#canon aspec swag showdown

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Canon Aspec Swag: Daughter Dooley vs Sister Carpenter

Daughter Dooley aka The Witch Queen from Old Gods of Appalachia who is asexual and aromantic, confirmed in text and by word of god. "@oldsteveofappalachia (He/Him): Daughter Dooley has no descendents. We've been very public and very forthright about this. She's asexual and aromantic. Her line ends with her. I can promise you all right now, no one is ever going to be revealed as a secret daughter of or son of or anything tied to DD. Solitude suited her and that's how it stays."

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Sister Carpenter from The Silt Verses who is aro/ace, confirmed in text and by word of god.

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Welcome to the canon aspec swag showdown

Where your favorite canon aspec characters will go head to head in a battle of strength, wits, and most of all, canon aspec swag.

SUBMISSION RULES: 1. Characters can be asexual, aromantic, aroace, demi-, grey-ace, or any other aspec lablel

2. Real people are allowed if they're publicly out as aspec and I feel like including them. Or if it's funny enough.

3. Characters must be canon aspec: confirmed in text using an aspec label OR confirmed by word of god OR expressed disinterest in sex and/or romance in text

Why only canon characters? I wanted to highlight the canon aspec characters that are out there and introduce people to new media with canon asexuality, aromanticism, and more.

4. One submission per character per person. I encourage people to submit multiple characters, and multiple people can submit the same character, but don't spam your favorite character.

5. Don't fight on my posts or in my inbox. If you need to complain about whatever characters people are submitting or that people aren't voting for your blorbo, vagueblog about it like a civilized person.

6. Propaganda is allowed. Encouraged even.

Submit your blorbos with the form below, the form will be open for submissions until April 20th, 2023 Friday April 7th, 2023 at 4PM Pacific Time

Inspired by @asexual-swag-bracket @aromanticswagbracket @alloarocharactershowdown @autismswagsummit @aromanticbracket2023 @aroaceswagcompetition @aroaceslayshowdown

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Kale Romero vs Keyleth of the Air Ashari

Kale Romero from Monster Prom who is asexual and aromantic and attends the Support Group for Asexual People in a World So Sexualised It Might As Well Be a Dating Sim

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Keyleth of the Air Ashari from Critical Role: Vox Machina who is demisexual confirmed by word of god.

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Malcolm Shingle vs The Doctor

Malcolm Shingle from Entropic Float who is biromantic asexual and uses that label in text.

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The Doctor from Doctor Who. "Actors Jon Pertwee and Matt Smith have described them as asexual. The doctor has expressed explicit disinterest in sex on multiple times, most explicitly in Bang Bang a Boom that I know of. They have never canonically had sex, and the canon origins of their granddaughter are ambiguous" "For the 1st-7th doctors, disinterest in sex/romance onscreen, 8th doctor referred to as asexual in a novel, 10 & 11 both word of god asexual, others generally show disinterest unless w a specific person"

More on The Doctor here: x

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Papyrus vs Shubble

Papyrus from Undertale "After you flirt with him during his fight, he goes on a date with you that's really cool, and crazy, but then he reveals to you that he never had romantic feelings for you, and he thought that by trying a date with you, the feelings would come naturally."

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Shubble from Empires SMP who is asexual. Shelby, who created Shubble, is also ace.

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Single Submission Preliminaries: Tumblr Tussle!

We had three people submit themselves so now they will go head to head. The winner will go up against James "Meaty" Grice from archivistbot in the tumblr tussle finale.

@pumakittycat from tumblr who is aro as confirmed by themself

"im aro and this is mostly a joke and very funny to me personally"

@defianceoftheendless from tumblr who is aromantic as confirmed by "I should know shouldn't I"

@teeth-collector64 from tumblr who is aroace as confirmed by word of god

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Canon Aspec Swag Round 1: Alix Kubdel vs Percival King

Alix Kubdel from Miraculous Ladybug who is aromantic, confirmed by word of god.

"On va dire que Max est plutôt ace et Alix plutôt aro..." trans. "Let’s say that Max is kind of ace and Alix kind of aro..."

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Percival King from Epithet Erased, she is asexual, confirmed by word of god.

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Canon Aspec Swag: Arteloth Beck vs Sir Talfryn

Arteloth Beck from Priory of the Orange Tree who is greysexual, implied in text and confirmed by word of god

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Sir Talfryn from The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel who is aromantic and asexual, confirmed in text.

TAL: I don’t think I like damsels. MARC: You… what? I’m guessing you don’t mean the bugs. TAL: No. MARC: So… guys, then? TAL: No. I don’t like men, or women, or bugs, or… anybody. Not that way. MARC: Huh. No joke? No interest at all? Sounds kinda nice, actually. TAL: I think it’s going to be. Now that you know.

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Enjolras vs Vernestra Rwoh

Enjolras from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862). Enjolras is explicitly disinterested in sex or romance. “He did not seem to know that there was a being on earth called woman. He had one passion only, justice; one thought only, to remove all obstacles.” “Had any grisette… felt a desire to taste all this dawn, and tried her beauty on Enjolras, a surprising and terrible look would have suddenly shown her the great gulf, and taught her not to confuse Beaumarchais’s dashing cherubino with the cherubim of Ezekiel.” “He lives alone, which makes him perhaps a little sad. Enjolras suffers for his greatness, which binds him to celibacy. The rest of us more or less have mistresses who make us mad, that is to say brave. […] Well, Enjolras has no woman. He’s not in love, yet he finds a way to be intrepid. It is an incredible thing that a man can be as cold as ice and as bold as fire.”

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Vernestra Rwoh from Star Wars: The High Republic who is aromantic and asexual, confirmed by the author.

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Single Submission Preliminaries: Reanimation Rumble!

Herbert West from Re-Animator (1985), who is asexual, as confirmed by his actor Jeffery Combs

Jesus Christ from The Bible who is celibate and unmarried according to "the traditional understanding of Christian churches and theologians" and Wikipedia

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Single Submission Preliminaries: Marvel Melee

Yelena Belova from Marvel Comics who is aromantic and asexual as confirmed by her creator Devin Grayson

Nadia van Dyne, the Unstoppable Wasp from Marvel Comics who is asexual as confirmed by writer Sam Maggs

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Coach vs Reyna Ramírez-Arellano

Coach from Monster Prom who is asexual, and attends the Support Group for Asexual People in a World So Sexualised It Might As Well Be a Dating Sim.

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Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano from Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan who is asexual, implied in text and confirmed by word of god. "In a tweet on July 3rd, 2020, Rick revealed he wrote Reyna to be romantic asexual, someone who has romantic feelings of love towards other but does not act upon those feelings in a physical manner. However, Rick also said that because he did not specify this in the books, people are free to interpret Reyna however they wish."

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Single Submission Preliminaries: Reality Rumpus

Jaiden Animations from Real Life who is aroace as confirmed by herself!

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You from Real Life

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Single Submission Preliminaries: Maya vs Maya

Maya from Borderlands 2 and 3 who is asexual, as confirmed by the lead writer.

Maya from The Antique Shop podcast who is aroace, as confirmed by the writer (who is also aroace!)

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Canon Aspec Swagshowdown: The Real Thing

64 challengers approach the gauntlet for round one. I'll be posting round one in batches of 8. These polls will be open for a week. Propaganda can be submitted in the askbox and is welcome and encouraged!

Round One

Elatsoe vs Nancy Whitman

Papyrus vs Shubble

Arteloth Beck vs Sir Talfryn

The Doctor vs Malcom Shingle

Sister Carpenter vs Daughter Dooley/The Witch Queen

Enjolras vs Vernestra Rwoh

Coach vs Reyna Ramírez-Arellano

Kale Romero vs Keyleth of the Air Ashari

Red Handed Robin vs Sasha Rackett

Alix Kubdel vs Percival King

Anonymous/Dareka-san vs Lisa "Tattletale" Wilbourn

Data Soong vs Murderbot

Leenik Geelo vs Connor Hawke

SpongeBob SquarePants vs Perry the Platypus

Sunil Jha vs Aled Last

Tori Spring vs Felicity Montague

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Elatsoe vs Nancy Whitman

Elatsoe "Ellie" Bride from Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe is asexual and uses that label in text.

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Nancy Whitman from Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Nancy is asexual and uses that label in text.