Do characters with both paired het and paired same-sex endings count? I think they ought to. Probably little in the way of "equal balance", but that's true in real life, too. Off the top of my head, I'd say Lyon counts (explaining away the "love" for Ephraim and not for Eirika smells like your 1 and 2, there, even if it is just another symptom of crazy for him). Lyn, probably. Florina, yeah, though she's so much more "romantic" with Lyn that I'd buy Hector as security and nothing more as fan interpretation. Eirika's female interactions are kind of suspect to me, too, but I'm tired and don't feel like digging up text right now. (She and Tana do have an ending, IIRC, though.) Lucia's another case, IMO, though it's less same-sex ending and more she's all Elincia all the time no matter wtf you do.
...okay, so it looks like off the top of my head it's only nice for ladies.
It's easy in fandom to default to "everybody's bi", of course, just for ease of crack pairings and other funtimes. But if we're talking about actual text, and not defaulting to "everyone is interested in the opposite gender, even if you don't see it"-- which I think is a stupid default assumption anyway-- then it gets tricky.
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Date: 2012-10-08 05:07 am (UTC)I think they ought to. Probably little in the way of "equal balance", but that's true in real life, too.
Off the top of my head, I'd say Lyon counts (explaining away the "love" for Ephraim and not for Eirika smells like your 1 and 2, there, even if it is just another symptom of crazy for him). Lyn, probably. Florina, yeah, though she's so much more "romantic" with Lyn that I'd buy Hector as security and nothing more as fan interpretation. Eirika's female interactions are kind of suspect to me, too, but I'm tired and don't feel like digging up text right now. (She and Tana do have an ending, IIRC, though.) Lucia's another case, IMO, though it's less same-sex ending and more she's all Elincia all the time no matter wtf you do.
...okay, so it looks like off the top of my head it's only nice for ladies.
It's easy in fandom to default to "everybody's bi", of course, just for ease of crack pairings and other funtimes. But if we're talking about actual text, and not defaulting to "everyone is interested in the opposite gender, even if you don't see it"-- which I think is a stupid default assumption anyway-- then it gets tricky.