OK so. I can see the potential complaints about infantilizing or whatever Niko in this interpretation. but also I hella identify with a lot of her, and I just think it'd be neat to have a character who loves romance and porn and like. has no real interest in personally experiencing either, but assumes . you know. that it'll happen ~eventually~ when she meets ~the one~ but there's always this weird outsider kind of feeling that she doesn't quite understand, and.
aroace romantic and high-libido Niko.
it's a heck of a character concept. I'm just saying.
ETA from my own reblog:
to be a bit clearer. I don't think a character being aroace automatically infantilizes them, but Niko specifically is so neurodivergent-coded (and I would argue specifically autistic-coded) that it could easily fall into the same tired old pattern of desexualizing and infantilizing disabled and autistic characters, and there's also racial elements at play (that I don't feel able to speak to, tbh) all of which I feel makes it a potentially valid complaint, but like, also... people like this exist? people like me exist.
