#aplatonic Virgil 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