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⌈ Secret Post #3858 ⌋

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Re: Venting Thread

[(Anonymous)]

DA

As an ace person myself, I definitely think that when most people imagine a character's asexuality, they're essentially imaging an absence of sexuality. I mean, a character has a presumed potential for attraction, and imagining them as ace is essentially imagining that potential neutralized.

I mean, if I were to imagine an ace character, I would be more likely to imagine them as a distinctly sexual person, with a complex inner appreciation of the erotic. Because that's me. I'm sexual, I appreciate eroticism possibly more than most - I just don't feel attraction between myself and other people. (I still identify as ace because, for most practical purposes, I am.)

So yes, it is possible to headcanon a character as ace in a way that involves exploring what turns them on and gets them off. But A) even so, I don't think there's anything more inappropriate in that than there is in exploring a character's hetero/homo/bisexuality. And B) the vast majority of people who headcanon characters as ace are not going to think of them as robustly sexual within themselves but lacking attraction to others. Most people are just going to think of the ace character as not interested in sex, period - which is, IMO, a pretty inherently nonsexual way of thinking about a character.