You know, these are a lot of fun.
As the youngest of Triton’s daughters, Ariel had a rebellious streak in her and she was quickly bored of the things she collected, always looking for something newer and more exciting. When her eye caught a young sailor from the surface world, she wanted that too. She sought out the help of a witch and traded her voice for legs, eventually regaining her voice and defeating the witch, for now. Her tail, however, was gone.
Her father cast her out of the kingdom of the sea. Though he assured her he still loved her, there was a price for defying him so often and without her tail, she had crossed the last line. She was no longer one of his people and would forever walk the surface world, unable to return to her home in the sea.
Despite this, she was optimistic about remaining topside. Her father sanctioned her to go forth and create relations with the upper world and she became an ambassador of the sea, determined to learn the strange ways of the surface world.
Up here, she eventually learned, was a lot different. They didn’t know how to talk to fish, nor did they have any control over the land and air like she had over water. And here, without the water interfering, Ariel learned that her voice had a strange, hypnotizing quality to it.
In her way, she grew bored of just being an ambassador and decided to add super heroine to her list of things she was doing. With her life becoming so exciting from crime fighting, she didn’t think of what could happen to those around her. Her boyfriend/prince became entangled in one of these fights and she tried to save him, but forgot that humans could not breathe under water and he drowned.
Stricken by grief, Ariel learned to be more careful with humans. They were such fragile things. Her heart was broken, but eventually she moved on and became the upbeat heroine she once was, doing good for the world and continuing to try and negotiate treaties between the sea and land.
Tags: disney, little mermaid, marvel
