Mermaid

This page originates from Mermaid page on Lost Girl

A Mermaid is a female aquatic Fae species. Mermaids are the male counterparts of Mermen.

Description
Mermaids live in seas and oceans. For one year of their existence only, mermaids grow magic legs to walk the earth; known as the "Walking". When the year is up, they are left with stumps and have to return to the sea.

Mermaids create pearls from their teardrops. They can make their victims choke on water without touching them. Mermaids possess a light blue fish-like tail.

Mermaids can breath both water and air. They are cold-blooded creatures with skin as cold as that of a fish, even on land. They are fast and skilled swimmers and can speak different aquatic languages such as dolphin. Mermaids are also extremely strong, capable of ripping off a human's legs with ease.

Mermaids can only swim in saltwater. If they drink or are sprayed by tap water or freshwater, they dissolve into sea foam. It is suggested that they could reform, but pouring the foam down a drain (and therefore mixing the foam with sewage) appears to be enough to keep this from happening.

History
Bo commented that the Noble families of the Light Fae are "like the mob, but with mermaids." (The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire)

A mermaid was among the corpses at a mass Fae grave site and Tamsin said she was fed on by a Wendigo (Adventures in Fae-bysitting).

Diana and Dominique are mermaids that dwelled in a large saltwater pool (Waves).

Powers

 * Underwater Breathing: Mermaids can breathe underwater.
 * Hydrokinesis: Mermaids are able to make their victims choke on water without touching them. It is unknown their extent of their power.
 * Enhanced Strength: Mermaids are extremely strong, capable of ripping off a human's legs with ease.
 * Aquatic Animal Communication: Mermaids can understand and speak different aquatic languages, such as dolphin.

Trivia
A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. Mermaids are associated with the mythological Greek sirens as well as with sirenia, a biological order comprising dugongs and manatees.

Appearances

 * 2.04 Mirror, Mirror (mentioned only)
 * 2.07 Fae Gone Wild (mentioned only)
 * 2.17 The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire (mentioned only)
 * 3.04 Fae-de To Black (a costume)
 * 3.11 Adventures in Fae-bysitting (mentioned only)
 * 4.10 Waves