Marinic

Marinic is the het ship between Marine and Manic from the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom.

Canon
As the two appear in separate continuities, they have never met. In fact, Marine's first appearance was after Manic's last appearance. The closest connection any versions of Manic and Marine have is through the Pre-Super Genesis Wave version of Sonic, as he visited the Underground Zone, where he met Manic and his siblings (one of whom was a parallel version of Sonic) and later visited the Sol Zone, where he met Marine and Blaze.

Fanon
The ship is not very popular, and shipping this pairing is rare. Fanart of this pairing has been mostly done by DeviantArt user kittykitkit102. Other users known to ship this pairing (at least at some point) are CutelittlemouseyGirl, Amazingangus76 and CountryballFan (same person as PetStarPlanet). The name "Marinic" was first used for the pairing in a fan stamp uploaded in 2016.

Due to its nature, Marinic can be considered to be a crack ship. Explanations for why people ship them are often considered way too unconvincing for most people, and it in most cases it is a case of simply pairing all the semi-main characters. Reasons for pairing them vary from the pairing seeming fun from the two characters' starting locations being on a tree in the somewhat popular Sonic Fan character playset 2 by Birdhousebirdy on DeviantArt.

As the ship is not very acknowledged, it does not have active hating. However, sone who have seen the pairing dislike it due to them being from different dimensions and the age gap between the two. The former case can be worked out by having one of the two characters travel through different dimensions, as is the case with many other pairings involving Blaze or Marine. The latter case can be avoided by having fanwork of them take place exclusively in the future where an 8-year age difference doesn't matter as much, by having Manic not age for a certain period of time or just changing the characters' ages altogether (something official media is known to have done in the past, especially with Tails).

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Marine/Manic on FanFiction.Net

DEVIANTART



Trivia

 * The name Marinic has also been used to refer to a fusion of Mario and Sonic.