YanPai

YanPai is the het ship between Ayano Aishi and Taro Yamada from the Yandere Simulator fandom.

Canon
Ayano Aishi was born with a strange condition that caused her to feel numb at all times. Her mother, Ryoba Aishi, was born with the same condition, until she met Jokichi Yudasei (Ayano's father). He filled Ryoba's world with color, light, and warmth. Ryoba told her daughter that she would one day find her Senpai too. Ayano waited for that day to come. It was her only reason to live.

One day, during her high school years, she finally found him. Taro Yamada is the one who completed Ayano. She felt warm and complete; it was as if she had opened her eyes for the first time. Ayano wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. However, she then saw Osana Najimi, the first rival, who was trying to take Senpai away from her. Ayano felt that no one deserved Senpai more than her, and sought out to eliminate every girl who was trying to steal her Senpai.

Throughout the course of ten weeks, 10 rivals will be introduced. All rivals (with the exception of his sister) will fall in love with him. Ayano will have to eliminate her rivals in order to sabotage their chances with Senpai. These elimination methods range from non-lethal to outright murder. If Ayano doesn't elimate the rival within their given week, Taro will accept the rival's love confession, which will result in a game over.

In the concept of multiple endings, Yandere Dev states that “Ayano will get what she wants in every ending” [1 ]. Likely meaning she will attain Taro in the end one way or another, it’s just the way she gets what she wants. However the way the player plays and eliminates the rivals will affect the ending and Ayano’s confession. If Ayano’s reputation is -100, Taro will reject her confession [2 ]. The endings will likely range from good where Ayano and Taro happily get together, or bad where Ayano is rejected by Taro and/or will result in Yandere-Chan kidnapping Senpai and forcing him into a relationship.

YandereDev has also stated there to be a "True Ending". In this ending, a choice the player makes will determine what age Ayano becomes pregnant [3 ]. Meaning, Yandere-Chan and Senpai will have a child in this true ending. Since Ayano will get Taro no matter what way or outcome, this true ending is probably the most canonical. Overall, the player's choices and actions will dictate how much of a happy ending Yandere-chan and Senpai will have.

Fanon
Yanpai is one of the most popular ships in the Yandere Simulator fandom. Since the objective of the game is for Yandere-Chan (Ayano) to win over Senpai (Taro). Also because in canon, Ayano was only able to develop real emotions because of Taro and some fans thought it only made sense to ship them together due to the in-lore reasons as stated.

However, its main rival ship, Ayando, is preferred over by most fans, believing Ayano can do better than Senpai and ship her with Budo or any other male character.

Despite the amount of fan content compared to other ships, nonetheless Yanpai is still a fairly popular ship in the YanSim fandom.

Fans will also ship and/or even prefer the other variants of the ship; such as Yandere-Kun x Taeko (their genderbent counterparts), or Ayano x Taeko and Yandere-Kun x Taro.

There are also fanworks and AU's where the roles of both characters are switched. Ayano being the kohai (underclassman) and Taro being the yandere trying to win over Ayano. Some fans also create works/AU's where Taro and Ayano BOTH are yanderes and are a yandere couple.

Fandom
FAN-FICTION

Ayano Aishi/Taro Yamada tag on AO3

DEVIANTART

yanpai tag on Devaintart

ayanoxtaro tag on Deviantart

taroxayano tag on Deviantart