Takemika

Takemika is the het ship between Takeru Shirogane and Sumika Kagami from the Muv-Luv fandom.

Canon
EXTRA

Takeru and Sumika are childhood friends. They've lived next to each other for their entire lives. Sumika is unable to imagine life without him. It is shown in a flashback that when they were young, Santa hadn't visited Sumika one year. She came crying to Takeru about it, and he quickly improvised, giving her a Santa Rabbit. Despite how it would seem to just be something put together to get Sumika to stop crying, she valued it deeply, and carried it around with her at almost all times.

The two continued to live a fairly normal life together, with Takeru playing video games and Sumika waking him up every day. All of this changed whenever a mysterious woman by the name of Meiya Mitsurugi appeared in Takeru's bed one morning. Upon Meiya declaring that she would marry Takeru, Sumika had become very mad. While she partially took it out on Takeru, due to her tsundere nature (to Takeru at least, she's nice to everyone else for the most part), it is evident that she is jealous of Meiya. She begins to make Takeru more and more extravegant meals in order to gain more of Takeru's affection.

During the hot springs vacation, which is shown if the player doesn't trigger any other route flags, Sumika opens up more to Takeru, along with talking to Meiya about their mutual feelings for him. During her conversation with Meiya, they both admit to loving Takeru, which makes him flustered. Later on, Sumika joins Takeru in the hot springs. In there, she asks for him to see her not only as his childhood friend, but also as a woman. Takeru is confused by this, but he eventually realized that this was her way of confessing to her.

After the hot springs vacation, Takeru is given a choice of picking between Sumika and Meiya depending on who the player has gotten more affection points for. Even if Meiya is the one who has more affection points for, he still shows regret to Sumika for abandoning her, although she assures him that she'll be happy as long as he is happy.

If Sumika has the most points, her and Takeru reach the climax of their relationship. After Tsukiyomi leaves the two of them together, they embrace each other, and Takeru takes Sumika back to his house. The two then have sex, professing their love for each other while doing so. The next day, the two of them go out to see a movie, and, afterwards, they stand together and kiss on Hakuryou Hill, vowing to always be together, with Takeru promising to marry Sumika.

UNLIMITED

When Takeru first wakes up in the new world, the first thing he realizes is that Sumika is gone. While he initially just passes this off as her forgetting to wake him up, it soon becomes apparent that she does not exist in this new world. After learning that there are no records of her existence, Takeru breaks down in a panic, desiring nothing more than to be with her again.

He does his best to try and bare with the thought of losing her, but he still gets constant flashes of her, with him wishing that he could go back to his silly and calm days with her once more.

In the ending, regardless of which heroine the player chooses to pursue, Takeru will write a heartfelt letter to Sumika, hoping that she will be able to reunite with him, even in the post-apocalyptic world he is in now.

ALTERNATIVE

In Muv-Luv Alternative, Takeru restarts his journey to defeat the BETA once more, this time with the knowledge and strength he has acquired after having to unknowingly repeat the events of Unlimited a number of times.

After witnessing Marimo's death and the PTSD arc begins, Takeru returns to his previous world in order to live his normal life once more, with one of his major reasons being to see Sumika once more. Right as he returns, he realizes just how many mistakes he has made with his treatment of Sumika. As the other heroines begin to forget about Takeru and Marimo dies in the Extra universe due to Takeru being a Casualty Conductor, Takeru shares an intimate moment with Sumika, where she promises that she will never forget about him.

However, she does forget about him, greeting him at school as "Shirogane-Kun" rather that her usual "Takeru-Chan." Soon after this event, Takeru begins having a mental breakdown, but that was stopped by the news that Sumika was killed by a basketball hoop falling on her.

Without Sumika, Takeru realized that he had no reason to continue living, and attempted suicide. He was stopped by Yuuko, who helped Takeru return to the Alternative world. While they were driving down to the reactor that she planned to use, Takeru had proclaimed that Sumika was the woman he loved most in the entire world.

Once Takeru returns to the Alternative world, he is greeted by the 00 Unit. The 00 Unit had the exact same appearance and voice as Sumika, and it quickly dawned on Takeru that the brain that had been in the room Kasumi was in the entire time was Sumika's. Right after seeing her, Takeru had hugged her, breaking down in tears that he was able to see her in the world he is supposed to be in once more. But, the 00 Unit was much different from Sumika, having a panic attack just by being hugged by Takeru, and constantly in a state of insanity, saying over and over that she desires to kill all of the BETA.

Fanon
Takemika is considered to be the most popular and well-received ship within Muv-Luv. While it is often debated with Takemeiya (Takeru x Meiya) fans, most accept that it is the most canon ship in the series.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

FAN ART
 * Takemika tag on Pixiv