#This is talking about more mainstream media sources btw because thats what most these arguments are about

[cosmicredcadet]

Here. lets name some of the very few supposed AroAce characters out there!

Isaac from Heartstopper - Side character in a story focused mainly on romance and his identity doesn't get as much focus compared to the rest. not ideal for aroaces uninterested in romance who are looking for representation of themselves.

Saiki Kusuo from Saiki K- Doesn't ever say the words "aro" or "ace" and so the fandom fights tooth and nail to say he doesn't count as representation. People would rather label him as a Tsundere and ignore the evidence pointing towards him being aroace.

Alastor from Hazbin Hotel - Was originally AroAce but got retconned to being JUST Ace after fan backlash and Vivzie not caring enough about writing it in any meaningful way.

Peridot from Steven Universe - Word of God representation that barely matters at all because writers of the show admitted to shipping her with certain characters and writing her to fit those ships in some cases.

Jughead from Archie comics - Old comics had him be very much aroace coded but in recent iterations they made him JUST asexual or they erased the identity completely. When the erasure was brought up, people fought tooth and nail to deny erasure took place due to him never having a "canon" identity anyways.

and yes, i know there are a few aroace characters that stay aroace but the point still stands that a lot of aroace characters are only confirmed through Word Of God (which most people agree doesn't fucking count), they have their identity retconned or erased, or they aren't an important enough character to be explored and thus isn't that great as representation.

And this isn't to say other aspecs have more characters or anything. this is me proving a point that there isn't some over-saturation of aroace characters taking up aspec representation.

The moment you argue that one aspec identity takes up most of the rep, you have already lost the argument because you have missed the bigger picture.

There is NOT enough aspec representation to be claiming one identity gets more than the others. We need more aspec representation in general and yes, we should ask for it to be as diverse as possible. That is always the goal for representation. But we should not be claiming the little aspec rep we do have is over-saturated by one identity because it's not a true statement.

"Why is all aspec representation in media AROACE rep?" and is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?