Jahani

Jahani is the het ship between Jason and Tahani from The Good Place fandom.

Canon
Jason and Tahani are soulmates and are introduced by Michael to their neighbours, Chidi and Eleanor. Tahani talks to them and when she asks Jason, who goes by Jianyu, for confirmation on her statements, he simply nods. Tahani explains to them that Jianyu is a Buddhist monk, who has taken a vow of silence, which he continues in death. Therefore, he smiles and nods as appreciation of things. Tahani seems a bit dismayed at this. She moves on to inviting Chidi and Eleanor to a welcome party that she and Jianyu are throwing at their huge mansion that night. When the evening begins, Tahani and Jianyu descend their grand staircase in the foyer to greet the guests. Michael welcomes the guests, with Tahani watches alongside Jianyu. The morning after the party, chaos reigns as there are flying shrimp, giant frogs and ladybugs, packs of giraffes running around, a storm and loud Ariana Grande music playing. Everyone's wearing blue and yellow striped clothing and Tahani asks Michael what to do, while Jianyu is seen by himself, looking worried and running away like everyone else.

Everyone gathers in Tahani and Jianyu's mansion, where Michael holds a meeting. While being nervous and not knowing what to do, Tahani's original outfit suddenly returns and everything starts to go back to normal. Everyone's invited to the town square where Michael gives a presentation of the day's activity: they get to fly. Tahani asks if she may say something and ascends the stage with Jianyu. She offers to assemble a team along with herself and Jianyu to clean up the mess from the panic and people volunteer. Tahani again informs the crowd that Jianyu is maintaining his vow of silence and gets a bit more frustrated as the asserts that he's even keeping in up in The Good Place. While she and Jianyu clean up, Tahani intimates that her Godmother was Princess Diana, but is a bit perturbed that he doesn't have a big reaction to her namedropping or can say anything about it.

Michael drops by and Tahani name drops again while praising the neighbourhood, but Michael's distraught about the glitch and leaves. Tahani tries to get Jianyu to talk by asking him to say what he's thinking as she says they should help Michael. Jianyu says nothing, and Tahani tries to play it off as an in-joke, but feels disconnected. To try and cheer up Michael, Tahani and Jianyu get ice cream with him, but it doesn't work and they watch as a crazed Michael kicks a dog into the sun. After rubbish starts raining from the sky, Michael gets further frustrated and Tahani continues to try and comfort him, back at their mansion. She tries to use Michael's defeat to get Jianyu to speak, but instead he gets up from meditating on the floor, sits down next to Michael and puts a hand on Michael's chest. Michael gets back to his old self and leaves, with Tahani saying she should attempt silence, which she does for about two seconds and Jianyu observes her, puzzled.

Fanon
A common ship in the fandom, and rivalling Jason's other canon ship, Janason. The fandom tends to have every ship under the sun, given how well the various characters are developed and fit together, but these two have a place in their own right, both due to being canon, at first assigned as soulmates and later, when they start hooking up, shown to be a classic opposites attract pairing that actually benefit a lot from being with each other. The show seems to have settled on Janet and Jason in favour of this pairing, however, which is decried by Jahani shippers.

Fandom
AO3

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