#aroace Sesshomaru

[eleiyaumei]

Rambling about aro, ace, aroace, demi Sesshōmaru

romantic attraction =/= sexual attraction, aromanticism =/= asexuality

For most people, their romantic identity matches their sexual identity (e.g. aroace, gay, straight, bi) but that doesn’t mean that they are the same. Alloromantic asexual people and aromantic allosexual people might be the best examples for this but it’s also possible to be heterosexual and panromantic.

As far as I know, alloromantic allosexual Sesshōmaru is the most common representation of him in fan works which makes sense because most people on the planet identify that way.

In regards to “proof” that Sesshōmaru might be one identity or another, in my judgement, there is none, neither in manga nor anime – not even in YH, which I do not include in this because for me, it is not canon. There are several instances where Sesshōmaru’s kind of feelings are ambiguous, especially in the case of Kagura, but none show explicitly that he feels romantic or sexual attraction to anyone. (If you disagree, feel free to let me know!)

So, in accordance with the “lack of proof on sexual and romantic attraction”, I interpret Sesshōmaru to be aroace. But this is influenced by me being ace and thinking in the pattern “asexual until proven allosexual”. Similarly, alloromantic allosexual people might think “allo/allo until proven otherwise” and see Sesshōmaru that way until he says something like “I am not interested in romance and/or sex” and that’s valid as well.

But 1) we can’t look inside his brain, heart or body and determine what he experiences

and 2) we as fans can headcanon him as whatever identity we like.

(I personally separate interpretation from headcanon for interpretation to mean “something that can be supported by the text” and for headcanon to mean “whatever someone imagines – whether supported by the text or not”.)

Interpreting or HCing Sesshōmaru as demisexual and/or demiromantic seems to be the best compromise for a lot of people, allo and aro-/ace-specs alike. Like, he ‘is’ asexual/aromantic until he forms a deep bond with someone and he then ‘becomes’ allo.

Demisexual/-romantic people, please tell me what you think of that wording because I’m not a fan of it. It reminds me of things allo people tell a-spec people, the whole “You just have to find the right person”, or of what supporters of Purity Culture want people to be like: Abstaining from sex, sexual thoughts, fantasies etc. until you marry and then having sex regularly to reproduce, pleasing your partner etc.

I’m also not fond of the wording of the common definition of demisexuality/-romanticism: “Experiencing sexual/romantic attraction after developing a strong emotional bond with someone” because it can make it seem like you automatically experience these attractions once you formed said bond when I don’t think that’s the case for most demi people.

I prefer the definition that I heard from a demi person (Christi Kerr), in the vein of “rarely experiencing sexual/romantic attraction and when you do, it’s towards someone you developed a strong emotional bond with”. [Source]

Demisexuality and -romanticism aren’t experienced in a monolithic way. Some might develop sexual/romantic attraction to every person they bond with emotionally, some might predict a possibility that they will develop attraction once they get close to a specific person and some might get close to people (with the hope/assumption that they’ll develop attraction) only to realize that they still don’t feel attraction towards them.

(As an asexual person who only experiences sexual attraction towards 1 fictional character, I’m pretty jealous of the first two groups. Like, “It’s THAT easy for you guys? GREAT. Wish that were me.” But I know that no experience is “easy”, people can still deal with unreciprocated feelings/attraction, fleeting attraction, and many other struggles.)

What worries me about people HCing Sesshomaru as demisexual/-romantic is the potential that some allo people only use that HC to fetishize/project their own fantasies onto the real identities of demisexuality/-romanticism. Like, they might accept the aro/ace parts only because he does experience attraction towards them/their OC(s)/the person(s) they’re shipping him with (and attraction is kinda a must-have in romance/smut works) and because it gives them a sense of relationship security, fewer reasons to get jealous towards people he’s interacting with.

But I have to be fair and acknowledge that people can separate fact from fiction and can see their fantasies as such. Though, I must admit, I’m pretty pessimistic about that since the spectrums of asexuality and aromanticism are not common knowledge and a lot of misconceptions are roaming about...

[generalmoony]

sesshomaru didn’t choose the dad life, the dad life chose him

[malfiora]

Ace, Gray, and Aro Characters

based on science (i.e. my opinions and feelings).

Sesshomaru (ace)

Jason Todd (demi)

Itachi (aro)

Seto Kaiba (ace; he doesn't even know what sex is)

Baz Pitch (demi)

Chase Young (ace and aro)

who else?

[is-the-character-aroacespec]

Is he aroace?

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[sofusgirl]

God, this became too much to just do in tags i think lol.

I used to really love Spike and Buffy together.

(I'm ignoring the seeing red episode bc I think it was unnecessary and out of character for both, and that Whedon def has some kind of obsession with that kind of storyline)

I just adore a snarky villain being forced to do better and ending up falling for the person they used to hate and want dead.

And I also think it's really neat when she was brought back from the dead by her friends, without her consent, stuck with bills to pay and no job, and a teenager to take care of... And Spike is there going wow that was kinda shit.

His empathy when he saw her hands and realised she'd had to claw herself out of the ground?!

Anyway i think it could have been so good.

Joss kinda blew it, but it couldve been great.

Anyway, it's been a while since I've seen Buffy so i may be misremembering sone things but still.

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

[ancoships]

Ancorealm’s ocxcanon blog!

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I encourage people with the same f/o’s to interact if they want!

Assume all my characters are queer unless told otherwise, and respect their pronouns.

Current OCxCanon f/o’s (listed: Chara name, source, code name for tagging)

Kisuke Urahara | Bleach | Wildberry

Denki Kaminari | My Hero Academia | AED

Katsuki Bakugo | My hero Academia | C4*

Sesshomaru | Inuyasha | Meteor

Geralt | The Witcher (Netflix) | Gray wolves

Captain | Risk of Rain 2 | Diablo strike

Mercenary | Risk of Rain 2 | Present

Sans | Undertale | NPCs

Trickster | Dead by Daylight | Encore*

Sova | VALORANT | Initiators

Von Lycaon | Zenless Zone Zero | Shadowlurk

* This ship is queer platonic, or otherwise not romantic.

[julyzaa]

Day 4: LGBTQIA+ (AroAce Sesshōmaru)

Some typical acephobia on Inukimi's part, but nothing else

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He had known this would happen. Every time he visited his mother she tossed demons and demonesses his way to induce him into marriage.

When would his mother finally give up?

Sesshōmaru did not need a wife nor husband, he had no time for things like romance and sex.

This he had made it clear to his mother, but had she understood?

The current dark-haired wench pestering him showed him his mother did not.

“I was the same until I met your father, you will change your mind once you meet the right person.” His mother dismissed his desire to live forever unattached.

He was not like her, and she refused to see it. If it were not for Rin who adored her grandmother, he would have never come back here where his mother played matchmaker with zero success.

Speaking of zero, here comes the woman his father never even liked that way come to try her luck with him.

[kogetanotenshi]

leave things open to interpretation in your posts so everyone has something to interact with comfortably and find something that suits their preferences. I’m sorry you felt like you were being threatened or dragged in, and I wish you the best. (3/3)

That's the point! Everything involving Rin and Sesshomaru here will be UP TO INTERPRETATION, and I'll say it again, I ship Sesshomaru with NOBODY, imo he's aroace who just don't think that love is necessary. Romantic love at least, in my eyes he didn’t like Kagura, he just felt pity on her and wanted to avenge her. But he also didn’t see Rin as hIs dAuGhTeR, they were just companions and when she grew up that companionship went on but she didn’t think of him as her dad because legally she was adopted by KAEDE.

Also stop sending anonymous questions, I am not an aggresive person and won't attack your DMs or something.

[t-rexseesyoursins]

These are both from way back in October I believe, sigh......

Quick note I haven't watched yashahime and don't plan to but let's just say that I hate being right.

However, from what I've gathered, they didn't even fully age Rin up before this bullshit? It's bad enough either way but still this is a new low sunrise (well probably not a new low, I'm pretty sure there's some other problematic content in their roster, but at least a deeply disappointing return to form).

The sad thing is for a while I stopped being as cynical and thought they wouldn't do it, but cynical me was right, of course.

[lokiindistress]

I HAVE A CORE ASSESSMENT TO WRITE BUT LISTEN UP Y'ALL I HAVE TO VENT. I JUST DTARTED TO WATCH INUYASHA AGAIN EARLIER TODAY AND IMAGINE HIW SHOCKED I WAS TO DEE UT WAS TRENDING BITCH WTF AND OH MY GID I AM SO EXXITED BUT AT THE SAMD TIME I AM SO SCARED, SESSHOMARUS DAUGHTER BETRER EITHEE BE RIN OR ADOPTED BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING WAY THAT HE WILLINGLY HAD SEX WITH SLMEONE NO YIU CAN NOT CHANGE MY MIND

[thequestioning-maiden]

This! 👏👏👏

Certain people are very offended by the idea that Sesshomaru (or ANY character for that matter) could be Aro, Ace, AroAce etc.

It seems people find it difficult to understand that platonic relationships and non-sexual relationships should be in the spotlight too. It’s annoying af to see them cast aside or worse—turned romantic or sexual just because it “has to happen because they can’t just stay in a platonic or non-sexual relationship.”

Characters can have meaningful relationships without romance or sex. Normalize that.

[eleiyaumei]

It's "Asexual Day" in @inuyashapridemonth but I felt like including aromantic and aroace in this as well (bc romantic identities are just as valid as sexual ones).

I can't draw well enough to contribute fanart so I hope some cheap photo manip is okay ^^'

Sesshōmaru is the most obvious character in IY to interpret as ace, aro or aroace. My teenage self who didn't know they were ace yet fell for him right away because of that (and bc of his androgynous/GNC looks) and started unconsciously writing an asexual romance.

Anyway, happy Pride Month, everyone!

[clown-cult]

Did you hear that when Sesshomaru’s Japanese VA Ken Narita heard that Sesshomaru was to have a wife and daughters in Trashahime he literally went “Why…?” Then when asked in an interview what he thinks Sesshomaru feels about Rin he outright said he thinks Sesshomaru just had sex with Rin “as an experiment” and that “he’s far from romantic love.” lmao, even his own damn VA could tell Sesshomaru was being made widely OOC! 😂 I mean putting aside the fact that the goddamned child he raised was the choice for the twins mother of all people, whose bright idea was it to even give Sesshomaru a wife and hanyou children in the first place? Who took one look at this aroace icon and thought “ah yes, he’s certainly the type to settle down, a heteronormative life, that’s what he needs!”

Who the fuck even asked for this? No one in the fandom wanted this besides Sessrinnes because we all knew it would be outright character aassassination.

I can’t think of any other character in the history of anime fandom more canonically unsuited for romance than fucking Sesshomaru.

Narita Ken 🤝 Ian Richard Cox

“We neither understand nor like the directions this project is going in and we’re just here for our paycheques.”

Seriously though, it doesn’t matter if no one asks for shit like this. The higher ups are motivated by money and trying to normalise their own gross behaviour, so they’ll just keep pushing it. That’s why we see so much media both eastern and western that features problematic age gaps, exploiting children, glorification of bad relationships and so on.

No one asks for it, no one ever does. It’ll take more than that to stop this early-dystopian era we’re living in.

[juniemunie]

The inuyasha game is... smth lemme tell u

I enjoy it so far, of course they did their best with the gameplay... my imagination comes in to save the repeating battle sequences

And shikigami powers op as fuck thanks for the leech seed, as well as the mass team heal, buff and status removal, what the heck

(To this day i still have no idea what that red image is...)

The real fun is the roleplay elements, its rlly just an inuyasha dating simulator

Too bad im not interested in coming between my canon ships,,, i just feel bad for kagome and miroku if i even try to date sango and inuyasha,,, also in the aroace spectrum so-

Ajchdjjcjdjc sesshomaru route it is!!

Wheres the koga and kikyo routes game, i want them.... you cant just give sessh the special treatment,,,

[xxx-theartofsuicide-xxx]

As a casual Inuyasha fan, I find sessrin shippers funny. You do know that some viewers assume Sesshomaru to be asexual/aroace right?

Not everyone was expecting or hoping for him to get paired off in a sequel. You guys always seem to forget that that's a strong possibility with him given his original personality, arc and development.

In my opinion he didn't develop to a point where he'd believably be in a relationship with anyone in that short amount of time. Especially not with a half demon or a human. Yeah, no, Sesshomaru was quite racist, he didn't change that much in that time.

It's in your opinion that he completely changed in 4 years since the ending of the story and got with the closet human available to him which happened to be a kid he was hanging around. Whatever. You've loved it forever, I and many others find it creepy.

But let's not pretend that the manga or anime hinted at romance between those two. Just say that you've been waiting/hoping for it (or not since you think they've been together offscreen or something since Rin was little 🤷‍♀️). My issue with any shippers from any fandom is when they insist that the canon material fit their narrative when it factually didn't and can easily be debunked. And then you guys get high and mighty and try to fuck with people who think otherwise. Just don't be an asshole over your ship

They're literally married you absolute buffoon 🤣

[gravity-what]

An update for you all.

Sesshomaru is not impressed. (Mostly because his mother is always TMI, partially because his father has only been dead a few months)

Is...is this NSFW? I mean...she’s only implying at things....

EDIT: yashahime has completely ruined all things Inuyasha for me and I hate seeing people reblogging this stuff anymore. I’ve turned off reblogs for that reason

Told you you would be getting more of her~!

+ bonus Inuyasha’s mom.

There might be more to this ‘story’ but fair warning: like all my comics it will be humor above anything else (Aka: don’t expect romance from me, I am very bad to it)