JiMel

JiMel is the het ship between Melody and Jim Hawkins from the Treasure Planet and The Little Mermaid fandoms.

Canon
As Melody and Jim are from different series and time periods, they have never met in canon. Even though a few Disney crossover video games could have the two crossing paths with each other or get them added to the same team, by the player's choice.

Both Jim and Melody have a habit of worrying about their mothers. Jim keeps getting into trouble with the law, while Melody's secret dives in the sea have Ariel searching the entire castle for her. Melody had heard stories about Atlantica but was told that it was "just an old fish tale." With the questions she had about the necklace she found, Melody goes in search of someone who could answer them. While Jim enjoyed hearing stories about Treasure Planet, and the pirates that used it as a strong hold for their treasure. As a child, he knew that its riches would make his and his mother's lives better. At first, Jim didn't know what the small, shiny orb was until him playing around with it allowed him to unlock the map's secrets. That showed him, and the two people with him at the time, a green hologram image of Treasure Planet. Similar to how Melody's gold shell-shaped necklace shows a magical image of Atlantica and its merfolk people, whenever it is opened.

As Jim's journey was about to begin, he meets the ship's cook and sometime after they become friends. Jim learns that he and half the crew are pirates, and Jim becomes heartbroken when he overhears John Silver say that he doesn't care about the young cabin boy. Melody faces a similar betrayal from Morgana, who turns Melody into a mermaid out of the "goodness of her heart." Morgana tricks her into stealing the Triton. On their journeys, both Jim and Melody each make a small and tall friend who isn't human. And both their friends help Jim and Melody complete their goals to find the pirate treasure and the powerful trident, later accompanying the two home where they meet their mothers.

Fanon
JiMel is a rather popular Disney crossover ship, however, other fans prefer to ship Jim with Melody's mother Ariel. Jariel is JiMel's rival ship in the fandom, while JiMel is commonly shipped beside the ship between Peter Pan and Jane. Because Treasure Planet has a 18th century Steampunk/Sci-fi setting, fans have either Melody meeting Jim in his world, as she accompanies his journey to Treasure Planet, or has Jim residing in Melody's world, where she is either a human or mermaid when she meets Jim.

While the ship only has 5 fanfics on AO3, JiMel has a well supported fanbase on both DeviantArt and Tumblr. A few fan-made work, sometimes features both of them as merfolk. A commonly used, trait in Little Mermaid ships. There have even been a few fan-artists of the ship who have used renders and screenshots of Ariel in order to create manip fanart of an older Melody that is of Jim's age, or to feature her in a dress that is a bit similar to the one her mother wears, while she is beside him. There have also been times when this trick is used to have Jim and Melody react scenes from the Little Mermaid. With the two serving younger versions of Ariel and Eric.

The story line normally consists around Jim being a servant in Ariel and Eric's castle and Melody being friend and falling in-love with him, as a "Romeo & Juliet" type of relationship, as Melody is a princess and Jim would be a servant in the Disney universe, assumably.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Jim/Melody tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jim/Melody tag on FanFiction.Net


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