Roupaz

Roupaz is the femslash ship between Rouge and Topaz from the Sonic X fandom.

Anime
In “Fly Spy”, Rouge explored an abandoned factory and found a small shiny object, after which bright lights spot at the bat, revealing G.U.N. soldiers surrounding her. As Topaz prepared to handcuff her, Rouge complements her toughness and calls her an old lady (in the original Japanese, Rouge asks if the agent is into “hard play”). The other soldiers laugh and Topaz tells the commander to cease. The commander recognizes Rouge as the jewel thief from the previous night. Rouge, Topaz, and the commander were then seen at the President’s office. Rouge asks Topaz for a cup of coffee, with the soldier reluctant at first but obeyed when her commander orders her to do so. The President offered Rouge a special agent position at G.U.N. in exchange for freedom. Rouge and Topaz infiltrated Dr. Eggman’s fortress and were able to use a bomb to destroy one of Eggman’s robots. As they fled the fortress, Topaz did not know how to thank the bat. Rouge suggested her to “lose some weight”, to which the agent is annoyed. In the original Japanese, however, the bat complains that Topaz is “too heavy”.

In “Emerald Anniversary”, they both investigate the appearance of the latest Chaos Emerald which in possession of Chris’s father. They followed him to Filmdom City and were able to eavesdrop at a ventilation system inside a studio. They were still sitting in the vent when they felt the reaction of the sixth Emerald. Later, Rouge snatches said Emerald (with box intact) in front of Chris’s parents at the right opportunity: as Eggman, Bocoe, and Decoe stormed into the studio. As the bat replied to Nelson about how important that Emerald is to her plans, Eggman steals it with his own hands from his Eggmobile. Rouge immediately gets in the Eggmobile trying to take it back. Topaz joins in but the doctor literally pushes the gas pedal, tossing both of them towards Stewart. After Eggman gets away with the Emerald, Rouge reflects on not having even a single Chaos Emerald, and affirms that she will “get those Emeralds no matter what”.

In “Running Out of Time”, Topaz contacts Rouge on the radio informing the bat that the President is in danger. Both Rouge and Knuckles infiltrated the President’s office and knocked out some rouge agents under the command of Card Passer. Topaz arrived after the brawl, checking on the President's condition. After the President replied that he was fine, Topaz exchanged glances with the bat. Later, when the portal to Sonic’s world powered up for a second time, Rouge gave Topaz a gem that was “a steal” from the jewelry store as a parting gift. Rouge bade her long-time friend and companion farewell as the bat entered the portal, leaving Topaz weeping while Mr. Tanaka comforted her.

Fanon
This pairing is fairly popular. Fans tend to ship Rouge and Topaz for their co-worker development in the anime and Archie comic, the latter taking place between seasons 2 and 3 of the former. There are currently twenty fan works of this ship in Archive of Our Own as of December 2021. Numerous fan-art also exists for this ship.

Along with Chris and Sonic, this is one of the few Sonic X ships involving a major human character (other than Dr. Eggman or Maria Robotnik who also appear in the games) having a deep relationship with a Sonic character.

Other rival ships for Rouge include with Amy, Knuckles, and Shadow. For Topaz, with Tanaka and Stewart.

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