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Here are the "A"s from  145 Romance Tropes , but meant for aspec characters. Your aspec character has been abducted. What tone are you going for? Is this a misunderstanding? Is the character afraid?  Who has abducted them and why? Was it aliens? Does the character have skills to overpower the abductor or sneak away? Is this an intricate plot where the character got themselves abducted on purpose? What kind of relationship will your character form and with who? (It doesn't have to be the abductor) Do the abductor and other abductees have knowledge of or identify as aspec? Could your character use aspec knowledge to speak in code and make a plan with a fellow abductee? Could your character distract the abductor by explaining aspec concepts? Who is worried about the aspec character, or who would be asked to pay a ransom? Your aspec character is accidentally pregnant. How do they feel about the pregnancy? Does your character want to be a parent? Who might your character want ...

Which types of represention do you like or dislike? Why are different types of representation meaningful to you? If you write, which types of representation do you use? What if your character has multiple identities? What about main characters vs. leads vs. bystanders? What are the benefits and risks of different types of representation? Are there more types not listed here? CharCharChar's (ever evolving) Degrees of Representation The following list is in order of author effort (research, page time, sensitivity readers and revision), not importance.  Head Canon: a character's identity is left unspecified, and is able to be headcanoned by fans as having a certain identity  Implied: a character could be interpreted as having a certain identity  Word of God: a character has been claimed outside the work as having a certain identity  Exists: a character is coded or labeled as having a certain identity       ...