#aro!Caduceus

[critter-tea-rex]

Caduceus "The Aro Ace King" Clay making his grand return during ace week really is the most iconic shit

[hello-eeveev]

Yet another ace week wherein we get to see the Mighty Nein, the most acespec-coded party of all time, so aces stay winning now and forever 🖤🤍💜

[rabbimite]

Upcoming (Potential) New A-Spec Characters in TV

Luffy from One Piece (Netflix)

Not really canon but as long as in the adaptation he doesn't feel attracted to anyone fits the criteria

Alastor from Hazbin Hotel (TBD)

Canonly aroace, has a line that can be read as indicative of his asexuality in the Youtube pilot

Vernestra from The Acolyte (Disney+)

Canonly aroace, hopefully they don't erase her orientation in the TV show

Ekundayo from Raybearer (Netflix)

(fanart by @/souldagger )

He is asexual biromantic in the books

Please add more potential a-spec characters coming to TV if you know any, I know WicDiv (which includes asexual character Dionysus) had an adaptation announced in 2015 but it's probably cancelled by now), with so few a-spec representation I just want to know of any potential characters coming to TV in the future!

[rolaplayor101]

Doodle of my SI in some of my bootleg aroace merch/clothes I own irl

[cr-aspec-fest]

oh yeah? aspec CR characters?

Canonically:

Keyleth is demisexual[1]

Caduceus is aroace[2][3]

Essek is demisexual or demiromantic[4]

Dariax is ace-spec and possibly aro-spec[5]

Other headcanons I've seen and love and respect: (non-exhaustive)

Grog as aromantic (has casual sexual flings but never expresses romantic interest)

Fjord as demiromantic and/or demisexual (doesn't express romantic interest before Jester, and only after a long while of rebuking her affections)

Jester as aro-spec (are her ideas about a prince charming learned, rather than true?)

Laudna as ace-spec (having an evil woman in your head cannot help)

Fearne as aro-spec (to be fair, fey rules about relationships are probably pretty different)

Please share your headcanons!! v

The CR Aspec Fest starts in three weeks! A fandom fest focused on making fanworks about aspec experiences - starting on Feb 1st with week 1: aro-spec

[dsudis]

Ao3 meme taken from a friend on Dreamwidth!

1. Most Hits: The Boy and the Beast Good old wolf!Derek/Stiles, and ye gods this story will be twelve years old next month!

2. Second most kudos: Break the Lock If It Don't Fit The one where Derek dislocates Stiles' shoulder but it's a sign of affection really. (Really!)

3. Third most comments: Born in the Blood The one where Bucky and Steve have a baby, and Steve and Sam get married, and it's all heading for happy domestic OT3 eventually, I swear.

4. Fourth most bookmarks: There Is No Shortage of Blood The Bucky's Broken Dick saga, which finished posting more than six years ago now, what is time even?

5. Fifth most words: Sell Your Body to the Night The Derek/Stiles underage sex work fic. Still my favorite watersports scene I've ever written. And also 115,000 words of other stuff.

6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That's Not a Drabble): Incoming at 150 words, probably the shortest of the little fics I wrote to create moments where two women spoke to each other during and around various Stargate SG-1 episodes, after I spent a lot of time tallying up how often SG-1 failed the Bechdel test. (A lot.)

Other randomness that only works if you have X number of stories and drabbles with which to filter:

7. Seventh most common relationship*: Aral Vorkosigan/Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan with 13 works, awww.

*Go to your works --> sort and filter --> include (or exclude) --> relationships

8. Eighth drabble posted: (Going by posting date on AO3, not original posting date, because who knows) Taken In, posted to AO3 December 28, 2009, and featuring John and Rodney and accidental child acquisition taken to absurd lengths. :D

9. Ninth Most Common Character*: Derek Hale, with 23 works. Awww, Derek.

*Go to your works --> sort and filter --> include (or exclude) --> characters

10. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic: Beans on Toast (Explicit), truly one of my Dreamling masterpieces, in which Hob teaches Dream the joys of doing a half-assed job. In bed.

11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic When You Exclude Your Ten Most Frequent Fandoms*: What Just Happened, featuring my darling bewildered aro/ace Caduceus Clay.

*Go to your works --> sort and filter --> exclude --> fandoms

12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag*: Another Day, a Reign of Fire story in my Kid Fic tag. Honestly surprised I only have 18 fics with that tag, not sure that's quite right.

*Go to your works --> sort and filter --> include --> tags

13. Favorite Title That Isn't from a Poem or Song or Shakespeare or The West Wing: ...do I have any?? Uhhhhh let's say Texting of a Sexual Nature, which I had to go back two years to find!

[luna-the-cretar]

I will never not love the fact that Caduceus is canonically aro/ace, and the fact that he says so during the actual campaign. Like, it’s one thing to just have a character not really be into anyone (not obviously, anyway), but it’s another to have said character actually say “yeah, I’m just not into that”.

I know that it’s technically better to “show, not tell”, but to be fair, it’s not always obvious whether or not a character is ACTUALLY a-spec or not. Plus, as someone who is part of the a-spec, I always tend to assume a character is ace/aro unless proven otherwise, so it’s just nice to have a character (that i like) canonically be ace/aro. Gives me more reason to like them, lol.

[sternenschaukler]

List/ Collage with A-Spec Characters: canon confirmed, and popular headcanons

List:

Colours:

Canon confirmed: blue

popular or almost confirmed headcanon: orange

Alastor, Hazbin Hotel: ace, aro

Senku Ishigami, Dr. Stone: ace, aro

Vi Moradi, Star Wars: ace, aro

Victor Vale, Vicious: ace, biromantic

Spongebob: ace

Kirby: ace, aro, non-binary

the Knight, Hollow Knight: agender, ace, aro

Todd Chavez, BoJack Horseman: ace

Georgia Warr, Loveless: ace, aro, aego?

Jughead Jones, Archie: ace

Doomguy/ Dooomslayer: ace

Seiji Maki, Bloom into you: ace, aro, aegoromantic?

Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece: ace, aro

Connor Hawke, DC Comics: ace, alloromantic

Perry the platypus: ace, aro

Kusuo Saiki, Disastrous life of Saiki K.: ace, aro

Yelena Belova, Marvel: ace, aro

Izaya Orihara, Durara: ace, aro

Daryl Dixon, the Walking Dead: ace

Keyleth, Critical Role: demisexual

Neil Josten, Foxhole Court: demisexual, demiromantic

Isaac Henderson, Heartstopper: ace, aro

Vernestra Rwoh, Star Wars: ace, aro

Light Yagami, Death Note: ace, aro

Caduceus Clay, Critical Role: ace, aro

Murderbot, Murderbot Diaries: ace, aro, genderless

Jonathan "Jon" Simms, Magnus Archives: ace, biromantic

Shouto Todoroki, Boku no Hero Academia: ace, aro

Lilith Clawthorne, Owl House: ace, aro

Bill Cypher, Gravity Falls: ace, aro, agender

Ezperanza "Spooner" Cruz, Legends of Tomorrow: ace

Nadia Van Dyne/ the Wasp, Marvel: ace, aro, quoiromantic

Peridot, Stephen Universe: ace, aro

Gwenpool, Marvel: ace, aro

Frieren: a-spec, ace, aro

Joffrey Baratheon, Game of Thrones: ace, aro

Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle: ace, aro

Lord Varys, Game of Thrones: ace, aro

Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, Percy Jackson: ace, aro

Son Goku, Dragonball: ace

10th Doctor, Doctor Who (David Tennant): ace, panromantic

11th Doctor, Doctor Who (Matt Smith): ace

Sakuko Kodama, Koisenu Futari: ace, aro

Satoru Takahashi, Koisenu Futari: ace, aro

Felicity Montague, Lady's guide to petticoats and piracy: ace, aro

Jasnah Kholin, Stormlight Archive: ace, heteroromantic

Loth, Priory of the Orange Tree: grey-ace

Tané, Priory of the Orange Tree: ace, aro

Adèle, Baker Thief: demisexual, bi

Claire/ Claude, Baker Thief: aro (aroallo!), genderfluid

Sandry, Circle of Magic: ace

Ling Chan, the Diviners: ace, lesbian

Nancy Whitman, Every Heart a Doorway: ace, alloromantic

Kel, Protector of the Small: ace, aro

Natalie, Natural History of Dragons: ace, aro

Raphael Santiago, Shadowhunters: Cassandra Clare: ace, aro (In the show only ace)

Please note that I took most of my information from online, and I didn't personally read/ watch everything, so there may be some mistakes. Also, some of the not-canon characters are very likely aspec, but just not confirmed. And especially if they say/ do really obviously aro/ ace stuff, I wasn't sure if it's enough to put them in the "confirmed" category. (e.g. Saiki literally said he isn't attracted to anyone regardless of gender, and never wants to be in a relationship. But there are still people who doubt his aroace-ness. (And at this point I don't see how it could be anything but aphobia, to deny the mere possibility of him being aroace so vehemently lol.) )

Also: Sadly, I couldn't find good aro-allo characters except Claire/ Claude from "baker thief". There is tons of good a-spec representation in that book (also more side characters that I didn't mention here), but I couldn't really find any fan-art. So then I just slapped the entire book cover on the collage.

[bluegreenamber]

Ace-spec FCG

For @cr-aspec-fest

Smiley day, it's Week 2 (ace-spec week)! Time to dive into the details of my ace-spec headcanon for everyone's favorite little therapy bot.

First of all, I'm fascinated by the fact that Aeormatons are (afaik) asexual in the scientific sense, meaning that they cannot/do not sexually reproduce. They are all built and created by the hands of mortals. (I could go off on a side tangent about how fascinating SILAHA is as a character and creation in Downfall, but that's besides the point). We might see Aeormatons coupling up like FCG and FRIDA do or some of the Aeormatons in the Ars Elysia do with mortals, but even if sex is part of the equation for them, it has to be installed as a feature. Really puts the idea of innate or natural attraction into question, huh.

But I digress. With FCG, I think their romance with FRIDA was adorable, and their various emotional connections with their platonic relationships were fascinating to explore. Again, though, sex didn't seem like a true part of the equation. Sure, there were plenty of above-table jokes, and I'm always a little in awe at the fact that FCG is played by the same guy who created Scanlan Shorthalt and Braius Doomseed. But FCG in-character never seemed to be played with sexual attraction in mind. In fact, I could easily imagine pre-c3 FCG being pretty clueless about mortal sex and sexual attraction just because of how foreign and novel of a concept it is to their automaton (and ace-spec) self. Maybe it's not part of his programmed features, maybe it's a logistical nightmare to imagine, maybe it's a statement about religious faith and the sexuality of stereotypical clerics in D&D, maybe a huge part of his character was his stubborn dedication to helping others heal their emotional and physical wounds instead of wasting time on unimportant and irrelevant matters (I'm thinking about Veth's acknowledgment of how much extra time Caduceus has to do other things he cares about without sex or romance to take up that time and energy).

Regardless, FCG shone through their selflessness, caring, and emotional bonds with their friends. (I could go off on another side tangent about the fact that the genderqueer duo of ace-spec FCG and aro-spec Ashton started out c3 together and just how much Ashton lost when FCG died, but again, likely besides the point.) Maybe FCG's romantic and emotional connection with FRIDA would have developed into a sexual attraction in some way over time--with a more demisexual, gray-ace, or aceflux FCG. But at least for canon FCG, we will likely not be seeing much further insight into his sexuality (or lack thereof) anytime soon. So, for now, I'll just stick to seeing FCG happily wheeling all around the ace spectrum and trying to heal the emotional and physical wounds of those he finds there <3

[forgottenspring]

Mild rant on Alastor bc I'm tired.

*takes deep breath*

I was going to stay out of this so rip to my inbox.

Does anybody remember the whole ace doxing list on here? The whole discussion of not shipping gay characters with the opposite gender? The rep for pan/bi representation and the steps to do it right? Does anybody remember when ppl on here discussed how aros and aces aren't a part of the queer community bc they're not 'gay enough' in a way? Bc I do. That was about a decade ago. And I remember when Alastor was first introduced in the pilot and ppl not accepting he was aroace back then.

It doesn't matter if Alastor is entirely aroace and if he's capable of dating or not.

What matters is we still have so little ace representation and acceptance, especially aroace rep, that a few years ago when a real person Jaiden Animations came out as aroace, ppl tried to destroy her, bc even with a perfect valid explanation of her just saying aroaces are their own thing and she just doesn't want to date, ppl treated it like she was lying or was trying to sneak into the queer community and was straight or all the other horrible things yall might remember "fans" did to her.

Alastor being aroace isn't about being the rep of "Aroaces can feel attraction!!!" bc be real honest.

How many aroace popular characters can ppl list that a regular person on the street is going to know? Bc I've heard all their arguments to invalidate their representation.

Jughead? Oh you mean Cole Sprouse who made out and got it on with Lili Reinhart playing Betty bc he found her sexy? Oh but in the old comics he's a gay character whose in denial. Yelena Boleva? Who? Oh that woman? She's hot she's just traumatized and needs to find the right person. Charlie Weasley? Oh he was only in the books? He was confirmed as aroace through a passive comment most ppl didn't know about from the author that never used the term? Luffy? You mean one of the most shipped characters in One Piece? No he's just an idiot/childish so he doesn't understand girls are pretty. Caduceus Clay? Sorry I didn't watch Critical Role whose that? Are you sure he's aroace? He feels gay to me.

I can list more ppl, but I'm sure most ppl couldn't.

I remember the whole discussion of the pan/bi representation argument of "Yes! We know pan/bi ppl can date the opposite gender. But straight ppl don't know about pan/bi nearly at all or don't accept it," so showing it as gay, who know the term more, until it's shown clearly the character is queer and not "confused straights" they then can have opposite gender attraction. Bc sooooo many pan/bi characters end up "straight" at the end of their show/book. Bc I remember when ppl refused to accept that Deadpool is pan bc of his wife and started freaking out when he dated a nonbinary person in the comics or helped that one genderqueer person he knew.

Representation is about showing to ppl what they're not understanding about the identity in the plainest sense of the words of the identity, then when there's enough rep to show they're not all the same, then you can have the ones that break the rules.

Alastor whether or not he wants to date doesn't matter. What matters is this whole situation blew out of proportion bc ppl refused to accept that some ppl don't feel comfy shipping him. Bc they see themselves in him and don't want that. BUT! Also ppl under the aro and ace umbrella also have no rep and wanted to see him breaking the stereotype they probs have yelled at them of "You can't have a partner you're aroace I forbid it" and wanted to see thru their own experiences how that would be done.

Here's the problem.... As someone who has read a lot of aroace headcanon fanfics as an aroace....... A lot of ppl who are allo don't realize aroace "crushes" are missing emotions... That's why they're aroace. And they'll write them like they're the same just "muted" or "needs to warm up" kinda thing. Or make the character's love "childish" to explain the lack of romance/sex. Which is messed up. And that's the problem here.

Alastor didn't need to be this blown out of proportion of a situation. The problem is ppl found him sexy and the classic "But aroace hot, they can't be aroace bc why hot?" discussion got brought back up without the gentle post format discussions and instead it was a lot of shippers on tiktok with tiny word counts arguing a complex issue.

Ppl should be allowed to ship whatever (except problematic I know yall too well), especially if they see themselves in the characters and especially if they have the same identity and want to explore that!!

The truth of the matter is this is such a huge issue that just keeps happening bc ppl are too used to fandom queer spheres where ppl already know aroace means "off the table" and so they want to play with qprs or grayromantics/sexuals not knowing what that entails bc there's sooooo lil aroace rep that actually explores being aroace and a lot of ppl don't know the basics, and even how very different aroace "off the table" is when you aren't the classic "uwu I'm just innocent and have no friends or importance to the plot so just ignore me and have me be adopted by one of the main couples as a 'kid' figure."

Not to mention that a lot of ppl still think ace means aroace. That aces can't date bc there's ppl who don't know that romantic and sexual attraction are different!

I'm just.... So tired. So very tired of having ppl shout at me what it means to be aroace and being unable to look up the lil aroace rep we have bc of this issue I've seen a million times is all.

[canon-asexual-poll]

Propaganda Posts:

Caduceus Clay from Critical Roll

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole/Gwenpool from Marvel Comics (aro/ace)

[tyrannuspitch]

@lokiinmediasideblog tagged me to share five songs (thank you!! :D) so here are some i've been listening to recently, in no particular order:

harald foss - dronning ellisiv (put this on the long version of my nordic folk playlist like a year and a half ago and only recently remembered it) (why was i making a nordic folk playlist a year and a half ago? don't worry about it.)

vassa zheleznova - ay (someone i follow recommended this the other day)

a tribe called red - stadium pow wow (this was in the trailer for the new martin scorsese movie)

lindsey stirling - snow waltz (i was repeatedly recommended lindsey stirling literally like eight years ago and have only just got around to listening to her lol)

powerwolf - we drink your blood (silly vampire songs are a fundamental human need)

ummm i'm meant to tag ten of my followers to do the same but eight will have to do. @kidrat @sol1loqu1st @solderlessbreadbird @honeybeeofficial @catilinas @fromthemouthofkings @scalar @aro-caduceus

[littlebigmouse]

don't hide this in the tags @astriiformes

#hijacking this a tiny bit but#i think a lot about a post i saw once that was specifically discussing caduceus clay from cr but could apply to a lot of characters#that brought up the point that often when characters are confirmed as aro/ace in fiction#it's NOT by saying 'i am [aspec identity]' but rather by expressing an overt disinterest in sex and/or romance#like in the case of caduceus iirc he says something along the lines of 'i love what you all have going on but it's not for me'#NOT 'i am asexual and aromantic' (which is a lot more flexible)#which. if people were trying to argue that characters whose identities were confirmed exclusively via labels were sex- or romance-favorable#i think it would be more forgivable#but when you're arguing that a character that said 'that's not for me' is actually into the thing.... that's not great#i don't know. with some characters there's still a lot of nuance and i'm all for preserving that#but due to the ways in which aro- and ace- characters tend to 'come out' in fiction#i'm pretty bothered by the argument that those textual elements can be ignored in favor of more palatable ones#aceblogging#aroblogging

It just makes me so frustrated when people go “not all aroace people are romance- and sex-repulsed! Therefore it is WRONG to say THIS aroace character is romance- and sex-repulsed even though that is how it is consistently and clearly written!” (“Therefore it is wrong to say any aroace is sex- or romance-repulsed! Don’t you know aros and aces can still have sex and romance?”)

it doesn’t come across as respect for sex-favorable aces and romance-favorable aros, it comes across as a fundamental inability to believe that anybody could actually not want sex or romance.

[reilora-borealis]

21 & 22 with Caduceus 🪲🍵 for the character asks

Caduceus... my beloved 🥺🌸☕️

21: I love writing Cad so much!! He's one of those characters who will kind of just tell people exactly what they need to hear at that moment, which is useful as a writer and makes for some fun dialogue. Also I'm usually writing The Wizards TM, so it's nice to take a break from the high-intelligence technobabble for a while and just be chill and zen lol

22: I don't read much fic, but obviously anyone who ships my aro/ace king with anyone is... not understanding this character. Power to ya, have fun, but you are on another planet 💅🏻

Tysm for the ask! <3

[luna-the-cretar]

I have recently discovered that Caduceus is canonically ace/aro, which makes me really happy bc we don’t get a whole lot of representation. I mean, I already got that vibe from him since he joined the party, but I just assumed it was me putting an ace/aro headcanon (which I tend to do a lot lol). But discovering that it’s canon makes me so unreasonably happy :)

[luddlestons]

So I have a very good friend who is aro ace but they still enjoy sex! And they told me it wasn’t about romance or sexual desire for them but the closeness of it all. They said it still feels good and stuff but for them sex is just like any other fun activity. Your rope play cad fic really reminded me of them it was so sweet! (They’re a critter too and I asked if I could send this they said it was cool)

Aww I’m glad my fic could remind you of that vibe! Honestly I know many folks like that, because kink attracts a LOT of ace/aro spectrum folks. Including myself! It’s a nice way to explore physical intimacy in a fashion that’s controlled and pre-discussed (although that particular fic, not being their first scene, isn’t very prediscusssd at all)

If you like that vibe for Caduceus specifically, I’d love to direct you to my two favorite Caduceus fics: Geborgenheit & Zweisamkeit which are Cad & Caleb in a queerplatonic, but eventually sex-positive relationship. It’s VERY good character study and basically exactly how I’d write the two of them getting together too! I reread them like every couple months now bc they make me so happy 💕

If you end up checking them out, tell the author nice things!