#kala x rajan

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

A New Discovery

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~1k, Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan, M-rating, Post-Series

Summary: "You're pregnant?" he yelps, staring right at Wolfgang becoming a strange shade of pink. "No, no, YOU'RE pregnant are you?" Rajan corrects himself, staring at Kala.

[invisible-pink-toast]

pietà

[scarefox]

Listen, I came for the acrobatics theme and stay for the throuple. They better deliver on that. But it feels like they do. The set up is all there. Don't let us hanging.

They could still pull a Sense8 Wolfgang x Kala x Rajan.

[coolauntlilith]

So I finally watched Sense8. I regret not watching it sooner for a couple reasons. But I'm so glad I finally watched it.

[heavensenthale]

underneath the strobe lights

This was written to fill a prompt for @fourormore's 2024 ficathon: Sense8: - rajan/kala/wolfgang/will/riley: dinner invitations (nsfw)

Fandom: Sense8 Relationship: Riley/Will/Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan (but come on, how could this not be slightly about the whole polycule?) Rating: Explicit Word count: 4.9k

Summary

He shrugged as he poured a glass for Rajan. “Riley offered a rave. How could I say no to that?” “Wait, who’s going to a rave?” asked Rajan, still confused. Wolfgang passed his partner the wine, then said. “Us, if I have any say in it.” [Or: Teaching Rajan the wonders of raves and orgies: the book, the movie, the 5D experience.]

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[slayerchick303]

Are we going to get an Olu/Jim/Archie throuple in this season? Based on the dancing, I think it's possible.

[dinomighty]

Having reread one of my favourite Domme fics in a different fandom, I'm really thinking about writing a fic about Kala realising that Wolfgang enjoys being on his knees and being good for her though he hasn't said anything about it of course. She gets awesome advice from Nomi and Riley, and discusses with Rajan who is absolutely into following her lead, helping her and watching Wolfgang sub for her. And Kala also enjoying watching Wolfgang crowd Rajan against the wall in the shower. There's a lot of ways they can give to each other.

I'm also still considering some kind of Regency/Bridgerton style OT3 fic, though I'm probably overthinking where all the characters would fit there. It is still tempting me though, while I'm working on a Rajan POV fic that is making me cry a bit as I write. He gives so much and doesn't realise he should let other people give to him. I worry I'm making him too saintly.

[shellynelsonlahey]

PROMPT — March 9th, Declaration

Summary: Wolfgang overhears Rajan tell Kala that he’s not sure if Wolfgang has actual feelings for him, so Wolfgang proves him wrong.

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Kala cheered, and Rajan pulled away with an infectious smile. “So, this grand gesture doesn’t seem like you… how much did Kala convince you to do?”

“I’ll have you know that I was down for this declaration of love by myself, thank you.” Wolfgang proudly grinned, “she did however suggest the rose petals and candles.”

[polyamships]

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Sense8 (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hernando Fuentes/Daniela Velasquez/Lito Rodriguez, Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal, Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar, Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal, Wolfgang Bogdanow & Rajan Rasal, Hernando Fuentes & Lito Rodriguez & Daniela Velasquez Characters: Daniela Velasquez, Hernando Fuentes, Lito Rodriguez, Rajan Rasal, Wolfgang Bogdanow Additional Tags: Cuddling & Snuggling, Platonic Cuddling, Naked Cuddling, Sharing a Bed, Past Abuse, Fluff, Short & Sweet, Polyamory, Polyamorous Character, Canon polyamorous relationship, Canon Queer Character, Canon Queer Character of Color, Canon Queer Relationship, Friendship/Love, Families of Choice, Bisexual Wolfgang Bogdanow, implied bisexual rajan rasal, Queer-platonic relationships Summary:

A couple of short one-shots focusing on cuddling, snuggling, and the importance thereof

[internerdionality]

And it’s so deliberate, is the thing. Rajan is such a classic character, the Other Guy from every Hallmark movie, the handsome, rich asshole who should be perfect for the heroine except that she doesn’t love him. They set it up perfectly for you to hate Rajan.

Except that… Every time he’s about to so the thing that will cement him in our minds as That Guy we love to hate, the script subverts it. He learns, and he grows, and we do it with him, until we dins ourself loving him right along with Kala. It’s so brilliantly done.

Every time I watch this show, I am struck by how easy it would’ve been for them to make Rajan the absolute worst. They could’ve had the easiest possible route to make him just a terrible person and a bad prospect and make the good qualities he projects into this facade and shell.

And they didn’t!

Instead they were like “he is from privilege, and he sometimes is drawn to play by the same fucked up rules that allowed his family privilege, but he loves and adores this woman, not to spite his father but because of her.” And when he finds out about the other sensates and he finds out about Wolfgang he decides he loves his wife more than anything hinky in this situation, and he also kinda, when given the opportunity, realises he also loves her criminal empire German boyfriend, and I love him

[archipelago-siren]

My Sense8 hyperfocus is back and yes, the show is definitely not without it's problems - but it was amazing representation for so many non heterosexual and amatonormative relationships, and Interracial relationships.

By the end of the show we had not 1 but 2!Polyamorous Queerplatonic relationships.

(Lito, Hernado and Daniella) (Kala, Rajan and Wolfgang)

This is a Netflix show!!

Out of the Cluster, there was only 1 CisHet monogamous relationship (Sun and Mun) which is statistically the norm.

The Wachowskis went "fuck these societal standards, we're giving people this well needed representation" !!

.

I was introduced to this show by my very CisHet Gen X Dad. This show became almost a life support for so many queer people, but equally as important an olive branch for our family members and friends to become better Allys. It is and will continue to be one of my dearest pieces of media.

[heavensenthale]

#and there was only one bed (polyamory edition)

You Me Her - Emma x Izzy x Jack

Sense8 - Rajan x Kala x Wolfgang

Gossip Girl - Aki x Audrey x Max

Sense8 - Lito x Hernando x Dani

3 will be free - Neo x Miw x Shin

The bastard son & the devil himself - Annalise x Nathan Gabriel

[lazyexceptwhencooking]

Literally my exact thoughts! Plus the fact that these types of storylines take away a character’s agency. Kala had a tough decision to make but then a convenient turn of events made it so she didn’t have to anymore. Tragic.

see, here’s the thing. my feelings about fandom’s old platitude of how ugh, wouldn’t it be MUCH better if love triangles were resolved by joining everyone in a polytriad?!? aside (triangles have a point, so that is hardly fit for every single one. also messiness is fine. hell, a good triad storyline could be messy as fuck and the better for it, why is it always proposed as a “peaceful” resolution)… that’s just not what Sense8 did with Kalagang + Rajan.

maybe they intended to develop an ot3 from the beginning or maybe not, and maybe if they’d had more time to develop it properly it could’ve been better, or maybe not. but imo, it lacked the set up of a love triangle in the first place.

I’m of the mind that a lot of love triangles are pretty obviously staked in one of the part’s favour from the beginning, on a Doylist level. you can easily see the pattern they follow (spoiler: it’s often misogyny; although sometimes other kinds of bigotry appear to spice things up!). but on a Watsonian level there’s supposed to be… more.

the thing is, with the show’s set-up, what we had is this: Rajan was the appropriate man. the catch. the rich, politically well-connected man Kala has more in common with and everyone and their mother is pressuring her to marry. everything about him is perfect on paper! and yet. Kala isn’t feeling it. there’s no *spark*. she’s going through the motions (even future father in law saw it and tried to cancel the wedding!).

Wolfgang could not be MORE inappropriate for Kala. they couldn’t be more different. worlds apart, in more ways than one. absolutely inconvenient when everything about Rajan is studiously so.

but when she sees him? FIRE. pure, pure fire. they’re drawn to one another despite how mismatched they seem at first sight (until you dig a little deeper). the passion is of the charts and as much as they might try sometimes, they just can’t stay away. when one is in danger, the other loses their SHIT.

if this was a set-up where Kala, Wolfgang, AND Rajan were all central characters, you could get away with calling this a love triangle. but the reality is that Kala and Wolfgang are main characters, and Rajan is a few steps down that ladder.

so is the result a love triangle? or… is this a set-up that screams “Kalagang are the EPIC, FOR THE AGES TRUE LOVE, and Rajan is the obstacle that must be overcome: a man Kala is marrying out of a sense of duty at beast, and simple inertia and boredom with her own life or inability to direct it at worse”?

and I know the show was praised to hell and back for NOT following up on this, and instead going with something ~quirkier and unique, more unexpected; for “subverting the audience’s expectations”. that can be a good thing! although it still irks me how a lot of the praise seemed to be about how Rajan wasn’t villified to prop Kalagang. that’s a good thing for Rajan’s character and the optics that would’ve resulted in such a choice (in a show that was already spotty regarding race, let’s be honest).

but a.) despite the fact that, yes, “husband mistreats or disappoints wife” is a trite, all too common phenomenon in our world, that doesn’t mean it’s inherently bad to tell such a story, or that it can’t be done in a compelling way, and these conversations always acted like it was so. and b.) Rajan being a good man does not mean getting married to him and staying married to him were good choices for Kala. love isn’t a debt you incurr in when someone’s kind to you and/or fundamentally decent to others.

the resolution of this story seemed to hinge into, “love is not finite. there is plenty to spare, and we need to expand our minds when it comes to it”. that’s a lovely sentiment, but with these three it didn’t quite land for me the way it did with other dynamics. and each time I rewatch a little I walk away with a poorer impression of it. it doesn’t quite *click*; the pieces don’t fit together. and I don’t think lack of time due to the cancellation and a rushed finale are solely to blame for that. like, yeah, it’s cute, it’s funny (Rajan’s actor is pretty great at all that); it’s quirky. but I don’t find it effective.

the set-up of Kala’s own feelings is at the epicenter of it. and I just… can’t actually buy they changed in nature. she grows to care for Rajan, to respect him and appreciate him and see him as a honourable man. but “you can love many people equally, if not in the same ways” falls completely flat here, because the difference in her feelings for Wolfgang and her feelings for Rajan are a matter of both quantity and quality. it’s a different love, and a lesser love for it; it’s being built up like that from the start. she’s so lukewarm about Rajan, especially in comparison to how she feels for Wolfgang, that it’s borderline painful and definitely awkward to see. even the way the camera shoots them vs. Kalagang scenes is wildly different, empathising the mundanality of one pair and the ~~epicness of the other.

tl;dr, my problem is that, at no point during the show, do I believe Kala has romantic feelings, let alone some with true depth, for Rajan. which means seeing them set up as a triad (or even a balanced V-shaped relationship with occasional threesomes lol) just… doesn’t convince me. at all.

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

CANON POLYCULE SHOWDOWN

this is a contest for canonically confirmed polycules or polycules that have a lot of hints to a possibility of them being canon, even if the authors might not have intended that way!

Beware of spoilers!! Some of these only become polycules later in the media they're from, and some of the descriptions describe a tragic fate for the polycule, so keep in mind there will be spoilers

rules can be found here

bracket can be found here

honorable mentions can be found here

links for all the match ups as they go live can be found in the MASTERPOST. it will be updated each round, but i will also tag every round to make them easier to find

help me w descriptions for the honorable mentions!

Round 2 part 2 finished.

Round 3 will go live on May 19th!

(#canonround2 or #pollycule if you want to search for the polls)

tags:

#canonpolyculeshowdown - for relevant updates and the polls

#pollycule - (yes double L) specifically for the showdown polls, to make it easier to find. doesn't include the prelims cause I only thought to add this after, sorry

#canonpropaganda - for, well, propaganda. ill post asks, reblog posts and maybe reblog reblogs

#honorablemention - for the ships that did not make it in (i will still make a post introducing all of them)

#tournamnt poll - the generally agreed on tag for blacklisting purposes. let me know if i forget to use it! i cant edit polls but it will remind me for the following round

#canonroundN - N being the number of the round we're in. so, for example: canonround0, canonround1, canonround2, etc. from the quarterfinals onwards, they'll also include the specific tag (#quarterfinals, etc). Check the post's tags for that ome if you want to look at all polls from that round!

list may be updated as needed.

if you submitted something that did not get in, nor was it posted as an honorable mention, and you wish to know why, feel free to send an ask.

LIST OF CONTESTANTS:

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula (Hunger Pangs)

Rilla/Arum/Damien (Penumbra Podcast)

Nathan/Gabriel/Annalise (The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself)

Ben/Ryn/Maddie (Siren Freeform)

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (High Noon Over Camelot)

Quanxi/Pingsti/Cosmo/Long/Tsugihagi (Chainsaw Man)

Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi (Iron Widow)

Caleb/Astrid/Eadwulf (Critical Role)

Sadie/Walt/Anubis (The Kane Chronicles)

Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala (Sense8)

Princess Glisselda/Seraphina/Lucien (Seraphina)

Tess/Jacomo/Margarethe (Tess of the Road)

Logan/Jean Grey/Scott/Emma (X-Men)

Uzui/Hinatsuru/Makio/Suma (Demon Slayer)

Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus (Hades)

Dianda/Simon/Patrick (October Daye)

Haruka/Michiru/Setsuna (Sailor Moon)

Asmodeus Alice/Clara Valac/Iruma Suzuki (Mairimashita, Iruma-kun!)

Aizo/Yujiro/Hiyori (HoneyWorks)

Kyle/Rogelio/Lonnie (She Ra)

Dashawn/Steve/Jose/Cupe R III/Otto/Arturo/Gregory/Quackers McQuack (Bojack Horseman)

Fluorite (Steven Universe)

Miss Piggy/Kermit/Gonzo (Muppets)

Sherlock/Watson/Mary (Sherlock Holmes movies)

Ichika Hoshino/Saki Tenma/Shiho Hinomori/Honami Mochizuki (Project SEKAI)

Tree Trunks/Mr. Pig/Alien Husband (Adventure Time)

Daniel/Sam/Jack/Teal’c (Stargate SG-1)

Mukai Naoya/Saki Saki/Nagisa Minase (Kanojo mo Kanojo/Girlfriend Girlfriend)

Eddie/Venom/Anne/Dan (Venom)

Peter Quill/Aradia/Mors (Guardians of the Galaxy)

George/Gilda/Thomas (Design for Living)

Leif/Thorn/Kale (Leif and Thorn)

Kieran/Ray/Gemma (Trigonometry)

Eugene/Rapunzel/Cassandra (Tangled the Series)

Jack/August/Rina (The Wicker King)

La’gann/Coral/Rodunn (Young Justice)

Syenite/Innon/Alabaster (Broken Earth)

Enrique/Hypnos/Sofia (The Gilded Wolves)

Max/Jack/Anne (Black Sails)

Pyrrha/Commander Wake/Gideon the First (The Locked Tomb)

Neptune/Venus/Jupiter (We Know the Devil)

Quincey/Jack/Arthur/Lucy (Dracula)

Amber/Reese/David (Adaptation)

Will/Tessa/Jem (The Infernal Devices)

Kieran/Cristina/Mark (The Dark Artifices)

Winter/Moon/Qibli (Wings of Fire)

Camille/Nyra/Dendro (Muted)

Sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia)

Neal/Peter/Elizabeth (White Collar)

Turtle Heart/Melena/Frex (Wicked)

Emiya/Saber/Rin (Fate Stay/Night)

Sofiane/Victor/Luisa (Mortel)

Taylor/Theo/Josey (3)

Jack/Emma/Izzy (You Me Her)

Keiko/Miles/Kira (Star Trek)

Jade/Dave/Karkat (Homestuck Epilogues)

Anzu/Kazuki/Junta (Romantic Killers)

Shikimori/Izumi/Ai (Shikimori is Not Just Cute)

Camina/Michio Pa/Josep/Serge/Berthold/Oksana (The Expanse)

Breq/Mercy of Kalr/Seivarden/Ekalu (Imperial Radch)

Roguish Semiotician/Infamous Mathematician/Player Character (Fallen London)

Alphonse/Seth/Listener (Bittersweet)

Storm/Helen/Mira (Love and Luck Podcast)

Nicky/Joe/Andy/Booker/Niles (The Old Guard)

[dinomighty]

Am I considering writing a Sense8 Regency AU? Where Kala is married to Rajan and does not love him yet, but Wolfgang turns up and she is drawn to him. He's actually a thief hired to scope out houses in the area and they fall for each other, and then Kala is blackmailed by Wolfgang's boss to get him into these houses but she goes to Rajan in distress and guilt and of course it all ends up OT3.

Yes, I am actually considering writing this *facepalm*

[shellynelsonlahey]

PROMPT — March 14th, Sedoretu (Changed to Envelope)

Summary: Wolfgang has to fly back to Germany, and Kala and Rajan send him off with love letters for the plane ride back.

— — —

“I’ll keep this short because otherwise I'll write a twenty page love letter and Rajan doesn’t want me to make his “worthless” so with that, I love you, Wolfgang, and I’ll talk to you later.”