Falox

Falox is the slash ship between Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi from the Star Fox fandom.

Star Fox 64
Little is known of their history together at any point prior to the Lylat War. However, when Andross declared war on the Lylat System, Falco accepted the invitation from Fox to join him as a member of the reformed Star Fox Team after the original team was broken apart by Pigma years ago. During the missions, Falco's role in the missions is to help Fox uncover alternate routes to harder missions if certain conditions are met. One of the examples is during the second half of the Corneria stage is where Fox has to save Falco from three foes targeting him as he will be forced to withdraw if left alone and once the enemies are eliminated before it happens, Fox must then go through the stone hollows upon reaching the water area and once Fox goes through all of them, Falco will be impressed enough to give Fox an alternative route to fight the Attack Carrier on the Hard route as opposed to the Granga boss from the Easy route. If even one of the conditions is not met, Fox won't take the hard routes, as if Fox misses one of the stone hollows, Falco will not reveal the new route, and on the other hand, if Falco is down, going through all the stone hollows is rendered pointless since Falco won't be around to witness Fox going through them and won't be able to reveal it.

A more subtle hint occurs in Sector X, where if Fox chooses to go left at a fork, Falco will say, "I found a gate! Looks like a warp!", though he. Granted, if coming from Katina, Bill Grey will appear and help shoot at the gray gate panels to make it easier to open them, as missing one of them will force the team to fight Spyborg instead of warping to Sector Z. In Macbeth, Falco will hint about a fuel bunker on the right side and will later not hesitate to help activate one of eight switches to open the lock to the lever which will change the route on the railroad which ends the boss fight with the Forever Train Engineer immediately. If coming from Zoness, Katt Monroe also assists in activating a switch. When Fox and Falco interact on Titania, Falco comments that Fox looks better in a tank, which the latter invites him to come down with him, which Falco turns down, stating that he can be a pain in the neck. If Fox does not have enough kills in Sector Y when he says that they will break through the fleet, Falco will retort if that is the best he can do, and similarly at the end of the mission, he will tell him in frustration that he worries about his own hide. If Fox completes the game on the Easy Route, Falco begrudging tells Fox that he did good, but if Fox completes the game from the Hard Route, he will immediately praise Fox with sincerity and respect with his teammates.

Star Fox Adventures
Falco is absent for most of the game all the way up until the final battle with Andross, where Falco throws a Smart Bomb into Andross's mouth to save Fox from being caught in his jaws. Falco will continue to give Fox the Smart Bombs to give him the advantage against Andross up until he is defeated for good. Falco opts back into the team which Fox allows him to return. The newly freed Krystal also joins the team with Falco poking some fun at Fox for his crush on Krystal.

Star Fox: Assault
Fox and Falco along with the rest of the team, immediately go into action upon learning of the Oikonny Rebellion on Fortuna and they act quickly. However, Oikonny is taken down by supposed "reinforcements", who turn out to be even bigger threats called the Aparoids, who seek to assimilate anything they come into contact with. Throughout the game, they learn that the Aparoids can assimilate both robotic and even organic beings and transform them into Aparoids. In the Fichina stage where Fox goes inside the Climate Control Center to get it back online after the area suffers a blizzard. When Fox is attacked by the infected Sentry robots, Falco flies in to rescue him from the now hostile machines and Fox goes wing riding on Falco's Arwing to take out the remaining Aparoids within the vicinity and getting the Climate Control Center back to normal.

Fanon
Falox is a somewhat popular ship amongst the Star Fox community as it has been shown through many works of fanfiction and fan art. Falco and Fox have a strong rivalry with each other, while much friendlier than the Star Wolf members such as Leon or Wolf respectively as shown in the manga which have them in the simulations where they compete against each other and much later after Falco leaves to fly alone for a time-being, Fox competes with Slippy, whom then notes that he isn't as much of a good rival to him as Falco is. Even when the two of them get into arguments, Falco is forever loyal to Fox and will go to extreme lengths to help him out in battle whenever he needs it. In the original comics, when Fox is being unreasonable and tries to go to the black hole, Falco beats him up while telling him that his going into a life-threatening situation hurts him more than his punches do, showing that Falco cares about Fox to the extent that losing him would end up causing emotional pain for him and his teammates.

Fandom

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