Perfect How I Am ~ An KotLC Oralie Fanfic

Oralie Lindser, an Empath, is from a long line of Emissaries and Regents, on both her mother and father's sides. She's hiding a secret - she's asexual and aromantic, meaning she feels no sexual or romantic attraction at all. In other words, if she marries, it will be forced, and she will continue to rebel against her husband if she gets married.

She sees two options - death and becoming a Councillor, which means marriage would be forbidden. If she died, her family would be angrier than if she rebelled against the marriage her family would force upon her. So she joins the Council.

It's there that she meets Kenric Fathdon, a Telepath instantly attracted to her. The feeling is not mutual, though - she tries to tell him she doesn't like him, but he continues to ask her if she would step down from the Council and marry him. She tells him no, but he persists until the pressuring becomes forcing her...

She catches wind of an illegal rebellion group - the Black Swan - and is interested. The Black Swan needs a female in order to create a fetus so that they can alter the genetics of the unborn child - the Moonlark - to give the Moonlark abilities so they can defeat another group, called the Neverseen...

Oralie volunteers, and by agreeing to this, she is unknowingly shaking the foundation of the entire Elvin society.

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A Keeper of the Lost Cities fanfiction, Perfect How I Am depicts the struggle of an aro/ace young elf in the homophobic Elvin world of the Lost Cities. The author has taken advice from real aroace folks, and incorporated it into this story.