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Explore popular fanfiction characters on AO3. Discover their stories, ships, and the tropes fans love to write about them.

1059 characters 221 fandoms 61.8M tagged works

Harry Potter Characters

Neville Longbottom

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Shy Gryffindor who grows into a courageous leader. Proves that bravery comes in many forms.

George Weasley

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The other Weasley twin, co-founder of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Creative, loyal, and endlessly inventive.

James Potter

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Harry's father, a talented wizard and Marauder. Arrogant in youth but grew into a brave man who died protecting his family.

Draco Malfoy

385k works · 2 ships

Pure-blood wizard from the Malfoy family, former Death Eater turned reluctant hero. Complex, sharp-tongued, and deeply conflicted about his loyalties.

Sirius Black

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Harry's godfather, a wrongly imprisoned Marauder. Charismatic, reckless, and fiercely devoted to those he loves.

Harry Potter

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The Boy Who Lived, a powerful wizard who defeated Lord Voldemort. Known for his bravery, loyalty, and lightning bolt scar.

Tom Riddle

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The brilliant and terrifying young wizard who would become Lord Voldemort. Charming on the surface, deeply manipulative underneath.

Ron Weasley

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Loyal best friend and strategic thinker from the Weasley family. Often underestimated but proves his worth time and again.

Ginny Weasley

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Youngest Weasley and powerful witch in her own right. Fierce, independent, and an exceptional Quidditch player.

Fred Weasley

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Half of the legendary Weasley twins, known for his pranks and humor. His loss is one of the most mourned in the series.

Hermione Granger

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The brightest witch of her age, Muggle-born and fiercely intelligent. A key member of the Golden Trio who fights for justice and equality.

Blaise Zabini

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Aloof and elegant Slytherin with a sharp wit. A popular side character in fanfiction for his mysterious background.

Lily Evans

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Harry's mother, a Muggle-born witch of exceptional talent. Her love and sacrifice created the most powerful protection magic known.

Luna Lovegood

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Eccentric Ravenclaw known for her dreamy disposition and unwavering belief in the extraordinary. A loyal and brave friend.

Severus Snape

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Potions Master and double agent who loved Lily Evans until his dying day. One of the most complex and debated characters in the series.

Narcissa Malfoy

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Draco's mother, whose love for her son ultimately leads her to defy Voldemort. A study in quiet strength and maternal devotion.

Albus Dumbledore

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Headmaster of Hogwarts and one of the greatest wizards of all time. A complex figure whose greater good philosophy has lasting consequences.

Pansy Parkinson

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Slytherin who navigates the social politics of pure-blood society. Often reimagined in fanfiction as a complex, layered character.

Remus Lupin

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Werewolf, former professor, and Marauder. Gentle, intelligent, and struggling with self-worth due to his condition.

Marvel Characters

Wanda Maximoff

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The Scarlet Witch, wielder of chaos magic. Her grief and power make her one of the most tragic and dangerous figures in the MCU.

Sam Wilson

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Veteran and pararescueman who becomes Captain America's partner. Steady, compassionate, and an anchor for those around him.

Natasha Romanoff

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Former Russian spy turned Avenger. Pragmatic, deadly, and fiercely loyal to her found family.

Stephen Strange

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Former surgeon turned Sorcerer Supreme. Arrogant and brilliant, using magic to protect reality itself.

Tony Stark

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Genius billionaire who becomes Iron Man. Brilliantly flawed, self-sacrificing, and driven by a need to protect the world from threats he helped create.

Steve Rogers

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Captain America, the First Avenger. A super soldier with an unwavering moral compass and a heart from a different era.

Peter Parker

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Teenage superhero trying to balance school with saving the world. Earnest, brilliant, and perpetually quippy.

Clint Barton

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Master archer and Avenger with a complicated past. The most human of the team, grounded by family.

Loki

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God of Mischief, Thor's adopted brother. A shapeshifting trickster whose villainy masks deep pain and a desperate need for belonging.

Wade Wilson

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The Merc with a Mouth, a disfigured mercenary with accelerated healing. Fourth-wall breaking, irreverent, and surprisingly tender.

Thor

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God of Thunder and Prince of Asgard. Combines godlike power with unexpected vulnerability and growth.

Bucky Barnes

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Steve's childhood best friend, brainwashed into becoming the Winter Soldier. His journey of recovery and redemption spans decades.

Game of Thrones Characters

Arya Stark

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The girl who became No One and then chose to be Arya Stark. Fierce, independent, and deadly.

Jaime Lannister

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The Kingslayer, a knight whose greatest act of heroism is remembered as his greatest shame. His redemption arc is beloved.

Daenerys Targaryen

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Mother of Dragons who rises from exile to conquer. Her journey from frightened girl to powerful queen captivates and divides fans.

Jon Snow

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The bastard of Winterfell who becomes King in the North. Honorable, reluctant, and secretly the heir to the Iron Throne.

Sansa Stark

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The girl who survived King's Landing and became Queen in the North. Her political acumen was hard-won through unimaginable suffering.

Brienne of Tarth

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The truest knight in Westeros who was never knighted until Jaime. Her honor, skill, and heart make her unforgettable.

Tyrion Lannister

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The Imp whose intellect and wit are his greatest weapons. Despised by his family, he proves that the mind is mightier than the sword.

The Stark ward who betrayed the family that half-raised him, was unmade into Reek by Ramsay Bolton, and clawed his way back to die defending Bran. Theon's identity shattering and reassembly is the saga's rawest redemption arc.

Robb Stark

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The Young Wolf, crowned King in the North at sixteen and undone by love, honor, and the Red Wedding. Robb's doomed kingship makes him fanfiction's favorite Stark to save, most often at Theon's side.

My Hero Academia Characters

Kirishima Eijirou

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Hardening quirk user with an unbreakable spirit. The definition of a manly hero — brave, loyal, and always smiling.

Bakugou Katsuki

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Explosive-tempered prodigy with a fierce competitive streak. His journey from bully to hero is one of the series' best arcs.

Aizawa Shouta

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Underground hero and homeroom teacher of Class 1-A. Appears apathetic but cares deeply about his students.

All Might

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The Symbol of Peace and greatest hero. His decline and mentorship of Midoriya drive the emotional core of the series.

Uraraka Ochako

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Gravity-controlling hero student fighting to support her family. Cheerful, determined, and growing into a formidable hero.

Midoriya Izuku

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A quirkless boy who inherits the greatest power in the world. Earnest, analytical, and determined to become the greatest hero.

Todoroki Shouto

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Son of the number one hero, born with ice and fire powers. Quiet, powerful, and working through deep family trauma.

Denki Kaminari

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Class 1-A's electric-quirked class clown, whose brain short-circuits into a dopey state whenever he exceeds his wattage limit. Fic loves his insecurity under the jokes, his Bakusquad friendships, and his crackling chemistry with Shinsou.

Keigo Takami

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The No. 2 hero Hawks, a winged double agent groomed by the Hero Public Safety Commission since childhood. His easy grin hiding a lifetime of handlers and surveillance makes him fandom's favorite bird to put through the wringer, usually opposite Dabi.

Touya Todoroki

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Endeavor's presumed-dead eldest son, reborn as the League of Villains' blue-flamed Dabi to burn his father's legacy down on live television. The Todoroki family tragedy fuels endless fix-its, and his sneering banter with Hawks fuels everything else.

Hitoshi Shinsou

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A General Studies student with a brainwashing quirk everyone calls villainous, who fights his way toward the hero course under Aizawa's mentorship. The insomniac aesthetic, the cat motif, and the 'Dadzawa adopts Shinsou' premise made him a fanon juggernaut.

Tomura Shigaraki

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Leader of the League of Villains and All For One's chosen successor, a boy named Tenko Shimura whom hero society walked past until a villain picked him up. Fic alternately redeems him, deconstructs his grooming, or hands him the found family the League became.

Momo Yaoyorozu

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Class 1-A's vice president, a recommendation student whose Creation quirk can produce any object she understands at the molecular level. Stories center her crisis of confidence after losing to Tokoyami and her soft, steady romance with Jirou.

Kyouka Jirou

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The earphone-jack hero of Class 1-A, a sardonic rock kid who almost quit music because it didn't seem heroic enough. The School Festival concert turned her into the class's emotional core, and fandom pairs her devotion to music with her crush on Momo.

Hizashi Yamada

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The voice hero Present Mic, UA's English teacher, radio DJ, and human megaphone. Canon gives him volume; fandom gives him depth as Aizawa's loud-and-soft other half, co-parent of assorted adopted problem children, and grieving friend of Oboro Shirakumo.

Toga Himiko

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The League of Villains' blood-drinking runaway, a girl whose Quirk made her love language monstrous to everyone around her. Toga's question — why couldn't she just live as she is — gives MHA's villain fic its sharpest edge.

Amajiki Tamaki

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Suneater of the Big Three, a crushingly anxious upperclassman whose Quirk manifests anything he eats and whose courage manifests only when others need him. Tamaki's bond with the radiant Mirio defines his soft, anxious fic niche.

Togata Mirio

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Lemillion, the beaming upperclassman who lost his Quirk saving Eri and kept smiling anyway. Mirio's million-watt optimism through catastrophic loss makes him MHA's purest study in heroism without power.

Jujutsu Kaisen Characters

Itadori Yuji

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High school student who becomes the vessel for the King of Curses. His innate goodness and superhuman physicality make him a natural hero.

Gojo Satoru

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The strongest jujutsu sorcerer alive, blessed and cursed with the Six Eyes. Playful exterior masks a revolutionary agenda.

Fushiguro Megumi

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Stoic sorcerer with a powerful inherited technique. Reserved but deeply caring, willing to sacrifice everything for those he loves.

Geto Suguru

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Gojo's former best friend turned curse user. His fall from grace is rooted in genuine disillusionment with protecting a world that creates suffering.

Kugisaki Nobara

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Confident, fierce, and unapologetically herself. Her hammer-and-nail technique is as flashy as her personality.

Kento Nanami

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The 7:3 sorcerer who quit jujutsu for a salaryman job, found office work equally soul-crushing, and came back to protect kids like Yuji with strict overtime boundaries. The fandom's beloved tired adult, mourned hard and resurrected often after Shibuya.

Ryomen Sukuna

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The undisputed King of Curses, a four-armed Heian-era calamity who lives rent-free in Yuji's body and treats humanity as entertainment. Fic explores the uneasy vessel dynamic, his history with the Heian golden age, and what could ever make him bored enough to care.

Maki Zenin

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A Zenin clan daughter born without cursed energy who walked out on the family that despised her and fought her way up with weapons and spite. Her bond with her twin Mai, and the massacre that follows its breaking, anchor the series' bleakest arc.

Yuta Okkotsu

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The protagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, a special-grade sorcerer haunted by the cursed spirit of his childhood friend Rika. He grew from a suicidal transfer student into one of the strongest sorcerers alive, and fic tracks every step of that climb.

Toji Fushiguro

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The Sorcerer Killer, a Zenin clan reject born with zero cursed energy who turned that absence into the perfect weapon and nearly killed a young Gojo. Megumi's deadbeat father is fandom's favorite morally bankrupt mercenary in both canon and AU form.

Choso

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The eldest of the Death Painting siblings, a half-curse who fought Yuji as an enemy and then adopted him as a little brother mid-war thanks to a memory that should not exist. The fandom's most earnest big brother, played for both comedy and devastation.

Ieiri Shoko

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Jujutsu High's chain-smoking doctor, the only sorcerer alive who can heal with reverse cursed technique — and the last witness to what Gojo and Geto used to be. Shoko's tired grief makes her the quiet center of Hidden Inventory fic.

Inumaki Toge

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A second-year sorcerer whose cursed speech is so dangerous he communicates only in rice ball ingredients. Toge's 'salmon' vocabulary and quiet protectiveness made him a fan favorite far beyond his page count.

BTS Characters

Kim Namjoon

347k works · 1 ships

BTS leader, rapper, and intellectual. Known for his philosophical outlook, clumsiness, and thoughtful leadership.

Kim Seokjin

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BTS's eldest member, known for his humor, cooking skills, and unwavering support of the group.

Min Yoongi

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BTS rapper and producer known for his sharp wit, musical genius, and reserved exterior that hides deep caring.

Kim Taehyung

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BTS vocalist known for his deep voice, artistic sensibility, and playful personality. Popular in fanfiction as both lead and romantic interest.

Jung Hoseok

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BTS dancer and rapper known as the group's sunshine. His energy and optimism mask a deeply dedicated artist.

Park Jimin

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BTS dancer and vocalist known for his grace, determination, and emotional depth. Frequently featured in fanfiction for his duality.

Jeon Jungkook

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BTS's youngest member, known as the Golden Maknae for his multitalented abilities. Often portrayed as earnest and competitive.

Star Wars Characters

Din Djarin

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The Mandalorian bounty hunter whose life changed when he found a small green child. A man of few words but deep convictions.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Jedi Master known for his wit, compassion, and legendary skills. Mentor to Anakin Skywalker and one of the last true Jedi.

Padmé Amidala

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Queen and Senator of Naboo, fierce advocate for democracy. Her love story with Anakin ends in tragedy.

Anakin Skywalker

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The Chosen One whose fall to the dark side as Darth Vader is one of the greatest tragedies in the galaxy.

Luke Skywalker

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Farm boy turned Jedi Master who redeemed his father and rebuilt the Jedi Order. Embodies hope and the power of compassion.

Rey

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Scavenger from Jakku who discovers her connection to the Force. Determined, resourceful, and searching for her place in the galaxy.

Kylo Ren

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Ben Solo, son of Han and Leia, torn between light and dark. His conflict and eventual redemption drive the sequel trilogy.

Ahsoka Tano

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Anakin's former Padawan who left the Jedi Order. A fan-favorite character known for her independence, wisdom, and dual white lightsabers.

Han Solo

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Smuggler, scoundrel, and captain of the Millennium Falcon who stumbled into the Rebellion and never quite left. He hides a fiercely loyal heart under layers of sarcasm and self-interest.

Leia Organa

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Princess of Alderaan, senator, Rebel leader, and eventually General of the Resistance. Force-sensitive and unbreakable, she loses her planet, her son, and her brother yet never stops fighting.

Poe Dameron

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The best pilot in the Resistance, owner of droid BB-8, and the man who gave Finn his name and his jacket. That single act of warmth launched one of the sequel trilogy's biggest ships.

Captain Rex

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Clone Captain of the 501st Legion who served under Anakin Skywalker through the Clone Wars and survived Order 66 alongside Ahsoka. He embodies the fandom's love for clones as individuals rather than copies.

Qui-Gon Jinn

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The maverick Jedi Master who followed the living Force over the Council's rules and bet the galaxy on a slave boy from Tatooine. Qui-Gon's death at Naboo is prequel fandom's favorite divergence point — fix him, and everything changes.

Commander Cody

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Clone Marshal Commander CC-2224, Obi-Wan Kenobi's right hand through the entire Clone War — until Order 66 made him raise a cannon against his general. Cody's loyalty and its chip-forced betrayal power the CodyWan corner of clone fandom.

Boba Fett

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The galaxy's most feared bounty hunter, an unaltered clone raised as Jango Fett's son and orphaned at Geonosis. From four lines in the original trilogy to his own throne on Tatooine, Boba's mystique has fueled decades of fic.

Stranger Things Characters

Will Byers

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The boy who was taken to the Upside Down. Sensitive, artistic, and quietly struggling with feelings he can't express.

Steve Harrington

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Former popular kid turned beloved babysitter. His arc from jerk to fan-favorite mom friend is one of TV's greatest redemptions.

Mike Wheeler

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Passionate leader of the Party who falls in love with Eleven. Loyal to a fault and growing into his own kind of bravery.

Eleven

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Telekinetic girl raised in a lab who discovers friendship, love, and her own strength. Her powers come at a great cost.

Eddie Munson

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Metalhead D&D dungeon master wrongly accused. His bravery and authenticity made him an instant fan-favorite.

Robin Buckley

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Scoops Ahoy's resident Russian translator, band nerd, and Steve Harrington's platonic soulmate, who came out to him on a mall bathroom floor. Her rambling wit made her an instant fandom darling.

Nancy Wheeler

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Hawkins' sharpest aspiring journalist, who traded perfect-girlfriend expectations for a shotgun and a vendetta after Barb's death. Fandom splits her between Jonathan, Steve, and increasingly Robin.

Max Mayfield

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The skateboarding zoomer from California who survived her stepbrother Billy's death only to be hunted by Vecna through her own grief. 'Running Up That Hill' turned her escape into one of TV's defining moments.

Billy Hargrove

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Hawkins' mulleted menace, an abused kid passing his father's violence down until the Mind Flayer made him its host and his last act saved El. Billy's cruelty-and-tragedy cocktail powers Harringrove, one of the show's biggest ships.

Jim Hopper

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Hawkins' gruff police chief, a grieving father who adopts a telekinetic girl via Eggo waffles and a cabin with a knock code. Hopper's resurrection from Russian imprisonment and slow-burn with Joyce Byers anchor the adult side of the fandom.

One Piece Characters

Sanji

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Chivalrous chef of the Straw Hats. His fighting style uses only kicks, his cooking heals the soul, and his heart is bigger than his ego.

Roronoa Zoro

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Three-sword-style swordsman aiming to be the world's greatest. Loyal, directionally challenged, and devastatingly powerful.

Monkey D. Luffy

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Rubber-bodied pirate captain chasing the dream of becoming King of the Pirates. Simple-minded, fearless, and inspiring.

Nami

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Navigator and cartographer with a talent for weather manipulation. Street-smart, resourceful, and the crew's financial backbone.

Trafalgar Law

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The Surgeon of Death, captain of the Heart Pirates, who survived the Amber Lead genocide and Corazon's sacrifice to carry both their names. His prickly alliance with Luffy, his tragic backstory, and the Op-Op Fruit make him AO3's most-written One Piece character.

Portgas D. Ace

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Luffy's sworn older brother, son of Gol D. Roger, and Whitebeard's second division commander, who died at Marineford thanking the world for loving him. The single most fix-it-ed death in the fandom, and the heart of every ASL brothers story.

Nico Robin

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The sole survivor of Ohara, hunted by the World Government since age eight for the crime of being able to read Poneglyphs, until the Straw Hats declared war on the world to keep her. Her 'I want to live!' at Enies Lobby remains the fandom's emotional north star.

Sabo

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The third ASL brother, a runaway noble presumed dead for years who resurfaced as the Revolutionary Army's chief of staff with amnesia about his childhood. His too-late return after Ace's death powers an entire genre of grief and reunion fic.

Shanks

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The red-haired Emperor who gave Luffy his straw hat and his arm in the same gesture, setting the entire story in motion. Canon keeps him deliberately mysterious, which fandom fills with Roger-era nostalgia, Mihawk duels, and surrogate-father feelings.

Usopp

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The Straw Hats' sniper and resident liar, a self-proclaimed brave warrior of the sea whose tall tales keep coming true. His duel with Luffy over the Going Merry and his Sogeking alter ego give writers the series' best material on pride and belonging.

Buggy

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The clown pirate who keeps failing upward — from Roger's cabin boy to accidental Warlord to figurehead Emperor of Cross Guild. Buggy's shared past with Shanks and his terrified bluffing past Mihawk and Crocodile made him a fic darling.

Dracule Mihawk

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The World's Strongest Swordsman, a solitary wine-drinking hawk who trained the boy who swore to surpass him. Mihawk's odd domesticity — raising Zoro, babysitting Perona, tolerating Cross Guild — delights fic writers.

Haikyuu Characters

Kuroo Tetsurou

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Scheming captain of Nekoma with a provocative smirk and a hidden nerdy side. Master of provocation on and off the court.

Kozume Kenma

311k works · 1 ships

Quiet setter who treats volleyball like a video game. Reserved and strategic, he sees the court like no one else.

Akaashi Keiji

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Composed setter who manages Bokuto's moods with practiced ease. Calm, observant, and quietly devoted.

Kageyama Tobio

247k works · 1 ships

Genius setter known as the King of the Court. Socially awkward but passionately dedicated to volleyball.

Iwaizumi Hajime

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Oikawa's best friend and ace spiker. The grounding force to Oikawa's drama, equally talented and far more grounded.

Bokuto Koutarou

95k works · 1 ships

Eccentric ace with dramatic mood swings. When he's in top form, he's unstoppable. Always the loudest person in any room.

Oikawa Tooru

67k works · 1 ships

Brilliant setter and Kageyama's rival. Charismatic, hardworking, and driven by the desire to prove natural talent isn't everything.

Hinata Shouyou

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A short volleyball player with extraordinary jumping ability and boundless energy. His determination to fly on the court is infectious.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Characters

Zuko

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Banished Fire Nation prince whose redemption arc is considered one of the greatest in all of fiction. From villain to hero, his journey is legendary.

Sokka

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Non-bender warrior and strategist. His humor, inventiveness, and boomerang are equally legendary.

Aang

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The last Airbender and the Avatar. A twelve-year-old monk carrying the weight of the world with grace and compassion.

Toph Beifong

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Blind earthbender who invented metalbending. Tough, blunt, and the greatest earthbender in the world.

Iroh

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Former general turned tea-loving wise uncle. His gentleness, wisdom, and love for Zuko make him universally beloved.

Katara

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The last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe. A healer, a fighter, and the emotional heart of Team Avatar.

Azula

10k works · 1 ships

Fire Nation princess and blue-fire prodigy whose perfection was forged by Ozai's favoritism and shattered by betrayal at fourteen. Her breakdown in the finale launched two decades of redemption and recovery fic.

Suki

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Leader of the Kyoshi Warriors who humbled Sokka in their first meeting, survived the Boiling Rock, and never got the screen time fans wanted. Fic happily fills in everything the show skipped.

Mai

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The knife-throwing daughter of Fire Nation nobility, whose boredom is armor and whose love for Zuko outweighs her fear of Azula at the Boiling Rock. Mai's deadpan 'I love Zuko more than I fear you' is her fandom thesis.

Ty Lee

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The bubbly circus acrobat who chi-blocks benders into uselessness, one of seven identical sisters who ran away to be seen. Ty Lee's pink aura hiding sharp survival instincts — and her bond with Azula and Mai — fuels her fic.

The Owl House Characters

Hunter

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The Golden Guard, a teen soldier created to serve a tyrant. His escape from abuse and discovery of self is deeply moving.

Luz Noceda

367k works · 1 ships

Dominican-American teenager who stumbles into the Demon Realm. Creative, passionate about magic, and refuses to fit into any mold.

Amity Blight

345k works · 1 ships

Top student at Hexside who softens from mean girl to devoted girlfriend. Her journey of defying her parents and finding herself is beloved.

Eda Clawthorne

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The Owl Lady, most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. A rebel, a mother figure, and cursed to transform into a beast.

Willow Park

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Plant-track witch dismissed as 'half-a-witch' until her raw power bloomed, and Amity's estranged-then-reconciled childhood friend. Her gentle steadiness opposite Hunter's frayed nerves built the beloved Huntlow ship.

King

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Tiny self-proclaimed King of Demons who turns out to be the last living Titan, the very species the Boiling Isles is built on. Eda's adopted son and Luz's little brother in the show's central found family.

Hazbin Hotel Characters

Husk

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Grumpy cat demon bartender who's seen it all. His cynicism slowly softens under the hotel's influence.

Alastor

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The Radio Demon, a powerful overlord with mysterious motives. Charming, terrifying, and always smiling.

Angel Dust

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Spider demon and adult film star trying to change. Sarcastic exterior hides genuine vulnerability and pain.

Charlie Morningstar

135k works · 1 ships

Princess of Hell who believes sinners can be redeemed. Optimistic, musical, and determined to prove everyone wrong.

Lucifer Morningstar

9k works · 1 ships

The fallen archangel himself, reimagined as a depressed, duck-obsessed single dad who would do anything for his daughter Charlie. His instant loathing of Alastor spawned the explosively popular Radioapple ship.

Vaggie

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Charlie's fiercely protective girlfriend and the hotel's exasperated manager, hiding her past as an exorcist angel who fell for sparing a child. Her steadiness grounds both the hotel and the show's central romance.

Genshin Impact Characters

Tartaglia

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Fatui Harbinger who loves a good fight. Surprisingly warm with his family, dangerously enthusiastic about combat.

Zhongli

279k works · 1 ships

Former Geo Archon who retired to enjoy mortal life. Elegant, knowledgeable about everything except modern money.

Xiao

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Adeptus guardian of Liyue, burdened by millennia of karmic debt. Aloof and suffering, with a weakness for almond tofu.

Kaeya Alberich

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Cavalry Captain of Mondstadt with a mysterious past. Charming, cunning, and hiding secrets behind that eyepatch.

Aether

67k works · 1 ships

The male Traveler searching for his lost twin across Teyvat. Silent protagonist whose kindness changes everyone he meets.

Diluc

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Brooding owner of the Dawn Winery who secretly protects Mondstadt as the Darknight Hero after quitting the Knights of Favonius. His estrangement from his adoptive brother Kaeya fuels an enormous share of the fandom's angstiest fic.

Venti

30k works · 2 ships

Carefree bard of Mondstadt who is secretly Barbatos, the Anemo Archon. Beneath the wine-loving trickster act sits millennia of loss, especially the memory of the nameless friend whose face he still wears.

Scaramouche

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Discarded puppet of the Electro Archon who climbed to Fatui Harbinger before being unmade and reborn as the Wanderer. His arc from spiteful weapon to reluctant student of Sumeru makes him the fandom's favorite redemption project.

Hu Tao

14k works · 2 ships

Eccentric 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor who treats death with prankish cheer and genuine reverence. Writers love contrasting her morbid humor with the quiet compassion she shows the grieving.

Alhaitham

9k works · 1 ships

Sumeru's Akademiya scribe, a hyper-rational scholar who wants nothing but a quiet life and keeps accidentally toppling governments. Alhaitham's bickering cohabitation with the architect Kaveh is Genshin's premier roommates-to-lovers text.

Kaedehara Kazuha

9k works · 1 ships

A wandering samurai poet of Inazuma who carries his dead friend's vision and a haiku for every horizon. Kazuha's windborne serenity and his charged history with the Raiden Shogun's rebellion made him one of Genshin's most-written men.

Kaveh

8k works · 1 ships

Sumeru's brilliant, bankrupt architect, an idealist who built the Palace of Alcazarzaray and lost everything paying for it. Kaveh's bleeding heart against Alhaitham's cold logic gives their shared house — and their enormous ship — its friction.

The Witcher Characters

Geralt of Rivia

416k works · 1 ships

The White Wolf, a mutant monster hunter who pretends not to care. Dry humor, unexpected gentleness, and a talent for finding trouble.

Ciri

382k works · 0 ships

Princess of Cintra and child of destiny. Her powers and heritage make her the most important person on the Continent.

Jaskier

295k works · 1 ships

Bard, poet, and Geralt's self-appointed best friend. Dramatic, talented, and hopelessly devoted to the Witcher.

Yennefer of Vengerberg

275k works · 0 ships

Powerful sorceress who traded everything for beauty and power. Fierce, ambitious, and more vulnerable than she lets on.

ACOTAR Characters

Nesta Archeron

389k works · 1 ships

Feyre's eldest sister, angry and traumatized. Her healing journey and embrace of her power captivate readers.

Cassian

385k works · 1 ships

Illyrian warrior general with a warm heart. His patience and love for Nesta showcase strength beyond the physical.

Feyre Archeron

353k works · 1 ships

Human huntress who becomes High Fae. Her transformation from survivor to powerful ruler is the heart of the series.

Rhysand

223k works · 1 ships

High Lord of the Night Court who plays the villain to protect his people. Devastatingly powerful and devoted to Feyre.

Bungou Stray Dogs Characters

Dazai Osamu

427k works · 1 ships

Former mafia executive turned detective with a dark past and a morbid sense of humor. Brilliant, manipulative, and surprisingly devoted to his friends.

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke

338k works · 0 ships

Port Mafia member with a deadly shadow ability. Driven by a need for Dazai's approval, his rivalry with Atsushi slowly becomes respect.

Nakahara Chuuya

287k works · 1 ships

Port Mafia executive with gravity manipulation powers. Hot-tempered, stylish, and Dazai's perfect foil in every way.

Atsushi Nakajima

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Orphan with a tiger transformation ability. His journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance forms the emotional backbone of the series.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

12k works · 2 ships

The Demon of the Rats of the House of the Dead, a centuries-patient mastermind who wants to cleanse the world of ability users in God's name. His cat-and-mouse chess match with Dazai — two monsters who think alike — is one of the fandom's biggest draws.

Ranpo Edogawa

11k works · 1 ships

The Armed Detective Agency's greatest detective, a candy-hoarding genius whose 'Ultra Deduction' is not actually an ability at all — he is simply that smart. Fukuzawa's glasses ritual and his bond with Poe give fic its softest agency material.

Doppo Kunikida

8k works · 1 ships

The Agency's notebook-wielding idealist, whose ability manifests whatever he writes on a page of 'The Matchless Poet' and whose schedule Dazai exists to destroy. His grief over Sasaki and his collapsing ideals give his comedy a bruised core.

Edgar Allan Poe

7k works · 1 ships

The Guild's hooded mystery novelist, who can pull readers into the worlds of his books and who spent six years writing the perfect crime novel just to challenge Ranpo again. He and his raccoon Karl headline the fandom's gentlest rivalry-turned-devotion.

Akiko Yosano

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The Agency's doctor, whose ability 'Thou Shalt Not Die' can heal any wound — but only on the brink of death, a power the military exploited when she was a child. Her butterfly-hairpin elegance and wartime trauma make her the Agency's steel spine.

Naruto Characters

Kakashi Hatake

437k works · 1 ships

Copy Ninja and Team 7's sensei. Perpetually late, reads inappropriate novels in public, and hides deep trauma behind a mask.

Itachi Uchiha

371k works · 0 ships

Sasuke's brother who massacred his clan to prevent a civil war. A tragic genius who sacrificed everything for peace.

Sasuke Uchiha

253k works · 1 ships

Last surviving Uchiha consumed by vengeance. His bond with Naruto defines both their lives and the fate of their world.

Sakura Haruno

111k works · 0 ships

Medical ninja who grows from insecure genin to one of the strongest kunoichi in history. Her determination and healing skills are unmatched.

Hinata Hyuga

24k works · 1 ships

The soft-spoken Hyuga heiress whose lifelong admiration of Naruto pushed her from timid washout to a kunoichi willing to die for him against Pain. Canon-pairing fic celebrates her marriage and motherhood; AU fic gives the Byakugan princess her own spotlight.

Shikamaru Nara

21k works · 2 ships

Konoha's laziest genius, a shadow-wielding strategist with a 200-plus IQ who would rather watch clouds than work. Asuma's death forged him into the Hokage's indispensable advisor, and fic loves his 'troublesome' deadpan, his loyalty, and his bond with Temari.

Gaara

20k works · 2 ships

The jinchuriki of the One-Tail, raised as Suna's weapon and unloved monster until Naruto's fist and friendship rewrote his entire worldview. His arc from child killer to the youngest Kazekage makes him fandom's defining redemption story.

Iruka Umino

17k works · 1 ships

The Academy teacher who lost his parents to the Nine-Tails and still became the first adult to buy Naruto ramen and mean it. A minor character in canon, he is a titan on AO3 as Kakashi's domestic anchor and the fandom's archetypal good parent.

Obito Uchiha

16k works · 1 ships

The crybaby Uchiha who dreamed of being Hokage, was crushed at Kannabi Bridge, and resurfaced as the masked man behind nearly every tragedy in the series. Fic obsesses over the Kakashi-Obito-Rin triangle and the dozens of timelines where he never fell.

Minato Namikaze

14k works · 1 ships

The Fourth Hokage and Konoha's Yellow Flash, who died sealing the Nine-Tails into his newborn son the same night he lost his wife. Fic resurrects him constantly, whether for family fix-its with Naruto or team fic with Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.

Madara Uchiha

13k works · 2 ships

Co-founder of Konoha and the legendary Uchiha who walked away from the village he built with Hashirama, returning a century later as the war's final boss. The founders era is a thriving AO3 subfandom built almost entirely on his rivalry-romance with Hashirama.

Tsunade

8k works · 1 ships

The legendary Sannin medic who gambled and drank her grief away until Naruto dragged her home to become the Fifth Hokage. Tsunade's losses, her healing revolution, and her mentorship of Sakura anchor her fic.

Tobirama Senju

8k works · 1 ships

The Second Hokage, inventor of half the ninja world's forbidden techniques and the Uchiha clan's coldest critic. Tobirama's pragmatic genius and antagonism with Madara made him a founders-era fic juggernaut far beyond his screen time.

Orochimaru

7k works · 0 ships

The snake Sannin who dissected his way through every taboo in pursuit of immortality, then drifted into oddly domestic semi-retirement. Orochimaru's genius, gender fluidity, and unsettling parenting of Mitsuki keep fic writers fascinated.

Naruto Uzumaki

5k works · 1 ships

Orphaned jinchuuriki who dreams of becoming Hokage. His determination to be acknowledged drives him to change the entire shinobi world.

Percy Jackson Characters

Annabeth Chase

428k works · 1 ships

Daughter of Athena, brilliant architect and strategist. Her intelligence and bravery complement Percy perfectly.

Will Solace

391k works · 1 ships

Son of Apollo and camp healer. Warm, capable, and the sunshine to Nico's darkness.

Nico di Angelo

278k works · 1 ships

Son of Hades, a lonely outcast who finds acceptance. His coming-out story is one of the most celebrated in YA fiction.

Percy Jackson

18k works · 1 ships

Son of Poseidon with a talent for trouble and a heart of gold. Sarcastic, brave, and fiercely loyal to his friends.

Baldur's Gate 3 Characters

Astarion

356k works · 1 ships

Vampire spawn rogue with a silver tongue and centuries of trauma. His romance is one of gaming's most nuanced portrayals of healing.

Karlach

321k works · 0 ships

Tiefling barbarian with an infernal engine for a heart. The warmest person who literally can't be touched. Beloved by fans.

Shadowheart

319k works · 0 ships

Half-elf cleric of Shar with memory loss and a mysterious artifact. Sarcastic, loyal, and hiding more than she knows.

Laezel

60k works · 0 ships

Githyanki warrior raised to conquer. Fierce, proud, and slowly learning that vulnerability isn't weakness.

Gale

26k works · 0 ships

Wizard with a Netherese orb in his chest and an ex-girlfriend who's a goddess. Enthusiastic, romantic, and loves a good meal.

Wyll Ravengard

9k works · 2 ships

The Blade of Frontiers, a folk-hero warlock who sold his soul to the devil Mizora to save Baldur's Gate. Fans gravitate to his unshakable decency and the tragedy of a good man bound by an infernal contract.

Halsin

8k works · 2 ships

Centuries-old Archdruid of the Emerald Grove who can shapeshift into a bear and carries deep scars from the Shadow Curse. His gentle-giant warmth and openly polyamorous outlook made him a breakout romance option.

Raphael

5k works · 1 ships

Silver-tongued cambion who offers the party salvation at the price of their souls, complete with theatrical monologues and a musical number. The fandom adores writing deals that go exactly as badly as he intends.

Sherlock (BBC) Characters

Greg Lestrade

297k works · 0 ships

Scotland Yard Detective Inspector who tolerates Sherlock's antics because he knows the detective is usually right.

Sherlock Holmes

293k works · 1 ships

Self-described high-functioning sociopath and the world's only consulting detective. Brilliant, abrasive, and deeply human beneath the cold exterior.

John Watson

247k works · 1 ships

Army doctor and Sherlock's flatmate, blogger, and best friend. Brave, loyal, and the emotional center of their partnership.

Mycroft Holmes

225k works · 0 ships

Sherlock's elder brother who practically runs the British government. More intelligent than Sherlock but chooses power over puzzles.

Molly Hooper

33k works · 0 ships

Pathologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, one of the few people who sees through Sherlock's act to the person underneath.

Dragon Age Characters

Fenris

457k works · 1 ships

Former slave with lyrium tattoos burned into his skin. Angry, broken, and learning to be free.

Dorian Pavus

196k works · 0 ships

Tevinter mage who defies his homeland's corruption. Flamboyant, brilliant, and one of BioWare's most beloved characters.

Solas

183k works · 1 ships

Elven apostate mage who is far more than he seems. His romance is devastating because he knows how it must end.

Iron Bull

179k works · 0 ships

Qunari mercenary and spy who's surprisingly philosophical about loyalty, duty, and where they intersect.

Cullen Rutherford

9k works · 1 ships

Former Templar who survived the horrors of Kinloch Hold and Kirkwall before commanding the Inquisition's armies while fighting lyrium withdrawal. His quiet, fumbling romance made him a fandom heartthrob.

Anders

8k works · 2 ships

Apostate healer merged with the spirit of Justice who ignites a war by destroying the Kirkwall Chantry. The fandom has argued about whether he is freedom fighter or terrorist since 2011, usually in fic form.

Attack on Titan Characters

Armin Arlert

253k works · 0 ships

Strategic genius and Eren's best friend. Proves that intelligence and empathy are as powerful as physical strength.

Levi Ackerman

192k works · 1 ships

Humanity's strongest soldier with an obsession for cleanliness. Small in stature but terrifyingly powerful and surprisingly caring.

Erwin Smith

174k works · 0 ships

Survey Corps commander whose charisma and strategic mind inspire soldiers to follow him into certain death.

Hange Zoë

165k works · 0 ships

Eccentric scientist and Survey Corps commander obsessed with Titan research. Brilliant, passionate, and endlessly curious.

Eren Yeager

70k works · 1 ships

Driven by rage and freedom, Eren's transformation from idealistic boy to morally complex figure defines the series.

Mikasa Ackerman

36k works · 0 ships

Eren's adopted sister, one of the strongest warriors in the Survey Corps. Devoted, lethal, and emotionally guarded.

Jean Kirstein

32k works · 2 ships

A blunt, pragmatic soldier from Trost who joined the military hoping for a safe life in the interior, only to grow into one of the Survey Corps' most dependable leaders. His rivalry with Eren and his guilt over Marco's death shape his arc from cynic to reluctant hero.

Reiner Braun

21k works · 2 ships

The Armored Titan and a Marleyan warrior sent to infiltrate Paradis, where the big-brother persona he built for his fellow cadets fractured his sense of self. Fandom gravitates to his survivor's guilt and the impossible weight of his double life.

Annie Leonhart

14k works · 2 ships

The Female Titan, a withdrawn Marleyan warrior trained from childhood to fight, who spent four years crystallized beneath Stohess after her capture. Her dry wit and her tentative bond with Armin make her a favorite in post-canon and reconciliation fic.

Historia Reiss

12k works · 2 ships

The true heir to the walls' royal bloodline, who spent her cadet years hiding behind the sweet false persona of Krista Lenz before claiming the throne as queen. Her devotion to Ymir and her refusal to sacrifice herself define her in fanworks.

Zeke Yeager

7k works · 0 ships

Eren's older half-brother and holder of the Beast Titan, a Marleyan war chief who betrayed his own parents as a child and later schemed to euthanize the Eldian race. Writers dig into his warped childhood and his baseball-loving, philosophizing facade.

Sasha Blouse

5k works · 1 ships

Potato Girl of the 104th, a hunter from Dauper whose appetite was a running gag until her sniper's eye and sudden death broke the entire fandom. Sasha fix-its and 104th squad domesticity keep her memory loud.

Porco Galliard

3k works · 1 ships

Marley's Jaw Titan, forever competing with the dead brother whose memories he inherited and the Armored Titan he thinks he deserved. Porco's chip-shouldered rivalry with Reiner and bond with Pieck animate warrior-side fic.

Supernatural Characters

Castiel

344k works · 1 ships

An angel of the Lord who fell from grace for the Winchesters. Socially awkward, fiercely devoted, and perpetually learning about humanity.

Crowley

174k works · 0 ships

King of Hell turned reluctant ally. Witty, self-serving, and surprisingly complex beneath the demonic exterior.

Jack Kline

172k works · 0 ships

The Nephilim son of Lucifer, raised by the Winchesters. Innocent, powerful, and struggling to understand his place in the world.

Bobby Singer

126k works · 0 ships

Surrogate father to the Winchesters, an experienced hunter and walking encyclopedia of the supernatural.

Dean Winchester

62k works · 1 ships

The older Winchester brother, a skilled hunter with a love for classic rock, pie, and his Impala. Emotionally repressed with a heart of gold.

Sam Winchester

54k works · 0 ships

The younger Winchester, a reluctant hunter who wanted a normal life. Intelligent, empathetic, and always seeking redemption.

Gabriel

30k works · 1 ships

The archangel who ran away from Heaven and spent millennia masquerading as the Trickster, doling out ironic justice with a candy habit. His snark, his fake-out deaths, and his soft spot for Sam Winchester keep him beloved.

Rowena MacLeod

9k works · 1 ships

A centuries-old Scottish witch, Crowley's mother, and one of the most powerful spellcasters the Winchesters ever met. Her arc from scheming survivor to Queen of Hell who sacrifices herself is a fandom favorite.

John Winchester

9k works · 1 ships

The Marine turned hunter who raised his sons as soldiers in a war against the thing that killed Mary. John's drill-sergeant parenting is the fandom's eternal argument — written as villain, victim, and everything between.

Teen Wolf Characters

Derek Hale

437k works · 1 ships

Brooding werewolf haunted by family tragedy. Grumpy exterior hides a deeply protective nature and a capacity for great love.

Scott McCall

194k works · 0 ships

True Alpha werewolf who leads through compassion rather than force. Believes everyone deserves a chance at redemption.

Lydia Martin

168k works · 0 ships

Genius banshee who refuses to be underestimated. Went from popular girl to the pack's most formidable mind.

Stiles Stilinski

118k works · 1 ships

Hyperactive, sarcastic human in a world of werewolves. His intelligence and loyalty make him the heart of the pack.

Allison Argent

25k works · 2 ships

A hunter's daughter who falls for a werewolf, masters the bow, and rewrites her family's code to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Her death in Scott's arms is the wound Teen Wolf fandom keeps fixing.

Voltron Characters

Shiro

397k works · 0 ships

Black Paladin and the team's leader. A veteran pilot who escaped alien captivity, he leads with patience and strength.

Lance

337k works · 1 ships

Blue (later Red) Paladin, the team's sharpshooter and self-proclaimed ladies' man. His insecurities hide a deeply loyal heart.

Keith

206k works · 1 ships

Red (later Black) Paladin, hot-headed loner who learns to lead. Half-Galra heritage adds layers to his identity.

The Last of Us Characters

Joel Miller

390k works · 0 ships

Hardened smuggler who finds redemption through fatherhood. His love for Ellie transcends morality.

Ellie Williams

357k works · 1 ships

Immune survivor in a fungal apocalypse. Fierce, funny, and carrying the weight of the world's last hope.

Dina

128k works · 1 ships

Ellie's girlfriend, warm and capable. Her love provides stability in a world that has none.

DC Comics Characters

Jason Todd

213k works · 1 ships

The Robin who died and came back angry. His violent methods and complicated relationship with Bruce make him endlessly compelling.

Tim Drake

195k works · 1 ships

The Robin who chose the role because Batman needed one. Brilliant detective, compassionate hero, and openly bisexual.

Bruce Wayne

187k works · 1 ships

The Dark Knight of Gotham, a billionaire who fights crime as Batman. Driven by tragedy, brilliant, and emotionally unavailable.

Clark Kent

160k works · 1 ships

The Man of Steel, an alien raised in Kansas who embodies the best of humanity. Kind, powerful, and eternally hopeful.

Damian Wayne

30k works · 1 ships

Son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, raised by the League of Assassins before becoming the fifth Robin. A tiny, lethal child slowly learning to be a kid is irresistible batfamily fic material.

Dick Grayson

21k works · 0 ships

The original Robin turned Nightwing. Acrobatic, charismatic, and the emotional core of the Bat-family.

Barbara Gordon

18k works · 1 ships

Commissioner Gordon's daughter, the original Batgirl, and later the information broker Oracle after the Joker's attack left her paralyzed. She is Gotham's brain as much as Batman is its fist.

Diana Prince

18k works · 1 ships

Wonder Woman, Amazon princess of Themyscira forged from clay and blessed by the gods, fighting for truth with the Lasso of Hestia. A century of history gives writers endless wars, loves, and eras to explore.

Harley Quinn

11k works · 1 ships

Former psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel, who escaped the Joker's orbit to become an antiheroine with a mallet and a PhD in chaos. Harley's recovery from abuse and canon romance with Poison Ivy made Harlivy one of comics' flagship queer ships.

Pamela Isley

8k works · 1 ships

Poison Ivy, the misanthropic botanist who values plants over people and Harley Quinn over everything. Ivy's eco-radical menace softening into steady, patient love for Harley gives Harlivy fic its emotional spine.

Selina Kyle

7k works · 1 ships

Catwoman, Gotham's premier cat burglar and the thief who has been stealing from and saving Batman in equal measure for eighty years. Selina and Bruce's rooftop almost-marriage is comics' longest-running will-they-won't-they.

Our Flag Means Death Characters

Edward Teach

419k works · 1 ships

The legendary Blackbeard, tired of his reputation and longing for something real. His vulnerability beneath the fearsome exterior is everything.

Stede Bonnet

410k works · 1 ships

The Gentleman Pirate who left his wealthy life for adventure. Soft, earnest, and terrible at pirating but excellent at being human.

Israel Hands

12k works · 1 ships

Blackbeard's ruthless first mate, devoted to a captain who keeps choosing a soft-handed aristocrat over piracy. His jealousy, loyalty, and late-series unicorn-legged rebirth gave the fandom its most argued-over redemption arc.

The Hunger Games Characters

Finnick Odair

448k works · 0 ships

Golden boy of the Capitol who hides deep pain behind a charming facade. His love story with Annie is heartbreaking.

Katniss Everdeen

273k works · 1 ships

The Girl on Fire, reluctant symbol of revolution. A hunter and survivor whose love and loss change a nation.

Peeta Mellark

81k works · 1 ships

Baker's son and Katniss's partner. His genuine kindness and love survive even brainwashing and torture.

Coriolanus Snow

9k works · 1 ships

The future tyrant of Panem as an ambitious, impoverished student mentoring songbird tribute Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th Hunger Games. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes made his calculated descent into villainy a dark-romance magnet.

Haymitch Abernathy

8k works · 1 ships

District 12's only living victor before Katniss, a sardonic drunk who won his Games by weaponizing the arena itself and lost everyone he loved for it. He mentors Katniss and Peeta because nobody else will.

Hannibal Characters

Hannibal Lecter

450k works · 1 ships

Psychiatrist, serial killer, and connoisseur. Elegant, terrifying, and desperately in love with the one person who sees him fully.

Will Graham

293k works · 1 ships

FBI profiler with pure empathy — he can become anyone, which threatens to destroy him. His relationship with Hannibal defines obsession.

Abigail Hobbs

3k works · 0 ships

The daughter of the Minnesota Shrike, caught between two surrogate fathers who each wanted to remake her. Abigail's doomed place in Will and Hannibal's twisted family is the centerpiece of countless murder-family fix-its.

Alana Bloom

2k works · 1 ships

A psychiatry professor who trusted both Will and Hannibal and paid dearly for it, emerging from a broken spine into cold, armored survival. Alana's evolution from sweater-soft to power-suited Verger matriarch fascinates fic writers.

Lord of the Rings Characters

Frodo Baggins

396k works · 0 ships

The Ring-bearer who carries the weight of the world on hobbit-sized shoulders. His sacrifice and resilience save Middle-earth.

Aragorn

170k works · 0 ships

Ranger of the North and rightful King of Gondor. His reluctance to claim his throne makes his eventual coronation all the more powerful.

Legolas

134k works · 0 ships

Elven prince of Mirkwood, a deadly archer whose grace in battle is matched only by his loyalty to the Fellowship.

Samwise Gamgee

45k works · 0 ships

Frodo's gardener and the true hero of Lord of the Rings. His loyalty and courage inspire generations of readers.

Doctor Who Characters

Rose Tyler

432k works · 0 ships

Shop girl from London who became the Bad Wolf. Her love story with the Tenth Doctor defined a generation of the show.

The Doctor

280k works · 0 ships

A Time Lord who travels through time and space saving civilizations. Every incarnation is unique, but the compassion is constant.

The Master

20k works · 1 ships

The Doctor's oldest friend and greatest enemy, a renegade Time Lord whose regenerations range from suave schemer to gleeful chaos in the form of Missy. Millennia of shared history make this rivalry the show's most ship-able dynamic.

Donna Noble

9k works · 1 ships

A Chiswick temp who became the most important woman in the universe, matching the Tenth Doctor sass for sass as his best friend rather than a love interest. Her forced mind-wipe remains one of the show's cruelest endings, which is why fix-its abound.

Captive Prince Characters

Damen

402k works · 1 ships

Prince of Akielos enslaved and sent to his enemy's court. Honorable, strong, and falling for the last person he should.

Laurent

328k works · 1 ships

Prince of Vere, cold and calculating on the surface. His intelligence and hidden vulnerability make him one of fantasy's best characters.

Undertale Characters

Sans

429k works · 0 ships

Lazy skeleton with a hidden depth. His puns are terrible, his power is terrifying, and his love for his brother is absolute.

Papyrus

247k works · 0 ships

Enthusiastic skeleton who believes in everyone. His optimism and spaghetti are equally abundant.

Frisk

25k works · 0 ships

The fallen human whose choices determine the fate of the Underground. Their determination defines them.

Chara

8k works · 0 ships

The first human to fall into the Underground, adopted by the Dreemurrs, whose plan with Asriel ended in both their deaths. Whether Chara is the genocide route's demon or its scapegoat remains the fandom's fiercest debate.

Undyne

7k works · 1 ships

Spear-hurling captain of the Royal Guard who fights with anime-protagonist passion and cooks with arson. Her disastrous, adorable romance with the scientist Alphys gave Undertale one of gaming's iconic queer couples.

Demon Slayer Characters

Rengoku Kyoujurou

202k works · 0 ships

Flame Hashira whose blazing spirit and courage inspire everyone. His legacy lives on in every character he touched.

Kamado Nezuko

202k works · 0 ships

Tanjirou's sister turned demon who retains her humanity. Her love for her brother keeps her human heart alive.

Tomioka Giyuu

195k works · 0 ships

Water Hashira, stoic and lonely. His quiet strength and survivor's guilt make him a fan-favorite.

Zenitsu Agatsuma

14k works · 2 ships

The cowardly thunder-breather who fights at full genius only while unconscious, screaming through every mission beside Tanjiro and Inosuke. Beneath the shrieking is a boy his master died believing in, and fic mines that contrast for both comedy and heartbreak.

Inosuke Hashibira

12k works · 2 ships

The boar-headed berserker raised by animals on a mountain, who invented his own Beast Breathing style and challenges everything that moves. Tanjiro's kindness slowly teaches him what names, friends, and grief are, which fic finds endlessly tender.

Shinobu Kocho

11k works · 1 ships

The Insect Hashira, too small to behead demons, so she invented wisteria poisons that kill them instead. Her perpetual smile is a mask copied from her murdered sister Kanae, hiding rage she ultimately weaponizes with her own body against Douma.

Sanemi Shinazugawa

9k works · 1 ships

The scar-covered Wind Hashira who stabbed Nezuko's box in front of the entire Corps, and whose hatred of demons began the night his mother became one. His brutal exterior hides the brother who wanted Genya to live an ordinary, happy life.

Kamado Tanjirou

9k works · 0 ships

Kind-hearted demon slayer fighting to cure his sister. His empathy extends even to the demons he fights.

Muichiro Tokito

8k works · 0 ships

The Mist Hashira, a fourteen-year-old prodigy who reached Hashira rank in two months and lost his memories to the trauma that took his twin brother. The Swordsmith Village arc restores his past and his warmth, which fix-it fic refuses to let end at Infinity Castle.

Mitsuri Kanroji

8k works · 1 ships

The Love Hashira, a woman eight times stronger than normal who once dyed her hair and hid her appetite to seem marriageable, until the Corps gave her a place to be exactly herself. Her whip-sword, her crushes on everyone, and her bond with Obanai define her fics.

Obanai Iguro

6k works · 1 ships

The Serpent Hashira, born to a clan that fed its children to a snake demon, who hides his slit mouth behind bandages and trusts almost no one but his snake Kaburamaru and Mitsuri. He dies confessing the life he hopes to share with her in the next one.

Uzui Tengen

5k works · 1 ships

The flamboyant Sound Hashira, a former shinobi who fights with explosive flair and retires with all three of his wives after the Entertainment District. Tengen's god-of-festivals bombast and polyamorous marriage make him uniquely beloved.

Akaza

4k works · 1 ships

Upper Moon Three, a demon who refuses to eat women and worships strength because he failed to protect the people he loved as the human Hakuji. Akaza's tragedy — grief weaponized into eternity — drives his enormous villain fandom.

Merlin (BBC) Characters

Merlin

426k works · 1 ships

The most powerful sorcerer ever born, hiding his magic while serving as Arthur's servant. His devotion and sacrifice are legendary.

Arthur Pendragon

176k works · 1 ships

Once and Future King of Camelot. Grows from arrogant prince to just ruler, never knowing his closest friend's greatest secret.

Good Omens Characters

Crowley

411k works · 1 ships

A demon who didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards. Cool, caring, and devoted to Aziraphale for 6,000 years.

Aziraphale

169k works · 1 ships

An angel who loves books, food, and Earth far more than Heaven would like. Fussy, kind, and braver than he believes.

Anathema Device

3k works · 1 ships

A practical occultist and professional descendant who has spent her whole life following Agnes Nutter's nice and accurate prophecies. Anathema's decision to finally stop living by the book gives Good Omens fic its favorite human throughline.

Muriel

1k works · 0 ships

A sweetly naive 37th-order scrivener angel sent to spy on Aziraphale and left minding the bookshop instead. Muriel's wide-eyed delight in humanity made them an instant season-two favorite for cozy, gentle fic.

Six of Crows Characters

Wylan Van Eck

252k works · 1 ships

Demolitions expert and runaway heir. Shy, clever, and braver than he thinks.

Jesper Fahey

247k works · 1 ships

Sharpshooter with a gambling problem and a hidden magical gift. Charming, reckless, and deeply insecure.

Inej Ghafa

43k works · 1 ships

The Wraith, a former slave turned spy and assassin. Silent, devout, and the moral compass of the Crows.

Kaz Brekker

28k works · 1 ships

Sebastian

267k works · 1 ships

Brooding programmer who lives in his mom's basement. Rides a motorcycle, loves frogs, and dreams of leaving Pelican Town.

Shane

251k works · 1 ships

Depressed chicken farmer working at JojaMart. His arc of recovery and his blue chickens have made him the most popular bachelor.

Abigail

3k works · 2 ships

Purple-haired adventurer-at-heart who plays the flute, eats quartz, and dreams of fighting monsters in the mines instead of working at her father's general store. She is one of the farm's most-married bachelorettes.

Harvey

2k works · 1 ships

Pelican Town's anxious doctor, an aviation romantic who worries about everyone's heart but his own. Harvey's mustachioed gentleness makes him the quiet favorite of cozy farmer-romance fic.

Sam

1k works · 1 ships

Pelican Town's skateboarding band kid, an easygoing guitarist holding his family together while his dad is deployed. Sam's garage-band optimism and soft sibling energy power the valley's gentler fic.

She-Ra Characters

Adora

259k works · 1 ships

She-Ra, the legendary warrior princess. Raised as a soldier but chooses to fight for love, not duty.

Glimmer

138k works · 0 ships

Princess of Bright Moon, impulsive and brave. Grows from reckless rebel to wise leader through hard lessons.

Catra

127k works · 1 ships

Adora's childhood best friend turned nemesis. Her anger, vulnerability, and eventual redemption make her one of animation's best characters.

Yuri on Ice Characters

Viktor Nikiforov

281k works · 1 ships

Russian figure skating legend who finds inspiration and love in coaching Yuuri. Charismatic, lonely, and searching for life.

Yuuri Katsuki

171k works · 1 ships

Japanese figure skater who struggles with anxiety and self-doubt. His love story with Viktor changed sports anime forever.

Fullmetal Alchemist Characters

Riza Hawkeye

270k works · 1 ships

Mustang's loyal lieutenant and the best shot in the military. Her devotion and competence are unmatched.

Roy Mustang

80k works · 1 ships

The Flame Alchemist, an ambitious colonel working to change the military from within. His guilt over Ishval drives his every action.

Edward Elric

57k works · 0 ships

The Fullmetal Alchemist, a prodigy who lost his arm and leg trying to resurrect his mother. Short-tempered, brilliant, and driven.

Alphonse Elric

13k works · 1 ships

Edward's younger brother, whose soul was bound to a suit of armor after the failed human transmutation took his entire body. The gentlest person in Amestris despite being its most intimidating silhouette, he collects stray cats and forgives relentlessly.

Winry Rockbell

9k works · 1 ships

The Elrics' childhood friend and Ed's automail engineer, an orphan of the Ishval war who chooses to save lives with wrenches rather than avenge her parents. Equivalent exchange has never been more romantic than her giving Ed half her life.

Ling Yao

8k works · 2 ships

The twelfth prince of Xing, a freeloading charmer who came to Amestris hunting immortality and ended up sharing his body with the homunculus Greed. Their reluctant partnership-turned-genuine-friendship is one of the manga's best-loved relationships.

Greed

6k works · 1 ships

The avaricious homunculus who wanted everything — money, power, women, the whole world — and discovered too late that what he actually wanted was friends. His death inside Ling, finally content, is the series' most quietly devastating redemption.

Maes Hughes

6k works · 1 ships

The doting family man of Investigations who shoves daughter photos at everyone and dies in a phone booth for knowing too much. Hughes's murder is FMA's defining gut-punch, and fic resurrects him constantly — usually so he can keep Roy honest.

Heartstopper Characters

Nick Nelson

251k works · 1 ships

Rugby player who discovers he's bisexual when he falls for Charlie. Kind, protective, and navigating his identity with courage.

Charlie Spring

167k works · 1 ships

Openly gay teen dealing with mental health challenges. His relationship with Nick shows the healing power of being truly seen.

Tao Xu

2k works · 1 ships

Charlie Spring's loudest, most protective friend, a film snob in a bomber jacket who guards his people like a one-man security detail. Tao's anxious devotion and slow-blooming romance with Elle Argent give Heartstopper fic its second great love story.

Elle Argent

2k works · 1 ships

An artist who transferred to Higgs after coming out as trans, finding new confidence without losing her old friends. Elle's gentle steadiness and her romance with Tao made her one of YA fandom's most cherished trans heroines.

Arcane Characters

Jinx

214k works · 0 ships

Vi's sister Powder, transformed by tragedy and Shimmer into a chaotic genius. Her descent and complexity are heartbreaking.

Caitlyn Kiramman

79k works · 1 ships

Piltover enforcer and sharpshooter. Privileged but principled, she defies her class to do what's right.

Vi

60k works · 1 ships

Scrappy fighter from the undercity with a heart of gold and fists of steel. Her determination to find her sister drives the story.

Miraculous Ladybug Characters

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

249k works · 1 ships

Clumsy teenager who transforms into the superhero Ladybug. Creative, courageous, and hopelessly in love with her partner's alter ego.

Adrien Agreste

22k works · 1 ships

Model and superhero Chat Noir, trapped in a gilded cage by his father. Kind, lonely, and devoted to his Lady.

Luka Couffaine

5k works · 1 ships

Soft-spoken guitarist who reads Marinette's heart like sheet music and waits patiently while she chases Adrien. The love-square's most graceful third wheel and fic's favorite consolation route.

Chloé Bourgeois

3k works · 0 ships

Paris's mayor's daughter, Marinette's lifelong bully, and briefly the hero Queen Bee before canon slammed that door. Chloé's abandoned redemption arc is one of fandom's great grievances, fixed in thousands of AUs.

Kagami Tsurugi

3k works · 1 ships

A champion fencer raised under her mother's crushing discipline, Adrien's mirror in gilded-cage loneliness. Kagami's blunt honesty and her chemistry with both Adrien and Marinette make her the love square's favorite wild card.

Banana Fish Characters

Okumura Eiji

156k works · 1 ships

Japanese photographer who becomes Ash's anchor to a better world. Gentle, brave, and unwavering in his devotion.

Ash Lynx

73k works · 1 ships

Teenage gang leader and genius trapped in a world of violence. Beautiful, broken, and desperate for freedom.

Shorter Wong

4k works · 1 ships

Leader of Chinatown's gang and Ash's most trusted friend, a loyal, mohawked goofball caught between the Lee clan's orders and his own conscience. His fate under the Banana Fish drug remains the series' cruelest blow, endlessly undone in fix-it fic.

Yut-Lung Lee

4k works · 1 ships

The youngest Lee brother, a beautiful, venomous schemer who watched his mother's murder and dedicated himself to dragging Ash down to his own level of ruin. He is Ash's dark mirror — same wounds, opposite answer — and fic loves to give him the healing canon denied.

Mass Effect Characters

Tali'Zorah

130k works · 0 ships

Quarian engineer whose brilliance and compassion transcend species barriers. A beloved romance option and teammate.

Garrus Vakarian

28k works · 1 ships

Turian sharpshooter and Shepard's most loyal companion. His calibrations are legendary, as is his romance.

Commander Shepard

22k works · 1 ships

The first human Spectre, savior of the galaxy. Their story changes based on the player, making every Shepard unique.

Kaidan Alenko

9k works · 1 ships

Steady biotic sentinel of the original Normandy crew whose distrust on Horizon and reconciliation in the third game gave the trilogy its great second-chance romance. He became Shepard's first male-male love interest in Mass Effect 3.

Liara T'Soni

8k works · 1 ships

Asari archaeologist who grows from awkward Prothean scholar into the galaxy's Shadow Broker across the trilogy. Her century-spanning devotion to Shepard makes her the series' most enduring romance.

All For The Game Characters

Andrew Minyard

146k works · 1 ships

Apathetic goalkeeper with a violent streak and a complicated past. His relationship with Neil redefines consent and trust in fiction.

Neil Josten

51k works · 1 ships

A runaway on borrowed time who finds a home in the most dysfunctional sports team imaginable. Sarcastic, scarred, and learning to stay.

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Characters

Regulus Black

45k works · 1 ships

Sirius's younger brother, a Slytherin seeker who joined the Death Eaters and then died defying Voldemort, stealing a Horcrux at the cost of his own life. The Marauders-era boom turned this minor canon figure into one of AO3's fastest-growing characters.

Bellatrix Lestrange

25k works · 1 ships

Voldemort's most fanatical lieutenant, eldest of the Black sisters and a duelist feared across wizarding Britain. Fic explores her madness, her devotion, and the wildly popular Bellamione pairing.

Minerva McGonagall

24k works · 0 ships

Hogwarts' stern Transfiguration mistress and head of Gryffindor, a cat Animagus whose discipline never outweighs her fierce protection of her students. McGonagall is fandom's definitive no-nonsense mentor, from Marauders-era fic to post-war headmistress stories.

Theodore Nott

20k works · 2 ships

A quiet, clever Slytherin in Harry's year, son of a Death Eater, barely sketched in canon. That blank slate made him fanon's favorite bookish wildcard, especially in eighth-year and Theomione fic.

Molly Weasley

18k works · 1 ships

The Burrow's matriarch, who feeds every stray child the war produces and duels Bellatrix Lestrange to protect her daughter. Molly's knitted jumpers and 'not my daughter' ferocity make her fandom's archetypal mother — celebrated in some fic, sharply critiqued in others.

Nymphadora Tonks

16k works · 1 ships

A clumsy young Auror and Metamorphmagus with bubblegum-pink hair who hates her first name and loves Remus Lupin stubbornly enough to marry him mid-war. Tonks's shapeshifting fuels rich genderfluid readings alongside endless Battle of Hogwarts fix-its.

Lucius Malfoy

15k works · 1 ships

The silver-tongued patriarch of Malfoy Manor, a Death Eater whose pureblood pride crumbles into desperate family preservation by the war's end. Lucius's cane-twirling menace and fall from grace anchor Malfoy family fic.

Fleur Delacour

12k works · 2 ships

The Beauxbatons Triwizard champion, part-Veela and entirely underestimated, who proves her steel by staying when Bill is scarred. Fleur's 'I am good-looking enough for both of us' loyalty made her a fandom favorite, especially in Fleurmione AUs.

Cedric Diggory

10k works · 1 ships

Hufflepuff's golden Triwizard champion, the spare Voldemort ordered killed in the graveyard. Cedric's pointless death made him fanfiction's favorite boy to save — survival AUs and Cedric/Harry fic have flourished for two decades.

Haikyuu!! Characters

Kei Tsukishima

34k works · 2 ships

Karasuno's salty middle blocker, a dinosaur nerd in headphones who guarded himself against caring about volleyball until the Shiratorizawa block broke him open. Writers adore his slow thaw, his needling of Hinata and Kageyama, and his bond with Yamaguchi.

Atsumu Miya

30k works · 2 ships

Inarizaki's brash twin setter, a perfectionist with a Kansai drawl who calls anyone who doesn't match his standards a scrub. The timeskip put him on the MSBY Black Jackals beside Hinata, Bokuto, and Sakusa, and post-canon pro-volleyball fic exploded around him.

Tadashi Yamaguchi

22k works · 1 ships

Karasuno's pinch server, a once-bullied kid who turned his anxiety into the guts to float-serve under tournament pressure. His 'what more do you need than pride?' moment with Tsukishima anchors one of the fandom's most beloved childhood-friends dynamics.

Kiyoomi Sakusa

22k works · 1 ships

Itachiyama's germophobic ace with freakishly flexible wrists, one of the top three high school spikers, later Atsumu's blunt teammate on the MSBY Black Jackals. His masked deadpan and rigid boundaries make him fic's favorite study in letting someone close.

Koushi Sugawara

21k works · 2 ships

Karasuno's third-year setter and vice captain, who lost his starting spot to a first-year genius and chose to become the team's steadying heart instead of resenting it. Fandom's 'team mom' with a mischievous streak, most often written at Daichi's side.

Daichi Sawamura

18k works · 2 ships

Karasuno's captain, the immovable foundation whose receive-first philosophy and quietly terrifying smile keep a team of chaos gremlins functional. Fic leans on his dependable-leader energy, his future as a police officer, and his partnership with Suga.

Osamu Miya

18k works · 2 ships

Atsumu's calmer twin and Inarizaki's wing spiker, who shocked everyone by quitting volleyball to open the Onigiri Miya restaurant chain. Fandom treasures the twins' fistfights-and-loyalty dynamic and casts Osamu as the long-suffering feeder of hungry athletes.

Wakatoshi Ushijima

13k works · 2 ships

Shiratorizawa's left-handed super ace, a literal-minded farm boy who told Oikawa he should have come to Shiratorizawa and meant it kindly. Fic plays his social obliviousness for comedy or digs into the loneliness of being the strongest in the prefecture.

Dream SMP Characters

Dream

40k works · 2 ships

The server's masked admin and central antagonist, whose character arc bent the entire SMP's story toward control, exile, and the prison he built for himself. His roleplay villainy fueled some of AO3's biggest MCYT tags.

TommyInnit

38k works · 0 ships

Loud teenage heart of the SMP whose exile arc opposite Dream produced the server's rawest storytelling and a flood of gen hurt/comfort fic. His discs, his bench with Tubbo, and 'it was never about the discs' built the lore's emotional spine.

GeorgeNotFound

32k works · 1 ships

Colorblind British member of the Dream Team whose sleepy, deadpan streams made him the server's calm eye. His in-game kingship and offline friendship with Dream powered the DNF phenomenon.

Wilbur Soot

30k works · 1 ships

Founder of L'Manburg whose character spiraled from idealistic revolutionary to the man who blew up his own nation crying 'it was never meant to be.' His Shakespearean fall is MCYT roleplay's defining tragedy.

Technoblade

30k works · 0 ships

The Blood God of the server, an anarchist piglin hybrid whose 'Technoblade never dies' became both meme and legacy after his passing in 2022. His wit, loyalty to family, and Theseus speeches remain fandom canon; he asked not to be shipped, and the archive largely honors that.

Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters

Matt Murdock

35k works · 2 ships

A blind Catholic lawyer by day and the vigilante Daredevil by night, defending Hell's Kitchen in both courtrooms and alleyways. His guilt complex and talent for getting beaten half to death make him a whump-fic staple.

Pepper Potts

32k works · 2 ships

Tony Stark's assistant turned CEO of Stark Industries, and eventually the armored hero Rescue. She runs a trillion-dollar company while keeping the most chaotic man in the MCU alive and grounded.

Bruce Banner

28k works · 2 ships

A brilliant physicist with seven PhDs who transforms into the Hulk when angry. Fandom gravitates to his gentleness, his guilt, and his science-bro dynamic with Tony Stark.

Eddie Brock

9k works · 1 ships

A disgraced investigative journalist sharing his body, his tater tots, and arguably his heart with an alien symbiote. Eddie and Venom's bickering codependence is canonically 'a relationship,' and fic took that ball and ran.

Miles Morales

9k works · 1 ships

Brooklyn's Spider-Man, a graffiti-loving Afro-Latino teenager juggling family, physics homework, and a multiverse that insists his dad has to die. The Spider-Verse films made Miles the center of animation's biggest fandom surge.

Yelena Belova

7k works · 1 ships

Natasha's Red Room sister, a deadpan assassin with strong opinions about pockets and grief she processes via hot sauce and sarcasm. Yelena's vendetta-turned-friendship with Kate Bishop's Hawkeye spawned a massive ship overnight.

Kate Bishop

6k works · 1 ships

The self-appointed 'world's greatest archer,' a rich-kid disaster who annoys Clint Barton into mentorship over one chaotic Christmas. Kate's golden-retriever determination opposite Yelena's knives defines her enormous fic presence.

One Direction Characters

Harry Styles

50k works · 1 ships

One Direction's youngest member turned global solo star, whose flamboyant fashion and ambiguous lyricism kept fandom analysis alive long after the hiatus. Larry Stylinson remains one of the most-written ships in AO3 history.

Louis Tomlinson

45k works · 1 ships

One Direction's eldest member and unofficial protector, a Doncaster lad whose sharp wit balanced the band's chaos. A decade after the hiatus, his pairing with Harry Styles still tops RPF charts.

Zayn Malik

16k works · 1 ships

One Direction's brooding high-note specialist, the first to leave the band and the subject of a thousand what-if fics. Zayn's mysterious aura and 2015 departure gave 1D fandom its great rupture to write around.

The 100 (TV) Characters

Clarke Griffin

45k works · 2 ships

A teenage medic sent to a post-apocalyptic Earth with 99 other delinquents, who becomes the leader forced to make every impossible choice. Known to the Grounders as Wanheda, the Commander of Death.

Bellamy Blake

30k works · 1 ships

The rebel who smuggled himself to Earth to protect his sister and grew from antagonist into co-leader, ruling with his heart where Clarke rules with her head. Bellarke's will-they-won't-they powered years of fic.

Lexa

22k works · 1 ships

Heda, Commander of the twelve Grounder clans, a warrior-philosopher who believed love was weakness until Clarke Griffin proved otherwise. Her death by stray bullet sparked industry-wide conversations about queer representation and an ocean of fix-it fic.

Octavia Blake

4k works · 1 ships

The girl under the floor who became a warrior, Blodreina of the bunker, and finally something gentler. Octavia's brutal reinventions across six seasons make her The 100's most polarizing, most-written survivor.

Raven Reyes

4k works · 1 ships

The youngest zero-G mechanic in fifty-two years, who survives chronic pain, possession, and every apocalypse with spite and genius. Raven is The 100 fandom's consensus best character and most-protected engineer.

Stray Kids Characters

Bang Chan

30k works · 2 ships

Australian-raised leader and 3RACHA producer who hand-picked the members and famously carries the group's wellbeing on his shoulders. Fic gravitates to his caretaker streak and the late nights he spends in the studio.

Lee Minho

26k works · 2 ships

Main dancer known as Lee Know, a former BTS backup dancer with a deadpan wit and three beloved cats. Writers love the gap between his savage one-liners and the quiet ways he looks after the members.

Han Jisung

26k works · 2 ships

3RACHA rapper and songwriter whose stage charisma flips into squirrel-cheeked chaos off it, and who speaks openly about performance anxiety. Minsung, his pairing with Lee Know, is among AO3's biggest Stray Kids ships.

Hwang Hyunjin

22k works · 2 ships

Main dancer and visual who paints in his spare time and turns every performance into theater. Fic leans on his expressive intensity, whether opposite Han's chaos or Felix's warmth.

Overwatch Characters

Cole Cassidy

30k works · 1 ships

Outlaw gunslinger recruited out of the Deadlock Gang into Blackwatch, now drifting the American Southwest with a bounty on his head. The McHanzo ship with Hanzo Shimada dominated Overwatch fic for years.

Hanzo Shimada

28k works · 1 ships

Heir to the Shimada crime empire who was ordered to kill his own brother Genji and has spent a decade punishing himself for it. His guilt-ridden search for honor makes him fandom's archetypal brooding archer.

Genji Shimada

22k works · 2 ships

Playboy younger Shimada brother rebuilt as a cyborg ninja after Hanzo nearly killed him, who found peace under the omnic monk Zenyatta. Fic explores his uneasy truce between flesh, steel, and forgiveness.

Jack Morrison

7k works · 1 ships

Overwatch's golden-boy strike commander, presumed dead in the Zurich explosion and reborn as the vigilante Soldier: 76. Jack's ruined friendship-or-more with Gabriel Reyes is the bitter heart of Reaper76 fic.

Gabriel Reyes

6k works · 1 ships

The Blackwatch commander passed over for the man he built Overwatch with, remade by Moira's experiments into the wraith Reaper. Gabriel's resentment, smoke, and history with Jack Morrison fuel a decade of tragedy fic.

Angela Ziegler

6k works · 2 ships

Overwatch's brilliant combat medic Mercy, a pacifist who hates that her Valkyrie suit is needed on battlefields at all. Angela's ethical weight and her ships with Fareeha and Genji keep her central to Overwatch fic.

Shadowhunters (TV) / The Mortal Instruments Characters

Magnus Bane

40k works · 1 ships

The centuries-old High Warlock of Brooklyn, equal parts glitter, cocktails, and devastating magical power. Falling for Shadowhunter Alec Lightwood cracks open a heart he had armored for four hundred years.

Alec Lightwood

38k works · 1 ships

The dutiful eldest Lightwood, an archer raised to lead the New York Institute, who kisses a warlock in front of the entire Clave instead of going through with an arranged marriage. Malec made him a queer fandom icon.

Jace Wayland

7k works · 1 ships

The Institute's cocky best soldier, an orphan with a falcon-killing childhood and a string of borrowed surnames. Jace's parabatai bond with Alec and whirlwind romance with Clary keep him central to the fandom.

Clary Fray

6k works · 1 ships

A Brooklyn art student who discovers on her eighteenth birthday that she's a Shadowhunter with a stolen past. Clary's rune-creating gift and headstrong loyalty drive the Mortal Instruments saga and its fic.

Isabelle Lightwood

5k works · 1 ships

The Institute's whip-wielding forensic pathologist, as deadly in stilettos as in gear. Izzy's fierce devotion to her brothers and her slow-built romance with Simon Lewis give her fic both edge and sweetness.

Star Trek Characters

James T. Kirk

35k works · 1 ships

Captain of the USS Enterprise, a tactical genius who cheats no-win scenarios and would burn down the universe for his first officer. Kirk/Spock fanzines in the 1970s are where slash fiction got its name.

Spock

34k works · 2 ships

The Enterprise's half-Vulcan, half-human first officer, perpetually torn between logic and the emotions he pretends not to have. His t'hy'la bond with Kirk is the ur-text of modern shipping culture.

Leonard McCoy

15k works · 2 ships

The Enterprise's chief medical officer, a Southern doctor who grumbles 'I'm a doctor, not a...' at every crisis while patching up a captain with no self-preservation. The third leg of the original space triumvirate.

Jean-Luc Picard

10k works · 2 ships

Captain of the Enterprise-D, a tea-drinking diplomat-archaeologist who solves with words what Kirk solved with fists. His sparring matches with the omnipotent Q carry enough subtext to power a warp core.

Criminal Minds Characters

Spencer Reid

55k works · 2 ships

The BAU's boy genius with an eidetic memory, three doctorates, and a reading speed of 20,000 words per minute. Fandom adores his rambling statistics, his vulnerability, and how often canon puts him in danger.

Aaron Hotchner

25k works · 1 ships

The BAU's stoic unit chief, a former prosecutor and single father who absorbs every tragedy so his team doesn't have to. His rare smiles and immense grief give writers plenty to unpack.

Derek Morgan

8k works · 1 ships

The BAU's door-kicking obsessional crimes expert, equal parts muscle and heart. Morgan's 'pretty boy' banter with Spencer Reid launched one of procedural fandom's most enduring ships.

Penelope Garcia

6k works · 1 ships

The BAU's technicolor technical analyst, a reformed hacker who fights the world's darkness with fuzzy pens and ferocious love. Garcia is the team's beating heart in fic, whether matchmaking or being romanced herself.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Characters

Buffy Summers

30k works · 2 ships

The Chosen One of her generation, a California girl balancing apocalypses, dead boyfriends, and a part-time job at the Doublemeat Palace. She died twice, came back wrong once, and still saved the world a lot.

Spike

28k works · 2 ships

A bleach-blond punk vampire and former Victorian poet who killed two Slayers, then fell for a third hard enough to fight for his own soul. His arc from villain to champion remains genre television's messiest redemption.

Angel

18k works · 2 ships

A vampire cursed with a soul who atones for a century of slaughter as Angelus by brooding in shadows and loving the Slayer he can never be happy with. One moment of perfect happiness, and the monster comes back.

Willow Rosenberg

12k works · 1 ships

Sunnydale's shy computer nerd who grows into the most powerful witch of her age, nearly ending the world from grief before flowering it instead. Her romance with Tara was a landmark for queer representation on television.

EXO Characters

Byun Baekhyun

28k works · 1 ships

EXO's main vocalist and resident mood-maker, a powerhouse singer who fills every room with noise and every fancam with mischief. ChanBaek, his pairing with Chanyeol, defined a generation of K-pop fic.

Park Chanyeol

26k works · 1 ships

EXO's towering rapper-producer with a studio full of instruments and a grin permanently aimed at Baekhyun. The 'happy virus' label stuck early and the fandom has written around it ever since.

Kim Jongin

14k works · 1 ships

EXO's main dancer Kai, a quiet, bear-loving man offstage who transforms into magnetic intensity the moment the music starts. Kaisoo fic has spent a decade reading volumes into his soft dynamic with Do Kyungsoo.

Do Kyungsoo

13k works · 1 ships

EXO's velvet-voiced main vocalist and a respected film actor, famous for his deadpan stare and zero tolerance for nonsense. Kyungsoo's grumpy-soft contrast with Jongin made Kaisoo one of K-pop fandom's monolith ships.

Final Fantasy VII Characters

Cloud Strife

30k works · 3 ships

Mercenary with a buster sword and a borrowed identity, whose shattered memories of Nibelheim and Zack form the trilogy's emotional core. Time-travel fix-its sending him back to save everyone are practically their own genre.

Sephiroth

18k works · 1 ships

Shinra's legendary One-Winged Angel who burned Nibelheim after learning the truth of his creation and now haunts Cloud across every timeline. Fandom alternates between writing his downfall and writing it averted.

Zack Fair

16k works · 2 ships

Sunny SOLDIER First Class who carried a catatonic Cloud across a continent and died within sight of Midgar so his friend could live. The fandom's most universally loved character and its most rewritten death.

Tifa Lockhart

13k works · 1 ships

Seventh Heaven barkeep and martial artist who quietly holds Cloud's broken memories together, having known him since their Nibelheim childhood. Her patience and devastating right hook headline a huge body of canon-era fic.

Bleach Characters

Ichigo Kurosaki

26k works · 2 ships

A scowling Karakura teen who could always see ghosts, handed a Soul Reaper's powers by Rukia and dragged into every afterlife war since. Part human, Quincy, Hollow, and Shinigami, he protects first and asks questions never — the engine of the entire series.

Rukia Kuchiki

14k works · 2 ships

The Soul Reaper who changed Ichigo's fate by lending him her power, a Rukongai orphan adopted into the noble Kuchiki clan and nearly executed for that single act of kindness. Her ice zanpakuto and her terrible rabbit drawings are equally iconic.

Renji Abarai

9k works · 2 ships

A tattooed lieutenant from the worst district of Rukongai who clawed his way up the Gotei 13 to stand beside Rukia again after letting her go once. His zanpakuto Zabimaru, his rivalry with Ichigo, and his decades of pining structure most of his fic.

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez

8k works · 1 ships

The Sexta Espada, a panther-souled Arrancar who refuses to let anyone but himself kill Ichigo and keeps showing up to demand a rematch. That obsessive rivalry made Grimmichi one of Bleach's defining ships long after his canon role ended.

Byakuya Kuchiki

7k works · 1 ships

Captain of Squad Six and head of the Kuchiki clan, a nobleman so bound by law that he nearly let his adopted sister die to uphold it. His cherry-blossom zanpakuto Senbonzakura and his buried grief for his wife Hisana define Soul Society's coldest pretty face.

Inoue Orihime

6k works · 2 ships

The gentle healer whose Shun Shun Rikka can reject reality itself, kidnapped to Hueco Mundo for a power even Aizen coveted. Orihime's boundless empathy and eventual marriage to Ichigo keep her at the center of Bleach's ship wars.

Hitsugaya Toushirou

6k works · 0 ships

The prodigy captain of the Tenth Division, an ice-wielding child genius perpetually mistaken for an elementary schooler. Hitsugaya's old-soul weariness and Hyourinmaru's dragon power made him Bleach's long-reigning popularity poll king.

Twilight Series Characters

Bella Swan

30k works · 2 ships

The clumsy new girl in Forks whose silent mind and stubborn heart pull her between a vampire and a werewolf. She ends the saga as an immortal with a shield power and a half-vampire daughter.

Edward Cullen

22k works · 2 ships

A 104-year-old vampire frozen at seventeen, a mind reader who cannot hear the one girl he craves. His brooding restraint and sparkle in sunlight defined a generation's idea of the paranormal love interest.

Jacob Black

14k works · 2 ships

Bella's sunny Quileute best friend who phases into a wolf and into the saga's other romantic lead. Team Jacob fic gives him the endings canon's imprinting twist denied him.

Alice Cullen

9k works · 2 ships

The Cullens' pixie-like seer, who woke as a vampire with no memories and a vision of Jasper. Her precognition, shopping sprees, and instant friendship with Bella make her the family's brightest thread.

Once Upon a Time Characters

Emma Swan

30k works · 2 ships

A bail bondsperson and orphan who learns she is the Savior, daughter of Snow White, destined to break Storybrooke's curse. Her armor-plated heart and her son Henry pull her into a family she never believed she'd get.

Regina Mills

28k works · 1 ships

The Evil Queen who cast the Dark Curse, living as Storybrooke's mayor and Henry's adoptive mother while clawing toward redemption. Swan Queen, her ship with Emma, dominated the fandom without ever going canon.

Killian Jones

8k works · 1 ships

Captain Hook reimagined as a guylinered survivor of three centuries of vengeance, who trades his revenge for Emma Swan. Captain Swan's wedding made Killian one of network TV's biggest redemption romances.

Rumplestiltskin

7k works · 1 ships

The Dark One, a spinner who chose power over his son and spent centuries weaving every deal in the Enchanted Forest. Rumple's beauty-and-the-beast romance with Belle and his endless relapses define Rumbelle fandom.

9-1-1 (TV) Characters

Evan 'Buck' Buckley

35k works · 2 ships

The 118's golden-retriever firefighter, who has survived a bombing, a tsunami, a lightning strike, and his own abandonment issues. His canon bisexual awakening in season 7 set the fandom on fire.

Eddie Diaz

28k works · 1 ships

An Army medic turned firefighter and single father to Christopher, carrying Catholic guilt and a will that names Buck his son's guardian. Buddie shippers have spent years cataloguing every loaded glance.

Bobby Nash

5k works · 1 ships

Captain of the 118, a recovering alcoholic who lost his family in a fire he blames himself for and rebuilt his life around saving others. Bobby is fandom's ultimate father figure, especially to Buck.

Maddie Buckley

4k works · 1 ships

Buck's older sister, an ER nurse turned 911 dispatcher who escaped an abusive marriage and slowly let herself love again. Maddie and Chimney's gentle, hard-won romance is one of the show's most protected dynamics.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses Characters

Byleth

26k works · 2 ships

Stoic mercenary turned professor at Garreg Mach who carries the goddess Sothis in their heart. As the player avatar romanceable across all three routes, Byleth anchors a huge portion of the fandom's pairing fic.

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd

16k works · 2 ships

Crown prince of Faerghus whose chivalrous facade shatters into vengeful madness after the Tragedy of Duscur. His climb back from rock bottom on the Azure Moon route is one of the series' most fic'd redemption arcs.

Edelgard von Hresvelg

14k works · 1 ships

Imperial princess who declares war on the Church of Seiros to dismantle the Crest system that tortured her childhood. Whether she reads as visionary or tyrant is the fandom's eternal debate, and her route with Byleth its flashpoint.

Claude von Riegan

13k works · 2 ships

Scheming heir of the Leicester Alliance who hides outsider's loneliness behind an easy grin and a hundred contingency plans. Fic delights in peeling back the charm to the boy caught between two homelands.

Persona 5 Characters

Ren Amamiya

28k works · 2 ships

Wrongfully convicted transfer student who leads the Phantom Thieves as Joker, stealing the corrupt hearts of Tokyo's adults. His quiet exterior hiding a showman's flair makes him endlessly flexible as a fic protagonist.

Goro Akechi

24k works · 1 ships

Celebrity Detective Prince whose charming public persona conceals a bitter assassin working for the father who abandoned him. His doomed rivalry with Joker is the engine behind the fandom's most-written ship.

Ryuji Sakamoto

12k works · 1 ships

Loudmouthed ex-track star branded a delinquent after standing up to an abusive coach, and the first Phantom Thief to join Joker. Fic leans into his fierce loyalty and the soft heart under all the swearing.

Yusuke Kitagawa

3k works · 1 ships

The Phantom Thieves' starving artist, a painting prodigy who escaped his abusive mentor Madarame and now budgets everything except aesthetics. Yusuke's lobster-buying absurdity and lonely sincerity charm fic writers.

Futaba Sakura

2k works · 0 ships

A hikikomori hacker genius who joins the Phantom Thieves by blackmailing them, then steals her own heart's distortion. Futaba's grief for her mother and adoption by Sojiro give Persona 5 its warmest family arc.

Hunter x Hunter Characters

Killua Zoldyck

16k works · 1 ships

Heir to a family of assassins who ran away to take the Hunter Exam and found his first real friend in Gon. Trained to feel nothing, he spends the series learning he is allowed to want things — and ends it choosing to protect his sister Alluka.

Gon Freecss

14k works · 1 ships

A feral island kid who became a Hunter to find the father who abandoned him, armed with monstrous talent and a moral compass that points only at the people he loves. His self-destruction against Pitou revealed the abyss under the sunshine, and fic lives there.

Kurapika

12k works · 1 ships

The last survivor of the Kurta clan, whose scarlet eyes burn when he rages and whose Nen chains exist to kill the Phantom Troupe who massacred his people. His revenge is devouring him by inches, and the Yorknew arc remains the fandom's tragic centerpiece.

Hisoka Morow

10k works · 2 ships

A magician-themed fighter who lives only for opponents ripe enough to be worth killing, drifting between ally and predator as it amuses him. His Bungee Gum, his card tricks, and his death match with Chrollo make him the franchise's most magnetic wildcard.

Leorio Paradinight

8k works · 1 ships

A loud, big-hearted med student who became a Hunter for money — money to become a doctor who never lets a friend die poor again. He punches Ging on live television on Gon's behalf and grounds Kurapika's spiral with sheer stubborn normalcy.

Chrollo Lucilfer

7k works · 2 ships

The serene leader of the Phantom Troupe, a Meteor City orphan who steals other people's Nen abilities into his Skill Hunter book. He mourns his spiders genuinely while slaughtering everyone else's loved ones, a contradiction fandom can't stop dissecting.

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Characters

Bilbo Baggins

25k works · 1 ships

A respectable hobbit of Bag End swept into a quest with thirteen dwarves, a wizard, and a dragon, returning home with a magic ring and a changed heart. Bagginshield fic mostly refuses to accept how the Battle of Five Armies ended.

Thorin Oakenshield

20k works · 1 ships

Exiled King Under the Mountain leading his company to reclaim Erebor from Smaug, undone at the last by gold-sickness and pride. He dies asking a hobbit's forgiveness, and fandom has been rewriting that ending ever since.

Maedhros

9k works · 1 ships

Eldest son of Fëanor, bound by a doomed oath, rescued from Thangorodrim by Fingon at the cost of his right hand. The Silmarillion fandom's most-written elf, equal parts tragedy and devotion.

Éowyn

5k works · 1 ships

The White Lady of Rohan, who rode to war disguised as a man and felled the Witch-king with 'I am no man.' Éowyn's cage of duty, her despairing love for Aragorn, and her healing with Faramir make her Tolkien's most-written woman.

Faramir

4k works · 1 ships

Gondor's scholar-captain, the son Denethor never valued, who let the Ring pass through his fingers without a fight. Faramir's quality — gentleness unbroken by a loveless father and a hopeless war — wins him devoted fic attention.

Maglor

4k works · 0 ships

The second son of Fëanor, the greatest singer of the Noldor, who cast his Silmaril into the sea and wanders the shores lamenting still. Maglor's kidnapping-turned-fostering of Elrond and Elros is Silmarillion fandom's defining found-family story.

Stargate Characters

John Sheppard

18k works · 1 ships

The military commander of Atlantis, a flyboy with messy hair and the strongest Ancient gene on record, exiled to another galaxy and entirely at home there. His banter with Rodney McKay fueled one of the 2000s' biggest slash ships.

Rodney McKay

17k works · 1 ships

Atlantis's arrogant, citrus-fearing chief scientist, who announces he's a genius roughly hourly and then proves it by saving the city. Underneath the ego is a man who never expected anyone to stay.

Jack O'Neill

16k works · 2 ships

Air Force colonel and leader of SG-1, hiding sharp grief and sharper intelligence behind deadpan jokes about the Simpsons. He came out of retirement for the first Abydos mission and never managed to leave the Gate behind.

Daniel Jackson

14k works · 1 ships

The archaeologist-linguist who unlocked the Stargate and got laughed out of academia for being right. He dies and ascends so often it becomes a running joke, but his idealism keeps SG-1 honest.

Supernatural RPF Characters

Jensen Ackles

28k works · 2 ships

The actor behind Dean Winchester for fifteen seasons of Supernatural. In RPF circles Jensen is written as the steady, private counterpart to his more chaotic co-stars, anchoring two of the longest-running real-person ships on the archive.

Jared Padalecki

22k works · 1 ships

Sam Winchester's actor and one half of the J2 juggernaut that dominated RPF for over a decade. Fans write Jared as warm, tactile, and impossibly tall, often in sprawling alternate universes far removed from Hollywood.

Misha Collins

12k works · 1 ships

The endlessly weird, philanthropic actor who played Castiel and became a fandom icon in his own right. Cockles fic leans on the real-life chemistry and convention banter between Misha and Jensen Ackles.

Glee Characters

Kurt Hummel

25k works · 1 ships

McKinley High's fashion-forward countertenor, who survived bullying to chase Broadway dreams in New York. His romance with Blaine Anderson made Klaine one of the most-written TV ships of the 2010s.

Blaine Anderson

22k works · 1 ships

The Dalton Academy Warbler with the bow ties and the show-stopping Katy Perry covers, who transferred schools for Kurt Hummel. Gelled hair, golden voice, and an anxious need to be liked.

Rachel Berry

7k works · 1 ships

McKinley High's gold-star-stickered future Broadway legend, whose ambition is matched only by her capacity to steamroll everyone she loves. Rachel's rivalry-charged chemistry with Quinn Fabray made Faberry a femslash titan.

Santana Lopez

7k works · 1 ships

The Cheerios' sharpest tongue, whose insult arias hid a terrified closeted girl in love with her best friend. Santana's coming-out arc and marriage to Brittany remain landmark queer TV, endlessly revisited in fic.

The Vampire Diaries Characters

Klaus Mikaelson

22k works · 1 ships

The Original Hybrid, a thousand-year-old vampire-werewolf who paints, schemes, and dagger-coffins his own siblings, yet promises Caroline Forbes the world. He was popular enough to spin off an entire series.

Damon Salvatore

20k works · 2 ships

The elder Salvatore brother, a vampire who arrived in Mystic Falls as a villain and stayed as a tragic romantic lead. His love for Elena and his rivalry with Stefan drive the show's central triangle.

Caroline Forbes

16k works · 2 ships

Mystic Falls' neurotic overachiever, who becomes a far better vampire than she ever was a human. Her control, optimism, and complicated pull toward Klaus made Klaroline one of the fandom's flagship ships.

NCIS Characters

Tony DiNozzo

28k works · 2 ships

Gibbs's senior field agent, a movie-quoting ex-cop whose class-clown act hides sharp instincts and a bruised heart. Fifteen years of partner banter made him the center of nearly every major NCIS ship.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs

20k works · 1 ships

Former Marine sniper and NCIS team leader who communicates in head-slaps, rules, and silence while building boats in his basement. The murders of his wife and daughter fuel a bottomless well of angst fic.

Ziva David

6k works · 1 ships

A former Mossad officer who traded assassinations for an NCIS badge and a found family she never expected. Ziva's mangled American idioms and decade of will-they-won't-they with Tony DiNozzo define Tiva fic.

Timothy McGee

4k works · 1 ships

NCIS's MIT-trained probie turned senior field agent, a computer expert who writes bestselling thrillers about his own team under a pen name. McGee's long-suffering dynamic with DiNozzo powers both gen banter fic and slash.

Kingdom Hearts Characters

Sora

16k works · 2 ships

Keyblade wielder from Destiny Islands whose superpower is essentially loving his friends hard enough to break the laws of reality. He has died, split, and faded for Riku and Kairi more times than the plot can count.

Riku

13k works · 1 ships

Sora's best friend and rival who opened the door to darkness, then spent the rest of the series atoning by walking the road to dawn. His arc from possessed antagonist to Keyblade Master is the saga's strongest redemption story.

Axel

12k works · 2 ships

Flame-wielding Organization XIII assassin who betrayed everything for Roxas's friendship and burned himself out to prove Nobodies can feel. 'Got it memorized?' remains one of the series' most quoted lines.

Roxas

8k works · 1 ships

Sora's Nobody, who built a real self out of sea-salt ice cream sunsets with Axel and Xion before canon dissolved him back into someone else. Roxas's stolen summer is Kingdom Hearts fandom's defining heartbreak.

Xion

4k works · 0 ships

An imperfect replica of Sora's memories who chose her own end so her friends could live, and was forgotten by everyone she loved. Xion's erasure and eventual return make her the series' purest found-family ache.

Vanitas

4k works · 1 ships

The darkness extracted from Ventus's heart, a masked boy made entirely of negative emotion who insists he feels nothing but spite. Vanitas's tragic origin and Sora-shaped face keep redemption fic flowing.

NCT Characters

Mark Lee

18k works · 1 ships

Canadian rapper who debuted in more NCT units than anyone, perpetually busy and perpetually flustered. His lifelong-trainee bond with Donghyuck makes Markhyuck the fandom's flagship pairing.

Lee Donghyuck

17k works · 1 ships

Full-sun vocalist Haechan, whose honeyed voice comes wrapped in relentless teasing aimed mostly at Mark Lee. The push-pull between his bratty humor and open affection drives years of fic.

Lee Taeyong

9k works · 1 ships

NCT's ethereal leader, a rapper-dancer with doll-like visuals who cries at member birthdays and apologizes for everything. Taeyong's leader burdens and his soft chemistry with Jaehyun anchor Jaeyong fic.

Jung Jaehyun

9k works · 1 ships

NCT 127's deep-voiced visual, an effortlessly composed vocalist nicknamed Valentine Boy. In fic, Jaehyun is the steady gentleman counterpart to Taeyong's fragility or Johnny's chaos.

ATEEZ Characters

Kim Hongjoong

14k works · 1 ships

ATEEZ's captain, producer, and resident workaholic, famed for customizing clothes and steering the group's pirate-themed storytelling. Seongjoong, his pairing with Seonghwa, leads the fandom's fleet.

Park Seonghwa

13k works · 1 ships

Eldest member whose elegant stage presence dissolves into tidy-up duty and gentle mothering at the dorm. Writers cast him as the steady anchor to Hongjoong's restless creativity.

Choi San

12k works · 1 ships

Performance powerhouse whose ferocious stage persona coexists with plushie collections and unabashed clinginess toward Wooyoung. Woosan's offstage inseparability fuels a mountain of best-friends-to-lovers fic.

Jung Wooyoung

11k works · 1 ships

Main dancer with a trademark cackle who cooks for the members and orbits San like a binary star. His loud affection and louder teasing make him fic's favorite instigator.

Torchwood Characters

Jack Harkness

25k works · 1 ships

An immortal ex-Time Agent from the 51st century who leads Torchwood Three in Cardiff, flirting with anything sentient while carrying centuries of loss. He cannot stay dead, which means everyone he loves leaves him first.

Ianto Jones

18k works · 1 ships

Torchwood's impeccably suited administrator who keeps the Hub running on coffee and quiet competence, and keeps Jack Harkness human. His death in Children of Earth spawned over a decade of fix-it fic and a literal shrine in Cardiff.

Gwen Cooper

4k works · 1 ships

The Cardiff police constable whose stubborn compassion got her recruited into Torchwood and kept the team human. Gwen's marriage to Rhys, her gun-blazing competence, and her complicated pull toward Jack all feed her fic.

Toshiko Sato

2k works · 1 ships

Torchwood Three's brilliant, quietly lonely tech genius, who died confessing a love she never let herself act on. Tosh fic is heavy on fix-its that give her the recognition and the romance canon denied her.

Danganronpa Characters

Kokichi Oma

10k works · 2 ships

The self-styled Ultimate Supreme Leader of a 'secret organization' of ten, a compulsive liar who weaponizes the killing game's own theatrics against it. Whether his final gambit was villainy or sacrifice is V3's central riddle, and the fandom's eternal war.

Nagito Komaeda

9k works · 1 ships

The Ultimate Lucky Student of the second game, whose cycling luck destroyed everyone he ever loved and warped him into hope's most unsettling zealot. Self-loathing, brilliant, and theatrical, he engineers his own murder as a final trap — and tops fandom polls anyway.

Shuichi Saihara

9k works · 2 ships

The Ultimate Detective of V3, an anxious boy hiding under his cap until Kaede's death forces him to carry the game's truth-seeking alone. His choice to reject both hope and despair as scripted fictions delivers the franchise's most radical ending.

Hajime Hinata

8k works · 2 ships

A talentless reserve course student who wanted to matter so badly he let Hope's Peak rebuild him into the Ultimate Hope, Izuru Kamukura. Waking on Jabberwock Island with no memory of that bargain, his identity crisis is the second game's true mystery.

Makoto Naegi

6k works · 1 ships

The Ultimate Lucky Student trapped in Monokuma's first killing game, whose stubborn refusal to abandon hope earns him the title Ultimate Hope. Aggressively average among Ultimates, he survives on optimism, luck, and calling out despair by name.

Kyoko Kirigiri

4k works · 1 ships

The Ultimate Detective, who entered the killing game with her own memories missing and her gloved hands hiding old burn scars. Ice-calm in every class trial, she chooses to trust Naegi as deliberately as she deduces everything else.

Formula 1 RPF Characters

Max Verstappen

14k works · 2 ships

Dutch multiple world champion known for uncompromising racecraft, sim-racing obsession, and karting-days history with Charles Leclerc. That childhood rivalry is the foundation of F1 RPF's biggest ship, Lestappen.

Charles Leclerc

13k works · 1 ships

Monégasque Ferrari driver carrying the weight of the Scuderia's hopes and the memory of his late father and godfather Jules Bianchi. The poetic tragedy of his career opposite Verstappen's dominance fuels endless fic.

Lando Norris

10k works · 2 ships

British McLaren driver who came up streaming on Twitch and turned self-deprecating humor into a brand before maturing into a title contender. His teammate dynamic with Oscar Piastri spawned the fast-rising 'Landoscar' tag.

Oscar Piastri

7k works · 1 ships

Unflappable Australian McLaren driver whose dry one-word answers and ice-cold racecraft earned him cult status almost immediately. Fic casts his deadpan calm as the perfect foil to Lando Norris's chaos.

The Legend of Zelda Characters

Link

22k works · 2 ships

Hyrule's eternally reincarnating hero, a silent swordsman bound across eras to the princess and the demon king. Breath of the Wild's amnesiac knight gave fandom its richest version yet to write around.

Zelda

14k works · 1 ships

Princess of Hyrule and vessel of the goddess's sealing power, reborn alongside her knight in every age. Breath of the Wild reframed her as a frustrated scholar who held back Calamity Ganon alone for a hundred years.

Sidon

4k works · 1 ships

The Zora prince whose relentless encouragement — 'I believe in you!' — made him Breath of the Wild's breakout heartthrob. Sidon's sunny chivalry and his grief for his sister Mipha power an ocean of Link/Sidon fic.

Ganondorf

3k works · 0 ships

The Gerudo king of evil, bearer of the Triforce of Power and Hyrule's eternally reincarnating doom. Fic complicates Ganondorf far beyond the games, exploring desert kingship, cursed cycles, and the rare timeline where he chooses differently.

My Chemical Romance Characters

Gerard Way

20k works · 1 ships

My Chemical Romance's theatrical frontman, comic-book writer, and architect of The Black Parade's whole funereal mythology. Bandom fic built an entire ecosystem around his stage personas and his chemistry with Frank Iero.

Frank Iero

17k works · 1 ships

MCR's tattooed rhythm guitarist whose onstage antics with Gerard Way launched a thousand 'Frerard' theses. The smallest member of the band with the most feral stage presence, immortalized in bandom fic.

Mikey Way

6k works · 1 ships

My Chemical Romance's quiet bassist, Gerard's younger brother and the band's deadpan stabilizing presence. Bandom fic writes Mikey across eras, from Paramour Mansion gloom to his storied friendship with Pete Wentz.

Homestuck Characters

Dave Strider

13k works · 1 ships

Knight of Time who hides a deeply abusive Houston childhood behind irony, sick beats, and dead-things-in-jars photography. His meteor-trip romance with Karkat became Homestuck's most enduring ship.

Karkat Vantas

12k works · 1 ships

Perpetually furious troll leader whose mutant candy-red blood made him an outcast and whose all-caps tirades hide a romcom-loving heart. The fandom's favorite shouty disaster and Dave's better half.

John Egbert

10k works · 1 ships

The kid who started it all by installing a game on his thirteenth birthday, an heir of Breath with a love of terrible movies and a hammer. His retcon powers literally rewrote the comic's reality.

Rose Lalonde

8k works · 1 ships

Sardonic Seer of Light who narrated her own grimdark descent in perfect prose and wrote wizard fiction on the side. Her marriage to Kanaya Maryam is one of webcomics' most iconic human-alien romances.

Blue Lock Characters

Yoichi Isagi

11k works · 2 ships

The protagonist of the Blue Lock project, a nobody striker whose weapon is spatial awareness and a steadily monstrous ego. His evolution from team player to apex egoist — devouring the talents of everyone around him — is the series' entire thesis on ambition.

Rin Itoshi

9k works · 1 ships

Blue Lock's top-ranked striker, a glacial perfectionist whose entire game was forged by worshipping — and then being discarded by — his older brother Sae. Under the horror-movie trivia and the scowl is the fandom's favorite abandonment wound in cleats.

Meguru Bachira

8k works · 1 ships

A dribbling prodigy who grew up with a 'monster' in his head as his only teammate, until Isagi became the first person to meet him inside it. Equal parts whimsical and lethal on the ball, he is the emotional heart of Blue Lock's first arc.

Seishiro Nagi

7k works · 1 ships

A lazy genius who found everything a 'hassle' until Reo dragged him into football and Isagi made losing hurt. His impossible first touch and his complicated codependency with Reo carry both the manga's Nagi spinoff and a huge slice of the fandom.

Sae Itoshi

6k works · 1 ships

Rin's older brother, a world-class midfielder who came back from Spain with his dream amputated and told Rin to become Japan's best striker instead. The brothers' shattered bond is Blue Lock's deepest wound, and fic picks at it from every angle.

SEVENTEEN Characters

Yoon Jeonghan

11k works · 1 ships

Vocalist nicknamed 'angel' for his looks and 'devil' for his pranks, who babies the younger members while scheming against all of them. His decade-long partnership-in-mischief with Joshua anchors JiHan fic.

Hong Jisoo

10k works · 1 ships

LA-born vocalist Joshua, the group's gentlemanly English speaker with a guitar habit and a hidden mischievous streak that only Jeonghan reliably activates. Their soulmate-adjacent dynamic is SEVENTEEN fic's bedrock.

Kim Mingyu

10k works · 1 ships

Towering visual who cooks, cleans, and builds furniture for the members, then trips over nothing. Meanie fic thrives on his golden-retriever devotion to the reserved Wonwoo.

Jeon Wonwoo

9k works · 1 ships

Deep-voiced rapper who reads novels, games late into the night, and saves his rare smiles for the members. His quiet gravity opposite Mingyu's exuberance writes itself.

The X-Files Characters

Fox Mulder

18k works · 1 ships

An FBI profiler exiled to the basement for believing in aliens, driven by his sister's abduction and an 'I Want to Believe' poster. His decade of loaded glances at his skeptical partner basically invented the word 'shipper'.

Dana Scully

17k works · 1 ships

A medical doctor and FBI agent assigned to debunk the X-Files, whose rigorous skepticism survives aliens, abductions, and her own cancer. She is the steel and the heart of one of TV's foundational partnerships.

Walter Skinner

3k works · 0 ships

The FBI Assistant Director caught between the Syndicate's threats and his stubborn loyalty to Mulder and Scully. Skinner's gruff protection of his two most insubordinate agents earned him decades of fandom affection.

Alex Krycek

2k works · 1 ships

The double agent who betrayed Mulder, lost an arm to Russian conspirators, and switched sides so often even he lost count. Krycek's treachery-laced chemistry with Mulder made him slash fandom's defining 90s villain love interest.

The Magnus Archives Characters

Jonathan Sims

16k works · 1 ships

The prickly Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, whose compulsive need to record statements slowly transforms him into the Eye's Archive. Every season strips away more of his skepticism, his coworkers, and his humanity.

Martin Blackwood

14k works · 1 ships

The archival assistant who lied about his CV, makes the tea, writes poetry, and turns out to have a spine of steel when the Lonely comes calling. His devotion to Jon carries them both to a safehouse in Scotland, and to the end of the world.

Elias Bouchard

5k works · 1 ships

The Institute's unsettlingly serene director, who sees through every wall and is eventually revealed as Jonah Magnus wearing a stolen body. Two centuries of body-hopping make him the podcast's patient architect of doom.

Tim Stoker

2k works · 0 ships

The Archives' charming researcher whose flirtatious ease curdles into fury as the Institute consumes everyone he loves, including his brother. Tim's rage and sacrifice at the Unknowing remain TMA fandom's open wound.

Gerard Keay

2k works · 0 ships

A goth book-burner raised by the worst mother in occult publishing, who died young and kept helping anyway as a page in a book of the dead. Gerry's tired kindness made him TMA's most adopted minor character.

Top Gun: Maverick Characters

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw

14k works · 1 ships

Son of the late Goose, a naval aviator with his father's mustache, Hawaiian shirts, and piano habit, plus years of resentment toward Maverick for pulling his academy papers. His cockpit standoffs with Hangman launched a thousand fics.

Jake 'Hangman' Seresin

13k works · 1 ships

The cocky Texan aviator whose callsign comes from leaving wingmen out to dry, until he swoops in to save Rooster and Maverick in the film's climax. That smirk did uncountable damage to the fandom.

Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

9k works · 1 ships

The Navy's most insubordinate test pilot, still a captain after thirty years because promotion would mean a desk. He carries Goose's death, Iceman's friendship, and a promise to bring Rooster home.

Bob Floyd

2k works · 0 ships

Phoenix's bespectacled backseater, the only dagger squad aviator without a swaggering callsign story — 'Bob' is just his name. The quiet WSO's gentle competence made him an unexpected fandom darling.

Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace

2k works · 0 ships

The dagger squad's only female aviator, flying with the callsign Phoenix and zero patience for Hangman's ego. Trace's effortless cool and partnership with Bob give the squad fic its steadiest wings.

Dragon Ball Characters

Goku

14k works · 2 ships

A Saiyan raised on Earth as Son Goku, whose bottomless appetite for food and stronger opponents has saved the universe more times than he can count. The genre's founding protagonist — pure-hearted, battle-drunk, and cheerfully terrible at staying dead.

Vegeta

12k works · 2 ships

The Prince of all Saiyans, who arrived to destroy Earth and stayed forty years out of spite, pride, and a family he will deny enjoying. His decades-long climb from genocidal rival to devoted husband and father is shounen's most gradual redemption arc.

Gohan

7k works · 1 ships

Goku's scholarly first son, the boy whose hidden rage annihilated Cell and who would still rather be a researcher than a fighter. The Cell Games made him the franchise's biggest what-if, and fic loves timelines where he stays the strongest.

Bulma

6k works · 1 ships

The genius heiress of Capsule Corp who started the whole saga hunting Dragon Balls with a teenage Goku, and somehow ended up married to the Saiyan prince. She builds time machines, scolds gods, and remains the franchise's irreplaceable brains.

Sonic the Hedgehog Characters

Sonic the Hedgehog

16k works · 1 ships

The fastest thing alive, a freedom-loving blue blur who fights Eggman with a grin and refuses to slow down long enough to talk about feelings. Three decades of games, comics, and films keep his fandom enormous.

Shadow the Hedgehog

14k works · 1 ships

The Ultimate Lifeform, created aboard the Space Colony ARK and shaped by Maria's death into a brooding rival who matches Sonic step for step. His grief-fueled antihero arc has anchored Sonadow fic since 2001.

Miles 'Tails' Prower

5k works · 0 ships

The two-tailed fox genius who builds planes, hacks Eggman tech, and has idolized Sonic since he was a bullied kid. Tails fic leans on the little-brother bond at the heart of the series and his quiet anxieties about measuring up.

Knuckles the Echidna

4k works · 0 ships

The last echidna, sworn guardian of the Master Emerald and the most gullible warrior alive. Knuckles' lonely duty on Angel Island and his punch-first friendship with Sonic make him a staple of team and rivalry fic.

Tokyo Revengers Characters

Manjiro Sano

10k works · 2 ships

Mikey, the invincible founding leader of the Tokyo Manji Gang, a childish sweet tooth on a borrowed bike whose 'dark impulses' consume him in every failed timeline. Saving Mikey is the engine of the plot and of most of the fandom's fix-it output.

Takemichi Hanagaki

9k works · 2 ships

A 26-year-old failure flung twelve years into the past, fighting through delinquent Tokyo again and again to save Hinata and stop Mikey's descent into darkness. He never gets stronger — only braver — and that crybaby heroism is the series' whole thesis.

Ken Ryuguji

7k works · 2 ships

Draken, Toman's towering vice president with a dragon tattoo on his temple, raised in a brothel and functioning as Mikey's brakes and conscience. His near-death on August 3rd is the first history Takemichi rewrites, proof of how much one life can pivot.

Chifuyu Matsuno

6k works · 2 ships

Baji's devoted first division vice captain, who inherits his captain's last wishes and becomes Takemichi's most unconditional partner across timelines. The peyoung yakisoba scene with Baji is sacred text, and his loyalty defines the fandom's idea of ride-or-die.

Keisuke Baji

6k works · 1 ships

Toman's fanged first division captain and one of its founders, who infiltrated Valhalla alone to protect Mikey from Kisaki's scheming. He died grinning on Halloween rather than let Toman break, and the fandom has been writing him back to life ever since.

Detroit: Become Human Characters

Connor

14k works · 2 ships

Cyberlife's prototype android detective sent to hunt deviants, whose coin tricks and dog appreciation slowly crack his machine certainty. Whether he deviates or stays the hunter is the fork the fandom rewrites most.

Hank Anderson

9k works · 1 ships

Burned-out Detroit lieutenant drinking himself toward the grave after his son's death, until an android partner he despises becomes the reason he keeps going. His gruff thaw toward Connor carries the game's best storyline.

Gavin Reed

7k works · 1 ships

Abrasive DPD detective whose open hatred of androids made him a minor antagonist in canon and a fandom phenomenon out of it. Pairing him with the stern RK900 spawned one of AO3's biggest fanon-driven ships.

RK900

5k works · 1 ships

Connor's colder, stronger successor model, glimpsed for seconds in one ending and adopted wholesale by fandom. Paired with the abrasive detective Gavin Reed, RK900 stars in one of gaming's biggest ships built almost entirely from fanon.

Markus

3k works · 1 ships

The caretaker android who becomes Jericho's revolutionary leader, choosing between pacifist marches and open war for android freedom. Markus's painter's soul and burden of leadership ground the game's political fic.

Chainsaw Man Characters

Denji

11k works · 2 ships

A debt-slave orphan who merged with his chainsaw devil-dog Pochita and became Chainsaw Man, dreaming of nothing grander than bread with jam and someone to hold. Every authority figure exploits his hunger for affection, which is exactly what fic interrogates.

Aki Hayakawa

9k works · 2 ships

A Public Safety devil hunter who sold years of his life to the Future Devil for revenge on the Gun Devil, then accidentally became the den mother of two feral teenagers. His topknot, his cigarettes, and his ending broke the fandom in equal measure.

Power

7k works · 1 ships

The Blood Fiend, a horned gremlin of lies, filth, and self-aggrandizement who loves exactly one cat and, eventually, one boy — platonically, ferociously. Her contract with Denji to come find her after rebirth is the manga's most devastating promise.

Makima

6k works · 1 ships

The Control Devil wearing the face of a kind Public Safety boss, who curated Denji's entire life like a farmer raising livestock. Anime's defining manipulator of the decade — fic writes her straight as horror, or rewinds her into something almost capable of love.

Reze

4k works · 1 ships

Ash Ketchum

16k works · 2 ships

Eternally ten-year-old trainer from Pallet Town who finally became World Champion after twenty-five years of journeys with Pikachu. Decades of traveling companions give fic writers an endless supply of dynamics to explore.

Leon

5k works · 1 ships

Galar's undefeated Champion with a hero's cape, a champion-sized ego about his win streak, and absolutely no sense of direction. His decade-long rivalry-friendship with Raihan is one of the games' biggest ships.

Raihan

The loud-voiced defense attorney with a perceive-the-truth bracelet and the worst luck with mentors in legal history. Apollo's 'I'm fine!' chords and tangled family backstory star opposite prosecutor Klavier Gavin in fic.

Klavier Gavin

2k works · 1 ships

Rock-star prosecutor and frontman of the Gavinners, whose courtroom air-guitar hides the wreckage his brother left behind. Klavier's flirtatious German interjections at Apollo made Klapollo an Ace Attorney staple.

Tokyo Ghoul Characters

Ken Kaneki

16k works · 2 ships

A bookish college student turned half-ghoul by a transplant he never consented to, who broke under torture and kept rebuilding himself under new names — Haise Sasaki among them. His white-haired transformation remains one of anime's most iconic breaking points.

Touka Kirishima

8k works · 1 ships

The rabbit-masked waitress of Anteiku, a ghoul who wants nothing more than a normal human life and resents how easily Kaneki throws his away. Her hard fists and harder loyalty carry the series from coffee shop to war, and eventually into marriage and motherhood.

Hideyoshi Nagachika

7k works · 1 ships

Kaneki's sunshine best friend, who figured out the ghoul secret early and simply kept showing up anyway, no questions asked. His sacrifice in the sewers — and the scarred return as 'Scarecrow' — make him the fandom's gold standard of unconditional friendship.

Juuzou Suzuya

5k works · 0 ships

A stitch-decorated CCG investigator raised as a ghoul's broken pet, who relearned pain, grief, and care through his mentor Shinohara. He rises to Special Class on knives and chaos, and fandom adores both his unhinged grin and his slow rediscovery of humanity.

Merlin (TV) Characters

Morgana

25k works · 2 ships

Uther's ward and secret daughter, a seer whose terror of her own magic curdles into vengeance against Camelot. Fandom is forever rewriting the moment Merlin chose not to tell her she wasn't alone.

Gwen

6k works · 1 ships

A blacksmith's daughter and lady's maid who rises, with no magic and no birthright, to become Camelot's queen. Gwen's steady moral compass and her romance with Arthur give the show its grounded heart.

Gwaine

5k works · 1 ships

The roguish knight who joined Camelot's round table for Merlin rather than for Arthur, all tavern brawls and hidden nobility. Gwaine's flirtatious loyalty makes him the fandom's favorite alternative love interest for Merlin.

Death Note Characters

Light Yagami

13k works · 1 ships

A bored honor student who found a notebook that kills and appointed himself god of a new world as Kira. His cat-and-mouse war with L — equal parts chess match and mutual fixation — built the template for every genius-versus-genius anime since.

L

12k works · 1 ships

The world's greatest detective, a barefoot, sugar-fueled insomniac who crouches on chairs and solves impossible cases under a single letter. He handcuffs himself to his prime suspect, calls him his first friend, and means at least half of it.

Mello

6k works · 2 ships

L's volatile second-ranked successor, a chocolate-snapping Wammy's House orphan who joined the mafia rather than work beneath Near. His scar, his rosary, and his partnership with Matt fuel a fanon presence far larger than his page count.

Near

4k works · 1 ships

L's first-ranked successor, a white-haired child who solves the Kira case with toy robots, finger puppets, and zero sentimentality. He inherits the title but admits neither he nor Mello could surpass L alone — a thesis fic has been arguing about ever since.

Fairy Tail Characters

Natsu Dragneel

11k works · 2 ships

Fairy Tail's fire Dragon Slayer, raised by the dragon Igneel and constitutionally incapable of abandoning a guildmate. Motion-sick on every vehicle and unstoppable in every brawl, he burns through enemies on the fuel of pure friendship — literally, sometimes.

Lucy Heartfilia

10k works · 1 ships

A runaway heiress and Celestial Spirit mage who joined Fairy Tail for adventure and got a family that routinely destroys towns. Her contracts with her spirits are friendships, not tools, and her unwritten novel quietly narrates the whole guild's story.

Gray Fullbuster

7k works · 2 ships

An ice-make mage with a compulsive stripping habit and a childhood buried under Deliora's rampage and his master Ur's sacrifice. His demon-slayer inheritance and his decade of not-noticing Juvia give writers angst and comedy in equal measure.

Erza Scarlet

7k works · 1 ships

Titania, queen of the fairies, a requip mage with a warehouse of armor and a slave-tower childhood she survived alongside Jellal. She disciplines the guild with terror, eats strawberry cake with reverence, and headlines the series' most star-crossed romance.

Steven Universe Characters

Steven Universe

12k works · 1 ships

Half-Gem boy who inherited his mother Rose Quartz's gem and her every unresolved problem, ending an intergalactic war with empathy. Steven Universe Future's portrait of his cracking under it all transformed the fandom's fic.

Pearl

9k works · 2 ships

Devoted Crystal Gem who rebelled against Homeworld for love of Rose Quartz and spent millennia defined by that grief. Her arc from possessive mourning to self-possession is one of animation's great queer stories.

Peridot

7k works · 1 ships

Homeworld technician who arrived to check on a doomsday geo-weapon and defected after calling Yellow Diamond a clod to her face. Her barn-era partnership with Lapis made Lapidot a fandom institution.

Lapis Lazuli

7k works · 1 ships

Ocean-controlling Gem who spent millennia trapped in a mirror, then fused with Jasper into the mutually destructive Malachite. Her slow recovery at the barn gave the show its most direct portrait of an abusive relationship's aftermath.

RWBY Characters

Ruby Rose

9k works · 1 ships

Scythe-wielding prodigy with silver eyes who skipped two years into Beacon and inherited her dead mother's war. Team RWBY's idealistic leader, whose breakdown in Volume 9 finally let the fandom write her grief.

Blake Belladonna

9k works · 1 ships

Faunus ex-terrorist who left the White Fang and her radicalized partner Adam to fight for equality her own way. Her canonized romance with Yang made Bumbleby the franchise's flagship ship.

Yang Xiao Long

9k works · 1 ships

Sunny brawler of Team RWBY who lost an arm protecting Blake and rebuilt herself around the trauma without losing the puns. Her patience through Blake's return defined the slow burn half the fandom signed up for.

Weiss Schnee

8k works · 1 ships

Heiress of the Schnee Dust Company who fled her abusive father to become a Huntress on her own merit. Her thaw from ice queen to fiercely loyal teammate spans the series' best character work.

Leverage Characters

Eliot Spencer

12k works · 2 ships

The Leverage crew's hitter, a retrieval specialist with a dark mercenary past, encyclopedic combat knowledge, and surprising skill in the kitchen. 'It's a very distinctive...' anything is his catchphrase and the fandom's favorite joke.

Parker

10k works · 2 ships

The world's greatest thief, who jumps off buildings for fun and understands money better than people. Her slow journey toward trusting her crew, and loving Hardison, anchors the show's found-family heart.

Alec Hardison

10k works · 2 ships

Hacker extraordinaire, orange-soda enthusiast, and the warm center of the Leverage crew, equally fluent in Star Trek references and international bank security. The age of the geek, baby.

Sophie Devereaux

2k works · 1 ships

The world's greatest grifter, an actress brilliant in every role except onstage, with a vault of real names she never opens. Sophie's long courtship of Nate and mentorship of Parker make her the crew's elegant center.

Mob Psycho 100 Characters

Arataka Reigen

14k works · 1 ships

The self-proclaimed Greatest Psychic of the 21st Century, a powerless con man whose massage-and-salt routine hides the best mentorship in anime. He lies about everything except the things that matter, and the fandom made him its most-beloved fraudulent dad.

Shigeo Kageyama

12k works · 1 ships

Mob, a painfully average middle schooler housing apocalyptic psychic power, who caps his emotions at 99% and wants to win people over without ever using his gift. His refusal to treat power as worth is the gentlest thesis in shounen, and fic protects it fiercely.

Teruki Hanazawa

7k works · 1 ships

A psychic delinquent who ruled Black Vinegar Middle School as its shadow leader until Mob defeated him without throwing a punch. Losing his hair and his worldview in one fight, he rebuilt himself into Mob's loyal friend — wig first, ego later.

South Park Characters

Stan Marsh

9k works · 1 ships

South Park's weary everyman, a fourth grader prone to existential crises, vomiting near crushes, and being the town's last sane voice. Style, his bond with Kyle, has topped the fandom's charts for two decades.

Kyle Broflovski

9k works · 1 ships

The moral spine of the fourth grade, quick-tempered, principled, and locked in eternal war with Cartman. Fandom ages him up into law school more reliably than canon ages him at all.

Craig Tucker

8k works · 1 ships

Deadpan kid with a guinea pig named Stripe and a middle finger for every occasion, who became half of the show's canon couple. 'Tweek x Craig' turned a fan-pandering episode into the fandom's most stable ship.

Tweek Tweak

8k works · 1 ships

Perpetually twitching coffee-shop kid convinced gnomes steal his underpants, who finds his anchor in the unflappable Craig. Their faked-then-real relationship is South Park's strangest sincere love story.

Red Dead Redemption Characters

Arthur Morgan

14k works · 2 ships

Van der Linde gang enforcer whose tuberculosis diagnosis forces him to reckon with the man he has been and the man he could still be. His journal-keeping, doomed decency made him one of gaming's most mourned protagonists.

John Marston

The inspector born in a jail who built his soul out of the law, pursuing Valjean across decades until a single act of mercy breaks his worldview in half. The Seine fic, fix-it and otherwise, is its own subgenre.

Yuri!!! on Ice Characters

Yuri Plisetsky

16k works · 1 ships

Russia's fifteen-year-old 'Ice Tiger,' a feral kitten of a skater who broke Viktor's world record in his senior debut while screaming at everyone he loves. His grudging soft spots — for his grandpa, for katsudon, for Otabek — are the fandom's favorite contradiction.

Otabek Altin

10k works · 1 ships

Kazakhstan's stoic bronze-medal hero, who rescued Yuri from fangirls on a motorcycle and offered friendship to the boy with 'the eyes of a soldier.' Canon gives him a handful of scenes; fandom built an entire DJ-biker-soft-spoken mythology on top of them.

Phichit Chulanont

6k works · 1 ships

Thailand's first Grand Prix finalist and Yuuri's former Detroit rink-mate, a social media gremlin with hamsters and zero secrets he is willing to keep. Fandom's designated best friend, wingman, and chronicler of Viktor and Yuuri's entire romance.

Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas Characters

Aelin Galathynius

14k works · 1 ships

The lost heir of Terrasen who survived as Celaena Sardothien, Adarlan's most feared assassin, before reclaiming her name and her fire magic. Sharp-tongued, vain about her books and her knives, and willing to burn for her kingdom.

Rowan Whitethorn

10k works · 1 ships

A three-century-old Fae warrior bound by blood oath to Queen Maeve until Aelin scorches her way into his life. He trains her, hates her, and finally claims her as his mate and king-consort.

Manon Blackbeak

8k works · 1 ships

An Ironteeth witch heir with a wyvern named Abraxos and a hundred years of killing behind her, who slowly discovers she has a heart. Her iron teeth and golden eyes hide the lost Crochan queen.

Gravity Falls Characters

Dipper Pines

10k works · 1 ships

Twelve-year-old mystery hunter who spent one summer decoding the journals of Gravity Falls and outwitting a dream demon. His anxious overthinking opposite Mabel's chaos defines the show's sibling heart.

Bill Cipher

9k works · 1 ships

Triangular dream demon from a flattened dimension who speaks in riddles, deals in possession, and nearly ended reality during Weirdmageddon. The Book of Bill reignited his enormous, chaotic corner of the fandom.

Mabel Pines

7k works · 1 ships

Glitter-cannon optimist of the Pines twins, armed with a grappling hook, a pig named Waddles, and an endless supply of sweaters. Fic explores the insecurity about growing up that Weirdmageddon exposed.

Ford Pines

6k works · 0 ships

Six-fingered author of the journals who spent thirty years lost beyond the portal after trusting Bill Cipher with the fate of the world. His fractured bond with twin brother Stan powers the fandom's heaviest fic.

Critical Role Characters

Caleb Widogast

10k works · 1 ships

A haunted Zemnian wizard whose genius was twisted by an abusive academy into burning his own parents alive. Caleb's long crawl toward self-forgiveness alongside the Mighty Nein is the emotional spine of Campaign Two fic.

Essek Thelyss

8k works · 1 ships

The Kryn Dynasty's gravity-bending Shadowhand, a war criminal who finds his first real friends in the people he betrayed. Essek's quiet treason and quieter redemption made Shadowgast one of the archive's biggest actual-play ships.

Jester Lavorre

5k works · 1 ships

A blue tiefling cleric of an honest-to-gods trickster deity, raised in a brothel and armed with pastries, pranks, and devastating emotional insight. Jester fic balances her sugar-rush exterior with the loneliness underneath.

Beauregard Lionett

5k works · 1 ships

An abrasive Cobalt Soul monk shipped off by her father and determined to punch the truth out of the world. Beau's prickly loyalty and her romance with the barbarian Yasha turned Beauyasha into a beloved slow burn.

Fjord

4k works · 1 ships

A half-orc sailor who faked his accent, swallowed a cursed sword, and slowly traded a hungry sea god for a faith of his own choosing. Fjord's identity arc and his courtship of Jester give fic both depth and sweetness.

The Raven Cycle Characters

Adam Parrish

10k works · 1 ships

A scholarship kid from a Henrietta trailer park juggling three jobs, an abusive father, and a bargain with a sentient forest. He sacrifices his hands and eyes to Cabeswater and still makes it to the Ivy League.

Ronan Lynch

10k works · 1 ships

A shaved-headed, tattooed dreamer who can pull objects out of his sleep, including a raven named Chainsaw and, eventually, hope. He is grief and Catholic guilt wrapped around an unexpectedly soft center that loves Adam Parrish.

Richard Gansey III

6k works · 1 ships

Old-money golden boy obsessed with finding the sleeping Welsh king Glendower, who died once from wasp stings and lives on borrowed time. He holds the Raven Boys together with mint leaves, journals, and relentless care.

Blue Sargent

6k works · 1 ships

The only non-psychic in a household of clairvoyant women, cursed to kill her true love with a kiss. She amplifies everyone else's magic while carving out her own strange, sensible power among the Raven Boys.

Hamilton Characters

Alexander Hamilton

14k works · 2 ships

The bastard orphan immigrant who writes his way from the Caribbean to Washington's right hand and the Treasury, then writes his way into scandal too. Non-stop, brilliant, and constitutionally unable to throw away his shot or his pen.

John Laurens

9k works · 1 ships

A South Carolina abolitionist and revolutionary soldier who dreams of leading the first Black battalion, and Hamilton's dearest friend, with letters historians still raise eyebrows at. He dies in a war already won.

Aaron Burr

8k works · 1 ships

The man in the room where it happened only after waiting for it, Hamilton's lifelong mirror, rival, and eventual killer. He narrates the whole musical as one long apology he can't quite say.

Wednesday Characters

Wednesday Addams

14k works · 1 ships

The deadpan Addams daughter, shipped off to Nevermore Academy where she solves murders, plays cello at midnight, and refuses to blink. Her allergy to affection makes every crack in the armor an event.

Enid Sinclair

12k works · 1 ships

Wednesday's rainbow-colored werewolf roommate, all pastel claws and relentless optimism, who finally wolfs out to save her friend. Wenclair shippers consider the season-one hug their founding document.

Tyler Galpin

3k works · 1 ships

Jericho's friendly barista with a sheriff father and a monstrous secret — he is the Hyde stalking Nevermore's woods. Tyler's betrayal twist split the fandom into redemption arcs and dark Wyler romances overnight.

Xavier Thorpe

2k works · 1 ships

Nevermore's brooding psychic artist, whose paintings come to life and whose crush on Wednesday Addams gets him framed for murder. Xavier's tortured-artist sincerity makes him the love triangle's softer corner.

Ted Lasso Characters

Roy Kent

9k works · 2 ships

Richmond's growling captain turned coach, a retired legend who communicates in expletives and grudging grunts but reads romance novels and adores his niece. He's here, he's there, he's every-f***ing-where.

Jamie Tartt

The boy with the tape recorder grown into a caustic, Parkinson's-stricken journalist taking Louis's interview for the second time. Daniel's decades-spanning entanglement with Armand makes Devil's Minion the AMC fandom's obsession.

Claudia

2k works · 0 ships

The girl turned vampire too young, trapped for eternity between a child's body and a woman's rage. Claudia's diaries, her doomed bid for freedom, and her verdict on her makers give the story its sharpest grief.

House MD Characters

Gregory House

14k works · 1 ships

A misanthropic diagnostic genius with a cane, a Vicodin addiction, and a conviction that everybody lies. The only relationship he never fully sabotages is the one with his oncologist best friend, Wilson.

James Wilson

10k works · 1 ships

Princeton-Plainsboro's head of oncology, a serial nice guy with three ex-wives whose real marriage has always been to Gregory House. The finale literally ends with the two of them riding off together.

Lisa Cuddy

3k works · 1 ships

Princeton-Plainsboro's Dean of Medicine, the only administrator alive who can leash Gregory House and the woman he loves anyway. Huddy fic thrives on their decades of barbed flirtation and the heartbreak of season seven.

Robert Chase

2k works · 1 ships

The Australian intensivist who lasted longer under House than anyone, absorbing his mentor's methods along with his damage. Chase's seminary past, daddy issues, and the Dibala fallout give fic writers rich material.

Free! Characters

Haruka Nanase

9k works · 2 ships

A taciturn prodigy who only swims free, feels the water as a living thing, and strips at the sight of any pool. His rivalry-friendship with Rin and his future-panic in Eternal Summer gave the swimming anime its surprisingly heavy emotional depths.

Rin Matsuoka

8k works · 2 ships

Samezuka's shark-toothed captain, who left for Australia chasing his late father's Olympic dream and came back with his love of swimming broken. The relay that heals him is the first season's whole heart, and his rivalry with Haru never stops being a love language.

Makoto Tachibana

7k works · 2 ships

Iwatobi's gentle giant captain, a backstroker afraid of the ocean since a childhood storm, who reads Haru's silences like a native language. The fandom's archetypal mom friend, his quiet decision to become a coach gives him one of the series' best arcs.

Sousuke Yamazaki

5k works · 2 ships

Rin's childhood best friend and Samezuka's butterfly powerhouse, hiding a career-ending shoulder injury behind a stoic glare. He swims his last relay knowing it will hurt forever — the show's bluntest meditation on dreams with expiration dates.

Spy x Family Characters

Loid Forger

9k works · 1 ships

Westalis's master spy Twilight, who assembled a fake family for Operation Strix and keeps failing to notice it became real. A war orphan who became a hundred men to prevent the next war, he is at his funniest and saddest when ordinary fatherhood defeats him.

Anya Forger

8k works · 0 ships

A telepathic test-subject orphan who read two strangers' minds, realized a spy and an assassin were exactly the parents she wanted, and engineered her own adoption. Her peanut obsession and 'waku waku' chaos hold Operation Strix — and the family — together.

Yor Forger

7k works · 1 ships

The Thorn Princess, an elite assassin who married a spy for cover without either of them knowing the other's secret. Lethal with stilettos and hopeless in the kitchen, her sincere wish to be a good wife and mother makes the fake family achingly real.

Damian Desmond

4k works · 1 ships

The second son of Operation Strix's actual target, an Eden Academy first-year starving for his distant father's attention and blindsided by his crush on Anya after one punch. The 'tsundere heir' of the series and half of its most popular kid dynamic.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Characters

Twilight Sparkle

9k works · 0 ships

Celestia's bookish protégée who learned that friendship is a field of study you live, not just read about, eventually ascending to alicorn princess of Equestria. Twilight's anxious perfectionism makes her endlessly relatable to fic writers.

Rainbow Dash

8k works · 1 ships

The fastest pegasus in Equestria, a brash Wonderbolts hopeful whose loyalty is as legendary as her ego. AppleDash — her bickering romance with Applejack — was eventually canonized in the series finale, vindicating a decade of fic.

Fluttershy

6k works · 1 ships

The painfully shy pegasus who can stare down a dragon when an animal needs protecting. Fluttershy's gentle steel and her reforming influence on the chaos god Discord power much of her fic.

Rarity

6k works · 1 ships

Ponyville's dramatic fashionista, a unicorn whose generosity is as extravagant as her fainting couches. Rarity fic relishes her theatrical flair, her business empire, and her dynamic with the rough-edged Applejack.

The Sandman Characters

Dream of the Endless

14k works · 1 ships

The anthropomorphic personification of dreams, freed after a century of imprisonment to rebuild his realm and reckon with his own rigidity. He once met a mortal in a tavern and decided, very slowly, that they were friends.

Hob Gadling

10k works · 1 ships

A fourteenth-century soldier who declared death was a mug's game and simply never died, meeting his mysterious stranger every hundred years at the same inn. Six centuries on, he's still choosing life, and still waiting for Dream.

Death of the Endless

2k works · 0 ships

The second-eldest of the Endless, a warm, sensible goth girl who meets every soul at the end with kindness. Death's gentle pragmatism opposite her brooding brother Dream makes her everyone's favorite anthropomorphic personification.

The Corinthian

2k works · 0 ships

A nightmare with mouths for eyes, created by Dream to be humanity's dark mirror and escaped to become a serial killer's muse. The Corinthian's sunglasses-and-charm menace made him the TV adaptation's breakout villain.

Lucifer Characters

Lucifer Morningstar

14k works · 1 ships

The actual Devil, retired from Hell to run an LA nightclub and consult for the LAPD, trading favors and innuendo while dodging his daddy issues with God. Detective Chloe Decker is the one mortal his charm doesn't work on.

Chloe Decker

10k works · 1 ships

An LAPD homicide detective and single mom who partners with a consultant claiming to be the Devil, and turns out to be a literal miracle placed in his path. Her groundedness is the show's emotional anchor.

Mazikeen

2k works · 1 ships

A demon forged in Hell who followed Lucifer to Los Angeles, tended bar at Lux, and slowly discovered she wanted a soul of her own. Maze's knife-first exterior and aching search for belonging give her fic real teeth.

Amenadiel

2k works · 1 ships

God's firstborn angel, sent to drag Lucifer back to Hell and instead falling for humanity one mistake at a time. Amenadiel's crises of faith, fatherhood, and brotherhood make him the show's moral counterweight.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters

Seto Kaiba

10k works · 2 ships

The teenage CEO of KaibaCorp, devoted brother to Mokuba, and owner of three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, whose refusal to believe in magic survives every magical thing that happens to him. He built a space elevator to duel a dead pharaoh; that is the whole character.

Yugi Mutou

9k works · 1 ships

A gentle, game-loving teen who solved the Millennium Puzzle and woke a nameless Pharaoh inside his own soul. The King of Games' other half, he spends the series growing strong enough to stand alone — and then has to prove it by dueling his best friend's spirit goodbye.

Atem

8k works · 2 ships

The 3,000-year-old Pharaoh sealed in the Millennium Puzzle, who shared Yugi's body as the imperious 'other Yugi' while hunting his lost name and memories. His farewell duel and walk into the afterlife remain the fandom's eternal open wound.

The Umbrella Academy Characters

Klaus Hargreeves

11k works · 1 ships

The Séance, a flamboyant addict who numbs his power to see the dead until Vietnam hands him a war, a ghost brother, and Dave, the love he couldn't keep. Comedy and tragedy in eyeliner.

Five Hargreeves

9k works · 1 ships

A 58-year-old assassin trapped in his thirteen-year-old body after decades alone in the apocalypse, fueled by coffee and contempt. He keeps jumping through time to save a family that cannot stop causing the end of the world.

Ben Hargreeves

3k works · 0 ships

Number Six, the gentle brother with an eldritch horror in his chest, dead since adolescence and tethered to Klaus as a sardonic ghost. Ben's posthumous heroism and his colder Sparrow counterpart both fascinate fic writers.

Diego Hargreeves

3k works · 1 ships

Number Two, the knife-throwing vigilante with a stutter he conquered and a lifelong grudge against being second. Diego's leather-clad bravado hides the family's most wounded heart, a gift to angst writers.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Characters

Shinji Ikari

9k works · 2 ships

A fourteen-year-old summoned by his estranged father to pilot a bio-mecha against the Angels, whose 'I mustn't run away' became shorthand for an entire genre's deconstruction. His depression, his cello, and his need to be wanted are the series itself.

Asuka Langley Soryu

6k works · 1 ships

The fiery Second Child, a college-graduate prodigy whose bravado armors a childhood destroyed by her mother's madness and death. Her unraveling against Arael and her beach scene with Shinji bookend anime's most famous study of pride as a survival mechanism.

Kaworu Nagisa

6k works · 1 ships

The Fifth Child and final Angel, who appeared for a single episode, told Shinji he was worthy of love, and asked to die by his hand. Decades of fic, every Rebuild film, and the phrase 'I was born to meet you' all orbit that one impossible kindness.

Rei Ayanami

5k works · 1 ships

The enigmatic First Child, a clone bound to Lilith and raised as Gendo's instrument, who learns across three iterations what it means to want anything at all. The original 'mysterious quiet girl' archetype — and its most deliberate critique.

Grishaverse / Shadow and Bone Characters

Alina Starkov

9k works · 2 ships

An orphan mapmaker who turns out to be the Sun Summoner, the one Grisha who can tear down the Shadow Fold. Sainthood, power, and the Darkling's attention all try to swallow her whole.

The Darkling

9k works · 1 ships

The centuries-old Shadow Summoner who created the Fold and leads the Second Army under a borrowed name. He offers Alina eternity with one hand and a collar with the other, and fandom has argued about him ever since.

Nikolai Lantsov

5k works · 2 ships

Ravka's too-clever prince, who moonlights as the privateer Sturmhond with a flying ship and a quip for every crisis. Beneath the charm: a bastard's insecurity and, later, a literal demon under his skin.

Zoya Nazyalensky

2k works · 1 ships

The Squaller general with a storm in her veins and a dragon in her bloodline, who armored her grief in beauty and spite. Zoya's slow thaw opposite King Nikolai in the duology made Zoyalai the Grishaverse's adult ship of choice.

Genya Safin

2k works · 1 ships

The Tailor, a Grisha forced to serve a predatory king and scarred by the Darkling for her defiance. Genya's 'I am not ruined, I am ruination' and her gentle romance with David make her the fandom's resilience icon.

Transformers Characters

Optimus Prime

8k works · 1 ships

Last of the Primes, a former archivist named Orion Pax who rose to lead the Autobots through four million years of civil war. His ancient, ruined friendship with Megatron underpins the fandom's defining ship.

Megatron

8k works · 1 ships

Gladiator-poet of Kaon whose revolution against Cybertron's caste system curdled into tyranny, opposite the friend who became a Prime. The IDW comics' redemption arc made him one of fandom's great fallen idealists.

Starscream

6k works · 1 ships

The Decepticons' treacherous second-in-command, a seeker jet who has schemed to overthrow Megatron in every continuity since 1984. Starscream's ambition, cowardice, and weirdly sympathetic streak make him fanfic's favorite Decepticon.

Bumblebee

4k works · 0 ships

The Autobots' brave yellow scout, voiceless in many continuities and beloved in all of them. Bumblebee's bond with human companions and his underdog courage have carried him from G1 to his own film.

White Collar Characters

Neal Caffrey

12k works · 2 ships

A charming art forger and con man working off his sentence as an FBI consultant under Peter Burke's supervision, complete with a tracking anklet and a fedora. He cons everyone except the people who become his family.

Peter Burke

8k works · 1 ships

The FBI agent who caught Neal Caffrey twice and then staked his career on the con man's redemption. His steady marriage to Elizabeth and his exasperated fondness for Neal define the show's central triangle of trust.

Mozzie

3k works · 1 ships

Neal Caffrey's paranoid genius confidant, a conspiracy-theorist con man who quotes philosophy and trusts no government. Mozzie steals every scene he's in, and fic loves the unbreakable loyalty under all his aliases.

Elizabeth Burke

2k works · 2 ships

Peter Burke's warm, unflappable event-planner wife, who welcomes her husband's pet criminal to the dinner table without blinking. Elizabeth's easy acceptance makes her the linchpin of the fandom's beloved OT3.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Characters

Leonardo

9k works · 0 ships

Blue-masked leader of the turtle brothers, the disciplined swordsman who carries every failure as his own across each incarnation. Rise's sardonic version and 2012's burdened captain both dominate AO3's turtle fic.

Raphael

7k works · 0 ships

Hot-headed muscle of the brothers whose temper covers the deepest protective streak in the sewer. Whether wielding sais or leading the Rise team, his clashes with Leo are the franchise's oldest sibling drama.

Donatello

4k works · 0 ships

The purple-masked turtle genius who builds everything from shell-tech to portals, in every incarnation the family's overworked problem solver. Rise-era Donnie's 'softshell with armor' swagger supercharged his fic presence.

Michelangelo

4k works · 0 ships

The youngest turtle, an orange-masked sunshine gremlin whose party-dude exterior hides the family's emotional intelligence. Mikey fic loves the angst potential of the brother who keeps everyone else laughing.

Final Fantasy XIV Characters

G'raha Tia

10k works · 1 ships

Miqo'te scholar who slept a century in the Crystal Tower and crossed worlds as the Crystal Exarch to save the Warrior of Light's life. A hundred years of devoted pining made him the game's runaway romance favorite.

Emet-Selch

9k works · 1 ships

Ascian architect of empires who has spent twelve thousand years grieving a sundered world, and Shadowbringers' tragic antagonist. His plea to 'remember that we once lived' turned a villain into the fandom's favorite heartbreak.

Aymeric de Borel

3k works · 1 ships

Ishgard's silver-tongued Lord Commander, who ended a thousand-year holy war by putting his own father on trial. Aymeric's diplomatic grace and devotion to Estinien and the Warrior of Light make him FFXIV's resident romantic lead.

Estinien

2k works · 1 ships

The brooding Azure Dragoon, consumed by revenge against Nidhogg until the wyrm's eyes consumed him right back. Estinien's prickly loner act and soft spot for Aymeric and the Warrior of Light melt reliably in fic.

Pirates of the Caribbean Characters

Jack Sparrow

10k works · 2 ships

Captain of the Black Pearl, a swaggering trickster pirate whose every drunken stumble hides a plan within a plan. He wants his ship, his rum, and his freedom, roughly in that order.

Will Turner

7k works · 1 ships

A blacksmith's apprentice with pirate blood who trades a quiet life for cursed gold, sea battles, and Elizabeth Swann. He ends the trilogy as captain of the Flying Dutchman, allowed ashore one day in ten years.

Elizabeth Swann

7k works · 2 ships

A governor's daughter who chafed in corsets, burned the rum, chained Jack Sparrow to a mast, and was elected Pirate King of the Brethren Court. The trilogy is secretly her coming-of-age story.

Black Butler Characters

Sebastian Michaelis

10k works · 1 ships

A demon bound by Faustian contract to serve Ciel Phantomhive flawlessly until the day he may devour his soul. One hell of a butler — equal parts valet, assassin, and cat enthusiast — whose true feelings about his young master remain fandom's favorite ambiguity.

Ciel Phantomhive

9k works · 2 ships

The thirteen-year-old Earl Phantomhive and Queen's Watchdog, who traded his soul for revenge after a month of cult captivity destroyed his family and his twin. He runs a candy empire by day and London's underworld by night, dignity sharpened into a weapon.

Grell Sutcliff

4k works · 1 ships

A flamboyant Grim Reaper with a chainsaw death scythe, crimson everything, and an undying theatrical passion for Sebastian. Introduced as Jack the Ripper's accomplice, Grell became one of anime's most iconic and most-debated trans-coded characters.

Hetalia: Axis Powers Characters

America

9k works · 1 ships

The personification of the United States, a burger-wielding self-appointed hero with a 100-megawatt grin and a complicated colonial history with England. His loud optimism and the Revolutionary War rain scene power two decades of USUK fanworks.

England

8k works · 2 ships

The personification of England, a tsundere ex-pirate and ex-empire with magnificent eyebrows, imaginary magical friends, and legendarily cursed cooking. He raised America, lost him in the Revolution, and has been pretending not to care ever since.

Germany

6k works · 1 ships

The personification of Germany, a rule-bound, dog-loving disciplinarian perpetually undone by Italy's pasta-fueled chaos. The Axis trio's straight man, whose buried-memory connection to the Holy Roman Empire is the fandom's favorite tragic theory made text.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Characters

Leo Valdez

12k works · 2 ships

Son of Hephaestus, fire-wielding mechanic of the Argo II, and the seventh wheel who jokes hardest when he hurts most. He builds a dragon, dies saving the world, and comes back anyway.

Jason Grace

11k works · 2 ships

Son of Jupiter, former praetor of Camp Jupiter, and the golden boy who quietly wondered who he was outside other people's expectations. His abrupt death in Trials of Apollo keeps the fix-it tag busy.

SK8 the Infinity Characters

Reki Kyan

7k works · 1 ships

A skateboard-obsessed Okinawan teen who builds boards by hand and dragged transfer student Langa into the underground races at 'S'. His spiral of jealousy watching Langa's natural genius — and the bridge reconciliation — gave the show its emotional spine.

Langa Hasegawa

6k works · 1 ships

A half-Canadian ex-snowboarder who moved to Okinawa after his father's death and discovered skating felt like flying again — but only with Reki beside him. Quietly oblivious to everything except boards and one redhead, he is the show's serene chaos.

Kaoru Sakurayashiki

5k works · 1 ships

Cherry Blossom, an elegant calligrapher who skates with an AI-assisted board named Carla and a grudge against everything inelegant — primarily Joe. He and the gorilla chef have been orbiting each other since high school, and the fandom calls it what it is.

Kojiro Nanjo

5k works · 1 ships

Joe, a flirtatious Italian-restaurant chef whose power skating style is all muscle and showmanship. He cooks for the kids, needles Cherry into apoplexy, and carries decades of history with both Cherry and the vanished skater Adam under the easy grin.

Devil May Cry Characters

Dante

9k works · 2 ships

Half-demon devil hunter who hides the grief of losing his entire family behind pizza, debt, and showboating swordplay. Sparda's wisecracking son has been the series' heart since 2001.

Vergil

8k works · 1 ships

Dante's elder twin who chased power to never again be the helpless boy who watched his mother die, splitting himself into V and Urizen along the way. 'I need more power' became a meme; the trauma underneath became the fic.

Nero

3k works · 1 ships

The hot-headed devil hunter of Fortuna who lost an arm, gained a demonic Devil Bringer, and learned mid-apocalypse that Vergil is his father. Nero's 'dead weight' rage and family issues drive DMC5's best fic.

V

2k works · 0 ships

A frail, poetry-quoting mystery man who fights through familiars and turns out to be the discarded human half of Vergil. V's borrowed time and William Blake recitations gave DMC5 fandom its gothic muse.

Red White & Royal Blue Characters

Alex Claremont-Diaz

12k works · 1 ships

The First Son of the United States, an ambitious bisexual disaster whose tabloid feud with a British prince turns into a transatlantic love affair. His emails became fandom-famous before the movie made them mainstream.

Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

10k works · 1 ships

A Prince of England hiding his sexuality behind royal protocol and a polite smile, quietly grieving his father and quoting Jane Austen. Loving Alex Claremont-Diaz forces him to choose between the crown's script and his own life.

Arcane: League of Legends Characters

Jayce Talis

8k works · 2 ships

Golden-boy inventor of Hextech who rises from condemned academic to Piltover councilman while his partnership with Viktor frays under politics. Half of the 'science wives' duo whose tragedy drives Arcane's biggest non-canon ship.

Viktor

8k works · 1 ships

Zaun-born scientist racing his own failing body toward the Hexcore's glorious evolution, no matter what it costs him. His and Jayce's doomed partnership gave Arcane fandom its most-written tragedy.

Ekko

6k works · 1 ships

Boy genius of the undercity who built the Firelights into a refuge and a time-bending Z-Drive out of grief. His bridge fight with Jinx — the friend Powder used to be — is the series' most devastating sequence.

Sailor Moon Characters

Usagi Tsukino

9k works · 2 ships

A crybaby klutz who is also Sailor Moon, reincarnation of the Moon Princess Serenity and future queen of Crystal Tokyo. Three decades on, her radical thesis — that love and compassion are the strongest powers in the universe — still defines the magical girl genre.

Mamoru Chiba

5k works · 1 ships

Tuxedo Mask, the reincarnated Prince Endymion of Earth, an orphaned med student bound to Usagi across two lifetimes. He throws roses, gets brainwashed with alarming frequency, and anchors one of anime's foundational destined romances.

Haruka Tenou

4k works · 1 ships

Sailor Uranus, a race-car driver who fights with the ruthlessness the Inner Senshi can't afford and flirts with everyone Michiru lets her. Half of anime's most groundbreaking canon sapphic couple, she made a generation realize things about themselves.

Michiru Kaiou

4k works · 1 ships

Sailor Neptune, a world-class violinist and painter whose elegance hides a soldier willing to sacrifice anything — including herself and Haruka — for the mission. Her mirror sees the truth; her heart chose its partner long ago.

ENHYPEN Characters

Lee Heeseung

7k works · 1 ships

ENHYPEN's eldest and ace all-rounder, the I-LAND frontrunner whose effortless vocals set the group's standard. The band's vampire-themed lore hands fic writers immortality angst on a platter.

Park Sunghoon

6k works · 1 ships

Former competitive figure skater who traded the ice for the stage, keeping the princely composure and razor jawline. Fic loves returning him to the rink, usually with a rival or a vampire's curse.

Yang Jungwon

4k works · 1 ships

ENHYPEN's dimpled captain, who debuted at fifteen and leads seven older or same-age members with eerie composure. Jungwon's leader maturity colliding with his actual age fuels protective fic, often opposite Jay.

Park Jongseong

4k works · 1 ships

ENHYPEN's Jay, the group's intense American-born rapper with encyclopedic fashion opinions and a fierce protective streak. Jay's all-or-nothing devotion to his members translates straight into the fandom's ship dynamics.

Adventure Time Characters

Marceline

8k works · 1 ships

Thousand-year-old Vampire Queen and bass-playing half-demon who survived the Mushroom War as a child with only Simon and a teddy bear. Her on-again romance with Princess Bubblegum ended in television's most celebrated kiss.

Princess Bubblegum

7k works · 1 ships

Immortal scientist-monarch of the Candy Kingdom who built her subjects from scratch and her emotional walls even higher. Centuries of history with Marceline made Bubbline one of animation's landmark queer couples.

Finn Mertens

3k works · 0 ships

The last human boy in Ooo, a relentlessly heroic kid who grows up onscreen through lost arms, lost loves, and found wisdom. Finn's messy adolescence remains one of animation's most honest coming-of-age arcs.

Simon Petrikov

3k works · 1 ships

The antiquarian who put on a cursed crown to protect a little girl and lost his mind to become the Ice King over nine hundred years. Simon's tragedy — and Fionna and Cake's reckoning with it — is Adventure Time's deepest wound.

Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul Characters

Jesse Pinkman

8k works · 1 ships

Walter White's former student and reluctant partner, a small-time cook with a huge conscience that the empire grinds down season by season. Fandom mostly just wants him safe, in Alaska, with a dog.

Walter White

7k works · 1 ships

A terminally ill chemistry teacher who builds a meth empire and tells himself it's for his family long after it's only for himself. Heisenberg is television's definitive study in self-made monstrosity.

Saul Goodman

3k works · 1 ships

Albuquerque's strip-mall lawyer extraordinaire, born Jimmy McGill, whose slippin' charm corroded into criminal facilitation across two series. Better Call Saul's tragedy of self-destruction made him prestige TV's most fic-analyzed lawyer.

Gus Fring

2k works · 1 ships

The fastidious Los Pollos Hermanos magnate running the Southwest's cleanest drug empire, polite to the last box cutter. Gus's buried grief for his partner Max gives fic its way into the man behind the mask.

Greek Mythology Characters

Hades

8k works · 1 ships

Lord of the Underworld, the eldest Olympian brother who drew the realm of the dead and rules it with grim fairness rather than cruelty. Modern fandom has thoroughly reclaimed him as mythology's most loyal husband.

Persephone

7k works · 1 ships

Goddess of spring and Queen of the Underworld, who eats six pomegranate seeds and splits the year between her mother's meadows and her husband's throne. Retellings endlessly debate whether she was taken or chose to go.

Apollo

3k works · 1 ships

God of the sun, music, prophecy, and plague, whose love stories almost always end in laurel trees or blood-flecked flowers. Apollo's doomed romance with the Spartan prince Hyacinthus is mythology fandom's tenderest tragedy.

Hermes

2k works · 0 ships

The winged messenger, trickster of Olympus, guide of dead souls, and the only god welcome everywhere from the underworld to the heights. Hermes' liminal charm makes him mythology fic's favorite go-between and chaos agent.

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell Characters

Simon Snow

9k works · 1 ships

The Chosen One of the World of Mages, a prophecy kid who goes off like a bomb, fights with a sword, and ends the series with dragon wings, a tail, and no magic. His post-Watford depression arc is rare honest aftermath for a hero.

Baz Pitch

9k works · 1 ships

Simon Snow's posh vampire roommate and nemesis, heir to the old mage families, who spent five years plotting against the boy he was hopelessly in love with. Flammable, dramatic, and devoted.

Penelope Bunce

2k works · 1 ships

Simon Snow's fiercely practical best friend, a magical prodigy who breaks rules only because she's smarter than they are. Penny grounds the Snowbaz chaos in fic, usually while solving everyone's problems.

Agatha Wellbelove

1k works · 1 ships

The golden girl who was supposed to be the Chosen One's reward and chose California and normalcy instead. Agatha's rejection of her own love-interest role makes her a quietly radical favorite for character studies.

Five Nights at Freddy's Characters

William Afton

8k works · 0 ships

Co-founder of Fazbear Entertainment and the serial killer behind the missing children, who always comes back no matter how thoroughly he's destroyed. The springlocked architect of the entire franchise's misery.

Michael Afton

7k works · 0 ships

William's eldest son, doomed to clean up his father's massacres after his own prank killed his little brother. Scooped, rotting, and still walking, he's the fandom's favorite tragic everyman of the Afton family saga.

Glamrock Freddy

3k works · 0 ships

Security Breach's rockstar animatronic bear, the only machine in the Pizzaplex that protects Gregory instead of hunting him. Freddy's chest-cavity hiding spot and gentle dad energy spawned a flood of found-family fic.

Gregory

2k works · 0 ships

The scrappy runaway kid trapped overnight in the Mega Pizzaplex, armed with a Faz-Watch and nerves of steel. Gregory's implied homelessness and bond with Glamrock Freddy make him the emotional core of Security Breach fandom.

One-Punch Man Characters

Saitama

9k works · 1 ships

A hero for fun who trained until his hair fell out and now ends every fight with a single punch, leaving him bored, broke, and clipping coupons. The genre's great anticlimax — fic explores the depression under the deadpan and the disciple who refuses to leave.

Genos

7k works · 1 ships

A nineteen-year-old cyborg avenging his destroyed hometown, who watched Saitama one-shot a monster and immediately moved into his apartment as a self-declared disciple. His incinerators are state of the art; his devotion is thermonuclear.

Garou

4k works · 0 ships

The Hero Hunter, a martial arts prodigy who sided with monsters because he grew up watching heroes gang up on the losers. His 'human monster' arc is the series' philosophical core, and his soft spot for the kid Tareo keeps undoing his own villainy.

Code Geass Characters

Lelouch Lamperouge

9k works · 2 ships

An exiled Britannian prince who gained the Geass power of absolute command and masked himself as Zero to burn his father's empire down. The Zero Requiem — orchestrating his own death to unite the world in hating him — remains anime's most argued-about ending.

Suzaku Kururugi

7k works · 2 ships

An honorary Britannian soldier and Lancelot pilot who believed the system could be changed from within, set on a collision course with his best friend's revolution. He carries a Geass command to 'live,' a murdered father, and finally the mask of Zero itself.

C.C.

4k works · 1 ships

An immortal witch who grants Geass contracts and has outlived centuries of partners, surviving on pizza and detachment until Lelouch treats her as a person rather than a power source. Her real name, spoken once and never heard, is the series' quietest intimacy.

Schitt's Creek Characters

David Rose

9k works · 1 ships

A formerly wealthy gallerist marooned in a small town with his family's name on the welcome sign, all dramatic sweaters and defensive sarcasm. Opening Rose Apothecary, and his heart to Patrick, rebuilds him from scratch.

Patrick Brewer

8k works · 1 ships

The steady, button-up-wearing business partner who realizes what was missing from his old engagement the first time he kisses David Rose. His open-mic serenade of 'Simply the Best' is the show's defining romantic moment.

Alexis Rose

2k works · 1 ships

The Rose family's flighty socialite daughter, whose name-dropping tales of international escapades give way to a genuinely earned degree and broken heart. 'A Little Bit Alexis' grew into the show's quietest success story.

Stevie Budd

1k works · 0 ships

The Rosebud Motel's deadpan clerk turned co-owner, David Rose's flannel-wearing best friend and one-time fling. Stevie's dry wit and Cabaret-fueled self-discovery make her the fandom's favorite underdog.

Sanders Sides Characters

Virgil

7k works · 1 ships

Thomas's anxiety personified, the hoodie-wearing former 'dark side' who earned a name, a place in the family, and the fandom's whole heart. His acceptance arc remains the series' emotional high-water mark.

Roman

7k works · 2 ships

Thomas's creativity, a self-styled prince whose theatrical bravado cracks more visibly each season under the need to be the hero. The fandom obsesses over the insecurity beneath the sash.

Logan

6k works · 2 ships

Thomas's logic, a necktie-straightening pedant whose suppressed feelings keep erupting in increasingly alarming orange flashes. Fandom has theorized about his breaking point for years and writes it constantly.

Young Justice Characters

Wally West

7k works · 2 ships

Kid Flash of the original team, a science nerd who jokes through every mission and ceased to exist saving the world in the season two finale. The fandom has been writing him back from the speed force ever since.

Artemis Crock

5k works · 1 ships

Archer daughter of two villains who lied her way onto the team and earned her place anyway. Losing Wally turned her into Tigress and gave the show its most grounded portrait of grief.

Conner Kent

5k works · 2 ships

Superboy, a half-Kryptonian clone grown in a Cadmus pod and freed by the team that becomes his family. Conner's anger management, his romance with M'gann, and his bond with Clark anchor Young Justice fic.

Kaldur'ahm

3k works · 0 ships

Aqualad, the team's calm first leader, who later runs a years-long deep-cover operation inside his villain father's organization. Kaldur's quiet competence and sacrifices make him the fandom's most respected member.

Cyberpunk 2077 Characters

V

8k works · 2 ships

Night City mercenary living on borrowed time after a botched heist leaves Johnny Silverhand's engram slowly overwriting their brain. Every ending is a different flavor of bittersweet, so the fandom writes all of them.

Johnny Silverhand

7k works · 1 ships

Rockerboy terrorist who nuked Arasaka Tower in 2023 and woke up fifty years later as a ghost in V's head. Keanu Reeves' digital revolutionary went from antagonist to reluctant best friend across one shared skull.

Judy Alvarez

2k works · 1 ships

Night City's best braindance technician, a Mox ally with tattooed arms and a dream of leaving the city that keeps breaking her heart. Judy's romance with female V is one of the game's most tenderly written paths.

Goro Takemura

2k works · 1 ships

Saburo Arasaka's disgraced bodyguard, an old-school samurai loyalist adrift in Night City with only V to trust. Takemura's culture-shock food reviews and rigid honor melting into reluctant affection power his fic.

Frozen Characters

Elsa

10k works · 1 ships

The snow queen of Arendelle who spent her childhood concealing powers she was taught to fear. Elsa's isolation, queer readings of 'conceal, don't feel,' and her bond with Anna make her one of animation's most-written heroines.

Anna

7k works · 1 ships

Arendelle's relentlessly optimistic younger princess, who answered years of closed doors with an act of true love for her sister. Anna fic centers her stubborn warmth and the sisterhood that defines the franchise.

Kristoff

3k works · 1 ships

An orphaned ice harvester raised by trolls who talks for his reindeer and falls hopelessly for Princess Anna. Kristoff's awkward sincerity makes him fandom's favorite supportive boyfriend in fluffy post-canon domesticity.

How to Train Your Dragon Characters

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

9k works · 1 ships

Berk's scrawny inventor heir who befriended the dragon he was supposed to kill and changed his entire world. Hiccup's growth from village embarrassment to chief, and his bond with Toothless, anchor a decade of fandom output.

Toothless

6k works · 0 ships

The last known Night Fury, a cat-like apex predator with a missing tailfin and total devotion to the boy who built him a new one. Toothless fic ranges from his point of view on the films to AUs where dragon and rider can finally talk.

Astrid Hofferson

5k works · 1 ships

Berk's fiercest young warrior, who went from Hiccup's harshest critic to his most trusted partner. Astrid fic celebrates her axe-first pragmatism and refuses to reduce her to the hero's girlfriend.

Peaky Blinders Characters

Tommy Shelby

9k works · 1 ships

Leader of the Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham gangster who came back from the Somme with tunnels in his dreams and ice where fear used to be. He climbs from bookmaking to Parliament without ever escaping the war.

Alfie Solomons

6k works · 1 ships

The rambling, Torah-quoting gang boss of Camden Town, who runs a bakery that bakes very little bread. His double-crosses and strange magnetic truce with Tommy Shelby steal every scene he's in.

Arthur Shelby

2k works · 0 ships

The eldest Shelby brother, Tommy's rabid enforcer, forever oscillating between bar brawls, religion, and the trenches he never left. Arthur's shell-shocked volatility makes him Peaky fandom's rawest character study.

Polly Gray

2k works · 0 ships

The Shelby family's matriarch and treasurer, who ran the business while the men were at war and never let them forget it. Aunt Polly's tarot-reading authority and losses anchor the family's fic.

What We Do in the Shadows Characters

Nandor

8k works · 1 ships

Nandor the Relentless, a 750-year-old Ottoman warrior vampire who once pillaged with an army and now can't work a Big Mouth Billy Bass. His obliviousness toward his devoted familiar Guillermo spans the entire series.

Guillermo de la Cruz

8k works · 1 ships

Nandor's long-suffering familiar, a descendant of Van Helsing who spent over a decade waiting to be turned into a vampire by a master who barely remembers his name. The cardigan hides a very efficient slayer.

Laszlo Cravensworth

2k works · 1 ships

A debauched English vampire gentleman, cursed hat enthusiast, and devoted husband to Nadja for centuries. Laszlo's filthy exuberance and secret tenderness — especially toward Colin Robinson — steal the show and the fic.

Nadja

2k works · 1 ships

An Antipaxan Romani vampire with four centuries of grievances, a doll inhabited by her own ghost, and a nightclub empire that lasted a week. Nadja's venomous wit and devotion to Laszlo make her the coven's true power.

Twisted-Wonderland Characters

Malleus Draconia

9k works · 2 ships

Fae prince of Briar Valley and one of the world's most powerful mages, so feared that classmates forget to invite him to parties. The lonely dragon who haunts campus at night to talk to gargoyles is the game's most-written character.

Leona Kingscholar

6k works · 2 ships

Perpetually napping second prince of the Afterglow Savanna, twisted from Scar, whose laziness is armor over the bitterness of being born brilliant and second. His overblot over never being first hits the fandom hard.

Riddle Rosehearts

2k works · 0 ships

Heartslabyul's tyrannical young housewarden, a rule-obsessed prodigy twisted from the Queen of Hearts and crushed under his mother's expectations. Riddle's overblot breakdown and slow unbending define his enormous fic presence.

Azul Ashengrotto

2k works · 1 ships

Octavinelle's contract-peddling housewarden, a former bullied octopus child rebuilt as a sleek monopolist twisted from Ursula. Azul's insecurity beneath the businessman polish makes him irresistible to character-study writers.

Hades Characters

Zagreus

9k works · 2 ships

Rebellious prince of the Underworld who dies his way out of his father's house over and over to find the mother he never knew. His habit of befriending literally everyone in hell powers the fandom's warmest fic.

Thanatos

6k works · 1 ships

Death Incarnate, raised alongside Zagreus in the House of Hades, who masks hurt feelings about the prince's escape attempts behind chilly professionalism. Their contest-turned-courtship is the game's defining romance.

Megaera

2k works · 1 ships

First of the Furies and Tartarus's unforgiving gatekeeper, who whips Zagreus back to the House of Hades night after night. Meg's exasperated history with Zag turns every defeat into foreplay in the fandom's eyes.

Hypnos

1k works · 0 ships

The perpetually dozing god of sleep who greets Zagreus after every death with cheerfully unhelpful commentary. Hypnos's nap-anywhere charm and his strained relationship with his brother Thanatos make him a comic and angst favorite alike.

The Boys Characters

Homelander

7k works · 1 ships

Vought's flag-draped flagship superhero, a lab-grown Superman with a god complex and a bottomless need to be loved. The smile for the cameras and the milk thing barely contain the atrocity underneath.

Billy Butcher

6k works · 1 ships

A foul-mouthed Cockney vigilante leading The Boys' war on superheroes, driven by what Homelander did to his wife Becca. He'll dose himself with Temp V, lie to everyone he loves, and call it the greater good.

Hughie Campbell

3k works · 1 ships

The mild-mannered Scot whose girlfriend was liquefied by a speedster, dragging him into Billy Butcher's war on superheroes. Hughie's decency under escalating horror — and his charged partnership with Butcher — drive the fandom's core ship.

Soldier Boy

2k works · 0 ships

America's original supe, a chest-blasting Captain America parody frozen by the Russians and thawed into a world that moved on. Soldier Boy's toxic bravado and revelation as Homelander's father lit up the fandom in season three.

OMORI Characters

Sunny

7k works · 1 ships

Hikikomori teenager who built the dream world of Headspace to bury the truth of his sister Mari's death, with his alter ego Omori standing guard over the secret. Three days before moving away, the truth starts leaking through.

Basil

6k works · 1 ships

Gentle flower-tending photographer who helped Sunny hide what happened to Mari and has been quietly destroyed by the secret for four years. The fandom's most protected character and its most tragic ending.

Aubrey

2k works · 0 ships

The sweet girl of Sunny's childhood who grew into a bat-swinging delinquent after grief tore the friend group apart. Aubrey's anger as armor for abandonment makes her OMORI's most cathartic character to write.

Mari

2k works · 1 ships

Sunny's gifted older sister, the picnic-hosting heart of the friend group whose death is the wound the entire game orbits. Mari lives on in headspace fic, AUs where she survives, and gut-punch character studies.

Hero

2k works · 1 ships

The group's responsible older brother, a college student who fell apart for a year after Mari's death and never fully forgave himself. Hero's perfect-eldest-son mask and unresolved love for Mari ground the fandom's heaviest fic.

Deltarune Characters

Kris

Straight-A 'perfect daughter' who performed so long for her mother's approval that she lost her own feelings entirely, singing with Nightcord to find them again. Her storyline is the franchise's rawest portrait of burnout.

Shinonome Akito

4k works · 1 ships

Hot-headed Vivid BAD SQUAD vocalist clawing his way toward the legendary RAD WEEKEND with raw effort rather than talent. His push-pull partnership with the gentler Toya carries much of the unit's fic.

Aoyagi Toya

4k works · 1 ships

Soft-spoken son of a classical music purist who defied his father's piano regimen to sing street music with Akito. His calm steadiness opposite Akito's fire makes the pair Project SEKAI's most-written duo.

Dungeon Meshi Characters

Laios Touden

5k works · 1 ships

A monster-obsessed party leader descending the dungeon to save his sister Falin by eating every creature on the way down. His encyclopedic delight in monsters and his blind spots about humans made him both an autistic-coded icon and an unexpected king.

Marcille Donato

4k works · 1 ships

A half-elf court mage horrified by monster cuisine and devoted enough to practice forbidden ancient magic to bring Falin back. Her nightmare — outliving everyone she loves — makes her the Winged Lion's perfect target and the story's aching heart.

Falin Touden

3k works · 1 ships

Laios's gentle healer sister, eaten by the Red Dragon in the story's inciting bite and resurrected into something half hers and half chimera. Beloved by literally everyone in the party — and by Marcille most of all — she is the quest, the cost, and the prize.

Kabru

3k works · 1 ships

The leader of a rival adventuring party, a Utaya massacre survivor who studies people the way Laios studies monsters — and is both fascinated and appalled to find his opposite. His one-sided intel-gathering friendship with Laios became the fandom's breakout ship.

Senshi

2k works · 0 ships

A dwarf who lived in the dungeon for decades perfecting nutritionally balanced monster cooking, armed with a cooking pot helmet and devastatingly correct opinions about breakfast. His survivor's guilt over the orc bread is the manga's quietest tragedy.

The Folk of the Air - Holly Black Characters

Jude Duarte

9k works · 1 ships

A mortal girl raised in Elfhame by her parents' killer, who claws her way to power through scheming, poison tolerance, and sheer spite. She out-plots the fae who can't lie and becomes their queen.

Cardan Greenbriar

8k works · 1 ships

The wicked youngest prince of Elfhame with a tail, a drinking problem, and a cruelty that masks how much he hates his own crown. His poisonous obsession with the mortal Jude curdles into the series' defining romance.

Pacific Rim Characters

Newton Geiszler

7k works · 1 ships

A rockstar-wannabe kaiju biologist with six doctorates and zero impulse control, who drifts with a kaiju brain because nobody else would. His decade of bickering with Hermann Gottlieb reads like a marriage because it basically is one.

Hermann Gottlieb

6k works · 1 ships

The PPDC's buttoned-up mathematician, who predicts kaiju attacks with chalkboards full of equations and then drifts with Newton anyway when it counts. Cane, cardigans, and a heart he'd deny under oath.

Raleigh Becket

2k works · 1 ships

A washed-up Jaeger pilot who lost his brother mid-Drift and carried the ghost of that connection for years. Raleigh's instant compatibility with Mako Mori gave fandom its template for Drift-as-intimacy fic.

Mako Mori

2k works · 1 ships

Stacker Pentecost's adopted daughter, a kaiju-orphaned engineer who fought her way into a Jaeger cockpit to avenge her family. Mako's blue-streaked composure inspired an actual narrative test named in her honor.

James Bond (Craig Era) Characters

James Bond

9k works · 1 ships

Agent 007, a blunt instrument of MI6 with a license to kill and a habit of destroying company cars and his own attachments. The Craig era's wounded, grieving Bond gave fandom something to actually repair.

Q

8k works · 1 ships

MI6's young quartermaster, a cardigan-wearing hacker who can do more damage with a laptop before tea than Bond does in a year of fieldwork. He just asks that the equipment come back in one piece. It never does.

Voltron: Legendary Defender Characters

Pidge

9k works · 0 ships

Green Paladin Katie Holt, who infiltrated the Garrison under a false name to find her missing father and brother. The team's gremlin engineer and the heart of its found-family fic.

Allura

8k works · 1 ships

Last princess of Altea who woke from ten thousand years of cryosleep to lead the war against the empire that destroyed her people. Her sacrifice in the finale remains one of the fandom's most rewritten endings.

Castlevania Characters

Alucard

7k works · 1 ships

Dhampir son of Dracula who fought his own father to stop humanity's extermination, then sat alone in the ruins of the castle impaling his betrayers. Adrian Tepes carries the Netflix series' loneliest arc.

Trevor Belmont

6k works · 2 ships

Last son of the excommunicated Belmont clan, a drunk monster hunter dragged back to his birthright by the end of the world. His whip, his self-loathing, and his banter with Sypha define the series' voice.

Sypha Belnades

5k works · 1 ships

Speaker magician who burns through demon hordes with elemental magic and through Trevor's cynicism with sheer stubborn delight. The trio's warm center and the fandom's favorite force of nature.

Team Fortress 2 Characters

Medic

6k works · 1 ships

Gleefully unethical German doctor who lost his medical license, hides a baboon heart in a teammate, and keeps doves in his operating theater. His mad-science double act with Heavy is TF2 fandom's cornerstone pairing.

Sniper

6k works · 2 ships

Standoffish Australian marksman who lives in a camper van, calls his job 'a profession with standards,' and phones his parents between contracts. Fandom adores cracking his loner shell, usually via the Spy.

Heavy

5k works · 1 ships

Soft-spoken Russian giant with a PhD in literature, a minigun named Sasha, and a family he broke out of a gulag. The contrast between gentle scholar and walking artillery makes him fandom's favorite quiet romantic.

Dune Characters

Paul Atreides

7k works · 1 ships

Heir of House Atreides, orphaned by Harkonnen treachery and remade among the Fremen as Muad'Dib, the prophesied Lisan al-Gaib. He sees every future, and every one of them ends in holy war.

Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

5k works · 1 ships

The Baron's favored nephew and na-Baron of Giedi Prime, a sociopathic gladiator groomed as the Bene Gesserit's backup messiah. Austin Butler's black-and-white arena debut single-handedly spawned an AO3 boom.

Chani

4k works · 1 ships

A Fremen warrior of Sietch Tabr who loves Paul Atreides the man and distrusts the messiah the Bene Gesserit built around him. The 2024 film made her skepticism the story's conscience.

The Locked Tomb Characters

Gideon Nav

A Midwestern striver who married into the Roy family and absorbed every humiliation until he out-schemed them all. His circling, threatening, weirdly tender dynamic with Greg spawned the show's most-written pairing.

Greg Hirsch

5k works · 1 ships

The Roys' gangly cousin from nowhere, who shambles from theme-park vomit to the inner circle by being just useful and just spineless enough. Sporus to Tom's Nero, if you ask the show itself.

Hockey RPF Characters

Sidney Crosby

6k works · 1 ships

Pittsburgh Penguins captain and generational talent whose obsessive routines and aw-shucks Nova Scotia politeness made him hockey fic's defining protagonist. His two-decade partnership with Evgeni Malkin is the genre's cornerstone ship.

Evgeni Malkin

5k works · 1 ships

Russian superstar center who defected dramatically to join Pittsburgh and has spent his whole career alongside Crosby. Fic adores his bilingual humor and the loyalty that kept the duo together through every rebuild.

Connor McDavid

2k works · 1 ships

The Edmonton Oilers captain widely considered the best hockey player of his generation, a hockey robot whose private life is a locked vault. Fic fills the blank space, most often alongside his longtime teammate Leon Draisaitl.

Leon Draisaitl

2k works · 2 ships

The German center who forms half of Edmonton's record-shattering duo with Connor McDavid. Draisaitl's dry humor and decade of on-ice telepathy with his captain make him hockey RPF's favorite other half.

Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Characters

Sherlock Holmes

8k works · 1 ships

The original consulting detective of 221B Baker Street, Conan Doyle's violin-playing, cocaine-dabbling reasoning machine. ACD-canon fic keeps the Victorian gaslight and pastiche prose alive, over a century after fans first wrote it.

John Watson

6k works · 1 ships

Army doctor, biographer, and the steady hand on the revolver in Conan Doyle's original stories. Watson's devoted chronicling of Holmes reads to many fans as the first great love letter in detective fiction.

Irene Adler

2k works · 1 ships

The opera singer who outwitted Sherlock Holmes in 'A Scandal in Bohemia' and earned the permanent title of The Woman. Irene appears in a single story, yet fic has spent a century giving her the adventures canon never did.

Sword Art Online Characters

Kirito

7k works · 2 ships

Kazuto Kirigaya, the solo 'Black Swordsman' who beat the SAO death game and keeps getting pulled back into broken virtual worlds. His dual blades, his marriage to Asuna on floor 22, and his beater reputation made him the isekai-adjacent icon of a generation.

Asuna Yuuki

5k works · 1 ships

The Lightning Flash, vice commander of the Knights of the Blood Oath, who entered SAO a sheltered honor student and became its most feared rapier. Her partnership with Kirito — equals on the front lines, married in a lakeside cabin — defines the franchise.

Eugeo

3k works · 2 ships

Kirito's partner in the Underworld arc, a woodcutter's son who broke the Taboo Index to save a friend and became the Blue Rose Sword's wielder. An artificial soul more human than most humans, his sacrifice haunts both Kirito and the fandom.

Danny Phantom Characters

Danny Fenton

11k works · 1 ships

Fourteen-year-old who walked into his parents' ghost portal and came out half-dead, defending Amity Park from the entities his ghost-hunting family is sworn to destroy. Identity-reveal fic is practically the fandom's national sport.

Vlad Masters

2k works · 0 ships

A billionaire half-ghost whose decades of bitterness curdled into obsession with the Fenton family. As Danny's dark mirror and would-be mentor, Vlad anchors the fandom's endless supply of villain-adopts-hero AUs.

Sam Manson

2k works · 1 ships

A goth ultra-recyclo-vegetarian heiress who hides her wealth and stands at Danny's side through every ghost fight. Sam's fierce individualism and the iconic 'Fake-Out Make-Outs' keep her half of the fandom's flagship ship.

Mystic Messenger Characters

707

7k works · 2 ships

Hacker genius of the RFA who buries a brutal childhood and a lost twin under memes, Honey Buddha Chips, and a fleet of sports cars. His route's collapse from comedy into raw grief made him the game's defining character.

Jumin Han

5k works · 2 ships

Heir to the C&R conglomerate who processes every emotion through spreadsheets and his cat Elizabeth 3rd. His route's exploration of control, loneliness, and learning to untangle threads made 'Jumin Han did nothing wrong' a fandom rallying cry.

Saeran Choi

2k works · 1 ships

707's lost twin, raised in abuse and remade by Mint Eye into the hacker Unknown. Saeran's fractured identities and the Another Story routes that let him heal make him Mystic Messenger's most fic-written character after his brother.

Yoosung Kim

1k works · 1 ships

The RFA's youngest member, a sweet college gamer stuck in grief for his cousin Rika and chronically failing his classes for LOLOL. Yoosung's puppyish devotion makes his route fic overwhelmingly soft.

Cardcaptor Sakura Characters

Sakura Kinomoto

5k works · 1 ships

A relentlessly kind fourth-grader who accidentally scattered the Clow Cards and rollerblades through Tomoeda capturing them in Tomoyo's costumes. Her catchphrase 'everything will surely be all right' is the gentlest invincibility in magical girl history.

Syaoran Li

4k works · 1 ships

A descendant of Clow Reed sent from Hong Kong to claim the Clow Cards, who began as Sakura's scowling rival and melted, one blush at a time, into her most devoted ally. His teddy bear confession remains shoujo's gold standard of a rival falling first.

Touya Kinomoto

3k works · 1 ships

Sakura's teasing older brother, who has always seen spirits and silently clocked every magical event in the series while pretending otherwise. He gives up his power — and his ability to see their mother's ghost — to save Yukito without a second thought.

Yukito Tsukishiro

3k works · 1 ships

A gentle, perpetually hungry high schooler who is also Yue, the Clow Cards' lunar judge, without knowing it for most of the series. His quiet acceptance of his dual nature — and of Touya's sacrifice — made him half of one of anime's earliest tender queer couples.

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo Characters

Nina Zenik

8k works · 1 ships

A Grisha Heartrender with a love of waffles and a gift for languages, who testified against the witch-hunter she loved to save his life. Her grief and appetite for living make her the warmest of the Crows.

Matthias Helvar

6k works · 1 ships

A Fjerdan drüskelle raised to burn Grisha as witches, undone by the Heartrender he was trained to hate. His slow unlearning of fanaticism ends in a death the fandom has never forgiven.

Ensemble Stars! Characters

Eichi Tenshouin

6k works · 1 ships

Sickly heir of the Tenshouin zaibatsu who orchestrated the ruthless 'war' that rebuilt Yumenosaki's idol scene, crushing careers to drag the academy into the future. The fandom's favorite beautiful, terminally ill tyrant.

Wataru Hibiki

5k works · 1 ships

Theatrical madman of fine who greets the world with doves, roses, and cries of 'Amazing!' while letting no one see backstage. The mask he only lowers for Eichi powers one of the franchise's flagship ships.

Tsukinaga Leo

2k works · 1 ships

Knights' eccentric composer-king, a genius who scribbles symphonies on walls and screams 'Ucchu!' mid-thought, hiding deep scars from the war-era idol system. Leo's volatile brilliance opposite Izumi Sena fuels one of Enstars' top ships.

Sena Izumi

2k works · 1 ships

Knights' perfectionist model-idol, all sharp tongue and obsessive standards, whose harshness masks terror of being left behind. Izumi's prickly devotion to Leo and Makoto keeps him at the center of Enstars drama fic.

All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Characters

Kevin Day

7k works · 2 ships

Exy's golden son, raised in the Moriyama Nest until his hand was shattered, now rebuilding his career with the Foxes one terrified step at a time. He hides trauma behind statistics, history facts, and vodka.

Jean Moreau

3k works · 1 ships

The Ravens' brutalized backliner, sold to Evermore as a child and finally transferred out to heal in California sunlight. Jean's recovery arc, canonized in The Sunshine Court, made him the series' new fic gravity well.

Jeremy Knox

2k works · 1 ships

The Trojans' golden captain, college Exy's nicest player, who volunteers to room with the most damaged backliner in the sport. Jeremy's patient sunshine opposite Jean's scars defines the Sunshine Court dynamic.

Nicky Hemmick

2k works · 1 ships

The Foxes' relentlessly cheerful backliner, who gave up Germany and his fiancé Erik to guardian his cousins Aaron and Andrew. Nicky's jokes deflect conversion-camp scars, giving fic writers both comedy and ache.

The Amazing Digital Circus Characters

Pomni

6k works · 1 ships

Newest human trapped in the digital circus, a jester avatar mid-perpetual panic attack searching for an exit that may not exist. Her terrified first day made her the face of the indie animation boom.

Jax

5k works · 1 ships

Lanky purple rabbit who copes with digital imprisonment by tormenting everyone else in it, keys to their rooms in hand. The fandom split immediately between loving his cruelty and writing the sadness under it.

Ragatha

2k works · 1 ships

The kind ragdoll of the digital circus, who keeps a sunny face on for the others no matter how long she's been trapped. Ragatha's people-pleasing cracks under pressure, which is exactly where the fic lives.

Caine

1k works · 0 ships

The circus's ringmaster AI, a chattering set of dentures and eyeballs who genuinely wants his trapped humans entertained — he just doesn't understand them at all. Caine's alien good intentions fascinate fic writers.

The Bear Characters

Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto

6k works · 1 ships

A James Beard-winning chef who comes home to run his dead brother's Chicago sandwich shop, white-knuckling grief, panic, and family dysfunction through every service. Yes, chef.

Sydney Adamu

5k works · 1 ships

A brilliant young chef who bets her career on The Beef and becomes Carmy's creative other half, pushing the kitchen toward a star. Their charged partnership is the engine of the show and the fandom alike.

Richie Jerimovich

1k works · 0 ships

The Beef's loudmouthed 'cousin,' a middle-aged man flailing after purpose until a week staging at a fine-dining temple teaches him to polish forks like it matters. Richie's Taylor Swift car singalong is the show's redemption thesis.

Marcus Brooks

1k works · 0 ships

The Bear's soft-spoken pastry chef, who turns donut obsession into Copenhagen-trained artistry while caring for his dying mother. Marcus's quiet pursuit of perfection gives the kitchen's chaos its calmest center.

Hollow Knight Characters

Hornet

5k works · 0 ships

Needle-wielding princess-protector of Hallownest, daughter of the Pale King and Herrah the Beast, who tests the Knight before fighting beside it. Her terse 'git gud' ferocity hides the loneliest backstory in the kingdom.

Grimm

4k works · 1 ships

Theatrical master of the Grimm Troupe who arrives with the Nightmare Heart to harvest the kingdom's flame in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. His scarlet showmanship makes him the fandom's go-to enigmatic gentleman.

The Knight

3k works · 0 ships

The silent little vessel who descends into Hallownest's ruins, a discarded child of the Pale King made of void and shadow. Fic gives the Knight the family and voice the game withholds, often through found-sibling stories with Hornet and the Hollow Knight.

Quirrel

2k works · 0 ships

A wandering pillbug scholar who greets every horror of Hallownest with cheerful curiosity, unknowingly carrying his teacher Monomon's memory. Quirrel's quiet ending at Blue Lake is the wound Hollow Knight fic keeps trying to heal.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Characters

Bow

5k works · 1 ships

Trick-arrow archer of the Best Friend Squad who holds the rebellion together with relentless emotional intelligence and crop tops. The son of two librarian dads remains the fandom's gold standard of supportive boyfriend energy.

Entrapta

5k works · 1 ships

Prehensile-haired princess of Dryl who defects to the Horde for the research opportunities and befriends its dictator's clone army. Widely embraced as autistic representation, her bond with Hordak became the show's strangest, sweetest romance.

Scorpia

4k works · 2 ships

Horde force captain with scorpion claws, a princess birthright, and boundless affection that Catra spent seasons exploiting. Her decision to walk away remains the show's quietest, most cheered act of self-respect.

Encanto Characters

Bruno Madrigal

4k works · 0 ships

The Madrigal family's exiled seer, who spent a decade living in the walls patching cracks and eating dinner through a hole rather than abandon his family. We don't talk about Bruno, but the fandom absolutely writes about him.

Mirabel Madrigal

4k works · 0 ships

The only Madrigal without a magical gift, whose clear-eyed love holds her cracking family together. Mirabel fic dwells on the sting of being overlooked and the quiet heroism of fixing what generations of pressure broke.

Camilo Madrigal

3k works · 0 ships

The shapeshifting Madrigal teen who plays family comedian while quietly wondering who he is beneath all the borrowed faces. Camilo's identity-themed angst and theater-kid energy made him an instant breakout for fic writers.

Isabela Madrigal

2k works · 0 ships

The 'perfect' Madrigal granddaughter who grows roses on command and cactuses when she finally tells the truth. Isabela's liberation from golden-child pressure resonates hard, and fic frequently reads her as sapphic.

Fallout Characters

Nick Valentine

4k works · 1 ships

Synth detective of Diamond City running on the uploaded memories of a pre-war cop, complete with trench coat, noir patter, and an identity crisis two centuries deep. The Commonwealth's best companion never got a canon romance, so fandom fixed that.

Cooper Howard

The rat of the zodiac, the school's untouchable 'prince,' privately starved for friendship after a childhood as Akito's isolated possession. His realization that he wanted Tohru as a mother, not a lover — and his growth with Machi — quietly steal the back half of the series.

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas Characters

Azriel

12k works · 2 ships

The Night Court's shadowsinger and spymaster, an Illyrian bastard whose scarred hands and living shadows hold five centuries of quiet hurt. Fandom wars rage over whether his endgame is Elain or Gwyn.

The Chronicles of Narnia Characters

Edmund Pevensie

3k works · 1 ships

The traitor who sold his siblings for Turkish delight and grew into King Edmund the Just. Edmund's redemption is the moral heart of Narnia, and fic loves the sharp, quietly guilt-haunted king he becomes.

Lucy Pevensie

4k works · 1 ships

The newest refiner on Lumon's severed floor, who wakes on a conference table and immediately starts trying to escape. Her outie's identity, as an Eagan heiress using her own innie as propaganda, is the show's cruelest twist.

Irving B.

2k works · 1 ships

Lumon's most devoted Macrodata refiner, a handbook-quoting company man whose innie falls into forbidden love with Optics and Design's Burt. Irving's black paint visions and outie investigations deepen every rewatch and fic.

Burt G.

1k works · 1 ships

The gentle head of Optics and Design whose courtship of Irving is the tenderest thing on Lumon's severed floor — until retirement severs it. Burt and Irving's stolen moments among the artwork define the show's queer heartbreak.

League of Legends Characters

Ahri

3k works · 1 ships

The nine-tailed fox of Ionia who consumes life essence and yearns to understand the humanity she takes. As leader of the virtual pop group K/DA, Ahri headlines the bandmate romance fic that dominates League's non-Arcane corner of the archive.

Akali

3k works · 1 ships

The rogue assassin who abandoned the Kinkou Order to deal justice on her own terms, and K/DA's hoodie-wearing rapper. Fic loves Akali's brash confidence colliding with Evelynn's predatory elegance in band-era domestic drama.

Sett

2k works · 1 ships

The half-Vastayan pit boss of Ionia's underground fighting rings, a bruiser with a soft spot for his ma. Sett's pairing with the silent assassin Aphelios became one of League's most-written ships almost overnight.

Evelynn

2k works · 1 ships

Dunder Mifflin Scranton's regional manager, a man whose desperate need to be loved produces both cringe comedy and surprising heartbreak. Fic tends to dig under the 'World's Best Boss' mug to the loneliness Michael papers over with bits.

Dwight Schrute

2k works · 2 ships

Beet farmer, volunteer sheriff's deputy, and assistant to the regional manager. Dwight's rigid weirdness conceals fierce loyalty, and fic mines both his rivalry-friendship with Jim and his operatic romance with Angela.

Elder Scrolls Characters

Serana

6k works · 1 ships

Ancient vampire princess sealed away for millennia to keep her tyrant father Harkon from fulfilling a prophecy, and Skyrim's most beloved companion. Fans have spent a decade writing the romance Bethesda never let them have.

Lucien Lachance

2k works · 1 ships

The silken-voiced Speaker of Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood, who recruits the Hero of Kvatch into a family of assassins and dies horribly for their sins. Lucien's gothic charisma made him an enduring romantic fixation across two decades of fic.

Miraak

1k works · 1 ships

The First Dragonborn, a dragon priest who betrayed his masters and spent millennia scheming in Hermaeus Mora's library-realm of Apocrypha. Fic loves sparing Miraak so the only two Dragonborn in existence can argue, ally, and fall for each other.

Brynjolf

1k works · 1 ships

The smooth-talking second of Riften's Thieves Guild, forever sizing up strangers in the marketplace with 'never done an honest day's work.' Brynjolf is one of Skyrim's most-requested unromanceable NPCs, so fic happily fixes that.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Characters

Elizabeth Bennet

5k works · 1 ships

The second Bennet daughter, whose fine eyes and finer wit refuse to be impressed by ten thousand a year. Her snap judgment of Mr. Darcy, and the unlearning of it, built the template for two centuries of romance.

Fitzwilliam Darcy

5k works · 1 ships

Master of Pemberley, proud, awkward, and constitutionally incapable of small talk, who insults Elizabeth Bennet at a ball and spends the rest of the novel earning her. The original brooding hero with a redemption arc.

Given Characters

Mafuyu Sato

4k works · 1 ships

A quiet boy carrying his dead boyfriend's Gibson around like an unhealed wound, until Ritsuka teaches him to play it and singing becomes the only language big enough for his grief. 'Fuyu no Hanashi' remains one of anime's most shattering musical moments.

Ritsuka Uenoyama

3k works · 1 ships

A guitar prodigy bored numb by his own talent until Mafuyu's voice electrifies him back to life. He fixes the Gibson's strings, falls first without understanding it, and learns that loving someone means making room for their ghosts.

Akihiko Kaji

2k works · 1 ships

Given's drummer, a former violin prodigy tangled in a toxic relationship with his ex while falling for his bandmate Haruki. Akihiko's messy road to choosing gentleness is the emotional core of the series' second arc.

Haruki Nakayama

2k works · 1 ships

Given's bassist and de facto band mom, a grad student who pined hopelessly for Akihiko long before things got complicated. Haruki's patience and quiet hurt make him the fandom's most protected character.

Warriors - Erin Hunter Characters

Firestar

Lancre's most formidable witch, who does headology instead of magic and refuses to be anything but the best at everything, including not being kind. Esmerelda Weatherwax is Discworld's moral spine and fandom's beloved terror.

Moist von Lipwig

1k works · 1 ships

A condemned con man given a second life by Vetinari to resurrect Ankh-Morpork's post office, mint, and railways. Moist's golden-suited grift-for-good and terrifying girlfriend Adora Belle delight Discworld fic writers.

Welcome to Night Vale Characters

Cecil Palmer

5k works · 1 ships

The velvet-voiced community radio host of a desert town where every conspiracy is true, narrating dog parks, hooded figures, and his own love life on air. His on-air swooning over Carlos was podcast fandom's first great romance.

Carlos

4k works · 1 ships

The perfectly coiffed scientist who came to study the most scientifically interesting town in America and stayed for its radio host. He measures the unmeasurable, survives miniature cities, and believes a scientist is always fine.

Fourth Wing Characters

Violet Sorrengail

5k works · 1 ships

A scribe's mind in a rider's war college, sent into Basgiath's dragon quadrant despite a body that breaks easily and a general for a mother. She bonds two dragons and the rebellion's most dangerous son.

Xaden Riorson

4k works · 1 ships

Son of an executed rebellion leader, wingleader at Basgiath, and shadow-wielder with every reason to want Violet Sorrengail dead. Instead he guards her secrets, her life, and eventually far darker things of his own.

Murder Drones Characters

N

4k works · 1 ships

Golden-retriever-hearted disassembly drone sent to exterminate worker drones, who would much rather make friends with them, especially Uzi. His wiped memories of the Elliott manor hide the series' biggest tragedies.

Uzi Doorman

4k works · 1 ships

Rebellious worker drone with a railgun, daddy issues, and an eldritch AbsoluteSolver infection she never asked for. Her snarled 'bite me' attitude softening around N drives the show's central romance.

Football RPF Characters

Lionel Messi

Odysseus's son, who grew up fatherless under a palace full of suitors and learns to fight in 'Legendary.' Telemachus's gentle determination to be good rather than great made him EPIC fandom's most protected boy.

Athena

1k works · 0 ships

The goddess of wisdom as EPIC reimagines her — Odysseus's exacting mentor whose 'Warrior of the Mind' bond fractures and heals across the sagas. Athena's rigid divinity cracking into grief gives the musical its best god content.

SIX: The Musical Characters

Katherine Howard

2k works · 1 ships

The fifth queen, whose bubblegum number 'All You Wanna Do' curdles into one of musical theater's most devastating portraits of grooming. Howard fic is overwhelmingly hurt/comfort, with the other queens helping her heal.

Anne Boleyn

The tanuki entrepreneur who hands you a tent and a lifetime of debt with the same warm smile. Fans write Tom Nook as everything from benevolent island patriarch to satirical capitalist overlord, often unpacking his canonically hinted hard-luck past.

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Harry Potter Characters

Neville Longbottom

George Weasley

James Potter

Draco Malfoy

Sirius Black

Harry Potter

Tom Riddle

Ron Weasley

Ginny Weasley

Fred Weasley

Hermione Granger

Blaise Zabini

Lily Evans

Luna Lovegood

Severus Snape

Narcissa Malfoy

Albus Dumbledore

Pansy Parkinson

Remus Lupin

Marvel Characters

Wanda Maximoff

Sam Wilson

Natasha Romanoff

Stephen Strange

Tony Stark

Steve Rogers

Peter Parker

Clint Barton

Loki

Wade Wilson

Thor

Bucky Barnes

Game of Thrones Characters

Arya Stark

Jaime Lannister

Daenerys Targaryen

Jon Snow

Sansa Stark

Brienne of Tarth

Tyrion Lannister

Theon Greyjoy

Robb Stark

My Hero Academia Characters

Kirishima Eijirou

Bakugou Katsuki

Aizawa Shouta

All Might

Uraraka Ochako

Midoriya Izuku

Todoroki Shouto

Denki Kaminari

Keigo Takami

Touya Todoroki

Hitoshi Shinsou

Tomura Shigaraki

Momo Yaoyorozu

Kyouka Jirou

Hizashi Yamada

Toga Himiko