🏳️🌈 for bilbo and a our Lego man
Bilbo: okay so our Confirmed Bachelor bilbo baggins will always be aroace to me tbh. but like i said in the thorin ask, i can get down on bagginshield (im very particular about how i portray it, but im not so bothered with other people’s depictions) & of course gay bilbo hc’s are extremely good and valid.
i don’t think bagginshield could work as a long-term relationship, really, so i like to explore long-distance and/or arospec versions of that ship? so i’ve had the lithromantic bilbo hc for a long time: he knows he’s in love with thorin, he’s kind of aware that thorin might like him back (but that doesn’t happen til Way Later when he’s pretty much over his crush) but the idea of actually being a relationship is .... No Thanks. the second thorin actually starts express interest bilbo is like. Hm. Nope. like he still is really fond of thorin but also Not About That Romo Lyfe. (in my fic Moonlight which i will update eventually i swear bilbo and thorin are gonna be long distance flirting through letters which. is the only way i can really imagine them working out lmao)
also he’s nonbinary because i said so
Legolas: anon i hope you know what you were asking for when you wanted to know my legolas headcanons because i can Go Off
the short answer: gay aroace nb
the long answer: i project onto legolas so much it isn’t funny. i’m like, oh, i’m aroace? he’s aroace. i’m nonbinary? he’s nonbinary. the gay/oriented aroace is the only bit i don’t also identify with lmao. i project my weird relationship-adjacent feelings onto him all the time. reading my aro lego fics is like staring into my soul. and like. i have so many fics about him, the “Aromantic Legolas” tag on AO3 is like. Just Me and then one other person’s random fic. (which i have read and bookmarked, because of course)
legolas has it all, the vaguely androgynous aesthetic, green, uses bow and arrows, a goofus, sings all the time, ride or die for his friends. how can i not love this boy???
plus he’s so easy to project onto?? i want to explore what it feels like to have sort-of-feelings for someone but not really want them reciprocated? boom. legolas feeling weird about aragorn. i wanna write queerplatonic fluff? boom. i have a whole modern middle-earth AU almost entirely dedicated to that (+bonus aro fili and aro boromir. that’s another verse i’m gonna come back to soon I SWEAR) i wanna write about familial pressure and the weirdness that is your aro friend changing up their labels? boom. thranduil being like ‘hey dude you need a date for this event’ and then tauriel being aro until she meets kili and she’s like IDK man. i wanna explore a nonbinary identity before i officially feel safe coming out? what’s up yall im gonna sneak that into a trans!kiliel fic.
he’s just. got it all, y’all! i don’t write as much lotr/hobbit fic as i used to, i’m more into silm stuff these days, but don’t even think for a MINUTE that i’m ever over my boy lego, i track his tag so y’all don’t have to, go ahead and follow my leg blog @nblegolas for that good good leg content!!