Trobed

Trobed is the slash ship between Troy and Abed from the Community fandom.

Canon
Troy Barnes and Abed Nadir meet at Greendale Community college. At first, they couldn't seem more different, as Troy is a hot-shot jock and Abed is an eccentric nerd, but as the series progresses, they develop a strong friendship. Troy starts out insecure about being perceived as 'cool' and 'masculine', but as his friendship with Abed grows, he learns to stop caring about what others think of him, and in turn, Abed breaks out of his shell and forms stronger relationships with others. They often recreate scenes from popular media in the Dreamatorium, a room where they can render imagined dreamscapes. They run a non-filmed morning show called 'Troy and Abed In The Morning'.

When Jeff pretends to form a study group to get with Britta, she invites Abed to join, who in turn invites everyone else. As Jeff makes an excuse to leave, since Britta's not there, Troy makes a racist offhand comment about leaving his homework with 'Slumdog Millionaire', which Shirley calls out.They don't really interact much for the rest of the first study group meeting, except for Troy being shocked at Abed's sudden (to interrupt the group's fight) re-enactment of a scene from 'The Breakfast Club'. In Spanish class, Troy and Abed are paired up when Abed agrees to give his pairing card, which originally paired him with Britta, to Jeff, in exchange for Jeff's shirt. They later decide to go to the protest together, stopping by the study room to ask what Jeff and Pierce are up to. Pierce challenges that the Spanish homework is due tomorrow, to which Troy and Abed give a perfectly in sync demonstration of their memorised sentences, and leave together. At the protest, a drunken Pierce interrupts yelling at Jeff and Abed removes his tape, telling Troy that their conflicts will bring the group together. Some time after doing the assignment in Spanish class, Troy and Abed hang out in the study room when Abed drops a beat and Troy starts rapping some of their Spanish sentences nonsensically. Abed joins in as Troy takes over the beat. Their first major interaction happens in Season 1 episode 10: "Enviromental Science". In this episode, Troy and Abed are tasked with training a lab rat to respond to a certain song. When the rat is accidently set loose by Troy, him and Abed have to find it. troy originally refuses to help, saying "friends help me with stuff, not the other way around" and showing he doesn't understand that friendships have to be two sided. He eventually helps locate and catch the rat by singing a duet of "Somewhere out there" with Abed, which their rat is trained to respond to, and Troy apologizes to Abed over his earlier refusal to help.

A few episodes into season five, Troy leaves the show to sail around the world. He is sent off with a goodbye episode, centering about how Abed uses a game of "The Floor Is Lava" to try to keep Troy from leaving. Abed eventually realizes that he has to let go of Troy to let him become his own person, and he symbolically clones himself to deal with Troy leaving. The two share a hug before Troy departs.

Fanon
Trobed is the most popular slash ship in the fandom. The ship has a lot of canon material so shippers have a lot to work with. It is the most popular ship for both Troy and Abed, and is only topped in overall popularity by Jannie (Jeff x Annie). Due to Abed's implied neurodivergence in canon, many fics center around Troy helping him cope with interacting with the world.

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 * The ship name is even stated in an episode, when Troy and Abed move in together and have a housewarming. Troy welcomes Jeff and Pierce 'chez Trobed'.