Shelper

Shelper is the femslash ship between Piper McLean and Shel from the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles fandom.

Canon
Piper and Jason were one of the main relationships in the Heroes of Olympus series. However, following the events of those books, Piper begins to wonder how much of her feelings for Jason were real and how much were forced upon her by Hera, and then later Aphrodite. As she considers these things she is feeling, she decides to break up with Jason. It is possible that some of these conflicted feelings come from the idea of "heteronormativity" that were pushed onto Piper with her relationship with Jason.

After the defeat of Caligula and the death of Jason, Piper joins her Dad in moving back to Oklahoma. There she meets Shel, another Native American girl. Within a few short months, the two begin dating. Apollo accidentally interrupts them kissing on Piper's roof. Piper has already told Shel the truth about the Greek gods, and so she is not all too surprised to see Apollo. This proves that Piper has a deep sense of trust with Shel already.

In The Sun and the Star, Nico uses an Iris message to call Piper. Shel is there, and she stays in the room while the two discuss Nico's quest. Eventually Piper says she has to go because the two are planning on going hiking together.

Fanon
Shelper is a bit of a rarepair in the fandom, especially in comparison to other Piper ships such as Jasper or even Pipabeth. This may be due to the fact that Shel has not received much in terms of a personality or backstory, and thus is hard to characterize. It may also be because she was introduced in the Trials of Apollo series, rather than the Heroes of Olympus series, so some fans might not even be aware of her. Still, other fans are upset by the breakup between Jason and Piper, and consider Shelper to be a ship that was shoe-horned into the series.

Fans of the ship, however, enjoy seeing Piper genuinely finding herself after the events of The Seven prophecy. Supporters of Shelper believe that Piper was forced into a heterosexual relationship due to heteronormativity, and that her feelings for Jason were never truly romantic. Many fans headcanon Piper as a lesbian, who was in a relationship with a man due to "comphet". They also enjoy seeing a canonical femslash ship between teenagers, the WLW equivalent of the Solangelo ship.

Shelper currently has over 175 works on AO3. The first fic for this pairing was posted on October 7, 2020, the day after The Tower of Nero was released.

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