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Lexzie is the femslash ship between Lexi Love and Suzie Toot from the RuPaul's Drag Race fandom.
Canon[]
Lexi and Suzie were both competitors on the seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, which aired from January to April 2025. Lexi successfully made it to the top four of the competition, and Suzie placed fifth and won the title of "Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses" after winning the Lalaparuza Lip Sync Smackdown. As contestants on the show, Lexi and Suzie immediately had very different aesthetics and reference points. Beginning with Suzie winning the first challenge of the season and continuing to be generally liked by the judges, Lexi started feeling insecure about her own place in the competition. As challenges continued to pass, Lexi would begin insisting that Suzie was either somehow directly threatening her performance on the show, or Suzie simply still being in the competition and supposedly performing better than Lexi consistently was causing Lexi to perform worse.
There were several times in which Lexi and Suzie butted heads on the season, mostly instigated by Lexi's insecurity with her position in the competition. Lexi was open very early in the competition that she struggled with chronic self-doubt in and out of her drag career due to her troubled past, and the show's production took the opportunity to include this in her storyline for the season. Even when Suzie and Lexi were not directly interacting during the season, Lexi would often still express feeling intimidated by Suzie either for her track record or her actions in the Werkroom. On the occasions when Suzie and Lexi were paired together for challenges, Lexi's self-doubt was shown to be wholly unwarranted, as Suzie held no animosity towards her and always wanted to help the other queen succeed as her partner.
Following the season's filming, the two have both expressed that any animosity on the season was not long-standing, and the two now consider themselves friends. The pair do not interact often in-person or on social media like many of the other girls, but that can be attributed to the two still being fundamentally different to each other in personality and drag. The seventeenth season of Drag Race appears to have the youngest cast, and Lexi being the oldest on the cast at 34 compared to Suzie being 25 likely factors into their connection and communication. However, it still holds true that this season's cast are the closest with each other as opposed to other seasons. As of recently, Lexi and Suzie have not publicly interacted beyond mentioning that they are friendly and all feelings shown on the season have healed.
Fanon[]
Shipping between Lexi and Suzie largely revolves around the enemies-to-lovers trope, in which the animosity between them on the show translates to fanworks. As most Drag Race fanfiction exists in alternate universes, fanfictions about Lexi and Suzie in the enemies-to-lovers trope recreate the competition setting in some other environment that maintains the essence of the relationship. There are currently only 2 fanfictions on Archive of Our Own with the Lexi Love/Suzie Toot ship tag, and neither feature them as the main relationship. The ship can be considered a rarepair, as it is not as popular among the fandom as other ships are, and not the most popular ship for either queen. On Archive of Our Own, the ship tag "Lexi Love/Suzie Toot" does not even exist as a filterable term. Neither Lexi nor Suzie have made any acknowledgement of the limited shipping content made of them, likely because they may not be aware of its existence.