A lot of people are shipping Yelena because her creator confirmed that she doesn’t have a canon sexuality and that people can hc what they want for Yelena. However her creator said that she sees Yelena as ace but would prefer women over a man. So that in a way would be her canon sexuality ig
yes i am aware of what her creator has said!
yelena declined being attracted to women either way, she is not a lesbian, even if you don’t want to consider her aromantic, she would be heteroromantic ace in that case.
but i truly believe she is aro as it is implied, if any other sexuality (like lesbian, bi) was implied it would be takes as canon without hesitation, so we should do the same for her aromantic identity.
and honestly even if it was confirmed in mcu, there would be tons that don’t give a fuck, because the issue isn’t her aromantic identity being confirmed fully, but aphobia, the argument „aros can date” would still be used, because even though she is asexual people use „asexuals can have sex” argument or overall ignore the canon.
In the past week, I've come out as aroace to my family. Here's a couple thoughts I had on how that went
Almost immediately my sis was like "Like Yelena from Black Widow?" and my dad was like "Like Todd from Bojack Horseman?" And I was able to say' yes, like that' which help explained a lot of the basic stuff to them. It was the perfect example of how representation is important and introduces people to new identities/ideas that could become relevant in their lives. Idk I thought it was really interesting how they both immediately thought of fictional characters they had seen with that identity. Representation is important, people!
The second thing is after I had explained everything, my dad said, "So that narrows your dating pool quite a bit, doesn't it? You have to find someone who doesn't like sex or romance," and I said "....yesss..." bc I was thinking of qprs but I'm still not 100% sure he understands lol
I disagree with the if something was implied it would be taken canon, no if it was implied it will be a popular hc, popular hc ≠ canon (ultimately fans are not writers or creators of the content)
if something is implied it is suggested without being explicitly said, that’s like 90% of comics sexualities, i haven’t seen characters that say openly “i am xyz” in the comics, how would that even work in yelena’s storyline i have no idea.
I was going to save Yelena for tomorrow's Aroace Headcanon of the Day, but it wouldn't really count as she's canonically Aroace.
I don't really have anything else to say for this post. But all I'll say is that I plan on making more Pride icons using Marvel characters.
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oh my GOD Yelena is AROACE i KNOW you can still be in a relationship while being aroace but the fact that she is the ONLY CANON aroace marvel character can we please have this???? jfc