#guardicard

[thecascadesystem]

Oh my god they actually made it in

I love Randy x Danny so so much but I feel like it's my duty as the one original GuardiCard Truther to provide some evidence to my propaganda. (This post will be pretty long, and some of the images may cause eyestrain because they're from old flash animations - just a heads-up.)

Here's a screenshot from Guardian Angel's first appearance (poorly edited for clarity about who is who):

This is from one of Edd Gould's older animations, so the quality is a lot lower than his later stuff. I think it adds to Guardian's charm, and makes this pairing even funnier than it already is.

Guardian sticks by Edd's side throughout the whole episode, giving him guidance with a dramatic "kill the root of the problem before it grows" approach.

Despite being so prominent of a character to Edd's character development (though this is not to be taken seriously, because the show is based in absurdist comedy), Guardian only shows up in a single episode.

This is a screenshot of Hellucard's first appearance in the episode "Spares" (please disregard the fact that he's surrounded by Edd clones):

He shows up as a gag in multiple episodes, trying to greet Edd each time (though mispronouncing his name as 'Hedd'), but Edd never returns the acknowledgement. (I'm going to disregard the weird retconning comic that makes Hellucard talk to an actual floating head, because the comics aren't entirely canon anyway).

Hellucard actually ends up dying in the episode WTFuture, when he is shot by a future version of Edd that travelled back in time. Due to this, even his last words were an attempt at his typical greeting.

However, this isn't the only time that Hellucard is shown as being dead for an on-screen gag. He's also shot by Paul in the intro to Space Face, and seen as a zombie astronaut in Fun Dead (it's likely that his dead body was somehow retrieved from space and somehow became a zombie back down on Earth).

So we have a guy who's a literal angel and a guy who dies a lot, both with opposing relations to our main character. I think this ship would work in a sort of "unrequited love triangle" sort of way, or maybe even a "doomed by the narrative" concept. I don't quite know how to explain it, but these silly little guys are so perfect for semi-ironic angst.

I have literally no more photo evidence for this pairing because they never interact and this is all themeing, so I made a list of traits instead to show how truly "opposites attract" these characters are.

In conclusion, I have no issues with if you decide to vote for Danny x Randy (I'd do the same thing if I wasn't so damn passionate about this ship). In fact, I consider it a win that GuardiCard is even included in this tournament. But if you did vote for this ship it'd make me so damn happy - I need other people out there to rant about this ship to.

Rants!

Hellucard/Guardian Angel: Eddsworld is an animated series created by Edd Gould, starring the fictional counterparts of his friends. All of the characters featured in his animations are fictional and the plot lines follow fictional absurdist events (just clarifying in case you worry that this is RPF - its not).

In the 2005 Christimas Special, a Guardian Angel comes down from heaven to show Edd what the lives of his friends would look like if he didn't exist. Guardian Angel helps Edd to be more generous and kind towards his friends because of the visions he grants, in a plot line comparable to A Christmas Carol, and he gains his Angel wings as a result of the successful task. He is never seen again in any other episode.

Hellucard is a recurrent character that exists solely as a gag, frequently seen waving at Edd and greeting him with a catchphrase (he says "'Ey Hedd" instead of "Hey Edd"). His last few appearances in Eddsworld featured his death (in WTFuture) followed by Easter Egg cameos of his dead body (seen floating in space in Space Face, and seen as a zombie in Fun Dead).

I (@thecuddlesystem ) first created this ship after entering every Eddsworld character into an online spinner wheel and using the wheel to create crack ships, solely out of boredom. Hellucard x Guardian Angel was one of the results, and I've been obsessed with it ever since (despite there being literally no fanart or acknowledgement of this ship in the fandom).

The main focus of this ship is due to the "opposites attract" trope, and how the two characters can be seen as narrative foils of each other.

Hellucard has blonde hair and wears a black shirt, while Guardian Angel has black hair and wears a white shirt. Hellucard constantly tries to interact with Edd throughout multiple episodes (for no real reason) but never succeeds, while Guardian Angel interacts with Edd directly with purpose for a single episode. Hellucard is associated with death and has the word Hell his name, and Guardian Angel is...well, an angel from Heaven.

I'm also pretty fond of angst content for this pairing because I think angst content for such minor characters in a comedy-centric flash animation series is a funny concept.

In conclusion: please consider my blorbos for this bracket. They'll probably lose but I'll be so damn pleased if they're even mentioned by anyone but myself.

Danny Fenton/Randy Cunningham: You can just call this ship EctoHam for short. Danny is half-human and half-ghost due to an accident with his ghost-hunting parents' ghost portal, and he fights ghosts as a superhero called Danny Phantom. Randy was chosen to be the Ninja, a role that is secretly passed down between the citizens of Norrisville every 4 years, and he has to fight robots + monsters to protect his highschool. Neither Randy or Danny can reveal their secret identities to the public due to how dangerous the outcomes would be (both are at risk of death). That's pretty much all you need to know for context about this ship - if you remove the secret identities, they're just two dorky teenagers who struggle with a lack of popularity.

[synthsworld]

*shakes ur hand*

#LETS GO GUARDICARD#I'm the one who added it lmao#genuinely ship it but it started as a crack ship#that's the name I'm coining for it btw#GuardiCard...#really interested in finding out how this poll ends#eddsworld#shipsworld#ko don't look#teddy.swf

literally watching weed's ew shipping poll in real time, this is INTENSE

[thecascadesystem]

I estimated the vote count and it looks like 8 whole people (minus myself, which makes the true count 9) voted for guardicard!!! As silly as this sounds, I'm so incredibly glad that even 1 other person voted for this option in the poll.

Congrats to ectoham for winning, I love those boys sm, but this is also a personal win for me - my ship is out there in the world, with more evidence of it actually existing as a concept outside of my brain. That is the true power of rareships/crackships imo :>

Rants!

Hellucard/Guardian Angel: Eddsworld is an animated series created by Edd Gould, starring the fictional counterparts of his friends. All of the characters featured in his animations are fictional and the plot lines follow fictional absurdist events (just clarifying in case you worry that this is RPF - its not).

In the 2005 Christimas Special, a Guardian Angel comes down from heaven to show Edd what the lives of his friends would look like if he didn't exist. Guardian Angel helps Edd to be more generous and kind towards his friends because of the visions he grants, in a plot line comparable to A Christmas Carol, and he gains his Angel wings as a result of the successful task. He is never seen again in any other episode.

Hellucard is a recurrent character that exists solely as a gag, frequently seen waving at Edd and greeting him with a catchphrase (he says "'Ey Hedd" instead of "Hey Edd"). His last few appearances in Eddsworld featured his death (in WTFuture) followed by Easter Egg cameos of his dead body (seen floating in space in Space Face, and seen as a zombie in Fun Dead).

I (@thecuddlesystem ) first created this ship after entering every Eddsworld character into an online spinner wheel and using the wheel to create crack ships, solely out of boredom. Hellucard x Guardian Angel was one of the results, and I've been obsessed with it ever since (despite there being literally no fanart or acknowledgement of this ship in the fandom).

The main focus of this ship is due to the "opposites attract" trope, and how the two characters can be seen as narrative foils of each other.

Hellucard has blonde hair and wears a black shirt, while Guardian Angel has black hair and wears a white shirt. Hellucard constantly tries to interact with Edd throughout multiple episodes (for no real reason) but never succeeds, while Guardian Angel interacts with Edd directly with purpose for a single episode. Hellucard is associated with death and has the word Hell his name, and Guardian Angel is...well, an angel from Heaven.

I'm also pretty fond of angst content for this pairing because I think angst content for such minor characters in a comedy-centric flash animation series is a funny concept.

In conclusion: please consider my blorbos for this bracket. They'll probably lose but I'll be so damn pleased if they're even mentioned by anyone but myself.

Danny Fenton/Randy Cunningham: You can just call this ship EctoHam for short. Danny is half-human and half-ghost due to an accident with his ghost-hunting parents' ghost portal, and he fights ghosts as a superhero called Danny Phantom. Randy was chosen to be the Ninja, a role that is secretly passed down between the citizens of Norrisville every 4 years, and he has to fight robots + monsters to protect his highschool. Neither Randy or Danny can reveal their secret identities to the public due to how dangerous the outcomes would be (both are at risk of death). That's pretty much all you need to know for context about this ship - if you remove the secret identities, they're just two dorky teenagers who struggle with a lack of popularity.