Peter Pan/Little Mermaid Connection

So... I've been thinking of something. I've always sort of thought about it ever since I had grown old enough to notice strange things in the world around me. It started a few years back when I was visiting Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. Particularly when I rode the Peter Pan ride that took you on a tour of Neverland. This "something strange" just so happened to come into view when I saw the Neverland mermaids. And I noticed someone quite familiar.

Now, at the time, I was in competitive swimming and my favorite princess was Ariel because of this fact. So I knew that purple seashells and a green tail are a clear indication that you should look into asking to borrow some gadgets and gizmos. After that, I just shrugged it off. But it came back to me a few weeks ago when I read Josh Butler's Grand Disney Unification Theory. It got my creative juices flowing, and this immediately came to mind. But I thought to myself: Ariel couldn't have possibly come from Neverland, or she would have been mischievous and nothing like the character I had fallen in love with. So I looked deeper.

This seemed to be the only mermaid that resembled the one I had seen on the ride, but it still did not quite make sense. For one, this Neverland mermaid wasn't even wearing seashells. And her hair was orange, not red. As for her tail; blue, not green. I thought this was a cold case until I asked my friend one day about it. And she told me that this mermaid looked more like Ariel's mother than Ariel herself. I thought that was impossible because I had never even seen her mother. So, she introduced me to The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginnings; a prequel to the original film. And then I added another piece to the puzzle.

Now it makes sense. Ariel's mother has the bluish tail and the long orangey hair similar to the mermaid in Peter Pan. But still, how could she have made it here if she was originally from Neverland? Well, given my geeky love for fairy tales, I had another reference point: ABC's Once Upon A Time.

I figured since Disney owned ABC then some of the references made here would also apply to other Disney films. I learned here that mermaids have the ability to travel through realms. This explains how Queen Athena came to know King Triton and later had Ariel and her six sisters. I would like to remind that this is, of course, all a theoretical hypothesis. Disney has not leaked any information of the sort and I am merely making connections that I believe to make sense. I would appreciate that you comment and tell me what you think of the idea. Thanks for reading!