#his character is so rosie coded 😭

[probably-not-a-rocketscientist]

NATE MANN as Simon Barrington

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Alastor ideal type in partner headcanons? I've been thinking about this and your one of the few writers I see that write alastor as close to canonly possible as can be and I really appreciate that in your writing so I knew I'd get a pretty close and accurate answer on this😭 hopefully you can get to this when it's okay for you but when you do thank you so much!!❤️

Aw, thank you, I’m so flattered!

Now, we know Alastor is for sure in the ace spectrum in canon and potentially on the aro spectrum as well and as someone who is on both of those, I have thoughts.

I think that Alastor would fall under the aegosexual category and be slightly sexually repulsed. He’s not completely thrown off by the idea of sex but I don’t feel like he would be very comfortable viewing himself in a sexual light and even others.

As someone who relates to Alastor on several levels, I feel like he would have a similar view to sex as I do. Kind of the opposite of projection here because I do think it makes sense for his character. Where it’s less about the act of getting yourself or someone off and not even about pleasure but about the ability to cause a reaction from someone that not everyone can cause. That will obviously play into any sex life you may have and thus you’d have to be okay with him not viewing you sexually even within a sexual context and more like a test subject.

Then his possible aromantic orientation. Whoever would be with him would have to be okay with him saying the words “I love you” and not being able to describe what that means. Once again, less projection and more if I feel like this thing about me also fits him. The lines between romantic and platonic in society are so rigid and the things he feels fluctuate. He knows he loves you differently than say Niffty, Rosie, or Charlie but it wouldn’t necessarily be romantic, more so bordering on it, if that makes since. Again, hard to describe.

Now in terms of a partner, some absolute musts:

Must be willing to cause chaos.

Must test his limits/challenge him occasionally.

Must have a similar moral code to his own.

Must be able to find entertainment outside of modern technology.

Must be alright with not knowing everything about him.

Some preferences:

Enjoy jazz.

Knows how to dance or be willing to learn.

Join him in hunts/killings.

Be strong headed.

Have traditional manners.

I think generally he would like someone who is very stubborn which will both provide him with entertainment and cause him to become his own. To be challenged in how to do things or how he sees things.

He’d need someone who would be willing to indulge and encourage his behavior. But perhaps due to that stubbornness be able to also reel him in.

Alastor has been described several times I believe as having a moral code to his killings. Obviously this will be a strong moral code as it tells him who to kill. This is not something he would budge on and if you do not agree with his moral code you can say goodbye to being romantic with him.

Being able to find entertainment outside modern technology isn’t as hard as some people believe. Whatever happened between him and Vox was at least the final nail in the coffin for him about modern technology and it would not be allowed in any of his spaces or when he’s trying to be intimate with you in any form being emotionally or physically.

He will not tell you everything. Some things (like his emotions towards you) he cannot describe. Other things (like his deal) he will refuse to elaborate on if you even know at all. The same is true for you. He knows when to not push. He’s good at reading people but he also trusts you to come to him if you need help and he expects you to return the sentiment.

[suga-kookiemonster]

Hi hun, so a few things cuz a hoe is obsessed with you. Okay, so like when I first discovered you it was from ego and let a bitch tell you, you had me addicted from the 👏🏽get 👏🏽go👏🏽. I now purposely try and forget your fics so I can experience them all over again like not a ting ever happened. And the reader, I don’t know if it’s intentional - but I’m a big dreamer and love jumping to conclusions, but I feel like they are a POC and I die, no sorry, I DIE every time I read the interaction between them and the OT7 😩😩, I feel seen bitch 🥲. I have way to much to say. But I love your work and I think I may love you 🥺. But I’m proud of you and am so thankful I stumbled across this page. Xx

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it was extremely bizarre, and as a black woman, distinctly alienating. so i decided to carve out my own space! if the masses could write “reader-inserts” (in quotations because i cannot insert myself into a character with pink nipples and rosy cheeks and straight hair…which would not be a problem if 80% of this fandom’s ocs didn’t have pink nipples and rosy cheeks and straight hair 😬) that are clearly white-coded, then i could write reader-inserts that are clearly poc (black)-coded. so again, it really touches me when people feel included in a space that shouldn’t have been excluding them in the first place, and it especially makes me tear up when i hear that my work helped to provide them that 💜💜💜💜 thank you so much for sending in this wonderful ask and starting my monday off right. i hope you’re doing well!💜💜💜