How do you write a love triangle that's good?

The man and woman have rough sex with the second woman.

Okay, but how do you conclude a love triangle in a fulfilling way then?

just fucking don't

A bisexual triangle where the characters are friends with each other, except when they compete for the same people.

Why not?

>good writing
>love triangle

PICK. FUCKING.

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Because love triangles are shit. Here's an example of a popular, well recieved love triangle, one of the best examples of the concept. THIS is the best they can fucking do.

Like I said, SHIT.

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Depends on what you want out of a story. You might as well be asking, how do you end a romance in a fulfilling way? Some love triangles end comically, some end tragically, some end with melancholy and some don't end at all. It's all about what you wanted out of the love triangle in the first place. What was your reason for writing a love triangle story?
That's not the best example. It's not even close to mediocre.

Ok but that's not a good love triangle. It's like Korra devoid of depth. I'm talking about GOOD love triangles.

Love triangles are for normie girls, wish fullfilment YA novels, and shippers. Real patrician stories start off with one couple or have no romance at all.

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I want the person to end up with someone, who goes against their personal beliefs. I don't know how to conclude either.

That's because Asami didn't cheat on Mako in season 1

End it with a threesome (or with the best suitor winning)

You can't really since one side will always get the short end of the stick. Unless you merged the two love interests through some sci fi magic bullshit, have a harem ending, or killed both of them off and the main character gets nobody.

Was thinking about making them not and up with anyone, but I'd like them to conclude together with someone. Do I have one of them kill themselves?

>the good stories are the ones that are exactly the same as basically all stories I like
hmmm

Ultimately, no one really knows how exactly to conclude their story. Until they start writing. My advice would be to find any many similar novels as you can and read them. Find out what works, what doesn't, and transplant the ideas you like into your story. Good writers borrow, great writers steal.

>great writers steal
Hehehe, made me snort.

Name better ones. More popular, more well received.

>name ones that are better
>you know, more popular because popularity = good
user just go

Watch actual soap operas. Even Degrassi has better love triangles than Twilight.

Then give me an example! Why is that so hard?!

If you can't name even a single other popular love triangle and explain why it isn't a complete trash fire of a story-telling device that does absolutely NOTHING but ruin all of the characters involved by portraying them as acting like complete fucking idiots because that is what love does to people then I believe you've just proven my point.

Love triangles are SHIT. Prove me wrong if you can. I fucking DOUBT you can.

It's an old saying amongst writers. So long as you're not plagiarising somebody, you take everything that isn't nailed down. You can tell that Jack Kirby was as much of a writer as he was an artist. Because he was always advocating for people copying the things they liked about other people's work. He once said- If somebody draws hands the way you like, steal them. Steal those hands.

Only women like love triangles, and who gives a fuck what women think?

I just told you Degrassi.

Why do we have to prove anything? People have been writing love triangles for hundreds of year and will continue to write love triangles for hundreds of years after. This isn't a bad trope that needs weeding out. This is a romantic/tragic plot that is its own sub-genre. Only an idiot would write off an entire sub-genre.

That's literally true, though. All of your favorite books, movies, tv shows and video games are all stolen from someone else, or at least contains stolen concepts and ideas. Every single fucking one of them. This is a lot easier to see in the shonen manga genre, where literally ALL OF THEM steal from each other ALL THE TIME.

you don't

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Haha alright. Neat bit of information too.

>Why do we have to prove anything?

You don't, but I'm going to stick to my guns until you do. And you can either care about that or not.

Never seen it, please explain and elaborate. How does the love triangle serve the characters and stories in a positive way?

>If you can't name even a single other popular love triangle
user, popular doesn't mean good

you can't make that a part of your argument because then you'd be arguing that good = popular
plenty of people are naming love triangles ITT, but don't get mad, just stop ignoring them

Chivalric romance where two characters respect and love one way too much to act on their feelings and cuck the dude and you're just screaming at them to get a menage a trois going.

>plenty of people are naming love triangles ITT

Where? I've re-skimmed the thread and the only one I've seen is my own Twilight post, this random shit and fucking Korra (LMAO).

Perhaps have one of the love interest kill the other?

Oh, and to address this

>user, popular doesn't mean good

Sure, but if love triangles were such a great storytelling device then it should be easy enough to name a popular one that was good, which is my original point in the first place, right?

>Cucking

Cuckqueens are better.

Anal defecation rape

Thought about that too, I don't want to reward the killer though.

but how will the modern whorish california millennials relate if we don't involve a constant stream of a love triangles, breakups, swapping partners and relationship drama??

Don't if you can help it, it's not fun when there obviously has to be a loser in the group.

>roastie culture
>good writing

No.

here you go, a perfectly written love triangle

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Ends in a threeway relationship, but not haremshit. Everyone loves and fucks everyone else equally, instead of everyone worshiping the main character.

Thought about one of them killing them or the other out of rejection, how would you be able to conclude this?

10 seconds on google led me to the wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_triangle
pick one, but I'll give you a few I like
Romeo and Juliet
Wicked
How I Met Your Mother

> which is my original point in the first place
user, it's a bad argument because not all things that are good are popular
If I gave you an example of a well written one that wasn't popular, you'd reject it because it wasn't popular (so therefore it cannot be good)
But the inverse doesn't make sense, Korra being popular doesn't make it good

I guess at that point you're just writing a revenge story.

You dont. Love triangles cater to the paranoid, emotionally vapid, melodramatic mind of teen girls, and immature femchildren who never grew up. They are always inherently bad, and are poison to narratives.

Kys Bolinfag

So do I just make one butthurt, drop off, and the other two live happily ever after?

I stopped caring about Bolin when the writers did (immediately)
I'm more mad that Mako, the person who says he'll do anything to protect his brother proceeds to cuck his brother and then Bolin just gets over it in a few episodes

STILL crying over your borra ship. Typical.

You make it a two-person, four-ship love square.

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if you need someone to be mad at user, try somewhere else

But these are the same people lol.

Mako sucks. Why did he get two girlfriends and pissed both of then off? Maybe of he had some character growth, but it is just weird. Do the writers have a hard on for him or something?

>DUDE MAKO SHOULD GET KEKED LOL HES KEKED BOLIN LMAOOO
That’s you cuckfag.

True
Bad Writing
Even then, they would have fucked it up
He was written to be Zuko 2.0, so the expectation was that we would have a hard on for him

Or give the person who didn't get the other in the love triangle another person that was in front of them the whole time and now can see them in a romantic sense.

Since LoK was used in the OP let's use that as an example. Perhaps the idea of Opal is moved to Book 1 where she was one of Tenzin's kids. And through some adjusted writing, she's the oldest of Tenzin's kids and is Bolin or Mako's age. When the group starts to stay on Air Temple Island, Opal and Bolin would interact and have a friendship. This would be after the initial "love triangle" of Bolin, Korra, and Mako (excluding Asami for the purposes of this example.)

user, don't stop on my behalf
I'll give you all the (You)s you want
seems like you just gave up a long time ago though, maybe it's time to get a real hobby
or you know
have sex

Archie's been doing it for a while now. One character likes two others and has to choose. He has a hard time making up his mind. Simple as that.

A lot of Korra can be summed up as "We just did the same thing again, kinda, why aren't you liking it?"

Didn't they split into two separate timelines so he could be with both at the same time?

>it’s another Korra thread ruined by Bolinfags mad he doesn’t have a harem

And yet there are four ships with four different relationship dynamics between the two of them.

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I forgot about archie because of Riverdale

user, I came to give you another (You) because you need it so bad

Also, this isn't a Korra thread

Any good examples of love triangles that are resolved with the characters just having a threeway?

That only works in porn.

Doesn't have to.

I don't recall a single one.

Keep seething Bolincuck. Go commission porn if you want to self insert.

Sort of, but that was a "flash forward to the future" thing sort of like the future episodes of The Simpsons except they went a little further with it. In canon it's never going to be resolved because it would effectively end the core conflict of the series. If they made Archie choose for good they'd have to make the theme about something else.

You guys thinking what I'm thinking?

anons, I...

You don't write a love triangle at all.

Guess I'll have to write it then.

Love triangles are inherently pointless because you should always root for the titty monster.

Flat is Justice

But you have small weiner

meat small, hole tight

Okay I solved it. They date both of them at the same time.

Easy. Don't have them. Good writing shouldn't have to rely on basic bitch teen girl door choosing

Granted, expecting that from a show directed at teen girls is a given.

Looks like you guys should watch stuff for adults?

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But this situation plays out in real life all the time.

almost forgot

Only of it the two people find out and end up dating each other, as well the original person.

Does it?

But poly is bad.

Says you, but it really is the perfect cure for love triangles.

Ok so the person s dating both and then they find out, aren't they upset?

No it doesn't. 99% of all "love triangkes" are actually just decided choices with the weakest point perceiving they still have a chance.

Not if they all sit down to talk and realize they all like each other and those two start dating each other as well as the main character.

you make it clear that only two people can be in love and make it all about solving the mystery of which two it is, rather than focusing on pointless and meaningless things like wants and desires and the conflicts and competitions between different people's attributes and qualifications.
and they go on lots of dates and get to know each other and figure out who belongs with whom based on compatibility and deep feelings.

Unconditional love is for parents and pets. Relationships require work and commitment, not wheel spinning and time sharing between however many people decide to waste their tine in polycules.

>Relationships require work and commitment
Yes, I agree. Healthy relationships with multiple people also need work and commitment. You can commit to multiple things, or in this case people, at once.

Because Justice is blind.
Those of us with eyes know titties are best.

Helga->Arnold->Lila->Arnie->repeat
Lulu->Arnold->Hilda->Arnie->repeat

more of a square but whatever

Elaborate further, please.

>Healthy relationship with multiple people also need work and commitment
Commitment to what? Lmao

Character A likes Characters B and C at the same time.
A bad love triangle would have all sorts of secrets, lying, sabotage and will-they-won't-they "drama."
A good triangle would have A say "I like both, so I'll go get coffee or have dinner with them, to see which make better romance material.
A goes on a date with B.
A goes on a date with C.
A thinks C is a better fit, and dates them. B isn't heartbroken, because it was all laid out from the beginning.
Expand this into 320 episodes.

Committing to the other people in the relationship?

The only good love triangles are Berserk and the Count of Monte Cristo.

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Simple.
You don't.

Okay.

so it's like spiderman x black cat but in reverse?

More "scrambled" than "in reverse", but yes.

splendor from gregg araki or les valseuses from bertrand blier
it's 10 time better than twilight

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