Me and Ford again!
This isn't the identity that fandom tends to write him with, but in my self-ship, Ford Prefect is a neutrois quoiromantic asexual gay man, a characterization that is influenced by my status as such. I - or at least the original host of the system (with whom I have this identity in common) - often explore my/its identity through this character.
The thing is, though, our version of them is a "neutrois quoiromantic asexual gay man" in the sense that they're an alien with an AGAB that is best described as neutral and finds himself perceived as a man as well as attracted to men. There are, however, situations where he cannot tell if his feelings for someone is romantic or not, and he comes from a culture that values platonic relationships more than human societies tend to
With regards to this perception, he's fine with it and even comes to personally identify with it, but he simultaneously still identifies as the alien gender as which he was raised. With regards to this attraction, he's only ever been attracted to other gender neutral aliens before, and part of his identification with masculinity/being a man has to do with his attraction to men feeling same-gender like his attraction to people who are the same gender as which they were raised.
This was going to be explored through a fanfiction series we were writing, and if we do get back to writing Hitchhiker's Guide fic, those themes will still be in it, but for now I'm mostly just exploring them in my self-ship!
