MioShun

MioShun is the slash ship between Mio Chibana and Shun Hashimoto from the Umibe No Etranger fandom.

Canon
Mio and Shun are two strangers who met by the shore in Okinawa, One is a high schooler who just lost his parents who usually sits on the bench near Shun's home, the other is an aspired novelist who works and lives near the ocean where Mio usually sits every day, he only watches Mio with worry from afar until one day he decides to talk to him. They become pretty close, but Mio suddenly had to leave the island to pursue his studies. He eventually comes back 3 years later and is certain he is in love with Shun, but this gets more difficult as the girl who he was arranged to be married with, also comes back plus she still has strong feelings for him, but she came to Okinawa to tell him that he should come back to his hometown because his father is ill.

The Stranger by the Beach
Shun goes outside to complete the shop's tasks and sees a boy sitting on the bench by the shore, Shun looks at him with worry because he thinks Mio looks miserable but he decides to not interfere and goes inside. Shun the following day sits outside on the bench waiting for Mio, he finally comes while walking to school, so Shun tries to start a conversation but he just ignores Shun and walks by. During his shift at the shop, he sees Mio sitting on the bench once again while Mio gets up to leave, Shun yells "Hey, Wait!" Mio then stops at his tracks and turns around to face Shun. Shun then holds up a bag filled with the shop´s leftovers and he asks Mio if he is hungry, Mio replies with ¨Not really.¨ Shun gets flustered then puts the bag down "Ah, right of course. I'm sure you have dinner waiting." Mio looks down at the bag and says "Are you giving me that?" Shun holds the bag up again, so Mio can take it "Ah, sure." Shun comes home soaked in rain, so his grandmother gives him a towel to dry off while he dried off himself, he looks down and sees a plant. His grandmother tells him that Mio came by and gave him that to thank him for the bread, he then smiles to himself until his grandmother said "Mio-kun's mother passed away apparently." Shun then looks shocked and his grandmother continues to talk about Mio's situation. Mio sits on the bench at sundown, again filled with memories of his deceased mother. His thoughts get interrupted when he hears a voice "Can I sit beside you?" he turns around quickly and see's Shun then he scoots over to make room for Shun. They make conversation but once Shun said "Don't you feel lonely being always by yourself." Mio turned furious "What?!" Shun quickly apologized "Huh? Sorry." Mio turned to Shun with a frustrated look "You're the one who is always looking at me!, It's creepy, disgusting.." Shun being a homosexual, gets hurt by that comment then memories of people taking behind his back flows through his head. The next day, Mio apologizes and clears up the misunderstanding that he didn't say that to offend him because Shun's a homosexual but because people keeps looking at him with pity and that he doesn't want their pity because they truly don't understand him.

Fanon
MioShun is the most popular ship due to them being the main couple in anime and manga plus in the series there is only a few characters. Fans from the fandom find it weird that Mio and Shuns age gap is a 7 year difference, also because Shun took interest in Mio when he was just in high school and was only 17 years old, while Shun was around the age 24, pre-timeskip.

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Trivia

 * Shun won an award for his debut novel, so Mio wrote him a postcard to congratulate him.
 * In the english dub, Mio was voiced by Justin Briner (known for voicing Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia), while for Shun he was voiced by Josh Grelle (known for voicing Armin Arlert in Attack on TItan).