the.com/shipper
A fan who decided two characters are soulmates and will die on that hill.
means A fan who actively roots for a romantic pairing between characters (or sometimes real people), championing the relationship as destiny rather than mere possibility.
from Born in 1990s fan communities as a clipped form of 'relationshipper' — fans of the show 'The X-Files' who desperately wanted Mulder and Scully together were the originals. The word shed its middle syllables the way fandoms shed restraint, leaving just 'shipper,' with 'to ship' following soon after as the verb for the act of wanting it so badly.
- origin
- Short for relationship, from X-Files fandom slang
- activity
- Writes fanfiction to manifest fictional couples
- intensity
- Will argue canon is wrong, actually
- portmanteau habit
- Invents couple names like Brangelina