Gracie was one of the three original mermaids in 1955.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Gracie was born in early 1940s to unnamed human parents. At some point during or after her childhood, she met and quickly became best-friends with two other girls named Louise and Julia. Gracie was known to attend an unknown high school with them during her teenage years back in the 1950s, and it is very likely that she met Max Hamilton while there or even before. Even after becoming a mermaid, Gracie did modeling and was an amateur beachwear model, as well a fashionable young lady with her own creative fashion statement, as she would never wear women's popular trends or jewelry back in the '50s or in her later life.
Becoming a mermaid[]
In 1955, Gracie was hanging out with her best-friends Louise and Julia, until they decided to pay a visit to Mako Island. When already there, they found themselves at its heart and discovered a Moon Pool. As it was a Full Moon night, Gracie and both her best-friends stayed on it, going through metamorphosis.
Later, by being exposed to water, Gracie sprouted her mermaid tail and confirmed with her two best-friends that she wasn't the only one. It is very likely that was around this time she discovered her only, yet unknown special power over water.
Life as a mermaid[]
When she first transformed, it seemed that she loved it, until her boyfriend Max Hamilton, began experimenting on them, much like Lewis. Soon after, she began to grow tired of being experimented on, and wanted to be an ordinary girl again, and she started pushing Max away, and even threw away the locket that he had made especially for her.
After the Moon of Fifty Years[]
In 1957, two years after Gracie and her two best-friends' own transformation into mermaids, she was at Mako Island, and noticed that the moon pool began, to bubble. Somehow she knew that this special 50 years moon would take away a mermaid's powers forever. Wanting to be normal again, she jumped in, and gave up her powers. Gracie ended her relationship with Max and separated from her friends. She married an unknown man and had a daughter named Annette.
Later life[]
As stated by her daughter, Gracie was more of a "free spirit" as she would only wear handcrafted jewelry and would never wear what everyone else was wearing. Gracie would take care of her granddaughter Charlotte and tell her stories about the sea. Many years later, Charlotte tells Lewis how Gracie died when she was six years old, and she also said that she cried for months after the death of her grandmother in late 1990s. Gracie was the original owner of the Blue Locket until she dropped it into the Moon Pool back in 1957, which was found by another mermaid, Emma Gilbert, nearly fifty years later.
Mermaid Powers[]
Due to entering the Mako Island's Moon Pool with her two ex-best-friends Julia and Louise Chatham, Gracie was only gifted with one unspecified power over water, and didn't receive all merpeople powers like a person who enters the Moon Pool alone. Gracie retained her special, individual power over water, although it is unknown what kind it was, or which she, Julia and Louise received back in the '50s as teenage girls, before Gracie willingly removed her mermaid self and magical power under the Moon of Fifty Years back in 1957.
It was once implied by Louise's extensive knowledge, that she, Gracie, and Julia once underwent the Lunar Eclipse in Mako's Moon Pool themselves, before Gracie permanently gave up her mermaid self and magical power back in 1957, for Louise to be aware of the Eclipse's effect on a bewitched merperson.
- Unknown Power: It is unknown what kind of water-related regular power Gracie possessed before giving it up under the Moon of Fifty Years, although she is strongly implied to have possessed the power of Hydrokinesis. It is also unknown whether she ever enhanced her power under the Elemental Moon, and received her elemental power of Aerokinesis or not, before the Moon of Fifty Years.
Weaknesses[]
Prior to her transformation, Gracie had all the typical weaknesses of a human. When she transformed, she was susceptible to all the typical 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 1957, and having her bond with Mako's Moon Pool broken permanently, Gracie had regained all her former human weaknesses until her death.
Relationships[]
Max Hamilton[]
Max was Gracie's boyfriend when they were teenagers in the 1950s. They were just "good friends" at first, and Gracie didn't like keeping the mermaid secret from him. She was "relieved" when he finally found out, and the two soon began dating. They were meant for each-other, just as Cleo and Lewis are. Max wanted to help Gracie "embrace what she had become" but unintentionally made her hate her newfound abilities by experimenting on her. He made her and the other girls their lockets as a last resort, but their relationship faltered. Gracie broke up with him and lost her mermaid powers, she then later married somebody else and had her daughter.
Julia[]
Julia and Gracie were best-friends in the 1950s. They had a small fall out when Julia was dating Karl, but became friends again. They ended up their friendship back in 1957 when Gracie gave up her powers and abilities.
Louise Chatham[]
Louise and Gracie were best-friends in the 1950s. Despite both of them had willingly lost their powers and abilities together back in 1957, they ended up their friendship.
Physical Appearance[]
Gracie was an incredibly gorgeous teenage girl of average height and slim figure. She had pale skin, slim nose, full pink lips with red lipstick, radiant smile, and shoulder length wavy black hair worn in different styles such as ponytails, buns or loose in natural waves. Her wardrobe is girly and colorful with long dresses, colorful shirts and cardigans and long skirts with socks and shoes. Her bathing suit was yellow and wore the locket with the sapphire gem.
Behind the scenes[]
She was portrayed by actress Ashleigh Brewer.
Name[]
- Gracie is an English name and the meaning is "grace of God". It is an alternative form of Grace.
Trivia[]
- Gracie's last name was not revealed in the series.
- Gracie is the first original mermaid to die, the second being Julia.
- As an adult, she would only wear handcrafted jewelry, probably influenced by the locket that Max made especially for her. Which could imply that, even after their breakup, she still loved him.
- Gracie's handcrafted's blue-stonned locket might indicate that she received the power of Hydrokinesis following her Metamorphosis in 1955. The same Cleo Sertori got in 2006, and Gracie's own granddaughter Charlotte Watsford the next year, following both Metamorphosis too. However, when she wanted her human life back above anything else, she dropped it in at Mako's Moon Pool shortly before losing her abilities under a Moon of Fifty Years back in 1957.
- Even before and after becoming a mermaid, Gracie was among 50's era Gold Coast's best artists: she drew many pictures of Mako Island with incredible accuracy, drew the Moon Pool and a picture of Max, who was her boyfriend and knew of her true identity back then and kept it a secret for decades. Fifty years later, her granddaughter Charlotte Watsford were on the same path as her, as she was Rosewood Secondary College's best student in Arts. Even when she moved away to South Coast High School, she kept drawing and painting beach scenery and sea birds such as gulls.
- Gracie possibly passed away in late 1990's, when her granddaughter were six.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Gracie/Gallery