MaliBrooklyn

MaliBrooklyn is the femslash ship between Barbie Roberts (from Malibu) and Barbie Roberts (from Brooklyn) from the Barbie fandom.

Big City Big Dreams
Barbie Roberts has received a spot at The Handler Preforming Arts Academy in New York for a summer program. She hopes this can help her achieve her dreams of being a Broadway star, this is why she so eagerly got there a day earlier. Barbie runs into an African-American girl who did the exact same thing as her, came early. They realize they have the same dream, to be on Broadway, and already seem to be friends. They go up to the dorms, and both put their hand on the same handle. They are confused, they both thing this is their room because it has the name 'Barbie Roberts' on it. They realize to their shock and delight that they are both named Barbie Roberts. The new Barbie quickly comes up with a solution to nickname the original Barbie we all know as Malibu since that is where is is from, and she will be Brooklyn. Barbie and Brooklyn are super excited to be roommates, and start decorating their room, but get distracted having fun and getting to know each other in their dorm.

They play their guitars and sing the song 'Before Us' and some of the lines are "For the fist time I found my perfect match," and "How did we ever survive, without us?" "It's like we're meant to be, like destiny, so right!" While they sing it's a montage of them in their dorm doing romantic things like feeding each other pizza, making their stuffed animals kiss, laying on a mattress listening to music together, and putting their toothbrushes together and squeezing toothpaste over them both. They also run around New York together, and ride the subway. On the subway Barbie sees a poster of the pop star Emmie and expresses her excitement. Brooklyn acts really jealous when she hears Barbie go on and on about Emmie. This is when Brooklyn tells Barbie Emmie used to be her friend before she got famous, but then started ignoring Brooklyn. Barbie then falls asleep in the subway, leaning on Brooklyn with her head on her shoulder. Brooklyn smiles in adoration at the sleeping girl.

As they begin to go through the program day after day, they meet Rafa, a costume designer who gives them a matching set of dresses, which are supposed to light up but they are broken apparently. On their day off from classes they go out and about in town and a park, similar to a date. They start dancing around and goofing off, and they take each other's hands and start spinning. The dresses light up and sparkle! Through the magic of love? No, apparently just by spinning it activated it. But it really seemed like a gay moment.

Barbie and Brooklyn are both very close to being the top student, and the top student wins a spotlight show in Times Square. They both want to do it. But at the same time, don't want to do it without each other. Barbie, Brooklyn, Rafa, and Brooklyn's old friend Emmie, who is secretly a celebrity are goofing off and dancing, but Barbie accidentally knocks Brooklyn off the stage when she trips.

It turns out Brooklyn twisted her ankle and she has a crutch. Barbie is happy she's okay and is going to help her any way she can. Brooklyn almost falls when trying to use the door but Barbie catches her, with a hand on her back and one holding her thigh. They both smile embarrassedly at each other. Barbie gets called into the Deans office and she is going to be in trouble. Emmie's dad was trying to sabotage them so Emmie could win the show, but she doesn't want it. He reported to the Dean that Barbie pushed Brooklyn, and Barbie has to go home. Brooklyn starts to believe that Barbie actually did push her, and gets upset with her. This results in them singing "Playground of my Dreams", which is like a typical break up ballad.

Rafa has video of the moment where Barbie fell on Brooklyn and he proves Barbie innocent. Barbie has already left and is at her home in Malibu, she's sad and cuddling the plushie corgi that represents Brooklyn in this moment. But Brooklyn literally flies across the country to get Barbie because she doesn't want to be at the Academy without out. She shows up at her door, apologizing, and they reunite, Barbie runs down the stairs and into her arms. They get back to New York and the Academy in time to see who won the spotlight solo show, and it just says 'Barbie Roberts'. They have no idea who won it but they are both squealing in happiness because they are so happy for each other. It turns out they both won it, and they sing together "See You At The Finish Line."

Barbie & Barbie: Double The Fun
Barbie & Barbie is a YouTube short about the two girls having fun when Brooklyn came to visit Barbie at her town. They put on a concert at the pier, and are singing so close I thought honestly they were going to kiss. Barbie's friends Teresa and Daisy were a bit jealous of Brooklyn at first but they soon learned that Barbie didn't mean to exclude them, and that they were her oldest friends, but Brooklyn is still very special to her.

It Takes Two
The whole TV Show was built around Barbie's relationship with her new friend. It is the same format of Dreamhouse Adventures, but centered around Brooklyn.

Episode One
Barbie and Brooklyn do auditions to stay the school year at the Academy because they don't want to stop being roommates with each other. Barbie acts completely obsessed with Brooklyn in this show. Her parents and sisters and coming to pick her up want her to come back to Malibu for her senior year. Barbie uses the term, "They want us to break up!" About her and Brooklyn. Barbie and Brooklyn make a scheme to convince their parents to let her stay in New York for the school year, and live in Brooklyn's bedroom. Barbie's parents and sisters don't want her stay in New York forever. Barbie assures them that they are her sisters and she'll always love them, but she's building some thing special with Brooklyn right now and she needs to focus on that. They end up putting on a mini musical to convince their parents to let them stay. They sing a reprise of the song "Before Us" but make it "After Us". The lyrics include "How can we ever go back after us?" Barbie and Brooklyn finally convince their parents to let Barbie live with Brooklyn. The camper has been towed away though so everyone has to have a sleepover at Brooklyn's house.

Barbie never once mentioned Ken, so obviously seeing him is not enough of a motivator to go back home. Her small crush on him seemed to vanish over the summer. The theme of this episode seemed to be growing up and having the dilemma of choosing between your family, and moving in with a partner.

Fanon
The fandom rates Big City Big Dreams as one of the most sapphic barbie movies, high up with The Diamond Castle, and Dolphin Magic. It is one of the most popular ships of the Barbie fandom, especially with fans of the newest Barbie universe releases. Most fanworks depict the two in very domestic and romantic situations. And most fans always talk about how "Barbie finally fond herself a girlfriend" when talking about this ship. Although the fandom is not very active when it comes to writing fanfictions (it currently has only 10 works in AO3), it's very dedicated when it comes to fanart and overall appreciation of the ship.

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