Talk:Ariel/@comment-5473378-20141015231325/@comment-1672596-20141016023416

"That's not what I'm saying at all. She's saying that betraying your own kind, running away from home, marrying the first person you see, and selling your voice to a sea demon are okay. In the sequel, she decides to make her daughter ignorant of her ancestral roots for her own safety. Makes you wonder why she thought making Melody ignorant of her ancestral roots would be a great idea instead of explaining things to her or moving somewhere away from the ocean, she even points this out a few times. It's like an episode of Garfield and Friends, in that episode, it basically tells you that ugly people can only be loved by other ugly people."

First off, she didn't "betray her own kind", any more than Lan Hikari betrayed his own kind to Mr. Match in MegaMan Battle Network 3 (and BTW, it was the exact same scenario, only Lan did it without a love interest in mind). And second of all, if we go by the TV series, Eric wasn't the first person she saw. Not to mention, even if Eric was indeed the first person she saw, she already saw enough of his character to most likely deduce that he's definitely a good guy (being kind to your manservant and dog, not to mention braving the seas and helping your fellow sailors, also risking your life to save a friend will do that to you), and since he didn't even know she existed at the time, that makes clear his true nature as well (you know what they say, "someone's true nature is only apparent when they do things when they think other people aren't looking"). Third of all, the whole selling of her voice would not have even been necessary had Triton just kept a lid on his temper (and let's be honest, she at least knows Eric more than Triton did, whom he automatically assumed was bad just because he was human while Ariel at least took the time to observe his behavior).

As far as hiding her heritage, suppose Ariel did do that, suppose she exposed Melody's heritage to her. If she inherited her rebellious spirit, that would most likely make her even more determined to find Atlantica, and actually increase the risk that she get killed by Morgana even more than it had. Heck, a good example of the worst that could happen if the truth was exposed is in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: Genesis, under the stupid belief that telling Sephiroth the truth about his origins (specifically, being cloned from the remains of a cataclysmic monster known as Jenova) would get Sephiroth to donate his genes to alleviate his degeneration flaw. Want to know what happened as a result of that? Not only did Sephiroth not give him the genes needed out of well-deserved spite, but thanks to that as well as discovering the hints earlier at the Mako reactor, he basically went mad after doing research into his background and wiped out Nibelheim, not to mention after being offed by Cloud Strife becoming the biggest threat the Planet had ever seen by Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children. Heck, we actually have that exact situation play out with Beauty and the Beast, where Belle did expose the Beast's existence in front of an angry mob trying to lock Maurice up, not to mention being led by the guy who has already proven himself to be willing to go as far as to resort to blackmail to force Belle to marry him, especially by locking up her father under false pretenses about him being dangerous, when it should have been extremely obvious what would have happened as a result of that action. She exposed the truth, and Beast and his servants nearly got killed for it as a result, all because of her extremely short-sighted motive of saving her father, especially when being able to deduce things well, she should have known better and actually came up with a far better plan than that. In fact, Belle's action there was a lot worse than what Ariel's action did in terms of casualties.

And as far as your last point, that's exactly what Shrek did as well, as apparently Fiona and Shrek only could get married if they were both ugly ogres, with it being hinted at earlier with Shrek gives Fiona sunflowers because unlike him, she considers them beautiful. Not to mention, Ariel wasn't even ugly anyways. Sure, she was a mermaid, but Eric still attempted to save her immediately even after he found out that she was a mermaid, which goes against your point anyways.

"Doesn't she know what happens to her undersea family on land?"

Considering she maintained contact with Scuttle, it's not unreasonable to assume she does continue to make contact with them. Not to mention, technically, the wall only surrounded the castle, not the kingdom, and Eric had an armada as well, meaning its not unreasonable to assume Ariel and Eric made visitations to Triton via boat if necessary.