Royal Purple

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Royal Purple
GENERAL
Animator vs. Animation
Character	Dark Blue
Character	Purple
Canonical?	Canon
Status of Relationship	Ex-Father and Son
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Familyship
Also Known As	Blue-Purple, Navy Purple

Royal Purple is the familyship between Dark Blue and Purple from the Animator vs. Animation fandom.

Canon

In Note Block Universe, Purple reaches the peak of the mountain, and Green follows him. After a while, Purple starts using music to tell a story:

Two stick figures with the names of "Dark Blue" and "Pink" fell in love with each other and had Purple as their child. Dark Blue wants to train Purple in combat, but Purple was not a very good fighter, however, his dad is much stronger, Purple always ran to Pink for comfort. When Purple grew older, the training only continued with Purple getting beaten up. At one point, after a brutal training session, Pink tries to protect Purple from Dark Blue, believing that the training was too harsh. It was the last straw; Dark Blue raises his fist at Pink, who cowered in fear, and gestures that he's done living with them; it was clear Dark Blue has become abusive and fights with Pink. Their relationship had nearly no love left. Dark Blue started walking away when Purple begged him to stay, but Dark Blue deemed Purple to be too weak and incompetent, so he left him and Pink to fend for themselves. As Purple grew older, Pink eventually died, but we do not know how, leaving Purple all alone to grieve over and mourn over his loss.

Despite the abuse Purple endured by Dark Blue's hand, the latter was still the only family the former had left, and Purple vowed to do whatever it took to make his father proud. We then see a 3D sequence of Purple climbing and jumping over blocks, symbolizing Purple's journey. It shows Purple attempting to gain his father's approval by becoming powerful and successful, like being the king of a town of Villagers in Episode 9 back on June 19th, 2018. But Purple also did terrible deeds, some including trampling the Villagers for his gain and betraying Blue and Green for the Dragon Egg. He almost makes it, but Dark Blue turns his back on Purple, the egg vanishes into thin air, and Purple loses his crown like he did in Episode 10 back on June 19th, 2018, and falls to the ground again. He ends up on a parkour course that leads to a tower, which is the Episode 22 back on June 12th, 2021. The Second Coming and company run past Purple. Green stops and looks at Purple concerningly for a moment before progressing with his friends. Purple sees King Orange at the top and wanted to impress him to impress his father, and so Purple climbs over and attacks everyone, takes the Minecraft Game Icon from Red, and has them and the others imprisoned in the process. He flew with the Block in his hand while Green was anchoring him down. When he was on the edge at the top, King Orange offered a hand, and Purple felt accepted again, only for King Orange to betray Purple, take the Minecraft Game Icon instead of helping him up, leaving Purple to fall down alone.

As Purple explained his backstory, he broke into sadness. He admits that he always lets himself become evil

In The King, When King Orange accidentally breaks through the wall in his Heaven, which was made off. Off in the distance, he see's Purple in a black empty void with cherry tree petals falling from the sky. King Orange runs towards him. Purple see's him but King Orange is seen as Dark Blue through Purple's eyes. King Orange hugs him, and Purple embraces it.

Fanon

This ship, just like the rest of the King Orange-Purple family tree, is often disliked due to the fact that the ship, ships two family members together. Most viewers see the two as a toxic, unhealthy father and son and don't ship them together for that reason. They see the two being together romantically as unthinkable and most see the two as a father and son. The familyship is rivalled by Purple Mango, the familyship between Purple and King Orange.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Purple & Dark Blue tag on AO3