#he's like. A cishet guy for the record and im a cis girl so

[watery-melon-baller]

I can't be too mean to him because we're in the same program and we have classes together until we graduate. I don't think he will react poorly if I turn him down but also I don't wanna risk anything so. most of this is advice from my friends if you have any other ideas feel free to contribute

[zuzuslastbraincell]

tbh... since i'm doing unpopular headcanons today... i really like lesbian suki as a headcanon as much as i like bi suki (before anyone gets on my case - 1. I like both 2. suki isn't canonically bi, so it isn't erasure).

anyway, can absolutely see baby closeted lesbian suki going for sokka because he's the first boy who isn't from the village that she's seen in ages, as the unagi + the war have drastically lowered foot traffic in the area. even though sokka largely made an ass of himself and gave a terrible first impression, maybe she feels like she has to like boys to "prove" she's a proper girl to others on some level (this can work for both cis or trans suki imo - either way lesbians often are denied womanhood because liking men is seen as a core component), and kinda throws herself at him on impulse. maybe she kinda views that assholeiness that sokka displays, that lack of respect, as key to heterosexual relationships (it isn't, for the record - but i know as a kid i used to romanticise romcom hate-love relationships a lot and that's what im basing this off). then the girls in the kyoshi warriors giggle and gossip about how she's got a crush on sokka for the next three months or whatever until she sees him again and she ends up kidding herself into believing there was something genuine there maybe. Sokka stops being such an ass, grows up, their dynamic mellows and is now this great friends to lovers things, & they become great friends in the end which makes it a little confusing to parse - because it takes her a while to realise there was never any romantic tension, she doesn't actually like him! But eventually she figures out that she's very much going through the motions because she can and their relationship is very highschool in that sense.

like for the record i also really like the bi suki headcanon, especially from the angle of suki thinking she's a lesbian and realising she's bi (listen as someone who's played the 'bi or lesbian' game for years and gone from lesbian to bi himself i really appreciate that depiction of bisexuality). I also feel like that equally works with trans suki as i know a lot of trans women who've done egg (cishet "boy") -> trans lesbian -> trans bi woman as a journey. I like the idea thar kyoshi island was an environment where she realised she was sapphic / a wlw and maybe found comfort in the lesbian label but realised that it wasn't true to her experience eventually. I think as sokka begins to deconstruct his gender and realise he's non-conforming or less masc than he thought suki realises that she can still have this complex relationship r.e. gender while dating men as a bisexual woman.

(although on one level I just wish in this scenario suki wasn't with a guy once known as the most prominent misogynist amongst the main characters yknow, because i think sometimes people end up misidentifying due to negative experiences with men / belief that relationships with men can't be healthy, when they can if you're with the right man. anyways. I still do like sukka just yeah. I wish they hadn't written sokka as a misogynist really because I think they get on super well.)

anyways. I think both bi suki and lesbian suki are interesting headcanons and i think both can work.