Airika

Airika is the femslash ship between Rika Kawai and Ai Ohto from the Wonder Egg Priority fandom.

Canon
When they first met, Rika asked Ai to give her money to buy eggs. At first Rika seemed blunt. She was arrogant and judge mental, but slowly she became way more caring and nice towards Ai They quickly became close friends, they even had a sleepover in the third episode.

During the third episode, it is shown that Rika is trying to impress Ai so that she will think Rika is 'cool'. later on in the episode Chiemi is brought up and Rika is shown lying about how she truly feels, and acting out in a rude manner. Ai notices the cuts on Rika's arm and quickly tells Rika that she wants to hear the truth about what happened to Chiemi, showing that she knows Rika is playing an act to hide her true feelings. Rika brushes it off and tells Ai that its none of her business. Ai persists that Rika tells her, and surprisingly, Rika gives in rather quickly. This shows Rika's trust starting to form with Ai.

Ai and Rika are the only ones who fought together. When Rika was feeling sad, Ai was the only one who could comfort her. She trusts Ai a lot and Ai knows that, she cares for Rika, this is shown in the scene were Ai is trying to make Rika feel better. Ai is the only person that Rika shows weakness in front of, and has a soft spot for her. Rika knew that Ai would chase after her, and was rather happen when she saw that Ai came for her. Ai said "I thought you wanted me to". showing that Ai knows that Rika wants Ai to be the only one to come talk to her when she's upset. She also understands Rika's situation with her family because she lived a similar experience, they call themselves "The single mother girls". In the anime.

It's shown that they held hands five times, and once in official art. Rika is very open with Ai and seems to let her walls down when it comes to her. Ai is shown often comforting Rika in the Anime, and they are very similar when it comes to their gestures and their thoughts in the anime. In episode 7 Rika is shown almost giving up, Ai is so worried that she doesn't fight her own battle because she wants to make sure that Rika is safe, earlier in this episode Rika was shown crying in front of Ai, which is one of the reasons why she gets so worried. she askes Acca and Ura- Acca to tell her what's happening with Rika's fight. When they tell her that Rika is giving up on fighting Ai gets very worried and talks to Rika through their pendants. when Rika comes out of the fight alive, it shows her friends very worried and Ai immediately runs to hug Rika. In this scene they are shown blushing.

In episode 13 Rika is shown upset that Momoe doesn't want to go back to the capsule, because she doesn't want to get hurt. Ai holds Rika's hand to calm her down, soon after Rika sits back down calmly. This shows that Rika always listens to Ai and feels comforted by her. later on in episode 13 Rika walks out of the room because she is upset that there was 'no' Neiru that whole time, and the Neiru they knew was all a big 'lie'. she leaves the room, and Ai gets up and follows. It shows Tanabe trying to talk to Ai, but Ai is shown going after Rika (what she cares about more) Ai goes to see Rika. Rika explains how she misses Chiemi and Mannen. then she starts saying that she's gonna die As well. Ai comforts her while also crying. and then the screen cuts off, doesn't show much of Ai comforting her, but that's where it was heading.

Fanon
Rika calls Ai Ai-kyun, Ai-Ai, A-chan, Ai-t Aijorina. Ai also refers to Rika in an intimate way, by calling her Rika-chan. Due to their close friends and deep bond, many fans like this ship. One of the main reasons why the ship is popular is because both of them have family issues, hinting that they understand each other and are able to talk about it without the situation being awkward. Airika is usually compared to the ship MikuRin due to their colors and Parechu because they have similar dynamics "Calm and taller person (Ai/Pareo) x Short that gets angry easily (Rika/Chu2).

Many people in the fandom call Ai a sunshine and Rika a sunshine protector. While Rika loves to collect stickers, Ai enjoys watching movies a lot so a popular headcanon is that they do their favourite hobbies together, another headcanon is that Rika dyes Ai's hair pink to match with her. Since they have a very sad past them cuddling together could be a possibility. Rika shows her affection better through actions and physical touch, and is a little bit clingy towards Ai. Ai shows her affection better through words and actions. They could also often have sleepovers only at Ai' s house because Rika wants to escape her home life and would be way to embarrassed for Ai to come to her house.

Fandom
FAN FICTION