Piridi

Piridi is the het ship between Pit and Viridi from the Kid Icarus fandom.

Kid Icarus: Uprising
Pit meets Viridi after defeating Medusa and trying to put a stop to the war Hades caused. Viridi is the Goddess of Nature and hates humanity as she sees their wars and architecture as a bastardization of nature. So she built a "Reset Bomb", a natural weapon that turns back time wherever it hits, causing a massive forest to grow and trap humans in it and make the area completely unhabitable. Pit witnesses the first Reset Bomb turn an entire city into a forest and rushes to save the humans who are trapped in it. When Viridi catches him, she sees Pit as her enemy and sends one of her own men, the rock monster "Cragalanche the Mighty" after him. When Viridi's forces, Hades' forces and Pit (along with Palutena's forces) all battle each other, Viridi makes it her top priority to not let Pit anywhere near her current Reset Bomb. Despite her best efforts, Pit manages to destroy it, making her absolutely furious and putting Pit on her "to kill-list".

However, her Reset Bomb caught unwanted attention from the "Aurum", an alien force that targets the Earth for its resources. Realizing that she has messed up and all parties admitting that fighting each other is pointless when aliens are trying to wipe all of them out anyway, Viridi joins forces with Palutena and Hades, though isn't above snarking at Pit when he messes up. However, Viridi seems to take a shine to Pit after seeing him fighting alongside her, even if she wouldn't admit it. The next time she uses a Reset Bomb is to try and help destroy the Aurum, only to fail as it does absolutely nothing against the Aurum's advanced technology. She still tries to help Pit by trying to assist him in reaching the Aurum Brain.

When Pit falls unconcious and finds out that he's been comatose for three years and during that time, Palutena has supposedly turned against humanity, Viridi assists Pit, telling him that Palutena's own hatred against humanity is because she was possessed by the Chaos Kin. She explains that when Pit and Palutena destroyed Viridi's moonbase, they believed that she was using it for nefarious purposes, when in she was really imprisoning the Chaos Kin due to its instability. She then takes Pit in when he's left without a goddess to serve and uses her own powers to give him the power of flight, like Palutena did before she was possessed. After Pit manages to free Palutena from the Chaos Kin, the Chaos comes back one last time and attacks Dark Pit by pulling him down into the abyss. Having grown fond of his duplicate, Pit begs Viridi to give him the power of flight back shortly after using it, Viridi sounds genuinely worried when she realizes that this would cause Pit's wings to catch fire, and that Pit would sacrifice his wings to save Dark Pit. Regardless, she gives in and just as she predicted, his wings get scorched and Pit passes out from the pain, falling into a coma. Viridi then tells a grieving Palutena that getting Pit to the Rewind Spring, a fountain that can heal any wound by rewinding time, may be his only chance. So she, Palutena and Dark Pit work together to get Pit to the Rewind Spring.

When Pit made a full recovery, Viridi cheers Pit on in his final fight against Hades and she's the one who restores his power of flight when Hades destroys the Great Sacred Treasure. Though after Hades is defeated, Viridi states that there's nothing stopping her from attacking humanity again, but willingly backs off when Palutena tells her to let Pit enjoy his victory for the time being.

Fanon
Piridi is a fairly popular ship in the Kid Icarus fandom. It is the third most popular ship in the "Kid Icarus Series" and "Kid Icarus: Uprising" tags (not counting duplicates and ships exclusive to Super Smash Bros.), the third most popular ship for Pit and the most popular ship for Viridi.

Generally, people love the dynamic between them, calling Viridi "tsundere" for Pit. They also love how he's the one bringing out a softer side to her. Additionally, since Pit and Viridi met during the events of Uprising and both being (physically) around the same age, there's no controversy to the same level as with PaluPit.

However, that hasn't stopped the ship from getting it's own controversies. Mainly, complaints that are specific to Viridi's character, claiming that her turnaround from being a misanthrope to merely being snarky and a bit of a brat felt more than a bit rushed, and some feel that her continuing to hate humanity makes her bond with Pit feel a bit unearned. Others argue that Pit and Viridi continuing to fight each other, while burying their personal grievances against each other, is what makes the ship fun.

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