#btw lmk if i fucked up and added a weird ship im not completely familiar with all these characters

[sonlc]

hi everyone. yesterday my friends and i got on the topic of sonic rarepair ships because my friend cat @/silvers-starrway is doing sonic rarepair requests. I wasn't sure about what exactly constituted a rarepair wrt sonic, so i asked. the answer i kept getting was "below 500 fics on ao3", so for fun i decided to have my friends give me a few ships and i'd look them up on ao3 to see if they qualified as a rarepair according to these parameters. this devolved into me getting really curious and making a whole spreadsheet dedicated to figuring out just how many fics each sonic ship has on ao3-- excluding those below 10 fics because at that point i find it kind of impossible and a headache to keep up with the amount of pairings a character could have. i have also excluded proship ships for this.

there's probably quite a few ships i missed due to the sheer size of this franchise, so feel free to comment one if you don't see it and i'll add it to the spreadsheet if it has enough fics to qualify! again this was just for fun and out of interest to see which ships had the most/least amount of fics. maybe ill turn it into a visual dataset at some point