Ariel

## Ariel Hansen

**Ariel Hansen** is among the main characters, and the usual storyteller. She lives next door to the Browns. She works as the music teacher at Wright Bros. Elementary School and also volunteers at her father's community center, where she sometimes takes Charlie, Sally, and the other kids to. She also coaches their baseball team, the "Peanut Street Kids".

## TBA

Ariel was born the youngest of seven daughters. Her mother died when she was around 5 or 6. Growing up, she was almost as much an outcast as Charlie feels (hence their future relationship), even in her girl scout troop. Despite this, she made friends with some of her fellow scouts and other people. When she was in high school, her father married her friend Tiana's mother. Some time later, she married her high school crush Eric and a year or two after that, she gave birth to her daughter Melody.

Two years before the events of the series, she moved into the neighborhood after she and Eric divorced. He kept Melody, but she kept his dog Max. Since then, she's gotten a job at her old alma mater Wright Bros. Elementary School as the music teacher with some of her young neighbors as students. Also, she'd look after Charlie and Sally, the children of her next-door neighbors the Browns, when their housewife mother Jean, who she's known since \_ school, was also out. She'd bring them and Charlie's dog Snoopy over to her house and \_. She'd sometimes show them tapings of her favorites show and movies, including episodes of the #0s Mermaid Man show. Since the first show, she's made friends with most of the other kids in her neighborhood and would sometimes take them to her family's community center to hang out, usually under the care of young adult employees Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella. She's also become the new coach of the neighborhood baseball team "The \_s", which she renamed "The Peanut Street Kids".

## Trivia (real life)

* Her favorite fruit is strawberries, just like it said on the "Mermaid Discovery Vanity" special feature from the *The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning* DVD.
* Unlike her source material, she has been human all her life.
	+ She does become a mermaid in an imagination sequence, however.
* She is mainly here because her real voice actress Jodi Benson was the human hostess of the short-lived 6-volume video series *Guidepost Junction*, one of the shows this series is based on, and she also sang songs for *Beginner's Bible* CDs and did voiceover in a few bible-related cartoons.
	+ Her involvement in baseball (which was added in 11-15-22) is a reference to 'Brett Butler', the first part of the *GJ* video "Yes I Can Do It".
* In this series, she and Eric are divorced, with her keeping Melody. This is mostly because of a fanfiction someone wrote where he cheated on her for his own kind (a woman named Anastasia) after Melody was born causing the two to "return to the sea" and have Melody be raised as a mermaid. The show's creator didn't finish reading it because he didn't like it. He stopped some time after the part where Melody met Eric and he called her a creature.
* Her surname Hansen is after Hans Christian Anderson, who wrote her fairy tale source material. It's a Danish surname to match their roots.
	+ Ariel mentions her family being Danish in at least one episode.
* In this series, she and Tiana are stepsisters. The former's father married the latter's mother when they were in high school.
	+ This is mainly because the Mardi Gras float Charlotte and Naveen (Lawrence) were being wedded on in *The Princess and the Frog* was of King Triton.
* As also said in the "Mermaid Discovery Vanity" feature, she plays piano, as well as other instruments including the ones mentioned in her sisters' diaries (guitar, horn, drums, violin, tambourine, and harp), but piano's her favorite.
* On April 28th 2021, I was thinking about switching the sisters' birth orders to the same order of their tail colors by rainbow making Ariel the middle child. This was mainly due to the idea of giving her a lack of bladder control and making her wear adult diapers.
* He keeps her great-grandfather's old calliope in her basement. This is a reference to the TV episode "Calliope Dreams".
	+ Another reference is her favorite composer being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who made a cameo in that episode.
* Aside from Logan, Amy Cavenaugh (from *Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated*) was considered for the "role" before she was deleted from the wiki on November 23rd.

## Trivia (if real)

* Logan based her character on her own widowed mother ….