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⌈ Secret Post #2762 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This ^^

so much of the best fic comes from 'What if'- 'What if Dumbledore and Grindelwald never fought?' 'What if Tom Riddle never went to Hogwarts?' 'What if Ron Wessley is a Seer?'

I'd read 'What if Charlie is asexual?' that sounds like an interesting premise for a fic.

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't sound like story premise at all. It would change nothing about the character as he stands unless you write about women hitting on him constantly and him turning them down.

[(Anonymous)]

Trouble is, that is a "What if: Charlie gets harassed with unwanted attention" fic. The reason he is annoyed with the unwanted attention is a secondary point. You can go places with "What if: [name] is gay". Especially in settings where people might be hostile, or old-fashioned, or fucking Lucius Malfoy with your wand...

Its an active position (supply your own joke here). Asexualty, by its very nature, is a passive one.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's still a matter of what you *do* with that premise. Namely, a writer could dig into how much time, thought, and energy it takes to get as awesome with Dragons as Charlie is. Talk about the things that do absorb his thoughts (it's probably not just dragons). Talk about what it's like to have to fend off his family's expectations that he will get interested in girls, marry one eventually, and have tons of kids just because that's what Weasleys do. Hell, talk about having to negotiate social space with people who aren't sure what to make of his asexuality - his friends are getting married, for instance, and starting to go through that thing where they only want to get together with other seriously committed couples because cheating and stuff. Where does that leave him? Do they try to keep in touch or drift away?

My point is, when there's a normative way of being, and someone doesn't fit it, their *existence* is not a negation or a passive state. Your imagination just has to extend past "they're not doing X" to encompass what they might be experiencing instead.

[(Anonymous)]

idk why you're implying that Charlie's whole existence is his asexuality, thus only passive. That ONE trait of him is passive, and his other likes and interests aren't necessarily related to it. Just because he's asexual isn't the reason he's good at his job (it's not like sexual people are bad at jobs because they're constantly thinking about sex or something ridiculous)

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I'm not. I was saying that, off the top of my head, you could take a story about ace!Charlie in all these directions. As a rebuttal to your saying "how could anyone write a story about what he's not?"

[crunchysunrises]

There's plenty of places that you can go with asexual Charlie. The story doesn't necessarily have to be about Charlie & the Women Who Hit On Him Unwantedly. You can certainly hit all three of the plot points that you mentioned.

[crunchysunrises]

Frankly, you don't have to change a character to write about him. Expanding on what's given is a perfectly valid writing choice.

And that's a very narrow fic idea. Maybe that's what you'd write about with regards to an asexual!Charlie, but it's definitely not what springs to my mind. The first three things that occur to me are: tribbles/Captain Kirk, relationship with sexually active partner, and Weasley get togethers.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Stories like that are rarely interesting because there's just not enough to them.

[akacat]

I agree that it's not a premise -- but it is a hook that would get me to look at a fic that features a character I'm fairly indifferent about.

Now you just need an actual premise, and I'll keep reading.