friendshipper

English

Etymology

From friendship +‎ -er, or a blend of friendship +‎ shipper.

Noun

friendshipper (plural friendshippers)

1. (X-Files fandom slang) A person who would prefer Fox Mulder and Dana Scully's relationship to remain platonic.
   • 1997 May 23, TempusX [username], “NEW: After The Louvre - 1/1 (MSR/NC-17)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):

     This is an MSR, all friendshippers beware.

   • 1998 July 2, JLangly, “Shippers have SAVED The X-Files!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Some of us are friendshippers, some of us are relationshippers of one variety or another -- some of us want to see a Mulder/Scully relationship occur during the course of the series, while some of us prefer to maintain the slow seduction until the series' end -- but we are all captivated by the intense and uncommon TRUST displayed between the characters.

   • 1999 February 15, SoulM E MS [username], “Shipper?”, in alt.tv.x-files‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Ok do any other shippers out there just feel like becoming a friendshipper. Mulder has turned into the Ass Hole^[sic] of the year, and I wouldn't want Scully to take him if he cam^[sic] knocking on her door with a dozen red roses, and Diana's head in a box.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:friendshipper.

Synonyms

• anti-relationshipper (X-Files fandom)
• noromo (X-Files fandom)