OP here -- it's been a month now. It turns out he's an SBT, and all of his great-grandparents are also SBTs, so I guess that means he's primarily domestic cat.
He has a lot of energy and loves to leap when playing, but in my experience that's not much different from any other youngish cat. The one behavioral thing that's new to me is his vocalizing... he definitely has quite a broad "vocabulary" of specific meows for different situations. He's not turned out to be a big cuddler but definitely likes being petted when he's done playing, and usually likes to sleep somewhere on the people bed at night.
Strangely enough, he hasn't at all been a pest about trying to get outside, although he was allowed to roam before he came to us.
About bonding, I spend a lot more time with him than my girlfriend does (she's got a normal day job, I work from home), and it's clear he has come to trust me more than he trusts her (I get nose smooches, but he turns his head away if she gets too close). Again, I think that's about par for most adult cats with new people, and my concern that there would be additional difficulties due to him being a Bengal seems to indeed have been unfounded.
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