Top: Nico and Maki, one of the OTPs in the original series. Bottom: Dia and Ruby from the sequel spinoff, their "daughters" according to fandom
As a large franchise with lots of continuities, memes and characterizations with a very active fandom, it's bound to have some commonly accepted Fanon.Note: As this page runs off information about the entire franchise, all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
General
- It's a common belief that the girls are dating each other (which and how many members merely varies) but nothing is explicitly stated in any official media.
- While this was mostly treated as a joke, any one of the Third Years (Nico and Dia are the most prominent examples) are often seen as an actual Third Wheel of the Third Years group.
- Taken up to eleven in case of Dia as she is left alone in the title screen art of Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS.
- Many fans view the Love Live! universe as an entirely female-dominated world, with all of the women capable of reproducing a (female) child with same-sex intercourse or with IPS cells on their own.
Love Live! School Idol Project
- It's pretty common in the Japanese fandom to depict Kotori as dominant when paired with Umi. This actually goes against their canon depictions, as Umi orders Kotori around more than once in the anime.
- Actually, this depiction is because of Kotori's School Idol Diary
. In the first page or so, she goes Yandere as she talks about wanting to see Umi break down in defeat because it'd be sooo cute. She even made her own doll of Umi in tears, which she pats every day before going to school, and she's not afraid to make more.Kotori: The Kotori who watches Umi’s archery competitions with thoughts like that is a very messed up person, isn’t she?
- Actually, this depiction is because of Kotori's School Idol Diary
- Some fans like to pair both director Minami and Mrs. Nishikino despite being married. It helps that the School Idol Diary implies that they had a previous connection to each other.
- The most common depictions of the female singer in The School Idol Movie are Honoka's even older sister, a figment of Honoka's imagination, or her future counterpart.
- The above example plus Honoka stopping the rain in Season 2 spawned another popular idea that Honoka is actually a goddess.
- Most fans see the scene with Nico and Maki in casual outfits outside their homes at night in Season 2 Episode 1 as proof that the two are actually dating.
- Since the series didn't give any information about the member's future plans, most post-canon fan works of their jobs vary with the most consistent ideas being that Maki becomes a doctor (as stated in series), Kotori becomes a fashion designer and Nico becomes an idol or a manager working in the idol industry.
Love Live! Sunshine!!
- This series is a popular source for love child-themed fanfictions:
- As seen in the image above, both Ruby and Dia have a tendency to be portrayed as Nico Yazawa & Maki Nishikino's "true" birth daughters due to the precious stones they're named after. Other hints include the sisters inheriting their image colors, and Dia possessing the same mole like Maki's mother (albeit in a different position).
- Tsuki is also speculated as one of Nico and Maki's daughters due to inheriting Nico's bangs and hair color with Maki's eye colors.◊
- Riko tends to be seen as Maki & Umi's daughter, mostly because of possessing piano skills and her amazement to the sea in one episode.
- You (and by extension, the generic Otonokizaka student from S1EP13 and the kindergartner from S2EP04) as Rin (or Kotori, depending on any condition) & Hanayo's daughter.
- The Honoka lookalike in Season 1, Episode 12 as Honoka & Tsubasa's. It helps that the lookalike possesses Honoka's hairstyle and Tsubasa's green eyes. Likewise, the lookalike's real mother is pretty much dismissed as a guardian.
- Mari also tends to be seen as Nozomi and Eli's daughter despite being born as an Italian-American. In a similar fashion, several fans also see Kanan as Umi and Eli's daughter.
- After Season 2 Episode 5, Yoshiko's mother and Riko's mother are portrayed as lesbians due to the fact that the two has been stated that they grew closer during the Love Live events, the incident where Yoshiko's mother left behind her cellphone in the Sakurauchi household and the popularity of the Yoshiko x Riko ship.
- The country that Mari stayed at for two years prior to her return in the anime is never stated in-show, but it's commonly believed to be the USA, if only because of her ancestry and her Gratuitous English.
- Many fans portray Dia as an extremely obsessive fan of Eli, sometimes to the point of stalking. While Dia is a big fan of Eli as stated in the series, she's not extreme about it.
- Thanks to Mari's "Big "OMG!"" moment in Season 1 Episode 12, several of the fans associate her with the Joestar family bloodline. This evolved to the point that Giorno Giovanna is considered her brother. Consequently, this makes DIO her father.
- The scene from the final song where everyone is performing in their "Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare" outfits and the audience's light sticks are glowing pink is commonly interpreted to be a reference to the infamous 1st Live incident.
- A depiction of Mari having◊ two mothers◊ (one based on her original, brunette-haired appearance in Season 2, Episode 10, and the other based on her appearance in the movie) is created by a Korean fanartist named Onti999. The depiction also gained a (very small) following to other Twitter artists.
Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS
- Although the Player Character is written as gender-neutral as possible, a common fan interpretation of the player is that they are implicitly female, due to the franchise's enforcement of an all-female cast save for minor background characters and how comfortable the rest of the cast is around the player.
- Before her canon design was revealed, fans often depict Ayumu's childhood friend as a girl with short black hair and dark-colored eyes.
- Fans of the Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee fanfic series tend to portray Shizuku Osaka as being a Genki Girl outside the songs she sings with the other members of A•ZU•NA though still she's calm and mature like her SIF ALL STARS counterpart, though officially, she's only excitable during the songs sung by A•ZU•NA.
- Likewise, PokéLive!Shizuku is intially portrayed as being neutral about Pokémon at first, though understanding of the passion for it that universe's version of Hilda has, but she warms up to it enough to where she also has some Pokémon of her own eventually to help Hilda and her other friends keep the PokéLive! version of Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik and other villains at bay.
- Fans quickly latched on to the idea of Rina being into blonde girls after her character episode with Mia. This is supported by her friendship (and Ship Tease) with Ai and an event episode with Mari flirting with her.
Love Live! Superstar!!
- Ren is depicted in fan works as a Yuri Fangirl after clicking the "Forbidden World" ad in Season 1.
- Mei, with her red hair, piano and school idol collection, is depicted in the fandom as another daughter of Nico and Maki.
