ShioMia

ShioMia is the femslash ship between Shioriko Mifune and Mia Taylor from the Love Live fandom.

Canon
Shioriko and Mia were Lanzhu’s close friends during their childhood days in Japan and during their stay in US respectively. Although they acknowledge their friendship with Lanzhu, they hardly knew each other until they were introduced. Before they met, Shioriko, who was a part of Student Council, was likely informed by Lanzhu that she’s arriving in Japan along with her new partner Mia and permitting a student transfer into Nijigasaki High. The two briefly met for the first time when Lanzhu called out Mia for a short introduction and Shioriko allows her to enter the studio room. However despite their presence within the sight, the two missed their opportunity to introduce themselves.

Though they were studying in the same school, both were usually busy with their activities and doesn’t hang with their classmates, with Shioriko working with the student council mostly and Mia mainly composing musics and sometimes taking break with a burger. Even the first years students like Kasumi, Rina, and Shizuku who were almost the same age as those two rarely acknowledge their presence around the school. The two met again during the 2nd School Idol Festival, however they don’t make contact and instead they looked after Yu whose having trouble composing a song for the final part of the festival. Shortly after assisting everyone to the backstage, they split apart without being able to see each other with Shioriko heading to the control room and Mia going after Yu to help her. After the festival is over, the Nijigasaki students holds the celebration for the success of hosting another festival, however Lanzhu barge into the party and congratulate the group before leaving immediately, causing her old friends concerned about her impending leave.

One day, Shioriko and Mia were informed by Lanzhu that she is quitting from school idol and wanting to return home. Both tried to ask her to stay in school for a while but to no help as she made up her mind to depart back to her hometown. Shioriko then ask the idol club for help while Mia is working for a new song before confronting Lanzhu at the airport. The group then heads to the airport to stopped her from departing, with Shioriko and Mia finally reunited with Lanzhu and convinced her to stay. They are soon joined the idol club and formed the subunit.

Fanon
ShioMia is considered the rarest of all Nijigasaki ships due to their lack of relations and interactions in many canon materials despite being Lanzhu's close friends and were part of the subunit R3BIRTH. Athough they initially have antagonist traits in the first half of SIFAS story, they weren't actually close friends as Shioriko treats Mia like a regular student. The LL fandom still believes they can be friends due to their unique relations if the two can be paired. Along with other rare pairs, this ship isn't actually contested with the other popular ships so it remained safe. However they formed an internal love triangle with Lanzhu due to being her old friends and being shared under the same subunit.

Fandom
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Variations

 * R3BIRTH refers to the ship between Shioriko Mifune, Mia Taylor, and Lanzhu Zhong.