#bumarry

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Descendants (Disney Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Ben/Harry Hook/Uma Series: Part 5 of Meanwhile

Summary:

“You’re too good to Mal,” Harry mused aloud, his hands closing around Ben’s shoulders, preventing him from moving. “You can tell yourself it’s for the Isle, but that will get you just to the open sea, not to your destination beauty.”

Ben frowned and looked down. He knew they weren’t pressuring him to make a decision, but rather to be honest with himself about Mal. Even if that truth was painful. And yet, the feeling of betraying her and her friends tightened in his throat.

“Do you trust me?” Uma asked, crossing her legs and resting her foot in the space between Ben’s legs on his seat.

He looked up and found himself smiling. Ben had once asked her to trust him, but Uma had rightfully refused. Now, every time she asked him that question, he found himself more and more entangled in it.

Uma [watching him from the distance]: Sometimes I look at him and ask myself "Really? That's the spermatozoon that won the race?"

Ben: Try to look at the bright side. If that's the one that won, imagine what the others were.

HE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE BEN OMG WHAT THEFUCKN MHDBEUBFDJUHDBY

harry: hows it feel being king now eh?

ben: *tied up* i mean, im not a slut, but who knows?

Chapters: 23/23 Fandom: Descendants (Disney Movies) Main Relationship: Ben/Harry Hook/Uma Secondary Relationship: Chad Charming/Gil/Jane/Audrey Rose Summary:

Supply boats came and go in a very specific schedule. Ben had memorized the entire routine, like hundreds of other things that could be important. So when he tossed a note in the boat that was leaving the island, it surprised him that one of his plans worked. Because the next boat appeared with an answer with quick handwriting in turquoise ink.

One of the things I wanted to do with my current Bummarry is having both, Harry and Ben, fall in love with Uma for who she really is in every way. That includes her physical form as a sea witch. That they must commit to the limitations that this implies (that she cannot transform in a human form when she goes to the island or that they cannot breathe underwater, leaving them with very limited places to interact). First, because I don't feel like there is enough content with Uma in her non-human form.

And second, because people fantasize a lot about the romance of mermaids with humans. But let's face it, the mermaid image is very conventional. Very... Delicate. But... The image of an octomaid? That is powerful. Disney used this representation for Ursula (and Morgana) because it screams power and dominance. Because a woman with eight limbs that scream phallic form is here to destroy the patriarchy. And yeah, a dominant woman is often associated by the Media with villainy.

So I wanted every encounter in my fic (at least the first ones) of Uma with Harry and Ben to be in this clear difference. Not only that she is an AK and they VK. Or that she is a goddess, Harry is human and Ben is a "fairy". Rather, they are different from where they belong. The sea and the land. They have to compromise.

And of course, in my fic, Uma was raised to know that her appearance is associated with Ursula and Morgana, that being a sea witch gives the impression that she is dangerous, so she has always had to be regal but also not promote those stereotypes. They taught her that instead of teaching others not to discriminate against her. So Uma always is very aware of her actions in her true form. But on the island, where the villains are the leaders, all those characteristics would make her stand out in a positive light. So for Harry and Ben, Uma is no different, they grew up with other sea witches (daughters of Morgana, they excellent with the violin). So Uma is more comfortable with Harry and Ben. Being in her sea witch appearance that she considers more hers. Despite the technical difficulties that all this implies.

Well... This is just an idea.

In addition to the fact that in the myths the most sincere romantic interest of a god in a mortal was to kidnap them (as opposed to deceiving said mortals by pretending to be animals, rain, or someone else (I'm looking at you, Zeus)).

That is why the myth of Hades and Persephone, in addition to their marriage itself, is of a happy couple and that Persephone wanted to be with Hades. And that more than a "kidnapping", it was something planned so that Demeter couldn't refuse their marriage in the end.

In any case!

Technically.

Teeeeecnhically...

If you think about it, when Uma kidnaps Ben, to her, ahm, culture, she's courting him (and because Harry is involved, that's a two-on-one courtship).

Oh, and now I can't help but think that at some point, Uma must have "kidnapped" Harry. Quite possibly around the time, Captain Hook didn't want his son to be Uma's first mate.