Nouxie

Nouxie is the non-binary ship between Douxie Casperan and Nari from the Tales of Arcadia fandom.

Canon
Even though both Douxie and Nari have found themselves in the care and protection of Merlin on separate occasions during the time of old Camelot, their paths didn't cross until the present events of Wizards when the threat of Nari's family, the Arcane Order started to go after Merlin's champion and the old wizard called upon his apprentice for help on the matter. Douxie being glad to be back in Camelot's castle again prevented him from noticing Nari looking at him and his new friends from above. Along with the Arcane Order's attack on the castle preventing the two from talking to one another, before Douxie accidently falls into the time portal that Merlin got Nari to open in an escape attempt that goes wrong. As Douxie gets sent to the time when Nari was still with the Arcane Order, while he had no idea that she and her siblings were the cause of Morgana's survival or that they over the saw the Battle of Killahead Bridge. The very battle that got Nari to realise what she can no longer be part of the Order. When Douxie prepared to open a time portal back to the present future, he makes sure that it takes him, Jim, Claire and Steve to the moment after they were sent to the past, so they'll be able to save Nari and the others on the damaged floating castle.

Knowing that Arcane Order will be coming after them, Douxie gets his friend Zoe to allow him, Nari and the other to hide in Hex Tech. Where Merlin and Nari tell Douxie and the other about the battle with the Arcane Order and how they need Nari to break the Genesis Seals for their world destroying plan, that she wants no part of. Douxie also doesn't have the world to be destroyed and understands that Nari needs to be protected. That is why he had Archie pretend to be Nari when a small group when to get Jim back form the Order, while the real Nari remains in the safety of Hex Tech with the group that didn't join Douxie in his time travel journey. After his plan failed and caused Merlin's death, that Nari felt through her magic, Douxie decided to find the Genesis Seals before the Order does, knowing that they are just as important as Nari. While Douxie was away, however, the Order had manged to find and capture Nari and the people who tried to protect her in the attack.

Douxie becomes aware of Nari's capture from Krel when he returned to the now damaged building. Not knowing how to save Nari and the others had Douxie turning to Merlin's book for answers, but ends up forming his own plan. Even though it meant giving Bellroc and Skrael the Seals when they are in his time trap, he knows that they can't break them without Nari and needed to get the two out of the for his plan to work. After he saved his friends and learned that Nari was placed in a different part of the Order's floating castle, he goes after her while sending the others to safety. Nari thanks Douxie for saving her even though her siblings will kill Douxie for it, Douxie smiles as he tells Nari that she needs to work on his pet talks and when Bellroc and Skrael arrived he takes it upon himself to hold them off, while telling Nari to run and regroup with the others. Douxie knew that he'll have to give up his own life to ensure that Nari gets far away from the Order and was prepared to do so. Once Nari sees Douxie falling from the sky she begins to run towards him and during Douxie's brief time in the afterlife before he gets sent back to the world of the living, he gets told by Merlin to continue the task of keeping Nari safe from the Order now that they have the Genesis Seals. Douxie excepts the task as he bids farewells to the Guardians of Arcadia, before he, Nari and Douxie's familiar Archie fly towards New York. Where Nari is given modern style clothes to help her blend in whenever Douxie and Nari are out in about.

Sometime before the events of Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans the two have realised that the Order are coming close to finding them, and moved from New York to Metro City to get away from them. Nari on the other hand has grown tried of running and gets Douxie to help her make a stand. Long before the opening train scene in the film, the two had got in contact with the Guardian of Arcadia to help them in their task of stopping the Order for good. Waiting for Bellroc and Skraels' attack had Douxie getting cold feet and wanted to continue running, but Nari grabs Douxie's hand as she tells him "no more running" before giving him a reassuring smile. Showing that the two have grown close to one anther during their time on the run. Nari's words and smile help Douxie to go through with the plan. At first the plan became close to working thank to Krel's magic blocking device, but after the train got out of its ranged their battle on it lead to it crashing. The first thing Douxie did after the crash was to ask his friends if Nari is safe, and sees Claire helping Nari off the crashed train brought him relief. Until Bellroc used their magic to bring Nari to them, Douxie managed to grab Nari's hand in an attempt to keep Bellroc from taking her, but Skrael attacking their friends and the innocent people around them as Arch begging Douxie to let Nari go. Knowing what would happen if they were to do so, Douxie decides to cast a body swap well between him and Nari to ensure that they take him instead, while Nari remains in the care of their friends.

This bought them time until the Douxie's spell wears off, but when Bellroc and Skrael learned that they were tricked they forced the spell to break, causing both Douxie and Nari pain. Before Nari gets sent back to her real body, she manages to tell the others to obtain the Krohnisfere. As for Douxie, he tries to remember the place that Bellroc and Skrael took him to as Nari, knowing that she'll be there and need to save her before she is forced to break the seals. After they found Nari, however, Bellroc had placed a mind control spell on her and the Order had created a shield to prevent the Guardians to stopping them. With the Titans summoned and knowing that a mind control Nari is controlling one of them, Douxie joins AAARRRGGHH!!! and Nomura in their task of stopping her from reaching Arcadia. Douxie tries to reach out to Nari by calling her name, but it wasn't enough and Nomura payed the price. Even though Claire's group were able to get the Krohnisfere, none of them had any idea on how to use it to stop the titans, and since Nari was the one who got them to get it in the first they knew that they'll have to try again in reaching out to her.

Jim and Claire join Douxie in his second attempt to free Nari from Bellroc's control. As it has Nari attacking the three while Douxie refuses to give up on her. He manages to get a hold of Nari's hand, despite vines wrapping around his body, as he tells her the word that she had told him on the train; "No more running". Those words is want freed Nari and stopped the Earth titan from moving. Douxie was glad to have Nari back as he pulls her into a hug while telling her that she is safe and with them again. Even though they have managed to stop on titan, there are still two more they need to stop and that is why Nari decides to have the Earth Titan fight for them. Douxie could only watch from away as Nari battles Skrael in epic titan vs titan battle, as Nari makes sure that she takes Skrael with her after her brother landed a killing blow on her. Douxie runs towards the fallen Earth titan while calling out Nari's name in hopes that she is still alive. Only to find root vines that start to fade away while Nari's voice echoes "no more running" to him. Douxie begins to cry as Nari's fading earth magic surrounds him. To ensure that Nari didn't for nothing, Douxie helps his friends to defeat the final titan.

Even though Nari and many other friends were lost in their battles with the titans, Nari was able to give them away to restart the world without destroying it. By having Jim go back to the day he became the Trollhunter so he'll be able to change the tragic outcome. Like the others, Douxie has faith that fate will allow him to re-meet the friends he has made in the original timeline as he supports Jim to go through with Nari's plan.

Fanon
Nouxie is one of the well liked ships involving Nari, as the end events of Wizards has inspired fans to write and draw about their time hiding from the Arcane Order, long before the events of Rise of Titans. Their shared moments in the climax film got fans to notice that Douxie and Nari have grow to deeply care for one another. That is why one group has them as lovers while a larger group prefers to have them as surrogate siblings, since Nari is on the run from her family and Douxie has lost his and cannot be with his new found family, fans believe that the two might have been able to fill in that void within each other through their new friendship; by becoming each other's family. That is why some of the ship's fanwork is of Douxie teaching Nari how to play the guitar, showing Nari the wonders of man's world and helping her to start a small garden in their New York apartment.

After Jim reset the timeline at the end of Rise of the Titans, fans began to hope that Douxie and Nari will be given a chance to meet again and will be able to rebuild their strong bond that was shown in the film.

On AO3, the ship has 36+ gen fanfics, while Tumblr has many drawing, gifs and screengrabs on the two and their bond. YouTube has quite a few non-binary/het videos that were inspired by their shared moments in Rise of the Titans.

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 * Like Douxie Nari wielded a staff, but somehow lost it after she gets placed under Merlin's protection.