Hi! I don’t really go here (and by here I mean hrpf fandom) but one of my best friends does and she recommended Ahead by a Century to me and I love it so much I just wanted to share that!
I know you’re not writing Connor as asexual in the universe, but it honestly did resonate so much with my experience being ace (which was actually why my friend recommended it to me in the first place).
Thank you for putting so much care into that story and for sharing it with us 🫶
Oh wow anon thank you for stopping by and sharing this! I love that Ahead by a Century has broken a little bit out of HRPF containment (including being brought up By Unsuspecting People's Bosses). It's sort of a more complete story than your average fanfic and gives a whole primer to the pairing, in a way, so that makes sense!
But in terms of it resonating with you as an ace reader, I don't know if your friend mentioned (perhaps this is why they rec'd it!) but apparently you are not alone. I love so much that AbaC!Connor (and GD!Connor too, apparently), have resonated with ace readers despite not being written as such.
In AbaC I was quite aware of asexual as being a potential read of his character (though he never thinks it and possibly doesn't have the vocabulary for it, there's definitely a period of time where Leon is essentially assuming Connor is asexual) even though I knew that wasn't where I was going with it in the long run. I hope you enjoy Part 3 even though it's going to pretty firmly diverge from any suspicions of asexuality - it's going to be a pretty deep dive into what, exactly, is the shape of Connor's sexual desire (among other things).
I do find it funny and ironic that I, a definitely not asexual person who has written a tremendous amount of sex-forward fanfic, filters for explicit fics by preference, and Does Not Get the idea of a T-rated romance fic, has accidentally written a fic that resonates with ace readers, but also it's a delightful accident.