Shizaya

Shizaya  is the slash ship between Shizuo Heiwajima and Izaya Orihara from the Durarara!! fandom.

Canon
The main reason for this ship is how obsessed with one another, literally. Ever since their meeting in high school, the two have hated each other, yet never leave the other alone. Izaya, despite living in Shinjuku, often goes to Ikebukuro for work, and is almost always caught by Shizuo.

Izaya often does things just to piss Shizuo off, including the nickname "Shizu-chan."

Ryohgo Narita, the author of Durarara!! stated that he had written Shizuo in because he thought Izaya needed a rival.

Narita has also written a Shizaya fanfic as an April Fools joke.

Their reasons for hating each other are, for Shizuo, he is annoyed at Izaya's cunning attitude. For Izaya, he calls him inhuman, a monster even, and hates that he can't predict Shizuo's actions like every other human (except Simon.)

Despite this hatred towards each other in the main series, their character songs and the Izaya spin-off novels imply otherwise. In Shizuo's newest character song, Ruby no Yubiwa (Ruby Ring), he sings about losing a lover. Translation can be read in the video.

On Izaya's side, his new song, Katte ni Shiyagare (Do As You Please), he sings about a lover leaving him, and how he was too embarrassed to admit he was in love. Translation can be read here. (It's also important to note that the song uses "Sayonara" and "Abayo," which Shizuo and Izaya say to each other right before their final fight.)

There's quite a bit of official art between the two as well. These photos from the mobile game. This photo. The cover art for one of the Ketsu DVDs. (Which, coincidentally, was the same volume with Izaya's character song.)

Fanon
Shizaya is, one of the most, if not the most, popular ship in the Durarara!! Fandom. It has garnered many fans since the novel's release in 2004, with many calling Shizuo and Izaya's relationship a yin and yang. Some people who dislike Shizaya ship Shizurona and/or Izanamie

Fans have also speculated that Izaya calling Shizuo inhuman is him denying his own love for Shizuo. In Orihara Izaya and The Sunset, the first novel of the Izaya spin-off series, Izaya tells Sorozo that "Because [he] never tried to look at the human parts of that monster, [he] lost." This is seen as a large turning point for the ship as a whole.

Because of Shizuo and Izaya's relationship in the series, the ship is heavily debated throughout the fandom. People for the ship often describe it as a "love-hate relationship." People against the ship believe that it is just hatred, with nothing else.

This Tumblr post by user Zephyrsus goes into depth about the theory of Izaya being in unrequited love with Shizuo.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Komaeda/Hinata tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Komaeda/Hinata tag on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * Izaya's nickname for Shizuo, "Shizu-chan," wasn't made by him; rather, it was a nickname from a girl who went to school with Shizuo in elementary school.
 * Their voice a

ctors, Daisuke Ono and Hiroshi Kamiya, are best friends in real life, and run a radio show together.
 * In fact, Izaya's birthday is on Ono's birthday (May 4), while Shizuo's is on Kamiya's (January 28).