#aspec ocs

[basil-the-slinking-thing]

Okay. So the main character of my Snow Spirit story (working title) is an aroace who's thoroughly repulsed by both things

Great

The guy who seems like he's gonna be the big bad is a kid (teenager) her age who has a scary powerful spellbook and is terrifyingly good at strategy. But it turns out that he's scared of his own legal guardian (for good reason) and has just been trying to set up a way for him to get away from his evil grandfather (the legal guardian) while maintaining his own usefulness (to survive in the meantime) this whole time. He doesn't trust adults. He doesn't respect other children. All he has is the little bit of safety he can ensure himself by making himself indispensable to his grandfather, using his magic to help with the man's criminal activity.

Cool

But the type of magic his spellbook teaches is not healthy to use this often, especially by someone this young. If he keeps this up (read: if he can't escape in time) it will kill him. Freezing him from the inside the way smoking suffocates you.

Diabolical of me

In their conflicts, the MC tries to stop the harm he's causing for his grandfather's sake. He first dismisses her (for being another kid), and then begrudgingly admits she's troublesome enough to address directly, and then comes to DESPISE her, angry and terrified of what will happen if she actually defeats him. But he does realize he’s also very impressed by her. That she has an inventiveness and an interest in the arcane that he had long since given up the hope that other children might share with him. He begrudgingly begins to respect and even admire her for this.

The basis for one of my favorite types of friendship dynamics, honestly.

At some point, MC finds out about his living conditions, why he’s really doing all this (I don’t know what this is yet.) What’s happening to him because of the magic. (Like the equivalent of the Northwest Manner episode of Gravity Falls) And she’s horrified for him. She resolves to help him find a way out. He is not to blame for any of this after all. They become allies and best friends after that (the thing he needs the most right now.)

Wholesome, that bit. Best of hurt comfort type stuff.

I think, on an unrelated note, some other time when I wasn’t thinking about his relationship to MC: "if his body is freezing from the inside out and therefore freezing to the touch, I bet it would be very strange and interesting to touch him in a way that is meant to be tender, or to comfort. Imagine it being painfully cold to hold his hand or kiss him or something else intimate, but doing it anyway because you care about giving him this and that's more important." Plus, just the idea of kissing someone and it being cold actually is interesting.

Interesting dynamic.

I feel like he would be a lot like me when it comes to romantic relationships and gestures. He would never think of pursuing someone else and even though he would recognize a romantic gesture, it wouldn't mean anything significantly more than platonic ones. But if someone he enjoyed the company of asked him on a date, or to kiss him, he wouldn't refuse. (He doesn't know this yet because there's never been anyone he enjoys the company of before.) He would not mind engaging with that person in a romantic flavored way.

So if he was comfortable enough with whoever tried to give him the comforting touch, he would accept it. And it would affect him deeply because this boy is starved for any sort of connection at all.

I look around for any character who cares about him and who he's also comfortable enough around to let kiss him.

FUCK it's the aroace main character

[kraken-never-lies]

Being on the ace spectrum is so stupid sometimes I have to try really hard not to turn all my ocs asexual

Like what do you mean she desires him sexually… no she doesn’t….(tries really hard not to hit the only romantic couple in the story with the aroace beam)

[cordwaner]

Did you know? Being Ace actually kinda rules!

[unchartedspark]

💚 Overrated 💜 (2024, posted on Valentines Day)

[tikklil]

Rowan is aro, Dean is ace, and their 33-year marriage will change your perception of love

New OCs

[weepingfireflies]

Something that really frustrates me is that even WRITING aro/ace rep is hard to get across without using exact terminology because "I'm not interested in romantic/sexual relationships" is so often used as a precursor to said character finding "the one." Which could definitely fall into the aro/ace spectrum, but it's so often interpreted in the most amatonormative way ever that I don’t know if I can even make readers understand that yes, this character is, in fact, aro/ace.

[sevenyx77]

a funny little creature! | older art

[theswedishcatlord101]

These would go hard as stickers but idk how to make those.

What they say “When will I get a gf? Uhhhhh…” “I’d rather have cake”

the flags:

(Aromantic and asexual)

the flowers: Daises! But especially on Ace’s drawing these!:

Eat up my cat kingdom!

[anoddrock]

Knowing you’re bisexual and not knowing what aromanticism is. Gets her thinking like ‘Is cupid’s arrow broken or am I’

Reblogs appreciated!!!

[samkira]

seeing too much aphobia on twt rn. ASPEC OCS HAVE AT YE!

[bear-boi-5]

What is up with Asexuals and Pasta?

Like there's a surprising amount of memes about Asexuals involving pasta

As an asexual who fucking loves pasta, it do be a lil suspicious/silly

[brandthefish]

No thoughts, just Astarion with an asexual Tav.

Astarion who tries all the normal methods of seducing Tav being absolutely flabbergasted when they turn down his offer to share his bed.

Astarion who hears for what's probably the first time in 200 years, "I don't want you for your body, I like the person underneath,"

Astarion who finally gets friendly non-sexual touches like a head pat, resting their headon his shoulder, holding his hand, tousling his hair (to the best of their ability), hugging him.

Astarion who finally rather than putting on a show, gets to spend his nights just resting with someone who cares.

Astarion who knows that this person isn't in it for the physical part, and that without his efforts, this person would still risk everything to save him.

[ninjasylveon]

Sometimes you just gotta do art for yourself and draw the aroace magical girls

[aspec-ocs]

How this works:

You can tag me in a post about your or someone else’s aspec original character(s) and I’ll reblog it, or you can send asks about your aspec OCs and I’ll post them and maybe respond. 

Rules:

The character must be aspec. 

The character must be an OC. 

All images must be described for accessibility. 

No explicit sexual or romantic material- personal boundary, sorry. Mentions of sex and romance and discussions of a character’s relationship to them are fine but no smutty or deeply romantic paragraphs and no super romantic art or art explicitly depicting sex, please. 

I will tag identities and types of relationship & attraction by default, and if asked I will tag other things as well. 

This blog is open to characters of *all* aspec identities. No sort of aphobia or bigotry will be tolerated.

[thebad-lydrawn-sanses]

Happy Pride Month to Aromantic People

[beebfreeb]

I gotta get weirder about OCs. Firing the touched repulsed beam at the Salesman.