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Main Characters[]

Mermaids[]

Emma Gilbert[]

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Emma has a stubborn, rule following character, however she does have a soft side and can be easily hurt. She has a very good relationship with her family. She is very disciplined and is on the track to become a champion swimmer. Emma transforms into a mermaid along with her childhood friend, Cleo and classmate Rikki. She then discovers her new powers the next morning while swimming in the sea. She has the ability to freeze any object or liquid containing water. Emma is the first to find a locket, this at the bottom of the Moon Pool, but gives it to Cleo. When she finally gets a locket herself, it is given to her by Miss Chatham and has a white stone. In Season 2, Emma develops the power to control ice and snow, and with the combined powers of her friends, the power to summon a hurricane like storm. In the first season, Emma has a crush on Byron, but in Season 2, becomes involved with Ash, a horse riding instructor tasked with teaching her little brother Elliot to ride a horse. She is initially wary of him, but eventually falls for him, revealling her secret in the season 2 finale. She is not present in Season 3, as she goes travelling with her family.

Cleo Sertori[]

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Cleo is second to find out that she is a mermaid while taking a bath. She has the power to manipulate the form of water and mold it into a different shape. She can mystically create more water from any source. She also discovers the power to control currents in season 2. She is shy, but very bright and a loyal friend. Late in season 1, Cleo and Lewis develop a relationship. In season 2, Cleo is overwhelmed with changes—she has new powers to deal with is still reeling from her parents’ divorce, and with Lewis being too clingy she is too stressed to have a boyfriend, so she breaks up with him. A new girl named Charlotte arrives, who is Cleo's friend at first but then Charlotte becomes jealous of Cleo's friendship/relationship with Lewis so Charlotte constantly tries to be with him. Charlotte and Lewis form a relationship, much to Cleo's dismay. Charlotte causes many problems for Cleo in season 2, such as stealing her boyfriend and stealing her locket. After Lewis had enough of Charlotte's actions, he breaks up with her and rescues Cleo from sharks. Cleo’s father Don remarries in Season 3 to a woman named Samantha Roberts. Cleo’s sister Kim doesn't like the idea of her father remarrying and tries to sabotage the wedding, but Cleo eventually convinces her to stop and apologize.

Rikki Chadwick[]

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Rikki is the last to discover she is a mermaid, when she was hit by water from the park sprinkler system. She is able to boil water or anything containing water. Rikki got her locket while walking with Zane. Zane realized that Rikki loves that necklace, but Miriam bought it first and wanted to break up Rikki and Zane with it. Eventually, Miriam tossed it into the water and Zane brought it to Rikki. In the first season, under control of the full moon, her power grew to setting anything she touched on fire. While under the influence of the moon, Rikki kissed Zane on Mako Island, after Zane found her, but she accidentally burns him. The next day in the JuiceNet Café, Zane appears, red after being burnt, and makes a comment about their kiss, but Rikki doesn't remember. It went away when the full moon did. In the second season, she develops the ability to control fire and lightning. She is a rebellious new girl and a self-confessed loner who finds an attraction in the local bad boy, Zane Bennett. They first fall in love when trapped on a balcony together. They briefly date but find they have too many differences at the end of the first season. Shortly into the second season, they rekindle their relationship, although somewhat casually. She was originally at odds with Miriam, Zane's ex-girlfriend, seen only in the first season. Her parents are divorced and she lives with her father in a trailer.

Bella Hartley[]

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Isabella "Bella" Hartley is "the new girl in town". She became a mermaid in the Sea Caves of Ireland when she was nine. Bella is a singer and provides a musical element to the show, occasionally shown singing with Nate's Band in the café. Her mermaid power is twofold: she can change water into gelatin, and then change that into a crystalline substance. If she loses focus on her power, the jelly or crystal will turn back into water, but she can also control this effect according to her will. She seems to show an interest in Will but is warned by Rikki to stay away from him for fear that he will discover their mermaid secret. She ignores this advise, resulting in Will getting her hand wet and finding out anyway. Bella convinces him that she is the only mermaid, but when Will helps the girls after Rikki is kidnapped, he learns the truth. Bella becomes angered when she figures out that Will only likes her because she is a mermaid, and tells him to stay away. Later on though, he assures her that he likes her for her, not just her mermaid abilities. Later in season three the mermaids and Will discover that there is moon rock in the Moon Pool walls. Will then decides to make a copy design of the necklace Bella has and gives is to Rikki. They soon discover that the Moon Rock is magnetic to each other and soon Cleo has a necklace as well.

Friends and Allies[]

Lewis McCartney[]

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Lewis has been Cleo's friend since they were five, and following the girls' transformation, he also becomes friends with Rikki and Emma. He finds out in Pool Party that the three girls were mermaids. He is academically gifted, thinks of himself as a scientist and has a passion for fishing. He discovers the girls' secret early on in the season and becomes determined to find the cause. He is in love with Cleo, who reciprocates the feeling and the two form a relationship late in season one. At the beginning of season two, Cleo breaks up with Lewis. They stay friends but remain a little embarrassed. Lewis develops a friendship with Charlotte, the new girl, who has a crush on Lewis and becomes his controlling girlfriend. At the end of season two, Lewis dumps Charlotte because of her behavior towards the other girls, mostly Cleo. After he saves Cleo from a shark reef, they admit their feelings for each other and renew their romance. During season three, Lewis departs to America to study science; but on the Final Epoisode of Season Three, Lewis returns for the Graduation Day and Cleo and Lewis are reunited.

Zane Bennett[]

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Zane is the local bad boy, and seems to think that he can get away with anything because his dad is rich. He appears to be arrogant, but has been seen to have a softer side. He desperately wants to impress his father, local land developer Harrison Bennett, who is more arrogant. Zane is an excellent swimmer. After becoming trapped on a sinking boat, he is rescued by Emma, and sees the end of her tail before she is able to slip away. Because of this, Zane becomes obsessed with finding the "sea monster". Later on in the first season, to the disappointment of Miriam who assumed that she was with Zane, Rikki and Zane develop feelings for each other after being locked out on a penthouse balcony in a hotel that Harrison Bennett is giving an advertising speech at. While they later break up at the end of the first season because they are "too different" from each other, they rekindle their relationship in the second season after Zane discovers the girls are still mermaids. It is found out also that he is very caring. Rikki goes looking for an artifact that would get her a lot of money so that she doesn't have to move, and ends up getting hurt. Zane jumps in the water to rescue her before she drowns. During season three, Zane buys the JuiceNet Café after it is closed down, and renames it "Rikki's" and makes Rikki his business partner. Rikki and Zane broke up after she saw Zane and Sophie kissing on one of Will's dive that the girls went to see as mermaids.

Ash[]

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Ash was the supervisor of the JuiceNet Café (to Emma's disappointment at first, since she wanted the job). Ash is a keen horse rider and has worked as a riding coach. One of his favorite horses gets poisoned by Emma, and then she saves it, and Ash starts to have feelings for her. He and Emma have a relationship and have gone out on a few dates. In the middle of the second season, in the episode 'Moonstruck', Emma was affected by the full moon (with Cleo and Rikki) and almost revealed her secret by calling him into the bathroom when she was wet with a tail. Luckily, Lewis steps in and stops him. Ash also has a falling out with Zane in the JuiceNet Café, causing the girl's group to split for an episode. During the season two finale, Emma reveals that she is a mermaid to Ash, and his only reaction was to smile and say, "Cool" before the end credits roll.

Will Benjamin[]

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Will is a skilled diver. When he arrives at Mako Island, he discovers the Moon Pool until he is attacked by the water. This forces Will to go on the hunt to discover what happened to him, leaving Cleo, Rikki and Bella worried that he will discover their secret. Bella has a love interest in him and later reveals to him that she is a mermaid but preserves Cleo and Rikki's secret. He eventually finds out that Cleo and Rikki are mermaids too and starts hanging out with them more, even keeping their secret. He never went to a school as was home-schooled before he started at the school where the girls go to.

Antagonists[]

Linda Denman[]

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Dr. Linda Denman is a Marine Biologist. When Dr. Denman finds out the girls secret she traps them in The Moon Pool, planning to do some tests on them, Zane's dad helps her but wants no harm to come to the girls. Zane finds out that Rikki is a mermaid and helps them escape, foiling Dr. Linda's plan to make millions of dollars off of the girl's mermaid tails and powers.

Charlotte Watsford[]

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Charlotte is the new girl in town and the school the girls go to. The main antagonist of the second season. She enjoys various forms of art and appreciates the science. She is friendly at first but becomes jealous of Cleo's relationship with Lewis, because she have a secret crush on him, she constantly tries to be with him. After Cleo breaks up with Lewis, Charlotte pursues him and eventually the two develop a relationship. She is very selfish, controlling and manipulative and gets paranoid very easily and becomes jealous of Cleo. She is later revealed to be the granddaughter of Gracie, one of the original three mermaids. She also thinks she is better than the other mermaids because she received all three powers due to the fact she entered the Moon Pool alone. Sometimes she refers herself as a 'super mermaid.' After this she becomes very dangerous when angry, especially when Lewis breaks up with her to be with Cleo. The 50 year full moon comes and Charlotte reveals to Lewis that is how Gracie lost her powers. She plans to strip the other girls powers so that she will be the only special one for Lewis. But after being beaten by the girls, she loses her powers forever, and her friendship with Lewis.

Sophie Benjamin[]

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Sophie is Will's older sister, and she has a very bad influence on him. She pushes him to train for his diving, and thinks that Bella is distracting him from his training. She seems to be rather forceful, and will do anything to get what she wants. She also does it with her crush with Zane, and Rikki catches her kissing him. Later in the 3rd Season Rikki's Cafe begins to lose money. She meets Ryan, a geologist. With a plan to make more money for the cafe, she tells him about the rare blue gems that Cleo, Rikki and Bella all wear. They find out that Mako Island has something to do with the crystals. Once they find the Moon Pool they begin drilling through the walls in order to find more crystals to sell for millions of dollars. The walls of the Moon Pool became weak and Zane, Ryan and Sophie had to escape before they came crashing down. Sophie became persistent to uncover more crystals, but Will presented her an ultimatum: the crystals or him.

Supporting Characters[]

The Gilbert Family[]

The Sertori Family[]

The Chadwick Family[]

The Earlier Mermaids And Their Associates[]

Zane's Friends and Family[]

JuiceNet Café Staff[]

Sea World Marine Park Staff[]

Teachers at School[]

Other Humans[]

Animals[]

Mako: Island of Secrets[]

Main Characters[]

Mermaids

Nixie[]

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Nixie Is a very entertaining, adventurous mermaid, and likes to be in places where she should not be. She has several powers but she can be better at Atmokinesis, which is the ability to create clouds, storms, lightning, etc. Nixie was very confident that she would pass the Mermaid School and win her Moon Ring, but Lyla was not so sure. Her best friend Sirena has a very strong and beautiful friendship different between Lyla and Nixie and they almost do not work out, but in the end they get used to becoming friends. She has never liked Zac since her first appearance on Mako Island, she thinks that as he is a merman he can only be their enemies. After Zac and Lyla start a fight in the ocean for the trident and she ends up being hit by Zac unintentionally, Lyla is unconceived and he worries because she was already creating a strong friendship, she can find that Zac once and for all he She was not her friend. More after he has gone against Cam's will and helping them he does not arrive with the trident in the Moon Pool she realizes that he is a good person and begin to relate to each other.

Lyla[]

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Lyla is a rebel mermaid, is distant of other mermaids, had no friends, but when the Pod gives her the mission to protect Moon Pool she is forced to live with her best friends, Nixie and Sirena, named leader of the three. She thought she did not need friends, but the night Zac went camping on Mako Island and ends up falling on the Moon Pool, she realizes she'll need the girls to get to Earth and take the powers of the land boy. Along with Nixie and Sirena she met, Rita Santos, a mermaid who abandoned the Pod to marry the love of her life, plus an unknown reason he died and she has lived on earth ever since. They create a bond together and Rita ends up adopting them as nieces of consideration. After meeting Zac, his point of view about the land boy changes completely, she begins to fill Zac with other eyes, and ends up falling in love with him. His plan was to enter the land, become friends with him, and take him to Moon Pool in the Full Moon note and erect his powers, without telling him his identity as a mermaid, but ends up going wrong and when he discovers the secret of Lyla, Nixie and Sirena he believes them as enemies and they just want to have more power than him and get to get the trident.

Sirena[]

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Sirena is shown in Season 1 which is the most innocent, sweet and young lady of all of them, but already in Season 2 she still has these personalities and increases brave, strong, warrior, and we realize that she matures more by leaving her sweet way of cradle aside. She is the only one who has the Moon Ring among the three, because when the Pod left her sister, Aquata, gave her Moon Ring to her younger sister as a way to always remember Aquata. She has always tried to be friends with Zac from the outset, and when he thinks they are enemies she tries to explain that they do not want the power but protects him the more he does not listen. When Lyla and Nixie do not get along and start fighting, she always gets in the way. When Ondina and Mimmi arrive, she tries to tell him that Zac is a friend, but they do not listen to her. Even when Mimmi and Ondina did a pink slime and played Evie to be taken out of the mermaid powers, she tries to protect Evie anyway and tries to help her out.

Zac Blakely[]

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Beautiful and charming, Zac is a full-time lifeguard, until he goes to Mako Island with his best friend Cam, and ends up falling in the Moon Pool, which turns him into a newt. At first, Zac just wanted to get back to his normal life, but he ends up seeing a good side in having a fish tail. With all this, Zac unveils several secrets of the island and even himself. And one of them is to discover that he and Mimmi, a mermaid who arrives to watch the mermaid next to Ondina, are brothers. At first he does not accept that he and Mimmi have a connection, but he gets accustomed when his parents tell him that he was found on the beach and it was as if the sea, in the case of Nerissa, heeded their request and gave them A little boy. When Mimmi begins to have visions of that Nerissa is next she is obsessed, but only she can see and this causes Zac to make her desist and that Nerissa is not alive. However when they discover that Nerissa can be alive they give one more chance until uqe in the finaal they defeat the Water Dragon that in fact is Nerissa, its mother.

Evie McLaren[]

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Girlfriend of Zac. She works at the Ocean Café, along with Carly, who is her friend. Evie at the beginning, does not like the mermaids, because they thought that they disturbed their courtship and took their time with Zac. From season 2, he becomes a mermaid after having entered the Moon Pool to save Zac from Mimmi and Ondina, being a threat to them. She has learned a lot about having a fish tail and powers that sometimes get her into trouble. At first she was scared, just like Cleo Sertori, but she overcame when Zac helped her face her fear of the water that was born when she became a mermaid send that when human had diving equipment. Evie does not demonstrate the power of invisibility probably because she is transformed differently from the rest of her merpeople friends. To defend his boyfriend he creates courage and uses her Moon Ring to stop the dragon that was attacking them, but ends up losing her mermaid powers.

Cam Mitchell[]

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Cameron (Cam) Mitchell is the childhood best friend of Zac Blakely. He works with Zac as a lifeguard. One full moon, the friends go camping, and in the morning, Cam finds Zac asleep on the beach. Later, Zac comes to Cam to show him that he has turned into a merman. Cam is jealous and this makes him angry and vindictive. He thinks Zac should tell his girlfriend, Evie, and he is also bored of Zac being special and powerful. Cam is frustrated with Zac for involving Nixie, Sirena and Lyla in his secret, not knowing of their own part in it. At the end of the first season, Cam manipulates the girls, Zac, and Evie into believing his lies and tries to steal the Trident and transform himself into a merman. The two friends make up, and from then on support each other. Cam can be a little impulsive and selfish, but he loves Zac and cherishes their friendship. In season 3, Cam begins dating Carly Morgan.

Carly Morgan[]

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Carly Morgan is the best friend of Evie McLaren and a fellow employee at the Ocean Café. It is a long time before she finds out about the mermaid secret, and so spends a lot of the series being confused or left out of things. She is very supportive of Evie and can be very sensitive. She is not good at singing at the start of the series, but she takes lessons to improve. When the series opens, she has a crush on David, but in the later seasons she dates Cam.

Rita Santos[]

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Rita Santos is a mermaid who was banished onto land after she chose to live with her fiancé, Harry. After his death, she remained on land, taking on the role of headteacher at Suncoast High. When she meets Nixie, Lyla and Sirena, she takes them in, allowing them to live in her house. She teaches the girls about their powers and acts as a generally guiding figure, even though she is often frustrated at their silly mistakes.

David[]

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David is the co-owner of the Ocean Café, along with his brother, Joe. He is a classic puppy dog/boy-next-door character, and immediately falls for Sirena. He convinces her to perform with him at the café, and the two often put on shows. It is a long while before he finds out about mermaids.

Mimmi[]

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Mimmi is a mermaid from the Northern Pod. She was brought up in the Mako Pod and was best friends with Ondina growing up. Her mother was Nerissa, and she was separated from her brother, Zac at birth. She joins the cast in Season 2 with Ondina, replacing Lyla and Nixie. Mimmi has a relationship with Chris. She works at the Marine Park.

Ondina[]

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Ondina is a mermaid from the Mako Pod. Her best friend is Mimmi, and the two grew up together. She joins the cast in Season 2 with Mimmi, replacing Lyla and Nixie. Ondina is a prickly, standoffish person. She meets Erik, and starts to fall for him, even though she doesn't want to. However, he betrays her and the mermaids in general when he prioritises the Merman Chamber over her. She ends things with him. In the later seasons, Ondina becomes best friends with Weilan, even though at first they butt heads. In the end, Ondina travels with Weilan back to the South China Sea to start up the Eastern Pod again.

Erik[]

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Erik is a merman who arrives in the Gold Coast. He immediately is attracted to Ondina, eventually getting into a relationship with her. However, he ends up betraying her by prioritising the Merman Chamber and the power it holds over her. She breaks up with him and he leaves.

Weilan[]

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Weilan is a mermaid from the Eastern Pod, which was almost wiped out by the Water Dragon. She follows its trail to the waters surrounding Mako Island and joins up with Ondina and Mimmi as the replacement for Sirena. She is a very strong personality and immediately butted heads with Ondina. However, over time the two became best friends, and at the end of the series they travel back to the South China Sea to start up the Eastern Pod again.

Chris[]

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Chris is an employee at the Marine Park. He has a flirty relationship with Mimmi, but leaves for a dolphin trainer position in San Diego. However, he returns and later becomes Mimmi's boyfriend.

Karl[]

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Karl is a good friend and colleague of Chris. He has a crush on Weilan, but she does not reciprocate the feelings.

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