Ellen x Joan

Ellen x Joan is the femslash ship between Ellen Ripley and Joan Lambert from the Alien fandom.

Canon
Both Ellen and Joan were crew members of the USS Nostromo. Ellen was the warrant officer while Joan served as a navigator. The Nostromo landed on the moon of Acheron after receiving a distress signal, and Captain Arthur Dallas left with Executive Officer Thomas Kane and Joan to find the source of the signal. While exploring an abandoned spacecraft, Kane was attacked by a facehugger, and Arthur and Lambert brought him back to the Nostromo on a makeshift stretcher. However, Ellen refused to let them back into the vessel against Dallas's orders, citing quarantine concerns. Eventually science officer Ash appeared and let the trio back into the ship. This incident led Joan to resent Ellen.

However, the Xenomorph began to kill off the crew members one by one. Dallas was later taken away by the Xenomorph, leaving only Joan, Ellen, chief engineer Dennis Parker and Ash as the remaining survivors, Joan insisted that they escape aboard the Narcissus, despite the shuttlecraft only being able to take three crew members at a time. Ellen then managed to convince Joan that their best option was to kill the Xenomorph. However, Ash then revealed himself to be an android sleeper agent and told them that attempts to kill the Xenomorph would be futile. Ellen, Joan and Dennis then agreed that their best option was to destroy the Nostromo and escape aboard the Narcissus. However, escaping aboard the Narcissus would require a large amount of extra coolant for the shuttlecraft's life-support system. Joan then left for the lower deck with Dennis to collect the extra coolant.

While Joan was gathering coolant with Dennis, the Xenomorph snuck up on her. She then froze with terror as Dennis attempted to kill the Xenomorph with a hook. However, the Xenomorph killed Dennis and then ripped a hole through Joan's face as it sling her corpse up on the ceiling. Ellen heard her screams over the ship's intercom and rushed to the lower decks in an attempt to help them. However, she found Ellen's corpse hung from the ceiling.

Fanon
The ship is the most written ship for Joan on AO3. However, this ship is largely overshadowed on Ellen's side by Dwayne x Ellen and Annalee x Ellen. On Joan's side, it is rivalled by Joan x Thomas and Ash x Joan. It currently has 9 written works on AO3.

Fandom

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