Ellen x Jenette

Ellen x Jenette is the femslash ship between Ellen Ripley and Jenette Vasquez from the Alien fandom.

Canon
Jenette Vasquez was a member of the combat unit deployed to planet LV-426 on the USS Sulaco, under the command of Lieutenant Scott Gorman. The unit was dispatched to Hadley's Hope, the main colony of LV-426, with two civilian advisors, Carter Burke and Ellen Ripley. As Ripley gave a briefing on Xenomorphs, Vasquez made jokes. She openly questioned Ripley's account of the Xenomorph. When the unit entered the central administrative building of the colony, they realised that a Xenomorph infestation had taken place. They eventually found Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, a young girl hiding in a ventilation duct and presumably the last survivor of the infestation.

Eventually, the marines were attacked by the Xenomorphs in the colony. After the action died down, she went threw their tactical options with the rest of the survivors, including Ripley. When Vasquez suggested using nerve gas on the Xenomorphs, Ripley proposed that they nuke them from orbit instead. Burke the began protesting against their plans of destroying what he described as an "important species". However, after this, Ripley and Corporal Dwayne Hicks took over command from Lieutenant Gorman, who had been knocked unconscious. Ripley's plan involved them and the rest of the survivors being picked up by Corporal Colette Ferro via dropship. However, the dropship was attacked mid-flight, thus causing the dropship to crash into the Armored Personnel Carrier, narrowly avoiding the survivors.

Following this, the remaining survivors fortified their position. Vasquez set up several sentry guns with combat technician William Hudson, but they were quickly overrun. When Ripley found herself trapped in the med lab with Newt and two facehuggers, Vasquez saved them by killing the facehuggers. Soon, Xenomorphs cut power to the building they were hiding in. Vasquez used her grenade launcher to hold of the Drones in order to alowe the rest of the survivors to escape. She covered the group's rear as they made their attempt at escaping. However, Vasquez was immobilised by acidic Xenomorph blood. She and Gorman then sacrificed themselves with a grenade, killing several Drones, aiding the other survivors, including Ripley, in their escape.

Fanon
The ship is the third most written ship for Jenette on AO3. However, this ship is largely overshadowed on Ellen's side by Dwayne x Ellen and Annalee x Ellen. On Jenette's side, it is rivalled by Jenette x Mark and Jenette x William. It currently has 3+ written works on AO3.

Fandom

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