Meiriam

Meiriam is the femslash ship between Mei Lee and Miriam Mendelsohn from the Turning Red fandom.

Canon
Mei and Miriam are really close and have known each other since dsadad. At the beginning of the movie, when Mei gets to school and meets with Miriam, the two of them share a special handshake between each other to greet one another. After school, as the two of them say goodbye, alongside their friends, Miriam asks her to dance to some 4*TOWN song, a band that they're both fans of. Mei says she's not in the mood at first, but then dances with Miriam excitedly, singing to every word. Since she does so well, Miriam gifts her a limited-edition 4*TOWN CD, and Mei gets so happy about it, that she tightly hugs Miriam, making Miriam smile brightly. However, despite how close the two of them are, later, at home, Mei's mom gives an off-hand comment about how she thinks Miriam is "odd", which deeply saddens Mei.

After the Daisy Mart incident where Mei's mom embarrassed her in front of Tyler, a kid from school, and all of the people at the store, Mei turns into a big red panda. This deeply troubles her, but she realizes that if she remains calm, she can regain her human form. But she can't keep calm at school, and in math class, Miriam notices this and asks her how she is and even shuts some people in her class who were talking behind Mei's back. Then, as the class starts, they start communicating through some written notes, with little hearts on them. And Miriam is the first person to warn Mei of the fact her mother was watching her from outside the school.

The next morning, when Miriam, Abby and Priya go to Mei's house and discover that she has turned into this giant red panda, as Abby excitedly talks about how fluffy she is, and as Priya admires her tail, Miriam tells them to calm down for Mei's sake. She gets close to Mei as she is in the middle of a panic attack, and softly caresses her cheek, telling her that everything will be alright. Mei completely disregards this, as she tells her friends and Miriam to leave her alone, crying. At that moment, Miriam decides to sing one of 4*TOWN songs to cheer her up. This ends up calming her, and as Miriam and her friends hug Mei, she says that she will love her no matter what, "with or without panda." Immediately after the hug, Mei goes back to her human form, which Miriam remarks she looks beautiful in, with her new red hair. After Mei tells her friends to leave because she doesn't want Ming to see them, Mei tells Miriam that her mom doesn't like her, Miriam is deeply sadden and shocked by this.

Later on, Mei and her friends start making a plan to get the money necessary to afford the tickets to 4*TOWN's concert ($800), after they realize Mei's panda form has gathered so much attention that people are willing to pay to see it. And on Tyler's birthday, as they're celebrating they have reached the amount of money they needed on the roof of the house, Miriam turns around to face Mei. She asks Mei if maybe she should just not do the ritual and to keep the panda. Mei firmly opposes this, but Miriam tells her that she's so proud of Mei for how much she's grown from the girl that did everything to please her parents. And asks her to not lose her real self after this. As the four of them celebrate, Mei and Miriam hug each other and hold hands.

But then things start to go wrong when the guy on the radio tells them that 4 town will be coming on May 25th which is the same day as the ritual and Abby had accidentally read the name wrong. Mei gets upset and ends up attacking Tyler in her panda form after he insults her and her family which ends up scaring the other kids and him. After Mei's mom arrives to take her home after she is yelled at by Tyler's parents, Mei accepts Ming to do her worse, but walks past Mei and goes to her friends. Ming accuses them of badly influencing Mei, but when they deny this and beg Mei to tell her mom the truth, Mei falls silent and her friends decide to go to the concert without her.

At the concert, after Mei decides to keep the panda, abandons the ritual, and heads to the 4 town concert to be with her friends. Miriam is still upset that Mei threw them under the bus, but Priya and Abby snitch on Miriam telling Mei that she had been taking care of Tomogotchi she left at Tyler's place. Mei says 4 town forever. Miriam says the same thing and she, along with priya and abby hug mei. During the whole red panda fight with Mei and Mei's mom Ming",who had changed into a giant red panda after her talisman containing her red panda), Miriam, along with Abby, Priya, and Tyler are impressed and cheered when Mei's stands up to her mom. When Mei accidentally knocks Ming out, Miriam along with the group gets 4 town to sing to light up the ritual. During the end, Miriam and the besties take Mei karaoke.

Fanon
Meiriam is one of the most popular romantic ships within the Turning Red fandom. Many of the shippers believe that Miriam has a crush on Mei or that there is possibly mutual attraction between the two. The people that don't ship Mei and Miriam romantically still appreciate the friendship they have. Their friendship with Priya and Abby is also widely appreciated. Mei and Miriam currently have 110+ works on AO3.

Fandom
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Variations

 * MeiGang refers to the ship between Priya Mangal, Abby Park, Tyler Nguyen-Baker, Mei and Miriam
 * MeiMiriamPriyaAbby refers to the ship between Priya Mangal, Abby Park, Mei and Miriam
 * Tymeiriam refers to the ship between Tyler Nguyen-Baker, Mei and Miriam