Teres

SCSF: I am always up for a challenge, so let me see!

Well I meant just within this trilogy, but fair enough! Does Sa'Kuya (why is she called that? Is she Japanese) really count as an important character? She gets a name, yes, but she only appears in maybe two scenes in the entire trilogy.

It is by no means exhaustive, of course, and I am sure I made some errors in it... but I would say I did what you asked for!

You did a good job!

Hmm, for yourself I am not sure if I could tell that? I mean, I already know, so that makes it hard to come at it knowing only your works, but that work is considerably more deliberate than Paolini's, so it is harder to infer much from it.

That's true. If homoeroticism for example appears in anything I write, you can rest assured that yes, that character is intentionally gay or bi.

Interestingly, though, when a protagonist of mine is asexual coded, it has been unintentional every single time, just as I've frequently written characters who are coded as autistic or ADHD without meaning to. For example I showed a work in progress to a classmate, who read it and immediately declared "Oh [main character] TOTALLY has ADHD! Just like me!" He was thrilled! And going back over it I was like "wait... he totally does have problems with his attention span and makes impulsive decisions. He does have ADHD. Huh, go figure."

I'm not formally diagnosed but I'm 99% percent sure I also have ADHD. And since, to me, thinking that way is just the default so there's nothing unusual about a character who keeps daydreaming and is easily distracted when not laser-focused on something. Because isn't everybody like that?
Turns out the answer is no.

That said, I think I would be able to tell that the person writing it is ace or adjacent to it.

If you analysed it without knowing anything about the author, that seems likely. It's not just that my protagonists are usually uninterested in sex and romance unless I make an effort to write them otherwise. It's that sex and romance in everything I write is usually very minimal. Why? Well because for obvious reasons (if you know me) I'm just not interested in writing about that stuff. And when it's focused on to the degree it's focused on in this trilogy, I see it as a boring and unnecessary distraction from the stuff that's actually important. And you know what? Fair enough! The entire world is supposed to be in danger yet we're wasting time on who's screwing who and will Axis marry Faraday in the end blah blah blah. Who CARES?