Eriel

Eriel is the het ship between Ariel and Eric from The Little Mermaid and Once Upon A Time fandoms.

The Little Mermaid
After Ariel notices a ship pass above her secret grotto, she swims up to the survive to take a closer look and as she secretly watches the party that is happing on the ship, she spots Eric where it is love at first sight for her. As Eric wasn't aware that a mermaid is very close by and secretly watching him with affection. When the ship got hit by a terrible storm and all but Eric got off the ship that is able to explode from the remaining fireworks onboard, Ariel spots an unconscioun Eric that is about to drown the mermaid swims to his rescue. The next day Ariel is able to swim Eric to a beach, even though she wasn't very sure if he is still alive when she brought him to sure; until she saw him breathing.

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Few years later, Eric and Ariel have become the proud parents of their beauty daughter Melody, a child that is born between the "sea and sure". They have planed to raise her between their two worlds, but when Melody's life was put in danger by Ursula's sister, even though both of Ariel and Eric's action allowed them to save her, Ariel became scared that they wouldn't be soo lucky next time and decides to raise her away from the sea until Morgana is caught; understanding her fear Eric agrees with his wife and they build a large wall that separates them from the sea.

Kingdom Hearts II

 * As Eric went back to the beach he found himself on the night he was rescued, he hears the singing voice of the girl who saved him coming from the direction of the sea's waves.
 * When Eric finds a voiceless, human Ariel on the beach she gives him the gold pendant he lost.
 * After Ariel reveals herself to be a mermaid to Eric and is prepared to say "good bye" to him before of it, he dives into the water so he could ask Ariel if she could teach him how to swim before the two hug each other.

Broadway Musical

 * As Eric talks with Ariel about her voiceless voice he tells her that dancing is a language that doesn't need spoken works, as he teaches her.
 * At the singing contest Ariel "sings" to Eric through dance steps, and while no one understood that she was "saying" Eric did.

Children
Melody Melody is the first (and only) daughter of Ariel and Eric. Her birth was being celebrated out on the sea, between the people of the land and Atlantica when Morgana attacks the boat. While she was driven away, Ariel and Eric decided that it would be best to keep her away from the sea. Melody grew up knowing nothing of her mermaid family, but, like her mother was drawn towards the land, Melody feels drawn to the sea. Melody's ability to understand certain kinds of animals could have been from her mother's mermaid origins. Her hair is the same color as her father's.

Elle

Elle is the daughter of the Disney Descendants versions of Ariel and Eric. She is shown to be wheelchaired bound and has dyed her hair in all three films, as the first film had her as a brunette and in Descendants 2 she's a blonde, while in Descendants 3 only a few parts of her hair have been dyed blue. For a long she was only known as the "Princess in wheelchair", before Kenny Ortega confirmed on the set of the third film that the said princess is called Elle and that she is the daughter of Ariel.

Fanon
The ship has support due to its canon status in a Disney movie.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * They are one of the many canon Disney couples to be seen in the Kingdom Hearts series.
 * Eric and Ariel's happy reunion moment in the near end of the Disney film is recreated, as well as mirrored in the Once Upon A Time series.
 * As Ariel is seen wearing a blue dress, bear foot, and Eric picks her up in his arms and swings her around by the sure line, before they kiss.