Samus & Raven Beak

Samus & Raven Beak is a family ship between Samus Aran and Raven Beak from the Metroid fandom.

Canon
When Samus was orphaned as a child and taken in by the Chozo, Raven Beak volunteered to pass his Mawkin DNA to her to grant her the Chozo's physical prowess, as Gray Voice had given her Thoha genes which would help prevent Samus from immediately being turned into a Metroid as the parasitic creatures were only subservient to the Thoha. Both genes allow Samus to survive the environment of Zebes which is noted to be dangerous to humans. However, while Raven Beak views Samus as a daughter due to the DNA transplant, he was hardly a big part in her life and did not take part in raising her as his own as Old Bird was the person who raised her.

Many years later, after the Thoha Tribe was exterminated save for Quiet Robe, the X-Parasite epidemic, and the Metroid's total annihilation by Samus, Raven Beak somehow becomes aware that she is also carrying Metroid DNA from the vaccine that cured her from the X infection, so he sends the Galactic Federation a video footage of an X-Parasite in order to get them to send Samus to him on planet ZDR, though only the E.M.M.I. research robots were deployed instead which he has them reprogramed resulting in the E.M.M.I. disappearing which Samus herself decides to investigate, though ADAM prefers that she does not go through with the mission. Once Samus reaches Altaria, she immediately finds Raven Beak waiting for her and the two of them get into a duel and Samus only ended up making a crack on his helmet but is quickly defeated when Raven Beak knocks her out and steals her powerups she gained previously. Raven Beak imitates ADAM and communicates with her with him making stealthy condescendence towards her while remarking on how powerful he is. He oversees everything Samus did, from defeating corrupted E.M.M.I. robots with the Omega Cannon and regaining her stolen weapons and powerups, to eventually accessing her Metroid powers, which is exactly what he wanted.

Once she reaches Itorash, "ADAM" begins speaking extremely out of character when he told her that she must submit to him and they can rule the galaxy together, but Samus sees through it and fires her Arm Cannon in defiance to reveal him sitting on his throne, which disappoints him, and they engage in a fierce battle and Samus would attempt to use her newfound Metroid power against him, only for him to quickly take her by the neck and intends on making clones of her after she dies to remove opposition. However, after Samus seemingly passes out in his grip, her Metroid powers spiral out of control as she flies into a rage and smashes his helmet and drains his energy as well as Itorash resulting in it crashing. Samus gets up standing tall while Raven Beak struggles to get up and can only walk up to her, and is quickly infected by the Purple X and undergoes a painful transformation into a horrifying hybrid of himself and Kraid and crawls up to her as she fires her Hyper Beam at him which subdues him and reverts to a Purple X, which Samus then shoots it again to completely destroy him, and with Quiet Robe X's help, she is able to escape ZDR's destruction.

Fanon
The ship between Samus and Raven Beak is currently a rare one in terms of fan fics, though they are much more common through depictions of fan art and memes. Given that they both don't have much of a familial relationship due to their lack of contact with each other prior to their encounter on ZDR, fans have been dedicated on giving this relationship more prominence in multiple ways; there are those who keep their enemy status as they were in canon, some of them have Raven Beak being the one to raise Samus as a parent is expected to do, whether they either have a twisted relationship with him shaping Samus to be like him in the quest for power, or they both have a loving healthy relationship with each other with minimal animosity between them, just as Old Bird was in the series.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION