VelMarcie

VelMarcie is the femslash ship between Velma Dinkley and Marcie Fleach from the Scooby-Doo fandom.

Canon
Velma and Marcie have known each other since they were little, as they used to participate in the science fairs at their school. However, their relationship starts to get very hostile, as both of them can't stand each other. This gets even worse when Velma uncovers the mystery behind the amusement park's monster being Marcie, figuring it out by knowing her smell. Since Marcie is really, really poor, she wanted to make a plan to sell one of her discoveries to make lots of money. But Velma uncovers her plan, and Marcie ends up arrested.

After this incident, Velma gets assigned to look after Marcie as a part of a probation that got Marcie out of prison early. Since Daphne has temporarily left the gang due to some relationship issues with Fred, Velma decides to propose Marcie as her replacement, so that way she can join her in their adventures. Marcie starts calling Velma "Vee", and tells her real name is Marcie, so Velma always refers to her that way from then on, while everyone still calls her "Hot Dog Water."

In their first mission with Marcie, the two of them work perfectly as a team. Velma grabs her by the arm and gets her away from Shaggy and Scooby, who were overwhelming her with their conversations. And the two of them go together to find clues to solve the mystery. After they successfully solve the mystery, Velma tells Marcie how happy she is that she's on their team. The gang drop Marcie at her house, and it's revealed that she's forced to work as a mole for Mr. E still. He tells her to not get attached because "Mystery Inc. days are counted."

However, it's too late for Mr. E's request because Marcie starts getting closer and closer to Velma. One night, as the gang was preoccupied with their personal stuff (Fred missing Daphne and Shaggy and Scooby in their own world), Velma asks "doesn't anyone care about mystery solving anymore?" At that moment, Marcie gets closer to Velma as she replies that she does care, telling Velma "you still got me," which makes Velma smile. As the two of them work on solving mysteries and creating new devices, they start getting closer and closer, as the scene where Marcie softly grazes Velma when talking, shows.

But things take a bad turn when Mr. E sends Marcie to Mount Diabla to search for the Planospheric disk. She disguises herself as the Dark Lilith to lure the Mystery Inc. gang to the mountain and get past the traps for her. However, the triggering of the many traps destabilized the centuries-old galleon, and in the ensuing chaos, she was trapped in wreckage, whereupon Velma unmasked her. Revealing her plan, she decides to give the disk piece to Velma, rather than return it to Mr. E, despite knowing the ramifications of her betrayal. As she walks away in the sunset, Velma looks at her go, deeply saddened. Once the gang catches up with her and asks her where Dark Lilith went, Velma covers her up by saying "no idea, flew away, I guess..."

Velma later enlisted her to help steal the Planospheric Disk pieces that Mr. E and Prof. Pericles had been acquired. Marcie's job was to infiltrate Mr. E's vault and grab the pieces while Jason Wyatt kept him distracted with the Krampus robot. But she unfortunately gets captured. As she manages to be used as a distraction for the gang to escape, she tells the gang to escape as she tries to hold Prof. Pericles on her watch for as long as she can.

Velma is unable to leave Marcie behind, as she pleads for Marcie to stay with her. Marcie tells her that the world needs her, and that she should go. So Marcie stays behind, risking her life for the gang. When Velma was reluctantly crossing the bridge, she heard machine-gun fire in the distance, indicating that Marcie was gunned down by the Kriegstaffebots at Pericles's order, making the ultimate sacrifice to buy Mystery Inc. the time they needed. Velma closes her eyes, deeply saddened and keeps going.

After Marcie's death, in the alternate timeline the Mystery Inc. gang created with no influence of the Evil Entity, Marcie is alive and she and Velma are part of a team that wins every year at the Tri-state Olympiad of Science. Marcie's feelings for Velma were also more affectionate in this timeline, as she happily refers to Velma as "[her] girl". As they talk about their worries and expectations for the upcoming science fair, Velma seems to be very anxious about it. But once Marcie calms her down and Velma regains her confidence, as Velma runs away to talk with the Mystery Inc. gang, Marcie smiles to herself and says "that's my girl."

Fanon
is a rare pair in the overall Scooby-Doo fandom. However, it's one of the most popular ones of the ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'' series. Fans of the ship have been shipping Velma and Marcie as soon as Marcie joined the Mystery Inc. gang. And the speculation about the nature of their relationship being romantic was always a subject of debate for those who were against the idea of Velma being in love with Marcie. Until one of these fans was rebutted by the creator of the series himself, who went out of his way to shut down the fan that was saying there was nothing romantic between Velma and Marcie. And furthermore, confirming the two of them are a couple post reset, and that Velma is a lesbian.

After the official confirmation, fans of the series who were already seeing the hints of Velma's sexuality from other Scooby-Doo materials, especially the Scooby-Doo live action movie (where a kiss between Velma and Daphne was censored out of the movie), got super excited and cheered all over social media. And fans of this ship especifically rejoiced at the confirmation of Velma and Marcie's romantic relationship.

On AO3, VelMarci is the third most written ship for Velma and the most written for Marice. It is also the fifth most written ship in the Scooby Doo - All Media Types tag and the ''Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated'' tag.

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