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KH Aro Fic Rec List

Last updated 02/10/26

More fics will be added when I read/write them. If anyone has other recommendations that aren’t here please let me know!

Hearts in a Void by kitkatt0430. Ienzo adjusting to being a Somebody again, and Leon helps him figure out his feelings.

Circumbinary by PunningLinguist. Very sweet aro Sora and Rikai drabble.

The Path Laid Before You by AiyexAyen. Sora is aroace and his frustrations trigger rageform.

honey-vanilla (orphaned). Aro Ienzo with onesided Demyx/Ienzo.

Winged Siren by LetoaSai. Roxas is aro and bonding with Xion, who’s a siren in this AU (and Sora mentioned as ace too).

Of course by TeaOfDestiny. A character study of Riku, who hasn’t realized he’s aro, and how that impacts his fall to darkness.

You are not alone by madammina. While in Quadratum, Sora discovers he’s aroace.

Make it Work by Larkawolfgirl. Aroace Riku feeling left out that Sora and Kairi are dating.

Invited to the Party by ThisKwamiNeeds_aNap. Aro Sora, though Kairi/Roxas and Riku/Naminé are more of the focus and figuring out relationships when Roxas and Naminé don’t have their own bodies.

i don’t know what’s best for me (what am i supposed to see) by ace_does_words. aro sora contemplates the nature of his heart when surrounded by romance

a moon shaped pool by FR33SH00TR. Post-KH3 xehaluxu with arospec Luxu.

College Romance for Aromantics 201 by madammina. college AU with alloaro Aqua and Aqua/Karl from Resident Evil crackship.

different kinds of love by Nayv. Aro Sora and Aro Riku with the destiny trio asserting their own kind of love for each other.

lull me to sleep by dreamseas. ambiguous/non-romantic rikai with background aro sorikai. Kairi’s insecure that her friends will end up leaving her behind but Riku is there to assure her she’s just as important to the both of them.

Imperatively, You’re the Best of Me by ventricular. kh1 riku/sora with aro/non platonic/non sexual intimacy.

My fics:

A Spilling of the Heart. Strelitiza and Sora bonding over reclaiming heartlessness.

Heart of Shadow, Heart of Wind. Ventus isn’t sure about himself anymore, so Vanitas talks with him.

Matching Rings. Sora and Strelitzia go shopping for some special accessories.

Friends of My Heart. The Kairi and Sora paopu sharing scene but with arospec Kairi.

As the Daylight Breaks. Strelitzia and Ventus are proud of being aro (and then the KH Plot(tm) catches up with them)

Arc of an Arrow. Ongoing drabble collection that will eventually have one for every KH character

Hearts in Grayscale. Aro Ventus and gray-aroace Roxas teach each other Keyblade skills and bond over aspec experiences.

To Float on the Waves. Slice of life Kairi/Olette/Strelitzia with aroflux Strelitzia.

#kh #fics #fic recs #my fics

nonexistentnull

CHALLENGE FOR THIS PRIDE MONTH, if someone says they’re aromantic/has an aro flag accessory, don’t assume they’re also asexual by default. I wish you all luck

just-aro

sometimes it's so very draining that the majority of aro content is about fictional relationships.

irl, i live alone. irl, i am disabled. irl, that intersection and my lack of interest in partnering actively makes life really hard. everything is expensive. i can't always cook when i want to or have fresh ingredients, because my symptoms don't care if I want to cut up vegetables and eat something homemade before they go bad. if I have a bad flareup and getting up is not in the cards, that's it. i have what's next to me. the lack of social support for single folks, for disabled folks, for folks whose family care is inadequate or damaging... it's impactful.

I talk about how i once visited a place with an ex partner. i mention how our relationship started because i was pressured into it, and i wasn't really into the level of seriousness and 'forever' she treated it with. everyone says it's weird that i agreed if i didn't want it to be serious. i remember being 16, saying no, and a chorus of people telling me i was stupid and immature, that her family was rich, that we would be cute and to listen to them, not my heart. my heart was saying nothing.

i look at my current age and life goals. for many of my peers, dating and marriage and eventual kids are common goals. i am watching my rights erode and trying to practice good mental hygeine. my five year goal is to be alive. my next major life milestone is a nebulous desire to find a life i can tolerate living.

being aromantic significantly impacts my day to day. i want to see aro people living their lives, and doing so with joy. i want to see aro adults making it, ones like me. i want aro people to thrive. i want to live, aromantically.

i scroll the aro tag. it's fandom and shipping and asexual posts.

just-aro

okay to reblog! if i didn't want folks to reblog, i would turn off their ability to do so!

alphascorpiixx

KH4 is giving us Sora “I don’t understand love” and Strelitzia “I don’t have a crush” as friends aros let’s goooo

aro-sora

[ID: edit of official artwork of Strelitzia so that she has the aromantic flag draped over her shoulders with one corner held in her hand. End ID]

threeracoonsinatrehchcoat

#aroace

couldaromanticismsavethem

AMY ROSE FROM THE SONIC FRANCHISE

Why do you think aromanticism could save them?: "I think she just enjoys the idea of being in love. She needs more going on than just being a young teen in love with Sonic."

Could Aromanticism Save Them?

Yes

It would make them worse

It would make them worse (affectionate)

Remaining time: 5 days 39 minutes

#sonic the hedgehog

anistarrose

As Aromantic Visibility Day (June 5th) approaches this year, friendly reminder from an aroace: it's Aromantic Visibility Day, not "Aroace" Visibility Day! Not all aromantics are also asexual — there are aromantics who are allosexual (aroallos for short), aromantics who don't separately label their sexual orientation at all, and aromantics whose sexual orientation doesn't fit into an ace/allo binary, as well as likely even more aros who don't fit into "aroace" for even more reasons — and all of them are equally included in Aromantic Visibility Day, because they are equally aromantic! In fact, those aros who aren't ace are disproportionately erased and in need of visibility, even more than aroaces are (which is really saying something, because aroace visibility itself is already terrible), so including them in Aromantic Visibility Day is vital, and using the correct name for the occasion instead of calling it an "aroace day" is a start.

Overall: again, speaking as an aroace myself, we aroaces will not be offended if you just call Aromantic Visibility Day the thing it is actually called! I care about sharing this upcoming day with my fellow aros, so stop excluding them, even accidentally! We aroaces celebrate this day but it is not for us exclusively!

emobricosss

Happy pride month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#mlp #aroace

genderkoolaid

just a pride month reminder:

if you are making something featuring multiple flags and you put in the asexual flag, you better put in the aromantic flag.

if you put in the aroace flag, you better put in the aroallo flag.

fighting aromantic erasure starts with YOU 🫵

genderkoolaid

for reference:

^ the aromantic flag

^ the aroallo (aromantic allosexual) flag

& just btw, aromantic erasure is so bad that on pubmed, many of the very few studies that have looked into aspec people specifically, categorize us as a type of asexuality. from this study:

Our findings highlight that aromantic people wish for aromanticism not to be considered a part of asexuality—a practice that has dominated contemporary literature (Antonsen et al. 2020; Carvalho & Rodrigues, 2022; Clark & Zimmerman, 2022; Hall & Knox, 2022; Zheng & Su, 2018). Many participants clarified the distinction between their sexual identity and romantic identity and highlighted that though they may be connected for some, they should be considered independently as unique contributors to an individual’s identity and experience. This aligns with a previous aromantic community survey that showed 72% of the sample did not identify with asexual terminology (AUREA, 2021a). In combination with our findings, this suggests that a tendency to conflate and describe these identities as the same or linked may be to the disadvantage of a significant portion of the aromantic community.

this is why it is so important to include aromantic people as our own group and to specifically include non-asexual aromantics. i hope y'all can understand how frustrating it is to be erased through a group that is already erased.

asexual representation is sparse? all aromantic rep is asexual and most of the time people don't even bother to remember that "aromantic" is its own thing. i can't count how many times i've seen a character talk about not experiencing romantic attraction, only for people to go "wow asexual rep!" even though sexual attraction was never brought up.

asexual community & resources are sparse? when i try to look up groups for aromantics, i get resources on "ace & aro groups" that are literally all asexual-focused. at best asexual-focused with a mention of aromantic people. which isn't really helpful when you are aroallo and don't really want or need a group that is clearly meant for alloro asexuals and aroaces.

asexual history is sparse? i've literally never seen anything even trying to talk about aromantic history. the most impactful thing on aro history is that one tumblr post talking about a woman at a nursing home who heard the term and realized her best friend was likely aro. see above with the character situation as well.

my point here is not "aros have it worse than aces" because we are both aspec and both get fucked over by the same forces and in fact, a LOT of asexual aromantics are also very frustrated by aromantic erasure! i've even heard some people talk about not identifying as strongly as asexual, even though it fits them, because they feel their aro identity is more important to them but gets constantly erased by their asexuality.

my point is that it is so fucking disheartening to be aro even in queer spaces that are trying to be asexual-inclusive, even in supposedly aspec spaces, because it swiftly becomes apparent that people see your entire identity as just a footnote for asexuality. so many people never even realize they are aro because they aren't asexual and don't realize that you can be aro but not ace. i dealt with some really intense arophobia as a teen after realizing i was aro, feeling broken and alone. it hit much harder than any internalized homophobia or transphobia did for me at the time. i did not meet another person who identified as aromantic irl until this year. any resources and community that i had as a queer teen, as a trans teen, did not exist for me as an aro teen and does not exist for me as an aro adult, really.

and big problem is that, because people think of aromanticism as just a footnote of asexuality, they implicitly assume that more asexual rep, more asexual resources, more asexual visibility will automatically serve aromantics too. and when it doesn't work like that, aro people continue to suffer as a result.

things have improved over the years and i hope will continue to! but i really need every queer person to become more aware of aromanticism & arophobia & how the queer community contributes to it & hurts aro people. hence why i am so testy about when people will include the ace flag but not the aro one. YOU 🫵 will care about your aromantic siblings and consider us this pride month!!!!!

aro-who-reads

Aro book review: Novis by Rachel Tonks Hill

Scifi novella. A mercenary team is sent to an outpost colony to find out what has been killing off the colonists and protect them from it.

The story follows three women: Ros, the mercenary captain, Gabby, her best friend, and Isobel, from the colony.

Gabby is alloaro, and she and Ros have a longstanding friends-with-benefits arrangement. Ros and Isobel quickly develop romantic feelings for each other, and the three of them must negotiate this new dynamic together.

I really do appreciate stories exploring these sorts of situations, though in this case it felt like it maybe got sorted a bit too easily, and the instalove romance took up too much time for my taste. But with the shorter length it would have been difficult to fit much more in!

#to read

snailmediansystem

Because I couldn't find a term for this and I wanted to put my hat in the ring of making flags/microlabels.

Synromantic </3

[Pt: Synromantic </3]

[Id in alt text

flag with 5 stripes, reminiscent of the originial 4 stripe Aro flag. From the top: light green, yellow, orange, black, light green. Containing a heart in the middle, with the 5 stripe Aro flag, dark green, light green, white, grey, black.

End ID]

Experiencing little or no romantic attraction unless the object of one's attraction is themselves aromantic. May or may not overlap with other microlabels or identities such as Aro4Aro.

Etymology:

Syn- Greek meaning "together" or "with" ex- Synonym, Synchronize.

I wanted to coin something separate from Aro4Aro. Because Aro4Aro implies that one emphasizes romance/relationships with fellow Aros, while I *only* experience romantic attraction to other Aromantic people. I didn't have romantic attraction to my current girlfriend until after she told me she was Aro too. It's a semantic difference between choosing to only date Aros and only being attracted to Aros.

Other folks are free to make Syn- flags for other identities. Like Synsexual or Synplatonic etc. @ me if you do, I'd love to see them. There's no need to give credit if you use my flag in an edit or as your pfp or banner, but if you're adding it to a wiki specifically, I would like a mention of my Tumblr. Thank you :3.

#synromantic

mac-aro-ni

This pride, a reminder to support:

Cishet aros

Straight aros

Cis aros

Nb aros

Intersex aros

Transfem aros

Transmasc aros

Trans aros who don’t identify as transmasc or transfem

Trans aros who identify as transmascfem/transfemmasc

Aro men

Aro women

Loveless aros

Queerplatonic aros

Aplatonic aros

mac-aro-ni

Some more!

BIPOC aros

AAPI aros

Asian Aros (looking at you, American COVID-stoked sinophobia)

Indigenous aros

Latiné aros

GNC aros

Disabled aros

Mentally ill aros

I/DD aros

Autistic aros

st-hedge

Well happy pride month to this anon and the terrible pun

#the legend of zelda

papercranesandpride

I think if you want to understand bigotry against aromantics, I have a good case study. Let me talk a little about my dad's family.

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes

I know that my father will never see me as a successful adult. He will never approve of my life. And I think most people would assume that that's because I'm trans. And don't get me wrong, he sure as shit doesn't like or respect that, but I do think if given enough time, he would get used to it. He would eventually realize that it isn't going away. And if I settled down with a spouse and a respectful job and a few kids, he could see me as a successful adult that he could be proud of anyway. But of course, that's not going to happen. Because I'm aromantic. So I'm never going to do that one thing that signifies that his job is complete, and I'm officially a full-fledged adult. I will perpetually be that fuck-up kid who won't settle down. In my personal case, that's okay. My dad is a conservative piece of shit, and if he doesn't approve of you, that just means you're doing something right. But on a societal level? This kind of attitude is a massive problem. Aromantics deserve to be treated like adults, and to feel like the accomplished adults that they are. We should feel like we belong in society..