the thing with aroace grace headcanons is like. i can totally see it. itās not what iām most interested in because my hobby happens to be writing romantic drama and pornography, but i can see it. itās my runner-up headcanon for sure. but. he doesnāt identify that way. he instinctively flinches away from anything that even implies hes anything other than a perfectly normal heterosexual man who has all his shit completely figured out. he doesnāt identify using that phrase, and if someone explained it to him, i donāt think heād identify with the concept, either. heād be like āthat sounds awesome! thatās not me though, i fulfilled the Normal Girlfriend Experience shortly after college. didnāt work out but iāll probably find someone i mean a woman specifically who i click with one of these days, and then weāll have sex and get married or whatever it is youāre supposed to do.ā and then heād just blithely go on not thinking about it. heās a school teacher in san francisco in the 2020s, heās on the front lines of the culture wars whether he likes it or not, he knows what pronouns are, he may very plausibly know the words āaromanticā and āasexualā but it has never in his life occurred to him to apply those to himself. and it quite possibly never will. heās not particularly introspective and he absolutely does not have the level of self-insight required to understand why heās only had one long-term relationship in his life, and why it ended so fucking badly. not solely due to his orientation you understand, but also due to his various flaws as a person. where was i going with this. oh yeah. i need everyone to make this guy more repressed right now immediately.














