Bellarke

English

Etymology

Blend of Bellamy +‎ Clarke.

Proper noun

Bellarke

1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Bellamy Blake and Clarke Griffin from The 100 novel series and its television adaptation.
   • 2016, Kiara London, Kiss Cam, unnumbered page:

     I ship Bellarke (Bellamy and Clarke from The 100) so hard.

   • 2018, Ainsley O'Quinn & Russ Upton, "New season of The 100 brings many changes", The Sentry (Jackson Preparatory School), May 2018, page 18:

     This was an especially touching scene because every fan wants Bellarke.

   • 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:Bellarke.