K/R

K/R is the het ship between Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable from the Kim Possible fandom.

Canon
Kim and Ron have been best friends since their first day of preschool, in fact, ever since right after nap time. Kim and Ron have a very distinctive relationship of opposites that covers both their personalities and their natural aptitudes.

Kim's a Type A teen: a perfectionist who sets high standards for herself and is concerned about her image. Ron's a Type B teen: he is laid-back, ambivalent and somewhat random. Equally, Ron does well in all of the areas in which Kim does not, such a cooking and being able to resist peer pressure, and vice versa. Kim and Ron complement each other, and their relationship works well.

They shared a passionate kiss at the end of Junior Prom, and they were officially boyfriend-and-girlfriend going into their Senior year. However there were some incidents even before they started dating which hinted they may have had feelings for each other for quite a while but may have been too proud (in Kim's case) or embarrassed (in Ron's case) to have openly admitted their feelings to themselves or each other. They were still together after graduating from high school.

Season 1
In the very first episode "Crush", it's stated multiple times that Kim doesn't care about getting a date for the annual school dance, she's mainly going with Ron as friends. But this year, it's different as she finally worked up the courage to try and ask out her crush, Josh Mankey, leading to Ron having to find a date of his own. Neither of them have much success, but Kim finally gets to ask Josh out for the dance after her doing her usual shtick of saving people, but also having accidently locked Ron into her locker throughout the entire dance.

In "Sink or Swim", after Ron manages to defeat his personal nemesis Gil, he asks Kim if he can lead the next mission. Kim tells him to "wait and see", which Ron interprets as "no chance", Kim corrects him that it's more "ferociously unlikely".

The episode "The New Ron" has Kim convince Ron to get a new haircut, which Ron is initially unhappy about, but she foils all of his attempts to hide it and runs through the school proudly proclaiming that he has a new haircut. Ron wounds up thanking her as he gets a compliment from an older student, but when he tells Kim that hairs starts sticking out, Kim takes him on a trip to France to fix it.

In the epsiode "Bueno Nacho" has Kim with no money to pay for a stylish new jacket, so she reluctantly enrolls herself and Ron into the titular fast food joint. Kim wound up being disappointed as Ron is completely in his element working at Bueno Nacho while Kim struggles with it. When Dr. Drakken is causing trouble again with his latest scheme, Ron refuses to come along, having grown to enjoy his new position as Assistant Manager. After an argument between them, Kim decides to go alone, but finds out that she's swiftly overpowered by Drakken's goons without Ron. After hearing that Kim has been captured, Ron wastes no time tracking Drakken down, only to get captured himself. While captured, Kim and Ron make up and get freed by Rufus, allowing for them to turn the tides against Drakken. To apologize for abandoning her, Ron decides to pay for Kim's new jacket, but she decides to return after seeing Bueno Nacho's manager wearing the exact same one.

In "Mind Games", Kim and Ron receive a call for help from someone who looks like Dr. Drakken, but turns out to be a kidnapped military official who is trapped in Drakken's body after the villain stole his own. Before they head out to save him, Kim frets about the upcoming cheerleader competition and both Kim and Ron consider each other's life so much easier than their own. Naturally, when they manage to rescue the man, their own minds end up switched. Kim now has to deal with Ron's bullies, while Ron has to deal with Kim's responsibilities and they realize just how wrong they were about each other's lives. They manage to switch back just on time after foiling Drakken's plans. When they return to school, Ron is surprised that his bullies are somewhat nice to him now, with Kim confessing that she gave them "sensitive training" in his body.

Fanon
K/R is considered the gold standard of best-friends-to-lovers in any cartoon. So much so that Season 4 partially happened because enough fans were badgering the creators and the network to actually see Kim and Ron dating, being very happy about the fact that the creators actually delivered instead of just breaking them up to keep the status quo.

With Kim being a magnet for femslash ship, K/R is not the most popular ship in the fandom (Kigo is), but it's a very well-liked ship in its own right.

Behind the Scenes
Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle (the creators of the series), have stated that they had planned on eventually making Kim and Ron a couple from the beginning instead of having them stay "just friends" for the entire franchise. Also, Schooley and McCorkle have confirmed that Kim and Ron will be together forever.

Fandom
FAN FICTION