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Arospec Awareness Week Day 1: Aromantic/Acespec: Aro/Gray-ace Kate Lockley (Elisabeth Röhm, Angel 1999-2001)
"But no, I don’t need rescuing. I gave up on “knight in shining armor” a while ago. I don’t expect to find him at the International House of Posers. I sound like a big hypocrite, don’t I? Ragging on this place? I came here almost every night. How else are you gonna meet somebody outside work? It’s this or sit home alone in the dark. I always say that a man that loves animals is a man you can trust, I just have a hard time, you know, trusting people. Male people, particularly. In a place like this, nobody will show you who they really are. Everybody’s too busy trying to get whatever it is they’re looking for.
Angel: What are you looking for?
Kate: Depends on how many daiquiris I’ve had. Oh, God, way to come off like a drunken sl*t.Sl*t’s better than a hypocrit, right? I’m moving up?– I’m a self-flagellating hypocrit sl*t. What was your question?– I’m just trying to make a connection. The more I come to places like this, the harder it gets.-[Anyway, this is close to home]- I was gonna ask if you wanted to go someplace more quiet." [1x2 Lonely Hearts]
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During Ace Awareness Week I made a post* about how she gives me an a-spec vibe, I couldn’t really say anything more than that then. But now, I think she very well might fit under this category. I could see her being gray-ace as well as aromantic.
The original photoset is from her intro episode where she’s actually an undercover cop but I think with the other episodes she gets, it’s save to say that she is being mostly truthful here about her own feelings about dating. I could see her trying to connect with people without knowing/understanding that she’s aromantic while occasionally experiencing sexual attraction, and that is one reason why it’s so hard for her. Her father worries about the fact that she’s always been alone and not dating anyone. She does experience some attraction towards Angel and maybe her father isn’t wrong about her ‘leaning the other way’, so I could see her as m-spec too, for whatever attraction she does experience.
*https://demisexualnathanvuornos.tumblr.com/post/155773094968/nocticola-nocticola-10-images-f-elisabeth