CameraShipping

CameraShipping is the slash ship between Miles Upshur and Waylon Park from the Outlast fandom.

Outlast
In 2013, Miles is a freelance investigative journalist. Waylon’s identity is unknown at this point, but he decides to become a whistleblower by emailing Miles about the inhumane acts happening at Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Intrigued, Miles drives to Mount Massive Asylum with a printed copy of Waylon’s email by his side. He enters the building through a side window to uncover and document the horrors that Waylon wrote about. Beyond the email, Miles and Waylon have no further interaction.

Outlast: Whistleblower
In 2013, Waylon is a software engineer working for Murkoff at Mount Massive Asylum. During his two week contract deal with the company, Waylon is horrified and disgusted at the inhumane acts taking place. He ultimately decides to become an whistleblower. In the moments before sending Miles the email in which their lives change forever, he anxiously thinks about his next action. Waylon finally decides that what Murkoff is doing is wrong and hits send before being interrupted by another Murkoff employee. Waylon exits the room to do his job. Not long after returning back to his laptop, Waylon is caught by Murkoff executive, Jeremy Blaire, who sends Waylon into the same experimental inhumane acts he just whistleblowed on.

Many hours later, near the end of Waylon’s night-long time attempting to survive the asylum, he escapes through a door which leads him to an open window where in the distance he can see a burning church. The same church that Miles himself was in a short time prior, one that was burned ultimately for him. Waylon manages to make it to the asylum’s main doors, where he’s met by Blaire again leaning injured against the doors. As Waylon moves closer to the door, trying to escape, Blaire jumps him, stabbing him in the abdomen. Waylon struggles to crawl away, as Blaire hastily limps after him, saying, “No one can know!” Moments later Blaire is picked up by the Walrider/Miles and is hosted high in the air before being exploded from the inside out. Picking himself back up, Waylon finally escapes. Waylon comes to find a red jeep parked out front — Miles’ red jeep. He limps for it and climbs inside, finding the car keys still in its ignition. Waylon picks up his camcorder one last time to see the shadow-like smokey figure of Miles infused with the Walrider standing outside near the entrance of the asylum. It begins to make it’s way for him and not wasting any more time, Waylon starts the jeep and plows through the asylum’s gates.

Fanon
is a popular ship within the Outlast fandom. As the protagonists from the first game, Outlast (Miles) and its overlapping DLC, Outlast: Whistleblower (Waylon), it wasn’t long before people began shipping them. In canon, Miles and Waylon never have any direct contact with each other, however fan works often portray them together in some way; from being friends and allies to becoming lovers as they share trauma from the same company.

On AO3, is the second most written ship within the Outlast (Video Games) tag; Miles’ most written and Waylon’s second most written. It has 205+ works in its slash/romantic tag, and 45+ works in its general/platonic tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Miles/Waylon tag on FanFiction.net
 * Miles/Waylon tag on FanFiction.net
 * Miles/Waylon tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * “” gets its name from both Miles and Waylon carrying camcorders in their games as it’s a vital piece of Outlast gameplay.
 * Miles and Waylon share the same voice actor, Shawn Baichoo.
 * Both men have no speaking parts, the only noises they make include grunts, screams and heavy breaths.

Variations

 * Polycamorous refers to the ship between Blake Langermann, Miles and Waylon