Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25624943-20141211075940/@comment-1894786-20141223043150

Rwo wrote: Or you can consider that Triton and Ursula are mixed-race, with various "shades", and that Ariel's mother is simply white. Exactly. I look whiter than JoAnna Garcia (Ariel), who is Latina as I am, and my father is about the same skin color as Merrin Dungey (Ursula). It's perfectly plausible that she could be born of Triton as long as he's a bit lighter than Ursula, and Ariel's mother is fairly light-skinned herself.