Arasol

Arasol is the het ship between Aradia Megido and Sollux Captor from the Homestuck fandom.

Canon
Aradia seems to have a longstanding and close relationship with Sollux. It is popularly believed that they were at one point in a romantic relationship, although this has never been confirmed. Nepeta's shipping wall tells us that at one point, she wondered whether Aradia and Sollux were in a flushed relationship, though later she crossed out the possibility. This is not enough to definitely pin down their relationship.

After Aradia caused the spirits of Vriska's victims (whom Vriska had fed to her lusus) to haunt her, Vriska psychically forced Sollux to eat the mind honey in his hive to strengthen his psionics and to fly to Aradia's hive. (Unsurprisingly, he is only vulnerable to her control half of the time, but this is still long enough.) Vriska lured Aradia outside her hive and forced Sollux to use his psionics to kill Aradia.

Some time after being killed by Vriska through Sollux (and forgiving them both), Aradia continued to converse with Sollux as before; however, it is hinted that Sollux may not have at first realized that Aradia was dead. The two had cooperated to begin their session of Sgrub. Becoming increasingly troubled by her doomsaying, Sollux eventually attempted to rebel when Aradia revealed that the game would destroy the world. After entering her soulbot, she barely said anything to Sollux, but she chose to spend her last few moments before it exploded to reconcile with Sollux. She seemed glad to talk to Sollux in dream bubbles and led him back to his friends after he died. Aradia opted to stay behind rather than proceed to the new session, and Sollux decided to stay with her.

Aradiabot chose to spend her last moments offering him reassurance about the future, apologizing to him for not talking since becoming Equius's 2moochbot, and hugging him. After her "death", he was apparently depressed about it and shared his feelings about Aradia openly with Feferi in the horn pile.

Fanon
Arasol is a very popular ship in Fanon. Fans tend to write them as either matesprits or moirails. In fanfiction, they are often portrayed as a background couple. Alternatively, they are used for angst about the circumstances of Aradia's death and Sollux's guilt about it. They are also sometimes paired in an OT3 with Eridan or Feferi, due to the popularity of Solfef and Erisol.

On AO3, Arasol has gained over 1190 fanfics. It is the third-most-written ship for Sollux Captor and the first-most-written ship for Aradia Megido. On Tumblr, the Arasol tag currently has over 1700 followers.

Fandom

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Trivia

 * When asked about the nature of Aradia and Sollux's relationship, Andrew Hussie replied "Maybe it's more interesting if it's not spelled out".