Keitaro

Keitaro is the slash ship between Keiji Shinogi and Q-taro Burgerberg from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Your Turn To Die
In the Trust-Barter Sub-Game, Keiji and Q-taro are both available as attraction partners for Charge Card Battle and Arm-Wrestling. On Day 2, Morning, Keiji and Q-taro find Kai's laptop in the Room of Rubble and explore its contents together with Sara. That night, Keiji and Q-taro have an argument, as Q-taro gave up Kai's laptop to Kanna in exchange for tokens. Keiji goes to find Kanna, leaving behind the remark that it seems he's overestimated Q-taro.

In the hours before the second Main Game, after Keiji heard about what happened with Q-taro, Sou, and the Sacrifice card, Keiji helped calm down Q-taro. They got talking, and Keiji ended up proposing they team up. Q-taro handed all his remaining tokens to Keiji. While Q-taro was passed out in the Rubble Room, Keiji traded his own Sage and Q-taro's Keymaster. Soon after, the unconscious Q-taro is discovered. Keiji willingly says that he'll give the unconscious Q-taro a piggyback ride if he has to, seeing that Sara, Gin, nor Kanna could do so. Once the group comes to the dead-end exit, he places Q-taro on the ground next to him while he tries to clear away rubble.

The plan Keiji and Q-taro created helped that ensure their safety when it came time to vote in the Main Game. Q-taro was believed to be the Keymaster, while Keiji as the Sage, causing Keiji to become a candidate for the final vote, but not Q-taro. However, their roles were actually reversed, meaning Keiji was safe as no one should vote for the Keymaster.

On the fourth floor, during the confrontation with Midori, despite Q-taro's stab wound, he makes an effort to immobilize Midori so that Keiji can tag him. After Keiji gets trapped in the coffin and Q-taro and Mai get stuck on the fourth floor, Q-taro helps Keiji out of the coffin. He asks if he's feeling alright, and Keiji can tell Q-taro that he's having some trouble. Q-taro jokingly says he'll close it back up and Keiji says he'll get out. Q-taro then gives him the details on the situation. In the operating room, when Keiji sees a hallucination of Mr. Policeman, Q-taro asks Keiji if he is alright, but Keiji just brushes it off.

When Safalin asks Q-taro if he is injured, Keiji can encourage Q-taro to get checked out. Later on, Q-taro asks Keiji to drop by the cemetery to talk about their plan moving forward. Keiji uses this time to use the lantern on Q-taro to uncover his lost memories. The two work through it together, finding discrepancies in his memory, and uncovering the truth. They then discuss the plan, and Q-taro suggests that they make it seem as if Keiji is still in the coffin, in order to fool Midori. Upon executing the plan, Q-taro encourages Keiji not to get seen going to the fifth floor and mess up.

In an unused CG, it appears that Keiji was possibly going to be the one to talk to Q-taro in his last moments when Q-taro laid in the coffin that Keiji was originally in, after finally succumbing to his wounds. Although in canon, Keiji didn't know that Q-taro was inside the coffin.

Your Time To Shine
Q-taro and Keiji both have "Training" as their strong suit. Additionally, in Mishima's Story, Q-taro mourns Keiji if he dies from starvation.

Nankidai Twitter sketches
May 5, 2018: Keiji is surprised that Q-taro can cook as well, to which Q-taro replies it's simple. He then presents Keiji with a "hamburger donburi", which is just a hamburger sitting on top of a bowl of rice. Keiji then says he feels he can get along with Q-taro and the two handshake.

Official 4-koma comics
# 15: Keiji asks Q-taro if, with his strength, he can remove the Death Game collars. Q-taro says he'll give it a try, and grabs Keiji's collar, he makes a big deal out of it, shouting and working himself up, before giving up, saying it was impossible, leaving the collar tightened around Keiji's face.

Fanon
Some fans like to believe that Keiji eventually caught feelings for Q-taro. Due to the player being able to play as Keiji with Q-taro and Mai as supports, some fans like to imagine that it was like Keiji and Q-taro were having a date during the investigation with Mai as a third wheel. The ship likely gained some popularity after the release of Chapter 3, Part 1B, for the increase in interactions between the two. Keishin, Keialice, Maitaro and Qkai are rivals of this ship. It has some appeal for Keiji and Q-taro both being muscular, and them teaming up together a few times.

Fandom
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