When looking at characters for fic writing, I tend to assume some form of bisexuality. Some of that is my reaction to having seen other fans assume that a given character's sexuality has to be either/or rather than and. I get irritated with slashers who want to eliminate heterosexual attraction *and* with het fans who insist that their favorite characters couldn't possibly be attracted to a member of the same sex. (I have more sympathy for gen fans who want to keep all the sex and romance out of their stories.) The rest of my assumption is basically a why not? feeling. After all, we don't see every bit of a character's life in any canon. Most of them could be bisexual, particularly repressed bisexual, as easily as anything else.
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Date: 2009-04-02 12:27 pm (UTC)When looking at characters for fic writing, I tend to assume some form of bisexuality. Some of that is my reaction to having seen other fans assume that a given character's sexuality has to be either/or rather than and. I get irritated with slashers who want to eliminate heterosexual attraction *and* with het fans who insist that their favorite characters couldn't possibly be attracted to a member of the same sex. (I have more sympathy for gen fans who want to keep all the sex and romance out of their stories.) The rest of my assumption is basically a why not? feeling. After all, we don't see every bit of a character's life in any canon. Most of them could be bisexual, particularly repressed bisexual, as easily as anything else.