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A thing you have for going on is that both love interest are of different genders, so they might have a variety of different personalities, allowing the protag to choose between Opposite Attract and Bird Of A Feather depending on the protag's gender.
In a Betty and Veronica situation, if you put society pressure in mind, the same-gender love interest can be Betty, while the opposite-gender love interest can be Veronica.
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Well, I mean, like the case of Kannazuki no Miko, where the main heroine have heterosexual Love Interest as a very caring and selfless Nice Guy Souma and cold, sometimes abusive Tsundere as lesbian Love Interest Chikane. In this show, there is no homophobia per se, but it clearly tries to portray Schoolgirl Lesbian as Star-Crossed Lovers. So, for Love Triangle outside stories about homophobia, will I need to create a new trope?
edited 19th Aug '17 11:37:09 AM by LittleBuster
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I'm not sure. The Betty and Veronica is mostly about the differences in personality (a "soft" vs "edgy/hard" choice), so in that way, it definitely qualifies. It might not really qualify as a trope on its own but just as a gender-variation of the regular B and V trope.
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Well, I was thinking about it, but I came to the conclusion that I can not even come up with a name for such a theoretical trope.
B&V is a personality trope, not a sex/gender trope. If the heterosexual love interest and the homosexual love interest fulfill those personality niches, then it's an example. There was a draft in TLP called Bisexual Love Triangle
, but it was nuked for not really being more than a normal love triangle but with queerness attached to it.
So, if I understand correctly, if the orientation is used to contrast the personalities of two Love Interest, this are example of this trope? Thank you, that's what I wanted to hear.
Good evening. Is it possible to use Betty and Veronica in situations where the character has a heterosexual and homosexual Love Interest that are opposed to each other in a diverse context in Love Triangle? Or it can be described using Foil? At first I thought of proposing to create a separate trope on this topic, but it seemed to me that this trope can also be used in this context.