#(i wonder if ill get anon hate for introducing voltron to ygo fsndom culture.....again 🙃)

[kari-izumi]

I propose we adopt the Yu-Gi-Oh Naming System. That one is boatloads of fun, trust me! Usually the names got picked cuz of some common trait or some big moment, like Kaiba and Joey Wheeler being called Puppyshipping because Kaiba compared him to a mangy dog (...we changed it to Violetshipping no cuz fandom was a veeeeery different place in 2001 than it is now). It gets even more fun coming up for names with characters who have never even spoken in canon

but I got some suggestions if we wanna go that route:

Allura/Lotor: Royalshipping...seems pretty obvious. Or even Alchemyshipping for all their researching together. Yeah, that.

Pidge/Hunk: Techshipping, because Modulationshipping is way too much of a mouthful (but damn, Sam Holt called out his son-in-law like that I just--💚💛)

Klance: Bondshipping, because let's face it, that is The Moment(tm) most of us really fell for that ship💙❤️ I considered Rivalshipping, but I think that one really fits Jeith a lot better since it's been so one-sided

Allura/Lance, easily the gold medalist in the Portmanteau Olympics: Supportshipping...cuz they do lean on one another quote often and they've both grown up quite a bit for it 💖💙 other alternative include Blueshipping for their shared Lion connection

Pidge/Lance, which goes by more names that Sean "Puff Daddy" "P. Diddy" "Puffy" Combs: dipping right into Yu-Gi-Oh's well for this one--Polarshipping, because there's no two characters on the team who are so far apart in personalities, yet compliment one another so well in my extremely biased opinion 💙💚

Wait, is that why Jounouchi and Mai are named that?? Because of the two different worlds of rich girl and poor boy? I've been trying to figure that out for over a decade WHAT THE F

Keith/Hunk: Because this was just so damn beautiful in season 7 💛❤️ I'm calling it Inspireshipping for Keith's acknowledgement of being impressed with how far he's come and I'm sure Hunk is too.

Sheith:...you know, I might need Germany or Japan fandom to take this, because nothing in English captures the spirit of that. If any language has a word for "These two mean the world, they're more than friends and less than lovers* but would die with the other," we can use that.

*at the time of this post, two weeks after season 7

Otherwise, I guess I could settle for Astralshipping in honor of season 6 🖤❤️ Or Globalshipping in honor of all the International dubs that went all in on this being an explicit, definitely-not-bros-a-all love confession.

Shiro/Lance:...um, Astralshipping 2: Quintessant Boogaloo....? Cuz Lance saw Real Shiro in the Astral Plane like Keith did with gaydar

There's so much with so little. Probably Heroshipping, since Lance looked up to him in the Garrison days.

Hunk/Shay: oh, my sweet, sweet babies. I hope Season 8 delivers like Santa on Christmas for you two 💛💛💛💛

Promiseshipping is a great name for you 😘 But please, Shay...the Balmera planet needs to be parked waaaay further away from Earth sweetie lol

Shiro/Pidge: Season 7 has effectively killed any (very distant) future fic stories for the best possible reason, but damn do I love one sides crush stories of Pidge looking up to him 💚 I dub thee Secretshipping, and no, the possible double meaning was not at all intentional and all to do with reference to episode 3 where he let's her know he's aware of who she truly is 🖤

Shiro/Allura: Leadershipping is way too damn easy.

Maybe something to acknowledge how many times Allura has saved Shiro (which I can count at least 3 occasions to Keith's 6, holy shit!), including transferring his soul into the body of his clone? Or how Shiro's the only one in the group who doesn't question her resolve to go into the Galra base in season one because "She's the princess UwU" like Coran did?

Hmmmm...maybe Resolveshipping? Because Allura is so goal focus on being a great leader and Shiro resolves to survive literally everything the universe throws at him...? Eh, it's 9:30 at night as I type this.

And finally:

Shiro/Matt: boy, this ship name. If Allurance is the gold winner, Shatt is the one that was 1/10 of a second away from placing on the team, like my uncle in the 1984 Olympics. How did y'all miss the boat and not go with Miro or Matashi?

ANYWAY

I got two ideas: Arenashipping for when Shiro jumps in to spare Matt from the gladiator battles (cuz look at how little he was, he was such a guppy back them, awwww)...or Missionshipping for both being on Kerberos when all these wack hijinxs began. Anything is better than frigging Shatt OMG

Alright, that's all I got, I left a few off so ppl can add to this if you want, but I'm all for other suggestions for the ones I tossed around. 👍👌

most fandoms: pretty and creative ship names (ex: bumblebee, stormpilot, pricefield, etc.)

voltron fandom: shatt