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 graphic sexual or romantic material- personal boundary, sorry. Mentions of sex and romance and discussions of a character’s relationship to them (even in-depth) are totally good but no smutty or deeply romantic paragraphs and no super romantic art (up to your own judgement) 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.

Edited to add: The post doesn’t have to be ABOUT the character being aspec, by the way! The character just has to be aspec according to the creator. Also, visual art, writing, and just talking about the character are all accepted; any post I can reblog is fine!

[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 graphic sexual or romantic material- personal boundary, sorry. Mentions of sex and romance and discussions of a character’s relationship to them (even in-depth) are totally good 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.

Edited to add: The post doesn’t have to be ABOUT the character being aspec, by the way! The character just has to be aspec according to the creator. Also, visual art, writing, and just talking about the character are all accepted; any post I can reblog is fine!

[cepheusgalaxy]

comission for @whumpawaydarling ^_^

+ softer version with less dramatic lighting

[aromanticsky]

Retmiq facts

-he/him

-intersex trans man. Rāmia assigns visibly intersex babies "X" so, fun fact, he essentially transitioned from nonbinary to male!

-approximately 19 as of Empires Always Fall

-important relationships: Abhaonai (romantic partner, cohort-sibling), Nesyue (best friend, cohort-sibling), Līs (cohort-sibling), Guodei (cohort-sibling/Lieutenant, he’s scared of her but she’s also the only other person who even kind of Gets It about the cancer and there are worse things to be afraid of at the Temple than Guodei), the other members of his cohort

-has a younger sister and three parents at home, misses them

-from a noble family. Parents sent him to the Temple in the hopes that the divine magic would make him stronger so he would live longer and Temple membership would guarantee him rights and status he wouldn’t otherwise get as someone who can never serve in the military

-he’s been getting sicker again recently and doesn’t think he’s going to make it long enough to become godsworn and get the benefits of the divine magic. Understandably distressed about this

-not a fan of when Abhaonai and sometimes Nesyue start going out and partying after they flee the Temple. He doesn’t enjoy going with them and is mostly too sick anyway and feels very abandoned and is honestly pissed that they keep leaving while he spends his nights in the bathroom because the chemo that might not even save his life makes him so nauseous he's scared to be anywhere but beside the toilet (though he doesn't express that to them)

-autistic. not diagnosed with Social-Emotional Dysfunction like Līs but has strong suspicions at this point. also has ADHD, dependent personality disorder, and anxiety, as well as hEDS

-nebularomantic and pansexual

-doesn't know what he'd do without Nesyue. She has been a steady presence in his life since they joined the Temple at 12 and he relies a lot on her for emotional (and often physical) support. He finds the fact that she is not very emotive helpful because he doesn't have to manage and feel guilty about her feelings about his illness, and her bluntness means he knows that if they have a problem she will tell him and not exaggerate it nor sugarcoat it and if she is not telling him they have a problem he doesn't have to worry that there secretly is (well, sometimes on his end there secretly is, but he doesn't have to worry that she is secretly mad). Wishes she seemed to need him like he needs her

-kind of lets Abhaonai get away with whatever because they need each other and Retmiq loves her and knows she loves him

-helps Abhaonai look after Kjotar. This makes him miss his own little sister both more and less simultaneously

-Highlands Rāmiq

-tired

@cepheusgalaxy ALRIGHT that's all the other Initiates accounted for!

[aromanticsky]

🖊 abhaonai?

facts about Abhaonai:

-bigender man + woman. she/he pronouns with no strong preference

-18 as of Empires Always Fall

-whole backstory in draft one was dependent on the existence and relevance of the Society for the Superiority of Mages which means it has to be entirely scrapped and revamped because they've been booted out of the story

-closest relationships: Kjotar (brother/kind of his kid), Retmiq (romantically involved to some degree), and Nesyue (best friend). Although they're not as close friends (Abhaonai feels like the relationship is closer than Zhe'ārani does), Zhe'ārani is also important to him as someone with whom he shares a language (Gharan Sign Language), who is also Deaf and who also has Gharan heritage, and the other Initiates also matter to him of course.

-Gharan mother, Highlands Rāmiq father

-parents were killed when she was... 10? ish. ran and did not stop running until the Temple. determined to protect herself and especially Kjotar by any means necessary. was obviously not ready to become a parent but after that Kjotar was her responsibility. [A/N: I don't know why her parents were killed. House robbery gone wrong maybe. Originally it was about the Society and Abhaonai was 12 but both of those obviously had to change. Abhaonai and Kjotar both witnessed it.]

-5 years older than Kjotar [originally 6 but I had to adjust to work with the Temple's recruitment schedule so I swapped his and Retmiq's original ages]

-history of malnourishment. Everything is very controlled-ly doled out at the Temple, but once she can eat under her own control at the Gharan commune she develops a binge eating disorder out of an underlying fear of not getting enough to eat at some other point. 5'2" (~157cm) but could have been taller if not for the malnutrition.

-aceflux, polysexual, biromantic. generally not attracted to binary women but potentially to anyone else

-easily becomes visibly emotional and has a lot of dramatic mood swings

-often gets aggressive when he's angry or scared

-kissed Zhe'ārani a couple times to make Retmiq jealous. then Retmiq kissed Zhe'ārani to make Abhaonai jealous. then Nesyue told Zhe'ārani what was going on and offered to kiss her too to make both of them jealous and Zhe'ārani decided she didn't want to be involved in whatever mind games they were all playing with each other. This is not atypical of Abhaonai/Retmiq/Nesyue.

-unlike some of the others, she enjoys the attention she gets as a former Initiate at the commune (even if it's not always positive attention). Would absolutely "play the trauma card" to get what she wants or what she thinks Kjotar needs.

-sometimes when people from very restrictive home environments go away to university they have a period of time where they just go all out with the things they weren't allowed to do before- drinking, partying, whatever. Abhaonai has a similar thing happen, where the Temple was incredibly restrictive and didn't let him talk to outsiders or do anything to his body on his own terms, and a little while into the Initiates' time at the commune he starts disappearing into the city and partying with strangers and doing drugs and getting ill-judged drunk piercings. Kjotar isn't allowed to follow him. Nesyue sometimes goes with him. Retmiq hates all of it but sometimes goes with him anyway, especially if Nesyue also goes, so he isn't left behind.

-knew the Temple was violent towards its members but not the extent of it, and the danger of the tournament and of being an Initiate was a risk she was willing to take to get herself and Kjotar consistent shelter and regular meals and medical care and all that and to be able to protect herself and him from being killed like their parents or hurt by anyone else.

[aromanticsky]

facts about Nesyue

-she/her

-19 as of Empires Always Fall

-important relationships: Abhaonai (cohort-brother/sister, best friend), Retmiq (cohort-brother, best friend), Guodei (cohort-sister, Lieutenant), Kaelía (cohort-sibling), the other Initiates

-has Treacher-Collins Syndrome. she is deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other due to microtia/anotia and uses bone-anchoring hearing aids

-acespec lesbian

-signed up to compete to join the Temple to escape her home life. this is kind of worse but at least she's not alone and she feels powerful

-she and Guodei are not equals officially but Nesyue sees herself as essentially Guodei's equal. calls her "Lieutenant" like it's a nickname. gets annoyed when Guodei tries to exert her authority over her but still looks to her for orders or help. it's complicated

-really dislikes being less good at something than others in her cohort. especially dislikes when this is pointed out. she often overestimates her own capabilities to subconsciously compensate

-sees herself as generally better than the others because (in her perception) she's tougher. strives to emulate Guodei in her composure. wants to be the best Divine Soldier when the time comes and wants the approval of the current godsworn. protective of the others (especially those she is close with) because she's better than them so she should look out for them, and if they're her friends an attack on them is practically an attack on her

-gets very anxious about being known intimately because that opens her up to being hurt. tends to push people away when she gets anxious, both by shutting them out and by being cruel

-Kaelía definitely projected Qonai.1 onto her at first and that was weird

-kind of possessive and can be manipulative but doesn't really pretend otherwise if she's confronted about it

-does a lot of investigating on the Temple's behalf

-hard to provoke and doesn't really get aggressive but can be sharp both in a teasing way and a genuine way. she can also be very caring, quietly. generally not very expressive or warm

-trusts no one fully, even Retmiq and Abhaonai. if she doesn't fully put her trust in anyone it will hurt less when they break it. she thinks they should still trust her fully, though, and would rather they don't know that she doesn't trust them the same amount

-does not cope well adjusting to life outside the Temple. she can never go back but she kind of wishes she could. remains religiously devoted to Corysecli, who got her through some very difficult times and helped her be strong

-very good all-around academically (at least with the education she had before the Temple, which is the extent of what any of them have, and she's a fast learner with new things). thinks she's smarter than the rest of them. both sometimes lords that over the others and "generously" helps them with it (for instance, she knows Līs can barely read and that it upsets him, and often she will just read for him so he doesn't hit that problem, and she thinks of herself as very generous for doing that). this can come off as condescending

[aromanticsky]

Kjotar facts

-he/they

-approximately 13 as of Empires Always Fall

-five years younger than Abhaonai

-important relationships: Abhaonai (sisterbrother, basically Kjotar's parent), the others at the Temple

-lithromantic, probably acespec

-watched his parents die when he was five. Abhaonai has been his parent since. Joined the Temple at seven when Abhaonai was twelve and won her way in in the recruitment tournament and was able to bring him along. would not have been allowed to come with her except Gētnyx is kind of sentimental about young children and disabled children (<- Gētnyx was treated badly for being disabled when she was young and found a home in the Temple) (this is controversial within the Temple)

-youngest of the Initiates by ~4 years

-Gharan mother, Highlands Rāmiq father

-has mild intellectual disability from childhood malnutrition, and has ADHD and severe separation anxiety with Abhaonai. Is also very short due to the malnutrition, at 4’0

-does not speak orally (in draft 1 this was due to physical trauma to their vocal cords. not sure this draft because I changed their backstory but I think it's still a physical thing). signs with Abhaonai, rarely with others unless it's very necessary. (was already able to sign before losing the ability to speak orally, since Abhaonai was born deaf or became deaf very young and their parents learned to sign)

-very under-socialized, has not known anyone his own age since he was very young. Interested in interacting with other teens and tweens at the commune but doesn’t know how and is reluctant to leave Abhaonai’s side. Ultimately I think he does start going to the school and making friends of his own but it is very difficult and scary and takes a long time and a lot of work

-Nooooot a fan of when Abhaonai starts going into the city late at night and leaving him behind. Willing to cry and feign illness and hurt himself to convince Abhaonai not to leave because he gets so scared and upset without him around and feels completely isolated and helpless and convinced that she will not come back. Also gets genuinely sick from anxiety

-obsesses over potentially hurting people. Has a lot of intrusive memories about this, and also about other people hurting them and Abhaonai

-once out of the Temple, he learns that his favourite colour is pink, among other preferences he never really got to have/express/explore

-cares a lot about their cohort-siblings, but they’re not their *actual* sibling; it’s not the same

-has lost most of his knowledge of Gharan and GSL because he was so young when he joined the Temple and they don’t use those languages at the Temple because none of the godsworn understand them

-good at drawing from life

-iron mage (this is relatively newly developed and difficult for them to fully understand and control even with training)

-energetic

@cepheusgalaxy

[justlikeotherchemists]

From @aspec-ocs:

8. How does your character identify? Do they know they’re aspec?

And 9. What is your character’s aspec orientation, whether they know it or not?

^sending both since they pair well

Oooh, an ask!! Thank you so much!

8. Neither Mary or the Duke are aware of what sexual identities even are.

Mary probably thinks that it's all a performance, and people don't really experience sexual or romantic attraction. If they do, it's only temporary, like catching a cold.

The Duke believes that attraction is something that can be controlled through sheer willpower. For years he's been trying to force himself to fall in love with a woman, and unsurprisingly it hasn't yet worked.

9. Mary is aroace. With the Duke, I've tried dodging the question for a while. But after thinking about it, I think he's a homoromantic demisexual. Although he's so closeted, he's probably never even admitted it to himself.

[aspec-ocs]

Aspec character/WIP ask game!

[plain text: aspec character/WIP ask game! /end PT]

How does your character relate to romance?

How does your character relate to sex?

How does your character relate to friendship?

How does your character relate to family?

How does your character relate to touch, sensuality, etc?

Is your character partnering, nonpartnering, something in between?

Is your character polyamorous, monoamorous, nonamorous, something else?

How does your character identify? Do they know they’re aspec?

What is your character’s aspec orientation, whether they know it or not?

How long has your character known they’re aspec, if they know? How did they figure it out?

How does your character feel about being aspec? Have they always felt this way or has it changed?

Does your character know other aspecs?

What kinds of relationships does your character have? What are their most important relationships?

What are the most important things to your character?

How does your character relate to the concept of love?

How much does being aspec affect your character’s life?

Are aspec themes explored in your WIP, or do any themes connect to aspec-ness even if they’re not really *about* aspec-ness? Talk about them!

How many aspec characters do you have? Do you have a favourite?

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

What kinds of relationships do you write about most often? How does (or doesn’t) aspec identity/experience play into those relationships?

[aspec-ocs]

since I write fantasy- adding number 21. if your character exists in a fantasy/scifi/historical/etc setting, how do they conceptualize their aspec identity? Is there a cultural framework for it? In what ways is it different or similar to how aspec tumblr in 2026 talks about it?

[justlikeotherchemists]

Introduction to "Twenty-three days in the Ivory Tower"

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

― Isaac Asimov

Relevant tropes/Content warnings: whump, angst, female whumpee, male whumper, political intrigue, semi-historical setting (balls, tea parties, etc.), snarky dialogue (a lot of it), dark humor, character-driven plot, abusive relationship, power imbalance, torture, survivor's guilt, aftermath of war, no caretaker, no romance, no NSFW content.

Summary:

After the abduction, Mary is bought by the Duke, who, captivated by her personality and impressed with her skills, forces her to play the role of his wife. With her nation defeated, Mary has no hope of rescue and nowhere to run. She complies, but finds small ways to resist the Duke's control and stay true to her principles. As he grows more and more enamored with his captive, Mary slowly begins to gain influence and build alliances, all with the goal of undermining the Duke and, indeed, the entire Empire.

Main Characters:

Mary Stolz/Mary the First of Donau: 30, she/her, aroace, INFP, former diplomat, resilient, artistic, eloquent, principled but pragmatic, polite but occasionally sarcastic, has low self-esteem, minimizes her own suffering, speaks multiple languages. (on the left, sketch by me)

The Duke/Martin the Second of Donau: 32, he/him, A-spec, ESTJ, the Duke of Donau, charismatic, manipulative, arrogant, obsessed with Mary, talented pianist. (on the right, sketch by me)

Current progress:

Overall, there will be 23 chapters corresponding to 23 days. There are 16 chapters posted on AO3. 4 chapters were edited and posted on tumblr, as well as 2 drabbles that won't make it into the main story. Use #23 days to find all of the related posts.

Enjoy!

[justlikeotherchemists]

@aspec-ocs Mary is aroace, the Duke is A-spec.

[aro-prompts]

Do you have any aromantic ocs? Share about your aro ocs!!!

[gayoutofhecc]

Survivor aka my PFP character is an aromantic bisexual! She was created by an evil god to be the perfect man but said “fuck that” and became an awesome punk trans lady with a cool-ass sword!!! The ghosts of her loved ones fuel her powers! She has a secret half brother in one AU! Shes had relationships before but never romantic ones and tbh shes never even considered having one lmao. She has wings and a halo sometimes! She makes zines! She works a minimum wage job! If anyone knows D&D she’s a barbarian (way of the ancestral guardian or whatev it’s called) and an aasimar! She was Rogue 1-ed except the party didn’t succeed! I was emotionally wrecked for like two months afterwards! I’m rambling too much!!!!

[aro-prompts]

Do you have any aromantic ocs? Share about your aro ocs!!!

[crazycatdragon1]

My DND character, Ren! I’m not sure where exactly they are on the aromantic spectrum, but he’s likely demi-aro or romance favorable aro.

[aromanticsky]

Maaziariitna redesign 2.0

sorry about the saturation. The photo actually came out pretty good this time until I put it through Glaze. I feel like it’s still better than last time though

[ID: a drawing of Maaziariitna, a Black teenager with dark brown skin and dark curly hair. Ffer hair has colourful streaks in it. Ffe has a prosthetic leg that uses ffer rotated foot as a knee. Ffe has pink glasses and several piercings. Ffer skin is covered in short, fine silver hair. Ffer lips and nails are painted dark blue. Ffe has one dark brown eye and one yellow-green eye. Ffe has scaly reddish plaques inside ffer elbows. /end ID]

Artist’s notes:

The main change here from the other recent drawing is ffer hair, but I also changed a couple other things with how I coloured it in that I felt didn’t really work with the other one. (I also changed ffer outfit somewhat just to keep things interesting for me.)

Maaziariitna’s pronouns are ffe/ffer/ffes and åddå/åddår/åddås, reflecting ffer Sarkja genders of fire and earth. Sarkja genders are based in their elemental system.

Maaziariitna often wears ffer hair in microbraids but not always and when I tried to draw the braids last time it went terribly, so. In this drawing ffe has ffer hair loose except for the bandana.

(The following are copied from the previous drawing since I like this one better and it’s more final:) Maaziariitna used to have blue skin but the situation as of right now is that ffe has fluorescent patterns on ffer skin that glow blue under UV light.

Maaziariitna had a rotationplasty when ffe was younger, which is a surgery where they remove your knee and reattach part of the bottom of your leg backwards to your thigh so that the backwards foot can later be used as a knee with a prosthetic leg.

Yes, ffe is wearing ffer stays as outerwear. It’s summer and it’s way too hot to put on a second shirt and ffe’s obviously not going to put the stays on ffer bare skin. They are purple instead of a neutral grey/white/beige or pale pastel or nude brown tone for the exact purpose of people sometimes seeing them because ffe does this most days in the summer.

@cepheusgalaxy

[cepheusgalaxy]

doodles of an old oc im going to go back to one of these days

[cepheusgalaxy]

How does your character relate to the concept of love?

for Espa

Because I think that’s probably interesting given the. Everything

I think love means a lot to Espa because like if you think about it its all that they have

Espa doesn't own its body. It gets branded and beaten and silenced left and right and she doesn't get a say in it. Shes only "earned the right" to let it grow out a bit recently. (Younger weapons and lower ranks might be able to have longer-ish hair but only if its straight. The handlers think it was too burdensome and unnecessary in the case of coily-haired kids so Espa spent most of its childhood with its hair buzzed.) Espa doesn't own its time. Its schedule is decided by others and it gets changed by others and all that they're allowed to do is follow. It doesn't own its belongings it doesn't own its emotions it doesn't own privacy or boundaries it's not allowed any of that. But Espa has the people it cares about. It cares about Sabre. It cares about Gisele. It cares about Ciça. It cares about the Dove.

To them, love means a certain amount of responsibility I think. To love is to look after. To love is to give. Which is also why I think it gets so weirded out and awkward when it's told to just accept. To love means to adore and to protect and Espa is often the lover but not very often the loved. It feels weird. Wrong. Undeserved.

Which a little intriguing because with its fellow weapons Espa is just full of these little exceptions right. They are Equals. They have each other's backs. But Espa isn't allowed to care for them they way they sort of want to because there are rules. You can tend to their wounds but not too much because weve decided that they should be feeling the pain. You can wipe their tears but not before you tell them to stop crying, because you bunch don't get to cry. Espa & the others are perpetrators for one another first and foremost and as such it doesn't get the full extent of care and grace that a normal friendship would have.

Buttt at the end of the day they still have that love. It loves its family and its family "loves" it. It loves Gisele and it likes it when shes happy and it wants to spare her pain. It loves Sabre and it wants him to be safe and it wants him to keep going on surviving and it wants to spend time with him and be carer for by him too. It loves Ciça and it wants to be loved by her forever. I think that despite caring for a lot of people Espa doesn't "trust" many of them to care for them back (not only in the "youre not capable" way but a big part of it is like "i think caring for me back would be an unnecessary strain on you and i dont think youre strong enough to bear that burden) BUT. Their siblings. Espa has them all mentally filed into a different category right. Theyre tough. They can take it and they deserve the things that happen to them and theyre strong enough to deal with it and do stressful things and be put against those crazy standards, things it wouldn't expect of Gisele for example. Espa trusts them to love her back. Because love is a responsability and it trusts them to be strong enough to burden it.

Whichhh is also why her relationship with Ciça is so groundbreaking for her. Ciça proves time and time again that yes, she can care for it, yes, she can deal with it, yes, she can be patient and caring and she can love her back. Ciça is strong and like physically imposing to an extent but Espa also is forced to understand her as somebody who can "take" loving and so its not placing a burden on someone it cares about to allow itself to be cared for.............Shes "proven herself" to them. And unlike its siblings, Ciça knows no bounds and her love is freely given and unrestrained and Espa keeps thinking its spoiling them but truly its so warm and overwhelming and unprecendented that it feels like one of the most precious things that they have

The idea of not being able to protect Ciça from harm is also terrifying for that reason. Ciça has loved them time and time again. So it like... it feels like it's "failed" at loving her back.

[aroworlds]

Fiction: Luck of the Ball, Part Twelve

A coven of gentlewoman witches seems like the perfect place for Luck Vaunted to hide from hir powerful brother, father and husband. Even bet

To finish @aggressivelyarospec's Aggressively Arospectacular 2025, I'll be sharing the final chapter of my aromantic Cinderella retelling.

Luck of the Ball features fantasy that borrows from fairy tales, a non-binary allosexual aromantic protagonist, witches who garden and sew, and a household in which "alloromantic" describes nobody.

All chapters are available on my website or patreon. New readers should start with the prologue.

[aroworlds]

Fiction: Luck of the Ball, Part Eleven

A coven of gentlewoman witches seems like the perfect place for Luck Vaunted to hide from hir powerful brother, father and husband. Even bet

During @aggressivelyarospec's Aggressively Arospectacular 2025, I'll be sharing the final three chapters of my aromantic Cinderella retelling.

Luck of the Ball features fantasy that borrows from fairy tales, a non-binary allosexual aromantic protagonist, witches who garden and sew, and a household in which "alloromantic" describes nobody.

All previous chapters are available on my website or patreon. New readers should start with the prologue.