#shipping poll: fiona thyme

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SHIP #64 - THYME DILATION

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So, WOW.

I did not expect to get over 1,100 responses to my “hehe what do my fellow wuhluhwuhs think of rwby” survey, but here we are! I’m honored and the statistics nerd in me is absolutely giddy, so here’s responses with 10x the scope of our last writeup, 150+ responses! And remember that we’re still plugging so if you haven’t yet take the survey here!

Demographic

As of 1,100+ votes:

44.7% of survey takers identify as Lesbian 37.8% as Bisexual 11.8% as Pansexual 16.1% as Asexual 3.4% as Aromantic

When it comes to umbrella terms, 13.1% use the umbrella term sapphic, 23.2% use WLW, and 22.1% use Queer

(Note that this is a “select all that apply” question, so one may, for example, hit “bisexual, aromantic, and wlw”; percentages do not necessarily take away from each other.)

As of 1,100+ votes,

81.3% respondents identify simply as a Woman 19.8% identify as Non-binary

When it comes to non-binary identities, 5.9% identify as genderfluid, 3.9% identify as a demigirl, and 3.3% identify as genderqueer.

Out of the people that consider themselves binary women,

79.5% responded that they are Cisgender 9% responded that they are Transgender 11.6% do not wish to disclose whether they are cis or trans

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Characters (Opinions)

So, which characters are popular in the RWBY wlw community? Which characters aren’t?

Here’s where results start differing from our last writeup! Just like fandometics +n and -n will indicate how many spots someone moved. Bold will be used if anyone new enters a list.

(Note: Respondents were allowed to choose up to 5 favorites)

As of 1,100+ votes...

Top 10 most popular female characters

1. Yang Xiao Long (61.7%) 2. Blake Belladonna (48%) 3. Weiss Schnee (44.1%) 4. Ruby Rose (25.5%) 5. Pyrrha Nikos (17.5%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (13.2%) 7. Penny Polendina (12.8%) +1 8. Neo (11.3%) +1 9. Winter Schnee (8.7%) 10. Ilia Amitola (7.8) -4

Top 10 most popular male characters

1. Qrow Branwen (58.4%) 2. Lie Ren (39.2%) 3. Sun Wukong (29.5) +2 4. Jaune Arc (26.3%) 5. Oscar Pine (25.9%) -2 6. Ghira Belladonna (12.4%) 7. Roman Torchwick (11.5%) 8. Marrow Amin (11.3%) +2 9. Clover Ebi (11.2%) 10. James Ironwood (10.4%) -1

We also polled which characters wlw hate!

Top 5 most hated female characters

1. Cinder Fall (50.2%) 2. Salem (27.1%) 3. Raven Branwen (20.9) +1 4. Glynda Goodwitch (17%) -1 5. Neon Katt (16.1%) -1

Top 5 most hated male characters 1. Adam Taurus (71.3%) 2. Jacques Schnee (66.4%) 3. Tyrian Callows (23.6%) 4. Leonardo Lionheart (17%)  5. Arthur Watts & Jaune Arc (12.9% each) -1 but only for Jaune

We also asked which characters wlw personally relate to or project onto the most.

Top 10 most relatable female characters to wlw

1. Blake Belladonna (47.3%) +1 2. Yang Xiao Long (45.5%) -1 3. Ruby Rose (33.9%) 4. Weiss Schnee (30.4%) 5. Ilia Amitola (14.1%) 6. Pyrrha Nikos (10.3%) +1 7. Penny Polendina (10%) +1 8. Nora Valkyrie (9.6%) -2 9. Winter Schnee (7.3%) 10. Velvet Scarlatina (4.9%) -2

Top 5 most relatable male characters to wlw (Note: there was a large vote disparsity between the two!)

1. Jaune Arc (36.8%) 2. Qrow Branwen (34.6%) 3. Lie Ren (29%) +1 4. Oscar Pine (26.9%) -1 5. Sun Wukong (17.7%)

Characters (Headcanons)

Next, we asked for peoples’ sexuality headcanons. We asked people to select every character they thought of strictly as X sexuality.

I did include characters whose sexuality has been confirmed, like Ilia, mostly because I copy-pasted the character lists and I made this at midnight. Whoops - but it is fun to see her topping the “most lesbian” list.

These will be phrased as “most [sexuality] character”, because it’s fun.

Top 10 most lesbian characters, as voted by wlw

1. Ilia Amitola (87.3%) 2. Coco Adel (80.8%) 3. Robyn Hill (72.1%) +1 4. Yang Xiao Long (66.1%) -1 5. Fiona Thyme (50.5%) 6. Weiss Schnee (38.7%) 7. Velvet Scarlatina (35.2%) +1 8. Winter Schnee (34%) -1 9. Emerald Sustrai (29%) 10. May Marigold (25.7%)

Top 10 most bisexual female characters

1. Blake Belladonna (92.9%) 2. Raven Branwen (51.4%) 3. Summer Rose (41.5%) 4. Pyrrha Nikos (35%) 5. Weiss Schnee (31.4%) +2 6. Velvet Scarlatina (32.7%) -1 7. Nora Valkyrie (25.6%) -1  8. Emerald Sustrai (20.8%) +1 9. Ruby Rose (19.4%) 10. Winter Schnee and Kali Belladonna (19.3%) -2 but only for Kali

Top 10 most pansexual female characters

1. Nora Valkyrie (36.7%) 2. Neon Katt (32.3%) 3. Yang Xiao Long (25.5%) +1 4. Pyrrha Nikos (23.7%) -1 5. Penny Polendina (24.5%) +1 6. Ruby Rose (20%) -1 7. Neo (16.3%) 8. Summer Rose (16.1%) 9. May Marigold (10.8%) 10. Velvet Scarlatina (9.9%)

Top 10 most ace and/or aro female characters

1. Ruby Rose (70.2%) 2. Penny Polendina (47.3%) 3. Neo (23.2%) 4. Glynda Goodwitch (11.8%) +1 5. Maria Calavera (10.8%) -1 6. Cinder Fall (9.3%)  7. Winter Schnee (8.5%) +3 8. Sienna Khan (5.8%) -1  9. Weiss Schnee (4.3%) -1 10. Salem (4.7%)

Ships

As of 1,100+ responses:

What is your favorite ship? (You can only pick one!)

Bumbleby (Blake/Yang) - 57% Whiterose (Weiss/Ruby) - 13.8% Fair Game (Qrow/Clover) - 5.6% Nuts and Dolts (Ruby/Penny) -3.9% Freezerburn (Yang/Weiss) - 2.6% Renora (Ren/Nora) - 1.9% Ladybug (Ruby/Blake) - 1.6% Monochrome (Weiss/Blake) - 1.4% Rosegarden (Ruby/Oscar) - 1.1% Arkos (Jaune/Pyrrha) - 1%

I don’t have space to write all the ones that got less than 1%, so they won’t be in this report.

Top 10 wlw ships, as rated by wlw:

(This is another category where up to 5 answers are permissible!)

1. Bumbleby (89.6%) 2. Whiterose (60.8%) 3. Crosshares [Coco/Velvet] (58%) +1 4. Nuts and Dolts (57.2%) -1 5. Springthyme [Robyn/Fiona] (35.8%) 6. Freezerburn [Yang/Weiss] (29.8%) +1 7. Rosebird [Raven/Summer] (23.9%) +1 8. Schneewood Forest [Robyn/Winter] (18.2%) +1   9. Schneekos [Weiss/Pyrrha] (16.4%) -3 10. Arcotta [Sapphron/Terra] (16.1%)

Top 5 mlm ships

1. Fair Game [Qrow/Clover] (85.4%) 2. Seamonkeys [Sun/Neptune] (64.9%) 3. Ironqrow [Ironwood/Qrow] (40.5%) 4. Martial Arcs [Jaune/Ren] (15.2%) 5. Rich Farmers [Oscar/Whitley] (14.4%)

Top 5 m/f ships

1. Renora (87.5%) 2. Arkos (66.8%) 3. Rosegarden [Ruby/Oscar] (11.8%) +2 4. Emercury [Emerald/Mercury] (10.4%) 5. Gelato [Neo/Torchwick] (9.8%) -1

Next, we polled on likelihood vs. personal want. In this next section, up to 5 choices were permissible.

Top 10 “most likely to be canon” ships, as voted by wlw

1. Bumbleby (97.9%) 2. Renora (91%) 3. Fair Game (54.3%) 4. Rosegarden (32.8%) +2   5. Crosshares (29.5%) -1 6. Springthyme (29%) -1 7. Whiterose (18.3%) 8. Dreadnought [Salem/Ozpin], reconciled (15.6%) 9. Nuts and Dolts (13.3%) 10. Phoenix [Taiyang/Raven], reconciled (9%)

Top 10 “most wanted to be canon” ships

1. Bumbleby (88.3%) 2. Renora (70.8%) 3. Fair Game (59.6%) 4. Whiterose (42.6%) +1   5. Crosshares (31.7%) -1 6. Springthyme (34.9%) 7. Nuts and Dolts (31.2%) 8. Seamonkeys (13.7%) 9. Rosegarden (8.9%)  10. Phoenix, reconciled (7%)

And finally, beware of ship hate - the top 5 most hated ships by wlw

1. Taura/donna (83.4%) 2. Black/sun (33.1%) 3. Iceberg [Weiss/Neptune] (28.5%) +1 4. Rosegarden (28%) -1 5. White Knight [Weiss/Jaune] (27.2%)

Representation

88.3% of wlw polled think RWBY has good wlw representation in general

49.6% would praise RWBY’s lesbian representation

53.7% would praise their bisexual representation

40.8% would praise their trans representation

34.5% would praise their general mlm representation

21.4% would praise their representation of gay men specifically

21.7% would praise their ace/aro representation

Comments on what they could improve on generally include mlm representation, ace/aro rep, and more trans rep

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Thank you so much for partaking in this survey! I’ll post updated results when we hit another milestone... let’s see how far we can go!

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SHIP #25 - ROSARY FLEECE

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SHIP #151 - SEARED SHEEP

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SHIP #104 - BLAKESHEEP

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flash analysis: 150+ votes

As of right now my rwby wlw survey has 150 responses. thank you!

i plan to update regularly as we hit milestones, with 100 being the first. details below the cut! if you’re wlw and you like rwby, feel free to take the survey, here!

Demographic

As of 150 votes:

56.8% of survey takers identify as Lesbian 27.1% as Bisexual 8.3% as Pansexual 11.2% as Asexual 4.5% as Aromantic

When it comes to umbrella terms, 20.7% use the umbrella term sapphic, 31.9% use WLW, and 27.9% use Queer

(Note that this is a “select all that apply” question, so one may, for example, hit “bisexual, aromantic, and wlw”; percentages do not necessarily take away from each other.)

As of 150 votes, 

74.6% respondents identify simply as a Woman 26.8% identify as Non-binary

When it comes to non-binary identities, 7.2% identify as genderfluid, 7.2% identify as a demigirl, and 3.6% identify as genderqueer.

Out of the people that consider themselves binary women, 

68.5% responded that they are Cisgender 18.9% responded that they are Transgender 12.6% do not wish to disclose whether they are cis or trans

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Characters (Opinions)

So, which characters are popular in the RWBY wlw community? Which characters aren’t? 

(Note: Respondents were allowed to choose up to 5 favorites)

As of 150 votes...

Top 10 most popular female characters

1. Yang Xiao Long (67.5%) 2. Blake Belladonna (62.3%) 3. Weiss Schnee (41.6%) 4. Ruby Rose (27.9%) 5. Pyrrha Nikos (16.9%) 6. & 7. Nora Valkyrie and Ilia Amitola (11.7% each) 8. Penny Polendina (9.7%) 9. Neo (9.1%) 10. Robyn Hill (7.7%)

Top 10 most popular male characters

1. Qrow Branwen (51%) 2. Lie Ren (42.5%) 3. Oscar Pine (28.5%) 4. Jaune Arc (25%) 5. Sun Wukong (24.8%) 6. Ghira Belladonna (18.5%) 7. Roman Torchwick (11.8%) 8. Taiyang Xiao Long (11.1%) 9. James Ironwood (9.8%) 10. Marrow Amin (9.2%)

We also polled which characters wlw hate!

(This is where Google Chrome crashed and we reached 180 responses. Thank you! I’m going to preserve the original numbers I scrawled out, but from here on we’re working with a slightly bigger pool.)

Top 5 6 most hated female characters 1. Cinder Fall (52.8%) 2. Salem (25.8%) 3. Glynda Goodwitch (20.2%) 4-6. Raven Branwen, Neo, and Neon Katt (14.1% each)

Top 5 most hated male characters 1. Adam Taurus (73.8%) 2. Jacques Schnee (62.3%) 3. Tyrian Callows (23.5%) 4. Jaune Arc (15.8%) 5. Arthur Watts (14.1%)

We also asked which characters wlw personally relate to or project onto the most.

Top 10 most relatable female characters to wlw

1. Yang Xiao Long (58.9%) 2. Blake Belladonna (51.7%) 3. Ruby Rose (32.8%) 4. Weiss Schnee (26.1%) 5. Ilia Amitola (15%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (12.%) 7. Pyrrha Nikos (7.2%) 8. & 9. Penny Polendina & Velvet Scarlatina (6.1% each) 10. Coco Adel (3.9%)

Top 5 most relatable male characters to wlw (Note: there was a large vote disparsity between the two!)

1. Jaune Arc (38%) 2. Qrow Branwen (30.1%) 3. Oscar Pine (28.5%) 4. Lie Ren (25.2%) 5. Sun Wukong (17.9%)

Characters (Headcanons)

Next, we asked for peoples’ sexuality headcanons. We asked people to select every character they thought of strictly as X sexuality.

I did include characters whose sexuality has been confirmed, like Ilia, mostly because I copy-pasted the character lists and I made this at midnight. Whoops - but it is fun to see her topping the “most lesbian” list.

These will be phrased as “most [sexuality] character”, because it’s fun.

Top 10 most lesbian characters, as voted by wlw

1. Ilia Amitola (89.7%) 2. Coco Adel (86.9%) 3. Yang Xiao Long (76.6%) 4. Robyn Hill (75.7%) 5. Fiona Thyme (52.8%) 6. Weiss Schnee (46.3%) 7. Winter Schnee (39.7%) 8. Velvet Scarlatina (33.2%) 9. Emerald Sustrai (31.3%) 10. May Marigold (26.2%)

Top 10 most bisexual female characters

1. Blake Belladonna (93.2%) 2. Raven Branwen (53.4%) 3. Summer Rose (48.9%) 4. Pyrrha Nikos (44.7%) 5. Velvet Scarlatina (33.8%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (31.5%) 7. Weiss Schnee (26%) 8. Kali Belladonna (22.4%) 9. Emerald Sustrai (17.4%) 10. Winter Schnee (16.9%)

Top 10 most pansexual female characters

1. Nora Valkyrie (39.1%) 2. Neon Katt (33.8%) 3. Pyrrha Nikos (26.5%) 4. Yang Xiao Long (21.2%) 5. Ruby Rose (17.9%) 6. Penny Polendina (17.2%) 7. Neo (15.9%)  8. Summer Rose (12.6%) 9. May Marigold (10.6%) 10. Elm Ederne (9.3%)

Top 10 most ace and/or aro female characters

1. Ruby Rose (78.9%) 2. Penny Polendina (47.4%) 3. Neo (21.6%) 4. Maria Calavera (8.9%) 5.& 6. Glynda Goodwitch & Cinder Fall (7.4% each)  7. Sienna Khan (5.3%) 8. & 9. Weiss Schnee & Joanna Greenleaf (4.2% each) 10. Winter Schnee & Harriet Bree (3.8% each)

Ships

As of 180 responses:

What is your favorite ship? (You can only pick one!)

Bumbleby (Blake/Yang) - 68.9% Whiterose (Weiss/Ruby) - 13.2% Nuts and Dolts (Ruby/Penny) - 7.4% Renora (Ren/Nora) - 1.1%

Those are all the responses that got 2+ votes (Renora only has 2 so far, they’re the slightly larger turquoise strip!) I don’t have space to write all the ones that got 1 vote individually, so they won’t be in this report.

Top 10 wlw ships, as rated by wlw:

(This is another category where up to 5 answers are permissible!)

1. Bumbleby (93.8%) 2. Whiterose (60.3%) 3. Nuts and Dolts (58.8%) 4. Crosshares [Coco/Velvet] (57.7%) 5. Springthyme [Robyn/Fiona] (30.4%) 6. Schneekos [Weiss/Pyrrha] (27.3%) 7. Freezerburn [Yang/Weiss] (24.7%) 8. Rosebird [Raven/Summer] (24.2%) 9. Schneewood Forest [Robyn/Winter] (19.1%) 10. Monochrome [Blake/Weiss] (18.6%)

Top 5 mlm ships

1. Fair Game [Qrow/Clover] (82.9%) 2. Seamonkeys [Sun/Neptune] (68.4%) 3. Ironqrow [Ironwood/Qrow] (38.9%) 4. Martial Arcs [Jaune/Ren] (17.1%) 5. Rich Farmers [Oscar/Whitley] (14%)

Top 5 m/f ships

1. Renora (88.9%) 2. Arkos (67.7%) 3. Sunflakes [Weiss/Sun] (13.1%) 4. Gelato [Neo/Torchwick] (10.6%) 5. Rosegarden [Ruby/Oscar] (8.6%)

Next, we polled on likelihood vs. personal want. In this next section, up to 5 choices were permissible.

Top 10 “most likely to be canon” ships, as voted by wlw

1. Bumbleby (97.9%) 2. Renora (91%) 3. Fair Game (54.3%) 4. Crosshares (28.5%) 5. Springthyme (28.1%) 6. Rosegarden (22.9%) 7. Whiterose (21.6%) 8. Dreadnought [Salem/Ozpin], reconciled (18.6%) 9. Nuts and Dolts (17.7%) 10. Phoenix [Taiyang/Raven], reconciled (9.7%)

Top 10 “most wanted to be canon” ships

1. Bumbleby (95.4%) 2. Renora (68.6%) 3. Fair Game (54.2%) 4. Crosshares (47.1%) 5. Whiterose (40%) 6. Springthyme (38.8%) 7. Nuts and Dolts (35%) 8. Seamonkeys (13.3%) 9. Dreadnought, reconciled (9.6%) 10. Phoenix, reconciled (7.5%)

And finally, beware of ship hate - the top 5 most hated ships by wlw

1. Taura/donna (84.1%) 2. Black/sun (39.3%) 3. Rosegarden (29.2%) 4. Iceberg [Weiss/Neptune] (28.6%) 5. Qro/win [Qrow/Winter] (27.8%)

Representation

91.2% of wlw polled think RWBY has good wlw representation in general

59.8% would praise RWBY’s lesbian representation

57.3% would praise their bisexual representation

45.6% would praise their trans representation

33.6% would praise their general mlm representation

24.9% would praise their representation of gay men specifically

22.8% would praise their ace/aro representation

Comments on what they could improve on generally include mlm representation, ace/aro rep, and more trans rep

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Thank you so much for partaking in this survey! I’ll post updated results when we hit another milestone, like 500!