Talk:Ariel/@comment-24238780-20141211180549/@comment-1672596-20141217235422

I'll give you that Ariel's more naïve than Belle (and besides, I don't recall ever denying Ariel was more naïve than Belle). But stupid? No, she's definitely not more stupid than Belle. I'm sorry, but like I said before in the Belle wall, anyone who actually exposes Beast to what is obviously a congregated mob drunk on emotions, not to mention led by a guy who they deduced easily was responsible for orchestrating said mob to blackmail them into marrying them, and then being all surprised when they decide to kill the Beast despite this being the most likely scenario that would happen and thus utterly predictable and definitely something she should have seen coming, they enter stupid territory, like it or not, and was definitely something that even Ariel never actually did. Had it been me in Belle's position, especially with the knowledge that Gaston was trying to blackmail me into marrying him, I wouldn't expose the Beast to the mob at all precisely BECAUSE I realize full well that doing such a stupid action will in fact most likely result in the villagers going after the Beast, and Gaston deciding to kill him out of jealousy regardless of ANYTHING I say to try to dissuade them from doing so, and thus cannot afford to risk the immense casualties by having Beast and my enchanted friends be massacred, not even to save my father. Not to say I wouldn't save Maurice at all, but I wouldn't resort to THAT method towards saving him.