Talk:Ariel/@comment-24238780-20141211180549/@comment-1672596-20141217221719

Big difference: Ariel by doing that at least actually attempted to clean up the mess she worsened (I'd say "started," but technically it was Triton who started that mess by blowing up Ariel's grotto) by telling Eric to save himself from Ursula, something Eric refused to do, stating he won't leave her. And for the record, I never EXCUSED her stupidity, I said she learned her lesson. Another big difference.

Belle, on the other hand, despite deducing that Gaston was trying to blackmail her into marrying her by trying to have her dad locked up in an asylum, not to mention the presence of what's clearly a lynch mob at her doorstep, thought it was a "good idea" to just reveal the Beast exists to a group of people who most likely would just not listen to whatever she had to say about the Beast (they didn't listen to Maurice when he described the Beast to them, what's to say they'll even listen to her, who's about as popular as Maurice is, about the Beast not being dangerous?), not to mention led by a man who has already proven himself to her to be the type willing to go as far as blackmail to get what he wants, Belle's hand in marriage, and thus the most obvious conclusion is that if he's willing to do that, he's definitely the type to rabblerouse and try to kill the Beast in rival's jealousy if he even gets the hint that she likes the Beast far more than him, and unlike Ursula hiding her continued vendetta against Triton to Ariel, Gaston didn't even attempt to hide that he was going blackmail Belle to her, OR to the villagers for that matter. I don't think most people would really sympathize with Belle or think she was smart doing that. And believe me, that was WORSE, since had Gaston succeeded, not only would she be in effect an accessory to Beast's murder, but also very likely the murder of her friends at the castle as well.