HELLO WREN i do not mean to be bursting into your inbox like this but do you have any thoughts on aro shouto? he has been on the mind a lot lately and you seem like you'd have some cool ideas/hcs floating around

hi!!!! don’t be sorry that’s what it’s there for!

hm, aro shouto,,,,i am not Super the type to just Have Headcanons but i managed to think some thoughts. then they got kinda long so. cut.

first of all i’ve like the idea of tododeku qpr (and also just, qpr with anyone i normally ship him with) for a while, sometimes paired with romantic bakudeku. i feel like shouto’s pretty uneducated about Queer Stuff so he’d probably fall into it completely by accident and then be very confused. and my other related hc is that deku is the local queer things encyclopedia bc idk. feels correct.

speaking of confusion, given the not-great example of romance he grew up with, i imagine he’d be pretty confused for a while about how much of his attraction (or lack thereof) related to his father, maybe trying to force romance to “get over it” or thinking it’s just another thing broken about him :(((

don’t make yourself sad, wren, don’t think about him planning the most cliche romantic date he can think of and rehearsing how to be a Good Boyfriend and being all tense and stressed the whole time while his partner is deeply confused. and then obviously they have to be like “…..okay whats going on” and then it all comes out and there are like, hugs. it’s okay shouto!! you don’t have to give more than you’re comfortable with!! whichever way you love people is enough <333

i also feel like he’d be very touchy. maybe not at first, kinda depends where you are in his arc and how emotionally stunted he is, ig. just always in his partner’s lap, or with them in his lap, hugs, holding hands,,,,oH omg the thing where you draw things on someone’s back? that. bonus points for mixing hot and cold sides. massages. yes. but i do just feel like my boy is touch starved and incredibly touchy once he figures things out in Any universe so. lol

but in spite of the touchiness, i think he would draw the line at kissing or anything. OH. *yoinks a hc from my own ocs* i have had this cute idea of a person who is generally not fond of kissing vs his partner who Does like it, and it being like a special-occasions thing. or a thing where the partner can ask if they rlly want to and maybe he’s like “eh. alright.” bc it makes them happy am i explaining that right is it weird. ack. anyway.

connected to that last point, i feel like he’d be kinda romance-neutral? that might just be bc he’s Always neutral in canon. that face. but like, would do stuff if his partner wanted to, doesn’t really get the point otherwise.

i just realized you said aro and didn’t specify aroace or aroallo uhhh. hmph. i have no thoughts on that. this is kinda hard lol i am…fairly firmly demiro/demiace myself i think, so i just never know what i’m doing on either end of the spectrum. *flails*

wait (wow this is getting long) lets. jump back to pairings. my main shouto ships are with deku, shinsou, and sero. i do like the dynamic i mentioned at the beginning where bakudeku are also dating but mostly just for the angst factor of both shouto and bakugo being insecure but shh deku has two hands. also i think its funny if the two of them are boyfriends in law its such a silly dynamic. they can gang up on deku and force him to do self care or smthn

i think shinsou could also very easily be some flavor of aroace…hm…idk just smthn about his Vibes. him and shouto just doing whatever the hell they feel like and then everyone thinking they’re dating and they’re just ????

“are….are we dating?” “i didnt think so?” “should we be dating?” “do you want to date?” “idk” “okay. cool.”

“wait, shouto, don’t you have a boyfriend?” “i…have friends who are boys.” “no, like…shinsou.” “oh. shinsou?” “yes, babe?” “are we boyfriends?” “no??” “no i do not have a boyfriend.”

sorry i think he’s silly. he’s so smart but so dense. fun to play with. but also he’s right!! other people should catch up.

where the hell was i im so sorry im getting carried away. SERO. himb. i just. holds him. i think he’s a sweetheart. i think he’s maybe allo but like fully chill with whatever shouto’s chill with. i think every day about the time he called him roki.

wait i have a cute idea. after the sports fest sero comes up to him like a one-man hype squad. and like, hugs him or smthn. and shouto just decides Okay We Do This Now and the touchy things begin and sero just kinda rolls with it. eventually they both realize they are like, spooning during movie night and thats. hm. perhaps Not Quite Friends territory. and talk about it.

yeah ummm i think that’s it idk how i did like i said i am Not the kind of person who can just like rattle off a list of headcanons like other people do. i chipped away at this for like half a day lol. i do love all the shades of aroace rep tho!! and i would love to hear your thoughts aswell

BNHA Character Orientation/Gender Headcanons for Pride Month!

KEY: NAME - GENDER IDENTITY (PRONOUNS), ORIENTATION (FAVE SHIPS)

1-A Students Tsuyu - trans gal/amab femme enby (she/her), lesbian (Uraraka) Midoriya - trans guy (he/him), bi (Tokoyami, Koda, Shinsou, Kirishima, Aoyama) Koda - agender (they/no pronouns), demipanromantic asexual (Midoriya, Shoji, Tokoyami) Aoyama - nonbinary/demi boy (he/they), bi (Iida, Midoriya) Tokoyami -nonbinary (they/he +they/them Dark Shadow), queer (Midoriya, Shoji, Kouda) Shoji - cis/trans guy (he/him), demiromantic asexual (Tokoyami, Koda) Kirishima - trans guy (he/him), gay (Midoriya, Bakugo) Mina - cis gal (she/her)/genderfluid (xe/xem), lesbian/pan (Hatsume, Shinsou) Todoroki - agender (they/them)/cis guy (he/him), aroace Uraraka - cis gal/demi girl (she/her), bi (Tsu) Ojiro - cis/trans guy (he/him), gay (Kaminari, Shinsou) Sero - cis guy (he/him), gay (Iida) Jirou - cis gal (she/her)/nonbinary (she/they), bi (Hagakure) Iida - cis guy (he/him), aroace but seeks out queerplatonic relationships (Shinsou, Aoyama, Sero) Yaomomo - cis gal (she/her), lesbian (Kendou)

Other Students Hatsume - cis gal (she/her)/femme enby (she/any/avoid pronouns *doesn’t particularly care), lesbian/ace lesbian (Mina) Shinsou - nonbinary (he/they), queer (Midoriya, Iida, Mina, Ojiro) Kendo - cis/trans gal (she/her), bi (Yaomomo, Tokage, Tetsutetsu)

Pro Heroes Aizawa - trans guy (he/him), demiromantic gay demiace/ace (Mic, Shirakumo) Mic - cis guy/nonbinary/bigender/androgyne (he/they), pan (Aizawa, Shirikumo) Thirteen - nonbinary/agender/neutrios (they/them), queer ace, attracted to women and enby folks Midnight - trans gal (she/her), aroace, but craves a life long partner in the form of a queerplatonic relationship (Inko) Nezu - genderless (he/any as long as you don’t use it), aroace *technically not ace but there aren’t any members of his species hangin’ around and he doesn’t desire sexual relationships outside of mating. Miruko - trans gal (she/her), lesbian (Fuyumi) Hawks - cis guy (he/him), bi/gay Ingenium - cis guy (he/him), gay (Koichi)

Misc. Shirakumo - cis guy (he/him), bi (Aizawa, Mic) Fuyumi - cis gal (she/her), lesbian (Miruko) Koichi - trans guy (he/him), gay ace (Ingenium)

Might add onto this more later but for now take these. Sorry that this isn’t all the more important characters!