Mermaid Queen (人魚の女王?), also known as Melusine Muses Mnemosyne ( メルジーヌ・ミューゼス・ムネモシュネ?), is the queen of Grand Ocean from Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure.
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Mermaid Queen has long turquoise colored hair that reaches her tail, with her crown holding up some of her hair into a giant bun, decorated with white pearls, with two long streaks of her hair stuck out and has a blue ombre at the end. Her dress is white with pale blue accents, and a yellow trim at the end of her sleeves. On her chest is a dark blue gem. Her tail is pink and lilac.
Personality[]
Mermaid Queen is a kindhearted and gentle individual who trusts her people, especially Laura. However, she does make questionable decisions, and does not appear to have any courage to overthrow injustice and unfairness.
Relationships[]
- Laura: Her chosen candidate to inherit her throne. She cares deeply for Laura and sees her as one of her children.
- Kururun: Her pet. She is gentle towards them and likes to give them pats.
Etymology[]
Melusine: Melusine is a female water spirit in European folklore, and is sometimes depicted as a mermaid.
Muses: The name derives from the Greek goddesses of the arts, literature, and science.
Mnemosyne: is the Greek Titaness of memory, whose name is derived from the Greek word for memory "mnēmē (μνήμη)". She is also the mother of the Muses.
History[]
After the Witch of Delays takes her kingdom's Motivation Power, the Mermaid Queen sends Laura to the human world with a Tropical Pact to find a human who has the ability to transform into a Pretty Cure.TRPC01
Later, the Mermaid Queen meets up with Laura, and praises her for successfully finding the Pretty Cure. She is also pleased to know that Laura has decided to stay on the surface longer to help her human friends. She gives Laura an old petrified pact that eventually turns into Laura's Mermaid Aqua Pact.TRPC17
When the Cures seemingly receive an invitation from the Mermaid Queen to the Grand Ocean, they think it is for a celebration, but thanks to Kururun, it was revealed to be a trap set up by the Witch's servants using her illusion magic, with Numeri impersonating her. They kidnapped the actual queen and left her in a room with a machine that erases memories. After discovering the truth, the Cures try to rescue her, but are stopped by a powerful Chou Zettai Yaraneeda and were washed away by water rushing in from the top of the breaking dome over the Grand Ocean.TRPC36
After the Cures rescued the Mermaid Queen, she reveals to them that the Witch of Delays' prime objective is to steal everyone's motivation to fill up the Fool's Casket, which would grant her immortality and bring about an eternity of delays. Laura then questions her about why she doesn't remember meeting Manatsu when she was younger, and the queen reveals that she had Laura's memories erased because the Mermaid Kingdom's law prohibits mermaids from knowing anything about humans. She also says that eventually Laura's memories with the other girls will have to be erased as well, even if she were to become queen. Later, the legendary Pretty Cure appears in a mirror the queen was viewing, and she was surprised to see was still alive, with the Cure saying she wants to find the witch's lost heart.TRPC37
When Laura revisits Grand Ocean to ask the Mermaid Queen on repairing the broken Aqua Pot, the Queen learns about La Mer for the first time. She then tells La Mer that after Cure Oasis defeated the Witch, there were centuries of peace, until a new villain tried to free the Fool's Casket and got a cup of the Motivation Power. In hopes of sealing the Casket, the young Melusine tried to become a Cure herself with the Mermaid Aqua Pact, but it did not respond, so she was only able to retrieve the cup from the villain, which confirms that she was the mermaid the old lady at Minamino Island told her about. However, she believes that her memories about the island might have been erased despite not seeing any human herself, and also thinks that La Mer has to follow the law. She also tells La Mer that Oasis came before her and told her about the past, finally divulging Oasis's secret to La Mer.TRPC43
She appears before the Cures when Butler finishes offering all of his own Motivation Power to the Fool's Casket, giving La Mer the repaired Mermaid Aqua Pot, before urging the Cures and the three servants to hide in Grand Ocean when the trench is collapsing. She then thanks the Cures for saving the world and returning the Motivation Power, before returning to the ocean. That night, she informs Laura that she will be relocating Grand Ocean to another part of the ocean, and while she praises Laura's efforts, she also adds that if Laura wants to stay with her human friends she will respect her wish. TRPC45
The Mermaid Queen is last seen permitting Laura to visit the human world. She appears to have regained her memories after the Mermaid Aqua Pot overloads the memory erasing machine, and later starts learning about humans with the other mermaids.TRPC46
Trivia[]
- It is confirmed by character designer Nakatani Yukiko in a February interview that the Mermaid Queen, along with the Witch of Delays, are centuries old, in which she mentioned that she was explicitly told by the director that their large sizes were indicative of their age.
- Episode 37 revealed that her full name is Melusine Muses Mnemosyne.
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