Clexa

English

Etymology

Blend of Clarke +‎ Lexa.

Proper noun

Clexa

1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Clarke Griffin and Lexa from the television series The 100.
   • 2016 March 9, Vidya Srinivasan, “Reshop, Heda”, in The Tufts Daily, Tufts University, page 6:

     This year, in the truly perfect hour of television that was 3.03, Clexa progressed from adversaries to unbreakable partners.

   • 2018, Mélanie Bourdaa, “A Strong Social Bond: Discussion, Debates and Friendship”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 394:

     Many fan videos in the Clexa fandom put the emphasis on the relationship between the two characters, aggregating scenes from different episodes.

   • 2019, Erin Kenny, “'Ship Wars' and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100”, in Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, editors, Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time, page 195:

     Two distinct communities coalesce around fans of Clexa and fans of Bellarke.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Clexa.