So there is this disney theory that ariel and her sisters have different mothers. If you haven't seen the third movie in the sequence there are several spoilers later on so either watch it and come back or disregard this warning. The theory goes that the daughters of king triton look nothing like triton or his queen athena. This is because mermaids breed like fish so triton is their father while they all have different biological mothers. Ariel is the daughter of queen athena who was in fact the actual queen as she was more than just a breeder of heirs she was tritons best friend.
That makes sense and I'll let you look up fish breeding yourself. HOWEVER... I have come up with a theory of my own and it is scandalous. So I believe that Arista is Ursula's Daughter. Arista is the 3rd oldest and resembles Ursula in her mermaid form found in one of the comics under the name of Arsulu and keeps the same eye colour as an octopus. In the comic she looked almost exactly like Arista. Obviously Ursula was at some point banished by triton who is her brother in the comics but the reason is not clear. (Morgana from the little mermaid two is also known to be Ursala's sister as stated int he movie but I'll get to that later).
So my theory is that "Marina Del Ray" from the third movie Ariels Beginning is really Ursula. Aside from the fact that she has pet electric eels Marina had serious roots in Atlantica and wears the same hairstyle as well as full eyeshadow and has an affinity to purple and was given primary care over Tritons daughters and is shown to be really into costumes AND appears only slightly younger than Triton himself so around the same age. After Marina tries to kill Ariel AKA Tritons favourite she was banished and turned into an octopus creature only escaping with two eels that were damaged by triton in the process leaving them with only an eye each that lights up rather than full electricity. Ariel knows these eels incredibly well by the second movie when they are seen as eels turned stingray working for Ursula's sister Morgana. But back to business Arista did nothing wrong and is seen as a daughter of Triton during the little mermaid 3 with Marina/Ursala as a mother like figure after the queen dies as she is Arista's mother so she was left as the 3rd oldest and third in charge despite her heritage she is still favored by Triton.
Morgana is the mother of Adrina the second oldest and resembles her and her style heavily while keeping her eye colour. It makes a good deal of sense to say that Adrina stays in her position as Morgana obviously did something to be banished but it wasn't as bad as what ursula did. she would have had to be banished before the little mermaid 3.
The eldest daughter Aquata in my opinion looks a lot like her father at the beginning of the third movie and while Ariel inherited the red hair gene she very well could be the queens first daughter which makes sense when looking at how harshly Triton treats Ariel when she acts up as her sister behaves really well.
In conclusion according to this theory Triton has 5 daughters along with 2 adopted daughters due to the banishment of their mothers. It explains why the sea witches constantly want to reclaim the throne along with their choice in pets. All in all it isn't important but it gives a new layer of depth to the movie as Ursula acts as a sort of estranged mother/ aunt to Ariel and her biological siblings.
No comments:
Post a Comment