Shipping

Shipping, short for relationshipping (although that term has become somewhat archaic), also known as pairing or pair-bonding, is the process of either wanting two (or more in the case of a polyamory) characters who are not in a romantic relationship to be in one, or writing a fanfiction in which two (or more if it's a polyamory) characters are in a romantic relationship even though canonically, they are not. A fanfiction can also said to ship if characters who are not in a romantic relationship are in one in the fanfiction.