Eggsnie

Eggsnie is the het ship between Eggs Trubshaw and Winnie Portley-Rind from the Boxtrolls fandom.

Canon
Eggs and Winnie both live in the provincial town of Cheesebridge, located somewhere in a fictional European country named "Norvenia". Eggs was adopted by the titular Boxtrolls as a baby and only had glimpses of human society through the trinkets they collect, Winnie is the daughter of Lord Portley-Rind, the richest and most respected authority figure of Cheesebridge. However, Winnie feels horribly neglected by her father and begins the movie throwing his treasured white hat out of the window, only to get second thoughts when she doesn't want to find out what happens shouldn't she get it back. Thus, she goes out past nightfall to retrieve it, despite Cheesebridge having a strict "don't go out after dark" policy, spurned by propaganda of the Boxtroll hunter Archibald Snatcher. Grabbing the hat, she sees a pair of lights pointing her way, believing them to be the eyes of a Boxtroll, only for Eggs to raise his visor. Seeing his human eyes, Winnie addresses him as a human boy, confusing Eggs as he had believed himself to be a tall Boxtroll his entire life. Fleeing from the hunters, Eggs goes through an identity crisis, but loses his father figure, a boxtroll called Fish, to Archibald Snatcher and his red hatted goons.

The next day, fed up with the Boxtroll method of just hiding from danger and not wanting to lose Fish for good, Eggs decides to dress up as a member of a barbershop quartet he found on a stray vinyl and makes his first steps to enter human society. There, he witnesses a performance of a propaganda piece by Madame Frou Frou, showing Boxtrolls to be child-eating abominations who kidnapped the "Trubshaw baby" and killed the Trubshaw father by devouring him whole. The role of the Trubshaw baby is played by Winnie, who volunteered for it to make her father pay attention to her. Though Eggs is horrified at how his friends are depicted, he sneaks up at Winnie to gain information from her, primarily where the Red Hats took Fish. Though Winnie is furious at him at first, believing him to be a stalker, she recognizes his eyes as the boy who got "kidnapped" by the boxtrolls the day before. Though Winnie has a strange interest in the macabre and tries to get Eggs to tell her what horrifying things the Boxtrolls did to his parents, Eggs is more than uncomfortable and tells her that the Boxtrolls are his friends. Winnie then tells him that the headquarters of the Red Hats are at the end of Curds Way, even giving him directions by saying that "Milk Street turns to Curds Way".

Thanks to Winnie, Eggs manages to retrieve Fish and finds out that Snatcher didn't kill any of the captured Boxtrolls (and a stray human), at least for now. However, when Eggs and Fish are cornered by the Red Hats, Winnie sneaks up on them, allowing an opening for them to escape. However, while escaping, they drag Winnie with them into their underground home, with her being terrified of what the Boxtrolls would do to her at first. But then she sees that they are more scared of her than she is of them and witnesses how affectionately they are treating Eggs, realizing that Eggs spoke the truth when he said that the Boxtrolls mean no harm. Though she's mildly upset about this, seeming wanting to be horribly killed, she and Eggs hit it off and discuss plans on how to save the other Boxtrolls. Winnie finds out that Eggs doesn't have a real father, so she explains what a father is to him, which gives Eggs the idea of asking Lord Portley-Rind for help against Snatcher, saying he could overpower him and save the Boxtrolls that way. Winnie is hesitant, knowing that her father only cares about cheese, but is willing to give it a shot.

She uses scraps she found underground to give Eggs a posh appearance that makes him seem worthy of someone like her, then takes him to one of her father's celebrations in hopes of getting Eggs close to him so Eggs could spill the beans about Snatcher's plans. Before entering the house, Winnie teaches Eggs some manners by telling him to shake people's hands, saying it's a pleasure to meet them even if he doesn't really mean it. However, though Eggs and Winnie find out that Madame Frou Frou is just Snatcher in disguise, the plan of having Eggs tell the whole truth to Lord Portley-Rind backfires when Snatcher tries to assault Eggs while he's hiding under the biggest wheel of Brie in the world, causing the wheel to roll into the sea. Lord Portley-Rind is so furious that he's not even listening to Eggs telling him that he's the Trubshaw baby and proves Madame Frou Frou's identity as Archibald Snatcher by snatching his wig, instead calmly telling him to leave his house and never come back. When leaving, Winnie tries her hardest to save the situation to Eggs, but he calmly grabs her hand as he's climbing down a manhole, tells her it was a pleasure to meet her and he really does mean it.

The next morning, Winnie finds out that Snatcher enacted his plans of capturing all of the Boxtrolls at once and seemingly succeeded in squishing all of them, showing their squished boxes to Lord Portley-Rind as proof. Since Snatcher only ever cared about becoming a white hat so he could eat the most precious cheese, with him presenting "the last Boxtroll" to be publicly executed, with Winnie being the only one who notices that it's just Eggs in costume. She desperately tries to save him, with the townspeople falsely regarding Snatcher as a hero, but Winnie is backed up by the boxless trolls who managed to survive thanks to Eggs telling them to stop hiding in their boxes. The townsfolk see that the Boxtrolls are not malicious, with Eggs being saved and openly fighting Snatcher. Winnie comes to his aid by baiting Snatcher with her father's white hat, since Snatcher didn't execute a single Boxtroll, he did nothing to earn it. She then plays a game of keepaway with the other Red Hats two of which have changed sides, with her and Eggs distracting Snatcher for long enough that they manage to fill the vacuum attached to Snatcher's drill with water from the sewers, causing it to explode.

Eggs and Snatcher survive by falling into the world's biggest Brie, but Snatcher is revealed to everyone to be horribly allergic to cheese and swells up into some grotesque parody of himself. With Snatcher's swollen up hand around Winnie's neck, Eggs and Lord Portley-Rind back off and allow Snatcher to enter the room where all of the expensive cheese is stored. With the three of them and Fish as witnesses, they calmly watch Snatcher eat the cheese, only to explode mid-sentence from it, killing the villain.

The movie ends with Winnie describing Snatcher's death to an adoring crowd in explicit detail, Eggs reunited with his father and the Boxtrolls allowed to live on the surface.

Fanon
Eggsnie is the main and probably only ship of The Boxtrolls fandom. It is mostly shipped alongside other Laika Kids ships, mainly Corbie, Normeil and the only crossover ship, Kaggie.

The Boxtrolls fandom is fairly small compared to the already small LAIKA fanbases, so fanfiction writers like pairing Eggs off with his best friend so that all LAIKA protagonists are paired off with someone.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION