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.
In the world of this series, polygamy is legal, since the series world isn't tied to "conventional morality." Toya begins with a relationship with a "mess of great women," beginning with Elze Silhoueska, Linze Silhoueska, Yae Kokonoe, and Yumina Ernea Belfast, by the end of season one, with everyone accepting this arrangement as his fiancées.[2] According to Babylon's vision, Touya would have nine wives in total, later including Sushie Ernea Ortlinde, Leen, Lucia Leah Regulus, Hildegard Minas Lestia, and Sakura later on in the series, with implications that Renne will be his tenth fiancée in the future.
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.[3]
Fluorite (voiced by Kathy Fisher) is an unaligned fusion[a] of six unknown Gems, introduced in the episode "Off Colors", and was confirmed as polyamorous by series creator Rebecca Sugar.[6][7]
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.[8]
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 "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.[9]
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. After some initial hesitation, he accepts her request to be her boyfriend as well.[10] Naoya decides that he will date both Saki and Nagisa at the same time.
Rentarō Aijō has confessed to (and been rejected by) 100 girls in his lifetime. On the last day of middle school, he visits a shrine and the God of Love appears and tells Rentarō that the reason for his non-existent love life is because everyone is only supposed to have one soulmate in their life, but due to an error on the God of Love's part, Rentarō is destined to have 100. Rentarō meets the wealthy Hakari Hanazono and tsundere Karane Inda, and he decides to date both of them at the same time, with their blessing, as any of the soulmates he doesn't date will die in "horrible accidents".[11][12] Rentaro loves each of his girlfriends as individuals and has no "interest in ranking or comparing them."[13]
Japan
Hakari Hanazono
One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Karane Inda.[14] In addition to loving Rentarō, she is somewhat attracted to Karane. In the eighth episode, she and Karane have an "extended makeout session" while both are "kiss zombies."[15]
Karane Inda
One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Hakari Hanazono.[14] While she initially disliked the idea of Rentarō having multiple girlfriends, she soon became accepting of them. In addition to loving Rentarō, she is somewhat attracted to Hakari. She has an extended, and mutually romantic, kiss with Hakari in the eighth episode.[15]
Shizuka Yoshimoto
The third girlfriend of Rentarō and one of his classmates. She is shy to the point of muteness and was constantly bullied by her fellow students and abused by her mother before meeting Rentarō. She is a bookworm who can initially only communicate through passages from her favorite book by pointing at them, but Rentarō develops a speaking app for her so she can freely communicate by digitally reciting the lines she touches, as well as a word bank.[16]
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 of whom 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 it's realistic to believe that people would "explore multiple relationships".[17] 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.[18]
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."[19]
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."[18] Specifically, Emrys is bigender, asexual aromantic, while Calliope is pansexual.
Camille Severin
Muted
2019–2022
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.[20][21][22] Camille later does summon a demon named Dendrobium "Dendro"[23] and they grow closer over time. In episode 79 of the comic's second season, they kiss and express their love for one another.[24] When some raised the question of whether Camille is "cheating" on her girlfriend, Lilinyra 'Nyra' Dupre,[b] the comic's artist Miranda Mundt implied that Camille, Nyra, and Dendro are in a polyamorous relationship.[25]
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.[26][27] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[26]
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[28] with four female "Fiends" (Devils possessing human bodies) named Cosmo, Pingtsi, Long, and Tsugihagi.
Tengen Uzui is a Demon Slayer and the Sound Hashira, the Hashira being the strongest of the Demon Slayer Corps, he is married to three kunoichi named Suma, Makio and Hinatsuru, Tengen was born into a shinobi clan that practiced polyamory, however wives were only considered useful for giving birth to more children and gathering intel if their life depended on it, Tengen did not like this (as well as other reasons) and left the clan with his wives, valuing their lives and happiness over tradition[29]
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."[30]
Colleen has five boyfriends: Fry, Chu, Ndulu, Schlomo and Bolt Rolands.[31] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[32] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[33]
Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[32] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[33]
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.[34]
“The story follows three young Americans, who meet randomly on a train to Paris. … Both men are immediately drawn to Gilda, and she’s drawn to each of them as well. Initially she dates each secretly, but eventually ... all date ... The rest of the film follows the ups and downs of their arrangement” [35]
“The three main characters, a butch lesbian from Paris, a bisexual woman from Spain and her philandering husband from Provence, intertwine their lives as they learn to be in touch with themselves, fair to each other and inclusive… the three protagonists form a bi and poly triad with the bi woman in the middle and an expanded family that includes three parents and their three children.”
Odeen, Dua, and Tritt belong to an alien race where complete intimate relationships are composed of three individuals – a so-called “triad” - and where conception, and orgasm, can only happen during sexual intercourse between all three at the same time (i.e., a threesome).[38]
There are a number of polycules in the series, including one between four of the primary characters. The Aiel culture- which includes many of the characters listed here- practice polyamory commonly.[39][40] Alanna's relationship with Ihvon and Maksim was hinted at in the original text, but only fully explored in the 2021 TV adaptation.[41][42]
Remington Pendergast, Zidan Malekh, and Xiaodan Song
Alana, a Black lesbian mechanic who works on spaceships, stows away on a ship and is romantically attracted to the ship's polyamorous captain.[44]
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.[44]
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.[44]
Multiple characters
Dreyd
2007
Daniel Help Justice
Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[44]
Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[44]
August, Jack and Risa
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.[45] In The Weight of the Stars, Jack, August, and Risa, the lead characters of The Wicker King, are living together and have a child.
While seeking medicine on Fairy Island, he meets Zhao Ling'er and gets married. He also defeats Lin Yueru in a martial arts competition, and has a complicated love affair with the two heroines.[47]
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. They have a threesome.[52] 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.[53] 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),[54] 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.[55][56]
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.[57]
Nandor had 37 wives centuries before the show's setting when he was the ruler of Al-Quolanudar, and loved 35 of them.[58] In a season four episode, he wishes them all back to life using the services of a djinn, and it is revealed that his wives included both "girl-wives" and "guy-wives". He elects to keep only a single wife alive in the modern era however.
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.[59]
This American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that revolves around a suburban married couple in Portland who is entering a three-way romantic relationship.[60][61] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[62]
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.[63]
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.[64]
Ryn kisses Ben and Maddie in season one and describes them as "love" and the show hints to a future polyamorous relationship.[66] They begin their polyamorous relationship in season two,[67] 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.[69]
United States
Caleb Gallo
Brian Jordan Alvarez
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo
2016
This YouTube show began in 2016 and shows a couple working through their decision to convert from monogamy to polyamory,[70] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[71]
Yuri and Camile are two Black women in a new romantic polyamorous relationship, with the series following their struggles with "jealousy and self-doubt".[72][73] The series received the Breakthrough Series – Short Form award from the Gotham Awards.[74]
^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 don't 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 it's confirmed or not or at least hinted at. If you see this can you clarify? Don't have to just wondering."
^"Story". Girlfriend, Girlfriend (in Japanese). Hiroyuki Kodansha / Girlfriend, Girlfriend Production Committee. Archived from the original on March 21, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
^Mundt, Miranda [@mundt_miranda] (January 1, 2021). "exaaacctly" (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 2, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021 – via Twitter. Also see this tweet and the one before it
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