Charlotte Watsford is the daughter of Mr. and Annette Watsford, and is the granddaughter of a fellow former human-turned-mermaid, Gracie. She was originally born as a regular human being, and she always found a passion in art and cooking. At the age of 17, she relocated with her parents to the Gold Coast in Australia, and attended the same school as Cleo Sertori, Lewis McCartney, Emma Gilbert and Rikki Chadwick. She soon started her romantic relationship with Lewis, and eventually became aware of her grandmother's past as a mermaid. After undergoing her own metamorphosis in Moon Pool at the heart of Mako Island under the full moon, she became power-hungry, and was eventually defeated by Cleo, Emma, and Rikki under the Moon of Fifty Years the following month, and returned to being a human, just like her grandmother, Gracie, fifty years earlier. She ended her relationship with Lewis, and probably moved away thenafter.
Biography[]
Charlotte is the new girl in town and arrives after the girls were given their new powers. She has a passion for art, and grew an attraction to drawing Mako Island. At her old school of Rosewood Secondary College she was one of the best artists. She also has a sudden crush on Lewis, who was initially Cleo's boyfriend. She draws a picture of him, after Cleo claims she needs space to learn to control her new powers, and uses this time to try to get Lewis to go out with her. In "Missed the Boat", Charlotte comes up with a plan to get Lewis alone, away from Cleo. Following Cleo's poor exam results, Charlotte takes it upon herself to tutor Cleo, forcing Cleo to study at home, while Charlotte gets Lewis to take her to Mako Island. This allows her to kiss Lewis at Mako, forming their relationship.
Becoming A Mermaid[]
Charlotte finds a picture of her grandmother at Sertori's House. After that she starts to get suspicious of Lewis and the girls. This leads Charlotte to secretly break into Cleo's room and steal a film, in which she would discover the existence of mermaids, and that her own grandmother was one. She confronts Lewis with this information, only to end in him denying their existence. In "Then There Were Four," Lewis, in an attempt to give the mermaid research back to Max Hamilton, Charlotte secretly follows Lewis and asks Max questions about Gracie.
Max confirmed Charlotte's suspicions that Gracie used to be a one of the original mermaids. Max tells Charlotte, that although Gracie was a mermaid, he still loved her, and even more so when she was a mermaid. This may have influenced Charlotte into becoming a mermaid, so that Lewis would love her more than Cleo. Charlotte asks Max "How did this happen?" to which Max responded with "In the right place, at the right time, magic happens." After arguing with Lewis once again, Charlotte runs off and reviews the film of Gracie's transformation, and determines that Mako Island's Moon Pool could be where the 'magic happens'. She takes a boat and travels to Mako Island, where she goes to the Moon Pool.
Charlotte then discovers that Cleo, Emma and Rikki are mermaids, and overhears them mention "the moon". Once the full moon is up, Charlotte recalls Max's words that this was the 'right place', and the 'right time' for the magic to happen, Charlotte proceeds to jump into the moon pool and becomes the fourth mermaid. The next day, Lewis is ready to make amends with Charlotte, and meets her on the jetty. She calls Lewis out for being full of secrets, but that he needn't worry anymore. Charlotte then dives into the water and transforms into a mermaid. She arises extremely happy, asking a shocked Lewis "isn't this fantastic?!"
The "Super Mermaid"[]
Once Charlotte becomes a mermaid, her true colors come out and the girls don't take her in so well. She initially tries to find out what her powers are, but fails. After a while, she finds out that she has Cleo's power, then Rikki's power and Emma's power. This causes her to believe that being a mermaid was meant to happen to her. She titles herself as a "Super Mermaid" and a better mermaid than the other girls, this is due to her mastering her powers faster than the other girls, and having control over all the elements, making her the most powerful mermaid in the entire series. However, this leads to Charlotte becoming egotistical and power hungry.
After a power fight between Charlotte and the other girls over Nate when he attacks Lewis and tries to steal his boat, she stops collaborating with the girls, and starts practicing her powers her own way. At Lewis' birthday party, Charlotte locks Cleo and Emma inside her pool room by freezing the lock shut, and uses hydrokinesis to burst a pipe full of water all over the girls, transforming them into mermaids. Rikki manages to rescue Cleo and Emma by using her powers to free them. This leads Cleo and Emma to backlash against Charlotte, essentially ending their brief friendship. Charlotte in return tells Lewis that he is no longer allowed to talk to the girls, especially Cleo.
Charlotte decides to bully Cleo with her powers. "And you call yourself a mermaid, you're pathetic." Furthermore, Charlotte rips Cleo's locket off of her neck, feeling that it was rightfully hers, since it belonged to her grandmother. Cleo, who is extremely upset, after losing her locket and her friendship with Lewis, and additionally feeling that Lewis doesn't care even a little for her anymore, she runs off to the sea. When Lewis finds that Charlotte has bullied Cleo and stolen her locket, he is angered and finally breaks up with Charlotte for good and goes to find Cleo, ultimately resulting in Cleo and Lewis getting back together as a couple. Charlotte, now bitter and heartbroken, deals with her anger of being dumped by abusing her powers on the girls, after they attempted to warn her of the full moon. Charlotte arrogantly ignores them, after stating that she is the most powerful mermaid, even more powerful than all three of the girls combined, and proceeds to use her power of aerokinesis to push them into the air until Ash comes out, reluctantly forcing her to drop them.
Losing Her Tail[]
That night Charlotte intentionally walked outside and looked at the full moon, placing herself under a moonspell trance. On this night, the planets were all aligned with the full moon, which only occurs every fifty years. This occurrence can draw away the powers of any mermaid in the moon pool when the full moon passes over, forever. (This was how Gracie lost her powers, along with the other original mermaids, Louise and Julia). Charlotte, under the moon's spell, caused chaos at Emma's house by using her powers to try lure to out the girls to travel to Mako Island, with the trio being unable to retaliate since Ash was in the house, and additionally using Lewis as bait. Lewis, however, also tried setting up his own trap to remove Charlotte's powers from her by luring her to the moon pool. At the same time, Charlotte wanted to take away the girls powers so that she could be the most powerful mermaid ever, and so that she would be the only special one for Lewis.
Once luring Cleo, Emma and Rikki to the moon pool, the four mermaids engage each other in a fierce power battle, where Charlotte created a three-headed water elemental snake to attack the girls. However the girls destroy the snake with a powerful electric storm. In one final power fight, Charlotte gets overwhelmed by the girls' Combined Atmokinesis; the very power the girls obtained just before Charlotte arrived in town, and results in the most powerful mermaid being dropped into the moon pool, and stripping Charlotte of all of her powers, forever. Charlotte attempts to win Lewis back, or else explain her motivations behind becoming a mermaid for him (she said that all she wanted was for him to care for her), but, though Lewis understands her motivations, she is unsuccessful, and is forced by Lewis, to return Cleo's Locket, and in doing so, she indirectly promises to never tell anyone about mermaids. Since losing her tail, the locket, and Lewis, Charlotte is thought to have moved away in shame and despair, broken by her defeat.
Non-Appearances[]
Charlotte is completely absent from the show after Season 2 and was never seen or mentioned again.
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| "Stormy Weather" | "Control" | "The One That Got Away" | "Fire and Ice" | "Hocus Pocus" | "Pressure Cooker" | "In Hot Water" | "Wrong Side of the Tracks" | "Riding for a Fall" | "Missed the Boat" | "In Over Our Heads" | "Fish Fever" | "Moonwalker" |
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| "Get Off My Tail" | "Irresistible" | "Double Trouble" | "Moonstruck" | "The Heat Is On" | "The Gracie Code, Part One" | "The Gracie Code, Part Two" | "And Then There Were Four" | "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble" | "Reckless" | "Three's Company" | "Sea Change" | "Unfathomable" |
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| "The Awakening" | "Jungle Hunt" | "Keep Your Enemies Close" | "Valentine's Day" | "Big Ideas" | "Secrets & Lies" | "Happy Families" | "Kidnapped" | "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | "Revealed" | "Just a Girl at Heart" | "Crime & Punishment" | "To Have and To Hold Back" |
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| "Mermaid Magic" | "Power Play" | "The Dark Side" | "A Magnetic Attraction" | "Into the Light" | "Breakaway" | "Queen for a Day" | "The Jewel Thief" | "Mako Masters" | "Beach Party" | "Too Close for Comfort" | "A Date With Destiny" | "Graduation" |
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Physical appearance[]
Charlotte Watsford was a teenage girl by the events of Season 2, and was by this time she also became a mermaid. She is medium weight, and is tall in height. She has a rounder face structure but has a clear skin complexion with no blemishes. Her hair is mid length and reddish brown in color and she is seen wearing conservative clothing that are usually in different colors. Charlotte temporarily used to wear her grandmother's locket that she stole from Cleo, but at the end of Season 2 she gave it back to her after being forced to by Lewis. As a former mermaid, Charlotte's hair was let down and she had an orange-scaled tail with an orange-scaled top.
Former Powers and Abilities[]
Due to entering the Moon Pool alone, she was gifted with all the regular powers and most of the weather powers. Charlotte also mastered all of her powers and even the Moon Spell Control, much faster than Emma, Cleo and Rikki themselves. However, despite being a powerful mermaid, it was due to the girls' Combined Atmokinesis that they defeated Charlotte under the Moon of Fifty Years in the Moon Pool at Mako Island back in 2007. Despite this, they were almost overpowered by Charlotte herself and ended up permanently as human beings, just like Charlotte did.
- Hydrokinesis: The power to create, control and manipulate water or liquids in general. This is the first power that Charlotte discovers after becoming a mermaid. Charlotte also mastered of her Hydrokinesis, much faster and stronger than Cleo. Using her Hydrokinesis, Charlotte was able to molding water into giant three-headed snakes, showing impressive skill and strength which she possessed.
- Hydro-Thermokinesis: The power to heat and boil the water or liquids in general. She displayed this power for the first time while trying to dry herself.
- Hydro-Cryokinesis: The power to freeze water and liquids in general. She displayed this power on the same day as she discovered two other water-based powers. She froze a drink and even a tabletop, showing another aspect of Cryokinesis.
- Aerokinesis: The power to summon, control the wind and the air. Charlotte can also levitate objects and people, as she used her powers to lifts the girls up.
- Pyrokinesis: The power to create and put out fires at will. In "Three's Company", Lewis and Charlotte meet up at Mako Island, and she shows him her control of her fire powers. Charlotte has mastered of her Pyrokinesis much faster than Rikki.
- Cryokinesis: The power to freeze anything without the presence of liquid water and make it snow. Charlotte has mastered of her Cryokinesis much faster than Emma. It's also shown that she can explode ice.
- Moon Spell Control: An essential skill that every merperson has to learn to master properly, as it lets them survive the Full Moon's spell without letting it control them. After being turned into a mermaid, Charlotte mastered it by herself after only one Full Moon, due to being told earlier about it by Lewis, who back then was her boyfriend.
- Limited Transformation: All former humans that undergo metamorphosis possess this ability since their very first transformation. Charlotte can transform into a mermaid ten seconds after physical contact with water. She turns back into a human a few minutes after she is out of the water and when the water on her has fully dried. Once her body is completely dry, she turns back into a human along with the outfit she was wearing before the transformation.
- Speed-Swimming: The ability that all mermaids and mermen are shown to have. It's the ability to swim at an incredible speed, and as such, their bodies is encased in bubbles because of the incredible high speed. Charlotte has the ability to swim at a super speed, and dive at depths no human being is capable of, completely protected from its cold and water pressure.
- Enhanced Breath: Merpeople are able to hold their breath without any discomfort for at least fifteen minutes before needing to breathe, and will get unconscious if the time period extends over past those minute.
- Aquatic Adaptation: Depending on where they are born and raised, merpeople may be resistant to certain elements in that area.
- Enhanced Senses: Merpeople may have slightly enhanced senses suited to life underwater due to living in the sea. To sea born mermaids, land people smell horrible, even the average hygienic human emits this smell but only mermaids can detect it.
- Endurance: Merpeople are able to swim for days without exhaustion, something which no human has the stamina to do. They can also dive at depths no human could withstand.
- Amphibious: Merpeople's respiratory system can extract oxygen from both water and air, allowing them to breathe freely both underwater and on land.
- Enhanced lifespan: While merpeople do age, their lifespan is far longer than that of humans. It's unclear if this applies to human-turned merpeople as well, though it likely does, as they appear to be biologically identical to naturally born merpeople.
Weaknesses[]
Before her transformation, Charlotte had all the typical weaknesses of a human. When she transformed, she was susceptible to all the weaknesses of a human-turned-mermaid, like the temporary twelve-hours Lunar Eclipse, or the elemental-empowering Elemental Moon. Being bewitched by the dangerous, metamorphosis-reverting Moon of Fifty Years back in 2007, and having her bond and life-link with Mako's Moon Pool broken permanently, Charlotte regained all the weaknesses of a human.
Behind the Scenes[]
She was portrayed by actress Brittany Byrnes.
Trivia[]
- Charlotte is afraid of dolphins.
- Charlotte likes to paint and cook.
- She was in a Shakespeare's theatre club.
- When Charlotte used her powers, she mostly used an open palm.
- Charlotte's favorite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany's.
- She believed that Gracie's locket was supposed to be hers, but she (indirectly) gave it back to Cleo in the end.
- Charlotte believed herself to be a "Super Mermaid" because she had all merpeople powers, just like Evie McLaren had, and because of this Charlotte was seeing Cleo, Emma and Rikki inferior to her.
- She is similar to Evie in many ways:
- Both serve as the "fourth mermaid" of their respective series', separate from the main trios of mermaids, but associated with them in some form.
- Both become a mermaid in the second seasons of their respective series'.
- Both seem to live with a single parent (Evie with her father, Charlotte with her mother).
- Both appear to be an only child.
- Both serve as a love interest for the primary male character of their respective series' (Evie for Zac, Charlotte for Lewis).
- Both are involved in a romantic rivalry of sorts with another mermaid for the affections of their boyfriends (Evie with Lyla, Charlotte with Cleo).
- Both spend their initial seasons being continuously kept unaware of the existence of mermaids by their boyfriends (and with both growing increasingly suspicious of what's really going on as the seasons progress) before finding out towards the end of the season.
- Both have a strained relationship with the other mermaids at some stage.
- Both throw a surprise party for their boyfriends at some point (a regular pool party in Evie's case, and an actual birthday party in Charlotte's case).
- Both transform into a mermaid for the first time on-screen by falling (in Evie's case) or jumping (in Charlotte's case) off a pier in front of their respective boyfriends.
- Both levitate the other mermaids at some point (accidentally in Evie's case, purposefully in Charlotte's case).
- Both lose their powers in the Moon Pool, after following their love interests to Mako Island (Evie followed Zac against his will, whereas Charlotte was "lured" there by Lewis, despite already knowing what he was up to).
- Both, after losing their powers, symbolically relinquish an item of jewelry they acquired during their time as mermaids (Evie returns her Moon Ring to the Pod via Rita, while Charlotte returns Gracie's locket to Cleo via Lewis).
- The main differences between Charlotte & Evie:
- Unlike Charlotte, Evie doesn't become a antagonist, doesn't abuse her powers, and becomes friends with the other mermaids eventually.
- Also unlike Charlotte Evie became a mermaid by accident while trying to protect Zac from Mimmi & Ondina whereas Charlotte became a mermaid on purpose thinking she was meant to be one like her grandmother Gracie.
- Charlotte is not yet appeared in animated counterpart.
- It was currently unclear how Charlotte was able to develop elemental powers following her metamorphosis. It could be assumed that she transformed on the time of another rare and powerful planetary alignment that allowed her to develop these powers, but it was never confirmed.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Charlotte Watsford/Gallery