While Ariel clearly has the hots for her sea-MILF mommy figure. It’s clear that the Disney writers completely misunderstood Ursula’s motivations, casting her as a villainess, when what she really wants is to wrap Ariel in her tentacles and give her some tender loving care. I know this story is hardly the first Ursula-Ariel romantic/sexual pairing, but the record needs to be set straight. Ursula is such a delicious character, a mature soft-butch BBW you can’t help rooting for. There’s something about Ariel's and Ursula’s chemistry in the Little Mermaid that has, over the years, grabbed my imagination, and it won’t let go.