FaTama

FaTama is the friendship between Tamaki Amajiki and Taishiro Toyomitsu from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Tamaki and Fat Gum have a teacher-student relationship. Whenever Tamaki works as a hero, he can be seen talking or fighting alongside Fat Gum. Tamaki works an internship at Fat Gum's agency. Although their personalities are opposite, they show great teamwork and complement each other.

Tamaki seems to perceive his working relationship with Fat Gum a little more negatively due to his negative personality. But despite those thoughts in his mind, Tamaki never left his agency. Furthermore, he does not seem uncomfortable fighting side-by-side with Fat Gum. The only exception to this is when he talks about his fragile mentality or when he compliments him during or after a fight.

Fat Gum thinks highly of Tamaki and sees great potential in him. He is also seen constantly praising his abilities for being above most professional heroes and complimenting him on his attacks and maneuvers. Fat Gum is also direct and honest with Tamaki when he has to be. He realizes Tamaki's flaws and weaknesses and what he has to improve on, such as his shy personality. But Fat Gum is shown to care deeply for Tamaki when he is in danger, o when he is put under a lot of pressure. He behaves like an older brother to Tamaki and seeing the efforts he had to go through to perfect his Quirk.

Season Four
It's still unknown how they met. However, at some point, Fat Gum hired Tamaki to work in his agency. One day, Tamaki recommended Eijiro Kirishima to work in his agency, surprising Fat Gum. But he quickly accepted Eijiro at his agency, showing that he trusts Tamaki's judgment.

Fat Gum is seen for the first time alongside Tamaki and Eijiro while on patrol in a nearby city. After Fat Gum finishes talking to Eijiro, he tells Tamaki that he needs to fix his terrible mentality as he has a lot of potential. This encourages Tamaki a bit. Tamaki says that he thinks the only reason Fat Gum chose him as an intern was to torment him and calls it workplace bullying. But Eijiro assures Tamaki that Fat Gum was only trying to encourage him.

Before they can continue their conversation, a group of criminals appear and Fat Gum jumps in to catch them. Fat Gum catches them with his fat, but one of them escapes and is quickly caught by Tamaki's tentacles. When the criminals are handed over to the police, Eijiro congratulates Tamaki and Fat Gum tells him that Tamaki's Quirk has already surpassed many professional heroes and that the only thing he should focus on changing is his fragile mentality. Meanwhile, Tamaki is paralyzed by the crowd of civilians who congratulated them.

Fanon
FaTama is well loved as both a platonic and a romantic ship. Unlike other student-teacher ships like EraserDeku, some fans have no problem shipping FaTama because their ages and height don't differ much.

The ship likely sailed due to the characters' opposite personalities. They are often compared to other Tamaki ships, such as MiriTama. Shippers are amused by their funny moments and the mocking dynamic on the Fat Gum side. However, it is clear that, despite their differences, they get along well and care deeply for each other.

FaTama is most popular as a platonic pairing, with over 70 works on AO3. The romantic version of this pairing has over 15 works on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION