Incest Yay Shipping in Video Games.
- BioShock Infinite:
- It's near impossible to find a Lutece fan who doesn't ship them together. In fairness they're not really siblings, but Screw Yourself isn't much better.
- Booker and Elizabeth have an enormous fandom despite the whole father and daughter thing that was kind of an important revelation.
- BlazBlue:
- Brothers Ragna the Bloodedge and Jin Kisaragi are possibly the most popular yaoi pairing, and doubly supported by the two's fierce rivalry. What really sells it is Jin's rather unhealthy obsession with killing Ragna, and the creators' tendency to play with it in the various Gag Reels.
- Ragna and Noel Vermillion, whose fandom weren't impeded at all by the revelation Noel is a clone of Ragna and Jin's sister Saya.
- Ragna/Nu (who is also a clone, like Noel). Nu is a full blown Yandere for Ragna, and all of her interactions with him have very overt overtones.
- Magus and Schala of Chrono Trigger are often a target of this by some fanfic writers, building off of some perceived implication that the siblings were attracted to each other when they lived in Zeal. Note that Magus was about 9 or 10 at the time, while Schala was in her late teens.
- Andrew and Ashley Graves from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley tend to bicker Like an Old Married Couple and, given that both of them are conventionally attractive, fans quickly stated shipping them. Then Episode 2 came out and turned up the Incest Subtext to the point that Brother–Sister Incest became a potential future for the siblings.
- Cuphead and his pal Mugman are occasionally interpreted as this. Whether this also qualifies as a Toy Ship depends on how you interpret the clashing definitions of their Vague Ageelaboration .
- Dead or Alive:
- There's a large yuri fandom sect dedicated to shipping Kasumi with her aloof half-sister/cousin, Ayane. Most often seen on Rule 34 and various "booru" sites where Kasumi and Ayane are frequently paired with each other.
- Kasumi-Hayate is also fairly popular, mostly in fanfiction. Mainly due to Kasumi's fierce loyalty and dedication her brother. She even went so far as to flee her home village to seek vengeance on her uncle, Raidou, for crippling her brother. A decision which made her an outcast, thus she can never return to Hayate's side. Which has lead some to interpret their relationship as that of Star-Crossed Lovers, rather than siblings.
- In Devil Survivor, the second most popular pairing for the protagonist his cousin Naoya. Most of this comes from Naoya's strange obsession with him, but, interestingly, the revelation that Naoya and the protagonist are also brothers, and in fact the reincarnations of the original Cain and Abel, respectively only seems to have made the pairing more appealing to the fangirls.
- Considering that Dragalia Lost is about the relationship between the Alberian Royal Family, this was inevitable. The most obvious paring would have to be Euden and Zethia, mainly because Zethia is a Damsel in Distress and Euden is a Knight (actually, prince) in Shining Armor. They have an incredibly close bond together, and, despite being separated for most of the game, it strengthens even further as the game progresses. Many see their relationship as paralleling that of Anne and Marcy, whom are very commonly shipped together for similar reasons. With that said, Euden is implied to be Asexual, so some have tried shipping Zethia with Nedrick instead. There’s also Zena, whom is also shipped with both Nedrick and Zethia. Safe to say, between the four of them, they’ve been paired up together every which way. While not as popular as the more central characters, some also like to ship Leonidas with Chelle.
- Hawke/Bethany has a surprisingly strong following in Dragon Age II. Isabela and Merrill weren't everyone's cup of tea, and Aveline wasn't a love interest. Cue a large amount of people shipping Hawke with his/her younger sister. There's also a considerably smaller, but still noticeable amount of shipping for Carver/Hawke.
- Fraternal twins Anna and Mihael in Dragon Valor.
- Far Cry 5: There are fans who ship at least two of the three Seed brothers together, or even as a One True Threesome. The most popular seems to be John/Joseph, as John is shown to be highly obsessed with and clingy towards Joseph.
- While it's likely that some degree of Incest Subtext was intentional in Fatal Frame II, especially when it comes to Mio and Mayu, the latter being portrayed in the remake as more or less being a yandere for for the former, all the twins in the game get shipped to some extent. Itsuki and Mutsuki are an especially popular pair, as their Crimson Sacrifice Ritual failed apparently due to there being too much love between them.
- Final Fantasy:
- Faris/Lenna from Final Fantasy V has some popularity. The general interpretation for this pairing is that Faris's Big Brother Instinctnote towards Lenna is actually romantic interest.
- From FFX-2 we have Yuna and Rikku, largely due to Rikku being touchy-feely with her cousin and affectionate towards her. At one point, Rikku even compares herself and Yuna to Lenne and her dead lover Shuyin, with Rikku empathizing with Shuyin's desire to protect Lenne at all cost - just as Rikku had done for Yuna during her pilgrimage.
- Brother is Yuna's other cousin who canonically nurses a crush on her - but exploring it is not particularly popular.
- Due to the nature of "Subtle Romance" of Final Fantasy XII, some fans decided to assume that Basch has no eyes for anyone but his twin brother Noah/Gabranth and vice versa.
- And in Final Fantasy XIII, there is Lightning and Serah.
- Fire Emblem:
- The king and queen of this trope would be half-siblings Eldigan and Lachesis, while the prince and princess would be fraternal twins Eirika and Ephraim.
- The romance system in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War allows for Kissing Cousins, of which two pairings are actually half-sibling incestnote .
- The romance system in Fire Emblem: Awakening allows for cousin marriages as well, although the NA/PAL releases Bowdlerized this slightly by referring to such pairings as "companions" rather than husband and wife. However, they failed to do this for the aunt/nephew or uncle/niece pairings that are possible by pairing Chrom with either Maribelle or Olivia and then pairing one of the resulting children with Robin and the other with Morgan.
- Fire Emblem Fates:
- It seems the most popular pairings involve pairing Corrin with his/her relatives (to be fair, the Nohrian siblings are adoptive, and the Hoshidan siblings are all revealed to be adoptive as well). For example, Female!Corrin is commonly shipped with her adoptive brothers Xander and Leo, and with her actual brother Takumi (while they're actually Not Blood Related, they think they are until their S-Support). Meanwhile, Male!Corrin is commonly shipped with his adopted sister Camilla and Azura, who looks to not be related to him but is actually his long-lost cousin. And yes, the game actually lets you marry any of these characters, even in the West.
- Velouria is very clingy towards her parents, especially her father Keaton. Though this is explained by her parents leaving her months at a time because they have to fight in a war, it doesn't stop certain fans from seeing Velouria's attachment as something far less wholesome.
- Genshin Impact:
- The Traveler (the main character) and their brother/sister are a relatively common pairing. Most supporters of the ship point out how due to their frequent trips between worlds, they’d probably only have each other for company. And with the reveal that the Traveler’s sibling is the Abyss Prince/Princess, a common fanfic plot is the Traveler saving them with The Power of Love.
- Another pairing that is worryingly common is Scaramouche and his “mother” Raiden Ei, the Goddess of Inazuma. Most fanfic portraying them together has Scara as the dominant partner, out to get the love he never got from her.
- Golden Sun:
- The most obvious is Felix and Jenna, who are siblings (and appropriately dubbed "Oopsie-shipping" by the fans).
- Fans also like to pair up Alex and Mia, who were confirmed to be cousins by Dark Dawn. This one however is a special case, as the reveal only happened years after the first games, when the ship was firmly installed. Like the 4koma example below, this is a rather meta case of Surprise Incest.
- A 4koma doujinshi, Golden Sun Gag Battle, has Ivan trying out his new Reveal power on Hama and Feizhi's clothes. To be fair, Gag Battle was published before The Lost Age outed Hama as Ivan's sister, making this a rather meta case of Surprise Incest.
- Golden Sun: Dark Dawn brought several new sets of relatives to the table, with the (in)appropriate reaction from the Shipping fans. Nowell and Rief are treated as a joke couple in most cases, but shipping either of them with Amiti is fair game... and, technically speaking, a distant enough relationship to be legal even by American standards.
- GreedFall has the protagonist De Sardet and their cousin and childhood friend Constantin D'Orsay. Constantin cannot be romanced and is strictly a Guest-Star Party Member, but De Sardet is repeatedly shown to be the most important person to him, and after he pulls a Face–Heel Turn, De Sardet can accept his We Can Rule Together offer. The fact that De Sardet turns out to be adopted likely helps too. As a result, a not insignificant part of fandom latched onto the ship and the relationship was given a Fandom Nod in the DLC episode.
- The popular and fan-preferred pairing of the Playable Character (sometimes called Knight or Ghost) and Hornet from Hollow Knight. Might veer into this, because they may or may not be siblings because of their nature.
- A small subset of Life Is Strange 2 ship Sean & Daniel Diaz, due to the game's heavy focus on their close relationship. Others avoid it, not necessarily due to the incest, but due to their age gap (Sean is sixteen, Daniel is nine).
- Rock and Roll (or Mega Man and Roll in the West), whose actual connection varies in their various incarnations. The same applies to Rock and Blues (Mega Man and Proto Man in the west).
- Metal Gear: Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. It only gets worse once Liquid possesses Ocelot, who had a big gay crush on their father, especially since Big Boss is a Truly Single Parent.
- OMORI: Sunny is sometimes shipped with his sister, Mari, because of the latter's kindly demeanor and sense of humor playing to his quietness and their time joined at the hip, which fleshes out their bond more than Mari's with Hero.
- Onmyoji has this going on between Kuromujō and Shiromujō thanks to the former's huge Big Brother Instinct and the (amnesiac) latter's stating that he has some sort of feelings toward Kuromujō in his in-game autobiography.
- Pokémon:
- Within hours of being leaked, the Striation triplets were subject to this. Even after the reveal that they were brothers, fans still shipped them together in all combinations or all three at once.
- Lusamine from Pokémon Sun and Moon sometimes gets shipped with her children Gladion and Lillie. Her children getting shipped together isn't unheard of, either.
- Resident Evil:
- Alfred and Alexia Ashford in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica. A case where the Incest Subtext is strongly implied to have been intentional from the developers' part. The two Ashford siblings lovingly gaze at each other during the footage Claire watches of them killing a dragonfly. Alfred through the notes/journals found throughout the game indicates having an obsessive infatuation with Alexia as if she was his fiancé, when he dies after releasing Alexia from her hibernation chamber his nude sister is seen patting his hair.
- Some fans in recent years have said that they've felt romantic undertones from this picture
of Chris and Claire Redfield that appears after finishing Code Veronica (which displays your playthrough rank). The picture depicts the two Redfield siblings walking very close together past a row of shops, with Claire holding her brother's arm with both looking at each other with a loving and almost dreamy gaze,which some have felt is an unusual way of two adult siblings expressing affection and more typical of two unrelated adults on a date. This is probably a misinterpretation on the part of the fans (and possibly on the part of the artist). (Though the fact that implied incest between the Ashfords was a theme throughout the game probably doesn't help when it comes to avoiding the presumably unintentional vibe since fans who finished the game and saw the picture had the memory of sibling romance fresh in their mind).
- Shadow The Hedgehog and Maria Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog have a strong shipping base despite treated like siblings, along with the fact Maria is a little girl who has been dead for decades by the start of the series. Admittedly many of the works at least age Maria into an adult and transform her into a hedgehog.
- The "Squid Sisters", Callie and Marie, from Splatoon get shipped a lot. It helps that they are actually cousins, which makes it more acceptable to varying degrees.
- Too much to count from Summertime Saga. While all incest storylines, of which there are many, were (officially) removed from the game in later updates, players continue to ship them. This even extends to characters who've never shown any canon interest in each other, such as Mia and her dad.
- Super Mario Bros.:
- The Mario Bros. themselves have quite a few shippers. The reasons given vary from them being among the very few human males in the canon that aren't outright Gonks, to their canonically very close sibling-like friendship; living together well into adulthood, also doing most activities together out of the house, a tendency for Man Hugs especially in the Mario & Luigi series, and most of Luigi's lines about or aimed at Mario throughout the series being full of open admiration.
- Nintendo can't make up their minds about whether Toad and Toadette are siblings, friends, or what. As a result, it is hard to tell how many of their shippers are unaware that they could be relatives, and how many that consider this possibility another reason to ship them.
- The Tale of Food: That there are siblings and parents but no such thing as biological relation among the foodsouls as they don't reproduce only adds fuel to the incest shipping fire. One of the major ships in this fandom is Dézhōu × Ah-Fú.
- In Tales of Symphonia, Kratos and Lloyd seemed awful subtexty to a lot of people. Some of them didn't Abandon Ship after it was revealed that Kratos is actually Lloyd's real father.
- Tales of Xillia 2:
- One of the protagonist Ludger Kresnik's most popular ships is with Julius, his brother, termed as "Kresnikcest" after their surname. Adding layers to the incest is that Julius raised Ludger since the latter was five years old and they are also first cousins, sharing the same father with their mothers being sisters.
- Rarer is shipping either brother with their father, Bisley Bakur, though it doesn't use the same ship name and tends to be Played for Horror.
- In the Touhou Project fandom, every pair (or trio, in the case of the Prismrivers) of sisters is paired with each other to some degree. The Scarlet sisters are by far the most popular target, with the Komeiji sisters being second and working down from there. That said, shipping the Aki sisters with each other may simply be because they have such a small fandom and they don't have enough character interactions (or even potential for interactions) to get shipped with anyone else.
- Touken Ranbu: Though the phenomenon of siblings in this game doesn't have a 100% concrete rule behind it since the characters are personified inanimate objects, the rule of thumb is that swords forged by the same smith are almost always brothers. With that in mind:
- Swords forged by Awataguchi Yoshimitsu get shipped with each other a lot, with the most frequent being Ichigo Hitofuri with any of his younger brothers and Namazuo and Honebami with each other.
- Swords in the Sanjō school, as in all of them as they were all forged by one person, if viewed under the rule of thumb above. Examples include Mikazuki/Kogitsunemaru and Iwatōshi/Imanotsurugi.
- Hachisuka and Nagasone Kotetsu, who are adoptive brothers.
- Kasen and Izuminokami Kanesada, while not forged by the same person, have the same surname and belong to the same school. Their ship is nearly as big as massively popular Izuminokami/Horikawa.
- Twisted Wonderland:
- Jade and Floyd Leech are a popular Twincest ship, especially within the Japanese fandom. It doesn't help that both twins are somewhat wild and mischievous, or that Jade is known to spoil Floyd and indulge his childish behaviour due to wanting Floyd's happiness more than anything.
- While almost entirely within the Japanese fandom, Leona is sometimes shipped with his young nephew Cheka, as Cheka adores him as a Cool Uncle and demands his attention despite Leona being less than fond of him. However, due to Squick implications arising from Cheka's age (plus child pornography being banned on sites like pixiv), most doujin, fanarts and fics for this ship drastically age him up or are set in the future.
- Leona has also been shipped with older brother Falena, who's never appeared in the present and doesn't even have a design.
- Lilia has been shipped with Malleus, Silver and/or Sebek, all his godsons.
- Undertale:
- Sans/Papyrus (aka Fontcest) is one of the more popular pairings of the game (despite Sans also having undergone the Launcher of a Thousand Ships treatment).
- Parts of the fandom also ship Asriel Dreemur with his adoptive sibling, The First Fallen Child/Chara, due to his actions throughout the game being borderline Yandere and the implication that Asriel is the one thing Chara genuinely loves and cares about. Not to mention, that as Flowey, he comes off a bit as a Stalker with a Crush towards the player character that may stem from him mistaking them as Chara.
