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Tacopop is the femslash ship between Taco and Lollipop from the Battle for Dream Island fandom.
Canon[]
While forming teams in Battle for BFDI, Saw invites Lollipop and Taco to her team.
During the swingset challenge, Taco is stuck inside of a jawbreaker who can hear everything her team is saying but, due to the material, can't be heard by them. The team has come to the belief that Taco is dead and starts grieving. While Taco attempts to yell that she is still beside them, Lollipop begins to write eulogies. She is slightly offended when Lollipop writes her as "quite amalgamated and weird" but is honored when called bold and courageous. After they win the challenge, the jawbreaker breaks open and Taco is freed. The team, having believed that she was recovered and instead abandoned them, isn't amused on her return. Lollipop is bothered that she now has to throw out her eulogies and sarcastically thanks her.
Lollipop agrees with Book after she makes a joke that Taco is still dead in her eyes. Taco is upset that they are still shunning her for the misunderstanding.
While the team follows A Better Name Than That to space to avoid the Twinkle of Contagion, Taco decides to drop out and return to Earth. Lollipop, along with everyone else, is disappointed at Taco for leaving them behind again.
Taco is revived after being dead for the past few contests. Lollipop overhears a conversation Taco has with Bell and realizes why Taco had left them in space: she tricked Bell into getting the twinkle so that their team can stay safe for the challenge.
Book tries to exclude Taco from another challenge and says she wouldn't volunteer anyways. Lollipop, now having known Taco's goal, wants Book to talk directly to Taco instead.
Lollipop asks Taco if she has any strategies to figure out who the team's impostor is. Book questions why they should listen to her, to which Lollipop explains how her strategy from earlier had saved them from losing the twinkle contest. She points out that Taco, if she were to leave the team again, would have nowhere to go since they are all in one room. Book begins to become wary of Lollipop because of her trust in Taco.
Taco, trying to chat with Barf Bag to avoid her team, describes Lollipop to her as a mutual friend who she doesn't like at the moment. Lollipop begins to grow tired of Book's hatred towards Taco, uninterested in seeing her observations while Book spys on Taco.
The team is reunited for their Cake at Stake ceremony and everyone tells Taco how much they missed her, Lollipop complementing her fish in particular. While the rest of the team is initially upset on realizing Book still needs to revived, Lollipop, Saw, and Teardrop are shocked when Taco asks Four to bring her back.
When the cast is divided on whether to stay with Four or join Two's new show, both Lollipop and Taco remain with Four. The two are placed on separate teams, however.
Lollipop realizes that Taco is right about their team having an advantage by already being in space to cool X down.
After Taco tries to get Woody to appreciate their efforts in getting a gift for him, Lollipop points out that she and her teammates should reconsider Woody's value to their team.
During the finale, Taco is shocked to see Lollipop initially support Flower on winning over Gelatin.
Fanon[]
Tacopop is a fairly popular ship in the fandom, especially during the run of fourth season Battle for BFDI. Lollipop and Taco both share similar friends and are known for their strong attitudes, alongside having competed as teammates. Fans also support Lollipop for being one of the first to realize Taco's intentions to lead the team to safety, as well as defending her when Book kept bullying Taco for it. Despite the fact that the two did not have much interactions after the cast had split, fan art continues to be made for the ship to this day, such as on Tumblr. The ship rivals pairings such as Gelapop (Gelatin x Lollipop), Flowerpop (Flower x Lollipop), Tacoblock (Taco x Blocky), and Tacobook (Taco x Book).
On AO3, there are five works under their relationship tag. It is the second most written ship for Taco and the fourth most written ship for Lollipop on the site.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Lollipop & Taco (Battle For Dream Island) tag on AO3
- Lollipop/Taco (Battle For Dream Island) tag on AO3
- Tacopop stories on Wattpad
- FAN ART
- Tacopop search results on DeviantArt
