Black Butler/Ships

GrellRon
GrellRon is the friendship between Grell Sutcliff and Ronald Knox from the Black Butler fandom.

Canon
Grell and Ronald are both grim reapers. Grell is Ronald’s senior, and in Japanese he addresses her as Sutcliff-senpai. After Grell is suspended from her duties as a punishment for illegally modifying her death scythe and killing people not on the to-die list, Ronald uses his connections in the Grim Reaper Dispatch to ensure she gets her scythe back when her suspension ends. In the Book of Circus anime he tells her about him doing this before they go their separate ways to reap souls.

When the pair of them arrive on board the Campania luxury liner, they reenact a scene from Titanic to kill time before they reap souls. Ronald is impatient, but still allows Grell to have fun. Later in the same arc Ronald admires Grell’s abilities as a fighter and comments that she is stronger than him.

Ronald adopts Grell’s nickname for Sebastian, “Sebas-chan,” to irritate him, and is often depicted imitating her rockstar hand sign. Even though he seems to find her personality and fashion sense strange, he clearly likes her. Grell and Ronald are not canonically romantically attracted to each other.

Fanon
GrellRon is liked as both a romantic and platonic ship because Ronald is one of the only characters in Black Butler (other than Othello) who doesn’t use violence against Grell to persuade her, even though she is impulsive and doesn’t always listen to reason. They also work well as a team and have a mostly respectful and platonic relationship, despite both being very interested in the opposite gender.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Grell is more powerful than Ronald, according to Ronald.