hi, sorry, i saw your post abt yelena being aroace, and for some reason i had no idea! when i watched the black widow movie i sorta headcanoned her as lesbian, but that’s really cool that she’s aroace! i was wondering where that came from? (sorry again that this is really random)
Its fine! I had personally no idea until after Black Widow came out. And lesbian!yelena is a very popular headcanon for mcu!yelena on ao3 and tumblr. And another fun sexuality fact you may not have known about: according to her wiki comic!Kate Bishop is explicitly and repeatedly said and shown to be bisexual in the comics
But back to Yelena
I dont actually know where it came from other than it came from the comics. Back when Black Widow came out a few people posted about how she's canonically ace/aroace with some comic panels of her talking (i think the panels said something like "i dont like men. And no, i dont like women either, so dont ask."). When people say "its canon in the comics" it usually means its actually very vague and more of a popular fandom headcanon (i once looked into the "comic!steve is canonically bisexual" claim and it all boiled down to one panel where the villain was like "the ladies. Or men, if thats what youre into" which to me was just saying the villain didnt want to assume anything but to a lot of people it was more oh the villain knows something we dont), but the way it was worded sounded a lot like the "this is what i am, im not going to use labels because that will confuse you more" coming out technique. So i have chosen to see it as a somewhat-explicit Yelena is Aro-Ace scene
Ive also heard from a couple of posts i saw last night on the subject saying someone (it was either the creator or one of the writers) has stated in a interview before that Yelena is Asexual