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. Many people hope it could develop more in canon, especially because of Higuchi’s frequent blushing and possible attraction to Gin.

While Higuchi canonically has a crush on Ryunosuke Akutagawa, AkuHigu is fairly disliked in the fandom due to being an unhealthy relationship that is extremely one-sided. Many people prefer HiguGin due to Higuchi being implied to be attracted to Gin as well, and how their relationship is a lot less toxic. Higuchi being a lesbian who suffers from compulsory heterosexuality is a fairly common headcanon in the fandom, and many people 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.

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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