I’ve come to the realization that I envision Kliff as only developing feelings of any kind for people who are to all appearances emotionally unavailable, because a lifetime of dealing with a controlling, self-centered mother has left him with an aversion to intimacy because he associates it with being controlled. And because he’s aro in a setting that doesn’t really recognize aro things, he spends his life endlessly confused about what these feelings actually are.
....Well, this makes for fun fic writing.









