Nesscas

Nesscas is the slash ship between Ness and Lucas from the EarthBound and Super Smash Bros. fandom.

Canon
Ness and Lucas never interact with each other within their games, only meeting each other with their Super Smash Bros appearances.

In Brawl's story mode, Subspace Emissary, Lucas is running away from the King P. statue, but trips and falls. Just as the statue is about to crush him, in comes Ness, who destroys the statue and saves Lucas. Inside the statue is Porky, who Ness and Lucas then fight together. Afterwards, Wario attempts to trophicate Lucas while he's unguarded, but Ness notices and pushes him out of the way just in time. As a result, Wario gets away with the trophy version of Ness. After helping Pokemon Trainer in defeating some Primids, Lucas follows after them, determined to save Ness.

In Brawl's Solo Event 21: "Visit to Onett", Lucas fights Ness on the Onett stage. In Co-op Event 9: Those Who Wait in Onett, Lucas and Ness team up against Luigi and Yoshi on the Onett stage. In Lucas' Classic Mode of Smash Ultimate, he faces off against Ness in Magicant for his first battle. In Ness' Classic Mode, he fights Lucas in New Pork City for his second battle. In Smash, Ness and Lucas both know PSI Magnet, PK Fire and PK Thunder, as well as PK Starstorm which they use in their Final Smashes.

As for similarities between the two, Ness and Lucas are both young boys who act as the protagonists of their respective games. Both wear shorts and a striped t-shirt, with their outfits using the primary colours red, yellow, and blue. Both have PSI abilities, and some of the same ones, specifically Lifeup, Healing, Flash, Shields, and their own signature attack named after their favourite things. Both Ness and Lucas have a sibling and a dog.

Fanon
Despite never interacting in the EarthBound universe, Nesscas is the most popular ship in the fandom. Its popularity is largely due to them interacting in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Nesscas is quite a controversial ship, the main point of contention being that there seems to be copious NSFW content for it despite being an underage ship, especially when compared to other pairings in the fandom. Nesscas fans argue that the more questionable fans and content should not determine that the ship itself is bad. Other stances against the ship are based on their placements in MOTHER series timeline, where they have never met and never would due to existing in different times. This is a reason why they are most often shipped within the Smash universe, as they are shown to actually exist at the same time there. As a result of the negative reputation of the ship, some much rather prefer Ness and Lucas to simply be friends.

Nesscas is a large rival of Nesspaula, which is yet another reason that some oppose the ship. There are a good many fans, however, that like both ships, sometimes even combining them to form Nesspaulucas. Nesscas is also often shipped alongside Clausten.

Aside from being shipped within Smash, High School AUs are common in fanfiction. For both romantic and platonic interpretations of the ship, Ness often is one to help Lucas come out of his shell, or Ness reminds Lucas of Claus in some way. They are also sometimes headcanoned to not get along well at all when they first met.

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 * Ness/Lucas tag on FanFiction.net
 * Ness/Lucas tag on FanFiction.net

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 * Nesscas on the Shipper Nation Amino

Trivia

 * Lucas can equip the Friend's Yoyo, which is commonly thought to be Ness's yoyo that Porky took with him.
 * One of Lucas's possible head equipment is the Red Hat, a baseball cap that looks like the one Ness wears.
 * While Lucas uses sticks as his weapon, he can also equip a baseball bat in New Pork City as a reference to Ness's main weapon.
 * The theater in New Pork City displays various footage of Ness and on his adventures in EarthBound, allowing Lucas to see what Ness looks like, although without knowing who he actually is.