BlackHeart Biohazards

Let me assure you that I don’t see Peter Pan as aromantic or a sexual in any human kind of way. Aroace people are kind and warm and lead full rich lives which are in no way diminished by being aromantic or asexual.

Peter Pan is a spirit and a demigod. He is the spirit of youth and boyhood, who exists only for games. He is joy without warmth. Interest without care. Curiosity without consequence.

He is incapable of engaging with people because he is not a person, he is a spirit.

He is the very rejection of growth and of responsibility and of maturity.

He is not aromantic or asexual in the human sense so much as sex and romance are anathema to his very being.

Something popular culture forgets of Peter is that not only does he not “grow up” he doesn’t “grow” at all.

Peter constantly forgets things and people as soon as they’re over or they stop being interesting. He gains no experience, he takes on no new part of himself.

He is always and forever exactly as he is, the spirit of cruel and innocent childhood.

The people who seem to genuinely believe that sending death threats and harassment is healthy never fail to surprise me.

Warmth

Relationship: none

Summary: The captain contemplates the hook. (drabble)

Rating: PG (angst)

He contemplates the hook, turning his arm this way and that to watch it flash and catch the light.

It is a beautiful thing, graceful and curved like the body of a courtesan. More beautiful perhaps than the ungainly flesh it replaces.

It is a deadly thing, wicked and sharp like the reaper’s own blade. More deadly perhaps than the soft fingers that preceded it.

It is a cold thing. There is no warmth within it to replace what was taken.

The captain sits and wonders if all of the warmth that was in him has been cut away too.

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