Were it me, I'd probably be torn between going "heck with it" and... A: just presuming that the universe has a certain requirement from a character and the survivor gets to do that. If little Aral-in-that-timeline had survived, he'd have been more het than not. Or...
B: picking something different. Asexual, Kinsey-flipping, etc., or depending on the story, just leave it ambiguous.
Or C, as bookblather alludes to above: assume some of it is societal, and something in the family upbringing (they did have Betan relatives!) means all the siblings would've been open to the potential of having same-gender relationships, even if their primary attraction was opposite-gender. (Which is kind of a Kinsey-flip thing, but more taken in stride than as a surprise. Betans!)
(...which I tried to do with a protagonist once -- give him a societal acceptance of certain kinds of experiences -- and he wound up being much more bi than I'd thought he was at the beginning. The perils of running black-box character emulation in one's head. *wry*)
Meh, it's all "what I'd do." Can't tell what would work for you! Don't want to be pushy (the idea is interesting to play with!), either, so I do apologize if I'm coming off that way.
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Date: 2015-06-18 01:19 am (UTC)Were it me, I'd probably be torn between going "heck with it" and...
A: just presuming that the universe has a certain requirement from a character and the survivor gets to do that. If little Aral-in-that-timeline had survived, he'd have been more het than not. Or...
B: picking something different. Asexual, Kinsey-flipping, etc., or depending on the story, just leave it ambiguous.
Or C, as bookblather alludes to above: assume some of it is societal, and something in the family upbringing (they did have Betan relatives!) means all the siblings would've been open to the potential of having same-gender relationships, even if their primary attraction was opposite-gender. (Which is kind of a Kinsey-flip thing, but more taken in stride than as a surprise. Betans!)
(...which I tried to do with a protagonist once -- give him a societal acceptance of certain kinds of experiences -- and he wound up being much more bi than I'd thought he was at the beginning. The perils of running black-box character emulation in one's head. *wry*)
Meh, it's all "what I'd do." Can't tell what would work for you! Don't want to be pushy (the idea is interesting to play with!), either, so I do apologize if I'm coming off that way.