nevanna | Tuesday Top Five: Love Multiplied

With Valentine’s Day coming up at the end of the week, I decided to list my top five polyamorous ships across my various fandoms.

1. The Crew of Light aka the Polycula (Dracula)

When I was following Dracula Daily in 2022, I summed up the relationships between Stoker’s heroes as follows, more or less: “Lucy, her three boyfriends, her girlfriend Mina, Mina’s husband Jonathan, and… whatever Doctors Seward and Van Helsing have going on.”

2. Rose Tyler/Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

Each of the three characters and component pairings was fascinating and charming in their own way, and the trio clearly and believably cared for each other, and enjoyed their adventures together, within their relatively little shared screen time.

3. Kara Danvers/James Olsen/Winn Schott (Supergirl)

The connection between these three, as it developed over the first season of the CW’s Supergirl, was what inspired and me to coin the phrase “Team Triad.”

4. Poe Dameron/Rey/Finn (Star Wars)

I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Rise of Skywalker, but I did enjoy seeing Finn, Poe, and Rey go on an adventure together, and the group hug between them at the end.

5. Varice Kingsford/Numair Salmalín/Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe (Tortall series)

The backstory in Tempests & Slaughter, in which Arram (later Numair) and Ozorne are best friends at mage school, makes the events of Emperor Mage at least ten times more tragic than it already was.