LoveGear

LoveGear is the slash ship between Ainosuke Shindo and Reki Kyan from the SK8 the Infinity fandom.

Canon
Both share the role of being main characters respectively, but while Reki is the protagonist, Adam is the contrary.

Reki used to admire Adam's skills at skateboarding for only a little of time shown in the anime, but nevertheless after he saw his true form after Adam announces to Miya that he was no longer use for him, Reki realized the kind of person Adam was, and asked him to retract from his words, but Adam asks about what if we didn't do so, and then Reki shows him his skateboard, indirectly indicating that he would race against him, which Adam accepted, as he announced the prize of the winner would be Langa himself.

However, even after trying on learning new techniques to defeat him, he inmediately fails, as Adam performed his "Love Hug" technique against Reki, which was unexpected for the latter and ended up falling with injuries around all his body and head. After his defeat, Langa is pushy about racing against Adam for what had happened with Reki, but the latter insisted him on not doing so, but Langa didn't even let him talk about it at all. Reki is reminded several times how he was in a different level than Adam, firstly reminded by Cherry after asking him for telling him more about Adam. He then explains that Langa was trying on facing him, convincing Cherry and so accepted Reki's proposal on knowing more about Adam. A time later, Reki accepts Langa's petition for racing against Adam, after Langa assured him everything would go fine, with the condition that he wouldn't be reckless at the race. Both promise it with the classical pinky-finger promise.

Reki learns about Adam, known as "Matador of Love", as he sadly remembers his childhood friend when Joe mentioned that every person who beef against him couldn't escape, being severely injured and quitting skateboarding at the process.

Langa and Adam's beef was later interrupted, as the police had intervened in "S", with no results of who had won. Reki was glad that Langa was fine, but once more, he told him on staying away from Adam with a serious expression. Langa, hesitating, understands, but he was willing on repeating the race again.

When Reki and Langa fought, Langa was extremely sad even forgetting about his race against Joe. He even thought Reki was with him when Adam called for him, only for being disappointed that it was only him. After reconciling, Adam is seen spying on both Reki and Langa. However, his attention was more focused on Reki, as he decided on replacing his next rival, Shadow, with Reki, as he was being an obstacle, but at the same time he said it would be more animated with Reki being an obstacle.

The day of the rematch, Adam was decided on getting rid of Reki on his rematch against him, however he fails as Reki had changed, and was more astute on his movements at skating. Once Adam wins, he angrily wonders why everyone was cheering on Reki, who had lost, instead of him. Tadashi is reminded of Adam when Reki announces that skating was fun, as he admits for himself how he was wrong trying to take Adam apart from skating, as he had to make him love it once more. Adam heads to Reki, but is stopped by Joe as he said that the beef was already over. Reki reminds Adam about Joe's words of "never end up by yourself". Adam replies by asking if he thought that a nobody like him had successfully fought back against him in the way Reki did. Tadashi then intervenes for telling Adam that he would forfeit from his beef against Snow (Langa), as he was the only one who could help him on regaining his love (for skateboarding).

The moment when Langa won the race, Reki congratulated him for winning against Adam, as he said it was awesome and he was impressed of it. During the credits scene, an unexpected guest (certainly uninvited, which is Adam) arrives at the place where they were celebrating Langa's victory, while Reki sees Adam in shock launch himself from a helicopter directly towards Langa, he tries on getting Langa out of where Adam was targetting to, but fails when the next scene switches to one where is about Adam falling towards the place without showing where specifically.

Fanon
Due to Adam's unpopular opinion on the fandom and Reki being exactly the opposite, it's not very popular and it's especially hated not only because of the times Adam had hurted Reki, but also on the age-gap between them, with Reki being a teenager (17), and Adam an adult (around 30-40). The protagonist-antagonist trope added on the ship is known, but it isn't that known or liked by fans, still it does have supporters.

The end credits scene of the anime didn't help either, as Adam got a happy ending, even after all he did not only to Reki, but others too, and it was very unfair to fans who disliked him (almost all the fandom). Though, there are fans who were fine with the ending as Adam finally had learned his lesson and got to be friends with Reki and company, still it doesn't change the fact that Ainosuke had caused damage on them.

Despite the hatred, as the ship has 144+ romantic works created on AO3 and 27+ gen works, making it a decent ship.

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