Asexual fictional characters

[Kappamaki]

The webcomic Supernormal Step continues to be great.

[Marshmallow Tree]

Zer0 from Borderlands 2 is an asexual aromantic.

[Custos]

Rorschach from Watchmen is apparently asexual, more the merrier so I'll take what I can!! He seems rather asexual in the film, I know that much :)

[Blakrana]

The character Abel from the Webcomic Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures.

In his own words, "Not Interested", and directly addresses his experience of other's responses to it here.

[Zorc]

Pretty sure Izaya Orihara is somewhere on the aro and/or ace spectrum, despite the gross overly sexualized portrayals of him by drooling fangirls.

[asinglecookie]

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet (unless I just missed it), but my role model is Estella from Great Expectations. She really stands out against the marriage and romance-obsessed heroines of many Victorian classics.

I know she's probably not asexual (it wasn't particularly known in Dickens's time, I don't think), but nevertheless, some of the things she says are extremely relevant to me. I even have a quote from her in my signature.

I know, in Estella's case, she was manipulated as a child to believe love was dangerous, which left her unable to feel it. However, she does feel fondness for her adoptive mother, and her friend Pip. She repeatedly warns Pip not to fall in love with her, because she can't return his feelings (advice he ignores). When she does marry, she marries a brute that she dislikes to 'punish' him and make him miserable.

I also like how the ending has been left open. It could be read either way- either that she finally gets together with her dear friend Pip (romantic), or it could just be interpreted that she retains her friendship with him (aromantic).

As well as her quote in my signature, there's a bit where Pip tells her that her inability to feel romantic love is not natural, and she tells him that it is natural in her, which I always found relatable.

Rather than getting into a debate about which characters are strictly confirmed asexuals, and which are not, I prefer to look at those who have traits I can relate to (like Estella), even if they are not confirmed as ace. Like Merida and Elsa- I don't necessarily believe they are ace, but I still find their singleness (and happiness over it) relatable and helpful. After all, the OP asked for characters that can be read as asexual, even if it's unconfirmed, and I believe all these character could be read that way. :)

(Also, Griet from Tracy Chevalier's novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' has some traits I find relatable. She has a bond/understanding with her boss, Vermeer, that's not necessarily romantic/sexual. She also has a boyfriend, but she's rather disinterested in him, and seems to simply 'go along' with the relationship. She tries to avoid his marriage proposals. Also, she recognises that he is nice-looking aesthetically, but seems to have little interest in him physically. It's even implied that she doesn't find the physical contact particularly pleasant. Although she often feels like she has no choice but to eventually marry him.)

[TophatNTails]

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned before:

Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series. I mean, there's one point in MGS3 where he and his partner EVA were sheltering in a cave under a waterfall. He's busy cooking some snakes for them to eat, and then EVA comes into view in a leather bikini, and BB just doesn't care! And when she starts flirting with him, he just brushes her off (although they do have a brief makeout sesh after the mission's done, but given that he was only half naked when he woke up afterwards, my guess is it didn't go any further than that).

[Jotari]

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned before:

Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series. I mean, there's one point in MGS3 where he and his partner EVA were sheltering in a cave under a waterfall. He's busy cooking some snakes for them to eat, and then EVA comes into view in a leather bikini, and BB just doesn't care! And when she starts flirting with him, he just brushes her off (although they do have a brief makeout sesh after the mission's done, but given that he was only half naked when he woke up afterwards, my guess is it didn't go any further than that).

I think Big Boss was intentionally designed to be hetro (and probably bi given the things you can don in the later games) to make a contrast to asexual Snake. You can stare at Eva in pretty much every other scene and given the James Bond inspiration I imagine it was a little more than a make out sesh when everything was over and done with. Either that or she drugged him first, but the intent and more importantly the want was there. Why he didn't give a crap in the cave probably has more to do with the fact that he had just been brutally tortured, lost his eye, fell of a cliff and drowned. Compare that to Snake who seems to flirt in a very monotone dry whit sort of way that comes across more as expectation than desire and his one "relationship" in the series seems way more emotional than physical and is implied to have broken down very quickly once the whole we're not in life threatening danger aspect vanished. Also he's sterile and born to be the perfect soldier so it probably was bred out of him at a genetic level (something that the US Army tries to do through traning towards their less super soldiery recruits too though apparently with little success).

[Guest]

Some people see Goku from Dragon Ball Z as an asexual, possibly sex positive asexual (seeing as he has two kids). I think that's an interpretation that you can insert without contradicting canon. My personal headcanon is that he is demisexual...because I can.