Midpollo

Midpollo is the slash ship between Midnighter and Andrew Pulaski from the DC Comics fandom.

Canon
Apollo and Midnighter were originally with Stormwatch, The Authority’s predecessor. Stormwatch’s director recruited a number of superhumans to a covert strike team. Apollo was a field officer and Midnighter a field agent. Apollo and Midnighter were among volunteers for a black ops mission. The mission was secretive that all records of it and the team were destroyed.

The covert team was teleported into the facility to carry out its orders, a smash and grab. What they were completely unprepared to find was that this facility was guarded by Daemonites. Unknown to the team, Bendix had altered the teleporter to allow them to return only if they were in possession of the item. With nowhere to go, Apollo and Midnighter fought hard against the Daemonites. They were the only two survivors of the onslaught. And the both of them managed to escape due to their powers. Both Apollo and Midnighter rebelled against Bendix. For the next five years, they lived on the fringes. They survived fighting crime on the street. Until they were rescued by a new Stormwatch under the guidance of Jackson King. They were given new identities, and it seemed they were ready to leave this world behind, until Jenny Sparks came into play with a new team.

Fanon
Midpollo is a somewhat rare pair within the DC Comics fandom, due to the fact that it's overshadowed by the most popular ships of the fandom. However, it managed to garner a loyal fanbase amongst queer fans since the very beginning the two of them were introduced. The two were often speculated by gay readers to be gay. Warren Ellis wrote clues into his stories but the characters’ sexual orientation wasn’t confirmed at first. The confirmation started in earnest in a scene from issue #7 that shows Apollo collapsing in a battle with the forces of Sliding Albion, an alternate Earth which has fused its technology, culture and politics with an alien race. Midnighter cradles Apollo close to his chest as if it might be their last moment together.

The couple is widely beloved because their love is considered to be so strong that it can survive everything. From one universe to another and through countless blood-soaked battles, nothing has been able to keep Apollo and Midnighter apart for any meaningful amount of time, nor has anything managed to drive a wedge between them. If anything, all the struggles they have faced have brought them together in ways they never would have been otherwise. This on top of their innate understanding of one another as people, heroes, and lab-grown super soldiers all lends to them being what might be the most loving couple in the DC Universe, if not comics in general.

Fandom
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WIKI
 * Apollo/Midnighter on Fanlore

Trivia

 * In issue #13, we see the cover to the tabloid HELLO? Magazine featuring Apollo and Midnighter in an article called “Apollo and Midnighter: A Look Around the Carrier With the World’s Finest Couple.”
 * Ubisoft writer James Nadiger cited Apollo and Midnighter's relationship as his inspiration for Harlan Cunningham/Arend Schut, a canon gay couple in Assassin's Creed.