#aplatonic Roman Sanders

[anxiouslyfred]

Need to Befriend Them? Sounds Fake

I'm stating now, I'm not aplatonic and while I have tried looking it up, I'm not certain I know how best to represent the experience.

Regardless, here's my attempt at writing for @aro-sides-week day 3 prompt aplatonic

Virgil accidentallied into his friendship group. A neighbour mentioned auditions for a performance that half interested him, and somehow that ended up with someone much louder adopting him. He couldn't describe it any other way, Roman was forever trying to help after the first time Virgil thanked him.

Roman somehow gained friends because he liked attention, especially when it was positive for something he'd done, be it a performance or helping someone else. It was validation he sought out, and friends essentially turned up in his life

They both fit together, even more so after they accidentally shared a confused glance when Patton ran off to a stranger with a call about needing to befriend them. The conversation after that was enough for both to understand that they didn't understand this desire to befriend people their friend apparently had.

"So people actually do just decide they want to be around people? Like I still think romance is just a case of performing the scenes from the stage minus the attention of hundreds, which why, do people do that, but now I'm meant to believe the stories are true about wanting to be friends with others? the hell type of attraction would that be?" Roman half rants, half mutters under his breath after how similar rants before understanding he was aromantic had been received.

Virgil huffed, smirking a little. "Guess so, and maybe like platonic, but then calling that attraction seems to be screaming for some mother bible clutcher to get all offended if you say all disney princesses have platonic attraction for animals."

"Do not besmirch Disney with - actually, no, good question, aside from like Ariel, and Jasmine because Rajah was a gift, what makes all the princesses befriend animals constantly? I don't think that's any set desire to befriend the specific animals they befriend but like desperate loneliness from isolation, or weird lucky charms."

"I am regretting mentioning Disney already. And yeah probably loneliness. So do you think platonic attraction is a thing? I mean I get Patton's kind obsessed with declaring he loves his friends and when I got uncomfortable declared it was platonic love."

"Not a clue, Virge. Guess we can be clueless together and see how many friends we make because Patton's decided to befriend them? Or maybe Logan or Janus might know, I guess?" Roman agreed, before pausing. "So were the reactions of the dwarves over finding Snow White sleeping in their home romantic or platonic attraction? Cause Dopey was weirdly obsessed with getting her forehead kisses."

[let-roman-bite-someone]

in honor of pride month, here’s some incorrect quotes for all my aspec folk out there! y’all are rad and i’m fist bumping you through my screen

[transfemlogan]

MYY forbidden lovers loceit au it was made so I can practice writing & drawing facial paralysis ^_^

The au centers around logan & janus & their friends who r in college. The loceit is like... forbidden in a silly way. It's not serious like "if we love each other we will get KILLED!!" Or whatever its more like "NO you cant be friends with THAT guy, he ate my last poptart!!" Or something silly. Or like "roman & remus got in2 a not-serious fight, so you cant talk 2 janus bcuz hes friends w/ remus & roman & remus rnt talking 2 each other"

Its a silly au!

Janus is the only character whos somewhat developed & logan is the second most developed guy. The rest of the sides r not developed just yet bcuz i literally made the AU like . Two days ago.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE CUT BCUZ WOW THIS GOT LONG

[ID: a sketchy digital drawing of Janus Sanders from Sanders Sides, cropped shoulders and upm he is wearing something vaguely like his courtroom outfit from the Selflessness V.S. Selfishness video. He has short, spikey dirty blonde hair messily laid underneath his hat sitting straight across his head. The hat has a bright yellow ribbon with pins on them. The brim of the hat has safety pins and beads on strings hanging. Janus has an uneven face, with the entirety of the left side drooping slightly downwards due to his facial paralysis. He has tired looking, dull brown eyes with yellow eye makeup in both corners of his eyes. He has piercings in his ears, lips, nose, and left eyebrow. He has a small amount of freckles on the bridge of his nose. His right side of his face is smiling softly with eyebrows slightly raised, while the left side is relaxed with his mouth being pulled downwards. He has short cleft lip that doesn't reach his nostril. It's hard to see in the drawing, but he has a behind-the-ear hearing aid in his left ear. There is writing that points out everything mentioned. /end ID]

Janus (last name)! He doesn't have a last name yet. He is an aroqueer person who uses he/him labels the only part of his queer identity he labels is the aromantic part, he doesn't label his gender, sexuality, or any other part of his attraction. He is also white.

Janus has Mobeius Syndrome (MBS). MBS is a congential/birth condition that results in facial paralysis. While MBS is usually bilateral, aka affects both sides of your face, Janus' has a rare case of unilateral MBS. This means that his facial paralysis only affects one side and in this case it's his left side. MBS usually is caused by damage to your 6th and 7th cranial nerves, these nerves control your eye and mouth muscles. Along with these nerves, Janus also has his 8th cranial nerve damaged which controls his ears.

This means that Janus is Hard of Hearing (HOH) in his left ear. He has sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), which is hearing loss that affects your inner ear, and he wears a behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid. He also has tinnitus in that ear and because of the damage to his 8th cranial nerve, he deals with frequent nausea and dizziness.

Janus uses a mix of sign language and speaking. Usually he prefers to talk in quiet environments, as it's easier for him to listen and hear that way, but he prefers to use ASL in crowded or loud environments because it's harder to hear and make out voices and easier to focus on the movement of people's hands.

He also has a short cleft lip! This means it doesn't reach his nostril. And he has some "messed up" teeth on his left side.

This design of Janus isn't 100% correct. I want his face to be sharper, instead of round, in comparison with Logan who has a rounder face.

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Logan [last name]. He also doesn't have a last name.

Logan is a genderqueer aplatonic gay who uses he/it pronouns. He is autistic and rarely, if ever, masks. He is openly autistic literally everywhere. Et also has chronic pain, arthritis, and I think I am giving him dyspraxia.. He uses gutter/platform crutches some days because of ets poor motor skills and balance and to help with ets arthritis.

Logan also has a hand/finger prosthetic and MAYBE a leg prosthetic I havent decided yet. He wears his hand prosthetic sometimes, especially if he needs to use his crutches. If i give him a leg prosthetic, he's probably going to paint on it with some sort of starry space design. ^_^

I dont have a design 4 logan BUT in my mind rn: he is a black man. He has 4c curly hair that changes like once or twice throughout the AU. I know I really wanna give him twists though that are tied up into a ponytail and the sides of his head and back are shaved with some sort of design. He really likes things that dangle and can clack together (4 stimmy reasons) so his glasses have strings with beads on them and have little jewels for decorations. He wears a lot of necklaces and chewy necklaces and his phone has charms on them and he wears a lot if bracelets. He always brings stim toys with him and ear defenders and he has an AAC device if he ever needs it.

Logan's entire face is covered in freckles and acne because OF COURSE!!<3 he deserves it

Janus is very warm toned while logan is cool toned !!

Again, literally no one else is developed. Its just them.

Despire Janus' aromantic identity, Logan & Janus do get into a romantic relationship. Does Janus love logan romantically? Most likely not, he probably feels another type of attraction for et (like sexual or queerplatonic or whatever) or simply wants to be in a romantic relationship w/ et. He might even like logan romantically, but again, he's aromantic & doesn't want to or feel the need to dive any deeper into his identity. So WHO. CARES!!!

RN i want Logan & Janus 2 meet in a library bcuz of course. Janus needs 2 sit somewhere & notices Logan is disabled & immediately forms a kinship in his head & decides 2 sit over there. Disabled alliance. They hang out b4 logan realises "OH. THIS IS THE JANUS MY FRIENDS TALK ABT." & goes "... well they didnt say i couldnt DATE him, they just said dont be FRIENDS w/ him... which is easy becauze I am aplatonic <3" & they go on dates & KISS & ITS CUTE WHATEVER.