GinYuu

GinYuu is the het ship between Ginko and Tanyuu Karibusa from the Mushishi fandom.

Canon
Tanyuu is a girl whose leg is paralyzed because of a mortally dangerous Mushi that resides inside her. Because of that, she was born with a black birthmark on her right foot. She is a descendant of a woman who agreed to contain this Mushi to help overcome it by imprisoning it within a part of her body. Because of that, the Mushi continues to live in the bodies of her descendants.

Tanyuu lives in a lone house away in the wilderness with an old Mushi-shi, Tama. She was the one who taught Tanyuu a way to suppress the Mushi out of her body with time. The solution is to write down all the stories about other Mushi that Tama and other Mushi-shi have told her. The Mushi will then come out of her and is sealed up in the scripts she makes. She has grown sick of those stories because most of it was about killing Mushi. Even though they are causing her pain, Tanyuu still respects them because they were only killed out of fear. Ginko travels to meet her and, unlike his fellow Mushi-shi, tells her a story of a non-killing one. He gets Tanyuu's attention, and she later permits him to see her story archives. Tanyuu asks him to visit her now and then so that Ginko can tell her more stories. He smiles and replies that he would be happy to.

Ginko visits her again and goes to read more archives while Tanyuu is resting. When Tanyuu wakes, Tama goes to inform Ginko but is warned by him that bookworms are eating the scrolls. Characters from the scrolls escape and head out of the basement. It gets stopped in the outside room where Tanyuu is. He explains the walls have a specific paste applied that seals them. Since the paper is eventually set to degrade, she uses the bookworms to weaken the seals earlier and replace the scrolls before the Mushi can escape by themselves. She reseals all the Mushi, recalling from what volume and chapter each of the characters are.

Later Ginko tells her more stories, and Tanyuu writes them down. She asks for more, but he tells her not to overdo herself as it has been a tough couple of days. Ginko then tells her that he will stay with her until the end after Tanyuu asks him if he would. She requests he take her out for a walk. As he carries her on his back, Tanyuu tells Ginko her worries that she may not be able to get rid of the Mushi before she dies and that her descendants will also inherit the birthmark. Ginko then asks her what she wants to do when her foot heals, and she says she wants to travel with him and meet all the Mushi he was telling her about. She laughs, saying that she might already be an old woman by then. He looks at her and says nothing, so she explains that it was a joke. Ginko agrees as long as he is well and still alive as he can be eaten by a Mushi any day. Tanyuu then reassures him that he will live.

Quotes
"There's only one woman alive who can drown in a sea of letters. Even as the Mushi are eating her body, she loves them. Only one woman does that... just one."

- Ginko's thoughts about Tanyuu

Fanon
Mushishi is a story with an episodic plot, meaning each new episode also introduces new characters every time. With that being said, Tanyuu only appeared in one episode and two special episodes, so not much information can be said about the pair. Fans find their relationship to be beautiful and tragic at the same time since both are forced to have a symbiotic nature with Mushi; Tanyu is bound to a certain place because of the one residing inside her body, and Ginko can’t settle down because he tends to attract them. This means that they can’t live together.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Ginko/Tanyuu tag on FanFiction.net
 * Ginko/Tanyuu tag on FanFiction.net
 * Ginko/Tanyuu tag on FanFiction.net

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