Citations:BroTP

Noun: "(fandom slang) a platonic relationship between two characters that is a personal favorite of a fan"

 * 2013, Charles Wang, "Definitely a Mad Man with a Blog", Kitsch (Cornell University), Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2013, page 55:
 * If you ship them platonically as best buddies, it's a Bro-TP.
 * 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8:
 * Will “Yumblr” or “Tahoo” ever be shipped, or will they just merely be a BROTP?
 * 2014, Ajantha Nadesalingam & Caitlin Heffernan, "A Brief History of Shipping", Graffiti (North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Toronto, ON), page 32:
 * A BroTP is when you ship a bromance (a relationship between friends).
 * 2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 31:
 * "Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers are adorbs together as friends, but I'd never ship them — total BROTP."
 * 2015, Olivia Riley, "Archive of Our Own and the Gift Culture of Fanfiction", paper submitted to University of Minnesota Twin Cities, page 54:
 * Communities can also form around shipping characters platonically, sometimes indicated by the moniker of "BrOTP", indicating that it's a "broship," in which the characters love each other in a familial rather than romantic or sexual sense.
 * 2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 51:
 * BROTPs and OT3s (shipping three characters in a polyamorous relationship) abound.
 * 2017, Elizabeth R. Edwards, "Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosociality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to York University/Ryerson University (joint program), page 43:
 * OTP encompasses het as well as slash and has several variations such as One True Threesome (OT3) which portrays perfect polyamorous love and BroTP which signifies a non-sexual best friendship.
 * 2017, Courtney Lehmann and Geoffrey Way, "Young Turks or Corporate Clones?: Cognitive Capitalism and the (Young) User in the Shakespearean Attention Economy", in The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture, page 68:
 * Clicking on Antonio, for example, one finds a tweet at the end of his profile description that reads: "Sebastian is Viola?! Okay, we're cool. BROTP #Disguise."
 * 2017, Anette Vedal Strømli, "Johnlock - En studie av online slashfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Bergen, page 99:
 * Ships are just pairings that people believe would be good together if they could be in the canonic universe, OTPs are One True Pairings - essentially, the most treasured pairings a person has in their minds, and BROTPs are bromances - friendships between characters that are best frienships and are treasured for their closeness and sincerity.
 * 2017, Katherine Ann Vogt, "'Kinda Twisty And Weird': Queering The Heterosexual Romance In Buffy Shipper Fanfiction", thesis submitted to San Francisco State University, page 5:
 * Shippers use the labels One True Pairing (OTP), the platonic pun BroTP, and the polyamorous OT3 to identify their type of ship.
 * 2018, Donna Jeanne Barth, "Exploring Explicit Fanfiction as a Vehicle for Sex Education Among Adolescents and Young Adults", thesis submitted University of South Florida, page 28:
 * Common derivations include NOTP (a pairing one does not like), BrOTP (a favored non-romantic pairing), and OT3, OT4, etc. (terms for polyamorous pairings with more than two partners) (Fanlore n.d.).
 * 2019, Martyna Szczepaniak, "Death in Marvel", Transformative Works and Cultures, Volume 30 (link):
 * Most responses indicated a single romantic pairing, but answers also included BrOTPs (referring to pairings of best friends), teams, and families.
 * 2019, Star, "Fixing What Shouldn't Be Broken", Lemon, page 14:
 * Being in a fandom means that we willingly signed on to watch as our—soon-to-be — favorite character(s) die, as we find out our OTP may never truly get to be happy, or that our BroTP will always be at odds.
 * 2019, Colleen Johnson, "Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 54:
 * Although, this is by no means an exhaustive list of the Marian/Regina brotp trope’s use.