Chelby

Chelby is the femslash ship between Chelsea and Ruby Gillman from the Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken fandom.

Canon
Chelsea is a selfish, vain, narcissistic, evil mermaid that tries to manipulate Ruby in order for her to obtain the trident. With the trident Chelsea takes on a much more dangerous gigantic form and it's up to Ruby. She seems to do so by playing with her insecurities and having a moment of genuine compassion.

Fanon
Ever since the first trailer dropped, people begun shipping the evil mermaid, Chelsea Van Der Zee, with the main protagonist, Ruby Gillman. As soon as it dropped countless artists started creating artwork of this pairing ,quickly becoming the most popular pairing in the fandom, even surpassing ConnorxRuby, the skater boy which Ruby has a crush on. People quickly liked to imagine the two under different dynamics and circumstances.

The ship took a nosedive in popularity after the movie revealed that "Chelsea" is not only genuinely evil, but is also Queen Nerissa and is old enough to be Ruby's mother. Those who still want to ship "Chelsea" with Ruby often pretend that Chelsea is a real person and not just Nerissa's disguise. Some have offered a compromise and gave the name "Nerissa" to Chelsea's mother and have her be the evil mermaid who pressured Chelsea into faking a friendship with Ruby to get the trident. Those fans felt vindicated when leaks of early drafts of the movie revealed that Chelsea was actually going to be Nerissa's daughter early on. Many theorize that this was only changed to appeal to audiences wanting a "real" villain instead of a sympathetic one, even though many argued that Chelsea could've worked as a more sympathetic foil to her irredeemable mother, especially since Chelsea wasn't even going to be the main villain in the first place.

Shippers often express frustration at the movie's terrible ad campaign, either revealing too much about the plot or being incredibly misleading over the nature of "Chelsea" and Ruby's friendship with her.

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