Tenfour

Tenfour is a popular Friends at the Table ship featuring the Twilight Mirage PCs Fourteen Fifteen and Tender Sky.
== Canon ==
In canon, Fourteen and Tender are coworkers and friends who work together on a small covert ops team in a far-future utopian society. Fourteen is a "body-swapping assassin" who has begun to lose memories each time they die and assume a new body; one of the memories they lost most recently pre-canon pertains to the nature of their relationship with Tender. They know that Tender is important in some way and that they must keep her in their sights, and they assume that this means they lost memories of an important friendship with her. In fact, what they have forgotten is that they were sent by their handlers to kill her. 
== History ==
The shippy potential of Fourteen's lost memories of (and mistaken beliefs about) Tender gripped Friends at the Table fans very early on in the season:
As a result, Tenfour was a popular ship from the beginning, and it has remained popular, including among fanartists and other fanwork creators, in the years since the season's end. For example, it tied with another Twilight Mirage ship for the fourth-most requested ship in the 2023 round of Secret Samol, which ran five years after Twilight Mirage ended.Secret Samol 2023 Ship Request Count. Airtable. Accessed February 12, 2024. (archive link)
=== Creator Response ===
The cast of the show was well aware of the popularity of Tenfour among fans. In the season's post-mortem episode, Tender and Fourteen's players commented on the ship, giving fans their blessings and half-jokingly apologizing for not making it canon:
==Common Tropes in Fanworks==
* Identity Porn
* Fake/Pretend Relationship
* Xeno
==Example Fanworks==
=== Fanart ===
* fourteen cooling off in tender's bar (; by ootron. A Tenfour piece set in Tender's bar.@ootron (Jan 31, 2021): fourteen cooling off in tender's bar (;. Tumblr post. Accessed February 12, 2024. (archive link)
*A laceration sufficiently deep by dancy-nrew. Fourteen Fifteen and a Tenfour moment.@dancy-nrew (Dec 4, 2022): A laceration sufficiently deep. Tumblr post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
*Untitled Secret Samol art by jesscookie. Another piece set in Tender's bar, this time with the rest of the season's cast in the background.@jesscookie (Jan 31, 2021): 2020 secret samol.... Tumblr post. Accessed February 12, 2024. (archive link)
*Untitled comic by srslyarts. A quiet moment between Tender and Fourteen, drawn for Secret Samol.@srslyarts (Jan 29, 2023): Happy Secret Samol day @guccigarantine! Tumblr post. Accessed May 31, 2024. (archive link)
===Fanfic===
* the cat who got the whipped cream by bluecloak. Popular canon-setting coffee shop AU.
* Synthesis by homsantoft. PWP exploring the erotic side of Fourteen frequently changing bodies.
* i'd like to be a note/the kind you could sing by ConsoleCowboy. Fake dating fic written for Secret Samol.
=== Other Fanworks ===
* Tenfour embroidery by tangleofgold.@tangleofgold (Jan 30, 2022): already posted it on twitter but here’s my gift for @fourteenfifteen for secret samol!! Tumblr post. Accessed February 12, 2024. (archive link)
==Archives and Communities==
*Fourteen Fifteen/Tender Sky tag on Archive of Our Own
==Other Fannish Resources==
*Fourteen Fifteen page on FatTWiki (canon resource)
*Tender Sky page on FatTWiki (canon resource)
==References==
Category:Non-Binary Pairings
Category:Friends at the Table Relationships