Creating Aspec Characters in My Favorite Media: A Thought Experiment
Image description: A promo image from early in development of the fourth game in the Dragon Age series. This diverse photo and the potential it represents seems perfectly fitting for a post where I play around with ideas for aspec characters. I often critique media for their lack of aspec representation, but what aspec characters would I create for my favorite media if I could? Today I answer that question. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time talking about the characters in my favorite pieces of media through an aspec lens, I obviously tend to focus a lot on how aspec-adjacent characters are portrayed. I look at why these characters could be reasonably seen as aspec. I look at the things in the media that supports that, and how these things are often ignored or devalued by the creators of the media or even the fans themselves. I often look at how those things are erased and discuss why that’s a problem. I even sometimes talk about how I think these problems could have ...
