Dwayne x William

Dwayne x William is the slash ship between Dwayne Hicks and William Hudson from the Alien fandom.

Canon
Both Hudson and Hicks were members of the Colonial Marines combat unit deployed to planet LV-426 on the USS Sulaco, under the command of Lieutenant Scott Gorman. This mission was supposed to be Hudson's last, and he would have been honourably discharged four weeks after. As the Sulaco approached its destination, Hudson, Hicks and the rest of the unit, as well as the ship's crew, were awakened from hypersleep. They then had breakfast together. After breakfast, they attended a briefing on the mission. During the briefing, Gorman confused Hudson with Hicks, and Hudson then began to mock him.

The team, including both Hicks and Hudson, were then brought to Hadley's Hope, the main colony of the planet, which was abandoned. In the operations room, Hudson discovered the signals of the missing colonists in the Atmosphere Processing Plant, and the team went there to investigate. While there, they discovered that the Xenomorphs had taken over the building as a hive. The team was then attacked by a large swarm of Drones. A Drone attempted to drag Hudson away before Hicks managed to save him. As the team made their way back to the M577 Armored Personnel Carrier, Hudson was again attacked by a Xenomorph. Hicks then shot the Xenomorph with a shotgun, and its acid blood splattered onto Hudson, injuring him. At this point, while Hudson had previously been cocky, being the funny man of the team, he began to become more and more hysteric and frantic due to the Xenomorph attacks.

The team initially planned to escape via their dropship, the Bug Stomper. However, the dropship crashed into the Armored Personnel Carrier, thus ruining their plan. Hudson then began freaking out, believing them to be down for. Hicks then calmed him down. Later, when Newt Jorden and Ellen Ripley were stuck in the med lab with two facehuggers, Hudson saved Newt. When it was revealed that Carter Burke had planned on impregnating them with the facehuggers, thus allowing him to bring Xenomorph specimens back to Earth, Hicks, who had taken over as leader, decided that Burke should be executed. Hudson supported Hicks, but Ripley convinced the team that Burke should be brought back to Earth, where he would face justice for his actions. However, Xenomorphs then cut power to the building they were hiding in, and launched an attack. Hudson managed to hold of the Drones on his own for a good amount of time. However, a Drone managed to grab at him. Hicks attempted to save him by shooting at the Drone, but his attempts were in vain, as Hudson was dragged away by the Xenomorph, and was likely cocooned and impregnated with a chestburster, which would have killed him.

Fanon
The ship is the most written ship for William on AO3, and is the third most written ship for Dwayne on AO3. However, it is largely overshadowed by Dwayne x Ellen on Dwayne's side. It is also rivalled on William's side by Jenette x William and Cynthia x William. It currently has 8+ written works on AO3.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION