Princess Merida is a Scottish Princess with a love of archery. She is the daughter King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Her mother’s expectations of her daughter, has made their relationship distant and frictious.
Merida is the most skilled archer ever seen and relishes in her ability wishing to retreat to a quiet life to pursue her dreams. She later learns how much her family cares and how much she can care for them. Merida is impetuous and tangle haired in both royalty and wilderness.
TRIVIA
- Mérida is the first main protagonist to be a female in Pixar history.
- Mérida is the third Pixar Princess after Atta and Dot in 1998.
- Mérida was originally to be voiced by Reese Witherspoon, but due to scheduling conflicts she was replaced by Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald.
