Naojoe

Naojoe is the het ship between Nao Egokoro and Joe Tazuna from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Canon
Nao and Joe both had the same First Trial upon waking up in the Death Game. Both of them were also the ones to unlock their restraints first and then figure out how to unlock their partner's restraints. After arriving in the Central Hall, Joe happens to stand beside Nao, both of whom are focused on Keiji Shinogi. In the chapter summary screen, Joe has his hand resting on the couch behind Nao. While Mishima gets executed in the Second Trial, Joe tells Nao not to touch his collar, implying she'll get burned. After Mishima dies, Joe again tells Nao she shouldn't be touching stuff, this time the severed, burnt head. In the manga, after Nao is found hiding in the kitchen, Joe is the one who takes initiative in calming her down.

Joe is initially motivated to find out who voted for Mishima, and further elaborates on this in the Main Game, saying if someone dear to him was killed like that, he would get upset and want to find the culprit rather than grieve. Nao, on the other hand, was sad and hurt. Joe asks Nao why she didn't get angry, since he feels it would have been more natural to. Joe pushes Nao to confess why she didn't care about the culprit, before Reko cuts him off and explains the truth. Nao is distraught, since if she hadn't voted for him, he wouldn't have died. Having a much softer tone compared to before, Joe then apologizes, for stressing her out and thinking that anyone who voted for someone other than themself had bad intentions.

Outside of their interactions, what Joe and Nao have in common is both being the Sacrifice, in the first and second Main Games respectively. As non-candidates brought into the Death Game to balance out some of the win rates, they were doomed to die. Both attempted to trick the others into voting for them, but ultimately failed. Their executions have the ability to be controlled by switches identical in appearance, which are given to Sara. Their deaths are explicitly pictured in the art gallery on the fourth floor.

Nankidai Twitter
March 28, 2018: Nao grips the sides of Joe's shoulders from behind and scarily tells him that he shouldn't be getting embarrassed by a nude drawing model because it's using the precious expenses of the art department.

March 31, 2018: Likely as a follow up to the tweet from March 28, Nao grabs Joe's hands, determined to make him more resistant to women so he can focus on drawing. Joe becomes very flustered.

Official 4-koma comics
S2 #15: Sara finds Nao holding Joe's arm, and becomes shocked that Joe is "that kind of guy", or in other words, cheating on Ryoko. Joe clears up the confusion by revealing that they mistook glue for sunscreen, and as a result got stuck together.

Fanon
Naojoe is a small ship in the fandom, due to them not interacting much with each other, and having much more popular rival ships, such as Joesara and Naoreko. A factor that sailed the ship were the few sketches they had together. In particular, without context, it makes it seem like Joe is blushing for being around Nao rather than the real reason. Some other reasons they have for being shipped together are for having wild hair and both being non-candidates and Sacrifices. They also have bright personalities, with Joe being more outgoing and Nao more reserved.

Trivia

 * Following how the participants' positions in the Second Main Game reflect the order of character portraits in discussions, Joe and Nao would have been almost exactly across from each other in the first Main Game.
 * Nao and Joe are next to each other on the box art for the.

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