HiguGin

HiguGin is the femslash ship between Ichiyo Higuchi and Gin Akutagawa from the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom.

Canon
Higuchi and Gin are both part of the Port Mafia. Higuchi works with Gin’s brother, Ryunosuke, being part of the Command Unit and acting as his assistant and bodyguard. Gin is part of the Black Lizard, the assault group of Port Mafia that handles the organization's most unsavory jobs. Despite being part of the same organization, Higuchi and Gin do not interact very much.

Higuchi and Gin are first seen interacting after the former fails to protect Ryunosuke in a fight and he ends up comatose. Gin is upset, and sneaks up on Higuchi in the bathroom, pointing a knife at her neck and telling her that if she had really intended to kill her she would already be dead.

Their next meeting is more comical, Higuchi seeing Gin and Ryunosuke getting into a car together and not recognizing Gin out of her assassin attire, she mistakenly believes they are a couple, and feels extremely dejected. Higuchi convinces herself that the woman must be an undercover assassin sent for an evil scheme, and vows to discover the woman's identity. While Higuchi searches for the women, she sees her exiting a laundromat and starts to chase her. Gin ends up in a dead-end alley, where Higuchi corners her to see her with a ponytail up and putting on her mask, and Higuchi recognizes her as Gin. During this interaction both are seen with a blush on their face.

Later on after Higuchi is turned into a vampire, she is the one to bite Gin and turn her into one as well.

In Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! They go to the public baths because the Mafia's ones are broken. Higuchi's plan is to find out if she really is a woman by her own eyes. At the end of the episode, we see Higuchi running out of the building, blushing and saying "She's a girl! More than I needed her to be!".

In the volume 23 omake, Higuchi invites Gin to a café on one of their off-duty days. Gin, however, misunderstands and assumes that they're going for work purposes. Higuchi is disappointed that Gin came wearing her work clothing, meanwhile Gin is confused as to why Higuchi isn't dressed for work.

Fanon
HiguGin is a decently popular ship in the Bungo Stray Dogs fandom, being the 6th most written on AO3. While it’s popularity is overshadowed by other ships, it is the most popular femslash ship and the most popular ship for both Higuchi and Gin in the fandom. Fans of this couple hope it could develop more in canon, especially because of Higuchi who blushed once with an embarrassment around Gin in one episode of BSD Wan!.

While Higuchi canonically has a crush on Ryunosuke Akutagawa, AkuHigu is fairly disliked in English fandom while in other fandoms it's well accepted. The main reason why people prefer HiguGin is because of hating on Akutagawa and Higuchi's relationship and considering them unhealthy, forgetting about that Akutagawa's cold nature was formed as a result of his dark past and his goal to impress Dazai but despite of this he tries to save her in some moments and thankful to her. Higuchi being a lesbian who suffers from compulsory heterosexuality is a headcanon of some people in the fandom, and they believe she has mistaken her admiration and dependency on Ryunosuke as attraction to him.

Higuchi and Gin tend to be shipped alongside Atsushi and Akutagawa as Shin Soukoku is the second most popular ship in the fandom. Given Higuchi’s crush on Akutagawa, pairing her with Gin no longer presents her as a love rival.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Both Higuchi and Gin have siblings, though Higuchi’s sister was only shown in the manga.
 * They have several matching costumes in the Bungo Mayoi game.