DonkeyBoots

DonkeyBoots is the friendship between Donkey and Puss in Boots from the Shrek fandom.

Shrek 2
Donkey meets Puss for the first time when Puss was acting as a hired gun trying to take down Shrek on King Harold's order. Initially, neither Shrek nor Donkey took him seriously, but they soon realized that Puss was a real threat as Shrek was practically helpless against his quick and pragmatic attacks, to the point where Shrek was begging Donkey to help him. In the end, it was Puss needing to take a break to cough up a hairball, which Donkey comments is absolutely disgusting, that makes him vulnerable to Shrek picking it up. Shrek "sparing" him and suggesting to Donkey that they should keep him makes Puss docile towards him, with Shrek needing to convince Donkey to take him with them by pleading Donkey to look in Puss' big eyes. Donkey is still not happy about agreeing, especially when Shrek needs Donkey to cry to summon the Fairy Godmother in hopes that she could help make Shrek handsome so Fiona's parents would accept him, with Puss stepping on Donkey's foot to get him to actually shed a tear.

With the Fairy Godmother unavailable, Puss decides to take Shrek to her factory, sitting on Shrek's shoulder and whispering into his ear, causing him to look back at Donkey and chuckle in a way that makes Donkey believe that they are gossiping about him. Upon arriving at the factory, they sneak in pretending to be union workers with Puss stealing a potion for Shrek while Donkey keeps watch for guards. Donkey fails at that one task, causing even more friction between Donkey and Puss, but Puss compliments him when he catches the "Happily Ever After" potion. When they are safely out of the Fairy Godmother's clutches, Donkey and Puss fight a bit over who gets to test the potion, but Donkey ends up winning and nearly gulps it down in one go before Shrek stops him. When Donkey asks if he looks any different, Puss makes a rude comment about Donkey looking the same as before. Shrek drinks the rest of the potion, to similar lack of effect, but it starts raining forcing them to seek shelter in a barn. In the barn, as dusk breaks, Donkey passes out followed soon by Shrek and then later Fiona in the castle. Puss stands watch over his new friends and gets a trio of lovely ladies to look after them, now Shrek is transformed into a handsome man while Donkey is transformed into a white stallion.

Upon helping Shrek steal some fitting clothes for him to wear, Donkey and Puss mostly stick together when they make it back to Harold's and Lillian's kingdom of Far Far Away. As they watch Shrek rush into the castle to greet Fiona as a human, they also see Fiona run outside asking if they had seen Shrek. Donkey explains that Shrek took a potion to become handsome for her, to which Fiona sees Puss on Donkey's back, asking if he's the transformed Shrek. The misunderstanding is cleared up fairly quickly, but Donkey and Puss play right into the wicked Fairy Godmother's cards when they tell her that Shrek is inside the castle, only for her to run into the Godmother's son Prince Charming pretending to be Shrek. When they see the actual Shrek walk out of the castle downtrodden, they assume the meeting with Fiona didn't go well and join him on a round of milk in the bar called The Poisoned Apple. However, that's where they overhear the deal between the Fairy Godmother and King Harold and find out that Fiona was tricked into believing Prince Charming is her husband. They are discovered by the Fairy Godmother and are promptly arrested. Nevertheless, Shrek's other friends end up watching the chase and recognize him, breaking them out of prison. Upon baking a giant gingerbread man to storm the castle before Fiona kisses Prince Charming, forcing her to fall in love with him, Puss and Donkey carry all of Shrek's friends on Donkey's back to assist in the final fight against the Fairy Godmother. As she's defeated and Shrek and Fiona happily turn back into ogres, Puss and Donkey start a fiesta in their name, singing Living La Vida Loca.

In the after credits, Puss invites Donkey to a night out with a duo of pretty ladies. Donkey turns it down, feeling depressed, with Puss offering to play matchmaker for him, only to be interrupted by Donkey's wife Dragon arriving with their hybrid babies. Everyone expresses support for the new father after initial confusion.

Fanon
DonkeyBoots was the first ship for the Puss in Boots character, despite being established to be a casanova and Donkey being happily married to Dragon and fathering her children. The ship was fueled by their rivalry in the second movie, along their funny banter in subsequent movies. However, it started falling in popularity with the introduction of Kitty Softpaws. Though it still has a bit of a following, people generally prefer them as friends these days.

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