Theo Putnam

"Listen here, young man."

- Nana Ruth to Susie Putnam

Susie Putnam is a recurring character on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. They are portrayed by Lachlan Watson.

Susie is a member of Baxter High's WICCA club and one of Sabrina's best friends.

Character Description
''Susie Putnam, one of Sabrina’s friends at Baxter High and a founding member of the school’s newly formed WICCA club. Brave and optimistic despite being bullied at school, Susie lives on a farm at the outskirts of town and deals with a terrifying supernatural threat at home.''

Throughout Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Susie is a girl that lives in Greendale and is a student at Baxter High. She is living with her single father and her mother’s status remains unexplained. Due to her appearance and choice of clothing, she has experienced bullying in Baxter High by several boys that pulled up her shirt, so they could determine whether she was in fact a girl. This incident led into the creation of a club called WICCA, with its main purpose to support the girls of Baxter High. Later on, her Uncle Jesse becomes possessed by a demon after a shift of working in the mines and Susie suffers from continuous visions of the demon who exploits her fears. After managing to withstand these situations, Susie acquires strength and willpower from her late Aunt Dorothea that presents herself in a spiritual form advising her during the story.

Physical Appearance
Susie is petite, standing at 5'1 and has bluish-gray eyes. Even as a young child, Susie's haircut has been the one constant throughout their lifetime.

Personality
Susie is a young student at Baxter High and one of Sabrina, Roz and Harvey's best friend. Independent and courageous, Susie is on a journey to discovery an identity that can better define emotions, sensations and desires that characterize them, defying the binary gender norms of male and female. Susie's journey, however, is not at all easy and some more than others are willing to make it even more difficult. While Sabrina struggle with her witch nature, Susie is going through hell at school where football players are constantly harassing them for not fitting a specific idea of gender roles. For example, they lifted Susie's jumper to see if they had breast or not. Physical and verbal abuse are part of Susie's daily life despite Sabrina and Rosalind's attempts to make things easier and Principal Hawthorne turning a blind eye. Susie is also facing a distressing situation at home where uncle Jesse, who always struggled with his own gender identity, became horribly ill after witnessing something at the Greendale Mines and Susie's father decided to send him to a mental asylum that triggered painful emotions in Susie. Although Susie is a human, supernatural events didn't cause much of a shock. Indeed, conversations with Nana Ruth but especially with their ancestor, Dorothea Putnam seems to have helped Susie discover new sides of their personal identity.

Powers and Abilities

 * Limited Mediumship: After going through their ancestor Dorothea Putnams's personal belongings, Susie is able to see the ghost of Dorothea and is able to communicate with her.

Trivia

 * Susie, like Lachlan Watson, identifies as non-binary and uses they/them and she/her pronouns.
 * Lachlan Watson influenced Susie's "queer journey". In the original script, Susie identified as a transgender man and came out in the first few episodes. After conversations between Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lachlan, writers decided to develop the character's journey to a slower pace.
 * In the course of the series, Susie has been bullied and misgendered (using a word that doesn't correctly reflect the gender with which they identify) either intentionally and unintentionally by several characters such as Principal Hawthorne and some Baxter High Ravens.
 * Despite Susie's best friends use feminine pronouns, Susie seemed delighted when Nana Ruth and Dorothea used masculine pronouns instead, taking their comments as compliments.

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