Luberto

Luberto is the slash ship between Luca Paguro and Alberto Scorfano from the Luca fandom.

Canon
At the beginning of the movie Alberto scares Luca since Alberto dressed in a diving suit that did not show if he was a human or a sea monster, Luca follows him to the surface, he comes out again with Alberto's help. Alberto teaches Luca to walk. They then introduce themselves and become friends, Alberto teaches Luca more things from the surface and the human things that he collected, Luca repairs one of those objects, Alberto shows Luca what is a vespa, despite saying several times that he had to leave because his parents did not know that he went to the surface and would be angry with him, Luca stays and helps Alberto build a vespa. Luca dreams of him and Alberto riding a vespa together. Eventually Luca's parents find out and when they tell him that he can't go to the surface again, Luca tells them about Alberto and states that the two of them always take care of each other, then his parents tell him that he will stay with his uncle Hugo in the deep part of the sea, Luca escapes and stays with Alberto.

Alberto tells Luca that they can go to town and adds that it could be full of vespas, Luca murmurs that it would be both their vespa and asks Alberto if he thinks they would survive there to which he replies that together they will achieve whatever and that each night they would go to a new place and sleep together below the “fish”, with no one telling them what to do and that they would be free, with each word Luca's eyes light up more, Alberto shows Luca a drawing he made of them in a vespa and the latter affirms that it is the best drawing he has seen in his life, they swim together and arrive the the human town of Portorosso, which is where the shipping started.



In the town they eat ice cream together, when Ercole starts to bother them, Alberto defends Luca, then they meet Giulia, a human girl from Genova that only visits Portorosso in the summer. They join his team to enter the Portorosso Cup, but they need money so Giulia takes them home to ask her father for the necessary money. They talk about the sightings of sea monsters in the city and Luca accidentally spits water on Alberto, he covers him and tries to make him look like a human under the table, Luca makes the excuse that he slipped and both boys sigh. They decide to help Giulia's father to get more fish to earn more money and get the necessary. They decide to help Giulia's father to get more fish to earn more money and get the necessary money and they sleep together in Giulia's "hideaway". During the night it rains and they turn into sea monsters again so Luca wakes up Alberto, they look for a place to hide so that others do not see them like that. They look for fish but the boat moves a lot so Luca and Alberto have to be very close to each other to avoid getting wet and becoming sea monsters.

Each one practices what to do when competing respectively, little by little Alberto becomes jealous that Giulia is friends with Luca and that he spends more time with her. When Giulia asks Luca why did he want the vespa he tells her the things that he and Alberto will do when they get it and that they will visit new places together, they keep talking and when Giulia says that the “fish” aren't really what Luca thinks they are, he defends arguing that they are because Alberto told him they were. She tells him that the “fish” are actually stars and Luca seems surprised when discovering that Alberto was wrong, She continues to teach him things, fascinating Luca, Alberto arrives and tells him that he has been looking for him everywhere and shows his jealousy again. Luca tells him what he learned from the stars and Alberto denies that they are, he also tells him that he would like to try to go to school but Alberto gets angry and says that sea monsters cannot go to school and asks him rhetorically how others would react if they found out about it. Suddenly Ercole and other children appear, he begins to approach them and Alberto protects Luca, Ercole's companions support Alberto, Luca asks Ercole to leave him alone and the older one pushes him and punches Alberto in his stomach, Luca holds a spear threatening Ercole, Luca and Alberto get out of there.

Massimo teaches Alberto to properly hold a fork when eating pasta and when he does it well he wants to show Luca but he is reading a book together with Giulia and he ignores him, which makes Alberto get jealous again as he looks at both of them, annoyed. Luca practices riding a bicycle, and Alberto insists on sitting in front of him on a descent, this causes both of them to lose control of the bicycle and fall into the water. Luca gets angry with Alberto since the latter thinks he knows everything and Luca reprimands him for having caused them to crash into the ocean, he repeats that he wants to go to school, they start fighting until Giulia arrives and Alberto gets angry with her again. Luca asks Giulia if they can go with her to her school, she happily answers yes and Luca makes the same greeting that Alberto did when they first met, causing Alberto's jealousy to reach the point where he reveals that he is A sea monster, Luca pretends not to know about this and acts as if he was scared, Alberto's expression changes from being angry to a gesture showing surprise and sadness. Ercole arrives and tries to kill Alberto by throwing a spear at him, between fear and amazement Luca covers his mouth and Alberto retreats returning to the water without believing what had just happened

Shortly after Giulia finds out that Luca is also a sea monster, only that he reacts in a more understanding way, Luca decides to look for Alberto on the island where they met, he climbed the tower where Alberto lived before and saw the drawing that made both of them broken in half, he found Alberto behind him, Luca apologizes and Alberto tells him to leave him alone and walks away from him, Luca then sees the wall on which the poster of a scooter was hanging and notes various chalk marks, Luca follows Alberto and asks him about the marks, he explains that it was an account of the days that had passed since his father left, he tells Luca that he is better without him, Luca refuses and tells him that it is the voice in his head and that he should not listen to it, he adds that he learned that from him. Alberto angrily tells him to leave. Luca tells him that it is fine and that he will win the race, Alberto turns to see him confused, Luca responds happily that he will get the vespa and he and Alberto will leave together, Alberto tells him that he is crazy and Luca just says that maybe he is crazy, he jumps from the tower worrying and confusing Alberto more, Luca says that he is fine, he leaves and adds that he will see him tomorrow and fix everything

Fanon
Shippers immediately started shipping Luca and Alberto even before the movie came out, many people compared another movie named Call Me By Your Name and Luca and found similarities between both films and their main characters. There is very limited fan-fiction about them, but it exists. There is more fanart than fanfiction, in fanart they usually portray them in their sea monster form or as humans, or hanging out together, sometimes with Giulia or even Massimo supporting them and their relationship.

The popularity of both Luberto and Lumity from The Owl House, from being same gender ships, it had inspired fans to portray the two young sea monsters as Luz x Amity.

After Turning Red came out it had inspired fans to compare Luberto with Meiriam. As they feel that Mei and Miriams' friendship has the same/similar type of enough as Luca and Albertos' friendship. That is why some fans have shipped Luca with Mei and Ablerto with Miriam. Or simply ship the two Pixar ships beside one another.

Fandom
FANFICTION
 * You Are My Sunshine on Wattpad
 * You Are My Sunshine on Wattpad

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Trivia

 * This ship was deconfirmed by the director of the movie. “I was really keen to talk about a friendship before girlfriends and boyfriends come in to complicate things,” “This was about their friendship in that pre-puberty world,”

Variations

 * The Underdogs refers to the ship between the two and Giulia Marcovaldo