Citations:Reylo

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars"

 * 2016, Jocelyn Chambers, "The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction", Majesty, December 2016, page 96:
 * so that night at like 1am, i, baby kylo ren trash, went to the tumblr to see what the fandom had to say about him. within a couple of days i was immersed in fanart, imagines, fanfics, theories and an overwhelming amount of reylo blogs.
 * 2017, Deney Taylor & Frannie Branswell, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Trailer Review", The Beacon (Crandall University), 8 November 2017, page 5:
 * So, all you “Reylo” fans out there, and even those of you who are just hard-core into Star Wars in general, be sure to pre-order tickets for December 15th, 2017.
 * 2018, Kristina Busse, "Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath", in Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures (ed. Rebecca Williams), page 217:
 * In The Force Awakens fandom, for example, there is a vocal contingent of anti-Reylo fans, that is, fans who hate Rey/Kylo, the pairing of the main female character and the main male villain in the latest Star Wars movie.
 * 2018, Katie Ward, "The Last Jedi: All You Need To Know", Woroni (Australian National University), Vol. 68, Issue 1 (2018), page 22:
 * She's not related to the Skywalkers at all, which leaves the #Reylo door wide open.
 * 2018, Frank Lehman, quoted in Christopher Panella, "Q&A: Assistant Professor Frank Lehman dives deep into iconic 'Star Wars' scores", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 23 February 2018, page 5:
 * This really is a new type of villain in the series, and, no, I'm not a "Reylo" person, and I don't think this is ultimately going to be a romantic story; it's not in his destiny.
 * 2018, Anonymous, in "Letters to Editors", Lot's Wife (Monash University), Edition 2 (2018), page 3:
 * It has now been a month since my last letter to you, and Reylo is closer to becoming canon than ever.
 * 2019, Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals, unnumbered page:
 * I had an inner band of nerds and they were all wearing headgear and geeking out to Reylo fanfic online.
 * 2019, Emily Webb-Mortimer, "2019: year of the remake?", InQuire (University of Kent), 25 January 2019, page 15:
 * The final instalment of this Star Wars trilogy will be in our cinemas in December to answer all our burning questions: will Reylo ever happen?
 * 2019, Bridgitte Barclay, "'Rebellions Are Built On Hope': Women and Star Wars", Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Issue 1, Number 1, Fall 2019, page 4:
 * I recognize that there is a Reylo (Rey and Kylo couplehood) movement for the next episode, but this scene of clear abuse is the one that convinces me that Star Wars wouldn’t do that to us.
 * 2019, Yan Graf, "Star Wars trailer reveals dark side's return", The Index (The Haverford School), November 2019, pages 14-15:
 * However, the hopes of “Reylo” fans have been dashed by leaks and trailer footage.
 * 2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96:
 * This also means that there are significant clashes between Reylo shippers and anti-Reylos.
 * 2020, Kurt Larson, "Movies Of The Year: From WII Horror To Hollywood", The Advocate (Mt. Hood Community College), 10 January 2020, page 7:
 * If all you've ever seen of Adam Driver is his "acting" in the new "Star Wars" trilogy, you are seriously doing yourself a disservice because the man is much more than Wide Kylo or the fodder for Reylo fan fiction.
 * 2020, Bridget Cagle, "Fandom frenzy: Fan 'ships' should have boundaries", The Journal (Southport High School), 31 January 2020, page 14:
 * “Star Wars” has a different type of toxicity within the fans, caused by another “ship,” in this case, “Reylo.”
 * 2020, Matt Glasby, "Ever After?", Total Film, February 2020, page 16:
 * Would Reylo ever have stood a chance?
 * 2021, Annie Pickup, "Fanfiction: a new era of literary criticism", The Boar (The University of Warwick), 26 October 2021, page 17:
 * It is difficult to picture Lord of the Rings 'imagines,' or Reylo smut alongside such classics as The Great Gatsby, or Pride and Prejudice.
 * 2021, Christine Hilario, "'The Love Hypothesis': TikTok Made Me Read It", The Observer (University of Notre Dame), 1 November 2021, page 5:
 * BookTok's latest obsession is published "Reylo" fan fiction.
 * 2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 42:
 * Most pairings criticised on a moral basis are between two male characters, reylo is one of the few male/female couples.

Noun: "(fandom slang) a shipper of Rey and Kylo Ren"

 * 2017, Ani Bundel, "More Than The Force Connects Kylo Ren & Rey In 'The Last Jedi' & It's Intense", Elite Daily, 15 December 2017:
 * When Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, the fandom found itself dividing across one really hard, bright line: the Reylos and the anti-Reylos.
 * 2020, Victoria Song, "How Fandom Destroyed and Protected Me", Gizmodo Australia, 3 February 2021:
 * And with the Reylos, rose the Anti-Reylos who argued that the ship was indicative of racism and perpetuated abusive relationship tropes.
 * 2020, Alexandria P. Sutherland, "Star Wars, Parasocial Relationships and Breakups, and The Force...of Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Tennessee, pages 29-30:
 * She goes onto state that Reylos experienced harassment over the death of Kylo Ren, as well as inherently political harassment that included sexist and racist taunts.