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Interspecies Romance in Fan Works.
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  • When it comes to fanfic writer CVGW James, nothing is off-limits when it comes to the different species that get together in his stories. You have humans getting with Mobians from the universe of Sonic the Hedgehog, and you have humans getting with Inklings from the Splatoon universe, just to name a few examples.

Adventure Time

  • Like many fics, Tower, Tower pairs Princess Bubblegum (candy person) with Marceline (half-demon vampire), but adds a twist at the very end when Bubblegum becomes a ghost.

Ah! My Goddess

Alice, Girl from the Future

  • There are many fanfics, the most prominent one being Earth – Fiks Travel Route, where Alice falls in love with and marries the Third Captain. She is a human and he is an alien who looks generally humanoid, but with three legs and six arms and used to lighter gravity than that on Earth.
  • There are also fanfics, the longest one being The Murders in Ursa Minor, in which Alice is shipped with Rat, a shapeshifting alien whose default form resembles a scorpion (though he spends most of the time in canon in human shape).

Animorphs

  • Dæmorphing: Besides all the instances of this from canon, Ruby (a human) falls in love with a Hork-Bajir. Downplayed because this Hork-Bajir is Tom, who used to be a human.
  • What Tomorrow Brings: As in canon, Loren and Rachel don't care what form Elfangor are Tobias are in, Loren explicitly calling Elfangor's Andalite form "even hotter" and Rachel having no problem embracing Tobias when he assumes an Andalite form.

Attack on Titan

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

  • Fail Better:
    • Lucia and the first William Adama. She's a goddess, he's a dead human, they meet in the underworld, get married, become the "parents" of generations as ancestor and step-ancestress respectively and "live" happily forever. After some complications.
    • Selene and Billy too. Apparently, falling in love with humans runs in the family.

Blood+

Bolt

  • The Bolt Chronicles:
    • The love relationship between Bolt (a dog) and Mittens (a cat) in later stories of the series, from "The Ship" onward, is an example of this trope. Its unusual nature is played straight in universe, often acknowledged as such.
    • Or interspecies sexual encounter in "The Party." An unnamed female tiger-striped tabby cat who Really Gets Around mentions having had sex with a male dog during the title event. Later in the story, Mittens is offered to become part of a "funky feline sandwich" with a pair of Basset hounds, which she declines.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Calvin and Hobbes

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

  • Chip (chipmunk) and Gadget (mouse) are a popular choice of a couple, ranging from letting the actual romance grow by itself (for example Fly to the Light) or leaving one or both heartbroken because they Cannot Spit It Out and putting one or both through the wringer before their deserved First Kiss (for example Rhyme and Reason, Of Mice and Mayhem, half the Midnightverse).
  • Next to Dale & Foxglove and Chip & Gadget, The Midnightverse hints at something growing between Sparky (rat) and Lahwhinie/LaWahini (mouse). Diamonds In The Desert reintroduces Clarice from the Chip and Dale cartoon short "Two Chips and a Miss" who plays with the two 'munks, but who also is the crush of a mouse. It also introduces a third rat who looks a lot like Rat Capone and Francis (they're brothers in this 'verse), and who hits on Gadget a lot.

Crossover

  • In The Bagges Take Ostania, The Computer hits it off well with The Handler when they first meet until they eventually end up going on a date after WISE arrests Katz and his cohorts.
  • A Divine (Romantic) Comedy: This ensues by way of the primary core of the story, it being a budding romance between Lucifer Morningstar (the first Fallen Angel and the Devil himself) and Camila Noceda (a human woman). Additionally there is the preexisting romance between Luz Noceda (a Human girl and Camila's daughter) and Amity Blight (a Boiling Isles Witch), and Charlie (a Hellborn Demon) and Vaggie (a Heavenborn Angel).
  • In Hater Good Side Story Swayed Decisions, a Breadwinners and Pickle and Peanut crossover, Sophee, a sparrow, has a crush on SwaySway, a duck, and he admitted he used to like her back. She later ended up with an axolotl named Citrus.
  • In Stardust, it's fairly common in Equestria, in part because there are an average of 3 stallions to every 7 mares. Upon hearing this, Lana immediately figures the best way get Twilight off the fact that she's XCOM's newest test subject is to imply that Matt thinks Twilight is cute. Twilight takes it very seriously, and even searches for information about "Human Courting Protocols." Matt is mostly upset how Lana refuses to stop teasing him about it, but there is some Ship Tease between the two.
  • Eric Sparkle and the Locket of Prophecies: This is fairly common: Sweetie Belle (unicorn) develops a crush on Eric (human), and vice versa. In Chapter 13, Marina (hippogriff), Holly (deer), and Zuni (zebra) each develop a crush on Rumble (pegasus), Featherweight (pegasus), and Pipsqueak (earth pony).
  • Last Child of Krypton: Shinji, who is half-Kryptonian, and Asuka, a human, eventually become a couple.
  • Peace and Isolation: Luna has a crush on Adam, the God Emperor of Man. It may not be completely one-sided.
  • Pokémon Crossing has multiple interspecies couples through the series:
    • Benedict (a chicken), Tank (a rhino) and Kidd (goat) are all in a polyamorous relationship by chapter 24.
    • Tom Nook (a tanuki) is married to Sable (a hedgehog)
    • Apollo (an eagle) has many unwanted fangirls who are wolves, and is in a committed relationship with Wolfgang (also a wolf)
    • Frank (eagle) and Rooney (kangaroo) are exes.
    • Frobert (the Dewford Town gym leader, and a frog) has a crush on Gracie (a giraffe)
    • Static (squirrel) is married to Bangle (a tiger)
    • Frita (a sheep) is dating Pashmina (a goat)
    • Judy (a bear) and Dobie (a wolf) are implied to have dated at one point but broke up
    • Cyrano (an anteater) and Cesar (a gorilla) are married.
  • The Review Team has a sub-page in development because the amount of inter-species couples goes THROUGH THE ROOF.
  • In the Cartoon X-Over "The Sinners and Their Saints", It features the three male leads being half human and half paranormal being and it features them slowly falling for the three female leads. Manny is the son of a devil and human who falls in love with two human women and having a brief affair with a witch.Steven is the offspring of a vampire and a human who develops unrequited feelings for one human woman then later falls for another which is returned. Dipper is cursed to be half werewolf and slowly finds himself falling head over paws for a human woman as well.
  • The Buffyverse and Harry Potter Crossover The Savior and the Scourge has the main pairing of Spike (vampire) and Harry Potter (human wizard) as well as the Beta Couples of Angel (vampire) and Draco (human wizard), Illyria (Demon Goddess/Eldritch Abomination) and Neville (human wizard), and a threesome of Willow (human witch), Lupin, and Oz (werewolves).
  • Stargate Equestria: Hinted at between Daniel Jackson and Twilight Sparkle. Leads to the following exchange with O'Neill (which he quite understandably finds rather unsettling):
    "If both participants are sapient beings, is it really besti —"
    "Do not finish that sentence, Jackson."
  • Star Trek: Phoenix: By virtue of Sunset and Twilight being the only ponies in Federation space and adopted sisters besides, every romantic relationship they pursue is one of these by default. Sunset, in particular, has a year-long fling with Alma, a human, and later becomes friends with benefits with Cadeneza, another human.
  • Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka is half-kryptonian half-human, and Shinji is human. Shinji really liked her and Asuka gradually fell in love with him due to Shinji being always there for her. Finally in chapter 19 they got together.
  • In Time Lords and Terror the Doctor (of course) has Ship Tease with most of the main six, much of it with Twilight, and Celestia implies Luna develops a crush on him in the future/past. He looks like a pony here, but he looked like a human in his original universe despite being very much not.
  • "Pokemon vs. Digimon: When Worlds Collide" features Brock (Pokemon at least attempts one when he immediately starts flirting with Angewomon (Digimon Adventures 02) after Gatomon Digivolves, only for Misty to drag him away.
  • Quite a few of these feature in Avengers: Infinite Wars;
    • Pietro Maximoff practically has a case of Love at First Sight upon meeting Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora who in turn finds him to be quite charming. The two are shown sharing dinner at a fancy restaurant or watching films, with Pietro comfortably introducing Riyo as his girlfriend to Wanda when she returns.
    • Steve Rogers immediately took notice of Aayla Secura and her unique appearance, and the two have exchanged such bonding moments as a Midfight Weapon Exchange, culminating in them both entering a relationship after Aayla receives some encouragement from her old master Quinlan Vos and others in chapter 85
    • Chapter 45 reveals that Sam Wilson has been meeting up with a Zeltron female named Dani in his leisure time.
    • Spider-Man gets plenty of Ship Tease with both of his new friends Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee, ranging from Ahsoka teasingly asking him what a "French kiss" is to Peter and Barriss going out for a dinner that could be taken as a date. Ahsoka explicitly confronts Peter about her feelings for him and Barriss while the two are part of the group sent to Mortis and Ahsoka falls under the Son's influence, and once she's back to normal she and Peter agree to give a relationship a shot during a visit to Tatooine (with the understanding that they'll talk to Barriss about it as well).
    • Implied between Colonel James Rhodey Rhodes /War Machine and Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.
  • Turnabout Storm's Recursive Fanfiction/Unofficial Novelization of the original video series adds this as something of a subplot. For example, some attraction grows both ways between Phoenix and some of the pony folk like Twilight and Fluttershy, and Original Characters Cruise Control (male pegasus) and Lenora (female griffon) get some Ship Tease. According to the Recursive Fanfiction's author, he added those subplots inspired by subtext present in the original series.
  • Angels of the Storm a Mass Effect/Warhammer 40k crossover, has an eventual hook-up between Samara and Captain Malleus.
  • The Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Power Girl crossover Origin Story features Alexandra Harris, a Kryptonian, falling in love with Louise Fulford, a human being. They even talk about becoming parents one day.
  • Tales of Bleach: Unreal Society has Raine and Byakuya.
  • A Goddess Comes to Call has two examples of goddess/human (Linna and Belldandy, Priss and Urd) and one of human/demon (Sylia and Mara).
  • Lum Sum Purple revolves around Shampoo replacing Ataru in that fateful game of Tag, and ending up married to Lum. Also, Original Character Perfume (Shampoo's cousin) accidentally wakes up Kurama and becomes engaged to her, as well as developing feelings for Benten.
  • The Scooby-Doo/Naruto fanfic Ghoul Instructor Naruto revolves around Naruto becoming the gym teacher at Grimwood Academy, and gaining an Unwanted Harem composed of the Grimwood girls and Miss Grimwood's niece Gem. Also, the sexual education teacher is a succubus (the aunt of Kurumu) who likes flirting with him.
  • Quandry reveals that Washu's husband who abandoned her and took their son with him was, in fact, a Q who had been forced to do so by the Q Continuum.
  • The Metroid-Kamen Rider crossover fic, Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations has Samus Aran, who is of Chozo heritage and with Metroid DNA, falls in love with Armored Rider Ryugen, Mitsuzane Kureshima, who is in fact human.
  • Love and Robots has Dinobot/Gem, as Grimlock falls in love with Garnet (only to learn that she's a fusion who isn't interested in adding a third to the relationship), then Jasper (who he marries, only to learn that she used to be married to Megatron).
  • The Bridge has Aria Blaze and Monster X as a subversion. While they are two very different species, both already two types of Hybrid Monster, they were both in human form when they met and had a majority of their interactions.
  • Zigzagged in The Wheel and the Butterfly Saga with Dan and Pinkie, since Pinkie is technically stuck as a human when they first start dating, but played straight when she is turned back into a pony.
  • In Onegai, Megami-Sama!!, Matagu Shido accidentally summons Peorth, and wishes for her to be his girlfriend.
  • For the Love of a Goddess is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ah! My Goddess crossover, where Xander replaces Keiichi as the one who accidentally summons Belldandy and wishes for her to stay with him forever.
  • In Rosario to Kiva, a teenage Wataru enrolls in Youkai Academy, and replaces Tsukune as the one who wins Moka's heart (and that of the other girls). Marry Them All is discussed (due to Wataru being Fangire royalty), but he ultimately only marries Moka, although not before getting Mizore pregnant like he promised her.
  • In Supergirl (2015)/The Flash (2014) crossover Call Me Kara, Kara Danvers —a Kryptonian — and Barry Allen —a human— fall in love and have a daughter.
  • Suika and Ranma, of course, in Ranma ½ and Touhou Project crossover Carried Off. The story actually acknowledges the issues with the seriousness that it deserves.
  • The Institute Saga: In addition to Superman (Kryptonian) and Mystique (mutated human), there is also Supergirl (Kyrptonian) and Captain America (human).
  • The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Most of the girls have no idea the boy they're dating is half-ghost. Then again, Danny himself finds out he's dating an alien, a ghost, a robot and at least one half-alien.
  • The Infinite Loops has this all over the place, as a result of connecting so many different universes. For example, there's dragon x unicorn (Spike and Rarity), pony x draconequus (Berry Punch and Discord), alicorn x genetically engineered demigod (Nyx x Leman Russ), human x Chaos God (Naoki and Slaanesh) and changeling x unicorn (Chrysalis and Trixie) and that's just scratching the surface.
  • In Those Obnoxious Ghosts, Lum, a Human Alien, falls in love with Danny Fenton, a human-ghost hybrid.
  • I Choose You, Corky has Smurfette fall in love with a time-travelling Corky, who has travelled back in time in pursuit of Dr. Strangesnork. Sadly, it's a short-lived relationship, as Corky has to return to his own time period once Strangesnork is captured.
  • In The Outlaw Feline, Clawdia is transported to the world of Robin Hood, and falls in love with Sir Hiss.
  • Unexpected Encounters This fanfic that contains many interspecies pairs between characters of fandoms that appear in there, either of the main fandoms or even recurring characters from other fandoms.
  • Fantastic Foxes of Zootopia features multiple instances. In fact, "So we're Inters now" shows that conventions exist for Interspecies couples. But the most prominent examples of interspecies romance among the main cast are:
  • Living in the Magical World, which takes place in a world where the works of Disney come to life, a romance eventually develops between main character Gabriel—an extinct Pied Raven—and Jasiri from The Lion Guard-pa hyena. Later on, Gabriel then arranges a date between Dawn Bellwether- a sheep- and Randall Boggs- a monster who looks like a mixture between a chameleon and a snake with eight limbs. And they both hit it off really well with one another.
  • Disney Villain Island reveals partway through that Maleficent, a fairy, has a crush on Professor Ratigan- a rat, however much he insists otherwise. Eventually, she makes him human so that no-one can call their relationship creepy, but it still counts.
  • The Last Son has the following:
  • The Ghost Boy and the Combatants: During the second story in which Danny meets the Darkstalkers he finds himself being the target of affections for both Lilith, a cutesy succubus girl, and Hsien-ko, a clumsey jiangshi girl. After seeing them in battle, he's very okay with this.
  • Interdimensional Cartoon Discussion and Support Group: During the first break, Polly and King hit it off, suggesting this further down the road into the viewings.
  • The Pokémon Squad:
    • Pachirisu has a huge (but ultimately one-sided) crush on her trainer RM, which causes her to act like a Clingy Jealous Girl. Her character sheet states that because they share a room, it's unknown what she does to him while he sleeps.
    • Rudy (a human) and Snap (a chalk drawing) are depicted as a couple in this series.
  • Super RWBY Sisters has quite a few of these relationships.
    • Ruby (human) and Pit (angel) get together in RWBY Uprising after realizing they're Birds of a Feather.
    • Ilia (faunus) winds up getting together with Mercedes (human) after Blake introduces them.
    • After shaking off his father's influence, Whitley (human) finds himself falling for Ling (faunus) and while he legitimately loves her, the fact he knows his father would loath her is a bonus.
  • Plus Five to Charisma has quite a few, in true Dungeons & Dragons fashion.
    • Anton's (Human) Archfey patron is also his husband, as revealed in chapter 30.
    • Chapter 41 begins the relationship between Isabela (Human) and Ulika (Orc).
    • With the reveal that Mariano is actually a tiefling, his relationship with Dolores becomes one of these.
  • While subjected to Illudere's Luminous Cruelty in Manehattan's Lone Guardian, the fully robotic Leviathan re-establishes contact with a human friend and marries him after several years of developing their relationship.
  • To fanfic writer CVGW James, species doesn't matter in the many romantic fanfics he's written; you have humans and Inklings getting together, or humans and hedgehogs. It may matter even less than whether they share the same franchise or not.

The DCU

  • A Force of Four: Kara —a Kryptonian— is dating Andrew Vinson —a human. And Lyta —half human, half Amazon— and Hector Hall —Thanagarian— are lovers.
  • A number of them in Hellsister Trilogy. Clark Kent (Kryptonian) and Lois Lane (human), Brainiac 5 (Coluan) and Laurel Kent (Kyptonian/human hybrid), Lightning Lad (Winathian) and Saturn Girl (Titanian), Mordru (Zeroxian) and Satan Girl (Kryptonian)...
  • In Kara of Rokyn, Clark Kent (Kryptonian) and Lois Lane (human) get married after the final battle between Superman and Lex Luthor. At the end of the fic, they are expecting a baby.
  • In the backstory of Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation, Superman had a son with Lois Lane (and it's hinted that he was in a relationship with Wonder Woman after his wife's death), and Supergirl hooked up with an unnamed Earthman, their offspring mingled with the Earth population for five centuries, and in present day the current Superman Klar Kent is married to human woman Lyla.
  • In the Our Own League novels, Conner (half Kryptonian, half human clone) and Donna (half Amazon, half demigoddess) are love interests. There is also Ship Tease between Jaime, a human, and M'gann, a Martian, after she joins the Titans.
  • With this Ring... (Green Lantern): John Stewart (Earth human) and Katma Tui (Korugaran alien) are a married couple.
  • Man of Steel story Daughter of Fire and Steel has Clark Kent and Lois Lane. When General Zod's partisans hear about Kal-El befriending a human named "Lois Lane" they express disgust at the idea of a Kryptonian "mating" with humans.

Death Note

Digimon

Dinosaur King

  • Discussed in ''Dinosaur King Retold. As almost all of them are each Last of His Kind for their respective species, the dinosaurs will have to do this eventually to preserve their kind. Among the couple are Chomp the Triceratops and Paris the Parasaurolophus.

Discworld

Dragon Age

  • All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird has Mahanon (Dalish elf) and Cassandra (human noblewoman). There's also, in the backstory of the setting, Darrian (city elf) and Morrigan (human mage), as well as a couple of the pairings carried over from the source material.
  • Walking in Circles has Evelyn (ex-noble human mage) and Solas (ancient Elven god). Between the two of them, Solas was the one who paid more attention to the nature of their relationship, as he had to overcome the feeling of betrayal toward his brethren by falling in love with a shemlen before having the courage to confess his love to her.
  • The central pairing in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium is Varric Tethras (dwarf) and Inquisitor Bethany Hawke (human). There are also a few background pairings which fit the trope.

Dragon Ball

Final Fantasy

Fullmetal Alchemist

  • In Blood Ties (Fullmetal Alchemist), Roy is a dhampyr who's dating a human. Roy and Riza began dating when Roy was still human, but he was turned into a dhampyr during the war. He tried to run off after turning, but Riza tracked him down herself and refused to leave him. Later, Riza is turned into a dhampyr and they start getting close again.

Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse

Harry Potter

  • Deserving has Crabbe shagging a house elf, thankfully off-screen.

Haruhi Suzumiya

Helluva Boss

Hey Arnold!

  • In Arnold's Vampire, Helga is a Dhampyr who ends up bonded to Arnold after she drinks his blood, and ends up falling in love with him.

How to Train Your Dragon

  • A lot of fanfics ship Hiccup and Toothless together, sometimes giving the latter the ability to speak and sometimes not. What You Meant To Me is one example.

Invader Zim

  • In Science Knows No Bounds, Professor Membrane takes in Almighty Tallest Miyuki after she crash-lands in his backyard, and eventually falls in love with her after working with her for several years. Heartbreakingly, the relationship never goes anywhere, as by the time Membrane realises he loves Miyuki, she dies of old age.
  • The Smeet Series has a few examples:
    • A major component of the series is the romance between Ilk (an Irken) and Blue (a Kryvtor). The third story, Indokani, is even built around the lead-up to their wedding.
    • Indoknai also reveals that Zim (an Irken) and Gaz (a human) hooked up at some point offscreen.
    • During his training to become an Indokani, Purple (an Irken) develops a Fire Forged Friendship with Akkono (a Kryvtor), which by the end of the story has developed into a budding mutual attraction.

Kill la Kill

Kim Possible

Kung Fu Panda

  • The Vow is about the tragic love between Lord Shen (peacock) and Lady Lianne (swan). They have in the epilogue a child that's a peacock with some traits from a swan. There is also affection born between Zhan the Wolf Boss (wolf) and Jade (dhole).

The Lion King (1994)

  • Before And Beyond The Beginning is a Perspective Flip focusing on the hyenas that includes a Scar/Shenzi pairing. It explains that even though Shenzi finds the idea utterly revolting, exactly why Scar (in his growing insanity) might start thinking it over time.
    Scar: That’s what I like about you, Shenzi. All Sarabi and Zazu ever do is whine, whine, whine about every little complication, as if they can't do a single thing by themselves. You never bring me any bad news.

Loonatics Unleashed

Luca

Marvel Universe

  • Prince of Asgard has Loki (Jotun) and Tony Stark (human).
  • Beyond Death has Thanos crash-land on Earth and meet a young woman, whom he temporarily moves in with. While he plans to kill her once he's recovered his strength (the only reason he doesn't is because she gets fused with the Tessarect), he ends up falling in love with her and vice-versa.
  • A Prize for Three Empires has Carol Danvers (human, since this was written before she was retconned into being half-Kree) and Gladiator (Shi'ar).

Mass Effect

  • The Uplifted trilogy has Joachim Hoch and Hanala Jarva vas Devoas, an SS officer and Quarian Captain, and the affair between Erwin Rommel and Admiral Utala Falan. In the next series, it's revealed that although some mxed species couples try to make it work, few relationships last. Even the Jarva-Hoch family is strained with the difficulties of mixed species family, with John Hoch's newly discovered daughter flat out rejecting any kinship the quarian side of her father's family has. Which is understandable considering she is noted unrepentant quarian killing Commando Otto Skorzeny's Granddaughter and raised by an equally xenophobic mother
  • Interspecies Romance is the norm in Mass Effect, so the fanfic Ghost Ghost I Know You Live Within Me brought this up to eleven by having Turian/Human ghost.
  • The sentient dinosaurs in Mesozoic Effect are firm believers in this, which is unsurprising considering the sheer number of sapient dinosaur species. Children from such parings are normally Designer Babies created by the dinosaurs' extremely advanced genetic engineering. When they awake from cryonic suspension, the dinosaurs see no particular reason why the humans who now control Earth wouldn't also make suitable mates. This eventually leads to several anatomically confusing pairings. For example, Ashley Williams' mother is revealed to be a Cetiosaurus, while her grandmother is a T. rex. Both her father and grandfather are human. Careful reading reveals reference to Ashley's egg, suggesting that all this mixed parentage has had a serious impact on her eventual species.

Monster Musume

  • In Daily Odd Life with Monster Girls, dragon-girl Kishimura is in a relationship with the human Erika, while the protagonist Shirou is the love interest of Naki the zombie, Yukiko the yeti and Eleanor the long-legged Arachne.

Monsters, Inc.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • The fandom is filled with tons of human/pony romance stories, many of them the "human male from the real world enters Equestria", falls in love with a main character" variety, if not an outright Self-Insert Fic. A common joke about the fandom is that they're all into bestiality.
    • They're so common A Night With Lyra was able to successfully Meta Twist the reader by having this not be the case. Just check the comments: every single one points this out.
    • Teased in The Commander Of Shepherds between (female) Commander Shepard and Luna. The potential pony/human squick factor is lessened by Luna being a shapeshifter.
    • Blissful Dream is a love story about a pony and a human.
    • Twi and Me has human male and female pony (Twilight Sparkle).
    • Xenophilia involves Rainbow Dash getting a human boyfriend. Despite being a Lemon the fic spends a fair amount of time discussing differences between humans and ponies as come to sex and gender relations. It mostly treats the human as the alien partner (talking about his Exotic Equipment, for instance).
    • Sophistication and Betrayal involves one between the unnamed human protagonist and Rarity.
    • The Mixed-Up Life of Brad has this between Brad the human, and Twilight the unicorn. Subverted a bit, as Brad fell in love with Twilight when she was transformed into a human, and now that she's back in her pony form he finds her physical appearance unappealing. It is noted that they cannot ever be truly happy together, being so different from each other.
    • The same author's A Mighty Demon Slayer Grooms Some Ponies gives Danny (from G1 My Little Pony), an eleven-year-old human, a crush on Surprise the pegasus (who is an adult at the time by pony standards). Nothing comes out of it, and he still has bad memories years later. It's hinted that it's all because he was still a young kid at the time, confused by his budding sexuality.
    • Mating Customs of Species Equus parvus explores this a bit: Humans have a tendency for seeking exotic partners, an evolutionary trait which used to help them reduce inbreeding by encouraging them to find partners in other communities. As a side-effect, it makes them prone to Interspecies Romance with other sapient races — which, however, do not share this trait, so such infatuations are pretty much always one-sided (and result in the unlucky human suitor laughed off).
    • Arddun Lleuad and its sequel, Chwe Goleadau, has the romance between the human protagonist and Luna as one of its main themes. They have some anguish over just how far are they going to take their relationship. At the very end, the point becomes moot, as the protagonist gets castrated by the villain.
    • All-American Girl (Shinzakura): There are close relations between Earth and Equestria, and pony-human relationships or couples are not unheard of—the protagonist herself is a pony married to a human. That said, the setting also has temporary species-transformation magic available for the spouses, allowing such couples to actually have children together.
    • A Voice Among the Strangers has the human protagonist Jessica realising that Iron Will, a minotaur is attracted to her, and immediately turns him down. Played straight in later chapters with Bastion (pegasus) and Minder (changeling).
    • Equestria's First Human: A socially awkward teenager falls in love with Fluttershy. It is averted later on when his spirit is brought back to Equestria, he chooses to be reborn as a pony, since he could love Fluttershy more easily that way.
    • The Rise of Darth Vulcan: Defied. Due to changeling custom and instinct, since Vulcan beat Chrysalis in a fight, she becomes enamored with, and dedicated to, him. Vulcan, however, is completely disgusted with both the concept of this trope, and Chrysalis herself. So, he uses her for information and experience, but refuses all her advances.
  • Sharing the Night: Fluttershy mentions offhandedly that two of her animal friends, a ferret and a squirrel, are in a steady relationship.
  • Summer Days and Evening Flames: Gilda (a griffin) eventually starts dating her guard captain Iron Bulwark (a pony). She's justifiably worried that dating him could make others look down on him, considering his best friend is very racist to griffins.
  • Racer and the Geek makes Zecora one of the protagonist's primary love interests, if not his main one, and Welcome to the Brothel and Relax, both about a pony soldier and a zebra sex worker. This is only a borderline example, however, as canon isn't really clear whether zebras are a separate species to unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies or just another ethnic group.
  • Cadence in A Minor: A pair of recurring background characters are a stallion/griffon couple, who are also soldiers on the opposite side of a tense border. Despite everything stacked against them, they make a pretty cute couple, all told. And of course the whole plot of the fic revolves around the fact that Shining Armour was a victim of Interspecies Rape By Deception.
  • The Reading Rainbowverse has the typical Gilda/pony romance... but mixes it up by having a cat crush on Gilda too. Not an anthropomorphic cat... a normal housecat.
  • Past Sins: Glimpses: "Displeasing Constants": When Nyx picks a silly hypothetical for Twilight to be married to, she picks the non-pony Discord.
  • Pony POV Series:
    • Strife, the Draconequus of Natural Selection, is Happily Married to Mortis, the Alicorn of Death, and they have kids.
    • Anarchy, the Draconequus of Freedom and Rebellion, is married to Nightmare Legion, an Alicorn formed from millions of Shadows of Existence.
    • Dark World!Derpy has feelings for the Doctor, which is part of her motivation for wanting to destroy the Valeyard and force him to regenerate back into the Doctor. She succeeds and ends up marrying him after Nightmare Eclipse's defeat, though he's using a Fob Watch.
    • Dark World!Rarity and Dark World!Spike become an Official Couple and become Happily Married after defeating Eclipse. Rarity also becomes an Alicorn.
    • Celestia and Discord were once in love, but the latter's Sociopathy and sadism ended that.
    • Minuette and Captive Audience, as the former is actually a Time Lord. Though it's a bit ambiguous after Minuette destroys the Master if she's still one or not.
  • The Non-Bronyverse: TD ends up in one with Cheerilee in the main continuity. In the alternative-continuity AU story where he gets accidentally turned into an alicorn, he eventually strikes one up with Celestia.
  • The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity: Rarity and an aged-up Spike are, as far as they know, the first pony/dragon couple in Equestria's history.
  • Romance and the Fate of Equestria: Discussed Trope. Iron Will tries to take his friendship with Fluttershy to the next level; Fluttershy politely declines and later consults her friends as to their thoughts about interspecies dating. When they all view it as a non-issue, this leads Fluttershy to think she's bigoted for only being attracted to ponies. When it's further explained that this is because she wants to have children, Rainbow Dash labels her a "breeder", and assures her that it's perfectly normal.
  • Zestar Apple Flambe involves Spike the dragon and Apple Bloom the earth pony falling in love with each other and having a child together.
  • Bride of Discord centers around Fluttershy and Discord. It is also hinted, that Discord had unresolved feelings for Celestia.
    • There is also a major subplot between Spike,note  Rarity, and Applejack of all ponies. Applejack and Spike end up together. This is Lamp Shaded, when Spike points out that Discord and Fluttershy aren't even the same species, only for Applejack to point out the hypocrisy.
    • The sequel also has one between Discord and Fluttershy's daughter Screwball and Mothball, who is a changeling.
    • Yet another sequel in the series, has one between Iron Will and a changeling named Bellatrix.
  • The Palaververse: Over the course of Wedding March, a mutual attraction develops between the mule Alloy and the ibex doe Tundra. At the end, Tundra musters the courage to ask Alloy on a date, and he accepts.
  • A Diplomatic Visit:
    • The first story features Swift-Pad the wolf with Maxilla the changeling, who is seeking to become a female wolf permanently in order to stay with him. By the time the story's done, Maxilla has achieved his/her goal; they get married early in the third story.
    • Diplomat at Large introduces Sky Beak the hippogriff-turned-seapony, who is married to Ocean Flow the seapony. It also kicks off the romance between Princess Luna of Equestria and Prince Pharynx the changelings; they get married in the third story.
    • Diplomat at Large also kicks off a romance between Queen Scolopidia of the changelings and the pony duo of Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody, who make it official late in that story.
    • In chapter 12 of ''Diplomacy Through Schooling, it turns out Daring Do and Teomitl (her old foe, formerly known just by his species name of Ahuizotl before his real name was given in the second story) have become a couple.
  • The Eventide Verse:
    • Discussed in A Moonlit Storm. Night Light (a unicorn) is sent on a mission from the princess to the nation of Farasi. As part of his cover, he's sent with another agent, Kisu (a zebra), who pretends to be his fiancée. Kisu explains that, while there are not many ponies in Farasi, the most common reason for them to be there is having fallen in love with locals, and so it raises the least suspicion.
    • A Moonlit Storm also has Impisi (a crocotta), who earns the smitten admiration of one of the villains' lackeys (a hedgebeast) after she breaks a chair over his head during a brawl.
  • The Crystal and the Mirage has Rarity unsure about getting into a relationship with a certain dragon. So she goes to a distant relative that she knows as "Grandpa Merc" for advice and he tells her a tale about a unicorn named Crystal and a dragon named Mirage, who courted and married each other through a Battle of Wits. It turns out "Grandpa Merc" is the dragon Mirage and his story was the tale of how he fell in love with Rarity's Great-great-great-Grandmother.
  • Slice of Velvet and Pear has Spike developing a crush on Twilight instead of Rarity. Unlike Rarity, Twilight chooses to let Spike down easy as soon as she realizes he has feelings for her, instead of stringing him along. After Spike accepts that, he has a chance run in with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, which results in him getting into a relationship with Diamond.
  • Mendacity: Lyra and Bon Bon, although Lyra doesn't seem to realize it. Lyra is a unicorn, while Bon Bon is a changeling pretending to be a pony.

Naruto

  • Quite a number of stories pair up Naruto(a human) with Kurama(a demon fox). Though, most cases feature Kurama as a female demon fox, who also has a human form.

Once Upon a Time

Pokémon

  • A fanfic pairing an Author Avatar and his Gardevoir. Smut ensues.
  • Another Gardevoir related fanfic. This one is about a boy growing up with a female Ralts. Due to some genetics, the Ralts, then Kirlia, becomes more and more human as she spends time with the boy and their relationships develops.
  • Soviet Pokemon not only includes a lot of this, it presents a theory that all Pokemon are the result of this: All Pokemon are descended from a native Earth species and a Mew. Human/Pokemon pairings, though taboo, are stated to be fairly common.
    • Tracy (Ninetales) is romantically involved with Henry (human), but also refers to herself as a mate of Tera (Pelipper) since he adopted her daughter.
    • Henry (human) has, according to Espeon, his daughter, at least four children, all of which are Pokemon. He also had relationships with Pyroar who attempted twice to have a child by him and Asaki (Miltank) who had a human father, and eventually becomes close with Lucy (Lucario), who is the daughter of a human mother.
    • While human/Pokemon offspring are always 100% Pokemon, Lucy can tell by their auras if a Pokemon had a human parent. She identifies over a dozen Pokemon with human auras including herself and Tracy's daughter. The latter is... Something else that may or may not be even worse...
    • Henry states that Rhea (human) had a child and strongly implies that the father is a member of his team. It is hinted to be Jasper (Arcanine). It was actually Braviary, who goes to live with her and his son in the epilogue.
    • In stark contrast to the natural order, Seviper enjoys flirting with Zangoose. Lucy believes it may be because they both have half-human auras.
    • Tera (Pelipper) has a harem of "mates", only one of which shares one of his two egg groups. He is actually more of a chronic surrogate and his "mates" are Pokemon who also enjoy being surrogates to his children. Potential squick alert: He often carries them around in his stomach.
    • In the epilogue, five humans are implied, for legal reasons, to have stated that they were in relationships with an Obstagoon, a Mightyena, a Granbull, a Scolipede, and an Aggron. Whether or not there was any romance in any of these relationships is never stated until the sequel. Umbriel states that she considers Aggron to be more of a brother. Her actual love interest is Cobalion, who had been wondering why nothing felt unnatural about it until Lucy informed him his aura was half-human.
  • In Revisit, Ash becomes romantically involved with Arceus.
  • Pairing Ash with the Latias from the fifth movie is a somewhat popular ship, known as "AltoShipping". The better fics in this category will point out that this kind of thing is frowned upon, and have the characters take a while to work through it. The others? Not so much.

RWBY

  • Roar of the LION: Leon, a human, and Naomi, a fox Faunus, end up together over the course of the fic.

Ready Jet Go!

Rango

  • Old West: There's the canonical example of Rango and Beans, with him being a chameleon and her being a desert iguana. While they're both lizards, their species are quite different. The main focus is on a similar example between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy, who are a rattlesnake and a glossy snake, respectively. Also, Grace used to have this kind of a relationship with the father of her son Teddy, Benjamin Hares, who's a gopher snake.

Red Dwarf

Real-Person Fic

  • Very one-sided in With Strings Attached. Shag, a “lizardy, birdy” alien, is clearly in love with the (usually human) four, but it's strictly from a distance, and they certainly do not love her.

Sgt. Frog

  • Yin and Yang Series: Let's see... There's Mahihi and Daisy, Romama and Aya, Fujuju and Botan, Rokiki and Mora, Haruki and Lavi, Porara and Mois, and even Kirere and Hiroshi, for one story.

Slender

Slightly Damned

  • Blizzard Storm features the main pairing of original character, Eric, with Sakido. A human and a demon
  • A Different Medius has Toby's unrequited feelings towards Sam explored at length.

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • A New Life Era: From this gallery page, A New Life Era, and Moe and BIOS birthday party, there is heavy speculation about this between between Amy Jr. and Moe. The Recovery Part 2 shows there MIGHT be some romantic love between the two. However, they're both very young, and may not be each other's soul mates. For all we know, Bertha might be Moe's soul mate, although The Hacker probably wouldn't be too happy about that.
  • Sweet Sorrow goes into depth on Elise's relationship with Sonic in Sonic 2006. Sonic is a hedgehog while Elise is a human.
  • Single Parents Night:
    • Amy's parents are a male hedgehog and a female elephant.
    • Vanilla is a rabbit and her wife is a bird.
  • Sonic the Comic – Online!: Tekno the Canary has Ship Tease with Shorty the Squirrel. Despite this, the Distant Finale heavily implies she ends up with Amy (a hedgehog).

Spliced

  • A currently unfinished fanfic series which pairs up the characters of Patricia (a platypus) and Peri (not known for sure, mostly assumed to be a cuttlefish/squirrel hybrid).

Star Trek

  • The Kirk (human) and Spock (half-human half-Vulcan) pairing from many a fanfiction deserves mention by being the Trope Namer for Slash Fic.
  • Bait and Switch has one between a couple of Mauve Shirts from the USS Bajor's security department, Ensign Kate McMillan (human female) and Lieutenant (JG) K'lak (Klingon male). They're stated to have been in an on-again, off-again relationship for the last couple of months, but decide to go exclusive in chapter nine.
  • In Red Fire, Red Planet Lieutenant Commander Brokosh, a Lethean mercenary, is Happily Married to Klingon noblewoman Ba'woV, daughter of N'Gara, of the House of Chel'toK, a Klingon. Brokosh signed with the Klingon Defense Force when their son was conceived, since Chel'toK is fairly impoverished.
  • From Bajor to the Black has Kanril Eleya, a Bajoran, date a human Starfleet Academy cadet exclusively for about a year, to the point of her starting to talk about Bajoran betrothal rituals. This ends badly when Jerrod Dalton is offered early graduation and skips town for the USS Planck in the middle of the night.
  • Remembrance of the Fallen has Tiana Lanstar visit the gravesite of her deceased wife Sobaru, a Bajoran.

Steven Universe

Super Mario Bros.

  • In The Rose, Luigi (a human) and Prince Peasley (a Bean person) fall in love with each other.
  • The Sea Shadow sees Vivian (a Living Shadow) and Goombella (a goomba) falling for each other throughout the story, with the epilogue confirming they're dating.

Supernatural

  • There are many fanfics where Dean falls in love with Castiel. This is one of them.

Sword Art Online

The Sword in the Stone

  • In one 4chan copypasta fic King Arthur in a Peggy Sue scenario decides that he's better off in making that squirrel (who actually loved him and he has Merlin change into a human form) his Queen instead of Guinevere.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teen Titans

  • New Tamaran:
    • Robin and Starfire and Oracle/Flamebird
    • Aqualad (Atlantean) and Bumblebee (augmented human)
    • Jason Sandsmark (human, formerly known as Red X) and Terra (Stratan).
    • Supergirl admits to having romantic feelings for Jimmy Olsen, and would happily give up her promiscuity if he wanted to become an official couple with her. ( This implies that she becomes his Lost Lenore, though.)
    • While off-planet, Wonder Woman had several such romances both in and out of the Justice League, while her husband President Trevor fell in love with Mera. Diana happily accepts them both when she returns.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Tintin

  • In something rich and strange, Tintin is a merman who was accidentally fished out of the sea by Captain Haddock's crew, and falls in love with Haddock while recovering from the injuries he received when he was caught.

Tolkien's Legendarium

  • Ancient Languages has an interspecies Love Triangle. Elhael and Glorfindel, both male elves, want Lyla, a mortal woman.
  • A Far Green Country has Elden, mortal man, and Nellas, female elf, unless She Is Not My Girlfriend.
  • Freedom's Limits revolves around the tragic romance between Smador, an Orc, and Madavi, a human. They start out as friends and then upgrade to lovers (or "mates", as Smador says).
  • The Heart Trilogy is a long and complicated love story between the human female Kathryn and the great fire-drake Smaug.
  • The central plot of Splint is the development of the romance between Cadoc, a human man, and Rukhash, an Orcess.
  • Time Will Tell has a romance between Jorryn (the woman from America) and one of the hobbits, but it takes a long time to develop.
  • Worlds Apart has a dwarf with elf romance.
  • There are numerous stories pairing Bilbo (hobbit) with Thorin (dwarf).
  • Walt Disney Presents: The Lord of the Rings has Frodo, a hobbit, and Arwen, an elf, fall in love with each other.
  • Sansûkh has Thorin and Bilbo (Dwarf and Hobbit), Kilí and Tauriel (Dwarf and Elf), Aragorn and Arwen (human and Elf, even if she eventually becomes mortal) and, of course, Gimli and Legolas (Dwarf and Elf again). And, it turns out, Narvi and Celebrimbor (Dwarf and Elf again). A big part of the story is devoted to the development and various challenges that these relationships between races involve.

Touhou Project

Transformers

  • Several fanfics pair Starscream with Alexis - here's one such example.
  • In Is Something Wrong With Love?, Chase is in love with Chief Burns, but is reluctant to admit it due to Kade's homophobia.
  • In Swarm, Wasp is a hornet who falls in love with Bumblebee the honeybee (Bumblebee being a nickname he has due to his klutziness).
  • Following the release of Bumblebee, several fanfics have been released pairing him with Charlie Watson - here's one such example.
  • In the What Makes A Monster series, Jazz and Richochet are in romantic relationships with Prowl and Smokescreen, who happen to be beastformers (the Cybertronian equivalent of a werewolf). Later in the series, fellow beastformers Barricade and Bluestreak fall in love with Bumblebee (a Spark Eater) and both Sideswipe and Sunstreaker (selkies), respectively. Also, Inferno is a mortal in a relationship with Red Alert, who happens to be a vampire.

Transformers: Prime

  • Multiple mentioned in Beauty of the Beast, back in the Golden Age of Cybertron. The two important to the series are June and Megatron and Miko and Bumblebee.
  • In The Bargain, Megatron sets out to court Jack due to Jack being the descendant of a human Megatron fell in love with millennia ago. Jack is less than enthusiastic at having become the object of affection of a tyrannical Humongous Mecha, but slowly finds himself reciprocating.

The Twilight Saga

Warhammer 40,000

  • Gav and Bob has an Ogryn named Gav fall in love with a human woman. Being 40K, it doesn't end well.
  • Love Can Bloom, an unfinished fic from the /tg/ board at 4chan in which the Eldar Farseer Taldeer from Dawn of War and a Vindicare Assassin named LIIVI meet on the battlefield and eventually fall in love. Later fics spun off from LCB would introduce their daughter Lofn. A self-admitted Guilty Pleasure by its fans, as such a thing is impossible for innumerable reasons. What makes this particular fic notable is that Games Workshop, 40K's parent company, dropped a couple of acknowledgements to it (a pic of a Vindicare watching a Farseer and a quote attributed to LIIVI) in Dark Heresy sourcebooks.
  • Nobledark Imperium: Romantic relationships are known to happen at times between humans and Eldar, with the highest proportion of relationships coming from the world of Cadia and Craftworld Ulthwé.
    • The rulers of the Imperium are an Eldar-Human couple... sort of, the Eldar in question being the mortal host of the goddess Isha while the Emperor is a Man of Gold, an Artificial Human created in the Dark Age of Technology.
    • Farseer Taldeer and LIVII from Love Can Bloom had their story play out as in the source work. However, what makes their coupling unique is that now Taldeer is pregnant with a half-human, half-Eldar child — which, to the best of in-universe knowledge, shouldn't actually be possible.

Wolf's Rain

  • The Reason is a Song Fic that ships Leara, a human girl, with Toboe, a wolf pup that can make human illusions.

World of Warcraft

  • The Sirens of Azeroth suggests that the many species of Azeroth don't have a huge amount of trouble with, at least, casual interspecies romance/intercourse, demonstrating among others a Dwarf/Draenei (seven-foot faun-like blue alien) relationship, a Troll/Blood elf lesbian couple with an open relationship, and a pair of tiny gnomes talking about how their favorite types of 'men' are Tauren (huge minotaurs), though they could just be making that up.

Yo-kai Watch

  • In The Unwanted Harem Of Nathan Adams, in addition to all of Nate's female classmates (except Katie) falling in love with him, several female Yokai develop romantic feelings for him.

Young Justice

  • In With This Ring, Ferdinand the minotaur chef at the Themysciran Embassy has a relationship with Leslie Anderson. There's also M'gann and Kon, but that was canon already.
  • Assimilation has a mutual Rescue Romance between Starfire (an alien whose species evolved from cats) and Machina (formerly human but got eaten by nanites so basically a cyborg).

Zootopia

  • Born to Be Wilde features a romance between Smokey (Seal) and Bella Bleu (Blue Whale), a Huge Girl, Tiny Guy relationship cranked many times up. If his story is anything to go off of, he met her by hitting her with his ship by accident.
  • Zootopia/0 (still in production) introduced one of its first characters, Hazel Dodge, as the skunk who contributed to the famous rug. Though neither describes their relationship as romantic, Nick does concede that they were "Close enough to let her shave my butt."

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