Carball

Carball is the het ship between Carrie and Gumball from The Amazing World of Gumball fandom.

Canon
While is is not clear how long they have known each other for, Gumball and Carrie are known to be friends ever since the events of "The Ghost." Although the events of this episode place Carrie as the antagonist - with her constantly possessing Gumball's body and going on a junk food binge - by the end they resolve the issue and stay friends. From that point on, Carrie would appear infrequently to help Gumball whenever he was in trouble, usually of the paranormal sort.

In "The Flower" when jealousy took control of Gumball, Carrie held a séance to dispel the jealousy from his body.

In "Halloween", she invites Gumball - along with Darwin and Anais - to a spectral party on Halloween in a haunted house, and even helps them return to their bodies before midnight.

In "The Mirror", she helps Gumball to defeat the curse of The Snatcher - which is revealed to be her father.

Finally, in "The Scam," she and Gumball work together to scam people into handing over their candy after pranking their class with a ghost story.

Gumball and Carrie's friendship also stems from their individual relationships with Darwin. This has also worked the opposite way, such as in "The Matchmaker" where a misunderstanding leads them to working together to try and pair Darwin up with Teri. Later in the episode, when Gumball realizes the mistake, they worked together again to undo what they had done. At the end of the episode, when Carrie and Darwin become a couple, Gumball expresses his joy of seeing his best friend and Carrie together.

Although this ship is not canon and their relationship is platonic in the show, there have been a few instances of Carrie and Gumball being rather close. The exact seriousness is debatable, however, as most of them were likely played for laughs.

Despite this, the ship has been addressed in the show - or more specifically made fun of: in the episode "The Shippening", Sarah finds a Cartoon Network notepad and begins writing/drawing fanfiction it, including one of an older Gumball and Carrie with a child. When the real Gumball and Darwin discover this, Darwin gets angry at his friend and calls him a 'homewrecking womenator.' This is also the only time in the show that both of Carrie's ships with Gumball and Darwin are called by name directly.

Moments

 * While Gumball is wearing Nicole's wedding dress in "The Dress", Carrie is among the people in the school worshipping Gumball - thinking that he is a pretty girl.
 * In an attempt to avoid embarrassing himself by asking Penny to be his date to Tobias party in "The Party", Carrie is one of the people Gumball asks instead.
 * After exorcising jealousy from his body in "The Flower", Gumball and Carrie share a short interaction that makes Penny - Gumball's love interest - jealous.

Fanon
Carball is a surprisingly popular ship within the Amazing World of Gumball fandom, especially since they are both characters from two different ships that are canon - Gumball with Penny and Carrie with Darwin. The ship's popularity was likely caused as a result of the many interactions they have shared together throughout the series, beginning all the way back in "The Ghost."

On AO3, Carball is the second most written ship for Carrie. There are currently seven written works.

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