#people are annoying and clearly dont know what a qpr is so

[dodecademons]

Laudna and Imogen are in a qpr. They are until they say so. But no really please talk and be on the same page in terms of what your relationship is now. We all know but I love that healthy communication

[hopelessly-aro]

okay but queerplatonic matchablossom and renga (in which everyone’s aro-spec and half of them are ace-spec too)

everyone thinking matchablossom are dating and it really annoys them but they ignore it because explaining their actual relationship would be far too complicated

reki and langa closer than best friends and spending all their time together because they just vibe really well, but neither ever considers being together romantically

langa accidentally letting slip he’s aroace to reki but continues talking in the hopes that reki didnt notice. reki looks it up and is confused but doesnt know how to ask

everyone (other kids at school, miya and shadow, langa’s mum, reki’s family) all giving them those looks that say “youre clearly in love but you dont know it”

someone saying “oh yeah its obvious they’re in love, I just dont know if they’re dating” which reki overhears and it makes him really uncomfortable

he knows he doesnt like langa like that and he doesnt want langa to like him that way either. but he doesnt know why its so upsetting

cherry notices reki has something bothering him and reki asks “does it make you uncomfortable when we all tease you and joe for being obliviously in love?”

cherry sighs and says yeah. people just assume two people cant have a close bond without it being romantic and/or sexual

cherry is demiromantic and demisexual, joe is frayromantic and allosexual. cherry loves Joe romantically, joes loves cherry platonically. they are very happy in their queer-platonic relationship thats a middle ground between the two, and with joe having much more short-term things with other people

cherry describes QPRs more generally, and talks a bit about the aromantic and asexual spectrums, but recommends reki should do other research and maybe talk to langa about it

so reki researches and is kinda having a crisis because aromantic kinda sounds like him and also he wishes he could just vibe with langa for his whole life and not bother with all this relationship nonsense

he eventually screws up the courage to ask langa about how he knew he was aroace and langa tells how it took several years to work it out and come to terms with it and get used to the labels cause he was basically going through it alone

reki listens to what langa says and he’s kinda holding back tears cause this is A Lot. he asks about QPRs and langa kinda goes off on a tangent about how much he wants that, and describing it

reki takes a while to process all this (and cries more because this really is A Lot). then he goes back to langa and says he thinks he might be aro (not ace tho) and that langa’s description of a QPR is what reki always subconsciously imagined his ideal relationship to be

they decide that if they need a label for their closer-than-best-friends relationship then they’ll call it QPR, but basically they’re gonna just keep vibing

tho they do now show even more affection for each other than before because they’re no longer worried the other will take it the wrong way, and honestly fuck whatever anyone else thinks

they’re skating through the near-empty park hand in hand (idc if thats dangerous, its cute) and pass by joe and cherry sitting on a bench. reki and cherry share a knowing nod and a smile