CR4 Shipping Poll Wrapped!
My shipping poll has ranked our very scientifically determined top 10 Critical Role Campaign 4 ships and now we can talk about how it breaks down!
Wicander Halovar/Tyranny (27.6% of the vote, 46 fics on AO3 as of 12/3/25)
Bolaire Lathalia/Halandil Fang (19.7%, 58 fics)
Thaisha Lloy/Vaelus (17.2%, 15 fics)
Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis (9.4%, 48 fics)
Thaisha Lloy/Halandil Fang (9.2%, 15 fics)
Kattigan Vale/Murray Mag'Nesson (5.2%, 2 fics)
Teor Pridesire/Wicander Halovar (4.9%, 13 fics)
Aranessa Royce/Thjazi Fang (3%, 18 fics)
Murray Mag'Nesson/Azune Nayar (2.6%, 3 fics)
Shadia Fang/Occtis Tachonis (1.1%, 0 fics)
Perfectly balanced as all things should be, there is a m/m, f/f and f/m taking the top slot.
Wick, Hal and Thaisha are the most shippable characters. They took the largest percentage of votes between their top ships (Wick ships accounted for 32.5% of all votes, Hal ships accounted for 28.9% and Thaisha ships accounted for 26.4% of votes.), while all of them had partners that weren't multishipped as much.
Occtis/Kattigan & Julien/Aranessa both have more fics on ao3 than some of the top ships but didn't cut it to the top of their polls, which either indicates a userbase difference or shifting interests as the story has progressed.
Trends in shipping will certainly shift and change as the campaign continues, particularly when the first table swap happens, but as of the first soldier arc, it seems like Wicanny is holding some level of dominance over fandom, though the trends on AO3 skew more towards slash ships, unsurprisingly.
