YorKelly

YorKelly is the femslash ship between Yorkie and Kelly from the Black Mirror fandom.

Canon
Yorkie and Kelly meet each other in the beginning when Yorkie arrives at the San Junípero town. Yorkie goes to a nightclub, feeling out of place, but at the same time curious enough to move on. And at that moment, she meets Kelly. Kelly approaches her and asks her to follow along with what she plans to say to a man that wouldn't leave her alone, and that she wanted to run away from. When the man leaves, they go to the bar and Yokie tells her that she was, in fact, passing by and that she is new there. Kelly then invites her to dance with her, but Yorkie becomes overwhelmed and runs away.

Kelly goes after her and finds her alone in the rain. Yorkie tells her that she's sorry she left, but she felt that people were staring at them two because they were two women together. Kelly assures her that in San Junípero people are not like that, and that they can do anything they desire there. And Yorkie explains that her family doesn't allow her to do practically anything, so Kelly suggests she do something crazy that she's always wanted to do and couldn't. Then, Kelly softly touches her leg, telling Yorkie that there are lots of fun things they can do. Yorkie starts getting too flustered and suddenly says that she's engaged with a man called "Greg." Kelly apologizes to her and Yorkie tells her that she has never slept with a woman before, which Kelly totally understands and respects. As they say their goodbyes, Yorkie already starts regretting her decision.

The next thing we see is that a week has passed and Yorkie can't stop thinking about Kelly, so she decides to go back to the club where they met. When she arrives, things are not the same because Kelly is accompanied by a boy, so Yorkie stares at her from the background. Kelly notices immediately, but instead asks the boy to dance. As they dance, Kelly doesn't take her eyes off Yorkie for a single moment, until she gets tired and announces that she's going to the bathroom. Yorkie follows her there and  then flatly asks Kelly for help.

So Kelly takes her hand and takes Yorkie on a ride in her car. While they're there, the girls take the opportunity to get to know each other better and we discover that Kelly isn't there to stay either, she plans to have fun and spend a few months in San Junípero and then leave. When they finally arrive at Kelly's beach house, the two of them immediately start kissing and go straight to bed.

Later, the both of them start talking and sharing their deepest feelings while lying in bed. Kelly asks Yorkie if this was the first time that she has slept with a girl, and Yorkie tells her that it is, and that in fact, she had never had sex with anyone until then. Kelly doesn't get it because Yorkie supposedly has a fiancé, but Yorkie tells her it's complicated. So she asks Kelly when she found out she liked women, to which Kelly corrects her that she also likes men. Kelly shares her story, about how she was married to a man and that she had always realized that she liked girls, but she had never done anything with any of them because she was so in love with her ex-husband. But since he chose not to stay, Kelly decided to start living her life and having fun.

Some time later, Yorkie goes to the same bar she met Kelly, but she finds out Kelly's missing. So when she meets with the guy that was nagging Kelly the day they met, he tells her to look for Kelly "in another time", and that she always went to the bar in the eighties, the nineties and once in 2002. So Yorkie visits the bar week after week but at different times in history. but she can't find Kelly. Until one time she enters in 2002 and runs into Kelly giving it all in the" Dance Dance revolution" game.

Yorkie is super happy to see her, but Kelly is super pissed because she obviously changed times to never see her again. Because Kelly's idea is to have fun and she makes Yorkie understand that he doesn't owe her anything because they slept together once. Yorkie gets hurt by this and tells Kelly that she should start feeling "something. " Then she walks away, leaving Kelly quite touched, in fact, she even punches the bathroom glass and that's where it's confirmed that they live in a kind of virtual reality because her bloody fist suddenly regenerates and the broken glass recomposes itself.

This time it's Kelly who decides to go out looking for Yorkie and finds her on the roof of the building with her legs towards the void. A position that makes her very nervous. Kelly runs to her and tries to talk to her with some humor to soften the situation. But Yorkie radically changes the subject and asks how many people who are in San Junípero are dead. Kelly replies that 85 percent of the people there are regular visitors, which is code for dead. While they can only be there for a few hours as visitors, there are dead people who "live there".

Yorkie interrupts her with a passionate kiss and both of them go back to Kelly's beach house. As they stay close in each others' arms, Yorkie tells her that she's due to get married in a week and while she isn't looking forward to marrying Greg, she says that her parents aren't forcing her. They actually disagree and she likes Greg, which makes things strange as she doesn't explain why Greg is cool for her.

Then it is Kelly's turn to talk about her future, because the doctors have detected she has a deadly illness and told her that she only had three months to live. They told her that exactly six months ago, so she is willing to enjoy what she has left to live. Yorkie immediately asks if she will go to San Junípero when that happens, and Kelly tells her no, since when her life is over she prefers to finish it to the fullest, with nothing to stay there. Yorkie doesn't get it, and Kelly says her reason is Richard, her husband. He died two years ago and didn't want to move to San Junípero, in fact, he didn't even want to try it like the two of them. Yorkie understands that, because she wasn't too sure about trying it either, but now she's thrilled because without it she wouldn't have met Kelly or experienced all the new things she's learned.

Yorkie tells her that if they were to meet each other, she wouldn't like her one bit. But Kelly insists on visiting her "in the real world." Yorkie has many doubts, but when they realize that outside of San Junípero they live super close, Kelly insists again.

When they finally meet, Kelly realizes that Yorkie is a quadriplegic and they're both in their late 70s. In the clinic, Kelly finds out that the mysterious Greg is a nurse who tells Kelly more about Yorkie's life. It turns out that when Yorkie was 21, she came out to her parents who were very religious and took it extremely badly, telling her all types of homophobic claims. So she went out in a car, very stressed, and had an accident. Now she has plans to move to San Junípero permanently, so she is going to marry Greg. It turns out that to go there you have to have permission from your doctor, from a family member and from yourself, and since Yorkie's family is so religious, they want her to marry a man, although they never visit her. So Greg is helping her with that, since as soon as they're married, he'll sign the paper and Yorkie will die and go live forever in San Junipero.

Kelly asks Greg for a huge favor, allowing her to travel to San Junípero to talk to Yorkie for a minute, after hours, because they only get 5 a week. And he grants her this wish. As soon as she walks into San Junipero, Kelly runs to Yorkie and hardly wastes a minute explaining why she's there. She kneels in front of her and asks her to marry her instead. Yorkie smiles brightly and kisses her passionately, as a "yes."

So the two of them marry in real life and Kelly signs for Yorkie to be taken off assisted breathing. Yorkie finally goes to San Junipero and dies in real life. In San Junípero, as she's enjoying the beach, Kelly comes to visit her once again, this time dressed as a bride and ready to celebrate her honeymoon. Yorkie is overflowing with happiness, and in that moment, she asks Kelly to stay with her. But Kelly doesn't want to. An eternal future does not appeal to her and her decision has not changed because of it.

Yorkie doesn't get it so she tells her that her husband was selfish for not staying, and Kelly slaps her. She explains to Yorkie that she was with her husband for 49 years and they lived together many complicated and happy things. They also had a daughter who died very young and the two suffered her loss together. And Kelly says that she doesn't want to live forever in a world where her daughter couldn't live too.

Kelly throws herself into the road, pissed off, and ends up crashing. Just when she's going to go back to talk to Yorkie, she runs out of time and disappears. Time continues to pass and Kelly is getting sicker and sicker. So she makes the decision to join Yorkie in San Junipero forever. As "heaven is a place on earth" by Belinda Carlisle starts playing in the background, Yorkie drives around San Junípero in her red convertible. She goes to Kelly's beach house to pick her up, and as they drive away, they share a passionate kiss.

Fanon
YorKelly is one of the most popular ships of the Black Mirror series. When the episode aired, it became one of the most viewed and most beloved episodes of all the series. Many people appreciated the fact the two of them got to live a happy ending since most of Black Mirror's episodes ended "darkly."Due to the fact this is a LGBT+ couple, the fear of fans of one of them possibly dying, or even both of them doing so, made the fans of the ship incredibly anxious. However, the fact the two of them got to live happily together, forever, made fans appreciate this ship a lot more.

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