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- People have to be worth their titles. Don't you think, nurse Anya?
- —Jimmy to Anya when she asks if he could give Curly his painkillers
Jimanya is the het ship between Jimmy and Anya from the Mouthwashing fandom.
Canon[]
Jimmy and Anya are co-workers and fellow crew members at Pony Express, though despite being this, Jimmy does not respect Anya. During his psych evals with Anya, Jimmy fails to take her seriously, disregarding her qualifications and mocking her as a medical professional, giving sarcastic and sexualized answers to the questions he is asked. It can be seen that his distaste is solely directed at Anya, as when Curly does the eval for her, as he takes the evaluation fairly seriously and completes the questions truthfully.
In a conversation with Curly, Anya reveals that she is scared of Jimmy, and purposefully acts submissive towards him, she feared Jimmy to the extent of hiding the only firearm on board from him, knowing that, even if she couldn't use it to defend herself against him, she wanted to make sure he never had it.
It is heavily implied that before the events unfolding in the game, Jimmy had raped Anya, a violation that not only left her shattered, but also resulted in her pregnancy. When Anya revealed her condition to Jimmy, his response was to tell her to “take care of it” before turning away, exposing his utter lack of remorse and his singular focus on the inconvenient evidence of her pregnancy rather than on the violence he had inflicted. As Anya would most likely reach full term before the end of the haul, there would be no denying the pregnancy when they would eventually reach Earth, and thus, no denying that Jimmy would have assaulted her to begin with. Upon his realization of this, Jimmy knew that he would be charged for rape the moment they got home. Faced with taking responsibility for his crimes, Jimmy purposefully crashes the Tulpar into an asteroid.
After the crash, Anya has consistent fawn responses around Jimmy. She is extremely careful not to make him upset and praises him for simple tasks. Anya is also very easily startled by Jimmy's sudden appearances throughout the game, especially at night. However, even so, there is still a degree of comfortability between them, as shown when she sarcastically tells Jimmy how capable he is. She doesn't hate Jimmy and refuses to believe he's a bad person at heart.
Anya often asks Jimmy to give Curly his painkillers for her, likely due to memories of her assault being triggered by both the act of forced insertion, and the sounds produced by Curly during it. Anya is always cautious around Jimmy and flinches when he interacts with her.
He consistently dehumanizes and belittles Anya, however, pushes her death out of his mind, until he is forced to pass her corpse while retrieving the gun. When he set up the second birthday party sequence, he sat Anya next to him and imagined her praising him and calling him their captain.
From Jimmy's guilt sequences, her absence makes it seem that he did not feel guilt for her death or raping her but was concerned only about her pregnancy. However, that's not entirely true, as he could have been pushing what he did out of his mind because, with his fragile mental state, coming to terms with what he did to her and the monster he really was, and knowing her doomed fate was all because of him, would have destroyed him.
Fanon[]
Considering what Jimmy did to her, it's no surprise the ship is easily the most hated one in the fanbase. Being one of the main reasons that fuels the Jimmy name censorship gag that goes on within the fandom.
Though discussion about the accident is very common to find in and out of the fanbase. Along with people having a few different interpretations on why Jimmy raped Anya, some common ones are that she was the most vulnerable crew member in Jimmy's eyes, or that he had deluded himself into believing it was happy and consensual. Fans point out Jimmy's most likely Played For Laughs attraction to cartoon horses and compare it to his dehumanizing perspective on Anya. The call-out left open spaces for explanation on why Jimmy is canonically abusive and degrading of Anya to the point he expresses no mourning or dismay over her suicide.
Many fanon interpretations of the ship exist, including a reversed AU, often known as the Icarus or Anti-Tulpar AU, where Anya is rude and intimidating, and Jimmy is submissive and shy. Additionally, AUs include pre- and post-canon AUs where they're in a relationship pre-SA or get married and raise the child together, respectively.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Anya/Jimmy tag on AO3
- Anya & Jimmy tag on AO3
- TUMBLR
- @Timely-Jimanya on Tumblr
- Jimanya tag on Tumblr
- Jimanya posts on Tumblr
- JimmyAnya tag on Tumblr
- JimmyAnya posts on Tumblr
- Jimya tag on Tumblr
- Jimya posts on Tumblr
- Jimmy x Anya tag on Tumblr
- Anya x Jimmy tag on Tumblr
- TIKTOK
- Jimanya tag on TikTok
- Jimmy x Anya tag on TikTok
- Anya x Jimmy tag on TikTok
- WIKI
- Jimmy's Relationship with Anya on the Mouthwashing Wiki
- Anya's Relationship with Jimmy on the Mouthwashing Wiki
Gallery[]
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Fanart[]
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| SHIPS | ||
| het | Ansuke • Curlya • Jimanya | |
| slash | BoJimmy • JimCurly | |
| family | Swansuke | |
| friend | Swanya | |
| cargo | Curly & Painkillers💊 • Jimmy x Polle | |