Ithagrace

Ithagrace is the Het ship between Ithaqua and Grace from the Identity V fandom.

Canon
The two never officially met canonically by both the mainline canon story or/and in an alternative universe where the costumes or events take place for the story.

The two hunters both share a lot of similarities regarding their characteristics and past information. The two are shown to have "implied" connection with the Cthulhu Mythos hunter Hastur & one of the in-game maps Lakeside Village. For Grace, her own birthplace is implied to be part of Lakeside Village, as evidenced by an easter egg from a large rock near the Log Cabins carving the words "GRACE IS DUMB". In Ithaqua's case, his original inspiration is the son of the original Hastur. However, this wasn't mentioned in the game and Ithaqua is stated to be connected to both "Lakeside Village and Forest of No Return incidents" according to his design notes.

The two are said to be both post-adolescent/early adulthood age range (18-22). Grace is said to be "19" when her own village was struck with a "drought disaster" that led to her own death. While Ithaqua's age is unspecified, he is implied to be an adult from the chinese weibo post of his background story the "已被养育成人的少年 (Yǐ bèi yǎngyù chéngrén de shàonián)" which translates to "A youth who has been raised to adulthood". The word "成人 (chéngrén)" means "Adult, Grown Up" in english, backing up evidence that he's an adult rather than a teenager

Lastly, both Grace and Ithaqua have been "adopted" since infancy. They also both lived in villages where religion is omnipresent. As they got older, they became threats to their own villages. Grace was drowned by her own people due to them perceiving her as a "false goddess" and them perceiving her to be the cause of the harsh drought. In Ithaqua's case, he has lost his "humanity" and has been rumored to murder anyone who steps foot in the forest at stormy nights.

Despite not officially interacting with each other, they are shown to be part of the same merchandise collaboration promotion cast such as "Fantasy Series Volume 3, 2024 Art Closet" but have yet to get interactions in merchandise collaborations. In the merchandise collaboration with Identity V x Sanrio characters and Chugai Grace Cafe, the poster showed Ithaqua cosplaying as Hangyodon, a fish. Fans speculate since Grace is an anthropomorphic fish herself, Ithaqua is also matching with her. Another is the Official Identity V 2023 Christmas Cafe Poster where Ithaqua was cosplaying as an arowana dragon fish. There is also the 2023 Winter Cafe poster where Ithaqua cozily was looking at the fish on the poster, to which is the same one Grace was snuggling with.

They have matching costume pairings such as Morningstar x Demonbane or Rosemary, Invisible Man x Million Dollar Mermaid and lastly The Captive x Reef Songtress are the most common skin pairings of the ship.

Fanon
is a semi-popular ship within the Identity V fandom as it has only 19 fanfictions written on Archive of our Own. It is the second most popular ship for Ithaqua, behind his ship with Nathaniel Norwell, as well the second most popular ship for Grace, behind her ship with Galatea Claude. Though, its popularity is more centralized on Asia as GalaGrace’s popularity is more on NAEU’s side.

The ship started to slowly surge in popularity when Ithaqua got announced some people started shipping them due to their connection with Hastur and Lakeside Village, But however many people started to headcanon them platonically as siblings with them as a romantic couple being part of the minority with common headcanons that Hastur is their father figure if portrayed as siblings, this common headcanon is the root of the controversy of the ship on the western fandom with people who getting blinded by the fan headcanon thinking they are actual canon lore depiction making people believe they are an "incestious" ship which slows down the reputation of romantic depiction of the ship and it is overshadowed by Galagrace on Grace's side.

The common symbols used by fans for are ❄️🐟 and 🌊❄️.

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