primeideal

So I'm brainstorming a project that may or may not come to pass. And the question arises, who are the most popular characters to romantically ship a given Character A with?

One way you can find this out is go to their Ao3 tag, and then pop open the "relationships" filter--that will give you a top 10. But it's possible that some of those are B/C, or A&D, so you can try exclude, exclude, exclude, and iterate until you get only A/B or A/B/C. Even then the relative order might be imprecise because some of the A/B fics will also be tagged with A&D, so they'd get excluded, but at least this gives you a more complete list. (You can also go to Character A's tag page without the "works" selection, which will pop up every single A/B, A/Z, A/B/C/Q that have been wrangled but then you have to individually click on those to get counts.)

Anyway, for Lando Calrissian, the top 10 is something like:

-Han
-Luke
-L3
-Leia
-Poe
-Bodhi
-Leia/Han
-Wedge Antilles
-Leia/Luke
-Boba Fett

and I'm not sure whether to be more surprised that my tiny pool noodle is at #5, or that L3 is so low in overall terms.

I mean, in part Solo was just...not a good movie, but L3 won a place in my heart despite that.