#aspec OC

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Finally designed my protagonist, Echo Redwood! They're basically me from 1-2 years ago. They're probably 17, if not then 18, in their second year of college studying animation. They're autistic and don't really have friends because they're compulsively masking their special interest, and I just want to give them a hug. Their hair is a bit garish but it's based on me having hair with Riddler colours (+ blue) during early college. Their glasses are square and not round because the last time they went to the opticians was before the Artist became their special interest. Their look is meant to be a bit ecletic as their meant to be a realistic teenager, not some cool, co-ordinated, obviously-fictional character. Their face is a lot like how I draw mine, but with even less lines (I'm used to drawing silly old men). I might give them spots on their face.

[hardcoffeegardener]

Full Name: Talia Abbison or Lavender Abbison Nicknames: Tal, Lav, Abi Species: Human Age: 25 Birthday: may 1st Zodiac: taurus Height: 5'9 Pronouns: she/her Sexuality: Aromantic Asexual(Aroace) MBTI: isfj Any disorders?: Yes, schizophrenia+aspd

[mxanigel]

I'm starting to feel like I need to create a slide deck to explain Shion's sexuality and perspective on sex 😅

She can enjoy sex but doesn't desire it? At least, she doesn't feel like she desires sex the way others seem to. She craves intimacy with someone she loves, and that kind of physical closeness tends to overlap with the other person wanting sex. Because sex is supposed to happen when you're in love, right?

[more OC rambles that ended up extending beyond aspec things below the cut]

Before the OT3, Shion had two relationships: Zane Armbrust and Rena Hoffmann. Zane was her partner during their cadet days when they were both in their late teens, and in hindsight her feelings were more platonic than romantic (which contributed to them breaking up around graduation). Being with Zane helped Shion begin healing from the long-term emotional abuse inflicted by her mother, but between that and her parents' unhealthy relationship as her main example, she made many mistakes, including sleeping with him because he wanted it, because the act was expected. (To be fair, Zane was also figuring himself out; a few years later he meets a man who he ends up marrying.)

Thanks to that growth, the version of Shion who meets Rena is in a much better place to have a relationship. And Shion falls head over heels for her. I don't think Rena was aspec, instead a deeply empathetic person who worked hard to identify and meet her lover's wants and needs while communicating her own. Often with teasing involved. Sure, they had their stumbles along the way as they figured out who they were together. But through that safety and acceptance, Shion first found pleasure in sex with Rena, later even initiating it on rare occasions. Despite their crapsack world, they were happy for years. And then Shiganshina was attacked, taking Rena's life alongside so many others.

(Why did Rena have to become such a wonderful character?? I once again must apologize to an OC for putting them through so much anguish.)

Shion throws herself into the Survey Corps in the wake of Rena's death, alternating between Expeditions and helping train new recruits, never rising to a captain rank due to occasional reckless behavior. Her luck runs out when she breaks both legs fighting a Titan, leading to months of recovery and then post-recovery physical therapy and training to rejoin the Survey Corps. She should have given up, retired, changed jobs, but if she wasn't a soldier fighting Titans, what would she have left?

It's this version of Shion who joins Squad Jonas, and her time with them slowly helps her realize how much the past few years have rocked her to the core. How far she's strayed from Rena's desire for her to seek joy. In trying to recover that better version of herself, Shion changes to the point that she catches Hange's attention, and soon after that is when Cut to the Feeling begins.

Given all this, Shion is utterly unprepared to fall in love again, let alone with someone like Levi. Yet she won't suppress those feelings because they were unexpected. In fact, she finds joy in loving Levi (and Hange, albeit under the assumption that her feelings are purely platonic there).

It's the physical aspects of that love which Shion struggles with. Unlike Rena, Levi isn't one to talk about such things. He's direct, blunt, and forward. And Shion will prioritize his needs and wants over her own. Which leads to tension between them once Hange turns their pair into a triad.

Because, subconsciously, Shion prefers physical intimacy with an AFAB partner. She's never had two people juxtaposed to be able to figure that out. But Levi notices, quickly, and later confronts her about it in his characteristically brusque fashion (because he doesn't know she hasn't realized this herself). It isn't an easy conversation. Yet the three of them insist on honesty with each other above all else, and because they work to maintain this foundation of trust, they can have these conversations. Which leads to a three-way relationship where each person can freely express wants and meet needs because they love each other, whether those needs are for sex or for the absence of it.

(If you got this far, thanks for reading. <3 If you and/or any of your characters are also aspec, I hope some of this resonated with you.)

[aspec-man-thing]

I'm having trouble figuring out what the name of this character. Maybe Molly?

Profession: Witch

Religion: Bitchhood

Familiar: torn between a lizard or rat.

Orientation: Loveless Omniaspec (different aspec orientation for every attraction)

Pronouns: She/They

Gender identity: Agender Woman

She does find humans fascinating, but they are more fascinated by the world that surrounds her! With all her stuffed animals and books, they recently moved to a town with a huge queer and active community. I'm not sure if it's going to be an illustrated short story series or a comic series yet, but I immediately "fell in love" with this character as soon as they popped in my head and I needed to share!

[pan-fried-autism]

Check it out, guys! 1000 years into the future, Grem and Nikolai have a funny cat descendant!

flags.

[cordwaner]

Did you know? Being Ace actually kinda rules!

[theonlyamazingtazmin]

Starting to see something more and more in other fandoms but it’s also brewing within Sauron fandom which is I don’t get villianfuckers who are deluded or in denial about the fact their fav is a villain.

Then woobify them to the gods until they resemble very closely of the “good” ML they hate lowkey which is funny.

Your fav did some pretty heinous fucking shit and should be either dead or punished severely for it and that’s what I advocate for in my villain favs cause I ain’t a PUSSY

Sauron is a villain. The reason we like him is because he’s a villain. He chooses villainy when he’s given many chances not to. I genuinely don’t get the urge of wanting to redeem him. Yes he’s complex with a lot of feelings and nuance but he doesn’t want to be redeemed. He’s not an ambiguous anti villain by the time we are in Second Age/Third Age. He’s not Adar

The serious woobification (not the semi-joking kind) needs to stop and frankly it’s lowkey insulting.

[unchartedspark]

💚 Overrated 💜 (2024, posted on Valentines Day)

[tikklil]

Rowan is aro, Dean is ace, and their 33-year marriage will change your perception of love

New OCs

[weepingfireflies]

Something that really frustrates me is that even WRITING aro/ace rep is hard to get across without using exact terminology because "I'm not interested in romantic/sexual relationships" is so often used as a precursor to said character finding "the one." Which could definitely fall into the aro/ace spectrum, but it's so often interpreted in the most amatonormative way ever that I don’t know if I can even make readers understand that yes, this character is, in fact, aro/ace.

[doodliydoos]

[sevenyx77]

a funny little creature! | older art

[thegirlsarethriving]

guards!! put that man on the spectrum

[kendraws]

Big ol' Xavier image post! I need to draw this fella again when I have time! He's... SILLY... (Oof some of these are so old!! You can tell how his design changed the more I drew him- especially that snoot!)

[theswedishcatlord101]

These would go hard as stickers but idk how to make those.

What they say ���When will I get a gf? Uhhhhh…” “I’d rather have cake”

the flags:

(Aromantic and asexual)

the flowers: Daises! But especially on Ace’s drawing these!:

Eat up my cat kingdom!

[cureely]

I'm uploading this a little early in my timezone so.. ASEXUALS, ARISE!!! TOGETHER WE SHALL DESTROY THOSE ACE-PHOBES!!!!

Happy (Early or late in ur timezone) International Asexuality Day guys!!