Kyan

RyKen is the slash ship between Ken Carson and Ryan from the Barbie fandom.

Canon
Ken and Ryan have a clashing relationship. Although they're constantly arguing with one another, at the end of the day, they don't hate each other and even care for one another.

The first episode of Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse when Ryan is introduced to the series, he gets to spend the day with Ken, albeit forcedly. Since Barbie had to go to a fashion show, she asks Ryan to pet sit her cat, dog and horse. After giving him a set of instructions, she leaves the two of them alone. They start bickering and from the get-go, it's established they have a teasing relationship dynamic.

The next time they meet, during a camping trip, the bickering and teasing continues. But it is during the shooting a music video where Barbie needed Ryan's directorial assistance, that their bickering gets even more intense. They start saboting every little thing they do to ruin the other's screentime. At one point, Ken gets so fed up that he screams out loud that he wouldn't have come had he known that Ryan, who he refers as "this pretty boy", came too. Barbie stops all the conflict by uniting everyone on set, and once they all watch the final product all together, Ryan and Ken high-five.

Later, when Barbie organizes a pajama party at her house, Ryan designs a plan to get her to jump into his arms, since he claims girls do that when they get scared. However, the plan ends up once again uniting Ryan and Ken. Ryan dresses up as a zombie, taking advantage of the fact that the night is extremely stormy. So he sneaks from the back of the house, but he didn't take into account that Ken was guarding outside the house that night. So when the two of them clash into one another, they both get scared at first, but ultimately end up wrestling on top of each other on the floor. During their fight, they end up inside the house, and when Barbie says she got scared by the sudden appearance of Ken, Ryan takes it as a sign to enact his plan. But, at that moment, a very loud lightning strikes, and Ryan gets so scared that he jumps into Ken's arms, which is exactly what he said girls do when they get scared.

Fanon
is the most popular slash ship within the Barbie fandom. Fans of the ship started shipping it after the release of the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse series. Their potential enemies to lovers dynamic is something fans of the ship really love about their relationship, which led fans of the ship to make videos highlighting this, which garnered millions of views.

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Trivia

 * Almost all the times Ryan refers to Ken, he calls him "Kenny boy."