Sailor §trange

The other thing that I always think of during those discussions is that the people discussing whether a character is straight or gay assume that the writer must really deeply believe the pairing or orientation they're writing. Which isn't always the case. I write what I think would be interesting, what catches my fancy -- so I might be inspired to write Cid straight one day, gay the next, asexual the third and swinging like a barn door the fourth, because I think that canon can be interpreted in different ways, or just because I think it'd be interesting. Trying to talk me out of straight Cid on day one or gay Cid on day two is going to be an exercise in futility, not because I'm entrenched in my beliefs but because I don't actually have that strong an opinion. There's nothing to talk me out of. I might agree that Cid reads as straight (or gay), but still write the other way because I have an idea and I think I can make it plausible. I'm just playing with ideas, seeing what makes an interesting story.