Happy Birthday, Eric Cartman
A small Kenman piece I wrote for his birthday š¤²
Note: I made them middle school here but ages don't affect the story at all soooo enjoy
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Ā Eric sighed quietly as he rolled over, now facing the wall. After gazing at the ceiling for the past thirty minutes, he already realized that he's not going to get much sleep tonight. How much easier it would be if he could just lay and instantly fall asleep as it always happens. But it was an unlucky night for him right before his birthday.
Ā He was...Moderately excited. I mean, which middle school kid wouldn't be excited for his birthday, right? Maybe some depressed dude or a lame hippie wouldn't, but Eric hated those guys anyways. He's not a little child anymore tho, so he won't jump of his bed right at 7 AM in the morning, but he was pretty excited for the gifts his mother was preparing for him and also the usual party he was hosting.
Ā 2:30 AM already, and Eric's still wide awake. He's never getting it right before his birthday. Now he just lies and mumbles something to himself. The weather is shitty, so he can clearly hear the wind noise even through the closed window. Well, at least it's better than lying in a complete silence...Cartman thinks so until something hits his window.
Something hits his window. Suddenly all the wind noises before don't sound like wind noises anymore, because someone is clearly moving outside. God. Eric won't admit it, but he's scared. Of course he's scared, this whole situation looks like a cliche horror movie plot. The 2 AM, the window, the noises...And the next step should be dead Eric Cartman. Then a tragic morning discovery, then his crying mother at the funeral, and then...Wait, no, this isn't going to be like that. He was actually about to call his mother, but then the killer would kill him instantly or what's much worse would think he's a pussy. He can't let that happen! If someone dares to try to kill Eric Cartman at night, they should face the consequences without any mercy.
Ā Holding a pair of scissors in his hands, Eric was hesitant to open the curtains. That was until he heard the familiar voice through the window.
"Psst, Cartman, open your window!" the voice says.
"Kenny? My fucking God," now Eric more confidently opens the curtains and looks down - it is Kenny! Kenny Mccormick, looking at him with "open the window" puppy eyes. Somehow Eric does just that, and in a few seconds his friend is already in his room. "What are you doing here? I'm trying to get some fucking sleep."
"But you aren't sleeping. Phew, I thought I'd have to wake the princess up," Kenny says, giggling.
"Two shits you're gonna wake me up."
But in the end, they both don't look very tired, so Eric decides that he can go with that.
"Running away from home again, Mccormick?" he says mockingly.
"Nuh-uh, just going for a walk," Kenny shrugs and looks away.
"Right. A walk. At 2 AM. Through the entire town. You're such a comedian," Eric says, nearly laughing.
"Shut up. It is a walk. I'm not leaving Karen there, I'm gonna return home by morning and go to school. Just need some...time." Kenny replies, his voice a bit sadder.
"And you decided to walk directly to my house. I swear, if I was actually sleeping and you'd woke me up, I-"
"Chill out dude, I wasn't going to wake you up, I was just stopping there and thought maybe you wasn't sleeping, and I was right!" Kenny smiles victoriously.
"Uh-huh, and that's why you decided to throw something," Kenny replies with "a stick" and giggles. "a fucking stick at my window!"
"That's just a small detail," he chuckles.
"And what do you want anyways?" Cartman asks. "It's not like we can do any of the cool stuff right now when my mom is asleep. It doesn't mean that I don't want to wake up my mom, it's just-" and he begins his five minute rant about his mom and about how tired and annoyed he is.
Kenny listens through entire thing without saying a word of interruption and with a curious expression on his face. After Eric finishes, he speaks. "Actually, I came to wish you a happy birthday."
A few second silence. This, at almost 3 AM, seriously?
"Huh. You know I haven't invited anyone to my birthday yet, right?" Eric says, confused.
"Yep."
"And you know I might not invite you, right?"
"You'd be a bitch then, but yeah".
Cartman just pokes him instead of a usual "Hey!", and Kenny starts giggling again.
"So...You remembered?" Eric asks curiously.
"About your birthday? Yes," Kenny replies, visibly confused. "Jesus man, why are you so weird about it?" he laughs.
Well, not a lot of people seem to remember without me reminding them!
"You are weird, Kenny. You showed up to my house at 2 AM to wish me happy birthday."
"I just had to do it first!" Kenny says and starts laughing again.
Ā The situation quickly became much more lovely than it was at the beginning. It surely feels nice and weird at the same time: nice to have someone who cares so genuinely, weird to not have a need to force them to care. With all of that, Eric seems to feel...Happy?
"You know Kenny, you aren't so bad of a guy after all."
@bloogers-boogers I CRIED I LOVE IT EVERY TIME WHEN U REBLOG ME I JUST ššššš¤²š¤²š¤²š¤²š¤² THANKS A LOT MKZNXKXNXKXHSJXN
just finished tfbw i am so not fucking normal about kyman there
kyle is the type to actually brush his teeth, chew a gum and use breath mints before every date with cartman
and cartman laughs at him for that like āomg u put so much effort into looking good for me dude thatās totally gayā and kyle just looks at him disgustedly and says smth like āu might put some as well because u fucking stinkā and cartman goes offended āwtf thats how an actual man should smell. not like you can get it thoā
iāve been rewatching deleted scenes from south park and why the hell do i see so few people talking about this moment
like what the fuck why did matt and trey do this?? was this really an original idea???
(took the moment from this youtube video)
guys he doesnāt even see anything creepy in this like come on heās so fucked up. oh god. what do you think he does with these records? does he listen to them on his own?
do you think he sometimes just re-listens to kyle saying nice things to him? or, on the contrary, just listens to their usual fights and laughs? that he just lays in bed not being able to fall asleep so he opens the recording app and he genuinely smiles and feels less stressed because things seem so normal and comforting when he hears kyle, because their fights are like one of the few constant things in his life? i know itās a deleted scene but matt and trey did write it in the script and animated it so am i wrong for considering this as canon?
more lesbian heidi x gay kyle brosistp because i love them with all my heart!!!!
the first part of how their friendship started is here :3
they both canāt really accept their sexualities and strongly believe theyāre straight even when itās so clear theyāre not.
like literally there are times when heidi shows kyle a photo of a pretty girl on her instagram and sighs asking kyle: āIsnāt she the most beautiful person in the world? Sheās so captivating!ā
and kyle just stares at her indifferently and responds in a monotonous voice barely even looking at the picture: āYeah, she has nice features, I guess?ā
and then thereās this time when heidi mentions cartmanās appearance with a bit of disgust but in a way āall boys are ugly, but cartman is, uhā¦ā and kyle starts defending him unexpextedly even for himself like:
kyle: I mean, yeah, heās fat and has a shitty personality, but, um, I donāt know, heās not that bad looking.
heidi: What do you mean ānot that badā?
kyle: Well, you know, he has these different eyes which is pretty cool and also, uh, his appearance is really⦠noticeable and⦠somehow different, I guess? And now that he started to take care of his looks, so⦠I think we shouldnāt judge others by how they look, but if we do I canāt deny that he can be, like, remotely attractive⦠Heās still an asshole though, but-
heidi, with a suspicious look on her face: Kyle?
kyle: Can we change the subject please Iām begging you.
heidi: Sure.
heyyyy !!! i saw a person asking me about my other sp otps (yep thats surprising but kyman is not my only pairing hehe) sooo ive done this
btw i absolutely canāt draw so iām sorry for how ugly it may look
i also love stenny, clybe, bebe/red, steek, kytters, clenny and staig a lot!!!
also this kinda looks like a template so iāll leave it here under the cut
and aww @bloogers-boogers thanks a lot for asking!!!!! also wanted to say that your choice of otps is sooooo great like rlly i dont see enough ppl liking ships like jimthan or kenman!! and our taste is a bit similar because YEPPP KYMAN CANDY AND JIMTHAN SHARING (almost) THE SAME DYNAMIC IS SO TRUE!!!
au about kyman entering the same university somewhere far away from south park, where not a single person knows what kind of reputation cartman had back in his native town.
so cartman decides itās a chance for him to replay the game and change the way he is treated.
he acts nice, he makes wise decisions, he makes friends with those who can help him in future, he doesnāt break a single law and studies hard, he becomes a perfect version of eric cartman. and everyone falls for it, because he seems absolutely cool, funny and charismatic to them.
the only person whoās not buying it is kyle, who decides itās his moral obligation to āexposeā the true nature of eric cartman, so he tries to sabotage him in any way but fails every time eventually humiliating himself. by the end of the first term even the professors know that kyle broflovski is obsessed with fighting with cartman and most people assume that heās either a simple fatphobic bully or is in love with cartman.
by that time kyle is considered to be a loser and is pretty much avoided by most of his peers meanwhile cartman is surrounded by people who love and admire him. so it happens that cartman is the only friend kyleās got now hehe.
the whole first half of an au is basically kyle whoās trying to set cartman up so he can reveal his āevil sideā but he ends up as an unbelievable piece of shit himself.
and kyle is pissed because how canāt anyone see the truth??
he complains about it to cartman because he doesnt have anyone else.
cartman, meeting kyle in the morning: Hey, so how will you try to set me up this time?
kyle: I am not āsetting anyone upā. I simply want people to know the truth about who you really are.
cartman: Seem kinda obsessed with me, huh, Kahl?
kyle: Do not provoke me, Cartman.
cartman: I am not. Just⦠whatās the truth, tell me? Who am I, then? I seem to have forgotten it since everyone here thinks Iām great.
kyle, raising his voice: Youāre an unbelievably psychotic fat ugly piece of shit and you do not deserve what you get, thatās who you are, you hear me, asshole?!
everyone in the class: ā¦Woah, Broflovski. Nice job, jerk, now you made him upset. Whatās even wrong with you?
cartman, raising voice so everyone hears him: Wow, Kyle, I guess you really havenāt changed since high school. And I was stupid enough to hope we could be friends hereā¦
kyle, confused: Wait, that is not what⦠Thatās⦠Fuck!! You planned it since the beginning, didnāt you?
imagine kyle who was DREAMING about his university life? he thought heād be noticed because of how smart he is, he thought girls would love him because heās intelligent and nice, he thought everything would be different. but instead his life was once again about cartman ā and he couldnāt forgive him for ruining his life of dream.
kyle: Why on Earth would you do this? It was supposed to be the best year of my life, but you just had to show up and ruin everything!
cartman: I ruined everything?
kyle: Yes, you did! Why else would you go to the same university?!
cartman: Iām sorry, Kyle, I donāt quite get it. You think I went to this university just because of you? How highly do you think of yourself?
kyle: Why not? Youāve been obsessed with me the whole time!
cartman: Iām obsessed? Isnāt it you who devotes all his time in his first year of university trying to set me up? Tell me about being obsessed, Kyle!
kyle: Whatās that supposed to mean?
cartman: I came here, to the university as far from South Park as possible, to start a new fucking page of my life without prejudice. Have you seen a single person here who would refer to me as āfatassā except for you?
kyle: Oh, donāt even start it with āfatphobicā shit, you canāt possibly be offended by this, that was just friendly bantering!
cartman: Was it? Was it, Kyle?
kyle: Wellā
cartman: And even now that Iām here you still canāt let it go. You still canāt accept the tiny possibility that I mightāve changed. So you just have to go there and shout āhey, everyone, heās a piece of shit, you should hate him with meā. Does that help your self-esteem?
kyle: I⦠ugh, I didnāt think it was like thatā¦
cartman: I know you didnāt.
so about a kyman university au here
imagine when kyle and cartmanās new classmates once are so sick of hearing kyle hating cartman so much, so they sceptically ask what is it what kyle has against eric. and kyle is so confused as he canāt choose proper words to find an actual reason why he hates cartman, so he just grabs the first guess he has in mind and victoriously declares āFor example, he gave me fucking AIDs once, does that count?ā
and heās so proud of finally revealing them how terrible cartman is, that he doesnāt notice how his classmates exchange understanding looks and nod. then he hears āOh, so they were exes⦠That explains everything!ā and gets fucking furious while cartman is losing it sm he doesnāt even try to deny their assumption.
i like the idea of interactions between craig gang and main 4 so much. and i honestly believe that in high school the āmediatorsā between these two groups are tweek and kenny, since kenny is close to literally everyone in the class, so he hangs out with craig really often, and tweek kinda kept the childhood friendship with kyle and sometimes hangs out with stan and cartman.
and they couldnāt not notice how craig and those guys really despise and try to interact as little is possible with main4, meanwhile stan and his friends avoid hanging out with craigās gang as well.
and none of them seems to really remember why they hate each other and why didnāt the silly little rivalry in the elementary school end when they grew up ā so tweek and kenny decided to dig a little bit deeper and find the origins of this conflict, and after a week or two with the help of indirect questions and some bottles of wine for stan they finally discovered that craig and stan were dating back in middle school, but now theyāre exes.
and it all finally started to make sense now :D
AWWWW @bloogers-boogers THANKSSSS A LOT missed u sooo muchš«¶š«¶!!! (iām not sure about the āreturnsā part tho cuz im slowly running out of ideas but i still have like four kyman hcs and aus soo >:]])
hii im vita!! she/her so469sp //sp kyman stutters creekenny & weidi // english is not my native language ;( //ALSO moved to @hatsunevita due to the change of the main fandom ^^
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