Corbie

Corbie is the het ship between Coraline Jones and Wybie Lovat from the Coraline fandom.

Canon
Coraline first met Wybie when she was exploring the area around the Pink Palace, the house her family had moved just into. The boy spooks her by driving towards her on a motorcycle wearing a skeleton mask, but then he pulls the mask off and comments on her using a dowsing rod to find the well she heard of, assuming she's from one of the "dry states". Coraline angrily corrects him, telling her she's from Detroit and further gets fed up with Wybie when he calls her "Caroline". After learning his real name "Wyborn", Coraline repays him by calling him "Why-were-you-born". Wybie quickly changes the subject and shows her the well she's been looking for, telling her that it's said to be so deep that you can see stars on the bottom at day time. He also introduces Coraline to the black cat who lives in the neighborhood and stalked Coraline before, saying it's feral and doesn't belong to anyone. He also admits that its odd that his grandma, the owner of the Pink Palace allowed the Jones family to rent the place, saying she usually never rents to families with kids. When Coraline asks why, Wybie is called back to his house by his worried-sick grandmother, before he leaves, he quickly tells Coraline that the rod she's been using is poison ivy.

Coraline develops a rash from the poison, telling her mom that she nearly fell into a well that day, which she might've if Wybie didn't tell her about the well. Her mom is not interested in the story, drowning herself in work, but she gets Coraline to leave her alone by telling her that some boy left a newspaper package on their porch. Coraline opens the package and finds a message from Wybie, calling her "Jonesy" and telling her that he found it in his grandmother's old toy box. She finds a doll looking like a smaller replica of herself in the package, though fascinated by it, she dismisses it saying she's too old for a doll. When Coraline's mom asks her what the boys name is, Coraline tells her and takes the doll with her on a stroll through the house, despite her prior comment.

Later discovering the dimension inhabited by button-eyed copies of her parents, accessed by a tiny door in the living room, Coraline tells her parents about her discovery, but they don't believe her. Coraline later meets Wybie again in the fog outside, cat on his back. Coraline mocks him, thinking he lied about the cat not belonging to him, but Wybie says that he doesn't like wet paws and quickly changes the subject. Coraline tries to tell him about the dimension with the button-eyed people, but Wybie dismisses her, causing Coraline to compare him to her parents. When she asks what he's doing here in the first place, Wybie says that he's looking for slugs, asking for Coraline to take some pictures of him holding them. Though Coraline hates being forced to do this for someone she doesn't even like, not helped by the slugs being somewhat gross, she does giggle a bit at some of the funnier shots Wybie pulls off. Wybie then opens up about his grandma's paranoia, explaining that she used to have a twin sister who lived with her in the Pink Palace. But then her sister disappeared without a trace one day, with Wybie's grandma insisting that she's been "stolen", which caused Wybie to believe that she simply ran away. Wybie is once again called away from the Pink Palace, leaving a puzzled Coraline all alone.

When Coraline visits the other world again, her Other Mother introduces the "Other Wybie" to her, who is mute so he wouldn't interrupt her anymore. When the Other Mother tells her that she "fixed" him, Coraline thinks about this for a moment before admitting that she likes it.

However, when the Other Mother shows intentions of sewing buttons into Coraline's eyes as well, intending to keep her in her world forever, Coraline flees the other world with help from the Other Wybie, only to find that her parents had disappeared in the real world. Hearing a knock on the door, hoping it's her parents returning, she's disappointed to find Wybie in their place. Coraline remembers that she met three ghost children in the other world, saying that the Other Mother (whom they prefer to call the "Beldam") had taken their eyes, eaten their life and trapped their souls in her world forever. Realizing that one of the ghost children looked a lot like Wybie, she correctly guesses that it must be the soul of Wybie's great-aunt, she pulls him inside and shows him the door leading to the other world. Coraline refuses to open the door when Wybie asks for it, but Wybie tells her that he's only here to take the doll back, saying it belonged to his great-aunt and his grandma is furious at him for giving it away. Coraline then realized that the doll was a tool for the Other Mother to spy on her the whole time, which she tells Wybie verbatim. Wybie then assumes that Coraline had gone mad and runs out of the house without ever finding the doll, with Coraline blaming him for the mess and throwing the shoes her "Other Mother" gave her at him.

Later, the Cat shows Coraline that her parents were taken away by the Beldam, Coraline prepares one last trip to the other world to free the souls of the ghost children and rescue her parents. Succeeding in doing so, the ghost children tell her that the Other Mother won't give up just like that, warning her to get rid of the key for good else she finds a way into her world yet again. Coraline remembers the well Wybie showed her and decides to toss the key inside to never be found again. However, the Other Mother's hand (which was broken off during her escape) finds her and manages to overwhelm her. Dragging Coraline towards the well by the key around her neck, Coraline believes that all hope is lost, but then she hears familiar motorcycle noises and sees Wybie swipe the hand away from her with a stick. Coraline and Wybie team up against the hand, with Coraline saving Wybie from falling into the well, crushing the hand with a rock, wrapping it into a sheet with key attached and tossing it into the well. Wybie apologizes for not believing her, calling her "Coraline" for the first time. When Coraline asks him what caused him to change his mind, he says that a friend helped him, pointing at the Cat. He also shows her an old photo of his grandma and her twin sister, with Coraline happy that she was right and reminded that the ghost children are now free.

The next day, Coraline invites Wybie and his grandma to a garden party at the Pink Palace, with the two of them wanting to tell her all about her sister and that they defeated the monster who took her.

Fanon
Corbie is the main ship of the Coraline fandom, with many believing that Wybie was specifically created to serve as Coraline's love interest. Though official word is that he mostly exists so Coraline has someone of her age to talk to, people still commonly interpret Wybie as having a crush on her and sometimes vice-versa.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Wybie was created for the movie, though he takes his last name from "Mr. Lovat", the landlord of the Jones family in the original novel. A common theory with fans is that Mr. Lovat from the book is Wybie's father and the son of Wybie's grandma.