LoveGear

LoveGear is the slash ship between Ainosuke Shindo and Reki Kyan from the SK8 the Infinity fandom.

Canon
Both share the role of being main characters respectively, but while Reki is the protagonist, Adam is the counterpart of it as the show's main antagonist.

Reki used to admire Adam's skills at skateboarding for only a little of time shown in the anime, but after he saw his true form after Adam announces to Miya that he was no longer use for him, Reki realized the kind of person Adam was, and asked him to retract or "take back" the words he said to Miya. Adam asked what would happen if he didn't take them back, and then Reki showed him his skateboard and challenged him to a skating competition. Adam accepted and announced the prize of the winner would be Langa (to race against Langa).

However, even after trying on learning new techniques to defeat him, Reki failed in the race as Adam performed his "Love Hug" technique and in turn used it against Reki. It was unexpected for the latter and he ended up falling off his board mid-race with injuries all around his body and head. After his defeat, Langa became pushy about racing against Adam for what had happened with Reki, but the latter insisted that he not do so due to his newfound fear of Adam. While Langa heard him out, he still opposed not racing against Adam. Reki was reminded several times how he was on "a different level" than Adam, firstly reminded by Cherry after Reki asked him to tell him more about Adam. He then explained that Langa was planning on facing him which convinced Cherry to help the two out. He ended up accepting Reki's proposal on giving more information about Adam. A little while later, Reki accepted Langa's petition for racing against Adam, after Langa assured him everything would go fine, with the condition that he wouldn't be reckless at the race. Both promised it with a classic pinky-finger promise.

Reki learned about Adam, known as the "Matador of Love" through Joe in a restaurant. He pondered sadly about his childhood friend (who got Reki into skateboarding in the first place but then experienced major injuries that prohibited him from skating further) when Joe mentioned that every person who beefed against Adam couldn't escape, being severely injured and quitting skateboarding afterwards.

Langa and Adam's beef was later interrupted as the police had intervened in "S," leaving the race unfinished and without a winner. Reki was glad that Langa was fine, but once more, he told him to stay away from Adam with seriousness. Langa hesitated due to his own conflicting feelings on the matter, but agreed with Reki.

Later when Reki and Langa fought over the same issue, Langa was extremely sad, even forgetting about his race against Joe. He even thought Reki was with him when Adam called for him, only to be disappointed that it was only him. After reconciling, Adam could be seen spying on both Reki and Langa through drones. However, his attention was more focused on Reki, as he decided on replacing his next rival, Shadow (who had been injured and subsequently could not compete in any races), with Reki, in order to get rid of Reki as an obstacle towards his path to Langa. But at the same time, Adam said it would be more animated with Reki being an obstacle.

The day of the rematch, Adam was decided on getting rid of Reki, however his expectations failed as Reki had changed after his reconciliation with Langa and was more astute and brave in his rematch with Adam. At the end of the race, Reki's wheel malfunctioned and led to him losing as Adam crossed the finish line first. Other skaters at "S" found his courage and daring moves on the track to be praiseworthy, and they shouted his name as both Reki and Adam were sprawled across the floor. Adam angrily wondered why everyone was cheering for Reki, who had lost, instead of him, the winner of the race. Tadashi was reminded of a younger, happier Adam when Reki announced that skating (more specifically, the rematch he had with Adam) was fun. Tadashi admitted to himself and Adam that he was wrong in trying to take Adam apart from skating, as he had to make him love it once more instead. Adam headed towards Reki, but was stopped by Joe as he said that the beef was already over, insinuating that Adam wanted to fight still. Reki calmly reminded Adam about Joe's words of "never end up by yourself." Adam replied by asking if he thought that Reki, a nobody like him, had successfully fought back against him in the way Reki had. Tadashi then intervened for telling Adam that he would forfeit from his beef against Snow (Langa), as Langa was the only one who could help him on regaining his love (for skateboarding).

The moment when Langa won the race against Adam in the finale, Reki congratulated him for winning against Adam, as he said it was awesome and he was impressed of it. During the credits scene, an unexpected and seemingly uninvited guest, Adam, arrives at the place where they were celebrating Langa's victory. Reki saw Adam in shock launch himself from a helicopter directly towards Langa and held onto Langa as Adam fell towards them. The next scene switched to Adam falling towards the place without showing where specifically, the burst of his parachute (monikered with a heart) displacing everyone at the party.

Fanon
The ship is not especially popular, mostly due to their opposing personalities and the physical injuries Ainosuke sustained to Reki, as well as the age-gap between them, with Reki being a teenager and Adam an adult in his mid-twenties.

The ship has over 250 works created on AO3 with over 100+ explicit works, 50+ mature works, 50+ teen works, 20+ gen works, and 10+ unrated works, making it a pretty balanced ship ratings-wise.

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