*insert eye imagery*

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Wei Wuxian, petting a bunny: Jiang Cheng is coming over today

Lan Wangji: ...

Wei Wuxian: I know you two don't get along, but I want to rekindle our relationship

Lan Wangji: Mn. How did you get him to agree to come?

Jiang Cheng, slamming open the door to the Jingshi: WHERE IS MY NEW NEPHEW?!

Wei Wuxian, showing him the bunny: He's right here! I gave birth to him this morning!

Rabbits

Trans men have shared histories with lesbians who have shared histories with bisexual women who have shared histories with ace people who have shared histories with aro people have shared histories with gay men who have shared histories with trans women who have shared histories with nonbinary people who have shared histories with etc etc etc etc etc.

Propaganda

Colin Hughes (Ted Lasso)

Canonically gay, his main arc is about publicly coming out in a heterosexist sport

Alexander 'Alec' Gideon Lightwood (Shadowhunters (TV)/Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare)

I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.

Get woke. Love bugs.

Inej Ghafa

From Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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

Toph Beifong 

From Avatar: The Last Airbender

Various aspec headcanons

Doesn't have any major explicit romantic relationships during the show's run and when she appears again in the sequel series The Legend of Korra, it's revealed that Toph had two daughters from two fathers and was never particularly interested in settling down with either of them, preferring to live on her own. Her main outfit is also green, white, and yellow, the colors of the alloaro flag. 

Walter “Walt” Pensive

From Hello From The Hallowoods

Canonically asexual

[Image Description: white text on dark blue.

“What about you, Walt?” She asked. “You got a wife or kids or anything?”

“Nah,” Walt said. The topic made him uncomfortable, but he felt more better talking with Riot than with the parents of five at the Scoutpost. “Never had the interest in having kids. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to meet a lady one of these days - but, uh, can’t do the honeymoon stuff. Never wanted to, never will. Didn’t know what to call that until I met Violet. She says I might be… ah-sexual? I think.”]

Sister Carpenter

From The Silt Verses

Canonically aspec, generally accepted as aroace

[Image Description: black text on white. I think I told him, “Thanks.”

I probably could’ve said, ‘I know that I’m smart. I know I’m all of these things and more. What does that have to do with you, or you and I?’ 

I could have made it extremely clear that I had known in my heart, since adolescence and self-awareness came bearing down upon me like a flood, that I didn’t want the same things he wanted, and that if I was certain of any part of myself, I could say right now that I never would want them. 

But I wasn’t certain about myself back then, and I still believed there must be something wrong with me, and even if I had been confident or articulate enough to explain who I was, what I did and didn’t want from other people…

…I still don’t think I owed him that.]

Yor Briar

From Spy x Family

Her chapter 4 monologue about Aromantacism (/being aspec) fully altered my brain chemistry.

The line “I know I’m smart, I know I’m all those things and more. What does that have to do with you?” lives rent free in my brain.

Also, in the same episode, she goes on to burn down a church while standing on the roof and laughing like a madwoman: “Tell me the name of your god, Charity, I want to know who’s house I’ve wrecked!”

So she’s a certified badass as well. (If that helps convince anyone)

In general, I would heavily recommend the Silt verses as an Aromantic podcast. Though Carpenter is the only canonically Aromantic character the whole podcast is very Aromantic.

Silas

From Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Canonically asexual

Mark Watney

From The Martian by Andy Weir

Headcanoned as asexual

Jonathan Sims

From The Magnus Archives

Canonically asexual 

Dazai Osamu

From Bungou Stray Dogs

Headcanoned as arospec

Dean Winchester

From Supernatural

Headcanoned as aromantic and aplatonic 

Miles Abernathy

From Compound Fracture by Andrew White

Canonically aromantic

Ryland Grace

From Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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

Luster Dawn

From My Little Pony

Headcanoned as aplatonic

Perry the Platypus

From Phineas and Ferb

Canonically asexual

Arianna Marcel

From Castoff

Barbie

From Barbie (2023)

Headcanoned as aroace

Barbie's actress Margot Robbie described her as "asexual". Barbie also repeatedly expresses disinterest in romance or sex and her happy ending specifically avoids her ending up in a romantic relationship. 

Arthur Lester

From Malevolent

Headcanoned as aromantic

“He felt broken bc he couldn’t love his wife” - @the-frog-wizard-fe

Sophie Chi

From Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Canonically aroace

Charlie

From The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Canonically implied acespec

Gilgamesh Wulfenbach

From Genius Girl

Implied demisexual 

Inej Ghafa

From Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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

Toph Beifong 

From Avatar: The Last Airbender

Various aspec headcanons

Doesn't have any major explicit romantic relationships during the show's run and when she appears again in the sequel series The Legend of Korra, it's revealed that Toph had two daughters from two fathers and was never particularly interested in settling down with either of them, preferring to live on her own. Her main outfit is also green, white, and yellow, the colors of the alloaro flag. 

Walter “Walt” Pensive

From Hello From The Hallowoods

Canonically asexual

[Image Description: white text on dark blue.

“What about you, Walt?” She asked. “You got a wife or kids or anything?”

“Nah,” Walt said. The topic made him uncomfortable, but he felt more better talking with Riot than with the parents of five at the Scoutpost. “Never had the interest in having kids. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to meet a lady one of these days - but, uh, can’t do the honeymoon stuff. Never wanted to, never will. Didn’t know what to call that until I met Violet. She says I might be… ah-sexual? I think.”]

Sister Carpenter

From The Silt Verses

Canonically aspec, generally accepted as aroace

[Image Description: black text on white. I think I told him, “Thanks.”

I probably could’ve said, ‘I know that I’m smart. I know I’m all of these things and more. What does that have to do with you, or you and I?’ 

I could have made it extremely clear that I had known in my heart, since adolescence and self-awareness came bearing down upon me like a flood, that I didn’t want the same things he wanted, and that if I was certain of any part of myself, I could say right now that I never would want them. 

But I wasn’t certain about myself back then, and I still believed there must be something wrong with me, and even if I had been confident or articulate enough to explain who I was, what I did and didn’t want from other people…

…I still don’t think I owed him that.]

Yor Briar

From Spy x Family