Preparations for Polyamory Pride at CSD Parade in Graz, Austria, June 2017
This is a list of polyamorous characters in fiction, including those in animation and graphic art works. It is organized alphabetically by last name of the main character involved in the polyamorous relationship, or first name if there is no last name known.
Hollyhock, a female teenage horse and Bojack's sister, has eight adoptive fathers (Dashawn Manheim, Steve Mannheim, Jose Guerrero, Cupe Robinson III, Otto Zilberschlag, Arturo "Ice Man" Fonzerelli, Gregory Hsung, and Quackers McQuack) in a polyamorous gay relationship.[1]
Naoya Mukai had recently begun a relationship with his childhood friend Saki Saki when Nagisa Minase, his classmate, decides to confess her feelings to him as well.[citation needed] After some initial hesitation, he accepts her request to be her boyfriend as well. Naoya decides that he will date both Saki and Nagisa at the same time.
Fluorite (voiced by Kathy Fisher) is an unaligned fusion[2] of six unknown Gems, introduced in the episode "Off Colors", and was confirmed as polyamorous by series creator Rebecca Sugar.[3][4]
Rogelio and Kyle are childhood friends who are part of Adora's team before she defected to the Rebellion. They later defected from the Horde, with Lonnie, at the end of Season 4. While show writers originally teased at their romantic relationship, with a locker even saying saying "R ❤ K" at the bottom, presumably Rogelo's locker, as shown in the episode "Moment of Truth," in the episode "Stranded," Scorpia tells Swift Wind that Kyle has a crush on Rogelio before cutting herself off. Showrunner ND Stevenson confirmed their relationship, adding that Lonnie is also part of it, implying a possible polyamorous relationship.[6]
Old Man Waterfall, who is Zoidberg's defense attorney until killed by a giant crab warship, has seven wives and one husband as shown in the episode "A Taste of Freedom", arguing this before the Supreme Court, which holds polygamy as legal.[8]
Tengen Uzui, the Sound Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, is married to three wives named Makio, Suma, and Hinatsuru.[9] He was initially to be wed to Suma's sister, but her feelings for Tengen made her crash the wedding interview so she can be wed to him. Makio and Hinatsuru were later added as personal additions that the two were eager to welcome.
Japan
Comics[]
Characters
Title
Duration
Authors
Notes
Country
Every major character
Open Earth
2018
Sarah Mirk, Eva Cabrera & Claudia Aguirre
The comic is set in the future and monogamous relationships are seen as outdated to all the young people on board the space station, all who are polyamorous. Author Sarah Mirk said that she wanted to write a story where "open relationships can be really positive and wonderful" and said that its realistic to believe that people would "explore multiple relationships".[10] She also said she wanted to write a story where it was "totally normal to be queer and genderqueer."
United States
Kalmin
Stupidly Beautiful
2017-2019
Local Lil Kiddo
This webcomic explores gender roles and sexuality in a polyamorous relationship, with the college-age characters, Kalmin, Mira, and Deimos, and their "sexual exploration" described as real, especially in "emotionally resonant" and "poetic" episodes.[11]
Mira
Deimos
Multiple characters
Kimchi Cuddles
2013–Present
Tikva Wolf
In this long-running series, polyamorous people are portrayed like other characters, "only with more partners to steal their blankets."[12]
Snug Orbit
2016–Present
Emrys Seren
This autobiographical webcomic has "polyamorous queerplatonic relationship" with some episodes discussing the aromantic and asexual spectrum and "healthy relationships."[11] Specifically, Emrys is bigender, asexual aromantic, while Calliope is pansexual.
Camille Severin
Muted
2019–Present
Miranda Mundt
The comic is set in New Orleans where people possess different magical abilities, and at age 21, Camille Severin is told to summon a demon, but it fails.[13][14][15] Camille later does summon a demon named Dendrobium "Dendro"[16] and they grow closer over time. In episode 79 of the comic's second season, they kiss and express their love for one another.[17] When some raised the question of whether Camille is "cheating" on her girlfriend, Lilinyra 'Nyra' Dupre,[a] the comic's artist Miranda Mundt implied that Camille, Dendro, and Dendro are in a polyamorous relationship.[18]
Deriving from being raised on the culture of her homeworld Tamaran, where it is acceptable to have open marriage, Starfire's sex-positivism and free-thinking habits such as a fondness for practicing nudism, openness to polygamous relationships and acceptance of "open sex" and pansexual "free-love" with persons regardless of terrestrial species, race or gender, usually lead her into conflict with Earth's more reserved culture and customs.[19][20] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[19]
George Perez
Vard
Unknown Lands
2015–Present
Rosi "toherrys" Kämpe
Most of the cast has a queer sexual identity,[21] including Vard, who is polyamorous. In general, Unknown Lands has environmental, feminist, and LGBTQ+ themes.[22]
Quanxi is a seemingly-immortal Devil Hunter and assassin from China widely regarded as one of the physically strongest people on the planet. She is a lesbian and in a sexual relationship[23] with four female "Fiends" (Devils possessing human bodies) named Cosmo, Pingtsi, Long, and Tsugihagi.
In the comics, Carol fell in love with both Lori and Rick.[24] She even explicitly asks to Lori if she can marry them, and raised Karl and the baby that Lori is waiting together.
United States
Goth
Boyfriends
2021–Present
Ray (Refrainbow)
Originally released on Webtoon Canvas,[25] this series features two polycules, though only one of these polycules is made up of the main cast. The current version available on Webtoon is edited so that the story is not exactly like the original, however if features the same general narrative exploring the daily lives of a college-based polycule.[citation needed] The upcoming physical edition of the series was announced on November 18, 2021 via the Webtoon official Twitter page.[26]
This film is about a polyamorous love between a professor, his wife, and their student, Olive, as they share a "workplace, a bed, a home and eventually a family" into the foreseeable future from the 1920s, treating their relationship like "a typical movie coupling."[27]
Colleen has five boyfriends: Fry, Chu, Ndulu, Schlomo and Bolt Rolands.[28] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[29] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[30]
Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[29] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[30]
Lane
Hannah Pepper
Ma Belle, My Beauty
2021
This film follows the love story of Lane, Berte, and Fred in the south of France, and debuted at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.[31]
Bertie
Idella Johnson
Fred
Lucien Guignard
Kim Minho
Kim Youngpyo
Between Complete and Incomplete
2021
Minho moves in with his throuple, but is worried that there is too much distance in their dynamic. He begins to fear this is because of the boundaries he has made around being asexual.[citation needed]
This love story starts off with Bae Eunhee married to her husband, Ooh Doochan. However, when she encounters an old lover of hers, Hwang Geomseok, she decides to have an affair. Her husband suspects the affair, and in an act of revenge, rapes Hwang Geomseok. She gets pregnant and Bae Eunhee and Ooh Doochan decide to raise the child between the three of them. At the end of the movie, this strange love affair is revealed to have resolved itself with the three in a harmonious throuple watching as their son gets married to a man in space.[citation needed]
Throughout the series, Mark wrestles with his feelings for Kieran and Cristina. By the end of the series, all three start a relationship.[32] When responding to a fan, Clare wrote that she believed that "Mark would definitely be open to a polyamorous relationship",[33] but would not cheat or lie, while noting that another such relationship between other characters would not be possible.[34]
Kieran
Cristina Mendoza Rosales
Captain of ship
Ascension
2013
Jacqueline Koyanagi
Alana, a Black lesbian mechanic who works on spaceships, stows away on a ship and is romantically attracted to the ship's polyamorous captain.[35]
Em
Don’t Bang the Barista & Go Deep
2014 & 2016
Leigh Matthews
Em, the best friend of the protagonist, is a bisexual woman dating a man in the first book, but by the second book she has "happily settled into a poly triad", wondering how she will get married.[35]
Other characters
Mom of Pina
Love You Two
2009
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Pina's mom, who is free-spirited, is polyamorous and bisexual, leading Pina on a journey to explore the "complex spectrum of sex and love" in humanity itself.[35]
Multiple characters
Dreyd
2007
Daniel Help Justice
Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[35]
Reese
Inheritance
2014
Malinda Lo
Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[35]
August
The Wicker King & The Weight of the Stars
2017 & 2019
K. Ancrum
On her website, K. Ancrum confirmed that polyamorous characters were in both of these books, but did not name any specific characters.[36] In The Weight of the Stars, Jack, August, and Risa, the lead characters of The Wicker King, are living together and have a child.[37]
The setting takes place in a polygamous culture with a concubine system. This inequal system has men be the ones who can have multiple wives. However, Wu Zetian is a notorious rebel and she decides she will not subscribe to the cultural standard of marriage. She, her co-pilot, and her best friend eventually form a triad.[38]
All the members of the August 8 cluster frequently engage in psychic orgies with each other. Kala is engaged to Rajan at the start of the series but does not love him. Wolfgang is another member of the cluster who she begins a romantic relationship with. Over the course of the series she begins to fall in love with Rajan, and in the finale decides to be with both of them.[39] They have a threesome.[40] Lito and Hernando are dating but are not public because it would ruin Lito's career. Daniela is initially Lito's beard but then becomes a third in their relationship.[41] Their relationship with Daniela is mostly platonic, though they do sometimes have sex.
Bo is a bisexualsuccubus which must sustain herself by feeding from the life force of male and female Fae and humans, via oral intake or the energy created through sex. In the first two seasons she was involved in a romantic triangle involving Dyson (a heterosexual shapeshifter) and Lauren (a lesbian human),[42] with a rivalry existing between the two over Bo. Later on, Bo tried to have a monogamous relationship with Lauren, with Bo and Lauren remaining in love with each other through ups and downs, and later accept each other as a couple by the end of the series.[43][44]
In season 5, it's revealed that Drummer is part of a polyamorous wedding with her crew, with her actress, Cara Gee, describing it as the beginning of a "love relationship...[with] a polyamorous, beautiful, queer family" and says she was thrilled to represent that in the show.[45]
This British drama series follows Gemma (Thalissa Teixeira) and Kieran (Gary Carr), a couple who is forced to take in a lodger to make ends meet. They take in Ray (Ariane Labed) and the triad grows close, each developing feelings for the others.[46]
This American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that revolves around a suburban married couple in Portland who is entering a three-way romantic relationship.[47][48] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[49]
Max, Anne, and Jack are involved in a polyamorous relationship throughout season two, and have multiple threesomes onscreen after Anne begins having sex with Max. Captain James Flint is revealed in season two, episode five to have been in a relationship with not just Miranda Barlow, but her husband, Thomas Hamilton. It is this relationship that made England force him away.[50]
In a three-years-later flashback, Kit, Alma, and Grace start a brief polyamorous relationship, raising children together. Kit is explicitly involved with both Alma and Grace. It ends with one of the partners murdering another.[51]
Ryn kisses Ben and Maddie in season one and describes them as "love" and the show hints to a future polyamorous relationship.[53] They begin their polyamorous relationship in season two,[54] sleep together and Maddie declares their relationship at a dinner with her parents. However, due to the events in the season two finale, Maddie breaks up with Ben and begins dating another person. Although it is implied that she is still in a relationship with Ryn, it is portrayed in an ambiguous manner and the narrative pays more attention to Ben and Ryn's relationship.
The eight-episode web series focuses on Annie's exploration into polyamory after her divorce.[55]
United States
Caleb Gallo
Brian Jordan Alvarez
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo
2016–Present
This YouTube show began in 2016 and shows a couple working through their decision to convert from monogamy to polyamory,[56] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[57]
Yuri and Camile are two Black women in a new romantic polyamorous relationship, with the series following their struggles with "jealousy and self-doubt".[58][59] The series received the Breakthrough Series – Short Form award from the Gotham Awards.[60]
The relationship begins with Sir Damien and Amaryllis engaged. Throughout the course of the story, both Damien and Amaryllis go from hostility towards Lord Arum to appreciation of his skills and attraction towards him. Amaryllis confessed to Damien that she has romantic feelings towards Arum, and despite being attracted to both of them, Damien plans to leave them together and wishes them happiness. Arum challenges him to a duel during which he convinces Damien to try a relationship with all three of them.[61]
^Nickalls, Sammy (September 21, 2017). "The Tricky Problem With Hollyhock in 'BoJack Horseman' Season 4". Dot and Line. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020. The adopted daughter of eight polyamorous fathers, she [Hollyhock] informs him [Bojack] right off the bat that she’s not looking for a ninth dad in BoJack—who, thanks to the results of a Todd-facilitated DNA test, she believes to be her biological father.
^Fusion, in Steven Universe, occurs when two or more beings (usually Gems) reach a state of emotional equalibrium between each other, with these fusions as a manifestation of the friendship or relationship between two or more individuals.
^Stevenson, ND [@Gingerhazing] (May 20, 2020). "Yeah, they're a thing. In my head Lonnie's a part of it tho!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 21, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Twitter. She was responding to the question by a fan: "I'm not too bothered if you dont see this but are Kyle and Rogelio a thing? Or something as people are talking about it and saying it was hinted at but idk if its confirmed or not or atleast hinted at. If you see this can you clarify? Dont have to just wondering."
