Aroace thoughts/rants

Writing my book

So I'm writing a book, called No Regrets I mentioned it on here before. Anyways it has two aro main characters, one of them is romance repulsed/negative.

There's this scene I just added and I don't know if I wanna keep it or not. Basically, Rue (the aro negative main character) is mad at this dude (zac) for betraying her (they aren't even close friends. It's complicated. They're like acquaintances or allies) and he did it bc the villian promised him she would make sure his boyfriend doesn't get hurt. Rue is upset bc one she's like "she's obviously lying" and two she was trying to hurt the two people rue cares about most. And three rue was kinda annoyed he did it for romantic love.

Zac then tells her she'd do the same for her best friends and it's not different. Anyways here's the scene.

"It's the best option I had, we aren't even friends, why do you care?"

"Because out of all the people in the legion, I thought you were the one who wasn't a fucking greedy bitch. You may not be greedy for power like Micheal, but you only care about yourself and your stupid relationship!"

"Just because you don't understand what me and Noah have doesn't mean it's stupid, and like I said, you'd betray anyone for a chance to protect Reggie or James. It's the same thing."

Rue pauses for a moment, knowing he's right. She would betray anyone for a single opportunity to protect those she cares about. It doesn't matter if Zachary did it for someone he cares about romantically and he would do it for someone she cares about platonically, the common denominator was that they cared about someone. Romantic or platonic or something in between, it was out of love. Maybe it wasn't so different.

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Yea so that's the part I added to my book and part of me likes it because it shows that romance and platonic love aren't too different and one's not better than the other but I don't want it to seem like it's not okay for you to love platonic love more because that's like the exact opposite of why I'm writing this book.

Like...I don't know I'm just nervous this somehow gives bad vibes towards aro romance negative/repulsed people.

I don't know. Like part of me likes this scene a lot but part of me feels like it could be taken the wrong way?

Especially bc Rue's having a realization that she gets mad when people put romance first but she does the same with platonic love. And one of my points in writing this book is that romance isn't better than platonic love yet I don't have any allo characters having a realization. Actually wait- I think Liam does towards the end.

I don't know.

I keep going back and forth with this scene so let me know what ya think. Bc the last thing I wanna do is send the wrong message about platonic love/aromanticism.

So yeah. That's all I have to say. Thanks for listening and I'm wishing you all the very best. Hope you have a fantastic day/night, best wishes and take care 💚💜