Chenrich

Chenrich is the femslash ship between Alex Chen and Steph Gingrich from the Life is Strange fandom.

Canon
Alex and Steph meet each other for the first time when Alex goes to Rocky Mountain Record Traders, where Steph works as a manager. Alex surprises Steph dancing around, who later makes her choose between two records. Alex then sees her arguing with someone on the phone with a red aura around her, which makes Alex nervous. This is due to Steph being mad at the moment. When Ryan calms her down, this subsides and she ends up leaving the store.

Later, they meet each other again at the Black Lantern, where Steph apologizes for just storming off the other day. Then, she says Ryan ditched her, which is why she's sitting alone. And she invites Alex to play a jukebox game.

During Gabe's funeral, as a heated argument ensues where Alex once again sees red auras around the people fighting, overwhelmed, Alex runs upstairs, locking herself in her apartment. Steph carefully watches Alex leave, and decides to follow her, concerned for her. Alex asks Steph to come in and when Steph sees her guitar, she gets impressed to know Alex can play it. Steph then tries to lighten up the mood to make Alex feel better, so she starts talking. But when Steph remembers Gabe, she starts feeling extremely sad, as a blue aura shines around her. Alex decides to approach her to understand how she's feeling. Alex uses her power to piece together Steph's sadness and why she's feeling that way. This leads to a foosball game between the two, where Alex ends up telling Steph that she's into girls.

Later, while Diane is on her laptop and Alex wants to steal any information she can about her brother's dead, both Steph and Ryan come up with half-baked plan involving flirting with Diane. This puts Alex on the spot to pick who would be the "hotter" distraction. After Alex returns to her apartment, where Ryan and Steph are waiting for her, they show her they unlocked the drive. Alex then begins to listen to the messages inside it. Here, depending on If Alex took Charlotte's anger earlier or not, Alex will get angry and throw Gabe's foosball winner whiskey at the wall, causing Steph to storm out while Ryan goes after her. If she didn't, she won't destroy the whiskey and Steph won't leave and will instead stay to help Alex. However, this conflict will be resolved at the Spring Festival, when Alex apologizes to both Ryan and Steph, as Steph tells her that she should be the one apologizing for leaving when Alex was in a vulnerable time.

As Ryan and Steph go prepare for the festival, Alex thinks about who to give the rose to. In Haven Springs tradition, the rose is given to a person's true love. Alex goes to Steph's trailer and hands her the rose, which makes Steph really flustered as she says "this totally makes my night."

Fanon
is a rare pair within the Life is Strange fandom. Although it's the most popular ship within the Life is Strange: True Colors game fandom.

The ship currently has 192+ works in AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Variations

 * Luchenrich refers to the ship between Ryan Lucan, Alex and Steph