okay okay so I may have seen a post about headcanoning characters as aromantic and now im. thinking
so Blake right. I've talked before about how I think she's a chronic hopeless romantic (same dude) and loves the idea of romance. but now im like. yeahhhh the IDEA of romance......
I imagine her seeing couples in Menagerie as a kid, teenagers running away to kiss behind houses, older gentlemen holding each other tenderly, the owners of the bakery with rings on their fingers
her mother tells her she'll feel it too, someday. she'll find herself a lover who she can kiss behind houses, hold tenderly, marry one day. so, Blake waits. and waits. and waits.
suddenly, she's fifteen, and everyone around her is talking about crushes and dating and love. Blake ends up left behind. she doesn't know what she's supposed to be feeling, doesn't understand the appeal of being tied to a single person for the rest of her life, she just doesn't get it.
so, she turns to romance books
immediately, she's bombarded by descriptions of butterflies and fireworks and hearts pounding and palms sweating. she finally realises that oh, this is what everyone feels. what she is supposed to feel. she starts to imagine herself as the characters in the stories, forces herself to think she wants this, she needs this, she needs the hollow feeling inside her to go away and the only way for that to happen is to find a boy and date him.
he's sweet, and charming, and cares about her. she feels good around him. she doesn't feel butterflies and fireworks, but she doesn't care, because she's too overwhelmed with relief. finally, finally she has a chance at her happily ever after. she likes Adam, Adam likes her. so, they date. it feels terrible horrible wrong good. he makes sure she feels okay, and she makes sure he knows he's loved.
eventually, he starts changing. shit goes down, he's a dick, it sucks, and Blake runs. cue Beacon era
instantly, Blake is hit with a sense of freedom. she isn't chained to Adam anymore, she isn't trapped in a relationship. she realises how much real life romance sucks, maybe even stops being in denial as much, and all is well
it feels the same but so different. suddenly, she feels the butterflies, something she had never felt before. still, she doesn't want a relationship. or, does she? she's feeling new things and weird things and things she's never read about. it's all complicated and just. a lot
even with the flood of emotions, however, being with Yang feels... natural. Blake isn't actively forcing herself to pretend like she did with Adam. with her partner, she can just... be.
okay I'm tired as shit so I'm gonna summarise the rest. v4-5 happens, they reunite, and it's somewhere during v7-8 that Blake figures it out. maybe she's talking with renora and they bring up smth about their qpr (qpr renora my BELOVED) and Blake is like. huh. so they explain how neither of them really feel the stereotypical romantic attraction, so they're kinda just doing what works for them. its not traditional, but its theirs. cue Blake's "Oh." moment. maybe she goes and talks with Yang, maybe she doesn't. I haven't figured out how the confession in v9 would work with aro Blake, but I imagine it'd be the same, just with a slightly different feel to it. they're not traditional lovers, they're not strictly romantic or platonic. they're just kinda... them. and that's enough.
alright alright im done. im well aware that 90% of this is me projecting but aro Blake feels so real to me man. her relationship with romance is SO different and interesting and important and I LOVE exploring it. also just. aro characters. more aro characters pretty please
oh also, additional notes: we know from the dc comics that Blake has a severely skewed perspective on romance. she talks about how she thinks it's the girl's job to nurture and love and fix the boy, no matter the cost. feels like smth she got from the romance novels she read religiously, and that in itself feels very aro-coded to me so like. idk
anyway uh. Blake be arospec send post