#i think eric's status as the “representation” of humanity and ariel being a mermaid hasn't allowed his character to be expanded in the way

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Do you ever look at a certain character and you wished the franchise did more with them but they just practically leave them quite undeveloped despite the potential they have?

#characters #franchise #txt #i feel like this about a few characters #like eric from tlm. i mean the animated version specifically #he is the least developed major character in all of animated tlm franchise and it's quite annoying #they gave him a decent/good enough development in the original movie #but his character was practically pushed to the side in the sequel and wasn't even present in the third #i think eric's status as the “representation” of humanity and ariel being a mermaid hasn't allowed his character to be expanded in the way #he really shoulda been. his character was left quite untouched till that novel came out a year ago #it's messed up that it took that long for writers to FINALLY pay attention to his character and depict him as more than just ariel's love #interest/arm candy #honestly most disney princes are quite underdeveloped specially the earlier ones #this is why people just dismiss them #and eric's case is interesting in that he is the only one to smash a non-human and that represented or symbolized humanity #he was the only one to not have a song and honestly he shouldn't have been given one. he didn't need to sing unlike the others #like eric is the only prince who was directly pursued he didn't need no song lol #for as much sh*t as the animated pairing gets they are the most unique and peculiar in all of the disney princess romances #this is what i didn't like about the remake they gave ariel's traits to eric basically. he was the one being infatuated now #like i'm sorry but one of the things i love about ariel was her fangirlism. they took that away from her and gave it to eric #they turned it into a traditional relationship in a sense when they weren't supposed to be that #idc idc idc this is how i feel about it #anyways i shoulda left that for another post tbh 💀