Talk:Ilia Amitola/@comment-190.141.178.108-20171221180221/@comment-28734697-20171228195725

I have suggested elsewhere there are people who start out with no particular sexual preference, letting their eventual "preference" be a factor of who they fall in love with. In this case Ilia wouldn't necesasarily be a "lesbian", but merely romantically involved with one particular woman. If she were to later fall in love with Sun (just as an example, not suggesting it would ever happen) it wouldn't mean she had "switched teams" either.

My theory is that "orientation" is a factor of your preference combined with your partuicular gender, with gender being a potentially changable factor (in fiction this could be gender reassignment, genetic ability to change at will, or outside factors). Your preference could be just women, just men, either gender equally, opposite-only, or same-only. The additional preference I mention above is harder to make a short term for (some variant of single-target sexuality perhaps?)