#fuurio

˖᯽ ݁˖ Fuu x Ferio Week 2026 ˖ Sept 13-19

we are celebrating our lovely OTP again this September! any and all fannish contributions are welcome! you can share fanart, fic, meta/essays, graphics, fanmixes, videos, embroidery, balloon animals, whatever you have to share that gives them some love.  just use the tag #Fuu x Ferio Week so we can all enjoy it!

the theme this year is Green & Gold and the prompts follow this theme, but feel free to ignore the prompts entirely! they're just for fun, and to maybe inspire you! let's just make and share fuurio stuff <3

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I feel a little sad that I couldn't participate in this year's Fuurio week due to busy schedule. But I suppose that I could still do a little quick fanart of them regardless now when I got a little time and motivation to draw.

Bonus for some supportive gremlins in the background 😋:

A singular uninterrupted hour of Hikaru and Fuu in games of Go. Fuu played it online. Hikaru played it with her family.

They seemed to be dead even.

"I...need a minute." Umi got up from the table and went outside.

Ferio took his chance to flee to the kitchen. It was exhausting just cheering them on. His throat was begging for some hydration.

Hikaru and Fuu were still going at it like nothing ever happened. This was going to be a thing for at least the next few weeks. Fuu and Hikaru didn't have anything they were really even at competitively, so this was rather a welcome twist.

He opens the fridge and downs an entire bottle of peach soda. Well...almost welcome. Sheesh. It was getting late. There were still one and half pizza boxes to go through.

Might as well finish off the half.

He sneaks 3 slices for himself. No one's here to witness the massacre.

"Does anyone want the last slice in this box?"

"I'm good!" Hikaru slaps another black piece on the board.

"Yeah Ferio, help yourself." Fuu's eyes scans the board for her next move.

"Thanks, Love!"

He opens his mouth for another bite...

"Make sure you ask Umi!"

Oh for crying out loud.

He looks out the window. Umi is...

leaning on the streetlight outside, looking at the ground.

"Hey, Umi!" He pops the window open. "You uh, want this last slice of pizza?"

"No. It's fine. You can have it."

Now the pizza stops smelling like deliciousness and starts smelling like...guilt.

With a sigh, he puts the pizza down on a napkin and walks outside.

"I said you could have it!" Umi looks a little annoyed as he walks down the porch.

"Ruined my appetite." Ferio crosses his arms as he sits back on the fence. "What's the problem?"

"Nothing." Her cheeks puff up in a pout as she looks at the sidewalk.

"You don't look like someone who doesn't have a problem. Normally, you're all like 'Yay! Let's exfoliate! I love shopping and teeny tiny cakes!'" He threw in jazz hands for extra effect.

Her immediate retort was to flip him off with a glittery nail. "I do not sound like that, jerk."

"Well, you definitely don't sound like how you do now. Come on. You can talk to me."

"Tch." She'd rather look out into the empty street.

"Is it because of their game? I know they were exhausting, but don't you think you're taking this too far?" The corners of his grin were starting to get a little too tight for him to hold up. "No, it can't be. This...this feels a little deeper."

He finally drops the smile and lets the worry flood his face. "Come on. What's bothering you? We can talk about it."

"If I want to talk to you, I'd say it."

He tried. He tried. He really tried.

"Fine!" He threw his hands up and turned around. "Fine. Be that way. I'm going to go watch my girlfriend win."

His front foot leans on the wooden porch, letting out a creek.

She just lets it out.

"Do you ever feel like you're not good enough for your partner?"

He stops.

Umi covers her mouth and begins to shrink against the pole. "Sorry, I shouldn't have-"

"No, no, I get it. It's okay." He steps back off the porch. "I feel that way sometimes, too. "A lot of the time, actually."

"R-Really?" Her voice softens as it drops. A snowball ambling downhill. "Like, li you don't know why you feel this way. Everything is fine. It's not like everyone's needs aren't met. Your partner's happy with life and they're happy with you-"

"And that just makes it hurt even more. Because if you ever told them how you felt, they'd worry about you all the time?"

"YES! Yes! Oh my Gosh, yes!" She hunches over and exhales, needing to grab her skirt at the knees. "Oh my Gosh, you understand...hey, Ferio, do you ever... feel like... you should be doing something, but you don't know what it is, and that means you don't do it?"

"I can't...I can't remember the last time I had a day I didn't feel that." He freezes, searching for a day...a day...

"Honestly, ever since I came to Earth, I feel it more than ever."

He can't.

"I've been thinking about why that is..." She finally allows herself a deep breath. Finally, the perfect captive audience. "When we were still the Knights, we always had a goal. Rescue the princess. Defend the planet. Defeat the evil Queen. And even coming back home, I graduated. I got a place for me and Hikaru. I found the right investments and ballooned my income. And nowadays it's just this...now what? Feeling I have, and it never really goes away until I'm too busy to think about it."

"Yeah...I, I got used to not being able to be there for Fuu in the front lines of a war, but now there's no war. And I still don't feel like I'm doing enough for this amazing person that I say that I love."

"That. Exactly that, dude. I wake up every day to my favorite person, and, okay, this might sound creepy, but I like watching her sleep."

"You do that too?" Now it was his turn to exhale. He always woke up first unless he pulled a heavy all-nighter. Which gave him so much time to behold his princess knight in the morning sunrise. And, admittedly, a few hip hellos. Through trial and error, he had figured out the exact amount of pressure his fingers could put on her buttocks before she started stirring.

"Y-Yeah. I like seeing her dozy little face. When she's relaxed and safe and...just being okay, you know?"

"Especially when she snores, right?"

"That's my favorite part." She allows herself a small chuckle, wiping a tear from her eye. "Things have changed, Ferio. We're adults now. We won. For good. And now we just...live life, I guess. This is our happily ever after."

Happily ever after...

Or something like that.

"I'm—I'm happy that she's happy but, I feel like I should be doing more and I'm not doing enough for her. And I...don't want to lose her."

"Oh my gosh, you are actually me! Like I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth this morning, and Hikaru walked past me in the mirror for a comb, and all I could think of was 'please don't let this be the day she realizes her life would be so much better without me.' And I thought that too last week when she went out for a run and she just waved at me from the window, and I know I should have gone with her, but...every day I wake up and the goal is just to not lose everything. And it's exhausting."

She started stomping in place. "What sucks is I'm rich! I'm supposed to be happy doing nothing! That's the entire point of money! But she gets so embarrassed when I try to spend things on her. Fuu won't even take my money! What does a girl have to do to be a sugar mama around here?!"

"Well, Fuu really does want to have a career. Also her parents will never let her hear the end of it if she just quit."

"Yeah...so I've heard...and Hikaru, she has never needed money to be happy. She could play a game of Go for forever probably. She's taken over her parents dojo and she's teaching all of the kids now. You I could see how much of an inspiration she is to them. I stopped by there sometimes and you have the tiniest kids that get picked on and Hikaru encourages them to fight like lions! And it's just...what am I doing with my happily ever after?"

"Yeah...I want to support Fuu but—you can only wipe down the counter so many times. She's made a team of independent...coders? Soft wear makers? I don't really know how it works but I guess she protects them from people who would rip them off. Even now she is still working to help people. I kind of want a job to show her that I can support her too."

"Ohh! That is so sweet. Please don't!" Umi gripped his shoulders. "Do not seek employment, bestie. Fuu would literally rather throw herself off the bridge then see you clock into an office."

"Trust me. She's told me. I just wish I could do something more fulfilling not just for her. But for me."

"Same..." Umi looks at the house. "We've been out here for a while. Come on. I don't want them to get worried."

Ferio puts his arms out. "Venting hug?"

She almost tackled him. "Venting hug. Hey...yall me when things get bad, alright? I'm sure we can figure something out together."

"Yeah...yeah... thanks for talking to me, Umi."

"Thanks for listening...sorry about being a jerk earlier."

So with the anime coming back (hopefully with a much better ending cuz imo Old Anime Ending>>>>>Manga ending) a lot of people are gonna go to AO3... But color MY surprise when the most popular ship in MKR is Clef/Ryuzaki Umi

Hell it's more POPULAR than Ferio/Fuu and Hikaru/Lantis.

And people LOVE HikaLan....

It's been a long LONG time since I watched the anime so maybe there's something that draws ClefUmi to be so popular....

When I say it's the most popular, its the NUMBER ONE ship on AO3....