YunaGreecks

sure , to my knowledge we're not directly focused on by homophobic groups ( thanks for the clarification @/plum-petunia !! ) . but society is still extremely against the mere existence of those who don't feel certain types of love .

i was venting to a friend about being aroace and she asked me " why don't you just not be aroace ? "

people say " aromantic / asexual / aroace people can still date !! " and then refuse to engage with the nuances of an ace/arospec relationship

so many people i've told about being aroace all say " well , you're not gonna be aroace forever , right ? "

hell being asexual didn't stop being considered a mental illness until 2013

the only representation of aro/aspec people in media are cold villains or are "innocent" and "pure" , and even THAT rep is taken away

romance is viewed as better than all else . every conversation is about romance . nothing sells without romance

people can't conceptualise a relationship with romance without sex . people can't conceptualise a relationship without romance with sex . people can't conceptualise having no desire for a relationship with romance or sex .

society doesn't treat us as people worthy of respect . people dont care enough to represent us properly .

Since we know that Ellie was a amalgamation of humans (I think that's canon?? Idk I might be wrong), I headcanon that she wasn't always like this but gained her size and strength through eating and absorbing the humans that went down into the blood ocean.

In the movie when Simon first saw the light, we could hear a deep male voice saying "Agreed". Idk what's that supposed to mean but whatever I'm gonna say that it's Ellie asking her 'father' (I.e. the actual alien that lives on the moon/ the moon itself, either works) to keep Simon as a companion.

Simon is the start of a new fish so to speak. So in a sense, he would be an 'infant' of this new species.

After a while, maybe a few months or years post canon, the C.O.I, having confirmed signs of life started harpooning what they thought is the Alien species that lives in the blood ocean for study. They never caught anything until they did Simon.

Simon being railed in like a whale basically, and that's where he'll be for the next little while.