You Bitches Keep Your Mouth Off Suki

[redbrunja]

Dear Avatar fandom,

The next time I find someone saying (via explicit text or via lyrics in a vid) that Suki is:

-a fling of Sokka's

-seduced him

-isn't worthy of him

-somehow did him wrong

-is not heart-wrenching important to him,

I will smack you with metal fans until the stupid bleeds out of you.

I do no care if you ship him with Toph. I do not care if you ship him with Yue. I do not care if you ship him with Ty Lee.

But fucking respect the relationship he has with Suki and stop trying to cheapen what is arguably the second most important female relationship in his entire life. (fyi, Katara is #1 in that category.)

No love,
redbruna

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

For fuck's sake, when Azula taunted him about her in DOBS, that was the first time we've ever seen that boy cry since his father left to fight.

Oh my god, you're right. I haven't even thought about that.

And yeah, in fic, whenever someone explicitly or implicitly implies that Suki isn't important, this is what I hear in me head: "Ah, so you want Sokka with Ty Lee/Azula/Yue and so are going to talk trash about Suki because you're not a good enough writer to handle someone loving someone once and then growing apart."

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

See, Suki/Sokka is in the unique position of being fairly easy to write out of, despite how much they are in love.

On Suki's end, you can say that she gave up on Sokka, because being in love with him was just too painful.

On Sokka's end, you can kill Suki off quite easily.

It just floors me that no one goes for the obvious, reasonable ways to write either of them out of that relationship.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

And Ty Lee/Yue/Azula/Toph trash talking Suki? In front of Sokka?

He may be more likely to yell and scream at them, then be on his knees begging for them.

Hell yes. And I've yet to read one of them saying anything to him - it's always the authorial voice, and how they describe her.

I think it's because they want to deny that Sokka had any feelings for Suki. Now if I am writing a Toph/Aang, I cannot deny that Aang has feelings for Katara.

Exactly! Same if I'm writing Katara/Zuko. You can't just decide the a character who is show to care about another character doesn't, not unless you give a damn good in character reason.

But some writers don't realize this. They could create a lot of drama, a lot of tension from Sokka's feelings for Suki for another pairing, but they chose to take the easy and simple route.

And thus, end up writing something that's not very good.