Melody (Disney)

Princess Melody, also simply known as Melody, is the main protagonist of . She is the 12-year-old daughter of Princess Ariel and Prince Eric, the granddaughter of King Triton and Queen Athena, and the niece of Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, and Andrina. 
Melody is similar to her mother and different. As her mother, then a mermaid had dreamed of life on land, Melody, a human with legs, dreams of life in the sea. Although she's a princess, she isn't an official Disney Princess, unlike Ariel. She is friends with Tip and Dash and Ariel's old friends Scuttle, Sebastian, and Flounder.
She is voiced by , who also voices Dil Pickles in the franchise, Timmy Turner and Poof in franchise, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, Raven in , Unikitty in the , and Twilight Sparkle in the fourth generation of .
==Biography==
Melody first appears as an infant at the beginning of the film. Her parents, Ariel and Eric take her out on a ship to meet with Ariel's father King Triton, and six older sisters. Triton presents Melody with a locket that bears her name, meant to remind his granddaughter of her mermaid heritage. However, the celebration is suddenly interrupted by Morgana who in an attempt to avenge her older sister Ursula (who died fighting Ariel and Eric), kidnaps Melody and threatens to feed her to her shark, Undertow if Triton does not hand over his trident.
Fortunately, Ariel and Eric are able to thwart Morgana's plan and get Melody to safety. Triton blasts Undertow with his trident by turning the shark into a small harmless anchovy. Morgana vanishes, but not before vowing revenge. With Morgana still at large, Ariel decides that until she is found, Melody can't know anything about the sea, including her mermaid heritage, Atlantica, and her grandfather, King Triton (which turns out to be a bad idea). She bans the merpeople from seeing Melody and later has a large sea wall built to separate their castle from the sea. Meanwhile, Melody's locket is tossed into the sea.
12 years later, Melody grows up banned from entering the sea, but is ignorant of the reason why. Despite the ban, she loves the sea and regularly sneaks out to swim. This causes a difficult relationship between her and her mother. On her birthday, while out swimming, Melody discovers the locket, but she is forced to get back to the castle as she has forgotten about her birthday party. Unknown to Melody, she is being watched in a crystal ball by Morgana and Undertow. Morgana takes this as the perfect opportunity to succeed at the one thing Ursula never could. Later, while Ariel is helping Melody prepare for the party, Melody tries to tell her mother her true feelings about the sea, but is interrupted by Eric, who leads Ariel and Melody to the ballroom. 
During the party, Melody dances with a young prince named Prince Stan, but trouble soon arises when Sebastian accidentally ruins the dance and destroys Melody's birthday cake. Melody comes over to Sebastian to see if he's alright, but everyone starts to laugh at her for talking to crab. Humiliated, Melody runs out of the ballroom in tears and goes back to her bedroom where she, again, looks at the locket she found earlier. Ariel comes in to try and comfort Melody, but becomes distracted when she learns that the locket has her name written on it and opens the locket to reveal a picture of mermaids swimming in Atlantica. She confronts her mother about it, noting that Ariel has told her that Atlantica was only a fish tale. 
Ariel picks up the locket and asks Melody where she got it. Melody simply answers that she found it. Ariel then asks her if she went over the wall, and Melody reveals she actually went under it. Ariel gets shocked to learn that Melody has been sneaking out into the sea. Melody asks her mother why she is not allowed in the sea and about the locket, but Ariel does not answer her questions. Instead, she angrily punishes Melody for disobeying her and forbids her from ever entering the sea again. Melody angrily yells that Ariel knows nothing of the sea because she's never even been in it, before she takes back the locket and runs out of her room. Wanting to find answers about the locket and its meaning, Melody takes a rowboat and runs away from home despite Sebastian's protests.
Melody is lured to Morgana's lair by Undertow. Morgana uses a potion to turn Melody into a mermaid, which excites Melody. However, the spell will only last a few days. Morgana explains that she can make the transformation permanent if she has the trident, which she claims Triton stole from her. Morgana asks Melody to retrieve the trident. Unknown to Melody, Morgana is lying and only wants the trident for her own selfish purposes. However, only a descendant of Triton can remove it from its resting place, and Melody is ignorant of Triton's connection to her.
While searching for the trident, Melody tries to use the map Morgana gave her, and due to the ticklish sea kelp, the whale sneezes, forcing Melody off of it, and her map gets broken. Later on, she befriends a penguin named Tip, and a walrus named Dash, and they join her in her search. The trio manages to sneak into the Atlantican royal palace and make off with the trident before Ariel (who turned back into a mermaid to look for Melody), Flounder, Sebastian, and Triton arrive. On the way to Morgana's lair, Ariel and Flounder remind Scuttle to get to Triton and Sebastian.
Melody returns to Morgana at the same time that her mother, Ariel, arrives. Ariel attempts to explain the situation, but Melody angered at Ariel's decision to hide Melody's mermaid heritage, gives Morgana the trident. Afterward, while revealing her true nature and the truth to Melody, including what Ariel has really been doing all these years by protecting Melody from Morgana, Morgana takes Ariel hostage and traps Melody and Flounder in a cave by sealing the entrance with a thick layer of ice. She leaves them to die and makes an ice tower where she fights Sebastian, Eric, Triton, and the others. Soon afterward, the sun sets and Morgana's spell on Melody wears off. She reverts her human form, starts to drown, and falls unconscious, but Tip and Dash get Undertow, who Morgana changed back to his real form, to ram into the ice, and help Flounder carry Melody to the surface. 
There, she awakes. While Morgana is using the trident to make Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, Triton, Tip, and Dash bow down to her, Melody realizes that now she can climb on Morgana's ice tower because she is now human and has legs again. She secretly sneaks up behind Morgana and takes back the trident, causing the others to be freed from Morgana's spell. Melody tells Morgana to stay back, but turns the wrong side of the trident to the Sea Witch. Morgana grabs her leg and pulls Melody to her in order to take the trident back, but Melody stabs her in the tentacle with it. Melody then manages to toss the trident back to Triton but gets pushed off the ice cliff by Morgana. She screams, falling to her doom, but Dash saves her in the last moment; she falls onto his soft stomach and lands safely. While catching his trident, Triton angrily confronts Morgana and tells her that never again will she nor any of hers threaten his family before imprisoning and icing her alive in a block of ice. Later, Melody has regained consciousness and reunites with Ariel and Eric after Eric carries her in his arms back to Ariel.
Melody apologizes to her mother about what happened, including misjudging her with false assumptions, but Ariel replies that she and Eric are the ones who are truly sorry, as they realize they should've been honest with her about her mermaid heritage sooner instead of keeping her in the dark about it. Melody explains that she never meant to hurt anyone but thought she would be better at being a mermaid than a girl. Ariel, however, explains to Melody that it doesn't matter whether she has fins or feet - she and Eric love her the way she is (their very brave little girl), and express how proud they are of her. Triton and Melody then officially meet each other, and Triton offers to allow Melody to become a mermaid permanently or to stay with her parents and let things return to normal. Melody refuses the offer, instead choosing to destroy the sea wall, so that everyone - both human and merfolk, could be together in perfect harmony. Melody, her family and everyone then dive, and celebrates the party in the sea.
==Personality==
Melody is a sassy, but a well-mannered young girl and has respect for her mother, Ariel, and others. Melody's curious nature leads her to collect all sorts of items from the sea, a parallel to her mother at age sixteen only in reverse. Melody's swimming proficiency and ability to hold her breath for long periods come from her merfolk parentage. Largely because of her being half-mermaid, she was also seen as somewhat of an outcast, as evidenced by the guests at her 12th birthday celebration shunning her. 
Melody is also shy around boys, becoming quite flustered; when a merboy she found attractive tried befriending her in Atlantica. She later met him again after the wall was disintegrated; with both of them recognizing each other. Despite being tomboyish, she has a princess canopy bed and a girlish-styled bedroom, the fact that; she is somewhat headstrong, wanting to be part of another world and collects items from that; particular she wants to be part of; proves that; she is similar to her mother, Ariel, just like Sebastian said. 
Despite this, Melody is far more innocent in comparison to Ariel when she was with her family, as unlike Sebastian warning Ariel about Ursula (Morgana's sister) and Ariel ignoring him, in contrast to Ariel, Sebastian nor Ariel's parents never tell Melody about Morgana in time and Melody had a reason not to trust Ariel; when she tried to warn Melody in the climax as she had lied to her about her heritage. Ariel should have explained the truth about Melody's locket, her heritage and told her about Morgana or she could have easily her kingdom could have moved somewhere far from the ocean to avoid any conflict with Morgana. Though she is a bit misguided and assumed the wrong message about her mother. It took the realization of Morgana's true nature for her to finally learn Ariel's true intentions.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*In The Little Mermaid TV series, there is a girl at a bar, who looks like an older version of Melody.
*In a rather amusing coincidence, Tara Strong would later voice Adella and Andrina, two of Ariel's sisters (and Melody's aunts), in the prequel Ariel's Beginning.
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