#a-spec headcanons

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ID: A digital drawing of Bart Allen in his old Impulse costume. He is maskless and holding a mug of hot chocolate. There is a blanket patterned like the aroace flag wrapped around his shoulders. End ID. Look his romance with Carol near the end of his solo was the most aroace thing I’ve ever seen okay- mom said it’s MY turn with the self indulgent headcanons

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Characters that are a-spec, because I said they are and that's all the evidence you need.

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To Bobbie with Love

So I finally saw the Company revival (Matt Doyle very much deserving of that Tony). And while I don’t disagree that there were a lot of missed opportunities where an explicitly bi or pan Bobbie would have added layers of meaning (particularly in the Kathy/Theo scene, as identified by Christian Lewis of American Theatre Magazine) - I did, actually, read this production’s Bobbie as queer.  Just not necessarily in the way a lot of people might have hoped / expected. Because while the original Bobby’s commitment and connection issues are often put down to his closeted queerness (and/or being kind of hung up on the very-much-not-available Amy -- if you’re taking into account what Sondheim says about early drafts of the show in Finishing the Hat) I very much read this Bobbie as Aromantic. Allosexual and Aromantic.

Bobbie, who “could drive a person crazy” because there’s clearly a sexual connection but she shies away from the romantic entanglements that ‘logically’ should follow.  Bobbie who wants to tick off the life milestone marked “get married” but doesn’t seem to have any real desire for marriage itself.

Bobbie who, I think quite genuinely, proposes to Jamie as a solution to both their problems -- being afraid to get married and afraid not to.  Who, unlike Jamie, actually very much would like to marry her best friend for tax purposes  and to get everyone else off her back but probably mostly for the promise of not being alone.

Bobbie whose most rewarding relationships are and always will be her friendships. Who would probably want a Queerplatonic partnership if she knew how to name one. Bobbie who sees herself perpetually third wheeling (especially as her best friend Jamie now gets ready to tie the knot) and wants what her friends have but also doesn’t.  Who wants that surety of companionship but separate from her sex life.

Maybe I’m just seeing what I want to. (And it’s not that I don’t think female Bobbie dealing with internalized bi- and/or homophobia wouldn’t be an equally or even simultaneously textually supported choice.) But what my scarily-close-to-thirty-now a-spec self saw was a Bobbie for whom “Marry Me a Little” isn’t a failure to grasp Jamie and Paul’s version of marriage, but a struggle to re-define the idea for herself (to queer it, if you will).  For whom “Being Alive” is about opening herself up in general - not simply to romance but to “Only Connect” (borrowing from Forster) in the ways that work for her.

So here’s to Aromantic Bobbie. Because that’s queer too. (I’ll drink to that.)

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I headcanon that I am aroace.

Haha, solid headcanon. 

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are there any fictional characters that you headcanon as asexual?

Oh man, so many. Some of my favourite ace headcanons: 

Elsa from Frozen as aroace, or maybe a homoromantic ace (though I haven’t seen the new movie yet, but I will soooon)

Michael from the Good Place as an aroace icon

Bertie Wooster in the Jeeves books (possibly Jeeves too!) as aroace

Charlie Weasley as aroace

Does anyone else have any favourite ace headcanons?

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In Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood is asexual, Voldemort is aromantic, and Hermione is demisexual, you cannot prove me wrong.

Sounds about right to me.

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I have a headcanon! Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter is aroace!!!! oh, and so is McGonagall!

Oooh, good ones. Especially McGonagall.

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I hardcore headcanon Katniss Everdeen as aroace. She may be at the center of the books' love triangle, but SO MUCH of her internal monologue about it is dedicated to trying to figure out what her feelings towards Peeta & Gale even are. It really, really feels like a story about someone who craves emotional closeness but doesn't feel attraction in the way that society (or, specifically, these two boys) expect her to.

For aroace headcanons from some older shows, Emma Pillsbury from Glee and Mrs. Kim & Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls very much came across as aroace and possibly sex repulsed

Ooh yeah, Katniss is a good one. Especially the book version. I know a few people who really related to her when they read those books.

Emma and Mrs Kim and Lane are really interesting too.