Nikki x Jean

Nikki x Jean is the femslash ship between Nikki Wong and Jean from the 6teen fandom.

Canon
Nikki and Jean meet on Jean's first day working at the mall. She was hired at the Khaki Barn in order to help with the holiday rush. At first, Nikki is reluctant to have yet another co-worker, but then she ends up making a bond with Jean when she shows Jean around the store. Nikki tells her to come back to the "Clones", but Jean tells her she doesn't stand as well, so Nikki takes an interest in her. Nikki even finds herself saying the same things at the same time as Jean says them, forming an instant connection.

As the two of them fold some clothes in the store, they start bonding even more over some talk. Jean asks Nikki about her dreams and she says she wants to go to Perú. When Jean tells her that she went there and that it was her favorite place, Nikki can't believe it and gets even more impressed by Jean. Nikki is so invested in her conversation with Jean, that she hangs up on her boyfriend, Jonesy's call, to keep talking to Jean. The two of them get closer and Jean even starts calling her "Nik", which Nikki doesn't let anyone call her, but when Jean apologizes saying that maybe she shouldn't have called her dad, Nikki immediately lets her know that she actually likes it. And later, when Nikki reunites with her friends, she can't stop talking about how awesome Jean is.

Outside of work hours, they meet each other and now they reach a higher level of intimacy, that Jean gives Nikki her password. Nikki is awestruck to see all the places Jean's travelled to. So Jean tells her that she just got a new one, so Nikki can keep that one. At that moment, Jonesy calls again, and she hangs up on him once more to keep talking to Jean. Jean tells her that the password will remind Nikki that she has to live her dreams. After this, they hug each other, and as Jean leaves, Nikki exhales dreamily thinking about how "darn cool" Jean is.

Later, even Jonesy starts noticing just how close Jean and Nikki have gotten. When Nikki asks him to lend her 10 bucks, which he happily does, thinking she might want it for some sort of personal plan. However, when he sees her passing by with Jean, as Nikki asks her out for lunch, he gets completely shocked. Later, when Nikki meets with her friends at their usual spot, they start teasing her about Jean for her special nickname to her and Caitlin even says that Jean is the one Nikki "likes so much", later telling her that Jean is "totally into" her. Nikki dismisses this at first but ends up trying to find out if Jean is gay, which Jean finds endearing as she later tells her that she's into girls, but that if Nikki wanted to ask her out to the dance, she already had a date. As Jean walks away, Nikki sighs dreamily once again and repeats how "darn cool" Jean is.

Fanon
is one of the most popular ships of the 6teen fandom. The ship got extremely popular years later when US fans found out that this episode was censored in the US (while not in Canada, where the show is from) due to the fact it has an openly lesbian character and confirms Nikki as bisexual. This only made fans appreciate the show more for the positive representation. Some fans have also noted that Jean's date shares a lot of qualities with Nikki, which made fans think that Nikki could've been Jean's type as well.

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