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.
 * 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.

= Arsula =  Arsula is the femslash ship between Ariel and Ursula from The Little Mermaid fandom.

Animated Film
Unknown to Ariel she was being watched by Ursula, who plans to use the little mermaid to force King Trident into handing over his crown and trident to her. Ordering her eels to keep a close eye on Ariel was what allowed Ursula to form the perfect plan on how she could use the mermaid. By promising Ariel the chance to be with the human prince she loves and to finally become part of the human world. That why she'll be able to gain her trust, and to cause her father pain during her absence from the sea.

Because Ariel was aware who Ursula was long before she was approached by the sea witch's eels, she wasn't sure if she should go to her at all. Until she realised that Ursula was her best and probably her chance to be with Eric.

TV Series
Ariel has had a few encounters with Ursula and her eels in the prologue series, that reveals the events before the lead up to the film.

Broadway Musical
The Broadway version of Disney's The Little Mermaid has Ursula as Trident's wicked sister, making her Ariel's aunt. Enraged that her beloved brother had cast her out for the wicked things she has done and now has the throne all to himself, Ursula decides to use Ariel as a means to get back at him. Knowing that Ariel is his youngest and thought it would be fun to take away the lovely voice that Ariel has taken for granted. Through her magic shell Ursula learns about the human that her youngest niece has fall for and decides to use Ariel's feelings for Eric as a means to gain her trust.

Ariel was told a few things about Ursula, like her magic shell and how she'll die if it was to be destroyed. After the eels bring Ariel to Ursula, the sea witch addresses herself as "Aunty Ursula" and that there was no reason for her niece to fear her. Ariel asks Ursula why her father banished his sister, and Ursula simply says that the ocean wasn't big enough for the both of them; casting King Trident as a villain in her side of the side. Ursula tells Ariel that her voice will be placed in her magic shell and that Trident's claims of her dying with the shell was nonsense. Before she casts the spell that removes Ariel's voice for the promise of becoming a human. While Ariel was enjoying her time on land, Ursula and her eels were doing what they can to ensure that Ariel isn't kissed by Eric.

On the third final day and sunset Ursula appeared before everyone to claim Ariel like she said she would. As well as her telling King Trident the pain and misery she'll have Ariel suffer if he doesn't hand over his trident to save her. Not wanting to let Ursula win for what she has done to them, Ariel grabs Ursula's shell and prepares to smash it. Before she could, however, Ursula tells Ariel if she is sure that she wants to do that. Claiming that she'll end up dying in Ursula's place. To ensure Ariel carefully gives the shell back to her, Ursula plays the loving caring aunt, her plan appeared to have worked until Ariel turned around to mash it. Defeating Ursula as the destruction of the shell kills her, while Ariel is left unharmed. Proving that Ursula was lying to Ariel in an attempt to save her own life. Despite the shell being destroyed, Ariel was still able to gain back her voice by kissing Eric.

Moments
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea
 * Morgana being Ursula's sister and Ariel's own personal experience with the late sea witch, was what got Ariel to worry about Morgana. Fearing that she might be just like Ursula and doesn't want Melody to be harmed or used by her. Like the way Ursula had used Ariel to get her hands on her father's trident.

Kingdom Hearts
 * Once Ursula learns that Ariel wants to see other worlds, in the first game, she tricks the young mermaid into getting the sea witch and her eels into the palace. Ariel regrets this after Ursula harmed her father, and tells the sea with that she didn't want this. She then helps Sora and his friends to fight Ursula.
 * In Chain of Memories, that has memory versions of Ariel and Ursula, the sea witch kidnapped Flounder as a means to force Ariel into steeling the trident for her.

Fanon
The ship between Ariel x Ursula was one of the first femslash ships from the first Little Mermaid film, from being its two main female characters, before it's TV series was released and presented other characters. Who aren't villains and are close to Ariel. This pleased those who aren't "Disney Princess x Villain" fans, while those who are don't mind that it is a creak ship.

After Ursula was portrayed as Ariel's evil aunt, in the Broadway musical of the Disney film, it got some people to wonder if the TLM femslash ship should be turned into a familyship. Much like the Tangled ship of Rapunzel and Gothel, that has been placed as both a familyship and femslash ship. Along there being people who are a fan of heroes who have family ties with their main antagonist. As it creates tension and excitement to the characters and their story's plot.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

WIKIS
 * on the

Trivia

 * The first version of Ursula in the Once Upon A Time series was featured as a Goddess that is respected on land and in the sea. Ariel is shown to respect her, as the party Ariel went to see Eric at was a celebration in Ursula's honour, as well as her being the reason Ariel was able to turn her tail fin into a pair of legs for that particular day. The Evil Queen even disguised herself as Ursula in order to trick Ariel, while the real Ursula was enraged that the queen dared to masquerade as her.
 * Ursula being portrayed as Ariel's wicked aunt in the Broadway musical version of the Little Mermaid, has made Ariel the first Disney Princess to have an aunt. Long before Rapunzel was given one in Tangled: The Series.
 * Ariel defeating Ursula by smashing her magic shell is similar to Tiana smashing the voodoo talisman that leads to Dr. Facilier's defeat in The Princes and the Frog.

= Melbastian =  Melbastian is the friend ship between Sebastian and Melody from The Little Mermaid fandom.

Canon
Sometime after Melody was born, Sebastian was told that Ariel had given birth to a girl who she wants to raise between the worlds of land and sea. On the day that the two worlds came together to celebrate Melody meeting the people of the sea for the first time, baby Melody notices Sebastian pup out of the water and giggles in excitement. Seeing that the human baby is happy to see him, Sebastian smiles at her. When Ursula's sister, Morgana attacks the party so she could use Melody in her plan to get the trident from the sea king, Sebastian hid until her foiled plan forces Morgana to retreat while promising to go after Melody again. Because of this, Ariel decides to raise away from the sea until Morgana is caught and before King Trident leaves Melody and her surface world family, he orders Sebastian to keep an eye on Melody. Which the crab wasn't happy about, as it is very similar to one of him keeping an eye on Ariel, but knew that he'll have to follow the order through.

While Melody was raised as a normal girl who was made to believe that mermaids weren't real or that her mother was once one, Ariel's mermaid origins allows Melody to have the ability to understand Sebastian and other sea animals. Like he did with Ariel and her secret grotto, Sebastian keeps Melody's secret drives and the items she collects from the ocean a secret from her mother. Since Sebastian couldn't tell Melody the fact that she is just like her mother, until her parents finally decide to tell their daughter the truth. Until then Sebastian does that he can to keep Melody company, allows Melody to share her thoughts about her secret with him and that her love for the sea doesn't get her in trouble, when one of her drives makes Melody late for her birthday party that Sebastian reminds her of. When Sebastian hear some of the surface world's children say bad things about Melody for being different from them, he feels sorry for her as they sneak back into Melody's room. Because Melody was in a rush to get ready before her mother arrivals up steers, she unknowingly ties Sabastian to her dress while he was still hanging onto the ribbon.

Melody became aware of this when her dancing partner places his hand on her while Sabastian was trying to free himself. After the crab hands in Melody's birthday cake she ask the upset Sebastian if he is alright, but her talking to him in public gets the half of the room to laugh at Melody for talking to a crab. Shortly after had a fight with Ariel, Sebastian sees that Melody is still upset and tries to cheer her up with the fact that people change they grow, but Melody was too focused on her need for answers about the magical lock she found. Sebastian tried to stop Melody from running away on the open sea but failed, feeling bad for failing to keep Melody safe, he bursts into tears as he tells Ariel and Eric that Melody has ran away.

Fanon
Because Sebastian looks out for Melody like he had done with Ariel before her, fans see Sebastian having the same type of friendship he had with her mother. Since the first film's plot has the most attention and Melody wasn't given a second media appear after her story was released. Which is why the number of fanworks around this ship is low.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Sebastian/Melody on FanFiction.Net

WIKIS
 * on the

= 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
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= Melric =  Melric is the family ship between Eric and Melody from The Little Mermaid fandom.

Canon
After Melody was born Eric wanted to show Melody the magical underwater world he had heard stories about he before met Ariel and realized that their true, as both he and Ariel decide to raise Melody between their two worlds of land and sea. After Eric sails their ship to where Ariel's mer-family and friends are waiting to meet his baby daughter at, the celebration gets crashed by Ursula's sister, Morgana as she threatens Melody's life to force Eric's father-in-law to hand over his trident. With help from Ariel Eric is able to save Melody from the sea witch and her minions, but when they escaped Morgana states that she'll one day try to harm Melody again. Fearing Morgana's threat and are worried of how how she is like her late sister, Eric could understand why Ariel wants to keep their daughter away from the sea until Morgana is caught. To ensure that Melody is kept safe and no dangers from the sea would try to harm her again, Eric requests a large wall to be build as it separates his kingdom from the sea. Even though Eric believes that keeping Melody in the dark would do more harm than good when she begins to ask questions that are connected to what their protecting her from, he still helps Ariel raise Melody as an ordinary girl. Through the years Eric tells her stories about mermaids and the underwater they come from, so she can know about their world for when it is time to finally tell Melody the truth.

Just as Eric loved the feeling of sailing on the open ocean, Melody felt a strong connect to the sea as it gets her to make many secret drives under its waves whenever she sneaks under the wall he build for her safety. Even though Eric knew nothing about his daughter's secret trips into the sea or that she dreams about it, he knew that Melody has been asking questions as to why she is different from others and when she became a young teenager Eric felt that she is old enough to deserve the explanation she has been waiting for, but Ariel wanted to keep Melody in the dark a little bit longer. Before they attended Melody's birthday ball, Eric checks on Melody to see how she is ready to join them, but Ariel asks him to give her and Melody a minute to she fixes their daughter's hair. When they two minutes were up Eric walks in to ask them how it is coming and once he sees Melody, he tells her that she is beauty before they make their way to the party. After the party went wrong when many young people saw his daughter talking to a crab he goes to talk to her about it, but Ariel had beaten Eric to it and had made it worse just before Eric enters the room to have Melody run passed him. Before they go after her, Eric helps Ariel to understand that it is time for them to tell Melody the truth as they have withholding it for too long, and it has started to hurt her. As Eric goes to look for Melody with Ariel, Sebastian informs then that Melody has ran away to the sea.

In order to find Melody Eric organizes a search party on the surface, while King Triton helps him and Ariel to find her from the sea. Knowing that Ariel knows Melody a lot better than he does, as she takes after her mother than her father, Eric convinces his wife to join Trident in his side of the search while he contuses to look for her on the surface. Once Eric learns that Ariel as found both Melody and Morgana from Scuttle, he makes his way to the sea witch's lair. Melody becomes aware of her father's presence after she was freed from Morgana's cell to find his unconscious body lying next to her mother, while Morgana forces all of the attending mer-people and sea creatures to bow before her. To save everyone, including her father, Melody faces Morgana so she could get the Trident back to her grandfather. Who uses it to ensure that the sea witch never harms his family again.

The next morning Melody wakes up to find herself in her father's arms, who is glad to see that she is alright. Along wit Eric telling Melody that he has been worried that they had almost lost her. Now that Melody knows both sides of her heritage and was given a chance to either leave with King Triton to live with him under the sea or to stay with Eric and Ariel in the surface world, Melody looks at her father before she comes up with a much batter idea that will bring them all together. After Melody brings the wall down to unite the two worlds back together again, Eric drives into the water so he can join Melody in the celebration.

Fanon
Even though the ship between Eric and Melody isn't as popular as the one between her and Ariel, there are still fans who support their father-daughter bond.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Eric/Melody on FanFiction.Net

WIKIS
 * on the

= Moariel =  Moariel is the femslash ship between Moana and Ariel from the Moana and The Little Mermaid fandoms. AKA: Ocean Girlfriends, Ariana, Ocean Gals

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.

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.

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.

= 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
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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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