Benverly

Benverly is the het ship between Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom and Beverly "Bev" Marsh from the IT fandom.

IT: Chapter One
They first meet at school, when Ben is on the way blocking Bev's passage. She mockingly asks him if there's a secret password, and he apologizes trying to get out of her way, but accidentally drops his project and bike on the ground, seemingly nervous. Bev informs him of Henry's location, who's chasing Ben. She takes interest in what he's listening, stealing his headphones and linking the fact that he's listening to New Kids on the Block to the fact he's also a new kid there, but then saying she's just messing with him. Bev introduces herself, but Ben says he already knows her because they're on the same class. He starts to describe something else about Bev, but trails off. She makes the decision of signing his yearbook with a lot of hearts, action where he looks completely mesmerized by her.

When the group is at the quarry, after Bev jumps into water, Ben waves to her. They also play chicken together, Bev on Bill's shoulders and Ben on Richie's. After the activity, Ben is part of the boys who are staring admirably at her. Bill notices that Bev cut her hair, but quickly Ben jumps to compliment it first saying it looks beautiful, to which Bev shyly replies thanking him.

Bev finds the poem Ben made for her, and reads it. She opens up a huge smile, feeling extremely loved because of the words.

Later on, Ben sees the heart-to-heart Bev and Bill have, pinning for her from afar. After the losers are attacked by Pennywise, Bev pats Ben's shoulder and thanks him.

When Bev is caught in the deadlights, Ben is the most desperate one out of the losers, visibly scared for her and questioning why she isn't waking up. He throws himself into her arms, and in an attempt to save her, he kisses Bev on the lips in front of all the losers. She says "January embers", and Ben completes, "My heart burns there, too.", and she discovers that he was the one who wrote the poem. They hold hands at the end of the movie together with the rest of the group.

IT: Chapter Two (2019)
"This is a page from my yearbook. Only one person signed it. And I probably should’ve forgotten it but I couldn’t because I kept it in my wallet, for 27 years."

Bev is lingering before entering the restaurant and is found first by Ben, asking if there's a password or something, to which she confusedly answers "I'm sorry?", a direct parallel to the first time they met.

Ben had kept the page of the yearbook that Bev signed for him, showing at the start of the movie that he keeps it in his wallet and looks at it frequently. Later on, he burns it in Mike's ritual and remarks it as "something he should've forgotten" while Bev watches, admired by the thoughtful act of keeping it for 27 whole years. Bev also gives the January embers poem (that she thinks it's Bill's) to Mike for him to burn, remarking it as "something I should've held on to".

They escape from Pennywise by reciting the poem, and are able to save each other because of it. Bev, then, finally realizes the poem is from Ben (again) and that his love for her is real and last longing. Ben and Bev kiss at the quarry underwater, and are also shown at the ending sequence in Ben's yatch, where he asks if Bev slept well, and she answers that she had a beautiful dream, an indication that they were finally happy.

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Benverly is the second biggest ship in the IT fandom, having tons of fanfic, fanart and other content in every part of the internet. It sailed because of Ben's pinning for her throughout the entire chapter one and two, and finally having his affection reciprocated after Bev realizes her love for him at the end of the series. Fans also like how devoted Ben is to Bev, as she definitely needs this love from someone knowing her history of abuse from both her father and her ex-husband.

Benverly is most, if not all the time, shipped alongside Reddie, the most popular ship in the fandom. Sometimes, they're also paired up with Stenbrough, or Hanbrough and Stanpat.

Since they don't have other romantic interests, the only rival ship they have is Billverly, the other side of the love triangle that didn't work. Still, in fandom, Benverly easily overshadows Billverly because of their endgame status, so it hardly even counts. However, some people still like them in a polyship, either because of Billverly, Denscom or both.

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Variations

 * Benverchie refers to the ship between Ben, Bev and Richie Tozier
 * Denbenverly refers to the ship between Ben, Bev and Bill Denbrough
 * The Losers Club refers to the ship between Ben, Bev, Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Mike Hanlon, Richie Tozier and Stanley Uris