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Did it extend to romance as well? Was I so cold that I’d spend my life never feeling anything? Everyone was always going on about how socially inept I was. The only thing I knew for sure was that this kiss had been a lot like the last one. Sydney worries that she's cold and unfeeling, which indicates this isn't a new development due to falling in love. Jill is just as inexperienced as Sydney, younger, and has an awkward first kiss with Micah due to concerns about her fangs, but she still found Sydney's description of her reaction to Brayden being like kissing a brother strange.
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This is supposed to contrast with her already blooming feelings for Adrian, but other girls in the series (Rose, Lissa, Jill, Angeline) are clearly capable of feeling attraction to people other than their main love interest. "I felt a little guilt that I had a greater emotional reaction to seeing the coffee than him." TGL, passim. "Why didn’t I have the same reaction? Maybe I’d done something wrong after all. My heart raced, but it was more from anxiety than anything else. "I was so surprised, I couldn’t even move. What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?" "As we sat there, I realized we’d come to another critical dating milestone. I soon forgot about that as the play started." I wasn’t used to sharing my personal space so much. Mostly I was aware that this was the closest I’d sat to anyone, maybe in my life. My pulse didn’t race my heart didn’t flutter. I didn’t think I was getting any romantic vibes.
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"Still, I was very conscious of being so close to someone. Brayden is just as socially inept and inexperienced as Sydney, but he's clearly attracted to her and enjoying their kisses, while she finds all their physical contact underwhelming and unconfortable: She doen't consider dating until her friends impose it on her, and she doesn't notice she actually agreed to a date with Brayden until Trey celebrates it.ĭuring her relationship with Brayden she feels zero attraction to him and focuses on what is socially expected of her, not any of her own desires. While she's frustrated her job might stop her from actually connecting with friends and even her family, she doesn't seem too bothered about the obstacle to her romantic life before her relationship with Adrian. She reacts with panic when the possibility occurs to her and relief if it turns out that isn't the case, like when she thought Trey was asking her out in TGL. Even as her general social skills improve and she learns to navigate other situations better, she cannot confidently tell if a situation could be romantic. When a boy tries to ask Sydney out she assumes he's asking for her opinion on silent cinema and gives him a lecture about it, while what's actually happening is very obvious and hilarious to everyone around her. She didn't notice Ian's crush on her until it was pointed out to her even though we later see he's obnoxiously obvious. The descriptions of Rose and Lissa's attraction in the first series are more involved and reactive, more similar to Sydney's attraction to Adrian once she has emotionally connected to him, as opposed to Sydney's objective descriptions of people in aesthetic terms in the beginning. She's clearly capable of feeling attraction right away and to people other than the man she's in love with. While we have some toxic cultural assumptions about women in general not really having a sexuality, or having a single target sexuality directed at her One True Love, her husband or soulmate, we know that isn't the case here bacause we have a very interesting contrast to Rose, who is sexually assertive and isn't demonized for it. I believe this was meant to show the hang ups she has about vampires, she then says she can't admire him like she would a human guy, HOWEVER, she never does admire any human guys in a more involved way. When Sydney first describes Adrian she uses comparisons to classical art, she admires his looks in a more detached way, rather than describing her reaction to him.
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Romance is not on her radar at all and frequently catches her by surprise. Throughout the series Sydney shows no signs of attraction without previous emotional attachment, and plenty of feelings of inadequacy due to not feeling what she's "supposed" to feel. Some notes on why I'm convinced Sydney is on the aro/ace spectrum, specifically demisexual. That a-spec Sydney Sage post I keep promising