Hobie Brown/Pavitr Prabhakar

Hobie Brown/Pavitr Prabhakar, also known by the portmanteau shipnames Goldenpunk and Chaipunk, is the slash pairing between Hobie Brown and Pavitr Prabhakar from Across the Spider-Verse. However, other versions of the pair are shipped together from other different media, such as the Spider-Verse comics and the concept art from the movie, with distinguisable dynamics between the versions.
The ship has a great amount of fans of different cultures, such Spanish speakers, Vietnamesehttps://www.facebook.com/ChaiPunk138.50101/posts/pfbid02fnePTxGtX9aZc1m7PcfikdfTvoqsYJK1WXRoFEDKtvvbVMAKS4BdpWfXJ3B9bCj1l, Filipino and Chinese.
==Canon==
The different media has different canons.
In the Across the Spider-Verse movie, it is stated that Hobie and Pavitr are good friends, with a lot of skinship of the little that was shown of them together. Meanwhile, in the Spider-Verse comics the status of friendship can be debatable, since Pavitr claimed that Hobie is "the worst Spider-Man" and they don't have many interactions compared with other characters and Pavitr being rather a minor character overall.
==Fandom==
Fans quickly became attached to the potential of the ship, the characters on their own and the concept art of them, and showed interest in the original source of the Spider-Verse, being the comics, which resulted on the different dynamics for every version of the ship.
Regarding the ATSV one, it's often depicted as a fluffy ship along the friends to lovers trope. When the concept art of the characters become avaible on the internet, fans speculated how the relationship of these original designs would be; with that, the fans started shipping what they call Emo!Pavitr with the various designs of Hobie made by the artist Christie Tseng.
With the raising popularty of the movie, the comics started being of interest for the fans again. Then, the fans started shipping Comic!Goldenpunk or Comic!Chaipunk. Its dynamic is speculation and mostly based on the "you're the worst Spider-Man" dialogue from Pavitr; with this, the dynamic is often depicted as mutual but complex, with Pavitr calling Hobie names and vice versa and Pavitr expressing contempt at Hobies' shenanigans.
* Example of a post using "goldenpunk" ship name
*Example of a post using "chaipunk" ship name
=== Common Tropes & Storylines ===
One of the most common tropes for this ship, mostly portrayed with the original ATSV version, is Robbing the British Museum as A Date, where Hobie an Pavitr, usually in mutual agreement and the fanon idea of both of them hating the British, decide to enter and rob from British Museum all the Indian artifacts they can. The outcomes vary, sometimes it results in a perfect excuse for fluff tropes and the failure of the robbing and escaping together or sometimes resulting in steamy moments.
==== Examples of the trope ====
===== Fanfiction =====
* Spiders' Night Out! by Chaos_and_Sparkles. Crackfic. (2023)
* It's Not Theft, It's a Repossession by 247FandomBrain. Fluff and Established Relationship. Part 1 of 2 for an AO3 series by the same author. (2023)
===== Fanart & Video =====
* hobie helped with the pics by izbubbles.
* its them by melspontaneus.
* yup by guilleartee.
===Wank===
There have been multiple wanks about the ship that converge with other ships such as Flowerpunk, such as stating that Hobie is an adult and Pavitr is a minor, thus making the ship a "pedoship".
This claim as been proved false, since the canonical ages of any character hasn't been revealed, just vague mentions of characters being "older" or "younger" than others, but not how much. Another countered argument this claim has faced is that the stated ages of the characters by antis only apply to the concept designs of the characters and not the ones that are actually in the movie.
Another recurrent wank tends to be pointing out that Pavitr cannot be shipped with anyone because he has a canonical girlfriend. Claim that many other ships had faced over and over again.
And that the name "chaipunk"/"punkchai" is racist and/or dehumanizing.https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/725932965905973248/i-saw-people-on-twitter-acting-like-it-was
==Fanworks==
=== Fanfiction ===
* Study Break by Asterlude. Friends to Lovers and Fluff. (2023)
* a message worth hearing by zelinkies. Meeting the Parents. (2023)
* imagine being loved by me by LiterallyThePresident. Angst with Happy Ending, Blood. (2023)
* Enervation by HydraNoMago. Comic!Goldenpunk, Angst, Major Character Death. (2023)
* El peor by Kaanbaltla. Comic!Goldenpunk, PWP. (2023)
===Fanart===
* by irlplasticlamb, 2023
* by yesssencia, 2023
* 上一张被压画质了吗，试试这个。by yuzhnbdn1, 2023.
===Gallery===
File:Comicgoldenpunk.JPG|Digital art by Chic_LLL. A soft interpretation of the Comic!Goldenpunk dynamic. Included here with permission.
File:IMG 0786.JPG|Digital art by yuzhnbdn1, displaying the three most common versions of the ship.
==Links==
* Tumblr: #hobie x pavitr, #chaipunk, #punkchai, #goldenpunk
* AO3: Hobie Brown/Pavitr Prabhakar works
==References==
Category:Spider-Man Relationships
Category:Spider-Verse
Category:Slash Pairings
Category:Interracial Pairings
Category:Social Media Feature-Ship Sunday