The Little Mermaid/Ships

= Alariel =  Alariel is the het ship between Aladdin and Ariel from the Aladdin and The Little Mermaid fandoms. AKA: Alriel, Arieladdin

Canon
As Aladdin and Ariel are from different series, they have never met in canon. Their Once Upon A Time counterparts do have them meeting each other through Jasmine in season six, where he and the two find Ariel while looking for Jaffar's genie lamp.

Fanon
Aladdin and Ariel have a decent following, commonly on DeviantArt, who believe they would get along very well. In some AU's Aladdin will take Eric's place or Ariel will take Jasmine's. Many fans commonly have them meeting in Agrabah, like their Once Upon a Time counterparts. Occasionally the ship is set in Atlantica where Aladdin is sometimes a merman, while the Agrabah setting commonly has Ariel is her human self. Some fans have even merged two of their similar worded songs together to make "Part of Your Whole New World". The Aladdin/The Little Mermaid crossover ship sometimes has a few fans who also ship Jasmine and Eric together. As a fun way of couple switching for fans of either of the two ships.

On AO3, the ship only has two works, while 7 fanfics in the crossover category.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Aladdin/Ariel (Disney) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Aladdin/Ariel (Kingdom Hearts) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Aladdin/Ariel (Kingdom Hearts) tag on FanFiction.net

Trivia

 * Aladdin and Ariel have appeared in several Disney media crossover.
 * Both of them appear in the Once Upon A Time.
 * Both of them are from two of the few known Disney films that have been turned into Broadway shows, and were featured in Disney On Ice.
 * In The House of Mouse they are two of the common guests at the club.
 * They appear in a few of the same Kingdom Hearts games.
 * They are apart of the Descendants series, where Aladdin has a son while Ariel has a daughter.
 * Both of them as Guardians in the Disney Mirrorverse app game.
 * In the Broadway version of The Little Mermaid, Ursula is Ariel's wicked aunt, while a few versions of Aladdin have Jafar as Aladdin's uncle.
 * Both Aladdin and Ariel have their own trilogies and a TV series.
 * Both of their animated films have become live-action remakes.
 * Aladdin and Ariel both sing songs that have the word "World" as the center theme/metaphor.

= Arident = 

Alariel is the family ship between Ariel and King Triton from the The Little Mermaid fandom.

Canon
Ariel is King Triton's youngest daughter who looks closely like his late wife, Queen Athena. The two were very close during Ariel's child years, as Triton filled their underwater kingdom with music and allowed his people and family to spend time on the surface world. Until they were attacked by a human ship and Athena died trying to save the gift he gave her. Since then Triton being very strict and protective of Ariel and her older sisters. As well as him leaving his daughters under the watchful eye of their governess, who disliked Ariel the most. Ariel had very little memories of the happier times she had with her father, resulting in a wage between them. Until Sebastian reminded Ariel of those days and told her the event that caused her father to be the way he is.

Fanon
The family bonds between Ariel and King Triton has made their familyship the main one of the whole The Little Mermaid. Fans of the second film even found it funny that Ariel ended up turning into a father when she was trying to protect Melody from dangers from the sea. Just has Triton wanted to protect Ariel from the dangers of the surface world. Fans of the Broadway musical adaption of The Little Mermaid liked the way that Triton and Ariel were made the brother and niece of Ursula, as it gets Ariel to wonder which side of the family she should side with.

Fandom
= Ariel x Dinglehopper = 

Ariel x Dinglehopper is the cargo ship between Ariel and a fork from the The Little Mermaid and Once Upon A Time fandoms.

Disney
Ariel first comes across the fork during one of her surface world treasure hunts in sunken ships. The shine of the fork was what helped it to catch Ariel's eye before she swims towards it. While calling it a wonderful item to Flounder. Because Ariel didn't know that it was called or how it is used in the human world, she took Scuttle's word when he told her what it was. A "Dinglehopper" that the humans use to brush their hair with. Ariel was shown to be fascinated of the Dinglehopper and Scuttle's claim, before remembering that she was meant to be that the consort. After Ariel retreated to her secret grotto to place her new treasures beside the rest of her surface world items collection, Ariel is seen fiddling with her Dinglehopper. As she wonders how her father could view a world that has many wonderful items as something bad, before placing the Dinglehopper on a candle holder, that was also holding a knife and spoon. Her Dinglehopper later gets destroyed beside Ariel's other treasures by her father in a moment of rage. Luckily Ariel was able to find a new "Dinglehopper" after she was turned into a human, as she begins to use it like a brush. Until she noticed the odd looks that the other humans at the table were giving her for using it in that way. Resulting in her putting the fork back on the table, while feeling embarrassed.

Once Upon A Time
Ariel comes across some forks when attending Prince Eric's ball with Snow White. Who quizzes Ariel on what the item is, as Ariel calls it a "mini-trident." Snow corrects Ariel on it before seeing her new friend pocket the not very valuable fork. To Ariel, however, any human world item is valuable to her. Along with it later coming in handy as a type of weapon. When Ariel used the fork to stab the side of the Evil Queen's neck, so she and Snow White can make their escape from her.

When Ariel travelled to Arabia and saw a fort while exploring the bazar, she picks it up and ends up walking away with it still in her hands. This got the stall owner to case after Ariel for not paying for the fork. Ariel tried to give it back when he cornered her, but Jasmine then arrives to Ariel aid by paying for the fork on her be half. Despite the misunderstanding it caused Ariel at first, her taking it was what allowed her and Jasmine to meet and become friends.

Moments

 * Ariel can be briefly seen combing her hair with the fork in the opening sequence of House of Mouse.
 * In Ralph Breaks the Internet when Vanellope enters the dressing room of the Disney Princesses, the Netizen version of Ariel is seen using a Dinglehopper as her weapon of choice to face the intruder with. Until Vanellope reassures Ariel and the others that she isn't a threat and is a princess as well.

Fanon
The Dinglehopper is commonly used as Ariel's iconic item, just as the Enchanted Rose from Beauty and the Beast is Belle's. From how it has been featured beside the mermaid in many of Disney's media adaptions of Ariel and her story. Like having Ariel use it as a weapon in the first season of Once Upon A Time and the Ralph Breaks the Internet film. The Dinglehopper has also been used as a simply item to secretly reference Ariel in other Disney films as a cameo item. Some fans have even joked about the Dinglehopper being Ariel's minitour trident, since they are of a similar shape and form, and how Ariel had mistake it as a "mini-trident" in OUAT. As well as it being her unique hairbrush. Because of the way that three of the teaser posters for Disney's live-action remakes were of iconic items, some people were upset that they didn't use or somehow include the Dinglehopper in The Little Mermaid teaser poster.

Most fanworks of Ariel, from drawings to cosplay photos, have Ariel holding the Dinglehopper in her hands or brushing her hair with it. Tumblr has many posts of these fanworks, along with the website's users using the fork to reference Ariel beside the other references that relate to the beloved Disney mermaid.

Trivia

 * A "Dinglehopper" is used as one of the items to obtain Ariel in the Disney Magic Kingdoms app game.
 * A few Disneyland park mascots of Ariel have her holding a Dinglehopper.

= Melgli =  Melgli is the het ship between Mowgli and Melody from The Little Mermaid and The Jungle Book fandom. AKA: Melgi

Canon
As Mowgli and Melody are from different series, they have never met in canon. Even though a few Disney crossover video games could have the two dark-haired kids cross paths with each other or get them added in the same team, by the player's choice.

Throughout their films, both Mowgli and Melody feel most happy in places that they were told to never go near. The jungle being the place where Mowgli was raised among its animals and has friends that reside there, while Melody feels strongly draw to the sea like how her mother was drawn to the land. Her mother's mermaid origins could be the reason why Melody is able to understand certain kinds of animals that live under or close by the sea, while Mowgli's time in the jungle allowed him to learn its many animal tongs. Which is why both young, black-haired Disney characters get along with animals than they do with people.

In Mowgli's second Disney film, he tries to share the beauty and frills of his former jungle home with the other children of the man village, but the dangers of it is what kept the adults from listening to Mowgli and when he was offered a chance to go back into the jungle he took it. In the end, however, Mowgli goes back to live in the village, but from time to time he and his friends sneak into the jungle to have some fun with their animal friends. While the only reason that Melody was kept away from the sea was due to an incident where her young life was placed in danger, and her family were worried that they wouldn't be so lucky next time. When Melody's mother found out about her secret dives on the sea and became upset about it, she met someone who gave her a chance to live in the sea as a mermaid. In the end Melody was given a choice to live with her grandfather in the sea or to remain with her parents on land, she came up with the better idea that allows all of them to be together, without a large wall keeping their worlds apart.

Mowgli's Disney film is based on the book of the same name where he shares the same name as the character he is based on, while Melody's is the sequel to The Little Mermaid, where the first film is based on a fairy tale of the same name.

Fanon
A rarepair, the two are shipped by a small group of fans who believe they would get along very well. In many fanfictions, Melody goes to live with Mowgli in the jungle and ends up loving it more than the ocean. There have even been those who feature them as a young Tarzan and Jane, or have placed Mowgli as a prince that meets Melody when she and her family visit his country and kingdom.

Fandom
DEVIANTART

= Mowriel =  Mowriel is the family ship between Mowgli and Ariel from The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid fandoms.

Canon
As Mowgli and Ariel are from different series, they have never met in canon. Even though a few Disney crossover video games could have the two crossing paths with each other or get them added to the same team, by the player's choice.

Throughout their Disney films, both Mowgli and Ariel feel most happy in places that they were told to never go near. Her mermaid abilities allow her to understand certain kinds of animals that live under or close by the sea, while Mowgli's time in the jungle allowed him to learn its many animal tongs.

Fanon
The ship commonly has Ariel and Mowgli residing in the jungle world of The Jungle Book, as a family where Ariel commonly serves as Mowgli's adoptive older sister. The family ship between the two Disney characters originates from a The Little Mermaid/The Jungle Book crossover fanfic on DeviantArt that has a loyal following. The story got a few fans to explore idea of Ariel and Mowgli's family bond and their shared times in the jungle together through their own fanworks. There have even been fans who have Ariel turning Mowgli, from a young age, into a merman so she can raise him in her underwater world as his adoptive mother.

Manip fanart of the ship commonly uses screenshots from The Jungle Book, Pocahontas and Tarzan, in order to place Ariel in a jungle. Just as the underwater world side of the ship uses screenshots from The Little Mermaid to feature Mowgli as a merman.

Fans see the two getting into trouble together and helping one another to get out of it. Along with them confiding in one another about some people making choices for them, without their say so. While Bagheera's determination to get Mowgli to the Man Village has him not wanting to be separated from Ariel.

Fandom
DEVIANTART

Trivia

 * The two were guests at the club in The House of Mouse.
 * Both of their films were based off of books/stories of the same name.
 * There have been many non-Disney versions of the two stories.

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