Romeo/Juliet

Pairing
Pairing:	Romeo and Juliet
Alternative name(s):	Romiet, Julio
Gender category:	Het
Fandom:	Romeo and Juliet, Romeo et Juliette, and others
Canonical?:	Yes
Prevalence:	Highly prevalent; the 1st-3rd most common ship in multiple connected fandoms
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Romeo/Juliet is one of the most popular ships in the fandom for Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and in the fandoms of some inspired works, such as Romeo and Juliet: the Musical.

This ship is canon and very old, predating Shakespeare's work. The names Romeo and Juliet have become synonymous with love, particularly doomed young love.

Interactions in Canon

In Shakespeare

The Capulet and Montague families have a blood feud. Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague, but when he and friends gatecrash a Capulet party, he and she fall in love, beginning a whirlwind doomed forbidden romance which lasts three days and ends in the suicides of both due to a tragic misunderstanding in which Romeo falsely thinks Juliet is dead when she is actually in a medically-induced coma and kills himself and Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead and kills herself.

In Fandom

Fics featuring this ship often take place in the canon universe and end tragically, are fix-its where one or both do not die or they meet in the afterlife, or are modern AUs which do not follow the canon sequence of events as strictly.

A 2019 musical fandom survey conducted on Tumblr and Discord concluded that Romeo/Juliet was the most popular OTP and found no significant correlation between whether people shipped it and which productions they favored. This lines up with its prevalence in fan works--it is the most-tagged ship in the overarching "Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare" tag on Ao3.

Associated Fanfic Tropes

• Angst
• Forbidden Love
• Deathfic
• Fix-it

Archives and Links

• Juliet Capulet/Romeo Montague tag on Ao3