The Dating Life of Dominick

Dom’s in the process of discovering his asexuality. It’s a tricky thing to figure out when your entire species and culture teaches boys from birth to be hyper charismatic lady killers. All the fellas in Dom’s fraternity constantly talk about chasing tail-male and female, all while Dom sips his drink in the corner frustratedly wondering why he doesn’t feel the same drive. It’s a large factor in Dominick’s near-constant feelings of being an imposter, of trying so badly to play the part given to him at birth. 

He tries for a long time to date like the rest of his peers, but Dom is usually trying so hard to both force feelings of attraction and find a partner his social circle would approve of (eg. hot, upper class, a ruthless social climber) thaaaaat he ends up forgetting to form any kind of emotional connection with his dates. His partners are enamored more by his potential than his personality, typically viewing him as a handsome background prop to use in their insta pics. Dating just makes Dom feel lonely, so after a while he gives up, burying himself in his studies instead.

And that’s when he meets Tadeo~

slight character tweak here, I believe I said Dom was bisexual in his first bio, the more accurate term would be biromantic. Dom admires Tadeo for his passion and geek-ass authenticity, as their one-sided ”rivalry” turns to true friendship, Dom feels a great depth of affection for his friend that is both new and alarming. It’s confusing, because Tadeo is not the sculpted pinnacle of attraction Dom feels he’s supposed to want, but Dom still finds him pleasant to look at. Tadeo slowly becomes Dom’s favorite person, and he very much wants to be Tadeo’s favorite person. He wants to hold his roommate’s tiny hand and cuddle and maybe kiss (…if they can even figure out the logistics of that, between Tadeo’s prehensile snoot and Dom’s six inch canine teeth), and sometimes when Tadeo hits him with that dorky disarming smile Dom doesn’t know if he wants to squeal into a pillow like a teenage girl or go throw himself off the nearest cliff in terror. It’s all very confusing.

(the random lion lady’s name is leah, btw. feel kinda bad about making her up just to show Dom isn’t attracted to her, lol. sorry leah)