Cophine

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of Cosima +‎ Delphine.

Proper noun

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Cophine

  1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Cosima Niehaus and Delphine Cormier from the television series Orphan Black.
    • 2015 May 9, Marisa Roffman, “'Orphan Black' Creators on Justin Chatwin's 'Dark' Character, Potential Clone Reunion”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
      But Manson offers these words of encouragement for fans of Cosima/Delphine: "There's always hope for 'Cophine.' "
    • 2016 June 17, Bethonie Butler, “The 'Orphan Black' finale gave fans a major reunion, but what comes next?”, in The Washington Post:
      Fans of the show were closely watching for plot developments on the Cophine front []
    • 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:
      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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cophine.

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