Here is a brief summary of the story:
The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with
her father (the sea king or mer-king), her dowager grandmother, and her five
older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. When a mermaid turns
15, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the
world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the
upper world one at a time every year. As each returns, the Little Mermaid
listens longingly to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human
beings.
When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she rises up to the
surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a
handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. A violent
storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers
him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, she waits until a young girl
from the temple and her companions find him. To her dismay, the prince never
sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally
saved his life.
The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and asks her
grandmother if humans can live forever and if they can breathe under water. The
grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than merfolks'
300 years, but that when mermaids die, they turn to sea foam and cease to
exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven. The Little
Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, eventually visits the Sea
Witch in a dangerous section of the ocean. The witch willingly helps her by
selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her tongue (as the
Little Mermaid has the most enchanting and beautiful voice in the world). The
Sea Witch warns that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return
to the sea. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being
passed through her body, yet when she recovers, she will have two human legs
and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, she
will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives and as though her
toes are bleeding. In addition, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the
love of the prince and marries him, for then a part of his soul will flow into
her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries another woman, the
Little Mermaid will die brokenhearted and disintegrate into sea foam upon the
waves.
The Little Mermaid agrees to this arrangement, and the
Sea Witch cuts off her tongue. The Little Mermaid swims to the surface near the
palace of the prince and drinks the potion. She is found by the prince, who is
mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though she is considered by everyone
in the kingdom as dumb and mute. Most of all, he likes to see her dance, and
she dances for him despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon,
the Little Mermaid becomes the prince's favorite companion and accompanies him
on many of his outings. When the prince's parents order their son to marry the
neighboring princess in an arranged marriage, the prince tells the Little
Mermaid he will not because he does not love the princess. He goes on to say he
can only love the young woman from the temple, who he believes rescued him. It
turns out that the princess from the neighboring kingdom is the temple girl,
sent there only temporarily to be educated. The prince loves her, and the royal
wedding is announced at once.
The prince and princess celebrate on a wedding ship, and
the Little Mermaid's heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed
and of all the pain she has endured. She despairs, thinking of the death that
awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a
dagger that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful
hair. If the Little Mermaid slays the prince with the dagger and lets his blood
drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all her suffering will
end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family.
However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill
the sleeping prince lying with his new bride, and she throws the dagger and
herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves
into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and
discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a
daughter of the air. As the Little Mermaid ascends into the atmosphere, she is
greeted by other daughters who tell her she has become like them because she
strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. Because of her
selflessness, she will be given the chance to earn her own soul by doing good
deeds to mankind for 300 years and will one day rise up into the Kingdom of
God.
So my version of the Little Mermaid is the Little Mermaid did in fact use the knife and kill the Prince. She is more warrior mermaid verse flippy dippy singing all the songs with long red hair mermaid.
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| The makeup is intimidating to me already... |
As you can see, I will have a mermaid tail skirt. I didn't get the typical mermaid scale fabric, instead I got something I bit more reptilian which I feel gives it a nice edge. Then I will use my old black satin corset and use the fish netting at one might use a leather strap or belt. The pauldron will be crafted from craft form and then shells will be added to it to act as my armor. I will be constructing some mermaid fin ear cuffs to add to my other worldliness as well as making gauntlets that have a webbing effect between my fingers. Lastly, I will hopefully have enough time to create a red coral knife.
After this is started, I will need to get to work on Pigeon's costume, the stabbed and drowned prince.
Until next time, craft it up!
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