I've been watching Avatar lately and I noticed something about their stories: the canon main-character pairing has quite a few stories, but the pairing of one of the main protagonists with one of the main villains has almost twice as many stories. That got me thinking: if Kim devolved (or evolved, if you're in the mood) into a bit of ship-to-ship combat, how even would the sides be? So I had a little bit of time on my hands this morning and I did some calculating...

3168 Romance stories listed as of Sept. 14 Stories involving:

• Kim: 1913 (60.39% of all romance stories)
• Shego: 1244 (39.27%)
• Ron: 1077 (34.00%)
• Drakken: 186 (5.87%)
• Bonnie: 103 (3.25%)
• Monique: 30
• Monkey Fist: 29
• Yori: 26
• Josh: 16
• Tara: 16
• Wade: 15 (11 by cpneb)
• Rufus: 14
• Mrs. Dr. P: 11
• Felix: 9
• Tim/Jim: 8
• Mr. Dr. P: 7
• Dr. Director: 6
• Hana: 6
• Joss: 6
• All other characters: 5 or less

- Kim paired with:

• Shego: 964 (50.39% of all Kim romance stories)
• Ron: 817 (42.71%)
• Bonnie: 29 (1.52%)
• None of the above: 103 (5.38%)

- Shego paired with:

• Kim: 964 (77.49% of all Shego romance stories)
• Drakken: 164 (13.18%)
• Ron: 65 (5.23%)
• None of the above: 51 (4.10%)

- Ron paired with:

• Kim: 817 (75.86% of all Ron romance stories)
• Shego: 65 (6.03%)
• Bonnie: 48 (4.46%)
• Yori: 13 (1.21%)
• None of the above: 134 (12.44%)

- Drakken paired with:

• Shego: 164 (88.17% of all Drakken romance stories)
• Kim: 10 (5.38%)
• Ron: 5 (2.69%)
• None of the above: 7 (3.76%)

- Bonnie paired with:

• Ron: 48 (46.60% of all Bonnie romance stories)
• Kim: 29 (28.16%)
• Shego: 8 (7.77%)
• None of the above: 18 (17.48%)

'Ah, you can come up with statistics to prove just about anything. 30% of all people know THAT!' - Homer Simpson

Yeah. But what was he proving?

I thought he was just throwing the information out there for us to interpret as we will.

Few suprises here. I never imagined Shego would be paired more often with Drakken than with Ron. Or Ron more often with Shego than Bonnie. I thought Bonnie was Rons fallback in case of Kigo.

Baby Hana has more ships than I would have guessed. I could probably say the same about the naked mole rat.

Extras like Monique, Tara and Yori need to pick up their game. Lagging behind.

With Hana and Rufus, they can essentially be used as original characters so it's not so surprising to me. Ron/Yori over Ron/Bonnie didn't surprise me either. Kim and Shego have to go through some pretty big changes in most Kigo universes for that relationship to work, so it's a lot easier to set Ron up with a girl that already likes him rather than make another character (Bonnie) go through a big personality change.

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