#ship names
Does anyone else like watching the progression of ship names and conventions and how they change depending on the fandom? Like, for instance, in anime, you often use the first one or two syllables of the characters name and put them together so: kiribaku, sasusaku, etc.
But then an OLD anime, specifically yaoi fandom, convention was to use the order to indicate the “seme” (top) and “uke” (bottom. my GOD the fact that I can remember this smh), so sasunaru or narusasu.
And then in western fandom, you used to have a slash, so luke/leia, kirk/spock, which of course, gave rise to the slashfandom name. Because people would say “I like x slash y, you know, as a relationship”. Then, for a long time you’d often have a portmanteau of two characters names, depending on if there was a similarity between them, typically at the vowel: spirk, klance, destiel, sterek. But NOW it’s gravitating more towards mashing the whole name or a nickname together: deancas, sambucky.
But then, you can also get really fandom-specific naming conventions, like Invader Zim, with ZaDR or ZaDF where the ship name was an acronym for the characters involved, and the relationship style, romance or friendship in this case.
And of course, it’s all very fluid, so you’ll see all of these naming conventions (and more!) mixing and matching through different fandoms and times.
also, if you were a Yu-Gi-Oh stan…you remember that there were literally 3000 ships and they all ended in -shipping (puzzleshipping, thiefshipping, etc) and all of the names had a significant connection to the characters involved. it was truly an art form back then.
thinking about how tonks and thalia’s ship name is thonks,,,
✨thonks✨
GUYS?! DO JUDD AND GRACE HAVE A SHIP NAME YET????
Young Justice fans problem #229: Being lost with all the ship names
Request by Anonymous
Image source: Bentfire
YJ Ship name Directory:
A
- Acrobats://Check DickBabas//
- Alpha Squad: M'gannxCassiexBarbaraxKaren, origin: S02E05
- Angelfish:M’gannxLa’gaan
- Apple Laxative: //Check Superbeetle//, origin: S02E04
- Article: //Check Frostbite//
- Aster: DickxConner, status: rarely used, origin: S01E05
B
- Baby Magic: KlarionxZatanna, origin: S01E19
- Birdflash: DickxWally [also Freshness]
- Bluepulse: BartxJaime [also Chicken Whizees, and Speedbuggy]
C
- Chalant: DickxZatanna
- Cheshroy: //Check Redcat//
- Chicken Whizees: //Check Bluepulse// origin: S02E08
D
- Da Night: DickxKhaji Da(Jaime’s scarab) [also Flawless]
- DickBabs: DickxBarbara(Batgirl) [also Execute, and Acrobats]
E
- Electric limbo: TimxBart, status: really rare; origin: S02E06 [also Hummingbird]
- Execute: //Check Dickbabs// origin: S02E10
F
- Flash Chaos: //Check Klash//
- Flashspell: WallyxZatanna, origin: x
- Flawless: //Check Da Night//
- Free Services: Lex (Luthor)xClone!Roy rare ship, origin: S01E10
- Freshness: //Check Birdflash// origin: Issue #13
- Frostbite: ArtemisxCameron(Icicle Jr.)
- Full Arsenal: Lex (Luthor)xoriginal!Roy, rare ship, origin: S02E08
G
- Gamma Squad: JaimexTimxLa'gaan, origin: S02E01
- Ginger Trio:Wally/M’gann/Roy
- Guardianbee:MalxKaren(Bumblebee)
H
- Hummingbird: //check electric limbo//
I
- Impulsecret:ImpulsexSecret
J
- Jabberwocky: Adam StrangexAlanna, origin: S02E02
- Jetfuel:ConnerxRaquel
K
- Klash: KlarionxWally [also Flash Chaos]
- Koy: //Check Royfriend&Aquawife//
L
- Longshot: Artemisxclone!Roy, origin: S01E23
M
- Mazahs: ZatannaxBilly(Captain Marvel), origin: Shazam backwards
- Megally: //Check MissFlash//
- MissFlash:WallyxM'gann
- Museum heist: DickxArtemisxWally, origin: “Rob Wall Art”
N
- Neverland: ConnerxWendy, The boy who never ages(just like Peter Pan)xWendy
- NightFlash: //Checkbirdflash// note: older
O
- Omega (squad): //check spitfire// origin: S02E20
- The Original Spitfire: Kent Nelson(Ex-Doctor Fate)xInza
P
- Perfect:Tigress!ArtemisxBlack Manta
- Powerhouse:ConnerxCassie
Q
Querida: Shelly Longshadow(Tye’s mom)/Dr. Dorado Sr.(Ed’s dad) origin: x
R
- RedCat: clone!RoyxJade(Cheshire)
- Reward: //Check Wondergun//
- Royfriend&Aquawife: Kaldurxclone!Roy [also Koy]
- Roy squared: The original!Royxclone!Roy
S
- SeaArrow:KaldurxArtemis
- Snaibsel: ArtemisxZatanna, origin: lesbians backwards
- Snowcones: Cameron (Icicle Jr.)xWally, rare ship
- Souvenir: status: rare, //Check Spitfire//
- Speedbuggy: variation/s; Speedbug, Speedybug, Speedybuggy, //Check Bluepulse//
- Spitfire: WallyxArtemis [also Souvenir, WallArt, and Omega] Good to check: ‘The Original Spitfire’, origin: S01E07
- Superbeetle: JaimexConner
- SuperCanary: ConnerxDinah(Black Canary), rare ship
- Superflash:ConnerxWally
- Supermage: ConnerxZatanna
- Supermartian:ConnerxM’gann
- Symbiosis: ArtemisxKaldurxM’gann, about hundred ways to spell, origin: S02E13
T
- Team Headbands: TyexAsami
- TimKon: TimxConner origin: comic fandom
- Torpedo: RaquelxKaldur
- Traught: DickxArtemis origin: S01E12
V
- Vest Duo:EdxAsami
W
- WallArt: //Check Spitfire//
- Whiterabbit: Connerx Artemis
- Wonderbeetle:JaimexCassie
- Wonderbird:CassiexTim
- Wonderchum:CassiexLa'gaan
- Wondergun:CassiexOriginal!Roy [also Reward]
Feel free to add more because there’s no way I could get them all :'DD
NOTE: “origin” means ship name’s origin not ship’s. althought that’s the same thing almost everytime
Last update: 3/20/13 10.15 EDT
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