Rububble

Rububble is the femslash ship between Ruby and Bubble from the Battle for Dream Island fandom.

Canon
After being accepted into Match and Pencil's alliance, she stops the two from using a bubble wand to blow Bubble back to life. She tells Pencil that it would be too much work to bring her back, pointing out they've done fine without her and that she can't count to three. Pencil still wants to try and thinks that Ruby is acting weird, to which she laughs it off to.

Ruby confesses to Pencil and Match that she was acting weird because she thought she would be kicked out of the alliance if Bubble were to come back. She changes her mind when Match assures her they can have an alliance of four and is happy to see Bubble back when Pencil revives her. Bubble, however, doesn't know that Ruby was accepted into the alliance and kicks her away. When Match asks her about it, she pulls out Golf Ball's Book of BFDI Tips and Tricks and points to a rule that suggests alliances splitting up if they exceed three members. Pencil discredits the book and Golf Ball, which makes Bubble change her mind and accepts Ruby. She gives her a slap out of apology and welcomes her into the alliance.

When Ruby jumps onto a platform on top of Evil Leafy, she pops Bubble in the process.

After a new Hand-powered Recovery Center is created, Ruby uses it to recover Bubble. Later while the team is driving through the desert, Ruby starts a snowball fight after Match and Bubble complain about being bored.

Ruby picks up some Yoyleberries and eats them with Bubble. Book tries to warn them that they'll turn into metal although the two don't pick up what she says.

Bubble informs Ruby on what a lens cap is after Pencil notices she forgot to take it off the camera while recording. While Pencil is complaining that their video diaries have been reduced to nothing, Bubble and Ruby are eating gumdrops they've collected.

At the start of Battle for BFDI, Bubble is hanging out with the alliance. Bubble is popped by a fork and after being recovered with her own recovery center, Ruby compliments the machine. Later on, Ruby tells Bubble that she thinks Flower is beautiful. Bubble and Ruby end up on the same team, iance, for the competiton.

While going around forgiving each of her team members, Bubble forgives Ruby for originally trying to replace her in the alliance. During the impostor challenge, Ruby and Flower conclude that Bubble is real when she forgives Snowball for popping her earlier.

Ruby spins over to Bubble after hearing Grassy relay coordinates towards X's emeralds, which Bubble heard as well. When Ruby calls out for the alliance, Flower points out how the alliance is just her and Bubble now. Bubble encourages Ruby to use shovels after seeing her try to go underground by biting. While digging, Ruby and the rest of her team is concerned when Bubble is carrying the teams that landed on her. Flower accidentally lands on her and causes her to pop, shocking Ruby, Snowball, Fanny, Lightning, and Ice Cube.

While digging, Ruby tells Flower that she's still mad she killed Bubble. She calls Bubble's life special and as a result, she makes Flower instantly lose her favorite game Flower Power.

When the new teams are created for Battle for BFB, Bubble goes to Ruby to express uncertainty about her new team. Ruby comforts her by sharing that they're together on it and that Teardrop won't scold her. Bubble clarifies that she was referring to Leafy also being on the team, to which Ruby offers to resolve her frenemy issue. Briefly pulling out a megaphone, Ruby tries to get Leafy's attention until Bubble stops her. Ruby instead tries to make her feel better since she's not teammates with Blocky, who has consistently popped her throughout the competition. Bubble is confused by the fact that Ruby and Blocky are on different teams despite the teams being based on color. When the challenge starts, Ruby offers an idea for the challenge after Bubble is unable to think of one. The two, along with the rest of their team, ride the FreeSmart SuperVan to retrieve X. When they arrive, the team has a disagreement on who wants to grab X. Bubble volunteers to do so but Ruby thinks she's too fragile to go get him.

Ruby is wondering how Lollipop, Bubble, and Gelatin are doing trying to impose as Flower. Lollipop and Bubble return, the latter informing Ruby that Gelatin has successfully tricked the other team. Later as Taco and Ruby fight each other on top of a bridge, Bubble and Gelatin chant in Ruby's support.

After Bubble is given air in space for being safe at the Cake at Stake ceremony, she pulls out a straw to give some to Ruby while she is still suffocating.

Bubble admits to Gelatin that she was starting to feel lonely on her team after Ruby's elimination.

Bubble compliments Ruby for getting the idea to use the FreeSmart SuperVan to chase after Four. While being projected into the air by Four, Ruby is excited by it. Bubble tells her that she shouldn't feel happy that they're flying, making Ruby instead frightened. After they retrieve Four, Flower asks Ruby and Bubble if they would like to eat the grand cake with her. The two accept and they chomp away at it.

Fanon
Rububble is fairly popular in the Battle for Dream Island fandom. Aside from their rocky introduction, the fandom enjoys that they have consistently been friends throughout their time in both the alliance and afterwards. Along with that, they have been on the same team in each season they competed in together. Compared to other ships involving Bubble or Ruby, fans have noted that Rububble is relatively healthier because of their good history. A good amount of support for the ship comes from users on platforms such as Tumblr and TikTok. The pairing rivals ships such as Floweruby (Flower x Ruby), Bubblepop (Bubble x Lollipop), and Fubble (Fanny x Bubble).

The ship has four written works on AO3.

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