#dianaetta

Ha! Whatever can of newfangled powers you’ve opened doesn’t erase the fact that you’re still my dirt-smudged, tangle-haired best friend. Now, I’m ready to wrassle if you dare try and keep me away again!

(It was first just called the hetero crisis, because it’s a funny title, but as far as I’m concerned, Diana is bi or pan, so I had to correct it in order to be precise)

Soooo, I just had a thought, okay?

Let’s rethink about context and its implications in Wonder Woman.

So first, if you think about it: Diana probably has little to no experience when it comes to actual sexual encounters at the beginning of the film. She used to be the only child on the island, so it stands to reason that most amazones would feel kind of weird to have sex with her, even once she grew up, and I’m sure that the one who didn’t feel weird about it were faced with Hippolyte and Antiope’s policy, which probably was “There will be no pieces left of you to be found if you even think about touching her.”.

So, even though Diana had a masterclass on sex in the form of Clito’s book, she doesn’t have much first hand experience (and she’s what? the equivalent of 25, something like that?). She grew up in a island who had romantic involvment of women, and she was led to believe than men were sort of useless. (By the way, the woman who rushes by Antiope’s side is either her wife/girlfriend, or a medic, and considering they are warriors and have been training for thousands of years, it stands to reason that any Amazon, including Diana and her mom, are skilled enough to at least operate minor surgery, so it most likely isn’t a medic...) So she has what we would call I guess a lesbian standard. Because even thought she believed she was going to discover the world at some point, it was also a very distant possibility. Basically, she expected to have a relationship with a woman.

And also, can I say? Diana probably had a crush or two on the older amazons (because they are cool and awesome, and most kids get crushes on older cool people) but she also would imagine what other women, outside the island, were like. Because as attractive as amazones are, they also kind of all look the same, in the sense that they are all made for combat, tall and muscled. So maybe she has fantasies about finding other types of women in the wide world. Like small or big women, who have soft edges instead of muscles, and would be ultra cute and also have spine and stuff (which is why I’m sure she was absolutly delighted to meet Etta, who is the first foreign woman she sees and looks nothing like an amazone, and is super cute and nice and fun and still has the determination to fight for her rights). And she might also think of men, but she doesn’t have much references for those, and Clito’s books make them seem violent, loud-mouthed and boring, so she wonders but she doesn’t have that much interest in them, and most likely next to no, or no romantic or sexual expectations when it comes to men.

So when Steve arrives on the island, it’s a great change for Diana. He comes from the outside world, and he’s a man. And like, she’s kind of lost because he is sort of cute...? and attractive...? and Diana absolutely doesn’t have time to re-read her copy of Clito’s volume about men, because she remembers very well the chapter on anatomie and stuff, but nothing about men being cute or attractive, and is that normal? Is she normal?? Because if you think logically, there is no reason for her to find a guy attractive, and what if she likes that guy, but he is in fact just like Clito’s books described, and she is weirdly biased??? So she has a whole freak out about the fact that she sort of like this guy, that has a very cute face and has a mix and confidence and uneasiness which is very different from the kind of confindence amazones have. And she is confused and perpexled about it during the whole boat trip, but then she has to save the world and but awesome, so she pushes it aside for when she has the time.

So yeah, I just thought it was funny, that with Diana’s perspective and environment, there is no way she doesn’t freak out about finding Steve cute, because to her, the standard is a couple of two women, not the “usual” hetero-couple. Also now, I have given myself the headcannon, that at the end of the war, she finds herself holding a long standing crush for Etta, who just goes on being awesome and reclaiming her rights in Britain.

Sorry for this post being all-over the place: I’m not used to making this kind of thing ^^. And sorry for the grammar/spelling mistakes as well, because there most certainly are some that I haven’t found while proof-reading.

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