#(Saiki k is canonically aroace and I will not write for him)

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[relatableblorbopoll]

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 14

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Oz Vessalius (Pandora Hearts)

"Struggles with self-worth, adores books, ADHD (though that’s not canon—but he fits the diagnostic criteria), his strongest/most important relationships are platonic"

Sound (My School President)

"Lonely gay teenager who tries to be cool and sauve but gets adopted against his will by a group of losers and then falls for one of the losers who gets on his nerves a lot because he was nice to him once and then he gets all awkward and flustered around the boy and tries to avoid him and antagonize him but the boy sees through it and they eventually end up together and he becomes the most annoying person in love ever"

Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

"adhd. possibly some autism too. a weird girl who got outcasted by being herself and sure has some WACK coping mechanisms to deal with it. self worth is IN THE DRAIN. gnc and not straight. writes fanfic. artist. goes through a depression era when at her moms house. loves her mom also. this is canon stuff i'm saying"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA she is so ASDHSUJD. Okay I started watching the owl house because I knew there was a WLW couple, so obviously I had to check it out. But upon watching the show, I got so emotionally connected to it, or moreso the protagonist, Luz, that it could go beyond some people's understandings... I remember that almost any scene showing her neurodivergent traits would hit SO. CLOSE. HOME. It would be unbelievable. I literally rewatched the show more than seventeen times one summer. She is just so goshdarn relatable man. She's the weird kid, has no friends, loves making anime edits, is OBSESSED with a book series, loves witches and magic and stuff, has ADHD, an attention span that is so high when she's engaging with something she likes doing and so low when she's bored. She's just so lovely. I know a lot of people found her annoying in season one but she hit close home to me. Season two was amazing as well and she started getting even MORE relatable!! She started showing her people pleasing, how much she blames herself, it was so sad but I was glad to see a character I could relate to so much on screen. I mean i personally didn't experience the loss of my father and I personally do have one friend whom I'm able to share my life with, but she's still super relatable. She can be so silly and so cool. And her impulsivity and the way she realized she doesn't know what she wants to do when she grows up also hit close home. Mwah"

Gundham Tanaka (Super Danganronpa 2)

"Goth autistic theater kid"

Saiki Kusuo (Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan/The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

"He's very dead inside, especially in the English Dub, and introverted. But even so, he cares a lot for his friends, even if he never says it to them and he finds them annoying most of the times. He also be nosey and just insert himself into others' situations that don't involve him (obviously, he makes it so that nobody knows he's there and, obviously, he's also complaining about this all the time). He's canonically aroace, or at least aroace spec He's canonically trans. He was born as a girl but he didn't like it so he immediately turned himself into a boy with his psychic powers. An argument could be made about him being on the autism spectrum."

Drew (The Music Freaks)

"I don't like him actually I hate him and love him st the same time in fact but. This man is so real and such a horrible jerkwad to everyone around him. I mean I can't relate to THAT but I should mention he also gets jelous easily, he is in love with his best friend who does not like him back, he's all moody and grouchy and bratty. And so am I and I hate it lol."

[cosmicredcadet]

Here. lets name some of the very few supposed AroAce characters out there!

Isaac from Heartstopper - Side character in a story focused mainly on romance and his identity doesn't get as much focus compared to the rest. not ideal for aroaces uninterested in romance who are looking for representation of themselves.

Saiki Kusuo from Saiki K- Doesn't ever say the words "aro" or "ace" and so the fandom fights tooth and nail to say he doesn't count as representation. People would rather label him as a Tsundere and ignore the evidence pointing towards him being aroace.

Alastor from Hazbin Hotel - Was originally AroAce but got retconned to being JUST Ace after fan backlash and Vivzie not caring enough about writing it in any meaningful way.

Peridot from Steven Universe - Word of God representation that barely matters at all because writers of the show admitted to shipping her with certain characters and writing her to fit those ships in some cases.

Jughead from Archie comics - Old comics had him be very much aroace coded but in recent iterations they made him JUST asexual or they erased the identity completely. When the erasure was brought up, people fought tooth and nail to deny erasure took place due to him never having a "canon" identity anyways.

and yes, i know there are a few aroace characters that stay aroace but the point still stands that a lot of aroace characters are only confirmed through Word Of God (which most people agree doesn't fucking count), they have their identity retconned or erased, or they aren't an important enough character to be explored and thus isn't that great as representation.

And this isn't to say other aspecs have more characters or anything. this is me proving a point that there isn't some over-saturation of aroace characters taking up aspec representation.

The moment you argue that one aspec identity takes up most of the rep, you have already lost the argument because you have missed the bigger picture.

There is NOT enough aspec representation to be claiming one identity gets more than the others. We need more aspec representation in general and yes, we should ask for it to be as diverse as possible. That is always the goal for representation. But we should not be claiming the little aspec rep we do have is over-saturated by one identity because it's not a true statement.

"Why is all aspec representation in media AROACE rep?" and is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?