Yumeship Profile Template

Copy this selfship template

Use the fields you would want a reader to see. In selfshipping, an S/I is a self-insert, a yumesona is a persona used for the ship, and F/O stands for fictional other. A profile can use an alias for you and the name an audience recognizes for the character. Fanlore documents how selfshipping communities use these terms.

Ship name
S/I or yumesona
F/O and fandom
Relationship or dynamic
One detail from each side
A scene that explains the name
Public caption or tag

Fill the names first. Write the dynamic in one plain sentence, such as “traveling companions who take turns keeping watch.” For each motif, choose a detail the person uses, carries, or remembers. If a motif belongs to both, add the scene that shows why. Keep any personal context you want private in a separate draft.

Filled example

Field	Example
Ship name	CometFern
S/I or yumesona	Nell, a meteor observer
F/O and fandom	Rook, from a fictional radio drama setting
Dynamic	Long-distance friends who meet at field stations
Details	Nell charts comets. Rook carries a fern between stations.
Scene	They leave the plant beside the telescope as a signal that the other person made it back.
Public caption	Nell & Rook, also called CometFern

If the concept title makes little sense without the scene, keep the full names on the first line. The name can then work as a title for the art, collection, or pinned post. CometFern works for this example because both details matter in the same scene. Two unrelated aesthetic words would give a reader less to remember.

Adapt it to more than two participants

Write a shared headline, then a separate one-line entry for each person. Add one scene in which all of them appear and another line for individual relationships if those matter. The group ship name generator can make a compact title from three to five names. Its full group label is useful when someone who sees the profile for the first time needs the full cast.

Turn a short draft into something you can post

Enter the first two names and motifs in the yumeship name generator. Copy the profile card, then add the shared scene and the fandom in the space where you plan to post it. Preview the caption at the width people will read it. If you are using AO3, check the archive’s relationship formats and use a tag that matches the work. Use your selfship title where it helps your audience recognize the project.