Aquino/BadBoyHalo

Pairing
Pairing:	Aquino & BadBoyHalo
Alternative name(s):	aquihalo, badquino
Gender category:	slash mlm
Fandom:	MCYT, Twitch streamers
Canonical?:	No
Prevalence:	Rare
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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, 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. 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. 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, causing a mass deletion of the new fanworks, as well as older fanworks in other Aquino ships.

Fan Commentary

El romance que se imaginó Aquino con BBH no duró nada xd
machine translation: The romance that Aquino imagined with BBH didn't last long xd

In light of Aquino's disqualification, posted by ᴋᴀɪᴢᴜ @kaizu___

Ya vi que acaban de matar al ship de Aquino y BBH, la verdad me gustaba, pero si lo dice el patrón, así debe ser y dejar eso de decirlo ya 🐺
machine translation: I already saw that they just killed Aquino and BBH's ship, the truth is I liked it, but if the boss says it, that's how it should be and stop saying it now 🐺

Franck08 🐙 @Franck_green08

Pero fue él mismo que dijo que lo hiciéramos, me sentí regañada😔
machine translation: But it was he himself who told us to do it, I felt scolded 😔

In response to a tweet laughing at the people thinking Aquino approved of the ship, by Jelluxx_! @130_mako

Example Fanworks

Fanart

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  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.

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  BadBoyHalo kissing Aquino by @SallomezZ

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  BadBoyHalo and Aquino paint over by @Fiowo_RAT14

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  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)