Joscarl

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Joscarl is an Identity V ship between Joseph and Aesop. Joseph is a hunter and Aesop a survivor, thus they're in seperate categories. It is a rather popular ship, especially in the chinese and japanese community. As of the time of making this page, it is the 2nd ship with most fics on ao3 and 2nd ship by amouth of posts on lofter (chinese tumblr).

Like most idv ships, it is considered a crack ship, as they don't have any interaction in the game (not including Truth & Inference au) and it gained traction due to the stage play and the fan game White Tombstone.

AO3 tag
Archive website (made by me)(WIP)

How I came to like them and why

Identity V is a very specific game, in a sence that most characters don't interact with each other outside of their game (with some exceptions when characters participate in more than one of them). While I don't know the direct orgin of the ship, one of the earlier popular works with them was White Tombstone, a fangame that focuses on the skins from Luchino's S tier essence, which includes sarious hunter/survivor ships, that at the time were considered very popular (in the chinese community some of them still are). The notable ships from this game were Jocarl (who were the main focus of it), Jacknaib, Antodrew, Luchinort and Haseli.

At this point in time (up until Time of Reunion story update came out) peopel hated hunter/survivor ships for some reason? This is not part of the fandom I am familiar with as I started playing during the Time of Reunion event in 2021 and started participating in fandom in January 2023, so most of these things are only from stories I heard. The "reasoning" was that because hunters kill survivors in the game it was bad to ship them? It is important to note that IDV's fandom is on the yonger side, so that might explaing this generaly stupid though process (and considering modern fandom is not much better, it shouldn't be surprising)

They were the third overall ship I started shipping and I was invested in them mostly casually in my first two monts. It was around late March that I started writing for them before I wrote the first fic for them, ma petite fleur, which was both out of my comfort zone at the time and not my usual way to write about the characters for the first time, as this was an au rather than something close to canon that I usually go for when writing for a new ship or fandom. I was just so intruiged by them from the start, especially with the setting I created in that fic that it was almost impossible to not start thinking about them more than the ships I liked the most at that time.

They have so many possibilites, many ship ship, even aus to think about and write for. With the manor au setting, one can do whatevery they want when it comes to writing them, and while that is true for most id idv characters, for them it just works in a much more interesting way.

Favourite stuff I made with them

Growing Flowers, a Hangover/Blindspot fangame.

flowers of eden, a D.M./Blindspot (later D.M./Gatto) fanfic series (still ongoing).

Trivia

Some fun facts about the ship and my experience with it.

  • They're the third ship I started shipping when I started writing for Identity V.
  • The first fic I ever wrote about them was ma petite fleur.
  • They're the only one of my 4 favourite ships that do not interact in their main canon (D.M/Saphir is inherrentlly an au and they interact there, that is their main source)
  • The main reason my writing style evolved was because I started writing so much fucked stuff with them (mainly flowers of eden)
  • In Truth & Inference universe, they do co-exist and Gatto works for D.M.. There are three other times they co-exist in the same essence - Aesop's innitial releace essence, Mary's Bloodbath S skin essence and the Call of the Abyss 3 essence.

    • The ship has many skin ships. My favourites are dmgatto, dmspot and hangoverspot. Others I enjoy are Azrael/Blindspot, amberspot and Bloody Sword/Exorcist.