Cymber

Cymber is the femslash ship between Cynder and Ember from the Spyro the Dragon fandom.

Canon
As Cynder only appears in The Legend of Spyro and Skylanders, while Ember only appears in Spyro: A Hero's Tail and Spyro: Shadow Legacy, the two have not met in canon.

Both Cynder and Ember have had romantic feelings for their universes' versions of Spyro, although a difference is that Cynder's feelings are returned.

Fanon
Although not massively popular, Cymber is possibly the most popular femslash ship in the Spyro fandom. It is less popular than their respective pairings with Spyro, Spynder and Spymber. Cymber is less involved in ship wars than the two pairings, and shipping the two is a more peaceful alternative to having Cynder and Ember fight over Spyro.

Cymber is mainly popular on DeviantArt and Tumblr and fanworks of it mostly exist in the form of fanart. There is at least over 35 posts for them on Tumblr under the "Cymber" tag, and only six fanart for them on DeviantArt. "Cymber x Ember" tag also has gained some fanworks for both platforms, with at least over 15 posts on Tumblr and 18 fanarts on DeviantArt. On AO3, a tag for it exists, but the pairing is rare. Their romantic tag has gained only one fanfic, while their platonic tag only contains couple fanfics. On FanFiction.net their names together are tagged to over 100 fanfics, from which only one fanfic is tagged as a romantic relationship for them.

In terms of popularity timing, Cymber started gaining popularity considerably later than Spynder. While Spynder was already massively popular in 2007–2008, Cymber did not start to gain popularity until 2010 onwards. Most Cymber artworks are from 2016 or later. The fanworks tend to depict them both as sweet and loving. Fans also love their black and pink/dark and bright designs which also are kind of overall opposite aesthetics. This has lead to some fans to call them "goth gf x soft gf" ship. Due to Cynder and Ember never meeting in canon, the shippers have always hoped it to happen, but many don't have hope for it.

However, there also has been fans from Spyro fandom who haven't liked the idea of shipping Cynder and Ember together. Mostly from shippers who either don't like the idea of them both as a couple, or from some who like to ship them both with other characters more.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Ember/Cynder on FanFiction.Net


 * FAN ART


 * TUMBLR