KiriTama

KiriTama is the slash ship between Eijiro Kirishima and Tamaki Amajiki from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
They first met when Tamaki, as well as the rest of the big 3, were introduced to class 1-A. After Mirio's fight against Class 1-A, Tamaki became interested in Eijiro and decided to invite him to participate in Labor Studies with him at the Fat Gum Agency. At first, Tamaki finds Eijiro's optimism scary. After Tamaki thinks Fat Gum is insulting him, Eijiro tells him that he was trying to cheer him up, Tamaki congratulated him on his optimism and compared him to Mirio, who he had known for many years.

Suddenly, villains appear and Tamaki was able to take him down easily. Kirishima was impressed with the speed with which Tamaki acted to catch them and while he was discouraged, Kirishima told him that it was unbelievable. When a villain shot Tamaki in the back, Kirishima quickly stepped in front of him to take the other bullet and then refused to let go of the criminal who had shot Tamaki earlier.

In the School Briefs vol.4, it's seen the trio between Fat Gum, Kirishima, and Tamaki hanging together by walking around food halls, while Tamaki was yanking his hoodie like a "shield", a hawker heads to the trio praising to Kirishima for doing a good work as being Fat Gum's sidekick, and he offers him onions for his takioyaki while saying that he had to give his "gloomy pal" (Tamaki) more food, so it would put a bit of pep in his step. Kirishima thanks him and then Tamaki asks Kirishima about the "gloomy pal" nickname that was given to him, Kirishima said that Tamaki had his hoodie pulled up saying that was kinda dark but didn't have to sweat that, while getting happy at the fact that Tamaki got his powers back, since he was shooted with a quirk-killing drug that was added to a bullet before. While they were walking talking, Kirishima gives a compliment about Mirio, which makes Tamaki a bit happy, since they were talking about someone close with Tamaki.

They got more moments as Fat Gum was called by police headquarters, like snucking through crowds of people for getting drinks, and hanging out for then resting in a spot in an alley.

Later, Fat Gum called both guys for catching a robber that was free amid the hubbub, while they were in undercover wearing happi coats, since wearing their hero's costumes were going to be a bit more hard for catching them. After catching the robber, both Kirishima and Tamaki were mentioned that they were patrolling together after everything that happened.

Fanon
This ship is considered more of a rarepair, due to it only having a few moments and the success of other more popular ships, such as MiriTama, KiriBaku, KiriDeku, and KiriMina. They are also both desirable to the fandom. However, people enjoy it due to the closeness the two developed from interning with Fat Gum, and how Eijiro always tries to encourage Tamaki. Tamaki also tells Eijiro that he shines brightly, which fans have interpreted to mean that both characters look up to and admire each other.

Most of the ship's fanart has Tamaki blushing or acting the crush type of nervousness around Ejiro, while Eijiro tries to help Tamaki to build up his self confidence with his own confidence to inspire Tamaki so he be the hero he is deep inside.

On AO3, the ship currently has 114 fanfics. Along with KiriTama having a reasonable size fanbase on Tumblr.

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Trivia

 * On the color page for Chapter 132, Tamaki is seen standing behind Eijiro.
 * During an image from the fourth light novel, Eijiro and Tamaki are seen going to the Festival together with happi coats.