Moariel

Moariel is the femslash ship between Moana and Ariel from the Moana and The Little Mermaid fandoms.

Canon
As Ariel and Moana are from different series, they have never met in canon. In Ralph Breaks the Internet after Moana summons the Ocean from a fountain, Ariel dives into it and swims upward to create a spiral with the water.

Ariel and Moana both have fathers who are the leaders of their people and who want to keep their daughters safe, as they fear the dangers of places that lie beyond the safety of their borders. Even though it didn't stop both girls from having dreams that involve going beyond their homes and into the outside world, from feeling drawn to places that they are never allowed to go near. Because of their watery connections to the sea, as it is where Ariel is originally from while Moana feels drawn to the ocean and is friends with it, they are seen as Disney princesses of the ocean. After the two discovered the reason why their people no longer do a certain thing that Moana and Ariel happen to have a passion for (voyaging and music), the journeys they went on with a friend results in bringing it back into their people's lives. Another thing that the two have in common is them having a sense of adventure, as Ariel has went on a lot of them in the The Little Mermaid TV series and soon after Moana came home from her journey across the sea she got her people to go back to their voyaging roots.

Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest
In this special, Moana, Ariel, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Tiana are called to an abandoned castle to help rescue Ariel's father from Gaston. The princesses are tasked with conquering three rooms in the castle, and to do so in the shortest time possible they decide to split up. Ariel and Moana enter one of the rooms together, discovering the Wardrobe from Beauty and the Beast. She transports them to a small island in the middle of the ocean, where they must search for Aladdin 's Magic Carpet.

Upon arrival, Ariel uses a large key she has (referred to as a scootieblot, and said to be used for digging) to uncover a buried treasure chest. The chest contains a map, which they believe will guide them to the Magic Carpet. Moana offers to navigate, and Ariel jumps into the water, returning to her mermaid form. Moana reminds her that she's not a mermaid, and instead breaks one of the trees (in typical Lego fashion) to build a raft.

They set out onto the water together, with Moana navigating and Ariel in the water, swimming and powering the raft. Unfortunately, Gaston sees their progress and sends a storm after them. Moana and Ariel both begin to give up hope, but are reminded of their relationship with the water. Ariel calls for her ocean friends and Moana speaks to the ocean itself, and together they arrive at the location marked on the treasure map. There they discover a band of pirates have already found the treasure, and are carrying the Magic Carpet aboard their ship. Moana and Ariel sneak aboard, and decide to use a cannon (which Ariel refers to as a musical instrument called a "tuba-boom") as a distraction.

Fanon
A small group of fans started to ship the two some time before Moana was released in 2016, and the popularity of the ship continued to grow afterwards. A few fan works of the ship have Moana meeting Ariel through a "watery wall", or has the ocean bringing the two together. The ship sometimes has them in the modern, casual style clothes that the netizen versions of them wear in Ralph Breaks the Internet. After Pixar's Luca came out, a few people began to edit or simply portray Luca and Alberto as Moana and Ariel in their modern clothes, for fun. Along with people have the two Disney Princesses spending time with the two young sea monsters, from being well liked underwater characters that people enjoy shipping. Because Ariel ends up with her lover interest and the times that fans would ship Moana with Maui, it inspired a small group to feature Ariel x Moana as bisexual girlfriends, while another group have them as lesbian girlfriends. Even though the number of femslash supporters of the ocean girls are high, there are those who would rather ship them as best friends, from not wanting Eriel or Hooked Wayfinder to be touched by crossover shippers that would have the girls as lovers.

On AO3, the ship has over 25 fanfics, as well as having a reasonable size fanbase on both DeviantArt and Tumblr. A few fan-made work sometimes features both of them as mermaids. A commonly used trait in Ariel ships. As well as having Ariel in her human form beside Moana. Because Moana is a CGI character while Ariel started out as an animated one, some people use CGI renders of Ariel in their manip works of the ship. Most of them have used Sofia the First mermaid Ariel or human RBTI Ariel in her pink princess gown or modern clothes with 2016 Moana than just her RBTI counterpart, along with editing that 2018 film version of Ariel onto her mermaid body from the Disney Junior channel show. Before RBTI came out, however, another group had edited other CGI Disney characters, like Rapunzel, Anna and (young) Merida into a CGI Ariel. There have even occasions when Moana has been featured as an animated character in Moariel edit works. Creating an even balances between the animation styles of their Disney films, whenever they don't feel comfortable with featuring animated characters with a CGI one, even though it hasn't stopped another group from mixing those two styles and versions of the two ocean girls together. Many of the ship's fanart commonly has a water or seaside related backgrounds and settings, since they both hold a connection to water in their own ways and have had spent time on beaches. These ocean related themes can also be found in many Moana x Ariel aesthetic/moodboards that can be found on Tumblr. The users of the said website have also created Disney Femslash posts that places Moariel beside other Disney crossover ships they like. A common trait that can be seen in posts that were made by crossover ship supporters, of all ship types.

YouTube also has few Moariel videos, that uses the styles and themes that have been used in Moariel artworks and manips/edits. Along with using songs that suits the two of them or simply relates the nature and setting of the video. One YouTuber had mange to merge the "Where You Are" and "Under the Sea" songs together for a Disney Mashup music video, since both songs are of people trying to get Moana and Ariel to stay where they belong and should remain. Showcasing a common trait that Ariel and Moana share.

A few Moariel fans also like the way that the connection between the two Disney films and their female protagonists are from the real life people who have helped to create them. For example, Auli'i Cravalho voiced Moana in the 2016 film before she got cast to play Ariel in the live musical special. Along with liking the way that the directing style of both Ron Musker and Jon Clements have allowed the energy they used for The Little Mermaid to have a place in Moana. Most people like to believe that some Disney films, like Frozen and Tangled could in fact be part of the same canon universe, and the magical underwater creatures of both The Little Mermaid and Moana had got some to wonder if Ariel and Moanas' films might be part of the same universe. Despite the locations and timelines that their films are set in are no where near each other. That is why Ariel's timeline is commonly moved to Moana's.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Ariel/Moana (Disney) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Ariel/Moana (Disney) tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * The Disney Princess group photo taking with Vanellope, in on of the later trailers of Ralph Breaks the Internet, has netizen Ariel and Moana standing side by side each other.
 * Moana's voice actress, Auli'i Cravalho, portrays Ariel in The Little Mermaid Live.
 * They are two of the limit time characters in Disney Magic Kingdoms.
 * Both Ron Musker and Jon Clements had a hand in directing both The Little Mermaid and Moana.