Quadrants and sedoretu are just structures. Building a structure is not that difficult. Also, it's a lot of fun to play around with.
First, think about what things you like about relationships, not necessarily limited to sex/romance. What always snags your attention? Aim to include that.
Then think about how relationships are divided (e.g. romantic-platonic, family-friends, close-casual, homosexual-heterosexual) and how people are divided (male-female-other, rich/poor, ethnicities, religions, social statuses, etc.) so you can see possible groupings. Once you've got the common ones, imagine throwing in something else, like hair color or freckles/no freckles; or a fantasy thing like magical/nonmagical or soulmate/no soulmate.
With groups in hand, you can start mixing and matching, and think about why a society would structure things that way. What if a society got fed up with wealth accumulation, and decided to solve that by pairing rich and poor people together? Or maybe the inheritance of something significant, like magic, requires a certain approach in breeding to avoid disaster. In many breeds of animal, it's not safe to breed matching parents (e.g. fold to fold in Scottish fold cats or merle-to-merle in border collie dogs) because crippling or fatal defects can occur. So you'd want the relationship to include magical/nonmagical breeding pairs, but maybe both people really need the support of their own kind.
Like I said, it's fun to mess around with. If you want to see an example of mine, Feathered Nests has 5 genders with both homosexual and heterosexual relationships. For sedoretu, I've got one in "<a href='https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/12774850.html">Constantly Tossed About</a>."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Try this ...
Date: 2024-01-12 09:31 pm (UTC)From:First, think about what things you like about relationships, not necessarily limited to sex/romance. What always snags your attention? Aim to include that.
Then think about how relationships are divided (e.g. romantic-platonic, family-friends, close-casual, homosexual-heterosexual) and how people are divided (male-female-other, rich/poor, ethnicities, religions, social statuses, etc.) so you can see possible groupings. Once you've got the common ones, imagine throwing in something else, like hair color or freckles/no freckles; or a fantasy thing like magical/nonmagical or soulmate/no soulmate.
With groups in hand, you can start mixing and matching, and think about why a society would structure things that way. What if a society got fed up with wealth accumulation, and decided to solve that by pairing rich and poor people together? Or maybe the inheritance of something significant, like magic, requires a certain approach in breeding to avoid disaster. In many breeds of animal, it's not safe to breed matching parents (e.g. fold to fold in Scottish fold cats or merle-to-merle in border collie dogs) because crippling or fatal defects can occur. So you'd want the relationship to include magical/nonmagical breeding pairs, but maybe both people really need the support of their own kind.
Like I said, it's fun to mess around with. If you want to see an example of mine, Feathered Nests has 5 genders with both homosexual and heterosexual relationships. For sedoretu, I've got one in "<a href='https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/12774850.html">Constantly Tossed About</a>."