swashbucklery:

Oh gosh anon, thank you so much for asking. I’m cis, so if I am misspeaking or making mistakes while talking abt my headcanons PLEASE let me know, your comments in your second message were so kind & meant a lot.

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IDK, Sin’s gender expression and like, general vibe have always made me think abt gender and I don’t really know how to describe it without like, parsing canon for ~evidence~ in a way that feels kind of objectifying, so I won’t do that? But like: they’re nonbinary, and I know their pronouns on the show are she/her but I like to think that after Sara disappears at the end of S2, Sin starts changing it to they/them.

(Is this show gonna contradict me? The Arrow wiki page tells me that Sin, who in canon is Sara’s found younger sibling, never found out about her death, so I’m gonna go with: who cares what the show thinks.)

And mostly I think abt this in relation to Sin’s friendship with Sara because Sara is one of those friends who, once you’re at the tier of “friend,” you are ride-or-die there for life (for definitions of ride-or-die that include randomly disappearing for months at a time) and I find them so sweet together??

But also like, Sara coming back & Sin comes out to Sara and she is immediately The Most Supportive Mom Friend Who Also Stabs People. Like, that person at the party keeps misgendering Sin, do they want Sara to threaten them a lil bit because she will ok. Is Sin sure that Sara can’t do some really light intimidating, no knives, she promises.

(And like, no, let’s all try not stabbing, you dork, but also sometimes when Sin’s having a shit day they think about Sara in her dumb Canary getup, standing in the shadows threatening transphobes with a long monologue on the spectrum of gender identity and gender expression and why it’s important to respect people’s pronouns or else they’ll have failed this city and it just makes them feel all warm inside.)

Sin whose medical stuff is none of Sara’s business unless they want it to be but if they ever needed anything like that she’ll get her dumb rich friend Oliver Queen to pay for stuff ok? OK.

But also just these two in their shared scruffy apartment in the Glades (when is this in canon? Who can say, maybe after Sara comes back to life in S4) with their shared collection of men’s flannels and skinny jeans. Sin teaching Sara abt how skinny jeans from the mens’ section have way bigger pockets & it is a revelation, she can fit so many more knives in there. Sin making art & Sara sharpening her knife collection but also sometimes making art, she does these little watercolour sketches of the Starling skyline that are actually really good. These two talking about girls and how family is weird and just like, supporting the fuck out of each other, is the show that I not-so-secretly want to watch.