A-specs galore

Character masterlist will be here (link) . Round two character list is here (link). Feel free to give me any new character by any means, comment, ask, go ahead, however they will no longer be included in the tournament as round one is complete! Instead they will be added to the aspec character masterlist linked above so anyone can find characters they can relate to at any point during or after the tournament, we celebrate our aspecs!! If you could include details like media of origin and creator that would be great. They can be canon aspec characters or headcanons - just let me know which is which and maybe a line about why you hc them? Can even just be "the vibes" idc. If possible a line from source material supporting canon aspec characters would also be cool!!

The purpose of this is to celebrate aspecs in media and irl, and to spread the word of media containing aspec characters far and wide. Queer stories tend to focus on love a lot, which is valid, but so are our stories, which deserve to be told and recognised as queer stories in their own right. I can count on one hand the number of canon aspec characters I've come across, hence: this blog. Will be kicking off in early June, character submissions close on the 1st.

ROUND FIVE IS LIVE THE FINAL ROUND GO VOTE GO VOTE YAYYYYY YIPPEE WOOHOO ASPECSSSSSS

Propaganda is welcome, anti-propaganda will be blocked on sight I don't care how unrealistic you think someone's hc is. This is about spreading the joy of characters we can relate to, and policing people's joy is a pointless thing to do. Any hatred, aphobia, queerphobia etc wil be blocked.

Reblog for reach and feel free to submit!! Peace and joy to all <3

So I know most of the characters from the poll. I watched PHM 5 times and read the book. I’m almost done with Platform Decay and have watched the Murderbot series twice. I’ve written fanfic for them both. I also have a good amount of knowledge of Saiki K and he is one of my favorite characters. I know these characters.

However Mirabelle is a character who is explicitly written as aro/ace, with the main event in the story, her “friendship quest” that lets you in on her backstory is about her dealing with being aro/ace especially considering that she is in a religion that requires her to change, one that kinda requires for her to date. And she struggles against this, not because she’s upset that she can’t feel attraction but more because she feels like she is forced to feel attraction, she is upset because she is happy where she is. She is happy to be single. And you get to see the relief on her face when you (Siffrin, who is ace) says that she’s not alone.

And on the flip side, what happens when you fail to comfort her.

Now major spoilers for ISAT please go watch a stream or play it, it’s like $20

See, In Stars in Time is a timeloop game (who would’ve thunk it) and it mostly deals with Siffrin’s deteriorating mental state as he keeps going through more and more time loops. During the end game they do the friendship quest again (bc there’s a buff with each friendship quest completed specifically for the character you had the event with) now Siffrin is in a BAD state of mind, and is trying to complete these quest asap. In doing so it creates the most upsetting versions of these events. With Siffrin basically saying that Mirabelle is gonna die alone and should just accept it.

Mirabelle is still in the mindset that a lot of people have: that they need to date in order to not be alone. And this approach is too blunt to be helpful. Literally Mirabelle slaps Siffrin for this.

And it hurts. It’s a painful scene to witness. However ISAT is maybe the first piece of media that has ever shown anyone struggle with their aspecness with any accuracy. And while I know there are many people who never struggled against it I know that there have been moments where I have.

i read this as him entering a romantic relationship, and not enjoying it but not really understanding why, after all this is what he’s meant to want, so he subconsciously disconnects from it

and the scene after this one is a scene of him at a party feeling left out among the people around him who are flirting and coupling up and stuff

also a lot of his outfits are on the orange-yellow-white-light blue-dark blue color range which is the aroace flag

thanks for the propaganda!!

Murderbot/SecUnit

From The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Canonically aromantic, asexual and agender, headcanoned as aplatonic

“It is canonically incredibly sex and romance repulsed and shows disgust towards romance and love often, and the author has confirmed it doesn't experience romantic or sexual attraction.” - @cosmiccacaphony

Ryland Grace

From Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Various headcanons including asexual, aromantic, various places along both spectra, aroace, aplatonic and agender. 

Mirabella Chevalier 

From In Stars and Time

Canonically aroace

Kusuo Saiki 

From The Disastrous Life of Saiki K 

Canonically aroace

Neil Josten

From All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

Canonically demisexual

[Image Description: white text on black. “I’ve said all year I don’t swing and I meant it. Kissing you doesn’t make me look at any of them differently. The only one I’m interested in is you.”]

Neil Josten

From All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

Canonically demisexual

[Image Description: white text on black. “I’ve said all year I don’t swing and I meant it. Kissing you doesn’t make me look at any of them differently. The only one I’m interested in is you.”]

Jet Siquliak

From The Penumbra Podcast

Canonically aroace

Eva Stratt

From Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Various headcanons including asexual, aromantic, aplatonic and aroace

Mirabelle Chevalier 

From In Stars and Time

Canonically aroace

Kaz Brekker 

From Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Various headcanons including asexual, aromantic, demisexual, demiromantic, various other locations on both spectra, and agender

Kusuo Saiki 

From The Disastrous Life of Saiki K 

Canonically aroace