@AngieBelle wrote:
As for Ariel…I can see them doing the Neverland angle I suppose, but I am not too keen on the idea at the moment, especially if the Neverland mermaids curse sailors who fall into the water. I just don’t see Ariel being that way.
Exactly. She’s the exception. Disney’s Triton is rather anti-human. So perhaps in the Onceiverse, that’s why merfolk are known as being dangerous. Maybe they’re under orders from their King to drown any humans they can get their hands on, (maybe because Pan and his followers have corrupted NL). But Ariel is special, because she’s the one mermaid who wants to befriend humans. If they establish that as a general rule, merfolk are dangerous and to be avoided, which has been done thanks to Hook’s comments, that serves to make Ariel unique amongst her people if she’s a NL mermaid.