I'M MAD PERSON AND IS DRABBLE TIME AS I SAY SO!!! I love them so much, I need to get this out of my system.
Listen to "Qué bonito es querer" by Manuel Carrasco while this (YouTube - Spotify)
Characters involved: OCs - Mica (She's a superhero that loves order and is questioning authority) & Velo (He's a vigilante that loves chaos and is starting to accept authority)
Subject tags: Rivals to Friends? (They don't know platonic yet), Aromantic, superheroes, sexuality questioning, internalised arophobia? More like "I didn't think this was possible option", they are trying hard to explain it, implied patriarchal gender roles,
Drabble of Mica and Velo aromantic confession:
Velo got inside the bed, insecure of what will be the next move. Covered his body until his ribs were buried by the blankets, touching anxiously the cloth.
"Mica..."
"Are you fine Velo? I'm bothering or-?"
"No, not even the slightest bothersome. I have a doubt that has been itching in my insides since the first time I encountered you..."
Velo struggled to find words, as Mica raised an eyebrow.
"Continue" she suggested. He took a deep breath and followed the instructions.
"I appreciate you. You know it, I know it. But... for some reason I feel I'm failing you and that something is missing, but also..." his voice got slower as he said, he could feel things getting more messy; it felt like his mind got blank.
"You feel like there is nothing else to tell, that as we are we're fine, but also something really important... ¿feels missing?"
"Wasn't I the only one?"
"You know, my mother always told me that someday my knight of shining armour will come to complete and save me from harm. Being sincere, I'd never understood it at all.
Everyone talks like it's destined to be with their couple and that they can feel that kind of love at first sight... but..."
"Feels like everyone knows where to draw the line, no?"
Micaela nodded, and Velo took it as a sign to keep going.
"Then you find the paths part to really different directions. You appreciate someone at wonderful levels, you want to protect them and give them happiness... but it seems that there is something further than a strong friendship, but not as far as a husband-wife situation. So you start asking yourself if you-"
"...failed to that person, because you can't give them what they might want."
"Exactly, so- Wait Mica, you feel the same???"
"Since I started appreciating you, I asked myself if there was a way to trace the line between friendship and love... but I've never found myself loving you in the way a wife loves her husband..."
"You want us to stay only as friends?"
"You'll like it?"
"The question was for you!"
"Well... the truth is that I'm not sure. On one hand I want to take care of you and give you my complete trust. On the other side... i don't see myself able to love anyone as a wife loves her husband. I know, sounds like a fool."
"For me doesn't sound like something a fool will say. It's clever." Velo surprised Mica with his seriousness. "Sounds really similar to what happens to me."
"What do we do then?"
"Keep it as it was? Or you want to change it?"
"The problem is that I don't know. Everyone around me wants me to be married, but I don't want that..."
"And why not leaving it as a simple friendship?"
"But that also doesn't fit well. What kind of friend of the opposite sex sleeps in the bed as they hug?"
"I think we should ask Elu..."
"Elu literally just had 'a really good night as your body went inside mine' with its friends and it said that they aren't in love." Mica replied blushing as Velo laughed. Not a mock, just not taking the situation seriously.
"Come on Mica, surely it knows what in the damned gods' sake is happening!
"Aghh... Okay, but this time you make the questions and explicitly tell is your idea! I don't want to have another court just because the 'person that gender is just a tag that doesn't matter' provoked the police!"
"Fine, don't be mad at me!"
"Then stop complaining and come to see it on the Midnight Tradition Bar!"
Velo giggled as Mica got out of bed and reached their work clothes.
The aro community is really important. And not just to me, but to everyone else as well!
It’s seriously one of the most amazing communities I know of, and it presents a safe place for so many people, as being surrounded by others like you makes being aromantic in a love-centered world so much better to handle.
When I initially found out I was aro I was so scared that I might be alone, but the community has helped me come to terms with my aromanticism and understand that you don’t need a romantic partner to “not be alone”. In fact, it has helped me appreciate and develop an even deeper friendship with some of my friends.
Not only is the community a safe place, but it also provides some information that others might ignore or not know. What do I mean? We all know that romantic love is not the only kind off love outside of family love, but it has come to my attention that many alloromantic people are oblivious of platonic attraction, and the aro community is slowly spreading awareness on the topic!
This is why, on the first day of this year’s aro awareness week, I’m celebraron being a member of this lovely community!
That arospec feeling when you finally come to terms with your aromanticism and you picture yourself living on your own in a house full of bookshelves, in the woods on a mountain where you can grow your own garden and practice archery.
Ace/aro confession. I keep having dreams about people who want to romance me and I wake up terrified. I feel like I can't enter a relationship because I won't be able to fill whatever sexual needs my partner has (and who deserves that?)
Aw Nonnie. I’m so sorry that you’re having dreams that make you so uncomfortable. All Aro/Aces are worthy of love no matter what. And if you do find yourself in a position where you want to pursue a romantic relationship, your partner should care about you enough that the sexual aspect isn’t as important as your emotional well-being.
And if your partner feels otherwise, then they don’t deserve you. If you do want a romantic relationship, I wish you all the best in the future and hope you find someone you’re comfortable with.
