GwenAni

GwenAni is the het ship between Gwendal von Voltaire and Anissina von Karbelnikoff from the Kyou Kara Maou! fandom.

Anime
Gwendal and Anissina have been friends since childhood. Anissina taught Gwendal to knit at some point when they were children, and though he's not particularly good at it he still knits to help his concentration. Anissina is introduced in the third novel as "Gwendal's childhood playmate."

Gwendal and Anissina are often part of comic relief B-plots in later episodes of the series. Anissina often uses Gwendal as a test subject for her inventions. Gwendal often tries to escape this but doesn't succeed. Gwendal's naturally large amount of magical power makes him a good source for her mana-powered devices. He, Gunter, and on occasion Gegenhuber are her most common sources of mana. It's stated that he's been her test subject since they were children.

Gwendal is very tolerant of her experiments all things told. The only time he attempts to refuse her requests is when she orders him to kiss Gunter's forehead to remove a magical device that he couldn't remove. Prior attempts he had accepted with little argument: using a large magic-powered vacuum to suck the magical device off, spinning Gunter so that centrifugal force would pull the magical device off, and shampooing Gunter's hair to slide the magical device off. While Anissina's inventions seem silly at best and don't succeed very often, there are numerous examples of her inventions in use around the kingdom (the high-speed boats are the best examples), so it can be assumed that he believes her experiments have some value to the kingdom.

In the first gaiden Anissina's brother tired to marry her off for a large sum of money. It was Gwendal who intervened and stopped the marriage from taking place. In the novels Greta tends to say she's caught them in compromising positions but what exactly they were doing is left to the reader's interpretation.

Fanon
Gwendal and Anissina are a somewhat-accepted "canon" ship based on the source material. That being said, Anissina herself has stated that she "prefers to stay a single woman." They're the most popular of the het ships in the western fandom (coming in 10th out of all KKM ships on AO3). They're one of the only ships to still have active artists in the west so long after the series "completed." At times Jozak may be included in the ship as a third since he's expressed interest in both Gwendal and Anissina in the light novels.

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FAN FICTION
 * Gwendal/Anissina tag on Fanfiction.net
 * Gwendal/Anissina tag on Fanfiction.net
 * Gwendal/Anissina tag on Fanfiction.net

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Trivia

 * Anissina and Gwendal are the names of two Russian figure skaters (Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat).
 * There are some parallels between Gwendal and Anissina's relationship and philosopher Voltaire's relationship with scientist Émilie du Châtelet. While the two never married, they were partners for many years.