Flarmin

Flarmin is the slash ship between Floch Forster and Armin Arlert from the Attack on Titan fandom.

Canon
Floch is shown to dislike Armin during the ceremony in honor for the fallen scouts when he was chosen to receive the titan serum instead of Erwin. It's unknown of Armin's opinion of Floch, despite this Floch is shown to not hold a strong hatred against Armin.

They first meet when Armin is shown to be dying as his body is burnt due to his sacrifice in order to distract the former Colossal Titan user, Bertolt. Not only Armin is dying but also the former Survey Corps commander, Erwin Smith, as his organs were demolished from the charge against the Beast Titan which Floch was apart from and the only survivor. As Levi decides who should eat Bertolt, Floch advocated it should be Erwin, meanwhile Mikasa and Eren opposed this and thought Armin was a much better idea. Armin is chosen instead of Erwin and this leaves Floch with survivor guilt from the charge, Floch is even shown sadden and even questions Captain Levi on his choice.

During the ceremony for the fallen soldiers Armin tells Floch that he understood how much he wanted to Erwin to live. But Floch is quick to criticize Armin for being the one chosen. Floch tells Armin that most of the military agreed that Erwin should've been saved instead of him, and claims that his survival was written as a mistake on the report for the battle. The argument continued between Floch and the Scouts until it was time for the nine survivors to receive medals from Historia.

After Floch joins the Yeagerists, becoming their de facto leader, he becomes more hostily violent, viewing all people who don't follow the Yeagerists ideology as "enemies to the Eldian empire," and this chauvinistic behavior leads him to beat up, torture and even kill former allies and people who are not from Paradis. Naturally, as Armin joins the Alliance to stop the Rumbling, him and Floch become enemies, though Armin doesn't seem to view Floch as Floch sees him, as an "enemy of the Empire."

The last time Armin and Floch see each other is after Floch and the Yeagerists kidnap the Azumabito and take them to Paradis' harbor to violently forcing them to cooperate with them. When Armin and the Alliance hear about this, they go there to help rescue the Azumabito, and to retrieve their flying boat in order to fled there with it. So in order to do so, Armin devices a plan, and goes along with Connie to meet with Floch. Once at the harbor, Armin tells Floch that they urgently need the Azumabito mechanics to pilot their flying ship so that they can pursue the Cart Titan. Floch doesn't believe him and starts suspecting that he's liying, so he kills the Azumabito engineers right then and there.

Fanon
The ship has mixed reactions amongst both fans of Armin and Floch due their differences. Some fans think that it was wrong for Floch to tell Armin he should've been dead in front of his face and that it breaks the relationship's potential. Others find the honesty of the statement refreshing and even think that it makes the ship more attractive, enjoying the potential of the Enemies to Lovers trope.

This ship currently rivals EreMin and Fleren, which both are very popular slash ships for the two.

Fandom
FAN FICTION