MabelAlice

MabelAlice is the femslash ship between Mabel Mora and Alice Banks from the Only Murders in the Building fandom.

Canon
Mabel meets Alice after she finds a video message from Alice inviting her to an art gallery opening. Mabel decides to go to the gallery and Alice greets her. Mabel is telling a story about Frida Kahlo when she catches Alice staring at her, and Alice says she just finds her so compelling. Mable says she's glad that Alice wasn't a catfish. And then Alice asks Mabel to join her art collective, which Mabel agrees to, joking about the condition being that it’s not a cult.

Later, Mabel gets caught smiling at her phone when Alice texts, and she ends up going to see her again at the gallery when it’s empty. Alice shows Mabel a sculpture and gives her an axe to destroy it with, as a form of art therapy and for a video series she’s doing. Alice caresses the axe, talks real close to her face and slowly places the protective glasses on Mabel’s face. After she’s done smashing out her feelings, Mabel tells Alice she feels better, and proves it by walking up to her and kissing her passionately. Alice is pleased by this turn of events and kisses her back.

In "The Tell," they start off chatting on the phone, Alice looking forlornly at the leak in her ceiling, Mabel wandering through the secret passages in the Arconia. Alice asks Mabel if she could maybe host the party at the Arcadia, and Mabel agrees because she just found the entrance from the secret passage into her apartment and she doesn’t exactly feel like being alone right now. She finds a matchbook from the diner with a splash of red on it, but it’s unclear whether it’s blood, ketchup, or paint.

Charles and Oliver then discuss Alice and Mabel's relationship with her. Mabel waves them off and says Alice is just an “intimidatingly cool English girl” she’s dating. Charles takes a minute to process the word “dates” while Oliver teases him, claiming it’s “hip to be bisexual these days."

Alice’s party comes up and Mabel doesn’t invite them but they show up anyway. Alice ends up instantly charming Charles, but Oliver needs more convincing. So Oliver leads them in a murder mystery game he calls "Son of Sam," and ends up interrogating Alice. She breaks down and confesses to lying, but about things like going to Oxford and her parents being artists. She created an art persona to gain legitimacy in the field, but that’s it. She holds up an “innocent blonde” card from the game and storms out. Mabel, feeling betrayed by people on both sides, follows her.

Mabel finds Alice and says she’s upset she lied but also knows she shouldn’t have been publicly humiliated like this. Alice says she got caught up in her art world lies and admits she should have come clean to Mabel and she apologizes. Mabel understands; she says everyone lies a little and says that just the other night she lied about her Thai food not being too spicy. They agree not to lie to each other anymore, and they kiss and make up. But later, after they’ve fallen asleep in the same bed, it's shown that Alice did have the "Son of Sam" card.

Fanon
became really popular after Alice and Mabel's kiss on the show. Many people online started trending the kiss, mainly because people were excited to see the actresses who interpret Mabel and Alice (Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne, respectively) kiss. Fans of the show were happy to see Mabel dating a girl. But some other fans started making some theories about Alice potentially being "up to something."

Fandom
FAN FICTION