Bevchie

"Richie liked Bev a lot. Well, he liked her, but not that way. He admired her looks… but mostly he liked her because she was tough and had a really good sense of humor. Also, she usually had cigarettes. He liked her, in short, because she was a good guy."

Bevchie is the friendship between Beverly Marsh and Richie Tozier from the IT fandom.

IT: Chapter One (2017)
When Beverly meets the losers and goes away, Richie quickly warns everyone about her reputation around town, saying that the list of who she did was really longe, and even teases Bill about her. Later on, at the lake, Bev appears and jumps into the water without hesitation, action which Richie is impressed at. He seems to have warmed up to her, even saying that they got humiliated by someone different from the rest of the group, in case, a girl.

At the haunted house, Bev saves both Richie and Bill by stabing It with a spear. After, when they're all talking about it and Bev wants to do something against It, Richie gets annoyed and asks who invited Molly Ringwald into the group directed at Bev. Richie and Bill start a physical fight and Bev breaks them apart, trying to get peace in the group and unite them back again.

IT: Chapter Two (2019)
"There's noooo way Richie is married!"

- Bev mocking Richie at the dinner table

Beverly and Richie hug when they're reunited before getting inside the restaurant. They sit next to each other in the dinner table, and when the subject becomes Richie's possible spouse, Bev is quick to half joke that there was no way Richie is married due to his unserious personality.

Back to the house, Bev helps Richie put his glasses and then get up after he's attacked by the supernatural creatures.

What's left of the losers club is at the lake again at the end of the movie, Richie starts to cry mourning Eddie, Beverly and the others hug Richie as a way to console him.

Fanon
Bevchie is the third most written friendship in the IT fandom. Most platonic shippers of this friendship ship Reddie and Benverly alongside them, in some other scenarios even Stozier or Billverly. In most of the fanfics, Beverly acts like a matchmaker who clocks Richie as gay and is supportive of him, trying to set him up with the boy he likes. Canonically, they're seen as an "underrated friendship" which should have been given more interactions and time to work.

Some like to point out the similarities between Madwheeler and Bevchie: two gay characters (heavily headcanonned in Mike's side; canon in Richie's), with a ginger bisexual (headcanon in both sides) only girl of the group (excluding Eleven in Stranger Things). A few people also like to think about the possibilities if they met, resulting in Madzier, Bevmax or Wheelzier.

Romantically, this ship still exists, albeit in a smaller scale. Richie being confirmed gay brings the popularity of the romantic relationship down, most of the fandom preferring to leave it as platonic. Even so, there's still a few people that think of Richie as bisexual and make him attracted to Beverly anyways regardless of what canon says.

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 * Both Bev and Richie smoke canonically.

Variations

 * Benverchie — the ship between Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh and Richie Tozier
 * The Losers Club — the ship between Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Mike Hanlon, Richie Tozier and Stanley Uris