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My main character, Eris, in my post-apocalyptic novel is queer. Her first love interest, Caspian, is male, but further on in the story I'm going to introduce a secondary love interest, Marina. As far as the reader knows, Eris is straight, because the only person she has expressed romantic interest in is Caspian, a guy. So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways without the reader being confused by the time she, Marina, and Caspian are in a love triangle?

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  if you were yourself is such a situation I imagine you wouldn't immediately understand your feelings as your sexuality shifts. Writing the characters own confusion during the transition seems a straight forward solution
  
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  @bruglesco no, and my comment refers to the transitory confusion between one sexuality and another not that a sexual preference is confused
  
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  @BKlassen The reader perhaps being confused is not the same as the character being confused. Sexuality is not binary! Bisexuality (and pansexuality) is not a fringe state of being. It's common and mainstream. The only confusion is from people who don't understand what bisexuality means!
  
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My main character, Eris, in my post-apocalyptic novel is queer. Her first love interest, Caspian, is male, but further on in the story I'm going to introduce a secondary love interest, Marina. As far as the reader knows, Eris is straight, because the only person she has expressed romantic interest in is Caspian, a guy. So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways without the reader being confused by the time she, Marina, and Caspian are in a love triangle?

creative-writing characters character-development

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asked 1 hour ago

weakdnaweakdna

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  if you were yourself is such a situation I imagine you wouldn't immediately understand your feelings as your sexuality shifts. Writing the characters own confusion during the transition seems a straight forward solution
  
  – BKlassen
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @BKlassen bisexuality isn't necessarily confusion.
  
  – bruglesco
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Are you looking for foreshadowing, so the reveal doesn't feel forced or abrupt? Or casual, as @Amadeus answered?
  
  – bruglesco
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  @bruglesco no, and my comment refers to the transitory confusion between one sexuality and another not that a sexual preference is confused
  
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  @BKlassen The reader perhaps being confused is not the same as the character being confused. Sexuality is not binary! Bisexuality (and pansexuality) is not a fringe state of being. It's common and mainstream. The only confusion is from people who don't understand what bisexuality means!
  
  – Cyn
  47 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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My main character, Eris, in my post-apocalyptic novel is queer. Her first love interest, Caspian, is male, but further on in the story I'm going to introduce a secondary love interest, Marina. As far as the reader knows, Eris is straight, because the only person she has expressed romantic interest in is Caspian, a guy. So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways without the reader being confused by the time she, Marina, and Caspian are in a love triangle?

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So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways ...

Casually! Have a conversation between Eris and Caspian, perhaps in bed, talking about sex.

An Example:

Caspian asked, "When was your first time? Like, full on?"

"With a girl, I guess full on means oral, so I was fifteen, I had this thing with a friend at school. Then she got religion and dumped me. Not with a guy until I was seventeen. I mean, I was willing, but no good candidates. And you?"

"When I was eighteen, with Elly. You know her?"

"Know her?" Eris laughed. "I would totally fuck that girl. Was she any good?"

"Yeah, I mean, we didn't know anything, but yeah. Very ... energetic."

Eris saw him grinning, and laughed again.

The conversation is casual pillow talk, Caspian is not surprised Eris is bisexual, Eris doesn't hesitate to reveal it.

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  This is a book for teenagers and Eris has been isolated her whole life, she hasn't had any romantic experience besides her crush on Caspian. Eris is sixteen.
  
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  @weakdna "This is a book for teenagers" - I'm afraid we are misinterpreting the meaning of "casually" in your question :)
  
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I don't think you need to show anything special at all.

Lots of people have multiple love interests (or hookups) over the course of a novel. In some novels, it's the premise.

If a character's first relationship in the novel was to a tall blond German runner, you wouldn't think your readers would be confused when the next relationship is with a short bald Nigerian physics professor.

Let your reader be confused. Most readers will figure it out pretty quickly. The few that don't, well, they're the readers that wouldn't really get it after you explained it either.

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You can add subtle hints in the way Eris interacts with the other women in the story. It is not entirely unusual for women in our current culture to compliment each other's looks. You can add a very slight tint of sexuality to act as a hint.

Something like:

That shirt really makes your boobs look good.

(I'm a straight man, so I may not have the best voice for a bisexual girl and it's a post-appocolyptic world so they probably aren't talking about fashion, but you get the idea)

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So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways ...

Casually! Have a conversation between Eris and Caspian, perhaps in bed, talking about sex.

An Example:

Caspian asked, "When was your first time? Like, full on?"

"With a girl, I guess full on means oral, so I was fifteen, I had this thing with a friend at school. Then she got religion and dumped me. Not with a guy until I was seventeen. I mean, I was willing, but no good candidates. And you?"

"When I was eighteen, with Elly. You know her?"

"Know her?" Eris laughed. "I would totally fuck that girl. Was she any good?"

"Yeah, I mean, we didn't know anything, but yeah. Very ... energetic."

Eris saw him grinning, and laughed again.

The conversation is casual pillow talk, Caspian is not surprised Eris is bisexual, Eris doesn't hesitate to reveal it.

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answered 1 hour ago

AmadeusAmadeus

52.9k467172

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  This is a book for teenagers and Eris has been isolated her whole life, she hasn't had any romantic experience besides her crush on Caspian. Eris is sixteen.
  
  – weakdna
  45 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @weakdna "This is a book for teenagers" - I'm afraid we are misinterpreting the meaning of "casually" in your question :)
  
  – Alexander
  21 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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3

So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways ...

Casually! Have a conversation between Eris and Caspian, perhaps in bed, talking about sex.

An Example:

Caspian asked, "When was your first time? Like, full on?"

"With a girl, I guess full on means oral, so I was fifteen, I had this thing with a friend at school. Then she got religion and dumped me. Not with a guy until I was seventeen. I mean, I was willing, but no good candidates. And you?"

"When I was eighteen, with Elly. You know her?"

"Know her?" Eris laughed. "I would totally fuck that girl. Was she any good?"

"Yeah, I mean, we didn't know anything, but yeah. Very ... energetic."

Eris saw him grinning, and laughed again.

The conversation is casual pillow talk, Caspian is not surprised Eris is bisexual, Eris doesn't hesitate to reveal it.

share|improve this answer

answered 1 hour ago

AmadeusAmadeus

52.9k467172

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  This is a book for teenagers and Eris has been isolated her whole life, she hasn't had any romantic experience besides her crush on Caspian. Eris is sixteen.
  
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  45 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @weakdna "This is a book for teenagers" - I'm afraid we are misinterpreting the meaning of "casually" in your question :)
  
  – Alexander
  21 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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So how can I believably and casually show that Eris swings both ways ...

Casually! Have a conversation between Eris and Caspian, perhaps in bed, talking about sex.

An Example:

Caspian asked, "When was your first time? Like, full on?"

"With a girl, I guess full on means oral, so I was fifteen, I had this thing with a friend at school. Then she got religion and dumped me. Not with a guy until I was seventeen. I mean, I was willing, but no good candidates. And you?"

"When I was eighteen, with Elly. You know her?"

"Know her?" Eris laughed. "I would totally fuck that girl. Was she any good?"

"Yeah, I mean, we didn't know anything, but yeah. Very ... energetic."

Eris saw him grinning, and laughed again.

The conversation is casual pillow talk, Caspian is not surprised Eris is bisexual, Eris doesn't hesitate to reveal it.

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answered 1 hour ago

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I don't think you need to show anything special at all.

Lots of people have multiple love interests (or hookups) over the course of a novel. In some novels, it's the premise.

If a character's first relationship in the novel was to a tall blond German runner, you wouldn't think your readers would be confused when the next relationship is with a short bald Nigerian physics professor.

Let your reader be confused. Most readers will figure it out pretty quickly. The few that don't, well, they're the readers that wouldn't really get it after you explained it either.

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answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

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I don't think you need to show anything special at all.

Lots of people have multiple love interests (or hookups) over the course of a novel. In some novels, it's the premise.

If a character's first relationship in the novel was to a tall blond German runner, you wouldn't think your readers would be confused when the next relationship is with a short bald Nigerian physics professor.

Let your reader be confused. Most readers will figure it out pretty quickly. The few that don't, well, they're the readers that wouldn't really get it after you explained it either.

share|improve this answer

answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

12.8k12763

add a comment | 

I don't think you need to show anything special at all.

Lots of people have multiple love interests (or hookups) over the course of a novel. In some novels, it's the premise.

If a character's first relationship in the novel was to a tall blond German runner, you wouldn't think your readers would be confused when the next relationship is with a short bald Nigerian physics professor.

Let your reader be confused. Most readers will figure it out pretty quickly. The few that don't, well, they're the readers that wouldn't really get it after you explained it either.

share|improve this answer

answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

12.8k12763

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answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

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answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

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answered 42 mins ago

CynCyn

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You can add subtle hints in the way Eris interacts with the other women in the story. It is not entirely unusual for women in our current culture to compliment each other's looks. You can add a very slight tint of sexuality to act as a hint.

Something like:

That shirt really makes your boobs look good.

(I'm a straight man, so I may not have the best voice for a bisexual girl and it's a post-appocolyptic world so they probably aren't talking about fashion, but you get the idea)

share|improve this answer

answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

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You can add subtle hints in the way Eris interacts with the other women in the story. It is not entirely unusual for women in our current culture to compliment each other's looks. You can add a very slight tint of sexuality to act as a hint.

Something like:

That shirt really makes your boobs look good.

(I'm a straight man, so I may not have the best voice for a bisexual girl and it's a post-appocolyptic world so they probably aren't talking about fashion, but you get the idea)

share|improve this answer

answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

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add a comment | 

You can add subtle hints in the way Eris interacts with the other women in the story. It is not entirely unusual for women in our current culture to compliment each other's looks. You can add a very slight tint of sexuality to act as a hint.

Something like:

That shirt really makes your boobs look good.

(I'm a straight man, so I may not have the best voice for a bisexual girl and it's a post-appocolyptic world so they probably aren't talking about fashion, but you get the idea)

share|improve this answer

answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

1,452329

share|improve this answer

answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

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answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

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answered 30 mins ago

bruglescobruglesco

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