Nekoteru

Nekoteru is the slash ship between Nekomaru Nidai and Teruteru Hanamura from the Danganronpa fandom.

Canon
Although they're classmates, the two rarely interact in canon. However, they still share a fair amount of interactions with each other. Those interactions are usually used to show Teruteru's "open tastes" when it comes to his sexuality, confirming he's either bisexual or pansexual.

In the Prologue of Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the boys are among those who have fun in the sea. When Teruteru asks the group if anyone would like a rub down of his suntan lotion, Nekomaru actually accepts the offer, not realizing Teruteru's perverted intention. Although the Ultimate Cook's words imply that he was hoping a girl would accept, he's quickly fine with a muscular man accepting instead, saying that "his tastes are pretty open," to which Mahiru replies they may be too open.

Nekomaru is among those who reacted the most sympathetically towards Teruteru upon hearing his motive to kill during the conclusion of Chapter 1's case.

In the first episode of Despair Arc, Teruteru is tied up after making sexual comments towards Sonia Nevermind. Initially, it's his teacher, Chisa Yukizome, who has him tied up. However, because he soon enjoys being tied up by a woman in an apron, Nekomaru quickly replaces her. While Teruteru is briefly confused, he soon ends up enjoying being tied up by a muscular man as well, making this the second time in the franchise that Teruteru was fine with Nekomaru going with his perverted fantasies instead of one of the girls.

Fanon
The ship sailed as a result of Teruteru being more than fine with Nekomaru fulfilling his perverted fantasies instead of one of the girls on two occasions.

While Teruteru's ships tend to be unpopular due to his perverted personality and the character himself being rather unpopular, this ship is one of the most popular ones involving him. Mostly because this ship is often used to show that Teruteru (and imply so with Nekomaru) is a part of LGBT community. Nonetheless, it naturally loses in popularity to Nekomaru's heavily teased ship with Akane. The ship is still a minor one and as such doesn't get many fan fictions or fan arts dedicated to it. It is, however, the second most written ship for Teruteru on Archive of Our Own, losing only to his ship with the protagonist.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

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