why wick critical role is asexual
in honor of pride month, here is a short selection of examples showing why wick comes off as super duper asexual to me
the moment that started it all: post-grandfather in the basement reveal in episode 3, now that Wick is aware the Creed is all a lie, Yanessa makes a careless comment about "By the way, now that, you know, you've disabused yourself of some of these extremely oppressive convictions, if there's any treats (winks, taps nose several times) you have been missing, accommodations can be made when you know the truth." Wick: "Oh. I've been keeping my body pure for all these years." Yanessa: "You've actually been- Is that true?" and comments about how much diligence that must've taken, and Wick is still too stunned to really respond. This kind of exchange is something that to me becomes a pattern with Wick, which is him being comfortably celibate while everyone around him is extremely allosexual, to zero response.
in episode 9, for example, wick brings up armas, the actress he keeps a photo of, and only describes her as "Not a girlfriend, no, just we connected on a- When you go to the theater, you let go of yourself a little bit and feel emotions and portray yourself in a different way and it can be very romantic, that's all. We just felt a bit of a connection." Romantic, but even then his emphasis is on the way they connected as human beings. (Probably because the only friend he seems to have at all is Tyranny, and she's been here 6 months. Armas liking spending time with him completely separate from his association with the Creed must've been really special to him) Tyranny/Whitney is the one who says, suggestively, that he stayed up "all night" praying after that, not Wick, and when Thimble jumps in with "Are you celibate?" he says "I don't think that's any of your business" and clarifies "And that's a choice, to be celibate. I could be, I could do either." One: he's rightfully pushing back that his lack of sex life is not any of the party's business, which was refreshing, and two: celibacy is not a requirement of the Creed and he does not feel pressured into it, he is just not interested.
then in episode 29, Lux Adora was coming off really intensely to Wick after the Charm Person (to the point when I first watched I really thought she was going to kiss him or something), saying multiple times how "beautiful" and "radiant" he is, that "penmanship or companionship, whichever you wish can be yours" whilst Wick is extremely uncomfortably repeating "Oh, oh dear." He actually seems relieved and more confident when the conversation turns to the fairfolk: "Oh! Yes. ... They certainly are [bad]." Once Bolaire comes in, it's also notable that after Bolaire's crack about the lux being really horny that Wick mentions "this whole thing feels icky to me," though that could just be referring to Bolaire's bodystealing. This is the first time I can recall we've seen flirtatious behavior directed at Wick, and while the fact the lux is their mark for Bolaire to bodysnatch does complicate the motivations behind his behavior, he seems completely uninterested and even repulsed.
After this, when his mother Iris arrives, she brings up on her own the idea Wick slept with Lux Adora with "Don't want the D'Antonios [family he is to marry into] to find out you have, you know- Maybe not in our private chambers, Wicander. Propriety, etiquette, you put the young lux here in a terrible position" to which Wick replies "Oh, I would never." It's another example of a family member highlighting the way he can flout the rules of the Creed (about 'purity') by assuming that of course he would want to have sex, when by all accounts Wick's behavior should show he's not interested.
So all in all, Wick is a character who has a defined romantic interest in one person, in which he only characterizes the bond as emotional, and stands firm on his celibacy at every occasion to party members and to family, while even potentially showing repulsion to the idea of getting physical with someone. In a meta sense, I also personally got the impression (back during the overture and soldier's arc) that the other players- and many viewers- kind of saw Wick not having sex or drinking as a challenge, because oh, he's deconstructing from his evil religion, obviously that means he needs to drink and have sex now! Meanwhile, what I see is a character who isn't interested in those things because he's not someone who is throwing out all of the Creed or beliefs stemming from it, he is someone who wants to burn away the evil shadowing it and keep the good.
Wick being asexual just feels right, it adds to his character and contrasts nicely against the allosexual assumptions of the world and cast
