Jarzan

Jarzan is the het ship between Jane Porter and Tarzan from the Tarzan fandom.

Tarzan (1998)
Just after Tarzan killed the leopard that he lost his parents to, he and his gorilla family hear strange noises very close nearby. The animals all sense danger and run the opposite direction, but Tarzan had always been the curious type and chose to investigate instead. It turns out to be a gunshot fired by a man named Clayton, who came to the jungle to guard a professor named Archimedes Porter on his latest expidition. Tarzan was fascinated by them, having never seen another human before, but he's especially taken to the professor's lovely young daughter Jane, who immediately alerts his protector instincts when he sees her tripping and falling backwards.

Jane and her father came to the jungle to study gorillas and Jane wanders off to take notes. On her way, she meets a curious baby baboon, whom she draws a picture off. The baboon however steals her notebook and Jane angers the baby's family when she tries to get it back. Jane makes a run for it, but her attire is poorly suited for the jungle and Tarzan swoops in to rescue her by swinging on a vine. When Tarzan safely positions Jane on a tree, he realizes that the baboons just want the picture and gives it to them without her input. Jane is terrified of Tarzan at first and tries to discreetly climb away from him, but realizes that she's stuck on the tree when it starts raining. Tarzan uses this opportunity to inspect Jane closer and puts his hand against hers, him realizing that they are the exact same shape. He then gets Jane to hear his heartbeat, a sign of solidarity that his gorilla mother Kala had taught him. He imitates her speech and introduces himself as "Tarzan", urging her to reveal her name to him. After some misunderstandings, Jane manages to make him say her name by repeating her name after his. Jane hears another one of Clayton's gunshots, calling his name which causes Tarzan to associate the sound of a gunshot with "Clayton". She realizes that she had been away for her camp for too long and asks Tarzan to take her home, but disapproves of him swinging her there by vine.

But when they arrive at the camp, they find it destroyed as Tarzan's family decided to use the strange new objects to make music. However, before Jane could show Tarzan or the gorillas to her father, they are already dragging Tarzan off. Jane however tells her father all about Tarzan when he comes back. She spends the next day trying to explain Tarzan to her father and Clayton, having seemingly grown just as fascinated with him as he had been with her. Though her father is a bit skeptical, he encourages her enthusiasm, but Clayton has none of it and thinks she is just making things up for attention. Meanwhile, Tarzan has disobeyed his gorilla father's wishes to further interact with the humans and interrupts Clayton's argument with Jane by his sudden arrival. Jane had prior made the argument that Tarzan could help them get closer to the gorillas, her father and Clayton may share the same goal but for very different reasons and approach Tarzan accordingly. Since he can barely speak, Jane and her father volunteer to teach him English and human culture, but his frequent slipping away starts to worry his gorilla family. Both Tarzan and Jane realize that they had fallen in love with each other, but that isn't enough to put his loyalty to Jane above the safety of his family, particularly due to his father Kerchak's vicious hatred of humanity and so he refuses to bring Jane and her father to his gorilla family.

However, the time for expedition had run out and Jane and her father are pressured to return to London. When Jane tells Tarzan about this, he is heartbroken. When Jane offers to take him back to London with her, he instead insists that she should stay. As Jane is caught up in distress, realizing that she may never see the love of her life again, she starts to cry and run from the scene. It is at this moment that Clayton puts his plan into motion by lying to Tarzan that Jane will stay for as long as he wants, if Tarzan will finally show them the gorillas. So Tarzan asks his cousin Terk and their friend Tantor the elephant to distract Kerchak while he introduces Jane and her father to his family and vice-versa. His mother takes a liking to Jane and he tells his family that Jane will stay. He teaches Jane how to speak the language of gorillas, but Jane repeats what Tarzan had already said, making them believe that Jane wants to stay. Before Jane could correct that, Kerchak arrives and sees the three humans as intruders, with Tarzan barely being able to hold him back.

Though nobody gets hurt, Tarzan is further torn between his desire to embrace his human heritage and his love for his gorilla family, but his mother takes him to the treehouse his human parents had built before they were killed and Tarzan finds a family photo with himself as a baby. From that point on, Tarzan makes the choice to embrace his humanity and dons a suit that used to belong to his father, making his way towards the ship that should take Jane and her father back to London. Jane is happy to see him and tells him about all the great sights he'll see and the people he'll meet, but Tarzan tells her that he doesn't care what comes as long as he gets to be with her. However, just as it seems like all is going well, Tarzan sees Jane imprisoned alongside her father and the ship's crew. Turns out that this was all part of Clayton's plan to keep the others incapacitated while he poaches Tarzan's family, planning to cage them and sell them for a fortune in London. Tarzan eventually gets imprisoned on the ship along with them, but not before he gets to call his friends and family for help. While they're both imprisoned, Jane apologizes for how stupid she was for trusting Clayton, but she soon gets her chance to make up for it when Terk and Tantor free her alongside everyone else. Tarzan swings to the rescue while Jane and her father hitch a ride on Tantor and together they manage to free Kala, but Tarzan gets injured in the arm by Clayton's gunshot. Kerchak throws himself between Tarzan and Clayton, taking the bullet for his son, but Jane tries to apprehend Clayton when he tries to shoot Tarzan again. Clayton manages to knock her aside, but Tarzan leads Clayton away from her and destroys his gun in the trees. After Clayton falls to his death, Tarzan and Jane approach the dying Kerchak and he tells him on his last breaths that he is sorry and that it's up to Tarzan to look after the family now.

The next day, Tarzan can only watch as Jane and her father row back to their ship to London, having new responsibility as the group's new silverback prevents him from joining them for good. Just as Jane is saying goodbye, she locks her lips on his, which Tarzan initially doesn't understand, but then returns her first kiss when he does. Jane's father sees how miserable Jane is about leaving Tarzan behind, telling her that she should stay with Tarzan if she truly loves him. After Jane leaves the boat to reunite with Tarzan, her father follows her, telling the captain to just tell everyone at home that they got lost at sea. In the epilogue, Jane had completely abandoned her lady-like dress and replaced it with more a practical loincloth, having joined Tarzan as his queen.

Fanon
A common criticism of the Disney movie is that it peaked a bit too early and that the first thirty minutes could've been a perfectly good movie on their own. However, Jane's introduction and bonding with Tarzan is what kept most people watching. General consensus is that Disney actually managed to make a played-out classic love story far more refreshing and endearing by really leaning into the angle of them learning from each other and complementing each other. Thus even people who dislike the movie commonly cite their relationship as a highlight.

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