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Love Quadrangle
| Tropes and genres | |
|---|---|
| Synonym(s) | Love Square, Love Rectangle |
| Related tropes/genres | Love Triangle, Love Square |
| See also | OT4 |
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Love Quadrangle is a writing trope where four people are vying for a romantic relationship. This may take a form very close to a love triangle, where "three people vie for the love of a fourth"[1], but sometimes it can be more complicated.
[Urban Dictionary's illustrated of the complexity of the love quadrangle]
A person falling in love with another, however that “other” likes someone’s who isn’t them. Which that person likes another person. And yet that person has a crush on someone else, which that someone else happens to like the first person.[2]
Perhaps because of its complex nature its use is fairly rare.
Closely related and much more common in recent times: The Love Square trope in which the two people vying for a romantic relationship are, in fact, two people with several secret identities.
Canonical Quadrangles
- Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, James "Sawyer" Ford, Juliet Burke - Lost
- Rebecca, Nathaniel, Josh, Greg - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Rosita, Gabriel, Siddiq, Eugene - The Walking Dead
Fanwork Examples
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