Cophine

C3O1P3H4I1N1E1

proper noun

The ship of characters Cosima Niehaus and Delphine Cormier from the television series Orphan Black.

Scrabble 14

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proper noun
  1. slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Cosima Niehaus and Delphine Cormier from the television series Orphan Black.

    Fans of the show were closely watching for plot developments on the Cophine front […]

    2016 June 17, Bethonie Butler, “The 'Orphan Black' finale gave fans a major reunion, but what comes next?”, in The Washington Post
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    But Manson offers these words of encouragement for fans of Cosima/Delphine: "There's always hope for 'Cophine.' "

    2015 May 9, Marisa Roffman, “'Orphan Black' Creators on Justin Chatwin's 'Dark' Character, Potential Clone Reunion”, in The Hollywood Reporter

    For instance, my OTP is Cophine—Cosima and Delphine from Orphan Black. This means my fannish identity and online fandom involves reading Cophine-centric fanfiction, watching or making Cophine fanvids, creating angsty or hopeful playlists on 8tracks, buying t-shirts and tote bags on Redbubble, liveblogging new episodes, forming group chats to discuss the show, and, as an academic fan, I even write research papers about Orphan Black and Cophine.

    2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 50

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