TamaYuzu

TamaYuzu is the het ship between Tamahiko Shima and Yuzuki Tachibana from the Taisho Otome Fairy Tale fandom.

Canon
Tamahiko and Yuzuki were brought together for the purpose of Tamahiko having a caregiver due to his disabled right arm and Yuzuki's poor family receiving money in exchange for her tending to Tamahiko and possibly becoming his bride. Overtime, they fell in love.

Following a car accident that killed his mother and left him without the usage of his right arm, 17-year-old Tamahiko is exhiled to a villa by his father to save face of the wealthy but infamous Shima family. Having been raised in a family devoid of love and now abandoned by his family, Tamahiko accepts he is doomed to live and die in ignominy. 14-year-old Yuzuki is the only child of a poor family and she goes to Tamahiko's father, Tamayoshi, to beg for money that will keep her family from starving. He agreed to buy her for ¥10,000 if she will be a caregiver and future bride for his son, which she accepts. Although scared at marrying a stranger who may be as cold as his father, she vows to do her best to be kind to him.

Upon meeting for the first time, Yuzuki cheerfully greets him as his future wife and he feels pity for her, as she was bought by his father. Nevertheless, he allows to her to stay with him and shows her empathy by giving her his coat after learning she walked through a heavy snowstorm to his villa. Living together is initially awkward due to lack of privacy and them being polar opposites. She cooks and cleans in order to please him, and he is forced to tolerate her though he takes a liking to her cooking and appreciates her household management. Once she starts to feel comfortable with him, she suggests they sleep together, causing him to panic as he misinterprets her to suggesting they be intimate. However, she merely meant sleeping in the same room. She explains to him that she wants to lose her virginity after getting married, and she wants to grow to like him.

After he sinks into a deep depression following his father's decision to have him declared dead, he ignores Yuzuki and comes down with a fever. Yuzuki takes care of him and even allows him to soil her kimono to comfort him. Once he feels better, he feels guilty for having ruined her only kimono and takes her to Tokyo to buy another one. Although wary of him buying expensive clothing for her, she vows to cherish the kimono as it's the first thing he ever bought her. When Yuzuki falls ill from overworking, Tamahiko feels guilty for taking her for granted and takes care of her with his sister's help. He catches her struggling to breath under some tightly wrapped bandages and he reluctantly cuts the bandages to help her breathe but this reveals her ample breasts. She is embarrassed that he saw her such a state but he tries to brush it off despite his embarrassment. His guilt for not being able to help her makes him contemplate sending her away so she won’t be burdened with him but she embraces him and assures him that she isn’t going anywhere.

On Tamahiko's birthday, Yuzuki goes to buy supplies and Tamahiko follows her. She takes note of his fondness for books and gives him a bookmark with a kikyou flower pressed on it as a present, which deeply touches him as she is the first person to give him a gift on his birthday. However, after Ryo steals it and tries to flaunt it as proof that she and Tamahiko are having a fictitious affair, Yuzuki shreds the bookmark to pieces while saying she trusts him. This alarms Tamahiko who knows she is hurt from the misunderstanding and he works hard to repair the bookmark. She feels bad for having destroyed the bookmark and apologizes, and they reconcile. On New Year's Eve, Tamahiko sits outside with Yuzuki who reveals she turned 15 and she is now legally old enough to be his wife. Tamahiko says he wants to grow as a person before marrying her, as he believes he is still no good, but she assures him that he makes her happy. This leads to him impulsively kissing her, which leaves them both embarrassed.

Yuzuki goes to Tokyo to visit her best friend, Midori, and Tamahiko misses her while she is away. The Great Kanto Earthquake occurs, causing Tamahiko to worry about Yuzuki's well-being. He finds a scarf and pair of mittens she had planned to give him for his 19th birthday, and he realizes that he truly loves her. He decides to walk to Tokyo to find her and make sure she is alive. During the two day journey, he tells Ryo that he is scared that Yuzuki may be dead but he is holding onto his belief that she is alive. Upon arriving in a destroyed Tokyo, he is joined by his sister, Tamako, in looking for Yuzuki. Seeing the destruction and loss of lives, he begins to fear that she is dead and says he will die if she is dead, but Tamako insists Yuzuki is alive. When they finally find her, she is unconscious from a head injury. Despite his disabled arm, he carries her to the hospital and stays by her side throughout her treatment. Yuzuki dreams of how she met Tamahiko and has grown to cherish him, and finally realizes that she has fallen in love with him. When she wakes up, she professes her love to him. Up until her discharge and their return to Chiba, he still never left her side.

At his 19th birthday party, Yuzuki sings a song for him. Their friends then deliberately leave them alone but the two decide to go for a walk. Tamahiko says he can't marry her yet because he wants to go back to school and utilize his skills so he can support their future family, which makes her happy. They then discuss how many children they want in the future. As Yuzuki's 16th birthday approaches, she confides to Kotori that she wishes to lose her virginity to him on her birthday but she is too embarrassed to ask him to break their promise on not becoming intimate until marriage. When Tamahiko struggles to find a birthday present for Yuzuki, Kotori tells him what she wants and he is very embarrassed. On Yuzuki’s birthday, he gives her a compact with a Lily of the Valley engraving and reads a letter to her in which he expresses his affection for her and his desire to see her happy. He shows that inside the compact is a picture of the two of them. He tells her that he loves her for the first time and asks her to become his wife. Yuzuki is so overcome with happiness that she passionately kisses him and they almost succumb to their passion for each other before they stop and remind themselves that they promised to wait until they got married.

The next day, Tamahiko discovers that Yuzuki is missing and left behind a letter bidding him farewell. After two days of not hearing from her, he finally learns from Ryo that, while he was away at his older brother's funeral, his older sister, Tamayo, blackmailed Yuzuki into leaving him or else her family will be harmed, as Tamahiko is now the new heir to the Shima family and his father is searching for a more appropriate bride. Tamahiko decides that, having grown frustrated at his family's attempts to take away his newfound happiness and preferring a simple, peaceful life with Yuzuki than the luxurious yet cruel one with his family, to cut off all ties to the Shima family and marry Yuzuki. He finds her being held in the Shima house and tries to get her to come back to him but she refuses not only to protect her family but because she believes she betrayed him so badly that she doesn't think she can be forgiven. He says he doesn't care about her family because they allowed her to be sold but she refuses to change her mind. Having lost his only reason to live, Tamahiko says he would rather kill himself than live without her and tries to get his younger brother, Tamao, to kill him but Yuzuki stops him. He then tells his father if his decision to leave the family and elope with Yuzuki. His father agrees to let him leave the family but without Yuzuki (as she is considered to be his father's property). His father offers to let him keep her as a concubine if he agrees to be the next head of the family and marry, but this disgusts Tamahiko, who makes a contract in which he will agree to repay the ¥10,000, thus allowing him to keep Yuzuki. The two then leave the Shima house to go talk to her parents about their plan to marry. She feels guilty for having hurt him and asks him if he can forgive her but he says there's nothing to forgive.

After meeting her parents and receiving their blessing, Yuzuki approaches Tamahiko at night and asks him to sleep with her, as she can no longer wait until they are married. He is hesitant at first but gives in and they have sex for the first time. Shortly after, they get married but are unable to have a wedding ceremony due to the ¥10,000 debt. Despite wanting to have a ceremony, both assure the other that just being married makes them happy. Their friends and relatives, however, pitch in to surprise them with a wedding ceremony.

Three years into their marriage, Yuzuki becomes pregnant and gives birth to their first child, a son named Tsukihiko. Despite their financial strains, they are shown to be living happily and are still very much in love.

When Tsukihiko is 5-years-old, Yuzuki gives birth to their second son, Haruki. A few years later, their third child, a daughter named Tamami, is born.

Children
Tamahiko and Yuzuki have three children together - two sons and one daughter.

Tsukihiko Tachibana
Tsukihiko resembles his father but his hair has two curls that he inherited from his mother. He is mature and intelligent for his age, and is very pleasant.

Haruki Tachibana
Haruki is looks very similar to his father and is more serious like his father had been.

Tamami Tachibana
Tamami looks and acts almost identical to her mother.

Fanon
is a well-liked pairing within the fandom due to how the two grew on each other despite their unconventional coupling. Yuzuki was meant to be a caregiver for Tamahiko who was expected to live and die alone after being abandoned by his family, but she brought light into his life and helped him learn to smile and laugh.

Some fans consider the relationship unhealthy due to that Tamahiko has stated he would kill himself if he couldnt be with Yuzuki.

The ship gained popularity once the anime was released on August 2021. TamaYuzu made the top 10 for Best Ship on the weekly anime popularity charts the week the final episode was scheduled to premiere on December 25th. On December 23rd, TamaYuzu rose up to first place.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Tamahiko never cared about food until he began eating meals cooked by Yuzuki.
 * Yuzuki learns many chemistry tricks in cleaning from Tamahiko.
 * Yuzuki has always wanted to feed Tamahiko, who tends to get embarrassed by such an intimate gesture especially in public.
 * When discussing how many children they wanted, Tamahiko said 2 and Yuzuki said 5. She also added that she wanted their first child to be a girl. They went on to have 3 children and their firstborn was a boy.
 * Yuzuki makes sweets for Tamahiko during his reading time.
 * Kikyou flowers (which were on the bookmark Yuzuki gave to Tamahiko) symbolizes unchanging love, honesty, and obedience. Whereas the Lily of the Valley flower (engraved in the compact Tamahiko gave to Yuzuki) symbolizes humility and rebirth, as well as chastity, motherhood, sweetness, and purity.
 * When they got married, Tamahiko was 19 and Yuzuki was 16 (In the 1920s in Japan, the age of consent to marry was 17 for boys and 15 for girls).
 * Their wedding ceremony took place in the month of April a year after they got married.
 * The amount Tamahiko’s father spent on buying Yuzuki - ¥10,000 in the 1920s was worth 5,000 USD (today worth ¥700,000 or 70,000 USD).