Aralyn

Aralyn is the femslash ship between Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon from the SiX fandom.

SiX
Catherine of Aragon tells the audeience how Henry started cheating on her, coming home late. She then tells them how he moved his side chick, Anne,, into her palace and then wanted to divorce her and move her into a nunnery. She then sings her song about how much hardship she went through, when K Howard asks about the other queen. Aragon plays it off like she's the only one, but the other queens chime in, bringing up that people actually cared about the other one and not Aragon. They then start off introducing Anne, Aragon saying that Anne had a plan to steal Henry.

Anne explains during her song that she had no idea that Henry would make him move in with Aragon after they started sleeping together. She says that after being a side chick for so long she told Henry to make up his mind between her and Aragon. She then tells Aragon not to be bitter, but she should get into her head that he no longer wants her, and that someone should just hang her.

After her song, Anne decides that she's clearly the winner, and decides she'll sing a second one about how she felt when Aragon died. Called "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral", she then starts to sing, but the other queens stop her. Aragon she'll get a second song over her dead body, the irony catching up to her a moment later.

When K Howard finishes her song, Anne says that it shouldn't be weird between them just because her beheading was the result of years of trauma and humiliation. Aragon then steps in and says that if Anne wants to talk humiliation, they can talk about Henry cheating on her with three different mistresses. Anne tells her to get over it and says that she had three miscarriages. Aragon calls her a loser, and that she had five miscarriages, but the other queens step in before it can go further.

SiX

 * Aragon pushes Anne out of the way as she tries to prove she'll win.
 * Anne says that Aragon has a "nice neck" when she says Henry never said goodbye after divorcing her.
 * When Anne asks who K Howard is, Aragon explains that she's the "least relevant Catherine".

Fanon
Aralyn is one of the more popular ships in the SiX fandom. This is mostly due to them having a lot of very significant interactions throughout the show. The two also had the most overlap in terms of history, which made it easy for the musical to add a rivalry between the two. On AO3, Aralyn is the second most written ship for Anne and the most written for Catherine. It is the second most written ship in the SiX - Marlow/Moss tag. There are currently 340+ written works.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Historically, Anne was Catherine's maid of honor.
 * Anne and Catherine both died in 1536.
 * Anne's second song "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral", is a reference to Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII actually wearing yellow to Catherine of Aragon's funeral.
 * Catherine and Anne were the mothers to Mary I "Bloody Mary" and Elizabeth I "The Virgin Queen".