#aromantic characters
It’s the end of the last week of AroWriMo, and time to put all the great works in one place. Read through the other submissions, and support the writers where you enjoy their content!
Play/Script
- Leaving: A (very) Unfinished Stage Play bycharcharcharace (blogspot)
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Summary:
A fractured personal narrative on entering and leaving an unhealthy relationship and the pain of being aromantic without that knowledge.
Word Count: 1200
Theme: Humanity
Language: English
Genre: Personal
CW: Depression, manipulation, unhealthy romantic relationship, processing self-blame
Novels/Novellas
- Oh, the truth shall set you free by@amanita-cynth
Summary:
“I know exactly four things about Alway.” She said wryly. “She’s 23, a genius, she keeps at least three feet between her and other people at all times, and she can root out the truth like nobody else.” Of course, coming from another profiler, such an assessment carried a lot of weight. Eden Alway, the newest member of an FBI profiling unit, is odd even by their standards. But as they begin to pry more into her life and struggle with some of what they find, her past is racing to catch up with her and drag them into the storm that was her life. Featuring misunderstandings, odd behaviour, the constant problems of amatonormativity, and a rapidly escalating series of bizarre problems that they are in no way qualified for but definitely isn’t magic.
Word Count: 11000
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships, Self-reliance
Theme: Fantasy
Language: English
Genre: Crime, portal fantasy
CW: Romance, Violence, Gore, amatonormativity, religious imagery, mild body horror later on, currently a WIP
Lyrics
- Embersby@clad-in-sunshine (Wordpress,Twitter)
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Summary:
I’m terrible at picking titles. But I have been enjoying writing songs, and this is one I wrote for AroWriMo and the Valentines theme of ‘Love, Romance and Friendship’ at my local folk club. The middle part is entirely uninteresting to me, so this is more about love and friendship than anything else, and the various forms that can take.
The tune is called ‘Midnight on The Water’.
Word Count: 479
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships, Self-reliance
Language: English
Genre: Singer/songwriter, Folk
Comics/Zine
- My Aro Heart: A Zine bycharcharcharace (blogspot)
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Summary:
A short zine about loving the aro community.
Word Count: 50
Language: English
Genre: Zine
CW: Love (non-romantic)
Flash Fiction
- Self-Relianceby27twinsister (Ao3)
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Summary:
Tsubasa likes to be alone. The note contains my headcanons for Tsubasa and what the words mean.
Word Count: 161
Prompt: Self-reliance
Language: English
Fandom: Mahou Sentai Magiranger
Genre: Character study
CW: None
- Non-Romantic Relationships by27twinsister (Ao3)
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Summary:
Jiro doesn’t know if his relationship with Yuki is romantic. But it’s special to him. The note contains my headcanons for Jiro and what the words mean
Word Count: 209
Prompt: Non-Romantic Relationships
Language: English
Fandom: Dogengers
Genre: Character study
CW: Romance mention
Non-fiction
- Relationship Anarchy and Hugs bycharcharcharace (blogspot)
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Summary:
Applying relationship anarchy to family relationships and hugs.
Word Count: 522
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Theme: Defying Expectations
Language: English
Genre: Non-Fiction
CW: consent issues, boundary breaking
- Thursday Thoughts: AroWriMo Week 4: Non-Romantic Relationships & Self-Reliance by@sophieakatz
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Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships, Self-reliance
Language: English
Genre: Non-fiction
CW: Romance mention
Poetry
- Little Boxes by anon*
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Word Count:456
Prompt: Freedom
Theme: Choosing to be Yourself
Language: English
Genre: Poem/non-fiction
- To My Dear and Loving…by@writingthingsilike
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Summary:
A poem about being aromantic but still wanting a life partner
Word Count: 165
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Theme: Choosing to be Yourself
Language: English
Genre: Non-fiction
CW: None
- AroAcebyCatolica (Ao3)
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Word Count: 254
Language: English
CW: Choose not to use warnings
- Care, uncoupled by@graces-of-luck
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Word Count: 149
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Theme: Humanity
Language: English
Genre: Free Verse
CW: Romance
- Human = ( X - Y ) / Z bycharcharcharace (blogspot)
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Summary:
A poem about human essentialism
Word Count: 129
Theme: Humanity
Language: English
Genre: Poetry
CW: Mentions of essentialism and touches on dehumanizing ideas
Short Stories
- My Valentine by @bimboztown on twitter
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Word Count: 305
Category: Short Stories
Theme: Choosing to be Yourself
Language: English
Genre: Coming of Age
CW: Suicide attempt mention
- Lights, Camera, Aro! bycharcharcharace (blogspot)
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Summary:
An aromantic actress is conflicted over how to engage with a romantically coded improv challenge.
Word Count: 1885
Theme: Choosing to be Yourself
Language: English
Genre: Literary
CW: a ghost, pressure.
- He Is Mild And He Is Meek by@entity9silvergen(Ao3,FFN)
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Summary:
He is mild and he is meek, he is Momo and he is what I seek. Suki always wanted three things in life. One was to become a professional soccer player. The second was to live in a cute apartment filled with succulents. The third was to get a cat. Momo probably wasn’t anyone’s first pick as a pet but Suki was determined to get this cat to love her as much as she loved him. If only he’d accept he had a home now.
Word Count: 6500
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Language: English
Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender. Characters: Suki, Momo, Sokka, Aang
Genre: Friendship, Hurt/ Comfort
CW: Mention of sex, non-excessive swearing
- sick of all those love songs (sing to me about my friend on the moon). by nwhrs
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Summary:
Johnny has always tried to follow the game, Ten has always stood out like a sore thumb, Chenle has always been quite vocal about himself, and Jisung really has absolutely no idea just what is going on (or does he?). And this is just a little part of their story.
Word Count: 16413
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Theme: Choosing to be Yourself
Language: English
Fandom: NCT // Park Jisung, Zhong Chen Le, Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul | Ten, Suh Youngho | Johnny
Genre: Slice of Life
CW: Romance, Discussions of romance & amatonormativity
- he loves you (he loves you not) by @ternaryflower53
Summary:
“Who’s your companion?” the man asks.
“This is Jango,” he says, not adding his last name. They have a false one, a name Jango sometimes uses in undercover missions when he doesn’t want to risk being recognized as the Mand’alor’s son, but better if they can avoid using it. “He’s my husband.”
The man frowns down at his datapad, then looks up to study Jango. “I wasn’t expecting you to come with a partner, Master Jedi.”
or, jangobi fake dating au, but make it aromantic.
Word Count: 6270
Prompt: Non-romantic Relationships
Language: English
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jango Fett)
Genre: Fanfic
CW: Romance, fake/pretend relationship, request to be in a romantic relationship that gets shut down
