Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32390199-20141220113943/@comment-1894786-20141222003009

Killian Jones wrote:

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Someone can be mixed race and still look 100% white. Both my parents are Latino, as am I. My father is consistently mistaken for an Arab due to his skin color, so he's obviously dark. My mother and I both look like someone out of Scandinavia. It's perfectly reasonable for Ariel to be mixed race. Just as long as Triton himself isn't too dark, and Athena is introduced and is a light skinned mermaid. Athena? Wut? You do know Poseidon and Athena are like archenemies, right? XD In the Little Mermaid prequel movie from 2009, Ariel's mother is introduced, a mermaid named Athena. She's identical to Ariel physically. And if Poseidon and Athena are enemies, that could explain why Ariel never met her aunt Ursula, or even knew she had one. Triton would've been disowned by Poseidon. Obviously this isn't necessarily canon, but considering that even in the animated canon Triton is darker than Ariel and Ariel is identical to her mother...