Greetings, all ye Rowdyruff Boys and Powerpuff Girls fans, shippers, and aficionados, it is I, Antoni, with another written entry. I am very sure that a lot of my already experienced readers are totally aware of how passionate I am about the RRB x PPG pairings I love the most and the ones I like the least, which, in turn, is a lot of fun to do, especially when creative, inspirational ideas come flowing in left and right for the pairings that I especially cherish where my Team Xtreme headcanon is concerned. Nonetheless, I hope you all take some time to enjoy this manifesto of what I think about the color-coded, color-clash, and color-crack Rowdyruff x Powerpuff couples. With that said, let the expositing begin. The Color-Coded Pairings (Boomubbles, Blossick, and Butchercup): The Blandest, Most Boring, and Most Overrated Set of Pairings Ever! Bar None! This is the particular set of pairings which manages to leave me feeling bored, uninspired, drained, indifferent, and uninterested. It also does not help matters that there are some shippers who either give puerile reasons for shipping the color-coded pairings as the be all and end all set of couples or give some of the most pretentious explanations that I find myself laughing my butt off while rolling my eyes in mild to major disinterest. Ergo, color-coded couple shippers of the world, come at me because I have this to say. I do not give two damns about all of the color-coded couples except for Boomubbles which is awesome in the best case scenario and plain fluffy to the point of diabetes in the worst case scenario. These days as a 27-year-old, they literally do nothing for me, as these couples have left me feeling bored to death. At least, the fan art can be nice to look at, especially if those artists have very skilled hands, but these days I am more than through with reading any fanfic centering around Butchercup, Blossick, and Boomubbles, especially the former two because Blossick and Butchercup annoy me to no end. The only pairing that has managed to salvage it for me is none other than Boomubbles aka Boomer x Bubbles aka the Blues because of how sweet, endearing, and healthy their relationship can be. Sure, Boomubbles’ brand of sweetness and lovability is on the fluffy side but when all is said and done I would rather root for the Blues to be the star-crossed lovers that they are. As for Blossick and Butchercup, I do not have to reiterate just how fed up I am with both the Reds and the Greens as couples. Don’t get me wrong, I can enjoy good Blossick and Butchercup fan art but the whole appeal of these two as couples baffles me to no end. I still cannot fathom why on earth Blossick is the most popular color-coded RuffPuff pairing to the point of being the poster children of a strong relationship between a Ruff and a Puff when Boomubbles could have taken that title and when there are better pairings for both Brick and Blossom. Moreover, do not get me started on how bloated their egos tend to be. Two huge egos rubbing against each other and ending up in a relationship is not the way to go and the Reds can do a Hell lot better. This is the same case I feel for Butchercup. As I stated before, I will not fault anyone who knows how to make Butch and Buttercup work as a couple whether in the form of fan art of fanfiction. However, what I can see from the stubborn, hard-headed, loud, overly competitive Greens is that they would not end up functioning as a proper couple because of how much emotional constipation is present between the toughest fighters. At best, they would function much better as good friends and nothing more. Overall, I would have completely discarded this overrated set of RuffPuff Pairings. This has nothing to do with the fact that they look and act too similar but it has something to do with how overloaded the RRB x PPG shipping fanbase tends to be with works pertaining to Boomubbles, Blossick, and Butchercup, especially the overratedness found in Blossick. If it were not for Boomubbles’ brand of lovability and sweetness, I would have discarded all of the color-coded ships to the deepest of oblivion and just let all of the couples settle for being friends. At least that is a nice resolution that I have for both Butch x Buttercup and Brick x Blossom. In Butchercup’s case, I would rather let these two enjoy kicking villain butt while having a great time being the best of friends having a laugh and playfully bugging each other. As for Blossick, I am more content keeping Brick and Blossom as good friends who at least have each other’s back and their friendship would just be too precious to spoil with romance. Finally, Boomubbles is good to stay no more and no less. I have seen enough color-coded RuffPuff couple fan art and read enough color-coded RuffPuff couple fanfics to say that I have shipped them and seen them as couples once and I will never do the same thing ever again. The Color-Crack Pairings (Blossutch, Brickubbles, and Boomercup): An Enjoyable Set of Pairings but Not Enough For Me to go Screaming Euphorically to the Heavens This is the set of pairings that I enjoy and that leaves me with a rather fuzzy, breezy, and kind of euphoric inside of me. It also helps matters that Blossutch reigns supreme over Brickubbles and Boomercup combined for reasons you would have already know but for those who are new to this, here are the basics of why I love me a whole lot of Blossutch. I can easily consider Butch x Blossom aka Blossutch aka The Watermelon Couple to be the best color-crack RuffPuff couple of all time. The appeal of a strong, roguish yet charmingly brutish bad boy pairing…
Color-Clash
Greetings, all ye Blossoomer, Brickercup, and Butchubbles fans and shippers, it is your old pal Antoni here with another written entry. You all knew this was coming and, for that, I am very excited to express my thoughts on this particular set of RuffPuff couples that I love so much. Introduction Once upon another time, I would have been a straight-up color-clash Rowdyruff x Powerpuff shipper and I would have been proud of it. Additionally, I would have easily considered the color-coded RuffPuff couples, i.e. Boomubbles, Butchercup and especially Blossick, to be the most overrated, over-loved, overpraised, and over-amassed set of pairings ever to the point of clogging the PPG fandom. Ergo, I would have gone out of my way and stated the color-coded pairings are bland, flavorless, dull, and really boring. As for the color-crack ships, I would have simply tolerated them all, called it a day, and that was it. Granted, there is a little bit more interest found in Blossutch, Brickubbles, and Boomercup, and these are the set of couples that do need a lot more love. However, my feelings for the color-crack couples would have been limited to me saying that they are fine and that is all. Don’t get me wrong. I cherish Boomubbles so much because of how naturally Boomer and Bubbles click as a couple. I really love the interesting interactions Blossutch has in terms of Butch’s and Blossom’s differences and how they play off of each other in a fun way. However, at the end of the day, I have to give it to Blossoomer, Brickercup, and Butchubbles aka The Color-Clash RuffPuff Couples for showing much more exciting dynamics, a lot more soul, and so much stability in any relationship. Whether it is Blossoomer’s brand of genuineness, empathy, and sacrifice, Brickercup’s exciting flair, pizzazz, and synergy in spite of the occasional rockiness, and Butchubbles being living proof that one should not judge a book by its cover, it is clear as night and day that the color-clash RuffPuff pairings seem to guarantee a lot more flavor, dimension, feeling, and interest as opposed to the blandness and one-notedness found in the color-coded RuffPuff pairings. So, after years of assessing, rethinking, and keeping my mind, heart, and soul open to new coupling possibilities, I can safely attest that Blossick annoys me for how overrated it is and Butchercup leaves me drained, thus making me fall out of love with these two “pairings” alongside Mitch Mitchelson x Princess Morbucks for being the pairings I used to like but nowadays find them to be godawful. At least, Boomubbles is not as bad as the former two, which is why I can say that this is my OTP of the color-coded category. Moreover, I can even state that while I think Brickubbles and Boomercup are very cute and sweet, it is Blossutch that manages to trump both of them, hence this particular pairing is my OTP of the color-crack category. Finally, even though I love, cherish, and admire Brickercup to the nth degree, Blossoomer has found itself atop the gold medal standard of the color-clash couples and Butchubbles has stood firmly and shoulder-to-shoulder alongside the other two color-clash couples as my OTPs for life. Eventually, we shall find out why this is so. However, before all of that, I would love to call attention to some of my favorite specialists of the color-clash shippings and elaborate what makes me especially drawn to their works. The Color-Clash Fan Artists Whose Works I Cherish The Most Throughout my one-year tenure of being a DeviantArtist, I have gotten myself acquainted with some of the finest artists to chiefly specialize in the Color-Clash RuffPuff Pairings. Those fine people are BrickercupMasterX3, Pastel—Star, KatyGorl, PrincessCallyie, Citsitra-Blue, xahCHUx, xmysticaldreamsx, PowerpuffObsessed, crystal-sn0w, resotii, QuietLullabies, MissEmmyJay, ColorfulWonders, YokoAnimeProductions, GoldRoseAngel, and Scarlettbreaking. Special acknowledgment has to go to PurfectPrincessGirl for her equally fine pieces of Brickercup, Blossoomer, and Butchubbles fan art and KazunaPikachu and StretchNSnort for being the very people to help me appreciate Blossoomer so much more than I do all thanks to their works. My most beloved sister from another mother, Paula aka BrickercupMasterX3, certainly has a beauty that she injects to her works coupled with the adamance she has over Butchubbles, Blossoomer, and, of course, according to her namesake, Brickercup. Just by looking at how much love she is able to put into her main OTP in her fanart to the memes to some of the fanfictions are enough for me to keep rooting for her as a fellow artist. Looking beyond all that, she has also gotten me to be completely invested with Mitch x Bunny or Bunnitch and their brand of sympathy, lovability, and loyalty towards each other, and we are both major Kenshin x Kaoru OTP shippers. Moreover, I consider her to be a kindred spirit and a great friend because we have a love for pairings that are either outside the box or the ones that ring true to the genuine connection of the characters. Ergo, we have our fair share of OTP ships that we will never abandon and that we will stay loyal to regardless of what fanbase it is. It should be no surprise that I love xahCHUx’s works whether I watch her fan-animated videos on YouTube or take a gander at her color-clash couples art on DA. Sarah always brings a lot of detail, vividness, color, and cleanliness to her character designs, thus making each and every one of her works shine brilliantly in my eyes. Her stand out works on YouTube are her fan-animated music videos of “Gives You Hell” by The All-American Rejects starring Brick and Buttercup, which manages to leave me with a huge smile on my face especially when Butch x Bubbles and Boomer x Blossom get involved near the end, and the ever-tearjerking, ever-poignant fan-animated music video rendition of “My Immortal” by Evanescence’s Amy Lee starring Boomer x Blossom, which managed to leave me bawling on more than one occasion. It…