I think they ought to. Probably little in the way of "equal balance", but that's true in real life, too.
Yeah. You won't see me advocate that half or even one-tenth of a cast should be gay or bi, not unless the fictional world has its own sex and gender norms that embrace fluidity or a third sex or something like that. But out of a cast of, say, seventy characters, there ought to be a few characters that aren't het, and Tellius provides exactly that.
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.
And I find that a particularly suspect interpretation for Fire Emblem given that many characters from the second game on explicitly default to "unmarried and happy that way." Mind you, when fanfic writers default to "everyone's gay!" that'll irk me, too.
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Date: 2012-10-08 11:13 am (UTC)Yeah. You won't see me advocate that half or even one-tenth of a cast should be gay or bi, not unless the fictional world has its own sex and gender norms that embrace fluidity or a third sex or something like that. But out of a cast of, say, seventy characters, there ought to be a few characters that aren't het, and Tellius provides exactly that.
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.
And I find that a particularly suspect interpretation for Fire Emblem given that many characters from the second game on explicitly default to "unmarried and happy that way." Mind you, when fanfic writers default to "everyone's gay!" that'll irk me, too.