Piperico

Piperico
GENERAL
Brawl Stars
Character	Rico
Character	Piper
Canonical?	Canon
Status of Relationship	Married/Fellow Fighters
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Het
Also Known As	Ricopiper
Tropes	• Like an Old Married Couple

Piperico is the het ship between Piper and Rico from the Brawl Stars fandom.

Canon

Piper and Rico are both playable characters in Brawl Stars, and depending on the player's choices, can face off or cooperate in online modes. They both appear in many animations and artworks and are usually seen near each other or as the main focus of the animation. In one of the animations, Piper is seen baking sweets that are also used as grenades, and as she goes around using them on enemies, she sees Rico and blows him a kiss.

In another animation, Rico is saddened by the death of a vending machine until Piper finds him and comforts him by wiping his tear off his eye before they get revenge on Frank who destroyed the vending machine. They also appeared in the Brawlentines event of 2025 where players vote on who Bo's first kiss will be. They were placed as 2 of the options and an official art published showed them on their respective dates with Bo. While on their dates with Bo, they were texting each other instead of focusing on the date, showing their love to one another. They can both be seen in many other official artworks occasionally flirting, on a date or simply next to one another.

Despite this, they share differences: Rico is a robot and Piper is a human, Rico is classified as a Damage Dealer while Piper is classified as a Marksman, Rico is a Super Rare while Piper is an Epic. Piper are Rico are also in different trios in the game, while most other ships or couples are in the same trios. Piper is also a Baker while Rico a gumball machine, both having the topic of food as a theme of their character. Piper was added to the game a month after Rico and Rico's mastery title is "The Lover", an homage to his love for Piper.

Fanon

Piperico is the oldest ship in the game, and it is because of that why the developers made it canon. It started with art from one of the fans, until some of the developers starting drawing art of them as well (that art has become lost media though) and they were included interacting and seemingly in love in a few animations. And after that, the ship took off and became one of the most popular ships in the entire fandom. Although, it often receives hate due to the fact the ship doesn't make much sense, the ship is usually rivaled by other parings like ShadySniper and Pilette which both have Piper, while Rico, in rare cases, is sometimes shipped with Stu. But Piperico is their most popular ship by a wide margin.

The ship is often criticized on Twitter but praised on most other platforms like YouTube and Reddit. It is one of the least controversial ships within the Brawl Stars fandom due to its canonicity and its approval from many of the developers of the game. On Twitter is where the most hate exists due to many calling it nonsensical and insulting it and so not that many Piperico fan-artists are on Twitter.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Piper/Rico tag on AO3

TWITTER

Piper x Rico posts on Twitter

Rico x Piper posts on Twitter