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Aggressively Arospec Week 2024, Day 3: Emira and Willow

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This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I only finished it now, so just pretend like it was. And I only realized today that I could've just posted one of my finished edits yesterday instead, but oh well, too late now. (Also I wanted to post my works in a specific order)

Anyways, some headcanons!

Emira is aroallo. She's either indifferent to romance or favorable to it, and she would be comfortable with being in a romantic relationship if she got into one, but wouldn't necessarily seek it out. She would actively pursue non-romantic partnership though.

Willow is oriented aroace, and she's romance-averse. She finds it cute when other people or fictional characters are in romantic relationships, but is uncomfortable with the idea of being in one herself. She's open to non-romantic partnerships though. Also, while she's okay with pecks on the cheeks and such, she dislikes kisses on the lips, partially out of sensory issues, but also due to the association with romance.

These two are in a QPR. I kind of randomly stumbled into this pairing and thought they could have an interesting dynamic.

May I interest you in this pairing that I accidentally stumbled my way into. I prefer calling it Wilmira, since Emillow is too close to another ship name, but I use both for tags.

Ft. some edits with the aro, queerplatonic and alterous flags, since I’m mainly interested in them as a non-romantic pairing and it’s what works with my headcanons. Em’s eyes are edited in the first three images, since she was looking in a different direction in the original screenshot.

I honestly think their personalities would work well together. And I think they could probably do something interesting by combining their healing and plant magic, like perhaps they could heal nature where it was damaged by Belos’s corruption, I like to think it wasn’t all magically fixed in the finale and still needed more work to restore it.

Here’s my headcanons for the pair:

Emira is aroallo. She’s romance-favorable and likes romantic relationships, but also enjoys non-romantic partnerships.

Willow is oriented aroace, and while she thinks it’s cute when others are in romantic relationships, she doesn’t like the idea of being in one herself, she only enjoys non-romantic partnerships.

As the efforts to restore the Isles began, Emira and Willow worked together quite a bit, and they soon realized that they liked each other’s company and started hanging out in their free time as well.

Emira realized she was attracted to Willow and started flirting with her from time to time, and eventually Willow began to flirt back.

After that, Emira asked Willow out. They discussed what kind of partnerships they’re comfortable with, and they agreed to go out and see how they would work as a queerplatonic/alterous pair.

Over the course of trying it out, their interest in a partnership with each other solidified, and they found themselves to be compatible, so they officially became partners.

Willow gave Emira her current haircut after Emira realized that she wanted her hair to be even shorter than the neck/shoulder length she originally cut it to.

Emira likes watching Willow play Flyer Derby, and she cheerleads for the Emerald Entrails during bigger games.

Willow regularly picks Emira up princess style.

They love hugging and cuddling.