JereMike

JereMike is the slash ship between Jeremy Fitzgerald and Michael Afton from the ''Five Nights at Freddy's fandom.

Canon
Jeremy and Michael are both protagonists in the main series. Jeremy was a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's in the second game. While Michael is a recurring protagonist, having had the same job in the first game (as "Mike Schmidt"), as well as Sister Location (as "Eggs Benedict"). Though the timeline is a bit unclear, it is likely that Jeremy and Michael were security guards in the same year, 1987, though for different locales. Since the both of them were nightguards at their own work, they sort of share a similar experience. The two of them both worked one week at the establisment. During their nightshifts they needed to survive from the animatronics that would roam towards them and try to kill them. They both were stuck in their office during their nightshifts. This is where their similar experience kinda ends, since Michael would need to use lights to check the hallway and close the doors, while also checking the cameras and making sure that he does not run out of power. Meanwhile Jeremy does not have any doors to protect himself from the animatronic and is only able to use a spare freddy mask, camera and a flashlight with limited power. Not only but he also needs to wind up a music box. Both Jeremy and Michael survived their work. However, Michael did not survive his job at Sister Location.

Fanon
JereMike had some popularity during the early days of the fandom, right when Five Nights at Freddy's 2 came out. People started shipping them as soon as it was revealed that the protagonist of the second game has a different name than the protagonist of the first game. Since most of the ships in this fanbase are fanon-based, people went on to ship the two human guys that were known at the time. Though "Mike" (Michael) became a fairly important character in the series later on. On the other hand not much is known about Jeremy aside from the year he worked at Fazbear's and his name. Some speculated that Jeremy was another alias for Michael, but once the full timeline of the series was released, this became incredibly unlikely. The ship still has some popularity, since Jeremy is one of the few non-Animatronic characters who actually seems to be close to Michael's age. This has led to some people believing that it could've been a thing before Michael was cursed to haunt his own corpse.

With both of them having tides to Freddy's and Michael doing what he could to keep his father from hurting people, have created AUs that has Michael surviving the fire and teams up with Jeremy. After learning the reason why the Animatronics tried to harm him and agrees to help Mike ensure that the darker side of Freddy's doesn't harm any more people. This AU has the two become friends who were both haunted and scared of what they have been through.

A Tumblr user who goes by birdie-ghost has also created an AU that circles around the two men. As it has them as childhood friends who grew up into becoming a couple and serve as the fathers of Gregory. Since there are theories of Michael possibly being Gregory's father or is simply aquatinted with the kid's parents.

Fandom
FAN FICTION