Princess Melody is the main protagonist from The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. She is Queen Ariel and King Eric's 12-year-old daughter, the granddaughter of King Triton and Queen Athena, and the niece of Ariel's sisters. She is also the princess of her father's kingdom and a human-mermaid hybrid.
Personality[]
Melody is a sassy, but a well-mannered young girl and has respect for her mother, Ariel, and others. Melody's curious nature leads her to collect all sorts of items from the sea, a parallel to her mother at age sixteen only in reverse. Melody's swimming proficiency and ability to hold her breath for long periods come from her merfolk parentage. Largely because of her being half-mermaid, she was also seen as somewhat of an outcast, as evidenced by the guests at her 12th birthday celebration shunning her.
Melody is also shy around boys, becoming quite flustered; when a merboy she found attractive tried befriending her in Atlantica. She later met him again after the wall was disintegrated; with both of them recognizing each other. Despite being tomboyish, she has a princess canopy bed and a girlish-styled bedroom, the fact that; she is somewhat headstrong, wanting to be part of another world and collects items from that; particular she wants to be part of; proves that; she is similar to her mother, Ariel, just like Sebastian said.
Despite this, Melody is far more innocent in comparison to Ariel when she was with her family, as unlike Sebastian warning Ariel about Ursula (Morgana's sister) and Ariel ignoring him, in contrast to Ariel, Sebastian nor Ariel's parents never tell Melody about Morgana in time and Melody had a reason not to trust Ariel; when she tried to warn Melody in the climax as she had lied to her about her heritage. Ariel should have explained the truth about Melody's locket, her heritage and told her about Morgana or she could have easily her kingdom could have moved somewhere far from the ocean to avoid any conflict with Morgana. Though she is a bit misguided and assumed the wrong message about her mother. It took the realization of Morgana's true nature for her to finally learn Ariel's true intentions.
Physical appearance[]
Melody is a beautiful, yet tomboyish twelve-year-old girl. She is the height of a ten-year-old though she is 12 years old. She has straight jet-black hair, most often tied back in a low ponytail by a hair tie, pink lips, aqua blue eyes and is always barefoot. She seems to have inherited a relatively even blend of traits from her parents: She inherited her mother's eyes, nose, facial structure, and beautiful singing voice, as heard in "For A Moment", a duet between Melody and her mother; Eric gave Melody his skin tone, smile, and thick eyebrows. Melody's hairstyle seems like a blend of both of her parents, as it's the same black color as Eric's while being as long as Ariel's.
For most of the film, Melody wears her undergarments, which is a separate pair of white pantalettes and a white camisole with two matching buttons and a small green bow; the pantalettes cover the bottom half of her stomach. Her hair tied in a low ponytail is adorned with a green hair tie.
At the ball, she wore a pink ball gown with dark panniers and a light pink bow on the back, a pink hair tie, and dark pink heels with white ornaments.
As a baby, she had short hair and wore a white-and-pink christening gown that resembled a seashell and a bow of the same colors.
Her casual outfit, is a Munsell yellow dress with a white contrast collar, short puffy sleeves with white trim, a bronze bodice, and her hair tie is white.
She retains her camisole in mermaid form, but a salmon-pink tail replaces her pantalettes and legs; her navel is also visible. Oddly, the merteens she meets do not notice she does not wear a typical seashell bikini top like other mermaids. Since she found it, she wears her locket that has her name on it.