Aquino/BadBoyHalo

Aquino/BadBoyHalo is a dead rarepair in the MCYT/Twitch streamer fandom. The two streamers met during a multi-day Twitch Rivals event called Hunt & Run,Official Twitch Rivals page for the event where they teamed up together with Aquino's other two friends, Soarinng and KendoMurft (the team was dubbed Cute Causas or Ñ team by fans because of the way BadBoyHalo first pronounced Aquino's name). The pairing depicts a relationship between their Minecraft cubitos as opposed to being RPF.
===Canon===
The Hunt & Run event had originally been billed as a Spanish event that Twitch Rivals invited English streamers to, so tensions were high between the two language groups with the Spanish specifically targeting Anglos, angry at their inclusion. However BadBoyHalo, an American who was only fluent in English, was nevertheless adopted into the group of friends thanks to Soarinning vouching for him (as both had played in QSMP's Purgatory 2 event, although they had never spoken before the Hunt & Run event). The team was championed by fans as the only friendly team up between Latinos and gringos.
Aquino was concerned about how he (not being fluent in English) could sincerely communicate to BadBoyHalo that he and his friends wouldn't betray him.Tweet containing clip of Aquino talking with Kendo and his other friends about BBH, direct link to an English translation provided by @DuskofRa They only played together for a single day of the event, as Aquino had internet problems the next day, causing him to be disqualified. However he and Bad would send a few friendly Twitch raids and messages to each other outside of the event.
===Fanon===
After forming the team with BadBoyHalo, the Peruvian streamer Aquino joked on his stream about him and Bad having a romance together, splitting the prize Hunger Games style.Tweet with clip of Aquino seeming to ship himself with BadBoyHalo This sparked the fandoms into a creative frenzy thinking the previously anti-shipping Aquino was giving them permission to ship him with Bad. However, during a stream a few days later Aquino clarified that he did not want to be shipped with Bad or anyone else and that he hated all shipping and would block anyone in his fandom who did it,Tweet containing relevant clip, translation by @Dgo08_ provided as "please stop doing that sh*t I don't like it, you know that I don't like ships, even if it's a joke any ship I don't like it, account that I see that ships account that I block, you're warned." causing a mass deletion of the new fanworks, as well as older fanworks in other Aquino ships.
===Fan Commentary===
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanart===
File:Aquino BBH Veil.jpeg|This piece by @Sand0zs is redrawn from the manga Veil. A few other artworks redrawing this panel from Veil survived the purge of this ship and can be found in the original twitter challenge thread here.
File:Aquino BBH Kiss.jpeg|BadBoyHalo kissing Aquino by @SallomezZ
File:Aquino BBH.jpeg|BadBoyHalo and Aquino paint over by @Fiowo_RAT14
File:GE4gRs-XMAAEbX9.jpeg|BadBoyHalo and Aquino by @Taffy0s_
===Fanvids===
* Clip compilation on TikTok by @icherry481. Clips from Aquino's point of view of him interacting with BadBoyHalo during the Hunt & Run event.
===Meta===
*Small Twitter thread asking BadBoyHalo fans what they think of the ship (Jan 26, 2024)
*Brief Twitter thread commenting on Aquino's creation and retraction of the ship (Jan 29, 2024)
==References==
Category:Slash Pairings
Category:Twitch
Category:MCYT