PapiCoco

Cocona x Papika is the femslash ship between Cocona Cocomine and Papika from the Flip Flappers fandom.

Canon
Cocona is a very shy, quiet and insecure girl who is a model student at her school. Her life gets turned upside down one day, when she meets Papika, after she goes for a walk to further think about what she wants to do with her life. There, she is surprised by Papika, a lively, almost magical, girl that transports Cocona to a magical realm known as "Pure Illusion." Both of their contrasting personalities easily shine in this new and strange world, with Cocona acting very cautiously, while Papika freely wanders around. Eventually, they end up hiding from the snow in a cave. Cocona gloomily reflects on why they are there, and if it's all a dream, and Papika mentions a treasure in Pure Illusion that can grant wishes. She gets close to Cocona and embraces her in her arms. Cocona asks her if she's afraid, but Papika replies that as long as she's with Cocona she will not be afraid. Later, when she talks about how sweet the treasure smells, she gets closer to kiss Cocona, saying it must smell sweet like her, but Cocona shyly gets away.

At that moment, giant boulders made of snow start heading towards the lake, breaking everything on their way. So Papika and Cocona fly away from there. When Cocona accidentally loses her glasses, Papika recklessly retrieves them from the back of one of the giant boulder monsters, and ends up falling deep inside a frozen lake. Papika runs to the lake, and falls on her knees, completely devastated and murmuring that she really didn't need the glasses that much. Then, screaming Papika's name at the top of her lungs, Cocona unleashes incredible magical powers from within her just to save Papika from the frozen lake. As soon as Cocona saves Papika's life, they stay in each other's arms for a while, flying, until they fall to the ground.

After coming back to the real world, Papika starts smelling a sweet smell coming from Cocona, and realizes that it's the magic treasure that grants wishes that they were looking for. When Papika asks Cocona to come back to Pure Illusions with her, she's hesitant to do so, and refuses. Papika then starts following her around, inciting that they should go on new adventures because she doesn't have the strength to go alone. But crying, Cocona explains that Papika is reckless and that she got deeply scared and worried thinking Papika died in their latest adventure, and she doesn't want her to. This shocks Papika, but their intimate moment gets interrupted by the little bunny that was accompanying Papika falling into one of the many portals leading to Pure Illusions, which the both of them end up following.

In their next adventure, this time it's Cocona who is in danger. Papika runs to save her, with her stamina very high. However, as she starts getting more and more hopeless seeing Cocona get closer and closer to the lava, she starts crying out loud, desperately yelling out Cocona's name. Recalling Cocona's words regarding her fear of losing her, Papika thinks she deeply fears losing Cocona now. At that moment, her love activates the little gem that unleashes great power within her, just like it did with Cocona previously. She manages to shield Cocona from danger, running to hug her as soon as she sees her. As she grabs her hand, Papika declares that she will never leave her alone again. Cocona is shocked to hear this and replies that she won't either.

When they return to the "real world", Papika apologizes to Cocona for dragging her alone in her adventures, because she could now understand the fear she felt about losing her when she herself experienced it. She tells Cocona that she understands if she never wants to go back to Pure Illusions. Instead, Cocona states that she had a lot of fun and, grabbing Papika's hand, she tells her that they can go back, albeit occasionally. This moves Papika to tears.

So later, Papika leads her to a sort of "central" where all portals to Pure Illusion's realms are located. The two of them are informed of the mission they have now: collecting shining fragments to "liberate" Pure Illusion. As a scientist places them both in one of the tiny portals, Papika holds Cocona's hand to calm her down and lets her know that she's alright, and the two of them go on another adventure. In this new world, Cocona is being controlled by a mask and doesn't recognize Papika, so she starts attacking her. Papika manages to dodge her attacks, and when she finally gets the mask off her, she regains her Cocona back, not before breaking down crying thinking she lost Papika again. Afterwards, the two of them fight against Welwitschia. And when they succeed, they sit back to back. At that moment, Papika confesses her love for Cocona, repeating it over and over. However, their moment gets interrupted once again by a giant monster.

On their next adventure, the two of them get stranded on a deserted island. At first, they have a great time. Papika cooks for them and even improvises a tent where the two of them sleep together. They also go surfing on the sea. However, as time passes and no one comes to save them, they get more and more desperate. Later in the night, as they go looking for food, Cocona starts feeling insecure, and remembering Welwitschia's words telling her she's empty inside, Cocona says that she's useless. Papika is quick to deny this, citing all the wonderful things Cocona can do. This makes Cocona laugh, and as she starts feeling better, Papika also improvises a bathtub for the two of them to take a bath in.

After they make a tent out of some wood and leaves, they stare at the stars together and have another intimate conversation, prompted by the passing of a shooting star. Cocona shares the most intimate parts about her past with Papika and says that her wish is to meet her deceased parents. Papika says she believes her dream will come true since she herself dreamed about being with Cocona, and now gets to spend a lot of time with her. After their talk is over, Papika is sound asleep. Cocona sees her and blushes at the sight, going to sleep right next to her. The next morning, the two cooperate to build a raft, rescuing themselves and synchronizing so well that they open a new portal to Pure Illusion on their way out.

Their next stop at Pure Illusion offers them a safe space where they can explore their relationship a bit better. Papika has already confessed to Cocona, but she's still unsure about her feelings. However, in the place they find themselves in, a welcoming, accepting school of girls who encourage them to spend time together and grow closer, Cocona starts developing stronger feelings for Papika. She starts seeing Papika in a very romantically attractive way as soon as she sees her in her uniform, and they start being way more intimate with each other, like sharing a bed, holding hands and even sucking on each other’s fingers.

However, it is in their next adventure that Cocona’s feelings towards Papika are further explored, when she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with Papika, picturing her in a variety of roles during another Pure Illusion trip. She goes through seemingly every possible outcome to describe her love for Papika, beginning with younger sister, sexy male classmate, ghostly apparition, high society friend, street punk, and even a sexy succubus. In all of these scenes, Cocona and her Papika partner break some rule or do something that they’re not supposed to do. Finally, with the last Papika, the succubus with whom she shares a hotel room, she starts realizing the depth of her feelings for Papika. She exclaims that she wants to stay there in that world, and Papika tells her that no matter how much she changes, she'll always love her. When Papika asks her about her feelings for her, Cocona says that she doesn't know if she can love Papika since none of these "Papikas" are “her Papika,” the one that she loves. After this, the succubus Papika softly caresses Cocona's arm and intimately lies next to her in bed, asking Cocona to forget everything and just stay there with her. However, Cocona decides to come back to her world and to her real Papika.

Cocona walks around the fake city she was in for a little while. And ends up by a lake. Completely frustrated with her newly-found feelings for Papika, she screams "Papika, you idiot!" at the void. At that moment, the reality around her begins to dissolve, threatening to suck her in like a dark hole. Just as she was about to fall, Papika grabs her by the wrist.

On their next adventure, they find themselves on a mission where they have to fight giant robots that are fragments themselves. Finally, Cocona makes the brave decision of fighting the robots herself. As soon as Yayaka, her friend, hears of this, she objects seeing how reckless it is, since it can cost Cocona her life. Yet Cocona says, as she looks into Papika's eyes, that she's no longer afraid of the change that Pure Illusion brings into her life. Papika grabs Cocona by the shoulders and vows that she will never leave her. Later, they end up defeating the robots by synchronizing their hearts.

Finally, after some tension over why was Papika hiding the fact that she knew who Mimi was, Cocona's mother, the two of them have a confrontation with her when Cocona's mother decides to trap Cocona in Pure Illusion, because she wants to keep her daughter safe in there forever. Despite Papika's pleas to let her daughter live her life freely, Cocona's mother doesn't give up. At that moment, as Papika has a realization about the fact that she wants to live her life making her own decisions, alongside Papika, she finally confesses her feelings to Papika, expressing just how much she loves her. As the both of them reach to each other, Cocona's mother tries to separate them, but their fingers graze against one another and that's when Cocona's mother full power activates, to go against the two of them. At that exact moment, after Cocona's love declaration, the two of them transform into what appears to be wedding dresses with big hearts on their chests, growing magical wings. And they also realize the immense power they have just by touching each other and being together, when an immense amount of power surges from just them holding hands.

After Cocona's mother's fragments start sucking all of Pure Illusions into a sort of black hole, to make it disappear, Cocona and Papika remain close to one another in a flying rock. Cocona once again opens her heart up to Papike and tells her that she actually wasn't really fond of going on adventures at first, because she was afraid of doing new things and regretting them. Still, she tells Papika how thankful she is to her for holding her hand and leading her on those quests together. Papika confesses that she wanted to  go on adventures with Cocona not because she wouldn't be able to go on them alone, but because it had to be with Cocona. When the both of them utter the reason for this out loud, at the exact same time, they end up saying: "it's because I... really, really, really love you."

Cocona tells Papika that she feels the exact same way for her and that it absolutely "has to be her," which solidifies their soulmate-bond. Papika gets extremely emotional over Cocona's love confession, and hugs her tightly. Then Cocona says that she wants to know a lot of new worlds with Papika and that she wants to go on adventures with her. So the two of them go hand-in-hand to confront Cocona's mother's fragments, threatening to suck them in. When they meet with Mimi, Cocona's mother, she tells Cocona to choose the path she wants and to have adventures, that Pure Illusion will always exist. After Cocona returns to the "real world," Papika decides to stay behind with Mimi.

Back in the "real world," as soon as Cocona wakes up, she desperately looks for Papika everywhere, saying she has to bring her back from Pure Illusion. Defeated after a long day, she goes to somberly sit on the place they first met. And there, Papika surprises her by telling her she was spending some time with Mimi. When Cocona realizes that they are still in Pure Illusion, Papika extends a hand to her and tells her to go back to their world together. Crying, Cocona makes Papika promise to never disappear like that again. And the two of them go back to the real world, where they keep exploring together as always, Cocona now happily nuzzling her cheek against Papika.

Fanon
is the most popular ship in the Flip Flappers fandom. Due to the fact that the whole series revolves around Cocona and Papika's relationship, the two started being shipped since the first episode, when Papika declared her interest in Cocona. Since the series was aired weekly at the time of its release, every week, with every new episode, fans were eager to know how the two's relationship would evolve. So when Cocona finally declares her love for Papika in the last episode, the fans got extremely happy and hyped. Fans of the series and the ship often cite this episode, as well as episode 7, where Cocona gets to experience Papika's different versions, as one of the most memorable for Cocona and Papika's love story.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Cocona's eye color is the same color as Papika's hair color. And Papika's eye color is the same color as Cocona's hair color.
 * When they transform into their magical forms, they switch hair colors.

Variations

 * '''CocoPapiYaya refers to the ship between the two and Yayaka