Janiel

Janiel, is the slash ship between Jay Hong and Daniel Park from the Lookism fandom.

Canon
Jay and Daniel first met at Daniel's first day at J High school, where he transferred to because of intense bullying from his last school. Jay, who was usually very reclusive and uncaring, tried to stop Zack from punching Daniel, even though they had barely ever talked to each other before. Jay also beat up the people who trash talked Daniel behind his back, even though Daniel didn't know anything about it. He gifted Daniel lots of bags of clothes for his birthday, because he noticed that people were making fun of Daniel for wearing cheap clothes. It was shown that in the day before Daniel's birthday, he had been struggling to write a birthday note for him, finally settling with just writing "Happy Bday". Some of the notes that he didn't give Daniel read, "Let's be friends" or "Don't misunderstand, just take my clothes". He also defeated some of the members of burn knuckles gang, who were planning to beat up Daniel.

The slave auction was one of the events of J High festival day. In the slave auction, girls bid on freshman guys, and the highest bidder can go on an 8 hour date with the winner. Jay desperately asked the auction staff whether he can bid too, but they denied his request as he was a guy. He was also ready to bid $1000, but by then, the auction was over. This moment can be interpreted as Jay trying to save Daniel from going on a date with Lala Kim, the queen of the slave auction who had an infamous reputation for her hellish dates, or that Jay wanted to go on a date with Daniel himself. It can also be interpreted as both.

Moments

 * Jay donated lots of balloons(streaming money) on Daniel's live stream with Duke.
 * Jay quitted smoking because a side character told him that if he stopped smoking, he would get a lover. The day after, Daniel asked Jay for help to study.
 * Jay was happy that Daniel came first in exams, even though he was the one who helped him study and was the previous rank holder.

Fanon
Janiel is a well received ship among the Lookism fandom. A good number of people ship it, while other insist that their feelings for each other is purely platonic. In AO3, Janiel is the most written ship under the Lookism tag. Lots of fans ship it along with Zami(Zack x Mira). There are also rival pairings, like Daniel x Zoe, Daniel x Crystal etc, and even though they have quite a bit of popularity, Janiel is the most popular ship in the fandom.

Fandom
Janiel tag on AO3

Jaesuk tag on Tumblr

Trivia

 * Jay doesn't talk at all, but Daniel somehow understands him even when he doesn't speak anything.
 * They both have a picture of the two of them together in their phone covers.