Ariel

Princess Ariel is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid. She is the seventh and youngest daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena, rulers of the undersea kingdom of Atlantica. Ariel lived through much of her young life with a passionate - yet forbidden - admiration of the human world and longed to someday experience life on the surface.
Ariel is loosely based on the nameless protagonist of the Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen, but unlike the Andersen tale in which the mermaid loses her prince and dies and gains an immortal soul, the Disney adaptation features a happy ending.
Ariel is the fourth official member of the Disney Princess line-up. She is also the first Disney Princess to be developed after Walt Disney's lifetime, having been conceived over two decades after his passing in 1966. Incidentally, Walt himself made efforts to adapt The Little Mermaid in the late 1930s and early 40s, before the company's profits declined due to the Second World War. She is the first Disney Princess to be developed during the Disney Renaissance.
==Gallery==
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File:Ariel Human KHII.webp|Human Kingdom Hearts II
File:Ariel Wedding Dress KHI.webp|Wedding dress render in KHII
File:Ariel summon.webp|Summon Kingdom Hearts III
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File:Ariel and Eric.PNG|Ariel and Eric
File:Ariel and Jasmine bellybutton playing.jpg|Jasmine and Ariel
File:Arial wearing high heels by 80sfansincedayone.jpg|Ariel by 80sFan
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