not to be crude but the people who think Laios is one of those fandom characters that doesnt know what sex is are completely missing like. his whole deal. you think the dude who obsessively studies monster anatomy and behaviors doesn’t know what sex is? you think he hasn’t memorized the mating rituals of every single goddamn beast under the sun? you think he doesn’t have an encyclopedic knowledge on how to fuck? thats his goddamn special interest brother. he knows sex better than anyone on the goddamn planet.
sorry if i am piggybacking on your post punkitt and making it too serious but i keep finding this to crop up as a trend where people in a fandom take a character and go “this character is so naive (and neurodivergent) that they can’t know what sex is!” and like. does this feel really infantalizing to anyone else? especially when the character is just an adult man. he’s 26 in a race that has an average lifespan of 60. he was almost married. he knows how living armor fucks. I don’t want to name examples or put anyone’s headcanons down but this has been weighing on me how fandom spaces treat autistic characters as sexless. it also plays into a lot of the harmful ideas that causes autistic people not having all the reproductive rights and access they should to act like they are unaware of the world. I don’t want to say this in a way that people can’t have ace headcanons but I want people to think what they are saying when they add these ideas onto characters with mental or physical disabilities and check they aren’t saying anything that comes off as insensitive (even if they don’t mean to do so).
no actually go off yeah. its weird as hell when people act like adult characters with neurodivergent tendencies are babies that need to be coddled for some reason. its like a complete misread of a character and a bizarre way of looking at other people.