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Demiromantic self-shipper here.I think at one point I had f/o that was platonic. But this was before I realized you could self-ship outside of a romantic context or knew about terms such as “f/o” and “self-shipping”(god I love doing a thing before knowing there was a term for it). I didn’t have a good relationship with my older siblings when I was in school, so at the time when I was really into AOT, I made a self-insert where the character Hanji was my older sister because…like I said I had a terrible relationship with mine. And it’s still shit.But in the end though, the self-insert became an OC after awhile. I still use that OC for rps with a friend of mine, but it being my self-insert to pretend I have an older sibling that loves me is now faded and in the past now.But currently now, I don’t really have f/os who are platonic or familial in anyway. Unless you count Rin from the game Boyfriend To Death as a non-romantic f/o. I don’t wanna date him but my god do I wanna protect that little bean…and was disappointed to see that he becomes a datable bastard in the sequel game.But other than that, all my f/os end up becoming a f/o when I learn more about them. Which is very fitting for me, lol.

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Thanks for sharing your experience, anon.

One of the things I love about self shipping is how personal and different for everyone it is. We all experience it a bit differently but there is enough common ground to have a great community.

Can ships be non romantic? can u say that u don’t love your f/o because you don’t use the word love to describe your attraction to him? Are there other aros in the proship community?

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We have seen people with familial F/Os, best friend F/Os and other platonic F/Os.

We’ve also seen people say things like “i ship these two characters as friends” but that’s not how the term is commonly understood in fandom, and if you say you ship two characters without any other context, people will assume that you mean romantically.

Beyond that, we’ll leave the rest of the question to any wonderful aro followers we have, or any aros who want to chime in– because the primary fronters in our system are hypersexual and hyperromantic, and we don’t feel comfortable speaking for aros on how to relate ships or self ships in the context of aromaticism.