Dan x Tom

Dan x Tom is the slash ship between Dan Lopé and Tom Hallet from the Alien fandom.

Canon
Hallet and Lopé are the first openly gay characters in the series. Despite this, very little of their affection for one another was depicted within the film.

Background
Hallet and Lopé first met when they were both sergeants in the military. They eventually fell in love and married. Hallet later became a member of Lopé's security team. He would carry out Lopé's orders even when he disagreed with them. Lopé's security team was eventualy hired to escort 2,000 colonists aboard the USS Covenant, which was headed for Origae-6.

Prior to the mission, Hallet served as the tea's acting leader while Lopé interviewed applicants for the final guard position. However, cultist Eric Sasaki of the Earthsavers took Weyland-Yutani Corporation technician Cara Prestowicz hostage and planted explosives in one of the vessel's terraforming bays. The situation was eventually defused by the security members deployed by Hallet. Both Hallet and Lopé underwent fear conditioning on the moon of Phobos. After this, they boarded the Covenant.

The Last Supper
Both Hallet and Lopé were featured in The Last Supper, the prologue to Alien: Covenant.

In the short film, after Captain Jacob Branson went into cryosleep early due to a fever, just as the crew were about to have one last supper before entering cryosleep, the crew members decided to have a party. During the party, Hallet and Lopé arm wrestled. They then made out and joked around with the rest of the crew. After the party, they went into cryosleep.

Alien: Covenant
A year into the vessel's journey, a neutrino blast resulted in the deaths of all of the colonists. After the blast, most of the crew were forced out of cryosleep, with the exception of Captain Branson, who died due to a malfunction in his pod. Hallet and Lopé then ran security checks on the vessel. Soon, a rogue transmission from Planet 4 was intercepted, and the ship's destination was rerouted. Hallet and the rest of the security team were placed in the investigative detachment.

The investigative detachment, which included both Hallet and Lopé, then travelled to the surface aboard Lander One. When Hallet expressed discomfort during the journey to the surface, Lopé reassured him. On the surface, they found a crashed spaceship. While they explored the ship's interior, Hallet found several Neomorphic Egg Sacs, which he wrongly assumed were plants. He then probed the sacs, and unknowingly inhaled some of the sac's spores. He then fell ill, and was to be taken back to the vessel. However, fellow security team member Ben Ledward had fallen victim to similar spores, and a Neomorph had emerged from his body, killing crew members Karine Oram and Maggie Faris. Soon after, a Neomorph emerged from Hallet's throat, killing him. The Neomorph managed to kill fellow security team member Ankor before being scared away by a mysterious figure with a flare gun. Lopé then took a moment to mourn Hallet's death. He then took Hallet's ring with him.

Fanon
The ship is the most written ship for both characters on AO3. However, there are very few works depicting this pair. This is largely due to the fact that there is only one scene within the film itself where it is clear that the two are married. This is also largely due to the fact that many people may not have seen the prologue. Both characters are also not very prominent. It is rivalled by Maggie x Tom. It currently has 2+ written works on AO3.

Fandom

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