I was rewatching Season 4, Episode 5 (The V.I.L.E. History Caper), and noticed in this scene when Carmen decides to, you know, say hi to her wife Julia while she's giving a class by inconspicuously sitting in and looking all flirty...
Carmen lifts her eyebrow and smirks when Julia notices her.
I zoomed in, but it's so hard to see the gesture in these screenshots. Please go rewatch this scene and just pay close attention to Carmen's face!
I can't... I just... It's no wonder Julia's stammering! Carmen's giving her a smoldering look (on top of just existing)!
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Chapters: 16/28
Fandom: Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Julia "Jules" Argent/Carmen Sandiego | Black Sheep
Characters: Carmen Sandiego | Black Sheep, Julia "Jules" Argent, Player (Carmen Sandiego 2019), Ivy (Carmen Sandiego), Zack (Carmen Sandiego), Shadowsan (Carmen Sandiego), Lady Dokuso (Carmen Sandiego), Paper Star (Carmen Sandiego), The Mechanic (Carmen Sandiego), The Driver (Carmen Sandiego), The Troll (Carmen Sandiego), Carlotta Valdez | Vera Cruz, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Mars Dakila - Original Character, Blood, Major Character Injury, Torture, Alcohol, Recreational Drug Use, Season/Series 04 Spoilers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Lesbian Character, Nonbinary Character, Nightmares, Heist, Crime Fighting, Spies & Secret Agents, Requited Love, julethief, Carulia, Not Beta Read
AYO YOU SEE THOSE SCARY TAGS ABOVE^? THOSE WARNINGS? Those are mostly for this specific chapter. Feel free to skip this one if you need to; next week’s chapter will include a recap of this one.
Summary: Carmen tries her best to enjoy her retirement, but is dragged back into the fray when the remnants of VILE smash ACME to pieces. Julia joins the reformed Team Red, and she and Carmen must outsmart a mercenary hellbent on killing them both and endangering the people they love.
Or, a bunch of character studies loosely tied together with plot.
Updates once a week.
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Hello,,,my friend @jen-kollic has a Secret Shame Project™ AU that I just HAD to write about. So here’s a fun conversation Carmen has with her and Julia’s rebellious daughter, Mei.
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"Carmen Sandiego": An Enthralling Animated Series [Part 4]
Continued from part 3
The series introduces two ACME agents inspired by past characters in the franchise: Julia "Jules" Argent (Charlet Chung) and Chase Devineaux (voiced by Rafael Petardi). While Chase is an arrogant and pompous fool, Jules is more level-headed, and is open to the reality that Carmen is stealing from other thieves.
This article was originally meant for The Geekiary. I submitted the article in mid-August 2022, on August 16, and it got sent back for edits, and even after a long conversation with one of the editors, including re-submitting the article a second time, I decided to publish it on my own (see original post for details) It was published on my History Hermann WordPress blog on Jan. 2, 2023.
Ultimately, Chase realizes that Jules was right all along about "La Femme Rouge" (The Red Woman). This differs from Zari, a focused and efficient agent who sides with the Chief above anyone else.
Carmen Sandiego makes Chase, and his actions, a form of comic relief. This contrasts with Jules' more academic and scholarly nature. She even goes through ACME case files to find Carmen's mother, and works as an antiquities professor at one point. More than any other character, she understands Carmen on deeper level. The series hints at possible romantic feelings between them.
In the the above clip from the interactive special, To Steal or Not To Steal, she dances amazingly, becoming a fan sensation when the special aired. The dance has definite gay, or bisexual, vibes, depending on how you interpret it, since Carmen's dancing excites Jules.
Not surprisingly, some fans speculated that Carmen and Julia would end up in a relationship by the end of the series. Their ship is known as Carulia, Julethief, Carmelia, and Carjules. It is one of the most popular ships for the series.
While the ship did not become canon, Capizzi confirmed that two VILE thieves, Le Chevre / Jean Paul (Andrew Pifko) and El Topo / Antonio (Bernardo de Paula) were a gay couple. He called them sweet villains you "can't help but love". At the end of the series, they open a food truck together, similar to Benson and Troy at the end of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
Additionally, one former VILE operative, Graham "Gray" Calloway (Michael Goldsmith), has an important role in the series. Some fans have shipped Graham and Carmen together, dubbing it "Graham Crackle". Like Carulia, this ship has some canon support. There are various additional ships that fans favor.
Some are femslash, like Paper Star and Tigress, Ivy and Jules, and Ivy and Carmen. Others that are slash. Some cross fandom boundaries, like the ship between Cassandra in Tangled and Carmen known as "Red Moonstone".
There are possible symbols in the series which hint at LGBTQ+ themes. Carmen often wears an upward gold triangle around her neck. It may be a subtle hint at the pink triangle, a reclaimed symbol of self-identity and pride, especially among gay people.
However, it is much less direct than the ax bass of Marceline the Vampire Queen, in Adventure Time, which resembles a labrys. The latter can be a lesbian feminist symbol, referring to self-sufficiency and strength.
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Continued in part 5
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