Aurametis

Aurametis is the femslash ship between Aura Blackquill and Metis Cykes from the Ace Attorney fandom.

Canon
Aura and Metis were co-workers at the Cosmos Space Center, and they worked together to create robots that could read people's emotions. Aura handled the engineering while Metis, the psychologist, made the "brains" of the robots. This resulted in the creation of Ponco and Clonco, robots that referred to Aura as "Mama Aura", and to Metis as "mother". This might indicate that these robots were meant to be Aura and Metis' "children", or at least viewed as such. Metis had a daughter, Athena Cykes, who Aura made a special set of headphones for.

During the UR-1 incident, Metis Cykes was murdered. Aura believed that Athena was the one who had killed Metis. This caused Aura to develop a hatred for both Athena and the legal system as a whole, as she felt it had failed her in not convicting who she believed was Metis' true killer. Even seven years later, Aura was still a bitter person, who went through drastic measures to indict Athena of the murder. Her loathing for Athena and the law seemed to indicate that Aura cared so deeply for Metis that losing her changed Aura and her worldview permanently.

It is heavily implied that Aura had been in love with Metis. She outright stated that she wanted more from Metis than just her "respect as a co-worker". Moreover, her brother would reassure Aura of how special her and Metis' relationship was by telling her that Metis had picked Aura as her "partner" to work with her, when she was so deeply passionate about her work. This indicates that Metis had trusted Aura a great deal. Apollo Justice also told Aura that he feels as if Metis had loved Aura as much as she'd loved her daughter and her robots. While Ponco and Clonco referred to Aura and Metis as their mothers, Aura seemed to resent this title after Metis' death. Aura's abuse of the robots, Clonco in particular, might parallel child abuse following the death of a parent, as they reminded her of her time with Metis.

Quotes
"I get the feeling Dr. Cykes loved her robots almost as much as she loved her daughter. ...And almost as much as she loved you."

- Apollo Justice to Aura about Metis.

Fanon
Aurametis is a well-liked ship within the Ace Attorney fandom. Though it is not one of its most popular ships, it has its fans and a fair share of content (both fanart and fanfictions). Aura and Metis' relationship is interpreted by many people as romantic before Metis' death.

Its other name, Cykesquill, is not often used as it can be confused with the ship between Aura's brother and Metis' daughter (Simon Blackquill and Athena Cykes), which is much more controversial in comparison to Aurametis. However, there are a few people who refer to this ship with this name.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Parallels were drawn in-game between Aurametis and another Dual Destinies ship, Claypollo (Clay Terran/Apollo Justice).