang in love with Wanthong, who is already a fiancée of Khun Phaen, and Khun Phaen is TheCasanova who practically loves ''every'' beautiful girl he comes across, including Wanthong. Due to the multiple events of kidnapping and husband switching, Wanthong develops feelings for both. Tragically, Wanthong ends up getting beheaded for not be able to decide who she really wants to live with.
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* In ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' Nobu is in love with Chiyo/Sayuri, who has been in love with the Chairman for ''decades'' [[spoiler:and the Chairman loved her all along, and was the reason she was able to become a geisha in the first place.]]
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* ''Literature/MySisterTheSerialKiller'': Korede, the narrator, loves Tade, the doctor she works with, but he does not return her feelings. Instead, he is infatuated with her sister Ayoola ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the serial killer]]), who likes him too.
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Oliver and Nanao have had a strong romantic tension since early in volume 1 and admit to the attraction in volume 4 (their romance is a slow-burning one). Their friend and Nanao's roommate Katie also has an unrequited crush on Oliver, and Oliver's AMAB SexShifter roommate Pete also is starting to act like a bit of a {{Tsundere}} towards him. Nanao also has her own unwanted suitors, notably Tullio Rossi, who makes more than a few passes at her without success.
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* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'': Brandir, Niënor, and Túrin are a tragic example. Brandir falls in love with an amnesiac Niënor under the name Niniel, but she marries Túrin, [[SurpriseIncest who is actually her brother]]. [[EverybodyDiesEnding It doesn't end well.]]
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Éowyn develops a crush on Aragorn, but Aragorn has been in love with Arwen about twice as long as Éowyn has been alive. She ends up falling in love with Faramir in ''The Return of the King'' and both couples end up HappilyMarried.
** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'':
*** Lúthien Tinúviel famously gave up her immortality to have her mortal lover Adan Beren resurrected by the Valar. She was at one point also pursued by Celegorm, who captured her and tried to forcibly marry her but she escaped.
*** Maeglin lusts after his cousin Idril, but not only is KissingCousins not allowed among the elves, she despises him. She marries Tuor, while Maeglin goes full GreenEyedMonster.
** ''Literature/UnfinishedTalesOfNumenorAndMiddleEarth'': Celebrimbor loved Galadriel but any relationship was DoomedByCanon: she was already married to Celeborn in the original ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy.
** ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'': Brandir, Niënor, and Túrin are a tragic example. Brandir falls in love with an amnesiac Niënor under the name Niniel, but she marries Túrin, [[SurpriseIncest who is actually her brother]]. [[EverybodyDiesEnding It doesn't end well.]]
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Éowyn develops a crush on Aragorn, but Aragorn has been in love with Arwen about twice as long as Éowyn has been alive. She ends up falling in love with Faramir in ''The Return of the King'' and both couples end up HappilyMarried.
** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'':
*** Lúthien Tinúviel famously gave up her immortality to have her mortal lover Adan Beren resurrected by the Valar. She was at one point also pursued by Celegorm, who captured her and tried to forcibly marry her but she escaped.
*** Maeglin lusts after his cousin Idril, but not only is KissingCousins not allowed among the elves, she despises him. She marries Tuor, while Maeglin goes full GreenEyedMonster.
** ''Literature/UnfinishedTalesOfNumenorAndMiddleEarth'': Celebrimbor loved Galadriel but any relationship was DoomedByCanon: she was already married to Celeborn in the original ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy.
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* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' features a somewhat... complicated example between Mandorallen, Nerina (the Baroness of Vo Ebor) and the (considerably older) Baron of Vo Ebor. Mandorallen is hopelessly in love with Nerina, Nerina is in love with him, and the Baron is (accurately) aware not only of the love but also that both are too noble to do anything, given Nerina is married to him and Mandorallen sees him as a mentor and [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] -- the Baron's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy solution]] is to try to invoke DeathOfTheHypotenuse on himself by picking up dangerous hobbies like dragon-hunting, warfare and duelling people [[BewareTheNiceOnes who badmouth his wife and protege]]. Apparently generations of Mimbrate maidens have wept at the tragic nobility of it all. [[spoiler: The Baron dies early in ''The Malloreon'' of wounds inflicted towards the end of ''The Belgariad'', clearing the way for Mandorallen and Nerina to marry once Belgarion gets everyone involved to stop being so wrapped up in the mess. At swordpoint.]]
* ''Literature/ChildrenOfEden'': Both Lark and Lachlan love Rowan, but Rowan doesn't know who she loves. She ends up deciding to just say she loves both of them, as she feels like any other answer will make them both upset.
* ''Literature/ChildrenOfEden'': Both Lark and Lachlan love Rowan, but Rowan doesn't know who she loves. She ends up deciding to just say she loves both of them, as she feels like any other answer will make them both upset.
* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, who's Crown Prince of Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' features two significant examples, both with aspiring but untalented actress Faye Greener at the centre.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Third Wheel'': Greg likes Abigail, but Abigail likes Rowley. Greg loses.
* ''Literature/{{Legendborn}}'': Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
* ''Literature/{{Magician}}'' by Raymond E. Feist has the Pug/Carline/Roland triangle. Pug never tries to commit and Carline angsts over him for a large chunk of reasons for various reasons.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has a [[TriangRelations Type 5]]. During Saleem's childhood he develops a crush on [[MeaningfulName Evelyn Lilith Burns]] (an American girl who moves into his gated community), but ''she'' develops a crush on his friend Sonny, who in turn is enamored with Saleem's sister the Brass Monkey. The Brass Monkey doesn't love anyone, and reacts violently to shows of affection.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheRuntAtTheEnd who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has a [[TriangRelations Type 5]]. During Saleem's childhood he develops a crush on [[MeaningfulName Evelyn Lilith Burns]] (an American girl who moves into his gated community), but ''she'' develops a crush on his friend Sonny, who in turn is enamored with Saleem's sister the Brass Monkey. The Brass Monkey doesn't love anyone, and reacts violently to shows of affection.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheRuntAtTheEnd who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Rilla has a not-so-secret crush on her friend Joshua Banks. So does their classmate Tina Welter, which is one of the reasons she and Rilla don't get along. Josh, for his part, is largely content to just be friends with them both.
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', Lily Larkin was in one with two members of her acting troupe - Edward Parker and Andrew Heron. When she chose Edward, Andrew was furious and [[IfICantHaveYou killed her]].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND Agatha. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND Agatha. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
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* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND Agatha. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
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* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son twisted version of King Arthur). Sophie this. He Yan [[HappilyMarried deeply loves Tedros, and Tedros her husband,]] Yuan Ze, who unconditionally loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love her back. Meanwhile, she's basically kidnapped and raped often by [[BigBad Fu Shenxing,]] who develops [[{{Yandere}}very real, very twisted feelings for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND Agatha. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.her.]]
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
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* ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has a [[TriangRelations Type 5]]. During Saleem's childhood he develops a crush on [[MeaningfulName Evelyn Lilith Burns]] (an American girl who moves into his gated community), but ''she'' develops a crush on his friend Sonny, who in turn is enamored with Saleem's sister the Brass Monkey. The Brass Monkey doesn't love anyone, and reacts violently to shows of affection.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheRuntAtTheEnd who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
* ''Literature/{{Magician}}'' by Raymond E. Feist has the Pug/Carline/Roland triangle. Pug never tries to commit and Carline angsts over him for a large chunk of reasons for various reasons.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' features two significant examples, both with aspiring but untalented actress Faye Greener at the centre.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' features a somewhat... complicated example between Mandorallen, Nerina (the Baroness of Vo Ebor) and the (considerably older) Baron of Vo Ebor. Mandorallen is hopelessly in love with Nerina, Nerina is in love with him, and the Baron is (accurately) aware not only of the love but also that both are too noble to do anything, given Nerina is married to him and Mandorallen sees him as a mentor and [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] -- the Baron's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy solution]] is to try to invoke DeathOfTheHypotenuse on himself by picking up dangerous hobbies like dragon-hunting, warfare and duelling people [[BewareTheNiceOnes who badmouth his wife and protege]]. Apparently generations of Mimbrate maidens have wept at the tragic nobility of it all. [[spoiler: The Baron dies early in ''The Malloreon'' of wounds inflicted towards the end of ''The Belgariad'', clearing the way for Mandorallen and Nerina to marry once Belgarion gets everyone involved to stop being so wrapped up in the mess. At swordpoint.]]
* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', Lily Larkin was in one with two members of her acting troupe - Edward Parker and Andrew Heron. When she chose Edward, Andrew was furious and [[IfICantHaveYou killed her]].
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Rilla has a not-so-secret crush on her friend Joshua Banks. So does their classmate Tina Welter, which is one of the reasons she and Rilla don't get along. Josh, for his part, is largely content to just be friends with them both.
* ''Literature/ChildrenOfEden (Novel)'': Both Lark and Lachlan love Rowan, but Rowan doesn't know who she loves. She ends up deciding to just say she loves both of them, as she feels like any other answer will make them both upset.
* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, who's Crown Prince of Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
* ''Literature/{{Legendborn}}'': Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
* ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'' features a twisted version of this. He Yan [[HappilyMarried deeply loves her husband,]] Yuan Ze, who unconditionally loves her back. Meanwhile, she's basically kidnapped and raped often by [[BigBad Fu Shenxing,]] who develops [[{{Yandere}}very real, very twisted feelings for her.]]
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Third Wheel'': Greg likes Abigail, but Abigail likes Rowley. Greg loses.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheRuntAtTheEnd who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
* ''Literature/{{Magician}}'' by Raymond E. Feist has the Pug/Carline/Roland triangle. Pug never tries to commit and Carline angsts over him for a large chunk of reasons for various reasons.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' features two significant examples, both with aspiring but untalented actress Faye Greener at the centre.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' features a somewhat... complicated example between Mandorallen, Nerina (the Baroness of Vo Ebor) and the (considerably older) Baron of Vo Ebor. Mandorallen is hopelessly in love with Nerina, Nerina is in love with him, and the Baron is (accurately) aware not only of the love but also that both are too noble to do anything, given Nerina is married to him and Mandorallen sees him as a mentor and [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] -- the Baron's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy solution]] is to try to invoke DeathOfTheHypotenuse on himself by picking up dangerous hobbies like dragon-hunting, warfare and duelling people [[BewareTheNiceOnes who badmouth his wife and protege]]. Apparently generations of Mimbrate maidens have wept at the tragic nobility of it all. [[spoiler: The Baron dies early in ''The Malloreon'' of wounds inflicted towards the end of ''The Belgariad'', clearing the way for Mandorallen and Nerina to marry once Belgarion gets everyone involved to stop being so wrapped up in the mess. At swordpoint.]]
* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', Lily Larkin was in one with two members of her acting troupe - Edward Parker and Andrew Heron. When she chose Edward, Andrew was furious and [[IfICantHaveYou killed her]].
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Rilla has a not-so-secret crush on her friend Joshua Banks. So does their classmate Tina Welter, which is one of the reasons she and Rilla don't get along. Josh, for his part, is largely content to just be friends with them both.
* ''Literature/ChildrenOfEden (Novel)'': Both Lark and Lachlan love Rowan, but Rowan doesn't know who she loves. She ends up deciding to just say she loves both of them, as she feels like any other answer will make them both upset.
* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, who's Crown Prince of Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
* ''Literature/{{Legendborn}}'': Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
* ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'' features a twisted version of this. He Yan [[HappilyMarried deeply loves her husband,]] Yuan Ze, who unconditionally loves her back. Meanwhile, she's basically kidnapped and raped often by [[BigBad Fu Shenxing,]] who develops [[{{Yandere}}very real, very twisted feelings for her.]]
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Third Wheel'': Greg likes Abigail, but Abigail likes Rowley. Greg loses.
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* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' feature Sadie, having to pick between Walt and Anubis. Anubis is a Egyptian boy-god that [[spoiler: the other gods forbid Sadie to go near]] and Walt [[spoiler: is dying because of a curse]]. The triangle is solved by [[spoiler: Walt hosting Anubis, thereby keeping Walt alive and letting Sadie near Anubis, as he's not in his godly form. Yes,]] the triangle is solved by the two love interests [[spoiler: sharing the same body.]]
* UrExample: the [[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War]] was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
* UrExample: the [[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War]] was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
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* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' feature Sadie, having to pick between Walt Creator/PoulAnderson:
** "Holmgang": Bo, Lundgard, andAnubis. Anubis is a Egyptian boy-god that [[spoiler: their passenger Valeria on the other gods forbid Sadie flight to go near]] Earth. Lundgard is winning when Bo realizes [[spoiler:that he murdered Johnny, and Walt [[spoiler: is dying because of a curse]]. The triangle is solved by [[spoiler: Walt hosting Anubis, thereby keeping Walt alive and letting Sadie near Anubis, as he's not in his godly form. Yes,]] the triangle is solved by the two love interests [[spoiler: sharing the same body.reveals all.]]
* UrExample: ** ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Holger, Alianora, and Morgan Le Fay. It doesn't last long.
** In Anderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'' story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the[[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War]] was a consequence of BackStory. When Cynthia comes to him to help save her husband, Manse wrestles with the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Then there's temptation to follow the whole problem caused by rules easily -- at Denison's expense -- because of this. [[spoiler:At the end, Denison realizes that his years in the past with Cassadane meant more to him that his brief marriage with Cynthia, even though he had chosen Cassadane because she reminded him of Cynthia.]]
* Creator/ArthurCClarke:
** One story has a love triangle betweenAchilles, Briseis, some minor characters (due to the relationship-stretching difficulties of space travel) which all the participants are completely aware of. It's also "completely equilateral", if you get Sir Arthur's meaning.
** ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* ''Literature/DarkestPowers'':
** Chloe has feelings for both Simon andAgamemnon.Derek, and both of them have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about her own feelings, and barely realizes that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}} series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', Kyrie/Tom/Rafiel.
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
** Masaomi claims that there is a "love triangle" between Mikado, Anri, and himself. It's... more or less true, though it's mostly played for laughs than really anything serious. [[spoiler: Besides, there's Saki to consider...]]
** On a side note, there's also Namie -> Seiji <- [[spoiler:Mika]] and [[spoiler:Haruna]] -> Nasujima-sensei -> Anri.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
** "Holmgang": Bo, Lundgard, and
** In Anderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'' story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the
* Creator/ArthurCClarke:
** One story has a love triangle between
** ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* ''Literature/DarkestPowers'':
** Chloe has feelings for both Simon and
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}} series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', Kyrie/Tom/Rafiel.
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
** Masaomi claims that there is a "love triangle" between Mikado, Anri, and himself. It's... more or less true, though it's mostly played for laughs than really anything serious. [[spoiler: Besides, there's Saki to consider...]]
** On a side note, there's also Namie -> Seiji <- [[spoiler:Mika]] and [[spoiler:Haruna]] -> Nasujima-sensei -> Anri.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
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* One Creator/ArthurCClarke story has a love triangle between some minor characters (due to the relationship-stretching difficulties of space travel) which all the participants are completely aware of. It's also "completely equilateral", if you get Sir Arthur's meaning. For one, ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost for good]]]].
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of them have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about her own feelings, and barely realizes that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', Phaethon is in love with his wife Daphne Prime, who drowned herself in a simulated dream, and emancipated a partial personality, Daphne Tercuis, whom she thought would be better suited to Phaethon, and who is madly in love with him. Owing to LaserGuidedAmnesia, neither Phaethon nor Daphne Tercuis know this at the opening, and because Daphne Tercius derives from Daphne Prime, she had most of her memories, and Phaethon confuses the two of them. [[spoiler:Eventually he realizes that most of his fondest memories of Daphne are of Daphne Tercius and asks her to marry him in her own right.]]
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost for good]]]].
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of them have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about her own feelings, and barely realizes that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', Phaethon is in love with his wife Daphne Prime, who drowned herself in a simulated dream, and emancipated a partial personality, Daphne Tercuis, whom she thought would be better suited to Phaethon, and who is madly in love with him. Owing to LaserGuidedAmnesia, neither Phaethon nor Daphne Tercuis know this at the opening, and because Daphne Tercius derives from Daphne Prime, she had most of her memories, and Phaethon confuses the two of them. [[spoiler:Eventually he realizes that most of his fondest memories of Daphne are of Daphne Tercius and asks her to marry him in her own right.]]
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* One Creator/ArthurCClarke story ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'':
** A rather twisted variation shows up, with Gauron attracted to Sousuke, who has alove triangle between some minor characters (due to the relationship-stretching difficulties of space travel) which all the participants are completely aware of. It's also "completely equilateral", if you get Sir Arthur's meaning. For one, ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationshipmutual BodyguardCrush with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest exampleKaname. Gauron is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, creepy bastard who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost for good]]]].
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell[[InLoveWithYourCarnage in love with Sandstorm, although Sousuke's carnage]] and is quite the yandere to boot. Sousuke, for a his part, wants nothing to do with this guy, and would much prefer he die or leave him the hell alone.
** A less disturbing one by the end of The Second Raid: Sousuke appears to have finally embraced his [[BodyguardCrush feelings for Kaname]], whileshe wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed patching things up with, but not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already innecessarily entering into a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on with, Tessa.
** Later still in thesame ship.
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of themseries we have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists Tessa's evil older brother Leonard, who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about keeps trying to win over Kaname despite her own feelings, and barely realizes making it clear at every given opportunity that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly utterly despises him and is in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
Sousuke.
*In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', ''Literature/TheGoldenOecumene'': Phaethon is in love with his wife Daphne Prime, who drowned herself in a simulated dream, and emancipated a partial personality, Daphne Tercuis, whom she thought would be better suited to Phaethon, and who is madly in love with him. Owing to LaserGuidedAmnesia, neither Phaethon nor Daphne Tercuis know this at the opening, and because Daphne Tercius derives from Daphne Prime, she had most of her memories, and Phaethon confuses the two of them. [[spoiler:Eventually he realizes that most of his fondest memories of Daphne are of Daphne Tercius and asks her to marry him in her own right.]]
** A rather twisted variation shows up, with Gauron attracted to Sousuke, who has a
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest example
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell
** A less disturbing one by the end of The Second Raid: Sousuke appears to have finally embraced his [[BodyguardCrush feelings for Kaname]], while
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in
** Later still in the
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of them
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic Main Character Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
*
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* In the ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series, Gale/Katniss/Peeta.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* Erik/Christine/Raoul in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Some people ship [[TakeAThirdOption Christine]] [[LoveDodecahedron and]] [[LesYay Meg]].
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* Erik/Christine/Raoul in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Some people ship [[TakeAThirdOption Christine]] [[LoveDodecahedron and]] [[LesYay Meg]].
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* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': In [[ShowWithinAShow Haruhi's student film]], "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina", there is some sort of love triangle between Mikuru, Yuki Nagato, and Itsuki Koizumi, to the point where the two girls transfer into Itsuki's school. However, this was just a case of Haruhi losing sight of the characters' actual conception: Mikuru is a MagicalGirl from the future, Yuki is a HumanAlien DarkMagicalGirl, and Itsuki is the LivingMacGuffin whom the former two battle over.
-->'''Kyon:''' Yuki and Mikuru's story of battling has now turned into a heated romantic comedy, or rather nothing more than a love triangle.
* Inthe ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series, Gale/Katniss/Peeta.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', Shiina is in love with Diadorim, Yuuto, who seems is with Haruka. At least she gets to love spend one episode largely with him too, in episode 7 of Season 2.
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who also likes her but is conflicted because he hashis own reasons - besides being both male - just met Piper and he vaguely remembers another girl from home, named [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reyna]], who is implied to stay quiet.
* Erik/Christine/Raoulhave feelings for him but needs someone to replace him with in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Some people ship [[TakeAThirdOption Christine]] [[LoveDodecahedron and]] [[LesYay Meg]].the role of praetor, and promptly asks Percy, also informing him that the position would require [[RulingCouple a certain closeness]], while Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, searches for him all over the country. In the meantime, Frank gets involved with Hazel, who had a boyfriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext back in the 1940's]] who appears to be related by blood to present-day Leo, since they look exactly the same.
* ''Literature/TheHost2008'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': There is romantic tension between Katniss and Gale and Peeta, though the books don't focus on it very much.
* ''Literature/TheIliad'' may be the UrExample. The Trojan War was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus: Helen was married to Menelaus but Aphrodite makes her fall in love with Paris as payment for him giving her Eris's golden apple. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
-->'''Kyon:''' Yuki and Mikuru's story of battling has now turned into a heated romantic comedy, or rather nothing more than a love triangle.
* In
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who also likes her but is conflicted because he has
* Erik/Christine/Raoul
* ''Literature/TheHost2008'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': There is romantic tension between Katniss and Gale and Peeta, though the books don't focus on it very much.
* ''Literature/TheIliad'' may be the UrExample. The Trojan War was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus: Helen was married to Menelaus but Aphrodite makes her fall in love with Paris as payment for him giving her Eris's golden apple. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' feature Sadie, having to pick between Walt and Anubis. Anubis is a Egyptian boy-god that [[spoiler: the other gods forbid Sadie to go near]] and Walt [[spoiler: is dying because of a curse]]. The triangle is solved by [[spoiler: Walt hosting Anubis, thereby keeping Walt alive and letting Sadie near Anubis, as he's not in his godly form. Yes,]] the triangle is solved by the two love interests [[spoiler: sharing the same body.]]
* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''Literature/KatIncorrigible: A Tangle of Magicks'', Kat realizes with a shock -- as Lady Fortherington complains to Papa about how he had refused to listen to her warnings about Kat's mother-- that she was jealous, having lost out in a triangle.
* ''Literature/KazeNoStigma'': Ren with his two best friends (a guy and a girl), and Kazuma with Ayano and Katherine.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''Literature/KatIncorrigible: A Tangle of Magicks'', Kat realizes with a shock -- as Lady Fortherington complains to Papa about how he had refused to listen to her warnings about Kat's mother-- that she was jealous, having lost out in a triangle.
* ''Literature/KazeNoStigma'': Ren with his two best friends (a guy and a girl), and Kazuma with Ayano and Katherine.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
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* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: By the book ''Deja Vu'', one has clearly developed between Maggie Spritzer, Ted Robinson, and Abner Tookus. Maggie loves them both, but in different ways. She was engaged to be married to Ted. However, she calls off the engagement to Ted and says that the two should just be friends. She tells Abner how she feels about him, but he does not forgive her mistreatment of him, and their relationship comes to an end. The book ''Home Free'' has her hooking up with Augustus "Gus" Sullivan, and apparently Abner finally forgives Maggie. Whew!
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his "Destroyermen" series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's Literature/TimePatrol story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the BackStory. When Cynthia comes to him to help save her husband, Manse wrestles with the temptation to follow the rules easily -- at Denison's expense -- because of this. [[spoiler:At the end, Denison realizes that his years in the past with Cassadane meant more to him that his brief marriage with Cynthia, even though he had chosen Cassadane because she reminded him of Cynthia.]]
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his "Destroyermen" series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's Literature/TimePatrol story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the BackStory. When Cynthia comes to him to help save her husband, Manse wrestles with the temptation to follow the rules easily -- at Denison's expense -- because of this. [[spoiler:At the end, Denison realizes that his years in the past with Cassadane meant more to him that his brief marriage with Cynthia, even though he had chosen Cassadane because she reminded him of Cynthia.]]
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* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who also likes her but is conflicted because he has just met Piper and he vaguely remembers another girl from home, named [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reyna]], who is implied to have feelings for him but needs someone to replace him with in the role of praetor, and promptly asks Percy, also informing him that the position would require [[RulingCouple a certain closeness]], while Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, searches for him all over the country. In the meantime, Frank gets involved with Hazel, who had a boyfriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext back in the 1940's]] who appears to be related by blood to present-day Leo, since they look exactly the same.
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* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': Raoul and Christine are recently reunited childhood friends who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who fall for each other. Erik, a.k.a. the Phantom, is Christine's music teacher and is also likes her but is conflicted because he has just met Piper and he vaguely remembers another girl from home, named [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reyna]], who is implied to have feelings for him but needs someone to replace him [[TeacherStudentRomance in love with in her]].
* In ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana and Yuji Sakai are therole of praetor, main couple. Kazumi Yoshida crushes on Yuji.
* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: By the book ''Deja Vu'', one has clearly developed between Maggie Spritzer, Ted Robinson, andpromptly asks Percy, also informing him Abner Tookus. Maggie loves them both, but in different ways. She was engaged to be married to Ted. However, she calls off the engagement to Ted and says that the position would require [[RulingCouple a certain closeness]], while Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, searches for him all over the country. In the meantime, Frank gets involved two should just be friends. She tells Abner how she feels about him, but he does not forgive her mistreatment of him, and their relationship comes to an end. The book ''Home Free'' has her hooking up with Hazel, who had a boyfriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext back in the 1940's]] who appears to be related by blood to present-day Leo, since they look exactly the same.Augustus "Gus" Sullivan, and apparently Abner finally forgives Maggie. Whew!
* In ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana and Yuji Sakai are the
* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: By the book ''Deja Vu'', one has clearly developed between Maggie Spritzer, Ted Robinson, and
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* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', Kyrie/Tom/Rafiel.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Holger, Alianora, and Morgan Le Fay. It doesn't last long.
* ''Literature/TheHost2008'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer.
** It's even more complicated than that actually and leads to an interesting subversion: Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Holmgang", Bo, Lundgard, and their passenger Valeria on the flight to Earth. Lundgard is winning when Bo realizes [[spoiler:that he murdered Johnny, and reveals all.]]
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Holger, Alianora, and Morgan Le Fay. It doesn't last long.
* ''Literature/TheHost2008'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer.
** It's even more complicated than that actually and leads to an interesting subversion: Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Holmgang", Bo, Lundgard, and their passenger Valeria on the flight to Earth. Lundgard is winning when Bo realizes [[spoiler:that he murdered Johnny, and reveals all.]]
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** And there's another major love triangle before the series' start: Robert Baratheon/Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen. Robert was in love with Lyanna and betrothed to her. She was abducted by Rhaegar Targaryen, who had named Lyanna his "Queen of Love and Beauty" at an earlier tourney despite his marriage to Elia Martell. It's implied that Lyanna's abduction was the final straw for Robert, who started a war against the ruling Targaryen dynasty and personally killed Rhaegar during one of the battles.
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** And there's another major love triangle before the series' start: Robert Baratheon/Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen. Robert was in love with Lyanna (though it can be alternately interpreted as an aspect of his bromance with her brother Ned) and betrothed to her. She was abducted by Rhaegar Targaryen, who had named Lyanna his "Queen of Love and Beauty" at an earlier tourney despite his marriage to Elia Martell. It's implied that Lyanna's abduction was the final straw for Robert, who started a war against the ruling Targaryen dynasty and personally killed Rhaegar during one of the battles.
* ''Literature/StrawberryPanic'' centers on two love triangles. Tamao crushes on Nagisa, who is in a relationship with Shizuma. Yaya crushes on Hikari, who is with Amane.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost for good]]]].
** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga crosses the rivalry between Bella's love interests with FurAgainstFang, since Jacob is a skinchanger and Edward is a vampire.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' loves these:
** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost for good]]]].
** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for a while in ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga crosses the rivalry between Bella's love interests with FurAgainstFang, since Jacob is a skinchanger and Edward is a vampire.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
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* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''[[Literature/KatIncorrigible A Tangle of Magicks ]]'', Kat realizes with a shock -- as Lady Fortherington complains to Papa about how he had refused to listen to her warnings about Kat's mother-- that she was jealous, having lost out in a triangle.
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* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Third Wheel'': Greg likes Abigail, but Abigail likes Rowley. Greg loses.
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his spirit for good]]]].
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight forms a friendship with Ashfur, who is her [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing trying to get Bramblestar to kill her father father, Firestar, and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing sister Leafpool's kits, Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost [[HeroricSacrifice sacrificed herself herself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe drown Ashfur Ashfur]] into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his spirit ghost for good]]]].
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, perishing his ghost for good]].
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up forms a friendship with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They [[CreepyUncle half-uncle that thought she hooked up with him]]. Bramblestar and Squirrelflight make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, [[DeaderThanDead perishing his ghost spirit for good]].good]]]].
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*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile in the same arc, but later fell for Brook.
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*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile a while in the same arc, ''The New Prophecy'', but later fell for Brook.
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both side, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, perishing his ghost for good]].
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both side, sides, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again]].again and started hating him]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, perishing his ghost for good]].
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** Perhaps the biggest example is the triangle between Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur. Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' up to ''The Broken Code'', Bramblestar and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fell out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and later his afterlife home, and try to assist Hawkfrost into [[FamilyExtermination killing her father and attempted to murder her sister's children]]--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers in the first place. Bramblestar, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[ManipulativeBastard Ashfur manipulated Shadowsight]] into killing Bramblestar so he could [[DemonicPossession possess and impersonate him]], and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both side, and all of the Clans. [[EvilIsPetty All because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's dark water, perishing his ghost for good]].
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile in the same arc, but later fell for Brook.
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile in the same arc, but later fell for Brook.
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** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Broken Code'', Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan and his afterlife Clan, and try to assist Hawkfrost into killing her father ''and'' attempted to murder her sister's children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together. It only made it worse when [[DemonicPossession Ashfur killed, possessed and impersonated Bramblestar]] and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both [=StarClan=] and the Dark Forest and all of the Clans [[EvilIsPetty all because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to drown Ashfur into the Dark Forest's waters, vanishing his ghost for good]].
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile in the same arc, but later fell for Brook.
*** Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile in the same arc, but later fell for Brook.
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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' loves these:
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** ''The New Prophecy'' is the most famous example. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan and his afterlife Clan, and try to assist Hawkfrost into killing her father ''and'' attempted to murder her sister's children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. ''The Broken Code'' only made it worse when [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession Ashfur possessed and impersonated Bramblestar]] and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]]. The triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to take Ashfur down, thus vanishing his ghost for good]].
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** Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' is the most famous example. to ''The Broken Code'', Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her uncle]].half-uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan and his afterlife Clan, and try to assist Hawkfrost into killing her father ''and'' attempted to murder her sister's children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. ''The Broken Code'' together. It only made it worse when [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession [[DemonicPossession Ashfur killed, possessed and impersonated Bramblestar]] and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]]. The Squirrelflight]] until he is forced out of Bramblestar's body. This causes Ashfur to ''drag Squirrelflight right into the Dark Forest'' to continue abusing her and plotted to destroy the afterlives of both [=StarClan=] and the Dark Forest and all of the Clans [[EvilIsPetty all because Squirrelflight rejected him over and over again]]. This triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to take drown Ashfur down, thus into the Dark Forest's waters, vanishing his ghost for good]].
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** In the same arc, we have Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
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** In the same arc, Throughout ''The New Prophecy'' to ''The Power of Three'' we have the Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
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** Spottedleaf and Firestar liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Then, the sequel series has two more. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with Ashfur. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and try to kill her children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile, but later fell for Brook.
** And then there's the infamous Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
** Then, the sequel series has two more. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with Ashfur. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and try to kill her children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile, but later fell for Brook.
** And then there's the infamous Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
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** ''The Prophecies Begin'' has Spottedleaf and Firestar Firestar, who liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
**Then, ''The New Prophecy'' is the sequel series has two more. most famous example. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with Ashfur. [[CreepyUncle Ashfur, who is her uncle]]. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan and his afterlife Clan, and try to kill assist Hawkfrost into killing her father ''and'' attempted to murder her sister's children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. ''The Broken Code'' only made it worse when [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession Ashfur possessed and impersonated Bramblestar]] and started abusing [[BadBoss his former Clan]] and [[DomesticAbuse Squirrelflight]]. The triangle finally broke up when Bristlefrost sacrificed herself to take Ashfur down, thus vanishing his ghost for good]].
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**And then there's In the infamous same arc, we have Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
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** In ''The Power of Three'', Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
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* ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'' features a twisted version of this. He Yan [[HappilyMarried deeply loves her husband,]] Yuan Ze, who unconditionally loves her back. Meanwhile, she's basically kidnapped and raped often by [[BigBad Fu Shenxing,]] who develops [[{{Yandere}}very real, very twisted feelings for her.]]
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* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
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** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' features a Ron/Hermione/Krum triangle. It's implied that Hermione is only dating Krum to make Ron jealous, and she certainly succeeds at that. Also, there's a bonus Harry/Cho/Cedric triangle.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' features a Hermione/Ron/Lavender triangle. It's implied that Ron is only dating Lavender to make Hermione jealous, and he certainly succeeds at that. Also, there's a bonus Harry/Ginny/Dean triangle.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' features a Ron/Hermione/Krum triangle. It's implied that Hermione is only dating Krum to make Ron jealous, and she certainly succeeds at that. Also, there's a bonus Harry/Cho/Cedric triangle.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' features a Hermione/Ron/Lavender triangle. It's implied that Ron is only dating Lavender to make Hermione jealous, and he certainly succeeds at that. Also, there's a bonus Harry/Ginny/Dean triangle.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
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* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND [[FoeYay Agatha]]. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
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* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND [[FoeYay Agatha]].Agatha. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
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* ''Literature/TheHost'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer.
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* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, Crown Prince of the Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
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* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, who's Crown Prince of the Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
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-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
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-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers [[TheRuntAtTheEnd who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
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* ''Literature/{{Legendborn}}'': Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
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* ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'': Between Norton, Pelletier, and Espinoza. [[spoiler: Norton eventually leaves them for Morini.]]
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* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Han and Leia start out as lovers, but then Isolder, Crown Prince of the Hapes, proposes a marriage alliance which would help the New Republic greatly. Leia also becomes attracted to him, and legitimately feels torn between them. This continues throughout much of the book, until Isolder falls for another woman, Teneniel, and Leia chooses Han, marrying him at the end.
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* ''Literature/ChildrenOfEden(Novel)'': Both Lark and Lachlan love Rowan, but Rowan doesn't know who she loves. She ends up deciding to just say she loves both of them, as she feels like any other answer will make them both upset.
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* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Rilla has a not-so-secret crush on her friend Joshua Banks. So does their classmate Tina Welter, which is one of the reasons she and Rilla don't get along. Josh, for his part, is largely content to just be friends with them both.
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** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic [[TheProtagonist Main Character Girl]] vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
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** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic [[TheProtagonist Main Character Girl]] Girl vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
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* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' feature Sadie, having to pick between Walt and Anubis. Anubis is a Egyptian boy-god that [[spoiler: the other gods forbid Sadie to go near]] and Walt [[spoiler: is dying because of a curse]]. The triangle is solved by [[spoiler: Walt hosting Anubis, thereby keeping Walt alive and letting Sadie near Anubis, as he's not in his godly form. Yes,]] the triangle is solved by the two love interests [[spoiler: sharing the same body.]]
* UrExample: the [[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War]] was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
* ''Literature/EnochArden'' by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson is the story of a love triangle between childhood friends [[TwoGuysAndAGirl Enoch, Annie, and Philip.]]
* One Creator/ArthurCClarke story has a love triangle between some minor characters (due to the relationship-stretching difficulties of space travel) which all the participants are completely aware of. It's also "completely equilateral", if you get Sir Arthur's meaning. For one, ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' loves these:
** Spottedleaf and Firestar liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Then, the sequel series has two more. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with Ashfur. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and try to kill her children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile, but later fell for Brook.
** And then there's the infamous Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of them have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about her own feelings, and barely realizes that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic [[TheProtagonist Main Character Girl]] vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', Phaethon is in love with his wife Daphne Prime, who drowned herself in a simulated dream, and emancipated a partial personality, Daphne Tercuis, whom she thought would be better suited to Phaethon, and who is madly in love with him. Owing to LaserGuidedAmnesia, neither Phaethon nor Daphne Tercuis know this at the opening, and because Daphne Tercius derives from Daphne Prime, she had most of her memories, and Phaethon confuses the two of them. [[spoiler:Eventually he realizes that most of his fondest memories of Daphne are of Daphne Tercius and asks her to marry him in her own right.]]
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
* In the ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series, Gale/Katniss/Peeta.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* Erik/Christine/Raoul in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Some people ship [[TakeAThirdOption Christine]] [[LoveDodecahedron and]] [[LesYay Meg]].
* Will-->Tessa<--Jem in ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. Jessamine lampshades it in ''The Clockwork Prince''.
--> Jessamine, mocking Tessa: Oh, I must choose between Will and Jem! Whatever shall I do?
* ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfPittsburgh'' has main character Art Bechenstein falling for both Phlox and [[spoiler: his friend Arthur in a bisexual variant]].
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: By the book ''Deja Vu'', one has clearly developed between Maggie Spritzer, Ted Robinson, and Abner Tookus. Maggie loves them both, but in different ways. She was engaged to be married to Ted. However, she calls off the engagement to Ted and says that the two should just be friends. She tells Abner how she feels about him, but he does not forgive her mistreatment of him, and their relationship comes to an end. The book ''Home Free'' has her hooking up with Augustus "Gus" Sullivan, and apparently Abner finally forgives Maggie. Whew!
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his "Destroyermen" series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's Literature/TimePatrol story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the BackStory. When Cynthia comes to him to help save her husband, Manse wrestles with the temptation to follow the rules easily -- at Denison's expense -- because of this. [[spoiler:At the end, Denison realizes that his years in the past with Cassadane meant more to him that his brief marriage with Cynthia, even though he had chosen Cassadane because she reminded him of Cynthia.]]
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', where hero-turned-villain Luke is implied to have had feelings for the seemingly deceased Thalia, and is fancied by [[ActionGirl Annabeth]], who also slowly developed a conflicting crush on [[TheHero main protagonist Percy]], who returns the crush but also has mixed feelings for Rachel, who is attracted to Percy but in the end figures out that [[spoiler:she is attracted to him jut because he is her key to the mythological world, while Annabeth figures out that she loves Luke [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a brother]], conveniently after the latter performs a HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who also likes her but is conflicted because he has just met Piper and he vaguely remembers another girl from home, named [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reyna]], who is implied to have feelings for him but needs someone to replace him with in the role of praetor, and promptly asks Percy, also informing him that the position would require [[RulingCouple a certain closeness]], while Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, searches for him all over the country. In the meantime, Frank gets involved with Hazel, who had a boyfriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext back in the 1940's]] who appears to be related by blood to present-day Leo, since they look exactly the same.
* Creator/LisaJaneSmith has yet to write a YA series that does not involve a a love triangle involving a girl caught between a KnightInShiningArmor and a BadBoy:
** In ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'' there is the Elena/Stefan/Damon triangle.
** ''Literature/TheForbiddenGame'' has Jenny/Julian/Tom.
** ''Literature/DarkVisions'' has Kait/Gabriel/Rob.
** ''The Secret Circle'' has Cassie/Adam/Nick. The love triangle between Cassie, Adam and Diana counts too
* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', Kyrie/Tom/Rafiel.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Holger, Alianora, and Morgan Le Fay. It doesn't last long.
* ''Literature/TheHost'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer.
** It's even more complicated than that actually and leads to an interesting subversion: Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Holmgang", Bo, Lundgard, and their passenger Valeria on the flight to Earth. Lundgard is winning when Bo realizes [[spoiler:that he murdered Johnny, and reveals all.]]
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by George R.R. Martin naturally horribly deconstructs this trope.
** Before the series's start (this is recounted in flashbacks), Catelyn Tully was in love with Brandon Stark, while her father's foster son [[{{Yandere}} Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]] loved Catelyn (additionally, Catelyn's younger sister Lysa was in love with Petyr but he never reciprocated her feelings). So when Brandon came to claim Catelyn's hand, Petyr dared the much older, vastly stronger and vastly more skilled Brandon to a sword fight over Catelyn. Petyr was nearly slain and developed a seriously unhealthy obsession with Catelyn (who, by the way, [[SettleForSibling had to marry Brandon's brother Eddard]] after Brandon died). In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Petyr manipulates events to contrive ways for him and Catelyn together. When he fails, he goes after Catelyn's young teenage daughter Sansa.
** And there's another major love triangle before the series' start: Robert Baratheon/Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen. Robert was in love with Lyanna and betrothed to her. She was abducted by Rhaegar Targaryen, who had named Lyanna his "Queen of Love and Beauty" at an earlier tourney despite his marriage to Elia Martell. It's implied that Lyanna's abduction was the final straw for Robert, who started a war against the ruling Targaryen dynasty and personally killed Rhaegar during one of the battles.
** A third: [[spoiler:Robert Baratheon/Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister. Cersei and Jaime [[{{Twincest}} had been having sex since they were twelve]], but it stopped when Cersei was betrothed to Robert Baratheon. Despite her original infatuation with Rhaegar Targaryen, Cersei was the happiest woman in the Seven Kingdoms marrying Robert, but Robert was still too heartbroken over the death of his original betrothed (Lyanna Stark), causing Cersei to seek solace in rekindling the relationship with her brother. As a result, all three of Robert and Cersei's children are actually fathered by Jaime.]]
* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND [[FoeYay Agatha]]. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''[[Literature/KatIncorrigible A Tangle of Magicks ]]'', Kat realizes with a shock -- as Lady Fortherington complains to Papa about how he had refused to listen to her warnings about Kat's mother-- that she was jealous, having lost out in a triangle.
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' has a long-running and complicated one between Geralt, Triss, and Yennefer, PlayedForDrama. Geralt and Yennefer have been in love since ''Literature/TheLastWish'', but in practice have an on-again, off-again relationship ([[spoiler:in part due to Geralt tying their destinies together with the eponymous last wish from a djinn to save both their lives, so they're not entirely sure how much of their relationship is genuine]]). Triss seduced Geralt when he and Yennefer were "off", and Triss has carried a massive torch for him ever since. Thing is, she's also Yennefer's best friend and she frequently hates herself for loving Geralt.
* ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has a [[TriangRelations Type 5]]. During Saleem's childhood he develops a crush on [[MeaningfulName Evelyn Lilith Burns]] (an American girl who moves into his gated community), but ''she'' develops a crush on his friend Sonny, who in turn is enamored with Saleem's sister the Brass Monkey. The Brass Monkey doesn't love anyone, and reacts violently to shows of affection.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
* ''Literature/{{Magician}}'' by Raymond E. Feist has the Pug/Carline/Roland triangle. Pug never tries to commit and Carline angsts over him for a large chunk of reasons for various reasons.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' features two significant examples, both with aspiring but untalented actress Faye Greener at the centre.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' features a somewhat... complicated example between Mandorallen, Nerina (the Baroness of Vo Ebor) and the (considerably older) Baron of Vo Ebor. Mandorallen is hopelessly in love with Nerina, Nerina is in love with him, and the Baron is (accurately) aware not only of the love but also that both are too noble to do anything, given Nerina is married to him and Mandorallen sees him as a mentor and [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] -- the Baron's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy solution]] is to try to invoke DeathOfTheHypotenuse on himself by picking up dangerous hobbies like dragon-hunting, warfare and duelling people [[BewareTheNiceOnes who badmouth his wife and protege]]. Apparently generations of Mimbrate maidens have wept at the tragic nobility of it all. [[spoiler: The Baron dies early in ''The Malloreon'' of wounds inflicted towards the end of ''The Belgariad'', clearing the way for Mandorallen and Nerina to marry once Belgarion gets everyone involved to stop being so wrapped up in the mess. At swordpoint.]]
* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', Lily Larkin was in one with two members of her acting troupe - Edward Parker and Andrew Heron. When she chose Edward, Andrew was furious and [[IfICantHaveYou killed her]].
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* UrExample: the [[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War]] was a consequence of the LoveTriangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Then there's the whole problem caused by the triangle between Achilles, Briseis, and Agamemnon.
* ''Literature/EnochArden'' by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson is the story of a love triangle between childhood friends [[TwoGuysAndAGirl Enoch, Annie, and Philip.]]
* One Creator/ArthurCClarke story has a love triangle between some minor characters (due to the relationship-stretching difficulties of space travel) which all the participants are completely aware of. It's also "completely equilateral", if you get Sir Arthur's meaning. For one, ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' has several triangles, including one equilateral, although only the two men of that triangle appear in the story.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has all of Elayne, Min, Aviendha, and Rand's angsting before they settled on a polyamorous relationship. There was also Berelain's determined pursuit of Perrin, which utterly trashed his relationship with Faile, and the whole complicated set of customs and rules that put Bain, Chiad, and Gaul in their position.
* Nikolai/Sonya/Marya form one in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Natasha/[[TheCasanova Anatoly]]/Andrei form another.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'': the title character's affair with Katharine Clifton.
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', anyone? Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, who loves her back. And that's ''before'' the fairies start mucking around with their relationships.
** It's resolved early on when Hermia decides to leave Athens with Lysander secretly.
** Then Helena, who's a {{Yandere}} by the way, decides to tell Demetrius of this, who, by the way, loves Hermia and hates Helena. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' loves these:
** Spottedleaf and Firestar liked each other in the beginning, but she died and promptly began stalking him from above. He then fell in love with Sandstorm, although for a while she wasn't so sure he wasn't still in love with Spottedleaf. And he somehow managed not to realize that he and Cinderpelt weren't JustFriends.
** Then, the sequel series has two more. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight love each other, but they fall out for a while and Squirrelflight hooks up with Ashfur. They make up in the end and become mates, but [[spoiler: Ashfur never forgives her, causing him to go insane, betray the Clan, and try to kill her children--forcing her to admit that they aren't hers. Brambleclaw, who had no idea, left her because of this, but they eventually got back together]]. Stormfur was also sweet on Squirrelflight for awhile, but later fell for Brook.
** And then there's the infamous Crowfeather/Leafpool/Feathertail/Nightcloud triangle. Crowfeather fell for Feathertail, who then promptly died, and later ran off with Leafpool because they could never be together because of the boundaries between their Clans, but eventually returned. To prove his loyalty, he hooked up with a cat from his own Clan, Nightcloud, and a kit with her. It was later revealed that [[spoiler: Leafpool actually had Crowfeather's kits and was forced to give them up to her sister at first or risk punishment. When this was revealed, he rejected her completely and declared that his mate was Nightcloud and his kit was Breezepelt.]]
** Lionblaze used to love Heathertail, but gave her up (much to her dismay) because they were from separate Clans and he couldn't be a great warrior if he was seeing a cat from another Clan. They grew to hate each other, and now Heathertail and Breezepelt may or may not be JustFriends.
* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine loves Marius, who loves Cosette, who (eventually) loves him back after a bit of trepidation.
* Creator/JackCampbell's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' at least for the first four books. While its clear that Desjani is head over heels for John Geary, Geary is already in a relationship with Rione, which gets complicated when they find out Rione's husband may not be dead. And they're all on the same ship.
* In the Literature/DarkestPowers series, Chloe has feelings for both Simon and Derek, and both of them have feelings for her. Simon and Derek are brothers. ''Awkward.'' In a refreshing change from most female protagonists who find themselves in this situation, Chloe doesn't toy with ''either'' of them. She's also honestly confused about her own feelings, and barely realizes that she has more-than-friendly feelings for Derek. In the end, it turns out that she ''does'' like [[spoiler:Simon]], but just as a friend. She's honestly in love with [[spoiler:Derek, even if it takes both of them a bit of time to work things out and get together]]. Some completely understandable angst ensues between [[spoiler:Simon realizing that Chloe likes Derek, and Chloe and Derek finally figuring out that their feelings are ''mutual'']], but everyone involved is actually mature about it, completely free of pettiness, and no one resents anyone because they all act like rational people.
** In the beginning, it looked like the triangle would be a rather generic [[TheProtagonist Main Character Girl]] vs. AlphaBitch for [[NiceGuy The Nice Guy]] between Chloe, Simon, and Tori, though this was resolved fairly early when Tori’s mother warned her to stay away from Simon practically under threat of death. Tori then tells Chloe that Simon is all hers right before hitting her in the head with a brick and hog-tying her as revenge for making her already crappy life even MORE miserable. Though, she gets over her crush after being forced to spend a few days alone with him. And then later on it turns out they’re half-siblings, which explains why Mrs. Enright was so adamant about Tori staying away from him. Cue awkward music!
** Also played with in ''The Reckoning'' when Tori makes a comment about Derek actually not looking so bad, though this was more a casual observation and a chance to tease Chloe than anything serious. Doesn’t stop Chloe from getting mad, though.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', Phaethon is in love with his wife Daphne Prime, who drowned herself in a simulated dream, and emancipated a partial personality, Daphne Tercuis, whom she thought would be better suited to Phaethon, and who is madly in love with him. Owing to LaserGuidedAmnesia, neither Phaethon nor Daphne Tercuis know this at the opening, and because Daphne Tercius derives from Daphne Prime, she had most of her memories, and Phaethon confuses the two of them. [[spoiler:Eventually he realizes that most of his fondest memories of Daphne are of Daphne Tercius and asks her to marry him in her own right.]]
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' reveals the existence of a [[spoiler: Snape/Lily/James]] triangle when Harry rewinds the lifetime memories of the deceased teacher via the Pensieve.
* In the ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series, Gale/Katniss/Peeta.
* In the Brazilian book ''Literature/TheDevilToPayInTheBacklands'', Otacília loves Riobaldo, who likes her and could even love her back if he wasn't already in love with Diadorim, who seems to love him too, but he has his own reasons - besides being both male - to stay quiet.
* Erik/Christine/Raoul in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Some people ship [[TakeAThirdOption Christine]] [[LoveDodecahedron and]] [[LesYay Meg]].
* Will-->Tessa<--Jem in ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. Jessamine lampshades it in ''The Clockwork Prince''.
--> Jessamine, mocking Tessa: Oh, I must choose between Will and Jem! Whatever shall I do?
* ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfPittsburgh'' has main character Art Bechenstein falling for both Phlox and [[spoiler: his friend Arthur in a bisexual variant]].
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: By the book ''Deja Vu'', one has clearly developed between Maggie Spritzer, Ted Robinson, and Abner Tookus. Maggie loves them both, but in different ways. She was engaged to be married to Ted. However, she calls off the engagement to Ted and says that the two should just be friends. She tells Abner how she feels about him, but he does not forgive her mistreatment of him, and their relationship comes to an end. The book ''Home Free'' has her hooking up with Augustus "Gus" Sullivan, and apparently Abner finally forgives Maggie. Whew!
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', Blackie accuses Menelaus of trying to steal his fiancee, whom Menelaus has never met. Then Menelaus meets her. [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Followed by his discovery that she met his other personality.]]
* The infamous love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina regards her brother's love for Raechel as making them this.
* Taylor Anderson plays with love triangles as sub-plots in his "Destroyermen" series.
** The first one introduced involving Chack, Selass, and Saak-Fas (eventually a fourth party, Safir, gets thrown into the mix). Chack initially loves Selass, but Selass puts him down and chooses Saak-Fas, another suitor. After Saak-Fas is lost in battle, Selass refocuses her love on Chack. Oddly enough, this same battle is what makes Chack forget about Selass and when [[spoiler: Saak-Fas is found alive as a prisoner of war/rations for the Grik]], Selass is unable to mate with Chack for a while. Once Chack meets Safir, Selass becomes the unlucky suitor instead of Chack.
** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's Literature/TimePatrol story "Brave to be a King", Manse had lost out in one in the BackStory. When Cynthia comes to him to help save her husband, Manse wrestles with the temptation to follow the rules easily -- at Denison's expense -- because of this. [[spoiler:At the end, Denison realizes that his years in the past with Cassadane meant more to him that his brief marriage with Cynthia, even though he had chosen Cassadane because she reminded him of Cynthia.]]
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', where hero-turned-villain Luke is implied to have had feelings for the seemingly deceased Thalia, and is fancied by [[ActionGirl Annabeth]], who also slowly developed a conflicting crush on [[TheHero main protagonist Percy]], who returns the crush but also has mixed feelings for Rachel, who is attracted to Percy but in the end figures out that [[spoiler:she is attracted to him jut because he is her key to the mythological world, while Annabeth figures out that she loves Luke [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a brother]], conveniently after the latter performs a HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', has Piper, who likes [[AmnesiacHero amnesiac Jason]], who also likes her but is conflicted because he has just met Piper and he vaguely remembers another girl from home, named [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reyna]], who is implied to have feelings for him but needs someone to replace him with in the role of praetor, and promptly asks Percy, also informing him that the position would require [[RulingCouple a certain closeness]], while Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, searches for him all over the country. In the meantime, Frank gets involved with Hazel, who had a boyfriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext back in the 1940's]] who appears to be related by blood to present-day Leo, since they look exactly the same.
* Creator/LisaJaneSmith has yet to write a YA series that does not involve a a love triangle involving a girl caught between a KnightInShiningArmor and a BadBoy:
** In ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'' there is the Elena/Stefan/Damon triangle.
** ''Literature/TheForbiddenGame'' has Jenny/Julian/Tom.
** ''Literature/DarkVisions'' has Kait/Gabriel/Rob.
** ''The Secret Circle'' has Cassie/Adam/Nick. The love triangle between Cassie, Adam and Diana counts too
* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', Kyrie/Tom/Rafiel.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Holger, Alianora, and Morgan Le Fay. It doesn't last long.
* ''Literature/TheHost'' features one [[RecycledInSpace In two bodies! ]] The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer.
** It's even more complicated than that actually and leads to an interesting subversion: Melanie and Jared were together before Wanda took over her body and then Wanda and Ian fall in love. It's ultimately resolved when Melanie gets her body back and is free to be with Jared, while Wanda gets a new body and is free to be with Ian.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Holmgang", Bo, Lundgard, and their passenger Valeria on the flight to Earth. Lundgard is winning when Bo realizes [[spoiler:that he murdered Johnny, and reveals all.]]
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by George R.R. Martin naturally horribly deconstructs this trope.
** Before the series's start (this is recounted in flashbacks), Catelyn Tully was in love with Brandon Stark, while her father's foster son [[{{Yandere}} Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]] loved Catelyn (additionally, Catelyn's younger sister Lysa was in love with Petyr but he never reciprocated her feelings). So when Brandon came to claim Catelyn's hand, Petyr dared the much older, vastly stronger and vastly more skilled Brandon to a sword fight over Catelyn. Petyr was nearly slain and developed a seriously unhealthy obsession with Catelyn (who, by the way, [[SettleForSibling had to marry Brandon's brother Eddard]] after Brandon died). In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Petyr manipulates events to contrive ways for him and Catelyn together. When he fails, he goes after Catelyn's young teenage daughter Sansa.
** And there's another major love triangle before the series' start: Robert Baratheon/Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen. Robert was in love with Lyanna and betrothed to her. She was abducted by Rhaegar Targaryen, who had named Lyanna his "Queen of Love and Beauty" at an earlier tourney despite his marriage to Elia Martell. It's implied that Lyanna's abduction was the final straw for Robert, who started a war against the ruling Targaryen dynasty and personally killed Rhaegar during one of the battles.
** A third: [[spoiler:Robert Baratheon/Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister. Cersei and Jaime [[{{Twincest}} had been having sex since they were twelve]], but it stopped when Cersei was betrothed to Robert Baratheon. Despite her original infatuation with Rhaegar Targaryen, Cersei was the happiest woman in the Seven Kingdoms marrying Robert, but Robert was still too heartbroken over the death of his original betrothed (Lyanna Stark), causing Cersei to seek solace in rekindling the relationship with her brother. As a result, all three of Robert and Cersei's children are actually fathered by Jaime.]]
* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' features a triangle between Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros (son of King Arthur). Sophie loves Tedros, and Tedros loves Sophie, but in all of their lessons on picking Good from Evil, keeps picking Agatha. Tedros eventually comes to feel love for Agatha, who starts to feel something for him, but is loyal to her friend Sophie and keeps trying to mend their relationship. Sophie ends up a full-fledged witch, and then goes to various lengths to win/kill Tedros AND [[FoeYay Agatha]]. Sophie eventually [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes a death blow meant for Agatha]], and then makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove to her ( [[UnexplainedRecovery She got better]] )
* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''[[Literature/KatIncorrigible A Tangle of Magicks ]]'', Kat realizes with a shock -- as Lady Fortherington complains to Papa about how he had refused to listen to her warnings about Kat's mother-- that she was jealous, having lost out in a triangle.
* In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin'', both Max and Sabrina are in love with Romulus -- who, in spite of their all being older children when adopted, thinks it BrotherSisterIncest and feels guilty about it.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', while Thomas’s original love interest is Teresa, he ends up growing closer to Brenda in ''The Scorch Trials'' [[spoiler:after being separated from Teresa for an extended period of time, and finding out that she had betrayed him. He eventually ends up with Brenda, partially due to him never forgiving Teresa for what she had done and partially because of the girl’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sudden death]] at the end of ''The Death Cure'']].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny likes Ray and Ray likes Claire. [[spoiler:Or at least so she believes. In the end, it turns out Ray likes her back and she was just totally oblivious]].
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Georgiana finds herself subjected to one when two men start vying for her attention.
* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' has a long-running and complicated one between Geralt, Triss, and Yennefer, PlayedForDrama. Geralt and Yennefer have been in love since ''Literature/TheLastWish'', but in practice have an on-again, off-again relationship ([[spoiler:in part due to Geralt tying their destinies together with the eponymous last wish from a djinn to save both their lives, so they're not entirely sure how much of their relationship is genuine]]). Triss seduced Geralt when he and Yennefer were "off", and Triss has carried a massive torch for him ever since. Thing is, she's also Yennefer's best friend and she frequently hates herself for loving Geralt.
* ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has a [[TriangRelations Type 5]]. During Saleem's childhood he develops a crush on [[MeaningfulName Evelyn Lilith Burns]] (an American girl who moves into his gated community), but ''she'' develops a crush on his friend Sonny, who in turn is enamored with Saleem's sister the Brass Monkey. The Brass Monkey doesn't love anyone, and reacts violently to shows of affection.
-->To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry]].
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
* ''Literature/{{Magician}}'' by Raymond E. Feist has the Pug/Carline/Roland triangle. Pug never tries to commit and Carline angsts over him for a large chunk of reasons for various reasons.
* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Between Luthien, his new lover Siobhan, and his old flame Katerin.
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' features two significant examples, both with aspiring but untalented actress Faye Greener at the centre.
** Much of the plot is driven by protagonist Tod Hackett and {{Deuteragonist}} Homer Simpson's contrasting forms of unrequited love for Faye, which form a Type 3 {{Triang Relation|s}}. After she rejects him, Tod's love for Faye becomes an obsession with possessing and destroying her, and most of his actions toward her are motivated by his own selfish desires for her than out of any concern for her. Homer is the opposite; Faye is equally uninterested in a romantic relationship with him, but he happily soaks up her abuse and caters to her every whim in a doomed bid to make her happy. Tod and Homer's own friendship starts to break down thanks to their divergent attitudes toward Faye.
** Faye is simultaneously at the corner of a Type 7 {{Triang Relation|s}}, as she is overtly romantically interested in dim-witted cowboy Earle Shoop, but flirts with, and eventually sleeps with, his friend Miguel to make him jealous. In Chapter 14, Earle attacks Miguel with a club when he dances with Faye at their campsite, and in Chapter 24, Homer tells Tod that after Earle found Miguel and Faye in bed together, the two men got into a fistfight, and the next morning, all three of them had moved out of his house.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': An unusually amiable example in the backstory, created by [[{{UST}} an unspoken attraction]] between [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] and [[FounderOfTheKingdom his brother Gavilar's]] [[TheSmartGuy wife Navani]]. [[spoiler:Dalinar and Navani manage to keep it buried until a ways into the story, long after Gavilar's death]].
** ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': One nearly forms around Shallan between Adolin and Kaladin, though Kaladin consciously attempts to defy the attraction once he recognizes it. It helps that by the time Kaladin realizes he's attracted to Shallan, he's also friends with Adolin, and decides it would be best to leave them alone. This gets more complicated in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', when Shallan's [[MasterOfIllusion Lightweaving]] is causing her to create numerous [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] that have their own opinions on the matter. Prim and proper Brightness Radiant doesn't like Kaladin's rough nature, and wants to hold to the implied oaths she has made with Adolin. Street-wise Veil, on the other hand, finds Adolin boring and much prefers Kaladin's wit and strength. Shallan herself doesn't know what she wants.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' features a somewhat... complicated example between Mandorallen, Nerina (the Baroness of Vo Ebor) and the (considerably older) Baron of Vo Ebor. Mandorallen is hopelessly in love with Nerina, Nerina is in love with him, and the Baron is (accurately) aware not only of the love but also that both are too noble to do anything, given Nerina is married to him and Mandorallen sees him as a mentor and [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] -- the Baron's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy solution]] is to try to invoke DeathOfTheHypotenuse on himself by picking up dangerous hobbies like dragon-hunting, warfare and duelling people [[BewareTheNiceOnes who badmouth his wife and protege]]. Apparently generations of Mimbrate maidens have wept at the tragic nobility of it all. [[spoiler: The Baron dies early in ''The Malloreon'' of wounds inflicted towards the end of ''The Belgariad'', clearing the way for Mandorallen and Nerina to marry once Belgarion gets everyone involved to stop being so wrapped up in the mess. At swordpoint.]]
* ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In ''The Ghost in the Third Row'', Lily Larkin was in one with two members of her acting troupe - Edward Parker and Andrew Heron. When she chose Edward, Andrew was furious and [[IfICantHaveYou killed her]].
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