TomShiv

TomShiv is the het ship between Siobhan Roy and Tom Wambsgans from the Succession fandom.

Season 1
In the beginning of the show, Tom and Shiv are dating and out birthday shopping for Logan, Shiv's father. Tom, nervous, wanting to make a good impression for Logan and impress him, is determined that he needs to get him the perfect gift, though Shiv warns him that Logan won't care regardless of what he buys, as he "doesn't like anything."

Following Logan's stroke later that day, he is brought to the nearest hospital for treatment, Shiv and the rest of the Roy siblings discuss and debate who would be best to fill in for Logan as he is the CEO of one of the biggest news conglomerates in the world. Tom offers himself to which Kendall, Shiv's older brother, immediately shuts down, telling Tom to go away, to which Shiv quickly jumps in to defend Tom.

Later in the hospital, Tom decides to propose to a distraught Shiv as a way to take her mind off of the events, to which she is naturally taken aback and bemused at, but unofficially accepts his proposal to which he joyfully picks her up and kisses her. Once Logan returns home from the hospital he is eventually visited by Shiv, who manages to eventually get into contact with him, announcing her and Tom's engagement to Logan and that she plans to permanently stay in New York as a result.

At a family therapy trip to Austerlitz, Logan berates Shiv saying, "You're marrying a man fathoms beneath you because you don't want to risk being betrayed." as well as confronting her on meeting with Logan's biggest political rival in secret to which she leaves the room in tears and Tom comforting her alone later.

After given the green light by Shiv, Tom is excited to do "whatever he wants" at his bachelor party, but then begins to grow uncomfortable at the idea when Greg asks for him to elaborate on this and whether Shiv can do the same, eventually resulting in Tom having second thoughts on the whole idea. Shiv is later called by him and she reinforces that he shouldn't worry about it and to have fun, and that she is busy working, but leaving out that her ex-boyfriend, Nate Sofrelli, is working with her. Nate persistently begins flirting with her, and eventually the two are in bed together. Shiv doesn't seem to think of this as cheating, considering she and Tom were both given permission and he would likely be doing the same.

On the night of their wedding, Tom and Shiv sneak away from their wedding reception to their suite. Shiv confesses her affair with Nate to Tom, and that she would prefer a non-monogamous relationship, which a reluctant Tom complies to. Tom then later kicks Nate out of the wedding and forces him to return the wine he was drinking.

Season 2
Tom and Shiv decide to end their honeymoon early when seeing Kendall's recent interview, unaware of what had happened to him during their wedding. Shiv is then later told by Logan in secret that he wants her as his successor when he is to retire, and Shiv secures Toms position as Chair of Global Broadcast News.

Fanon
Tom and Shiv is without a doubt one of the most iconic and messiest ships within the Succession fandom, largely due to how complex both characters are and how they're constantly evolving over time. Shiv is almost always closed off from her emotions due to how her and her siblings were raised by an emotionally neglectful father which only causes them to further fruitlessly seek validation from him. This frustrates Tom who is aware the relationship between him and his wife is fuelled by the foundation that Shiv finds comfort in him being beneath her, not needing to be paranoid that she'll ever wind up being betrayed by him because he's so dependent on her, something that inevitably comes back to haunt her. While the ultimate fate of the couple's relationship is left rocky to say the very least in the season finale, director Mark Mylod when talking about Tom and Shiv was surprisingly optimistic, affirming that he thought that there was hope for them in the end, and that Shiv had by far the most optimistic ending out of all the Roy Siblings.

On AO3, TomShiv is the second most written ship for Tom, overtaken by TomGreg and the most written ship for Shiv.

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