Deviation Actions
Did you know that Ariel's mom could had a darker fate? Peter David attempted to write Athena's story comic book titled Portrait of Life. Here, named Atlanta, she befriended a human artist named Duncan and posed for paintings. Triton allowed this, thinking that humans weren't so bad. However Kole, a rival artist, jealous of Duncan's success and talent, tries to kill him by letting loose an avalanche, but Atlanta, while pushing him out of the way, got crushed by the rocks herself. Enraged, Triton confronts Kole, terrifying him and falls off the cliff. Turning his anger to Duncan and ready to destroy him, the voice of Atlanta appears in the clouds asking Triton to spare him. Leaving with the unfinished painting of Duncan's, he returns to the sea to mourn. It is only through his children that he still continued on. The story went unproduced and rejected as a result of its dark tone. I kinda like that route better than the non-canon prequel. Triton is still a good dad throughout Ariel's childhood, it supports more that he and Ariel are both right and wrong about being good and bad humans out there and it gives mom a more tragic and worthy death sacrifice. What do you think?