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Abbreviations used:
Af As = Afro-Asian
Ambig or Amb = Ambiguous Race
Bla = Black
Indig = Indigenous Peoples
MENA = Middle Eastern or North African
N.H. or NH = Non-Human Skin Tones
Whi = White
Welcome to the 2025 AO3 Ship Stats!
As part of the AO3 Ship Stats project, this list shows the 100 fastest-growing relationship tags on Archive Of Our Own in the period August 2 2024 - July 29 2025. This list was created by comparing the current number of fics with data gathered for the 2024 AO3 Ship Stats.
There are 56 M/M relationships on the list, 13 F/M, 6 F/F, 13 Gen and 12 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic or familial ‘Gen’ relationships, while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic and sexual pairings.)
Of the 200 names on the list, 29 are women, 2 are non-binary, and 10 are characters of ambiguous gender, compared with 21, 2 and 7 in the 2024 list. In total there are 84 white characters, 60 Asian characters, 7 Latino characters, 4 Middle Eastern or North African characters, 4 Black characters, 1 Indigenous character and 1 Roma character, as well as 26 racially ambiguous characters and 16 characters with non-human skin tones. There are 76 total Characters of Colour, which is 2 fewer than the number listed in 2024.
For more information about the AO3 Ship Stats project, please check out the accompanying FAQs. You might also be interested in the All-Time Top 100 Pairings and the Femslash Top 100 list.
Edit 30 July 2025: Due to intentional manipulation of the stats using AI works, the pairing of Betty/Roly (Hey Duggee) has been delisted from the rankings. Please don't do this sort of thing, it is pointless and a waste of everyone's time.
Edit 31 July 2025: Due to a processing error, the wrong number of previous works was listed for the tags "Ahn Suho | Stephen/Yeon Sieun | Gray", "Astarion (Baldur’s Gate)/You", and "Huang Shaotian/Yu Wenzhou". These numbers have now been corrected and the list has been adjusted accordingly. Apologies for the mistake.
Edit 6 Aug 2025: Fixed race for Mizi and Sua.
Edit 7 Aug 2025: Fixed gender for Bill Cipher.
| Rank | Change | Relationship | Fandom | Works Gained |
Total Works |
Type | Race | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Re-Entry | Jayce/Viktor (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 13261 | 15891 | M/M | Latino | White |
| 2 | +5 | Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) | 9-1-1 (TV) | 11202 | 35156 | M/M | White | Latino |
| 3 | Re-Entry | Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 9965 | 16574 | F/F | Asian | White |
| 4 | +9 | Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia | 8140 | 50992 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 5 | -3 | Sirius Black/Remus Lupin | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 7523 | 57803 | M/M | White | White |
| 6 | +15 | James Potter/Lily Evans Potter | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 7329 | 34076 | F/M | White | White |
| 7 | +1 | Regulus Black/James Potter | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 6477 | 21988 | M/M | White | White |
| 8 | +12 | Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 5862 | 34817 | F/M | Ambig | White |
| 9 | -6 | Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs) | 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs | 4921 | 37637 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 10 | -1 | Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 4915 | 69576 | M/M | White | White |
| 11 | New | Agatha Harkness/Rio Vidal | Agatha All Along (TV) | 4782 | 4782 | F/F | White | Latino |
| 12 | -7 | Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru | 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) | 4411 | 19676 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 13 | New | Shadow the Hedgehog/Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types | 4317 | 8789 | M/M | N.H. | N.H. |
| 14 | +14 | Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard | 9-1-1 (TV) | 4238 | 7134 | M/M | White | White |
| 15 | +0 | Han Jisung | Han/Lee Minho | Lee Know | Stray Kids (Band) | 4230 | 20579 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 16 | New | Mydei/Phainon (Honkai: Star Rail) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) | 4047 | 4047 | M/M | White | White |
| 17 | +82 | Ivan/Till (Alien Stage) | Alien Stage (Web Series) | 3992 | 5378 | M/M | Ambig | Ambig |
| 18 | New | Ekko/Jinx (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 3906 | 4939 | F/M | Black | White |
| 19 | +18 | Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington | Bridgerton (TV) | 3841 | 8834 | F/M | White | White |
| 20 | New | Xia Yizhou | Caleb/You | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 3822 | 4208 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 21 | New | Qin Che | Sylus/You | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 3511 | 3867 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 22 | New | Hwang Inho | Front Man/Seong Gihun | Squid Game (TV 2021) | 3348 | 3348 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 23 | New | Jayce & Viktor (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 3341 | 3782 | Gen | Latino | White |
| 24 | New | Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies)/Wade Wilson | Deadpool (Movieverse) | 3295 | 3295 | M/M | White | White |
| 25 | +0 | Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen | The Rookie (TV 2018) | 3126 | 9635 | F/M | White | Asian |
| 26 | New | Ao Bing | East Sea Third Prince/Nezha | Third Lotus Prince | 哪吒 | Nezha (Movies 2019 2025) | 3120 | 4406 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 27 | New | Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook | Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) | 3002 | 3002 | Other | Ambig | Ambig |
| 28 | -4 | Alastor/Lucifer Magne | Morningstar | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) | 2913 | 6609 | M/M | N.H. | N.H. |
| 29 | -17 | Alhaitham/Kaveh (Genshin Impact) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) | 2871 | 14761 | M/M | MENA | MENA |
| 30 | -19 | Neuvillette/Wriothesley (Genshin Impact) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) | 2797 | 7972 | M/M | White | White |
| 31 | +8 | Blitzo/Stolas Goetia | Helluva Boss (Web Series) | 2723 | 7319 | M/M | N.H. | NH Whi |
| 32 | +2 | Barty Crouch Jr./Evan Rosier | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 2569 | 7629 | M/M | White | Ambig |
| 33 | -4 | Aventurine/Dr. Ratio (Honkai: Star Rail) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) | 2563 | 5442 | M/M | Roma | Ambig |
| 34 | +28 | Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen | Formula 1 RPF | 2533 | 6147 | M/M | White | White |
| 35 | -18 | John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley | Call of Duty (Video Games) | 2488 | 13327 | M/M | White | White |
| 36 | -13 | Roronoa Zoro/Sanji | One Piece (Anime & Manga) | 2463 | 14002 | M/M | Asian | White |
| 37 | +49 | Mikage Reo/Nagi Seishirou | Blue Lock (Manga) | 2446 | 5843 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 38 | New | Choi Subong | Thanos/Namgyu | Squid Game (TV 2021) | 2425 | 2425 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 39 | -4 | Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) | 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù | 2399 | 12668 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 40 | +13 | Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 2337 | 23232 | F/M | Ambig | White |
| 41 | +20 | Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa | ATEEZ (Band) | 2315 | 9439 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 42 | -6 | Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia | 2301 | 24846 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 43 | -3 | Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring | Heartstopper (TV) | 2299 | 8623 | M/M | White | White |
| 44 | New | Pure Vanilla Cookie/Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run) | Cookie Run (Video Game) | 2257 | 2257 | M/M | N.H. | N.H. |
| 45 | -44 | Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) | Good Omens (TV) | 2241 | 61811 | Other | White | White |
| 46 | New | Bill Cipher/Ford Pines | Gravity Falls | 2192 | 2777 | Other | N.H. | White |
| 47 | New | Caitlyn & Vi (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 2188 | 2706 | Gen | Asian | White |
| 48 | -21 | Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson | Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan | 2150 | 16322 | F/M | Ambig | White |
| 49 | +19 | Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto | Naruto (Anime & Manga) | 2092 | 16918 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 50 | -4 | Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia | 2086 | 20021 | Gen | Asian | Asian |
| 51 | +0 | Nico di Angelo/Will Solace | Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms | 2064 | 14429 | M/M | White | White |
| 52 | New | Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland | Wicked - All Media Types | 2060 | 2835 | F/F | NH Amb | White |
| 53 | New | Jinx & Vi (League of Legends) | Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) | 2045 | 3154 | Gen | White | White |
| 54 | New | Main Character/Qin Che | Sylus | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 2036 | 2036 | F/M | Ambig | Asian |
| 55 | New | Li Shen | Zayne/You | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 2030 | 2798 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 56 | New | Rook/Emmrich Volkarin | Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) | 1999 | 1999 | Other | Ambig | White |
| 57 | New | Odysseus/Penelope (EPIC: The Musical) | EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums) | 1984 | 1984 | F/M | Latino | White |
| 58 | New | Evan "Buck" Buckley & Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) | 9-1-1 (TV) | 1983 | 5680 | Gen | White | Latino |
| 59 | New | Armand/Daniel Molloy | Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) | 1982 | 3709 | M/M | Asian | White |
| 60 | -12 | Simon "Ghost" Riley/Reader | Call of Duty (Video Games) | 1961 | 6043 | Other | White | Ambig |
| 61 | -20 | Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 1960 | 10583 | F/F | White | Black |
| 62= | -36 | Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian | 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù | 1954 | 39571 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 62= | New | Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri | Formula 1 RPF | 1954 | 3086 | M/M | White | White |
| 64 | +0 | Dick Grayson & Jason Todd | Batman - All Media Types | 1943 | 9686 | Gen | Ambig | White |
| 65 | -7 | Regulus Black & Sirius Black | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 1930 | 7774 | Gen | White | White |
| 66 | Re-Entry | Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester | Supernatural (TV 2005) | 1924 | 16962 | Gen | White | White |
| 67 | New | Main Character/Xia Yizhou | Caleb | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 1865 | 1865 | F/M | Ambig | Asian |
| 68 | New | Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac | Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) | 1851 | 4304 | M/M | White | Black |
| 69 | +23 | Jeon Wonwoo/Kim Mingyu | SEVENTEEN (Band) | 1848 | 8083 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 70 | +11 | Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard | All For The Game - Nora Sakavic | 1844 | 13050 | M/M | White | White |
| 71 | New | Arzu/Nawfal (Sultan's Game) | 苏丹的游戏 | Sultan's Game (Video Game) | 1830 | 1830 | M/M | MENA | MENA |
| 72 | -66 | Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor | Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston | 1823 | 11878 | M/M | Latino | White |
| 73 | -63 | Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson | Stranger Things (TV 2016) | 1803 | 27194 | M/M | White | White |
| 74 | New | Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland | Dead Boy Detectives (TV) | 1784 | 3102 | M/M | White | Af As |
| 75 | -56 | Charlie Magne | Morningstar/Vaggie | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) | 1774 | 7760 | F/F | N.H. | N.H. |
| 76 | New | Qi Yu | Rafayel/You | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 1761 | 2362 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 77 | -11 | Charles | Grian/Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar | Hermitcraft SMP | 1749 | 5834 | M/M | White | White |
| 78 | -13 | Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 1738 | 19168 | F/M | White | White |
| 79 | -49 | Dazai Osamu & Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs) | 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs | 1731 | 10062 | Gen | Asian | Asian |
| 80 | New | Ford Pines & Stan Pines | Gravity Falls | 1725 | 3594 | Gen | White | White |
| 81 | New | Mizi/Sua (Alien Stage) | Alien Stage (Web Series) | 1709 | 2145 | F/F | Ambig | Ambig |
| 82 | New | Megatron/Optimus Prime | Transformers - All Media Types | 1702 | 4383 | M/M | N.H. | N.H. |
| 83 | -9 | Tim Drake & Jason Todd | Batman - All Media Types | 1693 | 8852 | Gen | White | White |
| 84 | -80 | Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate) | Baldur's Gate (Video Games) | 1672 | 10424 | Other | White | Ambig |
| 85 | -42 | Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V | Bangtan Boys | BTS | 1670 | 39004 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 86 | +9 | Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne | Batman - All Media Types | 1650 | 8263 | Gen | Ambig | White |
| 87 | -24 | Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 1627 | 14417 | M/M | White | White |
| 88 | New | Hans Capon/Henry | Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games) | 1625 | 1625 | M/M | White | White |
| XX | XX | |||||||
| 89 | -7 | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne | Batman - All Media Types | 1596 | 8823 | Gen | White | White |
| 90 | New | Hermione Granger/Harry Potter | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | 1574 | 9438 | F/M | Ambig | White |
| 91 | -75 | Angel Dust/Husk (Hazbin Hotel) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) | 1573 | 6940 | M/M | N.H. | N.H. |
| 92 | New | Shen Xinghui | Xavier/You | 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) | 1570 | 2211 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 93 | -75 | Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet | Our Flag Means Death (TV) | 1566 | 19616 | M/M | Indig | White |
| 94 | -5 | Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist | Persona 5 | 1548 | 11744 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 95 | New | Jeong Yunho/Song Mingi (ATEEZ) | ATEEZ (Band) | 1539 | 4860 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 96 | New | Choi Seungcheol | S.Coups/Yoon Jeonghan | SEVENTEEN (Band) | 1532 | 7194 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 97 | -53 | Gojo Satoru/Reader | 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) | 1512 | 6926 | Other | Asian | Ambig |
| 98 | -4 | Hwang Hyunjin/Lee Felix | Stray Kids (Band) | 1504 | 6959 | M/M | Asian | Asian |
| 99 | New | Jinu/Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) | 1491 | 1491 | F/M | Asian | Asian |
| 100 | -50 | Kamishiro Rui/Tenma Tsukasa | Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) | 1474 | 6723 | M/M | Asian | Asian |