RWBY WLW Ship Survey
| Fan Survey | |
|---|---|
| Title: | RWBY WLW Ship Survey |
| Surveyor: | breadthief |
| Date(s): | 2020 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | RWBY |
| External Links: | flash flash analysis: 150+ votes, Archived version 1100+ Responses, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
RWBY WLW Ship Survey is a fan survey examining WLW's (women loving women) opinions on characters, ships and representation in RWBY.
The survey was posted to Tumblr and Discord servers on January 10, 2020 with results coming out the same day. A follow up analysis was posted on January 13 after the survey had gained over 1100 responses.
It inspired the creation of the RWBY MLM Survey.
Intro Post
Hey ladies! If you’re a lesbian, bisexual woman, pansexual woman, or wlw in general and you like RWBY, wanna take a minute to take my survey? I just think statistics are neat and I’ll post my findings after a few weeksI may have already posted this in a few discord servers and spent a good 15 minutes gushing over the statistics we’ve already gotten, but anywaysIf youre not wlw feel free to boost this anyways! The more the merrier
Extracts from survey results
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
- Yang Xiao Long (61.7%)
- Blake Belladonna (48%)
- Weiss Schnee (44.1%)
- Ruby Rose (25.5%)
- Pyrrha Nikos (17.5%)
- Nora Valkyrie (13.2%)
- Penny Polendina (12.8%) +1
- Neo (11.3%) +1
- Winter Schnee (8.7%)
- Ilia Amitola (7.8) -4
Top 10 most popular male characters
- Qrow Branwen (58.4%)
- Lie Ren (39.2%)
- Sun Wukong (29.5) +2
- Jaune Arc (26.3%)
- Oscar Pine (25.9%) -2
- Ghira Belladonna (12.4%)
- Roman Torchwick (11.5%)
- Marrow Amin (11.3%) +2
- Clover Ebi (11.2%)
- James Ironwood (10.4%) -1
We also polled which characters wlw hate!
Top 5 most hated female characters
- Cinder Fall (50.2%)
- Salem (27.1%)
- Raven Branwen (20.9) +1
- Glynda Goodwitch (17%) -1
- Neon Katt (16.1%) -1
Top 5 most hated male characters
- Adam Taurus (71.3%)
- Jacques Schnee (66.4%)
- Tyrian Callows (23.6%)
- Leonardo Lionheart (17%)
- Arthur Watts & Jaune Arc (12.9% each) -1 but only for Jaune
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
- Bumbleby (97.9%)
- Renora (91%)
- Fair Game (54.3%)
- Rosegarden (32.8%) +2
- Crosshares (29.5%) -1
- Springthyme (29%) -1
- Whiterose (18.3%)
- Dreadnought [Salem/Ozpin], reconciled (15.6%)
- Nuts and Dolts (13.3%)
- Phoenix [Taiyang/Raven], reconciled (9%)
Top 10 “most wanted to be canon” ships
- Bumbleby (88.3%)
- Renora (70.8%)
- Fair Game (59.6%)
- Whiterose (42.6%) +1
- Crosshares (31.7%) -1
- Springthyme (34.9%)
- Nuts and Dolts (31.2%)
- Seamonkeys (13.7%)
- Rosegarden (8.9%)
- Phoenix, reconciled (7%)
And finally, beware of ship hate - the top 5 most hated ships by wlw
- Taura/donna (83.4%)
- Black/sun (33.1%)
- Iceberg [Weiss/Neptune] (28.5%) +1
- Rosegarden (28%) -1
- White Knight [Weiss/Jaune] (27.2%)
Reception and responses
It is rather depressing to see the disparity between WhiteRose being one of the most popular/want-to-be-canon ships, yet trailing so far down (particularly behind Rosegarden) in the most-likely-to-be-canon categoryThough at the same time, I’m VERY curious whether that disparity would still be present if this poll was taken post-Volume 6. Or hell, even just last month before Episode 9 aired.[1]
I know there was a big disparity between what male characters wlw related to the most but I find it interesting that Jaune is the number male character wlw relate but made it to the top 5 of the most hated male characters[2]
it is pretty funny to see how Jaune is both one of the top hated and top liked male characters[3]