I just know people will have issues with Alastor and how his sexuality is portraited in the future no matter what.
If another character goes up to Alastor and confesses they love him and Alastor rejects them (doesn't matter how nicely or rudely he does it), people will scream and cry how the other character's feelings were hurt
If another character goes up to Alastor and confesses they love him and Alastor accepts, people will riot that Alastor is basically not asexual anymore and the writers are erasing his identity
If they give him a love interest (and there will be discourse as to WHY that character is paired with Alastor and not someone else) but make it a point he doesn't experience sexual attraction towards them, people will say "But asexuality means little to no attraction, Alastor is being stereotyped!!!"
If they give him a love interest and throw in some sexual innuendos, people will go "But that's erasing his asexuality!!!"
If they give him a love interest and there aren't any sexual innuendos, people will go "they are making Alastor act like a child/not understand sex/making it seem like ace people are innocent little beans"
If they give him a love interest at all it will start a whole discourse about whether asexuality and aromanticism are or aren't the same thing, people will start throwing in the demisexuality/demiromanticism label and it will lead to the bullshit take that being demi is "what all normal people are". Alastor's romantic identity will be another huge discourse regardless of what he is
If they give him a love interest and said love interest and Alastor don't work out in the long run people will be mad because "the show is saying you should try out anything so you know for sure and that's bad"
If Alastor and the love interest work out in the long run, then people will be mad because "asexual people can have fulfilling lives without a romantic/sexual partner, and the show is trying to shove the idea that everyone needs a significant other"
If Alastor goes through the journey of discovering his sexuality alone, people will scream and cry that it's a stupid woke storyline and Alastor should have figured himself out in his hundred-something years of existence
If Alastor ends up without a love interest by the end of the show, people will scream and cry because they should have made at least one of the dozens of ships with him canon, and "look, the serial sadistic killer cannibal is asexual and that's playing into the stereotype that all ace people are unfeeling monsters"
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