recthething | fanfics with an asexual and/or aromantic main character

Unsteady by withthekeyisking
Dick grew up watching Bruce take countless women to bed for the sake of the mission, and to get what he needed from different people. He watched, and he learned.

And maybe he doesn't feel the same things the people around him feel, maybe he doesn't really like sex, but it doesn't really matter. Because if sex makes people happy, then why does his opinion on everything matter? It's not their fault he's broken.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
Relationships: Dick Grayson/Various, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd

10 Things I Hate About Sex by blueyeti
Damian felt like this obsession with sex and romance was some long con being played on him by the entire school, and he was reaching an untenable level of frustration with the irrational behaviour of his supposed 'peers'.

On a Bat Family movie night, Damian finally figured out the right question to ask, to finally get answers to why all the other teenage boys at Gotham Academy were obsessed with sex.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
Relationships: Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne

Nothing Personal by firefright, Skalidra
Jason's never been that interested in sex, except as a tool to help him get what he wants and a way to please the people around him. What he does enjoy, however, is the part that comes before it (especially being treated with a firm hand). Finding someone willing to understand and respect both those aspects of himself has always seemed impossible, though. That is, until Slade comes along.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
Relationship: Jason Todd/Slade Wilson

Kerosene and Flame by Sohotthateveryonedied
Jason chews his cheek. How is he supposed to explain his sexuality to an alien whose first language is touch? Part of Kori’s culture revolves around physical intimacy, sharing oneself with another as a means of connection.

“I don’t exactly…feel things the way you do, Kori,” he starts. “You’re a very tactile person. You like skin contact and connection and…you know, sex.” He blushes just saying the word. He pushes through. “But it’s not like that for me. I don’t feel sexual attraction the way you do.” He takes a breath. “I’m asexual.”

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
Relationship: Koriand'r & Jason Todd

enough by sparkycap
After trying to make his son relive his violent death in Ethiopia in hopes of bringing his other son back to life, it occurs to Bruce that he might, possibly, have made a questionable decision in his grief. Again. For once, he'd like to try to fix it before it's too late. Jason may have run away again, but he's still alive, so Bruce has to believe it's not too late. He goes to find him.

Finding him in bed with Roy Harper and Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran is an unexpected distraction

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd

Reciprocation (or: Sex as Violence) by Honorable_mention
Sex was a lot like violence. It was all about who held the power.
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Or: Jason's always had a complicated relationship with sex. Despite his best efforts, it might finally be time to explore it.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
Relationships: Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper & Jason Todd

Hot Chocolate and Fruitcake by HermesDay
"Tim," Barbara said. "Do you know what asexual means?"

"Immaculate conception," Tim replied. "Fact: the Virgin Mary was an amoeba."

Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
Relationship: Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson

A Thin Line to Thaw by Terminallydepraved
The sound of a chamber sliding into place shouldn’t have been a soothing sound, but in the quiet stillness of the shitty motel room, Jason found it just that.

Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
Relationship: Slade Wilson/Jason Todd

Your Name Carved in Stone by Cirth
“Think clean thoughts, Robin.”

It was an outrageously old-fashioned choice of words, and it took Damian a few moments to realise, with creeping embarrassment, what his father meant.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)
Relationships: Jonathan Kent/Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne

Think of Me by Luvo
“Any…life updates?” Bruce asks hopefully.

“Like what?”

“I don’t know. Do you maybe…is there a girl?”

Jason feels his face heat. He does his best to ignore Tim, Steph, and Cass snickering as he asks, “Seriously?”

Bruce looks down. He looks back up.

“A boy?” he tries.

Jason’s fork clatters to his plate. “Dad!” he hisses.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
Relationships: Connor Hawke & Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd

our love was built outside these walls by Shenanigans
Connor Hawke loves Kyle in a clean simple way, but he can't help but think it's not enough. He can see Kyle look, can feel Kyle need more than he knows how to give. He can't find the touch, the words, to make the mess Kyle needs to be.

He asks the people he trusts for help.

Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Green Arrow (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
Relationships: Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd

we show off our different scarlet letters (trust me mine is better) by lostandlonelybirds (RUNNFROMTHEAK)
He gets called things, sometimes. Slut when Mirage tricks him. Cheater when Barbara tells others about her suspicions, her doubts and feelings. Whore when it’s a villain pissed he took out their goons and they’re aiming below the belt. Playboy by magazines, and bicycle by the younger generation because “everyone gets a ride”. They hurt the way most things do, and they each hurt in a different way because he’s broken and he’s tattered and he loves but not the way you’re meant to, because it’s not nature or an inferno or something out of a Greek myth. It’s not possession or jealousy or the need to lock it down.
It’s different. It’s not supposed to be.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Titans (Comics)
Relationships: Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson/Other(s)

break your throne, cut your hair by dukeaubergine
Ra’s thought he could force Tim into marriage with an ancient magical artifact. He didn’t account for the magic recognizing his daughter’s protégé as a potential alternate groom.

Tim and Jason just have to survive the one-month engagement period without getting kidnapped, killed, or outed as fakers to the press. Then survive any assassins gate-crashing the wedding. Piece of cake, right?

…This might be easier if they’d actually tell the rest of the Bats what’s really going on.

Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd

(just wanna be) somebody i'm proud of by GallifreyanFairytale
“That’s nice,” Maki acknowledges, “but I’m not.”

Geto frowns. “...Not what?”

Maki looks up at him. “The girl of the group,” they answer simply.

Geto blinks. “You’re not?”

“Nope.” Maki takes another bite of cereal, amused as Geto’s face flickers through several different expressions as he tries to figure out how to respond. He opens his mouth, then closes it again. Maki would laugh at him if it weren’t also sort of heartwarming that he’s searching for the right thing to say.

(If he weren’t the only one who’d ever bothered to think through their response to Maki coming out to them.)

or: five times geto's students come out to him + one time geto comes out to his students

Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
Relationships: Getou Suguru & Zenin Maki, Getou Suguru & Okkotsu Yuuta, Getou Suguru & Kugisaki Nobara, Getou Suguru & Inumaki Toge, Getou Suguru & Itadori Yuuji, Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

like best friends do by valleykey
If I don't love Suguru like that, Satoru thinks, then I won't ever love anyone like that.

OR: stsg but make them aromantic.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru & Ieiri Shoko

love is for children and other lies by Fahye
War is the child's emptiness, the surrender of identity, the transformation into a simple system: purpose goes in, action comes out. (Natalia Alianovna Romanova, and everything that she became.)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov

Everybody Wants to Fall in Love (But Not Me) by Willowe
Being aromantic was never a problem for Tony. He has a surprisingly healthy non-romantic relationship with Pepper and Rhodey and he's happy with that. So maybe that means he's also, technically, never had to come out to someone. That wouldn't really even be a problem, if his teammates could just get their heads out of their asses and piece things together without him having to actually say, Hey, by the way, I'm aromantic and romance-repulsed, just thought you should know!

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Relationships: Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark

A Year is a Long Time for a Break by phoenixyfriend
The lack of communication was what killed their relationship the first time around, and she's not particularly willing to try again, even if his feelings on the matter may be different. But they're still trying to be friends, and that works to mend a lot of broken bridges and make them closer than romance ever did their first time 'round the block.

Somehow, they always end up just talking on the roof.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandoms: Young Avengers, Hawkeye (Comics)
Relationships: Kate Bishop/Noh-Varr, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Ace of Hearts by beccadearie
One night when out with friends, Merlin meets Arthur and quickly realizes that they have something in common: they are both asexual and trying to make their way through life and love in a sexual world without going crazy. What starts as hanging out between friends evolves into something more, and Merlin and Arthur decide to plunge headfirst into this tenuous relationship of give and take between the two of them.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Relationship: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

You've Got a Face for Radio by ckret2
The closest Alastor's ever gotten to romance comes in the form of—in order of increasing hilariousness—a couple of botched youthful attempts at kissing, cheap mass-produced smut comics, and the wildly entertaining tales of other people's sordid affairs.

He's never wanted sex. He's never wanted love. He's never seen a problem with this.

It's taken about a century, but he's pleasantly surprised to discover that the rest of the world is finally starting to catch up with his perspective.

More than anything else, he’s pleased that these new modern attitudes have given him extra opportunities for bad puns.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
Relationship: No Relationships

Summer by Tierfal
People mean well, mostly, but he's alone in this – right?

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
Relationship: No Relationships

Talking with Tonks by heliantheae
“What do you mean,” she said dangerously, “when you say ‘snowed in?’”

Because he’d known her since they were both very young, Charlie Weasley scratched his beard instead of paling, stuttering or otherwise apologizing for existing.

(Takes place a few years after the events of Speaking with Serpents. You don't have to read one to understand the other.)

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Relationship: No Relationships

Doing the Work by MarbleGlove
There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.
AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Naruto
Relationships: Uchiha Sasuke & Original Female Character(s), Hatake Kakashi/Original Female Character(s)

All the Best and Brightest Creatures by wordstrings
Sherlock sent Jim Moriarty to prison for killing Carl Powers at age ten. This is the story of the consequences.

Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Relationship: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Your Moral Crisis is Stupid by etothepii
Sherlock is asexual. John is not. Possibly, Sherlock should have told him this before they had sex.

Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Relationship: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson