Eiko x Selina

Eiko x Selina is the femslash ship between Eiko Hasigawa and Selina Kyle from the DC Comics fandom.

Canon
Eiko Hasigawa is the daughter of Tatsuo Hasigawa, head of a Gotham crime family bearing his name. She receives an order from her father to track down a party who interfered in an operation. This just happens to be Catwoman. Eiko is eager to comply. So one night, Eiko spies Catwoman and decides to follow, chasing after her across rooftops. It is the first of many rooftop encounters and one that will be mirrored at the end of the story arc when the two women part ways.

Through keen discernment Eiko notices a correlation between Catwoman’s disappearance and Selina Kyle’s increasing presence in Gotham. As Kyle becomes the head of the Calabrese family, he manages to figure out the connection between Catwoman and Kyle. Eiko decides to become Catwoman in the original’s void partly out of fascination and to undo some of what her father does. One of her first actions is to warn a member of the Forster Lane family (who recently aided Eiko) that the Hasigawas intend to take over the territory, snatching it from her father by ensuring that the rival family ally itself with Kyle’s Calabrese house. While observing Selina at an upscale restaurant and in between her first couple outings as Catwoman, Eiko begins to wonder her motivation for still following Selina. Her thoughts reveal that she’s started to fall in love with Selina. And that this may be the first time she’s fallen in love with another person, given how guarded her life is.

An encounter with Batman shows Eiko has bravado as she tries to impress her before being warned off her masquerade. She might have taken the advice except her father’s elimination of Ken. This surprise development greatly upsets Eiko but she contains her emotions and decides to continue her efforts to indirectly oppose her father. Being Catwoman gives her a measure of freedom to do this that she otherwise doesn’t have as well as the opportunity to interact with Selina.

As the story progresses, Eiko becomes more aware of her father’s morally questionable position as he allies the Hasigawa family with Black Mask (Roman Sionis) and uses his order to get close to Selina to her advantage, though building to a place of mutual trust is difficult given a Hasigawa assassination attempt on Selina and Eiko’s disappointment that Selina agrees the Calabreses will help distribute a heroin shipment for Hasigawa. Matters become much more complicated when Hasigawa himself declares war on Selina and the Calabreses on the assumption that it was she who turned Black Mask into the cops. Later that night, after a sexually tense private meeting between the two women at the Calabrese mansion, in which Selina rebuffs Eiko’s concern, Eiko dons the Catwoman garb and meets Selina on her penthouse balcony. What follows is a declaration of love and a mutual kiss.

With matters between the Hasigawa, Selina’s Calabreses, and other families like the Sons of Forster Lane escalating, Eiko becomes more active in her covert operations, offering help and to protect Selina. Selina’s response (“Go back to your father. Be my enemy and live.”) reveals that she genuinely cares for Eiko. Neither can stay apart for long as the news of Batman’s apparent death finds Eiko making another secret late night trip to comfort Selina. The panels in this sequence reflect a color change indicating night turning to morning, and that Eiko has spent several hours alone with Selina, and then sneaking home before her father discovers her absence.

Balancing family obligations and a secret life should be demanding enough but circumstances lead Eiko to become Spoiler’s trainer. The added responsibility may cause her to be careless in rushing to Selina’s penthouse only to be ambushed and shot by Roman Sionis who’s decided to eliminate Selina on his own. Happy in thinking he’s killed Catwoman, Sionis reconsiders his alliance with the Hasigawa while an unobserved Killer Croc rescues an injured Eiko. Sionis acts on a hunch and with a small number of loyal men storms the Hasigawa complex, killing bodyguards before executing Hasigawa himself, and in doing so takes over the family himself.

In the wake of her father’s death and burial, Eiko quietly schemes a grand plan of revenge and is both angry and touched when Selina sneaks into her bedroom to check on her. In turning her back, exposed by her clothing’s design, Selina notices that Eiko’s tattoo is now completed. This signifies an emotional transition for Eiko and may have ritual symbolism among real world Yakuza members. Selina returns the debt of Eiko’s help by getting Sionis out of the picture, allowing Eiko the opportunity to assert herself as head of the crime family in a manner that would certainly make her father proud. The final chapter of the story sees Eiko enacting her grand plan to burn down many of Gotham’s crime families. Without her father to hold her in check she becomes a whirlwind of violence and death. Just as a fight brings Eiko and Selina together for a kiss, a fight with a knife to the throat breaks them apart.

Fanon
Despite the uproar that Eiko's relationship with Selina caused when the couple was revealed, as this meant Selina was officially confirmed as bisexual, the ship is considered to be a rare pair within the DC fandom, being often overshadowed by the more popular ships of the franchise.

Fandom
FAN FICTION