“They get mad if I do, and the trackers I casually slip in their stuff, do no harm at all… as long as they don’t find them”
Jason
“Of course not, they are old enough to decide what’s good for them and I have guns enough to kill anyone that is not”
Tim
“No, every time I delete any sort of romantic advances from random guys we don’t even know from their e-mail, phones, or classic mail, I blame it on the server… and on my lack of coffee early in the morning”
Damian
“Me breaking more bones of nasty criminals with a much more tougher language than abilities, than those that know to keep their mouth shut is only a coincidence.”
Here’s one of the reasons I don’t buy the cynical interpretation that Ariel gives up her identity for a man.
This screencap comes from her introductory scene. She’s searching through a shipwreck for human artifacts–which is her passion–when suddenly she’s attacked by a shark.
While fleeing, she accidentally drops her bag full of artifacts right in the shark’s path. Without hesitating, she chooses her passion over her safety, risking her life for a dinglehopper.
The girl is an anthropologist who studies humans. That’s her passion, that’s how she spends her time…that’s her identity.
Sure, Eric is the catalyst that leads Ariel to changing her species and leaving her family–he certainly intensifies her feelings–but they’re feelings she already has, and they dictate most of her life.
If Ariel had the chance to become a human before she met Eric, everything that we know about her suggests that she probably would.