#aroace raph

ARO TO ARO COMMUNICATION

mikey’s flag: aroallo

Raph is dating Mona Lisa? Aro spec or QPR.

Leo fell in love with his damn sister? Aesthetic/Strong Friendship Attraction gone wrong.

Mikey dates Renet? Strong QPR or Aro spec.

Donnie fell in love with April once upon a time? He can't tell the difference between wanting someone to be your friend, or wanting to date them.

I can sit here and make excuses all day, even if it takes me years to come up with one.

I am projecting extremely and you all have to suffer and deal with it.

but im clinging to my aroace raph headcanon sorry

Please please go read this fic. It's just so beautifully written and the author captures the aroace experience so perfectly that I just want to put it out here for anyone who might want to read aroace Raph. The character dynamics and dialogue are so well done, and the writing flows so naturally and organically that it's really worth your while.

What are turtles if not to project onto, tbh

I like to see characters who feel deeply as aro, ace, or both because often a lot of the rep I see is very stereotype based. Like the characters who are out of touch with their feelings or emotionally repressed are more likely to be portrayed as not feeling attraction. For example, if a story is tagged with “asexual Donatello” I’m less likely to read it. Kinda reminds me too much of growing up with (well-meaning) friends who thought they knew more about my feelings than I did. With my own experience and other ace spectrum friends, I just think it would be neat if we had more characters who are portrayed as having a rich and healthy inner emotional life.

So that’s the personal reasons, but about Raph. He’s got so much social intelligence and really wears his heart on his sleeve. The show focuses a lot on his anger, but I think all his emotions stay pretty near the surface. He has a lot of intelligence both about his own emotions and about other people’s. And so what if we took that intelligence, and let him enrich his life in a hundred meaningful ways that don’t involve a partner? I feel like there’s a lot of potential there

Personally, I headcanon Raph as aroace. Not sure why, just vibes I guess? Once the thought occurred to me I quickly became attached to it. Like he feels so much so deeply. As an ace spectrum lesbian, I think I like the idea of emotional characters being aroace representation.