Juliekarolina

Juliekarolina is the femslash ship between Karolina Dean and Julie Power from the Runaways fandom.

Canon
Julie and Karolina first meet when the Runaways face off against the members of Avengers Academy while searching for Old Lace. Julie confronts Karolina, but before the two can battle Karolina offers Julie a compliment. Julie responds in turn, and the two begin to flirt with each other. The flirting is interrupted by Molly using her super strength to knock Julie out a window. Karolina is upset, and snaps at Molly that they were talking.

Julie and Karolina reunite when the Runaways again face the Avengers Academy, this time to protect Molly and Klara. Julie tries to apologize for Karolina for what her team has attempted to do. Karolina tells Julie that she doesn't want to fight her, then reminds her of her own childhood as a superhero. Julie is flattered to hear that Karolina knows about her past. Nico is eventually able to put an end to the conflict by sharing the Runaways memories with the members of the Academy, and vice versa. Julie witnesses Karolina's heartbreak about leaving, while Karolina sees Julie helping Brandon Sharpe come to terms with his sexuality. They are both in awe of each other. As the Runaways depart, Karolina and Julie agree to go on a date.

Julie and Karolina continue to date, becoming a long-term couple. The Runaways disbanded, and Karolina enrolled in college. However, a few years later Nico is able to use the Staff of One to bring Gert back from the dead. Gert insists on reuniting the Runaways. Karolina is reluctant at first, but eventually relents when everyone else agrees. As she spends more time with the Runaways, Julie feels that she is being neglected. Eventually, she decides to call the relationship off.

Following their breakup, Nico takes the opportunity to confess her feelings to Karolina. Despite knowing that she did the right thing, Julie sinks into a depression. She is finally lifted out of it by the arrival of her brother, Alex, and having the opportunity to get back into the superhero business.

Fanon
Juliekarolina was a rather popular ship at the time for fans of Runaways and Avengers Academy. Following the departure of Xavin, fans were glad to see Karolina happy again, and to have the opportunity to receive LGBTQ+ representation. However, following the release of the Runaways television series, viewers were given a glimpse of the possibility of Deanoru becoming canon. The reboot of the comic book series decided to follow the show, and broke up Julie and Karolina to put Nico and Karolina in a relationship. As Deanoru is the most popular ship in the fandom, both for fans of the show and fans of the comics, Juliekarolina has been significantly overshadowed. With Julie now in a relationship with Gwenpoole, not many fans still actively ship these two together.

There are currently over 25 works for this ship on AO3. It is Julie's most popular ship, and the fourth most popular ship in the Runaways fandom; however, Deanoru, the most popular ship, has 28x the fics that Juliekarolina does.

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Trivia

 * In the Hulu show Marvel's Runaways, Karolina dates a girl named Julie while attending college. However, this is not Julie Power, and her name is only a reference to the comic character