#akiyuki

So today, I accidentally started discovering the ship names often used by the Japanese fandom for various character pairings. I just sort of stumbled into a tag that turned out to be the single most common tag for the Yuno/Yuki ship, and that wound up inspiring me to find what ship names they’re frequently tagging on various other character pairings over there.

Yukiteru Amano/Yuno Gasai = ゆのっき, aka Yunoki/Yunokki. Much like the English “Yunoteru,” it’s another way of fusing their given names together. Easy, breezy, beautiful.

Uryuu Minene/Masumi Nishjima =  西みね, aka Minenishi. I’ve seen “Minejima” and “Nishimine” used in English for them, but I don’t feel like either one has ever managed to stick as the “most common” on our side. I’ve always been disappointed that we never managed to nail something down for those two.

Yukiteru Amano/Aru Akise = 秋雪, aka Akiyuki. Except, um, that’s Chinese. That’s not Japanese. And yet, even the Japanese artists on Pixiv are using that Chinese character tag for these two! I have to assume this is partly because  those two Chinese characters (秋雪) can also be translated as “Autumn Snow,” and you know how much shippers love it when they can combine two characters’ names to make a recognizable word/expression.

Marco Ikusaba/Ai Mikami = マル愛, aka Marcoai. Do these two even need a “ship name”? They’ve been paired off for most of their lives, and they already come packaged as a unit! 

Aru Akise/Tsubaki Kasugano = アキツバ or Akitsuba. I remember that I first heard about this one from @syrpai a while back. And at that same time, @sermeno14 informed me that the most common ship name used in English for them is “Akibaki.” Which is pretty adorable.

Yuno Gasai/Aru Akise =  秋由乃 or Yunoaki. If you didn’t already know that there’s a contingent of the fandom that ships these two, I’m sorry to be the one breaking the news to you? Unless you’re interested Ofc…

Hinata Hino/Mao Nonosaka = Nothing. I had to include these two, because they’re actually more commonly shipped than the three pairings I listed before this! But alas, they just don’t seem to have a common Japanese ship name. I found a couple of attempts to make ひなまお (aka Hinamao) work, but that portmanteau is already associated with a pairing from “Ensemble Stars,” so it never gained much traction. Most of the ship art just labels itself as “Mirai Nikki Yuri.” Which I mean... okay? How about this: Let’s try “Nonohino.” What do you think?

Everything hurt, the pain cutting through the fog that clouded his mind as he slipped back into the land of the awake. It vaguely reminded him of how sleeping at his desk had felt; the protests of sore muscles and the lower levels of oxygen causing his brain to process information more sluggishly then usual - but it was only processing. It didn't stop him from observing or picking out information, or accessing what he already knew.

He crawled off awkwardly, from where he had been haphazardly thrown over a chair, wincing as his back made its protests. Whomever had dumped him here had been, without a doubt, unceremonious about it. A quick glance around the room and a speedy headcount showed seventeen more people in the room. An odd number, if a little on the small side. At least they mostly looked distinct, though there were a few with some rather bleak wardrobe options.

He had standards.

The need to find an exit was surfacing, but as he always did, he sorted out his priorities. Well, as much as he could with all the noise and confusion cluttering his head, anyway. The doors were locked and barred. If someone had the resources and the capability to kidnap and trap them here, an exit likely wouldn't be found until they wanted it to be found. Then, this line of inquiry was useless and should be set aside for later.

The first move he should make, therefore, would be to gather information about these seventeen others. Cerulean eyes stared at them intensely, almost as if he could pick the information right out of their brains just by looking - well, he couldn't. But he could study them.