Brave/Ships

= Meri'du=  Meri'du is the het between Merida and Mor'du.

Canon
When Merida was little she and her mother were nearly attacked by the demon bear she had heard about from her father. Who faced the beast while Elinor spirited Merida to safety. Since then Merida would hear her father constantly talk about that encounter with Mor'du and how he plans to kill the beast to revenge the lost of his leg. Merida showed no pity or thought about Mor'du from believing him to be a dangerous animal, and hasn't let her childhood encounter with the bear stop her from doing into the woods, where she can be herself than a princess. Merida was also familiar with the old story of an ancient lost kingdom, that fell when the oldest prince refused to respect his father's wishes and wanted the throne all to himself. She payed the story no mind from believing it to be a story, despite her mother telling Merida that legends ring with truth. A lesson that Merida finds herself to understand the day after she turned her mother into a bear.

After the wisps led Merida to the ruins of the ancient kingdom she began to put things together from seeing the four thrones and a broken stone carving of the four brothers, with the oldest prince being separated from the others. Much like Merida had done with her mother on the tapestry of their family. Once Merida touched the stone carving she has a vision of her damaging the tapestry before seeing the oldest prince axing the carving, along with the prince's human face turning into the face of a bear. The witch had told Merida about a prince who had also asked for a fate changing spell and using his ring as payment, just as she had given the witch her mother's necklace for the same spell. As soon as Merida realised who and what became of the oldest prince, she comes face to face with Mor'du. Who has turned the ruins of his fallen home into his lair. Merida manged to shoot Mor'du with one of her arrows before she made her escape with her mother.

Fanon
After people began to parallel Merida's selfish actions to the ones of the demon bear when he was still human, they realised that the two weren't so different to one another. Along with how Merida came close to repeating his story, before realising her mistakes and fought to fix them, it inspired a small group to ship Merida with human Mor'du. To make the idea less weird with those who don't want to ship Merida with an animal, and is supported by those who enjoy "Disney Princess x Villain" ships. Mor'du's bear, however, could have people treat it as a friendship. By having Merida tame the beast, some dark AU's do have Merida allying herself with Mor'du. Along with having her repeating his story all the way through, or have her being turned into a bear. Like her OUAT counterpart had done by taking the potion that turned him into a bear.

FanFiction.Net currently has 12 fanfics with only 2 placed under pairing.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Merida/Mor'du tag on FanFiction.Net

Trivia

 * In Once Upon A Time Merida allows herself to be turned into a bear. Having her serve as the Mor'du of the series, until the affects of the Mor'du potion was undone.

=Meriguffin=  Meriguffin is the het between Merida and Young MacGuffin.

Fanon
Much like Merintosh and Meriwall, Meriguffin is one of the ships involving Merida and one of the three suitors.

Fandom
=Meriwall=  Meriwall is the het between Merida and Wee Dingwall.

Fanon
Meriwall is one of the ships involving Merida and one of the three suitors.

Fandom
=Ralida=  Ralida is the het ship between Wreck-It Ralph and Merida from the Wreck-It Ralph and Brave fandoms. Aka, Strong and Brave

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

Both Ralph and Merida are shown to have fiery tempers. Whenever their tempers get the better of them they break things. Much like how Merida longs for a life free of her responsibility as a Princess, Ralph is tired of being treated like a "bad guy" and no longer wishes to be seen as one.

Ralph Breaks the Internet
Merida and the other Princesses work together to save Ralph's life. She uses her bow and arrow to send the weaved strands of Rapunzel's hair, along with Jaq and Gus to Anna and Cinderella, in order to create a dress-made parachute to catch and deliver Ralph to safety. Afterwards Merida joins the other princesses in circling Ralph around the bed to see if he was okay. Any friend of Vanellope's was a friend of theirs.

Fanon
Both Merida and Ralph have been shipped by a small group of fans who believe that a few of their similar traits could have them get along with each other. As good friends or lovers, since the Pixar film, Brave, has shown that Merida is interested in strong, buff men. There have even been fans who have included Ralph, along with Vanellope, within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragon fandom, as guest or secondary/honorary members. It might be one of the less popular ships in the Disney fandom, but it still has a loyal following among het shipper fans of their two Disney films. Fans of the ship liked the way that Merida was added to Ralph Breaks the Internet, as a cameo character who is from the world within the internet, along with having her help the other Disney Princesses to save Ralph's life. As it has a version of Merida meeting Ralph in a canon universe that their both from.

As two Disney CGI characters that have been featured in both the Big 4 and Disney/Non-Disney crossover fandoms, the two are often featured in AUs. Like the Marvel AU's of its cinematic universe, where both Ralph and Merida are commonly portrayed as the Hulk and Black Widow. As those are common Marvel characters that the two Disney characters have been portrayed, long before the Rise of Ultron was released and had Bruce and Natasha forming romantic feelings for one another.

In 2021 one of the ship's biggest supporters on DeviantArt founded a group to help it gain more attention than it originally started with. The group not only focus on the ship, its characters and the films they are from, but also on canon couples and other crossover ships. That the group's fonder believe to have a similar energy to the ship between Merida x Ralph.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Merida/Ralph tag on FanFiction.Net


 * DEVIANTART

Trivia

 * Are two of the playable characters in Disney crossover games, like Disney INFINITY, Disney Emoji Blitz and Disney Heroes: Battle Mode.

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