Tawny-haired mermaid Ariel was one of Disney's most immediately popular animated heroines. Ariel is a girl in the process of becoming an attractive woman. One of her attractive qualities is that she is very definite about what she is doing and very confident about her own ability to succeed. Of course, a good deal of that confidence is ill-placed, as she is just a teenager. Although she is warned by her father, King Triton, that humans are dangerous, Ariel stubbornly believes otherwise and has an insatiable curiosity about them. She explores human artifacts (sunken ships, etc.) and is constantly going into forbidden territory: the surface. This, of course, leads her to love ... and trouble.
The red-headed star of The Little Mermaid, Ariel is the youngest of seven daughters of Triton , king of the Oceans. She has a beautiful singing voice and gorgeous red hair.
Ariel's only real friends are Flounder (a cute little fish) and Sebastian (carribean Crab). Ariel falls in love with, and marries, Prince Eric, giving up her mermaid form.
Ariel is the little mermaid, young, innocent and immensely curious of humans and life and land, a hobby that's dangerous for any mermaid, especially if they have King Triton for a father. She's headstrong, spirited and unafraid to do what she believes in, traits that make her one of the most memorable animated heroines ever.
"I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad."
Ariel is the youngest of seven daughters to King Triton, the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Atlantica. This spunky, independent teenage red-head is at a time in her life when she is questioning authority and testing the limits of her boundaries. She has a beautiful voice, and an adventurous heart. She is curious about all things that are forbidden, like "humans" and their artifacts.
Ariel, along with her best friend, a Guppy named Flounder, often explores old sunken ships and has filled a cavern with many human things. When she wants to learn about these items she often asks he loony pal, Scuttle the Seagull, who pretends to be an authority on human nature (in reality he doesn't know much more than Ariel does).
However, there is a friend, Archimedes the Hunamologist who does understand human nature, but lives as an outcast and recluse because of his forbidden studies (Ariel may be his only friend). Ariel's love for stray animals has also gotten her into many difficulties with her father, such as the time when she tried to hide a baby killer whale named Spot in her bedroom, or when she swam off to ride a wild Seahorse named Stormy.
Ariel's father has a special attatchment to his rebellious daughter, not just because she has brilliant red hair like he once did, but because she reminds him so much of himself when he was her age. Among her sisters, Alana and, especially, Arista, are her closest confidants, but her other other friends include the young orphan, Urchin, who has become an unofficial member of the family and stableboy to the palace seahorses; Old Mackey, the Stable Master; the valleygirl, African-Atlantican Shelly, the shy and intellectual Coral, the equally adventuresome, yet deaf and mute Gabriella and her companion Ollie the Octopus, and the spoiled Pearl, (these last four being teenage mermaid residents of Atlantica); Gil, a mer-boy and object of her "guppy-love;" Li'l Evil, the Evil Manta's own son; and her cousin, Marlon, with whom she occassionally goes exploring.
Aside from the Evil Manta, Ariel has triumphed over other such bad guys as Morray the Eel, Lobster Mobster & Da' Shrimp and the Sea-Clops (though often with the help of her friends). At times she babysits the Mertwins, the children of the Clambakerfields. One day her curiosity with lead her into mortal danger when she will make a pact with the evil Ursula the Sea-Witch who takes her voice and makes her human. At this time Ariel will meet the human who will save her life and to whom she will eventually marry, Prince Eric. Until then, the royal court advisor, Sebastian the Crab, is her guardian and regal companion, who tries his best to keep this slippery fish on a very short leash. Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian all starred in the film "The Little Mermaid" as well as in the TV series. "Disney's The Little Mermaid."
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