Carulia

Carulia is the femslash ship between Carmen Sandiego and Julia Argent from the Carmen Sandiego fandom.

Canon
When Carmen's crimes caught the intention of Interpol, Julia Argent and her partner Chase Devineaux were assigned to the case. While Devineaux focused on it with a single minded point of view, Julia works on a profile to help her better understand the mystiques Carmen Sandiego. Since Julia is curious as to why Carmen wears a bright color that makes her stand out, before and after she commits her thefts, along with Julia wondering about the places that Carmen as robbed across the world. Until Julia's partner made contact with Carmen in Poitiers, France and because Julia is still a rookie Devineaux didn't let her take part in the chase for Carmen. Even though Julia staying behind to examine the scene of Carmen's latest crime did allow her to uncover the hidden pattern that has Julia see Carmen in a kinder light. Julia tried to tell Devineaux of her discovery of Carmen possibly being a thief who only steals from other thieves, but he wouldn't hear her theory out while Julia choice to hand onto to.

After Julia was hired by A.C.M.E. to find Carmen and uncover her link to V.I.L.E., Julia continues to learn a bit more about Carmen Sandiego's character and motive as someone who respects history like her. Even though Devineaux has A.C.M.E. to believe that Carmen is a villain Julia is able to spot the small things that says the opposite. Carman and Julia meet one another in "The Chasing Paper Caper", where Carmen give Julia the nickname "Jules" while Julia shares her historic passion with Carmen. Julia didn't realize that the girl she talked to was Carmen Sandiego until she found the stole Magna Carta on her train car seat, their earlier conversation had told Carmen that Julia is with Devineaux and that she can still trust Julia to return the Magna Carta on her behalf. When Chief commended Julia for recovering the historic documents, she tells Chief that she didn't acted alone in which caused Devineaux to be upset with Julia when he accused her for being Carmen's new friend.

Even though everyone at A.C.M.E. is saying that Carmen is behind Chase Devineaux's kidnapping and the state they found him in, Julia refused to believe Chief's clam. Since their hunt for Carmen has taught Julia that not everything is what it seems and as she sits by her sleeping partner's bedside, she asks him to tell everyone that Carmen is innocent when he wakes up. Devineaux's stubbornness, however, has him giving Julia and A.C.M.E. the answer that is the opposite to the one she was hoping for, as Julia begins to believe that Carmen is indeed a villain they need to take down. Julia practices the words she wants to say to Carmen when she arrests her, and when the moment she practiced for came during Fashion week in Italy Carmen surprised Julia when she enlists her help to prevent the theft of four historic gowns. With her faith in Carmen restored Julia tells Chief that instead of arresting Carmen they should recruit her.

Carmen and Julias' relationship in Carmen Sandiego: to Steal or Not to Steal depends on the good and bad choices that players of the special mini game short film make. When Carmen spots Julia at the charity gala she was forced to steal from, she knows that agreeing to the host's dance will allow Julia to spot her and shortly after the dance is over Julia approaches Carmen. Julia believes that Carmen was there to stop the theft and would later return the stolen items to her door step, if Carmen choices to trust Julia with the fact that she is the V.I.L.E. optative, since she has trusted her before, Julia will remember the trust Carmen has placed in her and will later play a part in Carmen's mission to save Zack and Ivy. After Carmen notices that Julia has followed her to the air port she hides from her, until she realizes that she needs her help and when she approaches Julia about it she agrees to help Carmen. By tricking V.I.L.E. to think that Julia is Carmen delivering the goods to them, while the real Carmen saves her friends. Julia kept Carmen's signer het and coat and as she presents herself as "Carmen Sandiego" in the minor, she hears a knock on her door and when she opens it Julia finds the stolen items that Carmen wants Julia to return, along with a bouquet of red roses as a show of thanks. Julia excepts the flowers as she thanks Carmen for giving them to her.

Fanon
Fans love the faith that Julia has in Carmen, before and after they officially met face to face in the 2019 series. That faith and the way Julia blushed when she found the roses from Carmen in Carmen Sandiego: to Steal or Not to Steal had got a few fans to suspect that Julia might be a lesbian and has a crush on Carmen.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In the original Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? game series, that inspired the 2019 Netflix series, Julia was one of Carmen's former partners at ACME before Carmen left to become the famous thief.
 * Even though Julia believes that her former partner was one of ACME's bests agents, apart of her believes that "everyone" at ACME blames Julia for Carmen's decision to leave the organization as their top need to catch criminal. While Carmen herself considers Jules to be "very opinionated" and claims this made her "a little difficult to work with," although she never specifically states whether this had anything to do with her choice to leave ACME.