why am i awake

[superxgrlfriend.livejournal.com]

Sexuality is infinitely complex and variable. It's a subject on which many papers have been published, debates have been waged, hypotheses defended, etc etc etc. NO DEBATES HERE, THOUGH. JUST A QUESTION (WHICH I KNOW HAS BEEN POSED BEFORE BUT IT WAS A REALLY LONG TIME AGO):

If you had to put your character on the Kinsey scale (whether you believe in its validity or not), where would he or she fall? Why?

Here, have a pretty table I stole from wikipedia:

Comments

[pinkdoombubble.livejournal.com]

WELP UH HERE WE GO

Mew - see, uh... despite the being in a human body what is female thing, Mew doesn't identify particularly well as either gender. See: there are those who ID her as male in canon. So as it stands? An X. If she starts identifying as a human though, she's probably going to end up a 3. Because it doesn't really seem like she'd mind as long as the person is nice.

Ravage - LOL OH GOD can I go with BFFsexual /avoids answering this

Ema - I actually don't know what I want to play Ema as here. I've played her at a 4 before, and at a 2, but uh... idk. Probably 2, just because. Or we could go with sciencesexual, that would be about right too.

Regulus - X forever unless someone comes in who catches his interest or something HE DOESN'T LIKE HUMANS LIKE THAT OKAY

Physis - Bluesexual, there is no other option

[meowminx.livejournal.com]

I'd put Selina at a 1. While she's only ever really been shown to be interested in men as an adult, she basically LOATHED men until she was 19 and met (not Tony) Stark. Not to mention how touchy feely she was when reunited with her childhood BFF Sylvia. So basically, I'd say teenage experimentation until she figured out she did prefer men and there were "real" men out there.

And shipping her with Holly squicks me about as much as shipping her with her ACTUAL sister. Sharing a bed in a hotel room on vacation does not equal having sex with someone who's basically a family member :/

[ascending_angel]

Hm. I hate the numbers 6 or 0. I'm going to go with 1 for both Warren and for Roberto.

My reasons for that are actually pretty similar for them both and that's that they are two very self aware and very sexual people. I don't think either of them would ever have relationships with men or just go out and look for a man to sleep with, but that wouldn't stop them from enjoying extra attention if they just randomly got it someday. I can see this moreso for Warren than Roberto, really, but when it comes to Guthrie? Seriously. Roberto's metre tips just a little since epic bromance is of epic proportions

[satisfiedsigner]

Kiryu is a 4. Because there are no women in Satellite. He likes attention, and it doesn't really matter to him where he gets it from. As long as it's not completely superficial attention; he wants to be appreciated for who he is, because he has some deep-seeded insecurities there.

He is, however, more attracted aesthetically to the menfolk. Because his old team that he secretly really misses was all attractive men.

[hackeralastair]

All-male teammates, all the time. :D

[shockheadedpete.livejournal.com]

Pete is a 1. Maybe even a 1.5. He's just seen so much crazy kinky porn that nothing sexual seems abnormal to him anymore. Except dogs and hookers. Seriously though, his collection back home included flicks where neither party even had a gender. He puts more importance on being liked by women, though.

Mothchan is an X.

[nineinches.livejournal.com]

Fff. I don't brlieve anyone can be totally exclusively one thing or the other, so I'm going to say... 1. Or 0.5. I can't see Kyle hooking up with a guy in a lot of situations, because he's so woman-oriented in general anyway. Maybe if the world pulled a Y the Last Man and offed every woman? I don't know.

[reformedrogue.livejournal.com]

YOU USED THAT ICON ON PURPOSE

Look, Jason occasionally looms behind people. HE LEARNED IT FROM BRUCE. ... The smirking is all him, though.

[gamblers.livejournal.com]

Sexuality is so fluid that I don't feel right posting whether or not they are definitely something, but...

Yuugi is a 1, occasionally 2 or 3. Yuugi has a really, really big crush on Anzu. He likes thinking about her panties and also enjoys porn, even though it's Japanese and censors everything. However, he's in a ridiculous shonen series, and some of the things he says is extremely camp and could have different interpretations (to the point where even the fucking editor interpreted a scene wrong). He also has the best bromance with Jounouchi.

THIS MEANS I PLAY ONE OF THE VERY FEW STRAIGHT YUUGI'S ON LJ RP. (I thought I was the only one but a secret a month back proved me wrong!)

As for the other Yuugi, well... He's an X. It comes along with the whole being dead thing! :P It's possible to make a case he's a one or two too, and that likes Anzu just as much as Yuugi does, but I don't think it's possible for him to advance on those feelings in the current situation. He respects Yuugi (and subsequently Yuugi's body) too much. This is a guy who asks permission to take over his body, ok. SO HIS LOVE IS FOREVER PLATONIC FOR EVERYONE EVER

HAHA, as for Sherry some chick I apparently have but haven't introduced yet: Sherry is difficult to pin down! She flirts with both Yuusei and Aki (but Aki a bit more... suggestively?) without a problem. Sherry doesn't seem care about gender roles, because she dresses like a man and is rather manly in build, but keeps her hair long. The only time we see her actually dress feminine was when she was 8 or she's incognito. By all means she's an X, because her mission comes first! WHO KNOWS! I play her around a 3 or 4.

[nineinches.livejournal.com]

Sexuality is so fluid that I don't feel right posting whether or not they are definitely something, but...

drive-by omg ilu

[liverletdie]

O. Kay. Here we go.

Tony is a zero. A big, fat, honking zero. Billionaire Playboy doesn't really say much more than that. As far as sex is concerned, he's definitely a zero. He loves women, everything about women. Marvel's even said, and I quote, he's constantly horny, so if he were anything...but a zero, I think he would have acted on it. I mean, Tony doesn't seem the kind of guy that has many inhibitions when it comes to sex, and he's quite liberal socially, so if he were even remotely interested in guys, he probably would have done them.

Mara is probably a 1 or a 1.5. She was trained in every art to get the mission done, and I'm sure that may have transferred over to some missions, so incidentally homosexual, but she does like men.

Mitchell. BKV BE TROLLIN' AT THIS POINT. This wouldn't be a huge issue, as with some characters who are never given a romantic interest, except for the fact that it's a point of canon that you just don't know. He's not expressed interest either way, and the last issue goes one way, and then it goes the other. For all we know, he could be robosexual since getting his powers, asexual, gay, or straight. There's a scene where he tells Kremlin to tell Bradbury that he loves him, but then there's a date with Suzanne. I ALWAYS LEAVE THIS ONE BLANK FOR A REASON. Who knows, he could just be bi.

Illidan is a 0. Harem, people. He has a fucking harem. Also, Tyrande.

Allison I think is probably a 2.5 to a 3. This is more based on the homosexuality is genetic, as Max is canonically bisexual, but I don't think she's really explored her sexuality yet. She crushes on boys, but I think she probably could find a girl sexually appealing if she got along well enough with them.

[deadredbird.livejournal.com]

GO MITCHELL. AMBIGUITY IS HOT.

Anzu-mun, btw!

[inuyashanohime.livejournal.com]

Anzu's...Anzu's pretty much a 0. Maaaaaaaaaybe a 1.

I can't really see any situations where it might be construed as anything else, especially in the canon I'm taking her from--it doesn't help though that she hangs around all guys and in canon has next to no girls to hang around with. That, and she has a pretty big crush on the Other Yuugi (and Yuugi as well, but I'll leave that ramble-fest for another day).

[gamblers.livejournal.com]

I SURE DO LOVE IT WHEN MANGAKA GO "OH YEAH THE THREESOME IS CANON TOODLES"

You could make case that Toei Anzu is more 2? But manga Anzu is definitely 1-2 and Duel Monsters Anzu...

We won't talk about Duel Monsters Anzu.

[darkprophecies.livejournal.com]

Can I mark Raven as a 1.5 because I can't pick between 1 and 2...
Raven never gets romantically involved with females in Teen Titans, however I firmly believe with all my heart that if Kory had said "OH HEY LETS DO OTHERS THINGS THAN JUST SIT AROUND NAKED WITH ONE ANOTHER IN THIS TROPICAL PARADISE", she would have experimented there. I mean, she was ridiculously reserved, and then suddenly NAKED WATERFALL SHOWERS WITH KORY.

But I do know she's very close to a point of not really seeing gender. Not QUITE there, but close. If someone loves someone else, who cares what their gender is? And that's where she stands always.





* Actually I should change my opinion to 'She's Kory-sexual' but that's everyone.

[supergabbie.livejournal.com]

Well, going by this Kinsey scale,

NORMAN is a 1. Maybe a 1.5, but that's a stretch. There's at least three highly (and I don't use that term lightly) suspect relationships in canon I will not get into, but, indeed. Not that Norman would ever view or label himself as anything other than a 0, though.
FELICIA is a 2.5. She is bisexual, but with a preference towards men.
CHRONOS is a 0. I know, it's shocking.
ELECTRO is likewise a 2.5 or higher; bisexual but with an inclination towards women. That said, his capacity towards guys is probably much higher than Felicia's towards other women (at this point, anyway!).

Keeping this brief because otherwise I'd write essays on sexuality. But those numbers work well enough!

[grenadeball.livejournal.com]

3 OR 4

more 4 as of late because she has trouble being attracted to the same wide swath of men that she used to be after finding the perfect one for her

she likes what is different, really, what is strange and out of the norm, even out of the norms of the strange, and sometimes that means being attracted to normality? idk.

she's attracted to a lot more women than men here, although that may have something to do with the challenge of 'wanting what you can't have', in that a load of them are straight

but she's TOTALLY still attracted to lucifer and bruce banner, SO

[wondah.livejournal.com]

I am like going to ignore almost everyones answers because a part of me will want to debate

I know it

BECAUSE BEING BOY OR GIRL CRAZY DONT MEAN SHIYUT

So I will word this in phrasing i find the least problematic:


Princess Iolande: X-3, but go backwards on that list. I consider Iolande an asexual-bisexual, as she is more biromantic than she is sexual. It's not that I don't see Iolande liking sex or not wanting to engage in it, but from someone who grew up VERY desexualized like she must have been due to being in a strict monarchy surrounded by boys where she just had to play a virtuous figure, I'd say most of her sexuality has functionally developed into autosexuality -- she likes masturbating, she loves herself, and she turns herself on. I think Iolande is perfectly fine having an argument or debate or conversation or date with someone, getting really in the mood, then going home and masturbating. She's honestly totally fine and I just see her as having internalized-sexuality due to coping with everything.

I think she's just got a polymorphous sexuality and will go for anyone or anything that really interests her, but just because she's got that orientation doesn't mean she has no conservative hang-ups about sex. Because she does. A lot.


Donna Troy is, um, okay guys, anthropology nerd speaking but I believe Dr Helen Fisher (My role model!) in that we have various functionings of love: sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, companionate, compassionate, and parental ... and these types of love can function together or one can be sexually into boys but romantically into girls and et cetera et cetera (and it is a fluid domino effect -- being romantically into a girl can make you exceptionally sexually attracted to her, and being sexually attracted to a man can make you exceptionally bond with him emotionally) and whatnot.

So.

Donna's primary sexual and romantic functioning is underlied by her parental love. If she doesn't feel like a mother to you, chances are she won't bat an eyelash at you. Self-sufficient people who have no issues and don't need her in any way are great friends for her, but she doesn't really care to touch them. She likes babying, she likes prodding and helping them out and supporting them and this sets up a lot of the weiiiiiird abuse/rape apology she uh, has in her narrative sometimes, and why she tends to be put... with ...well not very good guys for her.

If Donna had to identify herself, she would put herself between 1.5 and 2. What she actually is by societal standards and even by her sexual and romantic history does not mean anything, it's how I think she'd identify. She has a strong tendency to "other" men in her mind, despite growing up with the Teen Titans boys and being a sister to all of them, and she always feels more instantly bonded with women. it is this differentiation between men because she so strongly identifies as woman that makes the exotic become the erotic.

So sexually and romantically, she gets more attracted to them. However, I do think she has romantic inclinations toward Kory that border a Boston Marriage.

And I think that if she met a girl who was a bit immature, really charming, artsy, misunderstood, derpy, and cute ... she'd be all over that. Especially if that girl had mommy issues.

Ahahhhhhh yeah.

JEAANN

[wondah.livejournal.com]

Jean Grey was a 1. The Phoenix, and who Jean Grey is now, is a 3 to me. The Phoenix is above many sorts of emotions and discrimination and discernations, and it seeks out what it feels it needs in others -- often times love and acceptance (even if it will do fucked up things to achieve this) and sees it all on a continuum of destruction and burning everything and yeah. Jean Grey as a human, aside from some girl crushes I could see her having on like, Wanda or ororoe or Lorna, was a 1 and just mostly attracted to men and very physically into them. She likes many different aspects of masculine beauty -- the rugged, wild form in Logan and the formerly slim-and-not-20-pack, athletic build of Scott. Heck, even intellectualism in men can turn her on to the point where she doesn't care if you're a blue furry thing.

But the Phoenix as it is does not discriminate in its desire, and then there's the whole Ultimate thing where Jean and the Phoenix are kind of uh "involved" which, I see, Jean feels very engulfed by it and connected with it and it's like two people making one whole person inside .. of one body, and Jean feels like it's both of them and that probably factors a lot into her ability to process emotions on an external, existential level and how she relates to others. Her desire and how she'd see the purpose of another person in her life would be so completely alien from how we're socialized to see it.

[olesia]

Man I can't even pin myself down on one of these scales so this'll be fun...

Ruka thinks she's an X, acts like a 0, but haha SHE'S TWELVE she can wind up anywhere on the scale depending on how this whole growing up thing goes for her. Thus far she's only shown reactions to guys—the blushing, stammering, the short infatuations—which will probably make Edgeworth's life hell when he realizes he's going to have to do background checks on every guy within a three-year-range of Ruka, because that's how easily she crushes. However, canon-Ruka hangs out with Aki all the damn time, and everyone on the planet has chemistry with Aki. So there's the potential for impossible-girlcrush there, which lol COULD lead to desires in the higher numbers, but who knows??

She doesn't really have a figure like that in C&C though, so for now at least she's pretty content with just liking boys. Not that she'll ever say anything Alex stop holding her hand and making it difficult to not blush around you 24/7 goddamn

TL;DR: everyone knows what I ship

Now, for Terra, this is actually a whole lot simpler! She's pretty much an X. Surprising? Not really. Throughout the entire journey in FFVI, she asks everyone for advice on love, what it feels like, how to know if you're in love, if she's capable of love, if anyone will ever love her, the works. Despite wanting love, she never expresses sexual or romantic desire for anyone—the only love she's shown to experience and know it for what it is was maternal love. She even admits that guys flirting with her does nothing, when normal girls would probably be falling over themselves in the same situation, but then again that's Edgar and he's like the Tony Stark of the game.

This isn't to say she's incapable of sexual or romantic love, but it would take much, much more time for her to grow into that sort of thing. At which point she'd probably end up very much willing to be with anyone she loves and would love her back.

tl;dr: keywords

[moezilla.livejournal.com]

Aki is the 5D's bicycle and I don't mind this at all. It's a very nice, refreshing change from the main lead guys being the bicycle.

[soultospare.livejournal.com]

I'm going to give both Pixie and Sabretooth a 1. Not together or anything. No. Not together. But a 1 for each of them.

[filthyreality.livejournal.com]

Hiruma: Is a solid 4. He is more attracted to men because they TYPICALLY have the traits that he finds to be the most attractive (large muscles, physically strong, like sports, etc), but he's not totally opposed to females either. He definitely views people for their traits and not their gender.

Link: is still a kid, so he's a 0 or an X. At 12 years old, most little boys still think that they MUST LIKE GIRLS OMG. SO he does. But really he's not too concerned with that mess.

Shiro: Ichigo-sexual. No, he's a 3. He's an equal opportunity sexual predator. It goes along with his general "hunger" thing, but since rape and the like is SUPER DUPER SQUICKY, I don't play it up much. Because... eufhaj

Nero: 1. He loves the ladies, and his girlfriend back home is about as stereotypical woman as it gets, but I don't think he would totally discount a homosexual relationship. But he would be very weirded out by it, I think.

Nny: Despite how much I love Nny/Edgar and Nny/Devi, the fact of the matter is that Nny is DEFINITELY X. He does not like sex. He doesn't like lust. He hates the concept of touching other people in any way, and hates masturbation and EVERYTHING. He just. Doesn't. Like it. He sees it all as giving in to a primal urge that he believes he must rise above in order to be better than the rest of the human race. But if he had to pick, he'd be a 3.

[prettymorlock]

Sally's a 0.

Lois just wants someone to take care of her. She doesn't freaking care who it is. ANYONE WORKS.

CANNOT MAKE SENTENCES

[stillawitch.livejournal.com]

Wanda's.. well. A 2, sexually speaking, but more of a 1 in terms of actually acting on that attraction because WOMEN CANNOT SUPPLY HER WITH BABIES of course neither can robots so perhaps that isn't so important.. Essentially, boys are lovely, but.

but.

/makes eyes at Jean

[wasalways.livejournal.com]

/MAKES EYES AT BACK

/WARPS REALITY WITH YOU

[baconsushiplox.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, let's see.

Fakir:
Pingpongs miserably between 6, 4, a conditional X, and I DON'T EVEN KNOW SOME DAYS STOP ASKING ME IT'S AWKWARD SOB. He does love Mytho, but at the same time he doesn't really find many other guys (or girls, or people in general, really) all that attractive. Further, I don't think he'd care either way if he loved someone enough. In the end, I think he's attracted more to a set of traits than to a set of soft parts.

Madarame:
LADIES. B] He's a 0, I believe, even if he does have his moments of awkward around really good crossplayers. He also has a 2D complex, which will probably get wildly confused in the City.

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

Oh, the joys of being perilously close to Single Target Sexuality.

/fistbump B|

[thanoodles.livejournal.com]

Tommy - despite Billy and Teddy and being generally okay with those shenanigans, I don't think he'd ever imagine himself with another guy or... take the time to find them attractive without a decent amount of brain breaking. SERIOUSLY I DOUBT HE'D LEAN TOWARDS ANYTHING BUT THE LADIES; his first instinct is to flirt with girls and to taunt guys. I'll slap a 0 on his ass, since that's how he'd view himself forever.

Mark - Also a 0, but I don't think he'd be 'ARE THOSE TWO MEN KISSING' as much as he'd go 'WHOA. er. okay then'. He ain't no ladies man, but he's A VILTRUMITE ZERO WHOAHWOAOAH what.

Jomy - Slapping him with an X, only because he just... doesn't think about that. He's just more focused on being helpful and establishing genuine relationships with people (that he always keeps a certain distance of) than finding love.

Yo-Yo - I HAVE NO IDEA. I'll make her a 2 because she's still young (15 y.o.) and NICK FURY TRAINING probably doesn't give her time to think about that much. THERE MIGHT BE SOME FEELINGS TOWARDS STONEWALL but I'm seriously convinced they're just platonic.

[terra]

Mmm, well.

Jessica Jones is at one. She likes having sex with men, she's attracted to men, she really can't stop trying to be with men. Part of the reason she thinks Mitch is gay is because she's been friends with him for a while and hasn't jumped him, which is not very usual for Jessica Jones. But she's pretty open to uh, trying thing, sexually, trying to make herself feel via sex, and I don't think it's out of the question she could get drunk and make out with a girl and maybe like it (and maybe that girl is Carol Danvers). But her only canon homosexual experiences were things implied to happen under control of the Purple Man, and those aren't exactly experiences she wants to repeat.

Natasha is also at one, maybe one point five. She's made out with women twice, canonically, but always with non-romantic or sexual motives (also just because fanservice) but she really does like men a lot. And I can't see her, with the attitude she has towards sex in general, not exploring women by now, if that was something she strongly felt inclined towards. Meanwhile she seems to like men quite a bit! But sure, she's not opposed to women, but I doubt any of them can really hold her interest for long.

Gert is pretty straight, and attracted to stupid jock guys she doesn't like. I think she'd prefer it if she was attracted to women because lesbians probably read better books. But no!!

Bucky is also really quite straight. At least in this game and how I play him. He likes women, canonically, and has two big love interests plus a bunch of off-the-cuff girl chasing remarks. He likes women enough to sleep with one against orders while brainwashed, so, yep. I actually think there are two ways I see, approaching his sexuality. One is, he's just so straight to have never really thought of guys that way, ever, so by the time he figured out that homosexuality exists, he was just kinda like "Oh, okay, weird, whatever," and could just move on because guy-on-guy is really uninteresting. That's generally how I play him. If you go further than that, the "grew up in the army in the 30s and 40s" thing kicks in, aaaand his sexuality becomes a lot more problematic, given attitudes of the time. The thing is, I can't really see him being unsure or self-loathing. He's generally quite confident and cocky about these things and is a jerk that way. Which doesn't mean you can't exist as non-exclusively-heterosexual in that time period or circumstance, but that I'd have had to have played him that way from the beginning.

[wondah.livejournal.com]

s were things implied to happen under control of the Purple Man, and those aren't exactly experiences she wants to repeat.

Ew D:

I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH OF HER CANON but seriously what is up with comics and mind controlled molestory sex stuff guh

[guardiandevil]

Matt is a big fat self-destructive zero.

[notsoloyal]

Shockwave is an X with a little bit of 3 mixed in.

Cybertronians don't have genders, they're "it"s, thus he doesn't care if someone is male or female. The human obsession over what sexuality someone is confuses the heck out of him. Now he is mostly uninterested, he's not likely to go after anyone, it'll probably take him a few years before he notices he's interested in someone if he's left to figure it out on his own. Thanks to his logic, he can't tell when someone is flirting with him, or when someone likes him that way. It has to be pointed out. I forever feel sorry for Soundwave. Even being kissed, it still has to be pointed out to Shockwave that it's because the person likes him. Heck, Starscream had to point out just how involved Soundwave wanted to be with him. He's clueless. However being a Cybertronian is a requirement for him to be interested in them. And once he's been made aware that someone wants to be involved with him, then comes the long long logical (and not so logical) thinking time. Basically it's a miracle he's in a relationship right now.

[spiritgun]

To do this I have to literally put aside all my personal philosophies I hope you're happy guys.

Yusuke is...complicated. Partially, this question defeats itself because for him, it's always been Keiko. Always. He's never expressed interest or desire for anyone else. As far as he's concerned, there never will be anyone else. Hell, he was planning to marry her since he was fourteen/fifteen years old. The child is committed.

However, pretending Keiko wasn't in the picture, I'd personally put him at one, because lol fandom while he talks a good game of being an intolerant jackass, if there ever was a guy who really got it, Yusuke's personal philosophy, the love of fighting, the need to be seen, and could keep up with all the crazy shit he does, Yusuke would be on that in a heartbeat. However, his first and dominant preference would always be for a female. The chances of a male getting in there are much, much less.

[flametarded.livejournal.com]

Eddie ranks at a solid and firm 0. Sorry Zach and Jaime, you guys just aren't girl-enough for him. :c There's something to be said for being a masochist--(BFFs with Zach and having a huge crush on Ravager are kind of a clue), but not enough for him to give it up. Or at least that's how I see it.

Beevil is an adorable name mash-up, though. :c

Besides, 200 degrees is a bit too hot for anyone to handle anyway. ;__; Woe.