#demelza x hugh

[seriouslysam8]

I have a little mini challenge for you and you can’t veto it!

Stick the following Brumous couples with someone else other than who they’re paired with (you can’t use someone who is dead):

Harry x Ginny

Ron x Demelza (I know it’s endgame)

Sirius x Tegan AND Sirius x Marlene (you can put Sirius with any of them)

Remus x Tonks

Arthur x Molly

Andy x Ted

You made this unnecessarily hard by banning dead people. I am in my right mind to ignore this rule. 🤣🤣🤣

First up, the easy ones.

Harry/Ron: There is at least one universe in which these two are together. You cannot change my mind.

Ginny/Demelza: Again, there is one universe these two are together. There has to be a universe where you are just getting it on with your bestie. You can't change my mind.

Tonks/Sutton: She is so sunshiny that she needs a slightly grumpy man. While Sutton isn't self-deprecating like Remus, he's not happy-go-lucky either. Plus, he's older than her and she digs older men.

Andy/Hugh Slughorn: Andy and Ted are soul mates, right? So, the only way she's not with Ted is if she followed in the Black family footsteps and was a good little pureblood girl like Narcissa. Who better than a pureblood from the Sacred 28 who isn't a raging blood purist but wildly successful? IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW. If you don't, well, then you haven't read all my stories. 😂😂😂😂

Arthur/Random Muggle Girl: I could totally see Arthur meeting some Muggle girl and falling head over heels in love with her. He'd be FASCINATED by everything. She'd find him endearing.

Now, onto the hard ones.

Sirius: He's hard in my mind. My first thought was, of course, James, because if any of them dated in that group it would be James/Sirius and NOT Sirius/Remus. But you said no one dead. I could see him getting with some random Muggle girl to stick it in his parents' faces.

Tegan: She's hard as well because her entire schtick in Brumous is that she can't move on from David and she's just a serial dater. I can't see her dating any Auror because it would remind her too much of David. Being an Auror, I could see her becoming close to some lawyers. So, I'll pair her with Magnus Shacklebolt who is only a year younger than her.

Marlene: I want to just say Charlie because if you know you know, but that seems like such a cop-out answer and we all know about hot girl Christmas on here. I could see her dating an Auror because of her family connection to Aurors. She'd know a lot of them thanks to her dad and brother. I could see her dating someone like Axel Lowe who is charismatic and friendly.

Remus: I know you said no one but seriously... no one. Remus is a major commitment-phobe. The only reason he even had a relationship with Tonks was because she was fucking in-love and wouldn't give up. She wasn't about ready to let him wallow either. So, I'm breaking the rules and saying I legit cannot see Remus with anyone except for Tonks. He'd die alone.

Molly: I think Molly would have married a pureblood, not because she's a purist or anything but just because the Prewett family is a part of the Sacred 28 and it seems like something Aunt Muriel would advocate for. I don't think it'd be any DE line, but perhaps an Abbott or Longbottom or a Macmillan.

Ted: He obviously likes the mysterious girls. I think Andromeda probably had an air of mysteriousness about her. Proper and gorgeous and tall. Yet, there was a soft side to her and she laughed in a way he never expected. So, it couldn't be anyone in Hufflepuff or even Ravenclaw. I could see him either getting with another Slytherin girl from a prominent family but not a blood purist because he reeks forbidden love or I could see him being with a Gryffindor who was fierce and fiery.

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[elizabethanddemela1985]

[londonista59]

HughMelza ❤️

[poldarkforever]

Demelza x Hugh, 4.01

[allisonaergents]

If she whom I desire would stoop to love me, I would come hand-in-hand, and, kneeling, ask that she kindly receive me…and deign to understand that all I have is hers…forever and a day. Press but her lips to mine…and never let love decay.

[darcyliz]

And very soon it will be true.

[captnswilson]

Is there a ship name for demelza and hugh?

[emilieblunt]

Season 3 Episode 8

[morwennacarne]

#smooth demelza smooth

[hannahbananna94]

Video by  demigodivergent

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[thoughtsonpoldark]

Thank you for your response! Here are some thoughts: I love how you boiled down to Ross needing Demelza. Would you say that it was because, at many instances in the book, he comments how he derives his happiness from her whereas Demelza can find joy anywhere? And you are absolutely right - the emotional infidelity is what cuts him and I never connected the dots that her ambiguity resulted in his "Angry Tide". To me, it seems Ross took longer to move past her infidelity - why do you think that is

Hi there,

Yes, Ross deriving his happiness from Demelza was a big part of his need of her. He did say that before he met her his life was black and I love the fact that her entry into the story turned that around even before they became lovers. The flowers and the fact that she made him smile privately to himself and laugh aloud. He acknowledged a couple of times in the story that she was his 'better self' and a counterbalance to his moodiness. He also referred to her as the centre of his world and at the height of his distress about her affection for Hugh he thought 'what is the point?' of him living his life and doing certain projects such as what Lord Falmouth sought from him if the centre of his life was gone. If he went into a four year depression over Elizabeth I think he surely would have if he lost Demelza.

In short I think Ross took longer to get over Demelza's infidelity because he was more of a brooder. Demelza would get upset and then dust herself off and focus on positives. Ross was less emotionally pliant. However as you have expressed there was Demelza's ambiguity. I think that was the major issue. I also think that because Demelza was not as certain over her feelings for Hugh (or did not express them very clearly so that Ross could feel that no part of her heart remained with Hugh), it meant that Ross's insecurities could not be addressed and festered in him. I don't believe that she loved Hugh in the way that mattered but Ross really needed to hear this. If you remember in 'The Angry Tide' she said it was over. He asked if this was because Hugh was dead and she just repeated that it was over. He was clearly fishing for her to make a firm statement that ruled Hugh out as ever having been a serious contender against Ross. She didn't. So his wounds and insecurities remained open for him to stew over and build an inner anger which manifested itself in his rage against Monk Adderly. By the way I believe this was not anger against her but of life itself and how things had worked out. I think it was Elizabeth's death that helped Ross to address his anger and to let it go. It seems that the possibility of losing Demelza shocked and scared him and made him realise he should enjoy and treasure what he had for however long her had it.

[thisbluespirit]

Ross and Demelza at the Warleggans’ ball in Poldark S1 (BBC 1975).

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