A collection of aspec original characters

[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.

[aromanticsky]

for Halek:

6. How does your oc feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?

7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?

9. Are there cultural or lore specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?

6. Halek tends to label himself, but vaguely. In a lot of ways he doesn’t have a consistent/strong/confident sense of self (living a triple life will do that to you. Trauma, also, might do that to you) and this may or may not be related to that. (He also might just not really feel the need to get super specific.) For instance, he describes his sexuality as “flexible;” the Ðíúharlaes don’t consider multisexuality to be outside the norm so I doubt they have as many words for it as we do and Halek doesn’t feel the need to identify with a specific subcommunity or be very definite about it. (Interestingly, Zhe’ārani might also describe her sexuality as flexible, but in her case she’s describing what we might call abrosexuality whereas Halek is vaguely pansexual.) He also thinks of himself as (in addition to a trans man) genderqueer and multigender, but he doesn’t know or describe what the other genders might be. I do think he probably identifies as specifically platoniromantic, at least to himself and people he cares to explain it to more than “alloaro-spec;” “platoniromantic” seems to me like a pretty intuitive word the Ðíúharlaes or even just Halek himself could easily come up with to describe not differentiating romantic and platonic attraction, and the lack of differentiation in his emotional attraction is important to him and relevant to how he experiences and forms relationships. (Oh! And he’s intersex, which is not seen as a “problem” in his world but is relevant to how Se-Naskans talk about gender so in some contexts it’s relevant to how he thinks about himself, and he does specifically identify as intersex.) He doesn’t have opinions about the “right” amount of labels for other people, they can be as vague or as specific as they want, he’s just pretty intermediate about his own.

7. Halek has some trouble with his sense of identity generally, but I think he’s pretty confident in his queerness. Many of his labels have wiggle room built in by design.

9. Sometimes he struggles with feeling like he's not masculine enough because Beri gender norms have men as very studious and scholarly and Halek is in lower-level classes than most of his age-peers at school in Meelasugaado (because he dropped out of school in his mid teens and now needs to catch up with a bunch of people for whom it is normal to attend all of (their equivalent to) high school). Se-Naskans often talk about gender in terms of the whole package of sex + what we'd consider gender identity + orientation, with the expectations for each combination all being a little different from each other, so with other Se-Naskans Halek usually describes his gender as "intersex multisexual aromantic man(ish)" (<- his various cultural contexts might play into the vaguely-multigender thing). (Particularly where he lives) Ðíúharlaes and Norve people have adopted some of each other's terminology, so he uses the translated Norve term "multi-partnering" for himself. The Ðíúharlaes historically have not prioritized romantic over platonic or monogamy, and have a framework for socially-recognized chosen family, so he doesn't face the same pressures of amatonormativity as he would in our world, and his relationship anarchist mentality/lifestyle doesn't make him unusual; however, the Ðíúharlaes do heavily socially prioritize "relationships of the spirit" over "relationships of the flesh," and for Halek physicality is an important part of a lot of his relationships and he is alienated by this spirit > flesh ideology in a lot of ways. Meelasugaado is weird about gender (heavily binary matriarchy) and it's always a culture shock when he goes.

[aromanticsky]

not a big fan of socializing but she does like people-watching!

[ID: a pencil crayon drawing titled “Observing.” In it, Guodei is sitting in a window seat and lifting a mug to her mouth. She is a young woman with light golden-brown skin, short blue hair, and sharp silver claws. She has a prosthetic leg, scars on her arms and face, and indistinct tattoos on her hands. The lid of the cup, which has a straw attached to it, is sitting on the cushion next to her. /end ID]

Artist’s notes:

The cup is built with a straw but she doesn’t like straws so she took the lid off.

Set a few months after leaving the Temple.

Not totally sure about the shape of her nose; I’m not certain it’s consistent with the other drawing I did of her but I was sort of trying things out and tbh I think that because I’d been thinking about a different drawing I might do with Rovian who’s nose IS that shape and how I wanted to go about it slightly differently than usual I might have gotten a little mixed up. It’s not too far off what I think the shape of Guodei’s nose is but the bridge might look a little different? Not a big deal but I thought I’d point it out in case it’s inconsistent with other drawings (past or future). I did put the edges of the nostrils in this time which is what I was trying out and I think I’m satisfied.

I didn’t outline the scars in marker this time! I think that’s much better and more how real scars look.

Wearing her flower shirt, of course.

Trying out putting some more effort into shading and I think it paid off in some places and didn’t come across as well in others. This is good information for the future.

Gave her a hitchhiker’s thumb like me.

She’s so awkward and doesn’t really want to make friends, but she’s really starting to get used to being around other people and she’s interested in how “normal” people interact with each other, so she comes to the food hall a lot.

@cepheusgalaxy

[runestonesworld]

for aromantic visibility day, here's a bit about a bunch of my aromantic OCs !!

Nox is aromantic (aroace) - that's quite integral to their story, and in fact was part of the very first concept for that story i came up with. it's the reason they're immune to the mind control that the Big Bad is using to take over the world

Ross (Ooze) is aromantic, though they haven't really thought about it for the most part - it simply has not come up and they have bigger things to worry about, like the team of wannabe supervillains that know their name and address

Topaz Morgan is aromantic (acearo, aplatonic, afamilial - loveless) and strictly nonpartnering, which is why they were living (happily) alone in an apartment before moving into their late aunt and uncle's house to take care of their much younger cousins (which for some reason was specified in their aunt's and uncle's wills, even though everyone knows they can't handle kids? anything's better than letting topaz's mom attempt to parent more kids, they suppose)

Merry might well be aromantic - they're not really sure

Lucille is definitely aromantic, though she didn't have a word for it till she'd been dead for nearly 80 years (hey, there are some benefits to haunting)

Grey is aromantic (aroallo), though they live with a bunch of their friends, which is both fortunate (the horrors seem to subside when Poet is nearby) and unfortunate (all their friends are starting to notice the concerning noises at odd hours and the fact that Grey's cat Jackson doesn't seem to move right or even to be mortal any longer)

Poet is also aromantic. He is too full of wonder and whimsy at the world for any of that romance nonsense. He considers his housemates his queerplatonic polycule, which they might reciprocate if he literally ever used those words instead of waxing poetic about how all of them are like stars in a constellation on a journey through time

Augden is aromantic! Or greyromantic, at least. He can't quite tell between platonic and romantic - his platonic love is just so strong! He's pretty worried about Grey. They have been acting so strangely recently and he wonders if it's because he offhandedly told them he loved them (he meant it platonically but maybe they think he was coming on to them?) (they didn't even hear him, they were too busy running off to fight the horrors)

Jay would probably call themself aromantic if they weren't so distracted all the time. Not really by their story so much as they are very scatterbrained

most of the rest of my OCs that i have put any amount of myself into are also aromantic in some capacity - i just cannot fathom being fully alloromantic, so i just sort of hit everybody with the aromantic beam so i don't have to think about it...

anyway, happy aromantic visibility day!!!

ummmm @aspec-ocs (i hope this tag's okay)

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

Facts about Meg cause I’m making her a stimboard <3:

The most well-known fact since I talk about it all the time is probably the fact that she’s trans! She started her transition very early in life with the support of her mother and best friend. Growing out her hair is one of the first ways she started transitioning, so she’s awfully fond of it.

She’s very serious about her career as a ballerina, to the point she sometimes needs to be told when to take a break. At first her mother had refused to teach her anything because of an injury Giry (Meg’s mother) suffered in the past, but Meg was rather persistent and now she’s one of the best ballerinas on stage.

One of her biggest hobbies is reading. She loves a good mystery novel and is always recommending new books to her best friend Christophe. The two of them love theorizing what’s going to happen next in their books together.

Another hobby of hers which is a rather practical one is embroidery. Sometimes costumes get ripped and the person who made them isn’t always available to fix them, so most people (but especially the ballerinas) have picked up a few sewing skills.

(This is especially helpful considering the particular theater she works at may or may not be going bankrupt, and hiring the costume designers again for repairs the following year is a lot when the people actually wearing the costumes could just- fix them themselves).

She’s also very protective of her loved ones and will go out of her way to make sure they’re safe. Even if it may hurt herself, or them.

(Also she’s aroace!!)

[aspec-ocs]

do we count agender and aplatonic as aspec?

Aplatonic (and anything else to do with attraction and relationships) for sure! If you consider agender to be part of the aspec, you can submit agender characters too; from what I know some agender people do, since it IS the absence of something socially expected, and some don’t, since gender is kind of a different spectrum to attraction so it’s different from things like aromanticism.

[cepheusgalaxy]

1 and 28 for Espa from this ask game?

Ty :) yay <3 yay

1. How sheltered was your OC from the idea of LGBTQ+ relationships when they were younger? How has it impacted their relationship with themselves?

🫵 good question

Tbh Espa doesn't have a good understanding of queer people, but it's not nothing. They are somewhat aware of homo-/bi-/pansexuality etc (side eyes mr juste) (side eyes mr juste's probably gay as fuck friends if were being honest) and they have gathered enough of a pattern to know different people might have different... "preferences". But they feel sort of removed from it. Espa is aroace and if you asked thrm about their apparent lack of interest in the matter they'd tell you it's because they are a weapon and don't need to feel those things. They probably know some fellow weapons who get romantically/sexually involved and attribute it to poor self-restraint/discipline. But fine she won't snitch.

Nobody told it aromanticism exists but it can probably infer that it does. It only makes sense, right? Not like it concerns her, though.

Transness wise u_u I actually think there are some trans and nonbinary handlers every so often AND that's how it found out people who use they/them exist. Once a more "progressive" handler with pronouns started calling her "they" at first when they weren't sure of her gender and it felt really nice. It probably toyed with the idea for a bit before becoming attached. But Espa is mostly ignorant! It is going to be confronted with the concept of transness and transition and nonbinaryhood further along the story with the introductions of Guy and Sethie but as of now they are just vaguely aware that its a thing and don't actually put any thought into it. You may realize that in their pov they are very quick to assign gender to strangers solely based on physical characteristics like voice and face and such. It is a footnote on their knowledge but not a significant part of their worldview.

28. Is your OC more likely to want a QPR or a romantic relationship?

None of the two! If someone was cruel enough it wouldn't be hard to pressure it into one but Espa is not wired for that kind of thing.

[serpent-corse]

My aspec boys! I don't usually add alt text, but I did it this time since I'm tagging @aspec-ocs (just FYI there's 1 mention of sex in the paragraph below)

Grady Bell (right) is the reincarnation of the demon of pride (here called Asmodeus) and he's cishet, BUT aplatonic. He's one of the only sins who still has some loyalty to the queen of hell (mostly because they're banging, but shhhh don't let her hear that), but of course, he always puts himself first. He's a college student, majoring in costume design, but he prefers styling hair.

Ethan Elliot Scott (left) is acearo and the reincarnation of wrath demon Satan. He's an up-and-coming rock artist. Does he have any interest in alt music or fashion? Nooo... But he gets to rage and scream (and maybe even beat up some neo nazis) so he continues doing gigs.

These two make up a trio with the demon of Gluttony(not pictured because she's big lesbo). They really shouldn't get along well, but they're the only ones who are somewhat politically aware and are all on the same leftist wavelength, so they find common ground there.

[tell-me-about-your-trans-oc]

Do you know if there's other versions of this Blog format? I know there's an intersex one, but I'm specifically looking for a nb one. (Ofc lesbian, gay, M-spec & aspec Blogs are welcome too!!)

I do not unfortunately, but my followers might! The only one I know of besides this one is @tell-us-about-your-plural-oc

[aroworlds]

Hallo, Aro: Allosexual Aro Flash Fiction

(As this project now encompasses twenty stories, I thought I'd celebrate with a master post.)

Is it "aay-romantic" or "arrow-mantic"? What if she hears "I’m a romantic" instead of "I’m aromantic"? What if she says "isn’t that just friendship" or "that can’t be real" or, worst of all, "I’m looking for something more"?

Hallo, Aro is a series of flash fiction stories about allosexual aromantic characters navigating friendship, sexual attraction, aromanticism and the weight of amatonormative expectation.

Contains: Dragons, a duchess's daughter, an autistic who collects pride merch, odd voyages into creative non-fiction, werewolves and gods, hunters of witches and the fae, the power in aromantic discovery, and lots of allo-aro feels and experiences.

Plus many trans, multisexual and sapphic aros!

Unspoken

How do you tell the person you like about the relationship you want when it requires a language nobody speaks?

Leaving

You leave a trail of people behind you, the cruel and curious and stubborn, until you find someone who understands the word aromantic.

Friendship

All Eliza wants is to partner a dragon’s handmaiden without risking romantic complications–but her dragon has something just as valuable to offer.

Lucky

The only way Piper can survive his workplace's fumbling attempts at aro acceptance is to make a game of it.

Attraction

Eliza can’t help fearing that her interest in another girl is best explained by a word she doesn’t wish applied to her: romance.

Existence

How do you come to terms with your path through life when nobody said the word that describes you?

Neuronormative

What does aromanticism mean to an autistic who cannot distinguish it from alloromanticism?

Loveless

When Paide ein Iteme says the words “I don’t love”, he doesn’t just refer to romantic relationships.

Monstrous

You submit, obediently, to their chains and collars … until you start to wonder what it is about your beast’s nature that requires the loving to demand such restrictions.

Pressure, Side One

When aromantics speak of the social pressures that weight our existence, sex negativity seldom comes first to mind.

Pressure, Side Two

Even in a city wrought to display our proud green, many things are shaded purple.

Abrasive

Spending Midsummer night with a pretty man shouldn’t be a problem for Suki … except for everybody else’s romantic expectations.

Question

When people ask about your love life, it demonstrates their acceptance of your queerness. What does it mean, as an aromantic, when they show no interest at all?

Antagonist

Cai likes women, casual sex and an absence of long-term relationships. None which would be a problem if said women didn’t see this as proof of his becoming the enemy...

Witch

The forest road promises you the chance of a world beyond marriage’s expectation … but the witch waiting by the roadside offers up queerer, stranger proofs of validity.

Hunter

The Citadel assumes that Prudence obediently searches for the sorcerer potentate’s missing twin … but she has her own reasons to hunt the Ring’s witches.

Pillar

When fog creeps and moon fades, the desperate seek out gods few dare name … but even gods struggle to witness the cruel consequences of their people’s amatonormativity.

Tomorrow

Stories speak of heroes’ sexual escapades on the night before they risk their lives, but Darius doesn’t dread death as much as he does the complications of surviving to see the day after tomorrow.

Steel

When a needlewoman agrees to run away with her fae lover, their fairy-tale ending has little to do with happily-ever-after.

Future

Helping Sala choose an outfit to attract men's attention seems an exercise in absurdity. Yet when Sala asks Daisy about her romantic dreams, the answer just might change her future.

[multiple-fandoms1963]

How does your character identify? Do they know they’re aspec? (from @aspec-ocs)

Okay for this one im going to go with my star wars oc Kol, he is an jedi padawan and because of that he has never realised he is aspec, simply chalking his lack of intrest in things such as romance to being a jedi(since jedi do not have romantic relationships)

[aromanticsky]

o/_ :3 for anybody:

3. When did your OC realize that they may be different from other people?

Jue has always been uncomfortable around the idea of romance and marriage (did NOT enjoy going to Raiqiongshē’s weddings with Onarys and Teixal, or the few other weddings ze’s been to in hir official capacity as a high-ranking royal). People started floating the idea of hir marriage in hir early teens and Jue realized very viscerally that ze Did Not Want That. After some discussion with Fiitsãn in which Fiitsãn felt out whether it was not having a choice that bothered hir or just the idea of marriage in general and why (broadly being romance repulsion, sex repulsion, and not wanting to partner, plus trust issues unrelated to hir aromanticism and asexuality), Fiitsãn brought to hir attention the term “singular” and Jue very quickly started identifying with it.

[adragonsfriend]

Questions from the Ship development ask game 💕

7.) Which character confessed their feelings first? And how was it? What did they do? How were they feeling?

16.) What would they do to surprise one another?

(re: "I need help with writing romance." — if it refers to the genre, I'm not competent at that, but writing connection/intimacy/bonds/commitment/ship/whatever term becomes more accessible by approaching it as "write making kin.")

thank you for the questions and for the advice! I get in my head about romance even though I know a lot of it is the same as any relationship. I found a book the quote seems to be attributed to and it looks really cool im seeing if its in the library

7. Rabee unequivocally confessed first! I was thinking about it the past two days and it's the obvious answer, but it's also true. Rabee is a poet and a performer and while it was nervous about confessing in particular, that's a feelings it's used to working with rather than against. In a shockingly smooth confession it spent a while composing a poem for Safi,,, and then read it to him. The hardest thing for Rabee was probably getting to a point where the poem felt finished enough to actually read. I am debating and I think (in a move that could have gone quite badly but didn't) Rabee confessed while they were on the road together after both separately running away from home, so they had a lot of time alone. Safi got very tongue tied and essentially had to show his positive reaction by just hugging Rabee. Without other people around they kind of just,,, slowly started moving their sleeping bags (*suspenceful voice* do sw ocs get sleeping bags or will i come up with a sw-ified word) closer together and closer until they were basically snuggling every night. Once they met up with the larger group they're traveling with they gradually started doing more things to like,,, perform a romantic relationship I guess, like kissing and obvious flirting.

16. At the point I've written them so far they're still in the first few months of knowing each other, so there's a lot of surprises that just come up naturally. But as for things they do on purpose, Rabee has once or twice so far *slightly* abused its position as one of the supply coordinators to put together a picnic type of thing as a surprise for Safi (the first time it failed to account for muddiness and they both sat down only to immediately get very damp). Safi isn't organizing events so much but he frequently tries to surprise Rabee into laughing by delivering the gossip from around camp in very deadpan tones

[adragonsfriend]

@aspec-ocs

It doesn't come up explicitly in the above but Rabee and Safi are both ace. They sort of figure it out together in the same phase as they're figuring out the ways that they want to perform (/positive) their romantic relationship in front of other people

[palinoiahart]

3. When did your OC realize that they may be different from other people?

For Wren?

at birth bro.

real talk i don’t think wren has ever felt connected to other people and felt this sense of community. forever othered. #the metamorph life. this is kind of part of what helped them leave so easily!! always chasing community that has never been afforded to them. as for being agender, i think they knew that pretty early on?? as a child they knew they weren’t a boy nor a girl which again, is very much connected to them being visibly intersex and growing up like this. they’re too focused on the War to truly explore any of this but they realized they didn’t like kissing very much when they were 11 and kissed this girl at recess. they’re naturally a curious person and deduced from that experience it was overrated. they don’t really think about it much now.

[chiswhumpcorner]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy pride month whumpblr! 🏳️‍🌈

It's funny to me how, completely unplanned, my two sons turned out to be at the very extreme ends of some queer spectrum...

Where would your whumpee be on the graph?

[chiswhumpcorner]

ACTUALLY, @inhurtandincomfort you are so right, Eldwin is the real opposite extreme!

[inhurtandincomfort]

I decided Eldwin is acearo btw I don't make the rules

[chiswhumpcorner]

Green coded acearo character club let's goooo!

[aromanticsky]

[ID: a drawing of inhurtandcomfort's OC Eldwin and chiswhumpcorner's OC Khore high-fiving. Khore is "Deeply in denial, thinks this is a "Goddest Boys Who Did Their Best" high five" and Eldwin is "not sure what's going on." Khore has brown skin, bright green eyes, and scars on his hands. Eldwin has pale skin and eyes and is dressed formally. /end ID]

[aromanticsky]

From the aspec ask game, I don't know your characters much so i figured I'd ask:

19. What type of aspec character do you write most often? Why?

probably aromantic characters! fitting, considering the "Aros Against Fate" working title, lol. lots of asexual characters also. this is because I am aromantic and asexual so I really like to explore those kinds of experiences in all the forms they can come, and also I am projecting and I am on a mission to single-handedly fix the dearth of aro and ace representation (joking. only because one person can't do that though). Out of the main characters, Halek (idemromantic or platoniromantic), Rovian (greyromantic & burstromantic), Jue (apothiromantic), Zhe'ārani (aromantic), Kaelía (demiromantic), and Sei (frayromantic) are arospec and Rovian (demisexual), Jue (apothisexual), Kaelía (demisexual), and Daanah (aegosexual)- and occasionally Zhe'ārani (abrosexual, sometimes ace and sometimes grey-ace)- are acespec.