#✦ sayaka miki | the little mermaid

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[silvermoon424]

The PMMM girls repping fairy tales!

Madoka: Sleeping Beauty

Homura: Cinderella

Mami: Alice in Wonderland

Sayaka: The Little Mermaid

Kyoko: Snow White

Nagisa: Puss in Boots

[fairytale-poll]

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT POST!!!!!!!

The finals are over, so it's time to announce the winners for the Little Merpoll!

As always, thank you to everyone who participated! If you submitted characters and/or propaganda, if you reblogged the polls, even if you just voted, it was a pleasure having you! I've done fairytales poll before this & hope to continue for a while after this, and it's been a pleasure having you guys along for the ride!

Now, for our 5 winners.

The first winner to announce is the winner of the Mod's Choice poll! The Mod's choice poll is the "least important" of all the polls, as it has the least amount of contestants (this one had the last of any of the previous Mod's Choice polls) and are nominated simply based on which ones I like, but it holds a special place in my heart regardless.

This time, the winner was Sayaka Miki from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, who was also notable for being the runner-up for the Loser's Bracket. While I'm not as big of a fan of Madoka Magica as I used to be, I still love Sayaka, so it was delightful for her to do so well in the Mod's Choice poll & almost win the Loser's Bracket. Congratulations Sayaka and Sayaka fans!

But while Sayaka was the runner-up for the Loser's Bracket, she was not the actual Loser's Bracket winner. That honor goes to Mira from Dimension 20: Neverafter. While I haven't ever listened to Dimension 20, I was pretty about to see her take the win. After one Dimension 20 character won Red Riding Poll, no character from it ranked at all in Cinderpoll or in the main tournament for Little Merpoll, which is why I was glad to see Dimension 20 make a comeback for this Loser's Bracket. Mira's design is pretty cool, too, I love the pirate look. Congratulations for the win!

NOW, onto the MAIN TOURNAMENT WINNERS...

For our two bronze-place winners it's The Little Mermaid from the original Hans Christian Andersen fairytale & Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid 1989! To my surprise, it was actually the first time both the original fairytale and the Disney adaptation ranked! Honestly, these are some pretty good ones to rank, too. The original fairytale is a great read (and super short, so if anyone hasn't read it already, you should go do so) being both beautiful and poignantly tragic. Whereas the Disney adaptation holds up surprisingly well and is a beautiful piece of animation. Congratulations to these two bronze-place winners!

For the runner-up of the tournament is Bug from Starship by Team Starkid! I know that Team Starkid is very popular in certain parts of the Internet & the Starship itself did very well, but even then it felt like Bug was an underdog going up against giants like Disney, Studio Ghibli, and the original fairytale the tournament is based on, so I have to congratulate this guy for getting so far regardless! Good job, and I hope your fans are happy for you getting the silver!

Now, finally, the moment of truth-- the winner of the Little Merpoll, the certified best Little Mermaid as voted by Tumblr--

CONGRATULATIONS TO PONYO FROM STUDIO GHIBLI'S PONYO!

I watched this movie for the first time during the course of the tournament and it is truly a breathtaking marvel of animation, one of the best visuals I've ever seen for a movie ever. I will quote the propaganda submitted for Ponyo and say this little ham-loving girl deserved the win simply for the fact that there is no force more powerful than 5-year-old girls!!!

Our next tournament will be Best/Worst Modern Fairytale Adaptations. I'll open submissions up after a short hiatus, as I am in midst finals & will be graduating soon, which will take up most of my time in the next 2 weeks. See you for the next tournament at the end of May!

[aspiritdrawings]

About 1 year ago i made a fanfic of 'the little mermaid' as Madoka Magica. Sayaka was Ariel, Kyousuke was the prince, Madoka was one of the other mermaids, Hitomi was the woman the prince would marry instead **NOT URSULA**, Kyubey is Ursula, and Kyouko would be a pirate doomed to die with Sayaka.

And i was thinking...

...What if i rewrite it? I still love the idea, and Sayaka is my number 1 kin and one of my fav characters ever, so i was thinking that maybe i should give it a revamp!

[incub8r]

@hogarsis made a contract ( unprompted ! ) :

“ that’s a pretty big important factor to leave out for any of us! you deceived not only me but both tomoe-san, and madoka for your own gain!”

" OH, BUT I DIDN'T deceive you, miki sayaka. " incubator replies skillfully, avoiding any malice targeted at him with ease. " you simply never asked for details about the soul gems until now. honestly, kaname madoka is the first person to ever ask about it directly. " with the agility && grace of a cat, kyubey leaps onto sayaka's shoulder without a care in the world.

" do you honestly believe that it's easier to keep your soul inside of your body? i beg to differ. it's more convenient && efficient to carry it around inside of a separate container so that you don't die as easily. tomoe mami only died from that witch attack because she kept her soul in such a vulnerable place. it's only natural that something would happen. " he hops back down, choosing to curl his tail around sayaka's feet instead. " my actions are not malicious, miki sayaka. they are simply more logical, without complications such as emotions getting in the way of things or causing biases in the data. "

[screechingmusicstarfish]

I agree honestly

Who did it better?

I’m personally going with Sayaka 🤣. The little mermaid who can throw hands.

[every-character-ever-poll]

SAYAKA MIKI - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

PROPAGANDA:

(MAJOR SPOILER FOR MADOKA MAGICA) Girl of all time. Bisexual and helped me realize I was bi. Queen of teenage martyr complex. Her character arc and story is a big The Little Mermaid (the og story) reference. She goes through a fallen hero arc at age 14. Blue girl who goes enemies-to-lovers with red girl. Doomed by the narrative. Underappreciated by fans. Fucked over by circumstance and her own nature. She's got a sword and has a music motif. Agrees to come back from the dead so that she can see red girl again. She has her own tragic gay ending theme and it's really beautiful (And I'm Home).

[hubristicassholefight]

Swordswoman Showdown Round 1 Part 3

Hornet (Hollow Knight) vs Sayaka Miki (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Propaganda below cut

Hornet

Technically its not a sword but she wields a needle in a setting where swords do not exist and she wields it in an exceedingly swordlike fashion so. She counts; Girlboss demigoddess spider lady. She's been protecting an entire kingdom for longer than many of the other characters have been alive. She systematically kills her siblings for being too weak. She's simply the best.

Sayaka

She can magically summon many swords; Becomes a cool witch

Her magical girl-assigned weapon that she uses to combat and slay witches; She's got a knight theme, a little mermaid inspired second (evil!) form and literally 2 of the best musical scores of the whole show IMO. Also, I juat think she's neat

Tragic cutlass wielder. Can summon tons of them. Devastating battle scene where she loses all hope. Pls vote for her she’s so sad.

A magical girl who can summon just. a ridiculous amount of swords.

Shes uses a sword when transformed as a magical girl, and she can summon a bunch of other swords too

She wields a cutlass and while she's not necessarily technically proficient with it, her ability to cut herself off from the sense of pain combined with the strong regenerative magic she was granted as a side-effect of her wish, she has an almost berserker-like fighting style which is dangerous but nevertheless effective; She's super tomboyish but incredibly sweet and self-sacrificing. She'd give up everything for her friends (and, unfortunately, does). Unfortunately this leads to her feeling unappreciated and unrecognized. She deserves everything <3

Magical girl with sword. Good at dying

[catgirl-catboy]

Being based off the story of the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen makes Sayaka Miki queer coded, in this essay I will-

[cynnexis-multi-drone]

So anyways its 4:14 am i need to infodump and you are my victim

Madoka Magica Spoilers oopsie

Ok so Sayaka miki’s whole design

A major part of her motivation to be a magical girl is because she views it as if they were heroes in comics. So when she does inevitably become one, that ideal is mimicked in her design.

It still has some traditional magical girl designing, like the heels, short skirt, and frills, but it does tie into the hero idea with her white cape and armor and her weapon being a sword

As for the armor, there are 2 points to it. There isn’t much armor which ties into how unprepared she actually is when it comes to being a magical girl, but it also aids in showing her regenerative abilities.

And we see that more during her fight with Elsa Maria because she lets her body get destroyed and just heals it up.

Going into it even more, her hair clip is based on the design of music notes which is a major part of her entire character (I mean, her witch labyrinth is literally a theater)

Her soul gem is also a crescent moon which ties into the whole ‘hero in secret’ (since they work at night), as well as the timing of her becoming a witch

Speaking of that, it’s sad that every timelins, shs is doomed. Whether she pursues Kyosuke or not, she will come to regret her wish and fall to despair

Going further into her witch design, it’s actually hinted at a bit when Kyoko and Madoka are talking about saving her

It’s like a sorta wind chime we see for a bit of a mermaid and a horse

Sayaka’s witch form is a mermaid in armor. Once again, playing into the ‘hero’ idea, but the mermaid. Ohhh the mermaid.

It both ties into the little mermaid story and classic stories of women with fish tails.

A girl who sacrifices a part of herself for love

And a creature that lures people in to kill them

And that is indeed what happens, when Madoka and Kyoko decide to save Sayaka, Kyoko ends up giving her life so Sayaka wouldn’t die alone. And that loneliness is a part of Sayaka’s character. In her mind, she’s the only proper magical girl. She thinks Homura is cold and selfish and she thinks kyoko is violent and brash and selfish. And Madoka isn’t a magical girl.

Going back to the mermaid and horse scene, that’s Sayaka and Kyoko.

Sayaka is obviously the mermaid, and Kyoko is the horse. And we know Kyoko is the horse because in several things, her witch form is portrayed with horse-like aspects.

As for the design of her witch labyrinth, it fits too. Because music was so important to her. Her wish was for Kyosuke’s hand to heal so she could hear him play the violin again, and we see that reflected in her labyrinth. After all, the entire thing is a giant theater, with minions playing the violin and her on center stage.

Sayaka’s story is tragic but oh so beautiful

I apologize for my info dumping I will do it again soon on another madoka character

0h g0d pl3az3 n0AAAGGHHHHH /j

cynnexis got buried by the infodump /j

[puppetgearing]

yknow i could go on and on about sayaka miki (my daughter) but im mulling over the fact that sayaka and madoka in turn are similar to each other in a way

spoiler for madoka magica the og series btw

they both made a selfless wish, they both would sacrifice themselves to make other people happy-- but they're also at the end of the spectrum of each other

and by that i mean sayaka made a selfless wish with selfish intention-- she wanted to be noticed by kyosuke, to have his love or to be seen as his savior-- which is the reason her fate is sealed from the start, because she's trading her life and practically herself for something she will never be able to gain and i think kyoko really solidified her worries-- because she made the same mistake. her despair comes from the desire to be noticed and acknowledgement and knowing it will never come cause she can't even tell him she's the one who cured his illness and, as much as she tried to deny and gaslit herself into thinking so, that she's doing a good cause by not revealing it, creating a dilemma of wanting to be noticed but has no voice to speak on it. very fitting as her whole story is based on the little mermaid.

while madoka made a selfless wish because she herself is selfless, madoka's final wish was to save all magical girl knowing she'd never be able to see her family again-- and she was contended with it if it means magical girls dont have to suffer anymore, because she already had a fulfilling life and is willing to share that with others, she become a god because despair to her is null-- qhe has no regret knowing what she's doing is for the best, therefore she's strong enough to take all despair from other magical girls as she herself essentially doesn't have her own.

i just think that's neat tbh

[magicalgirltransformation-tourny]

These are the characters I have in the running so far! Most of these were found on lists of magical girl transformations, so if there are any that you feel shouldn’t be here and you have a solid argument against, please let me know. And again, I’m still open to more suggestions!

Luz Noceda/Titan Luz (The Owl House)

Eda Clawthorne/Harpy Eda (The Owl House)

Adora/She-Ra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Mara/She-Ra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Connie/Stevonnie (Steven Universe)

Kipo Oak/Mega Jaguar (Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts)

Serena Tsukino/Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Anne Boonchuey/Calamity Anne (Amphibia)

Star Butterfly/Butterfly Form (Star vs. The Forces of Evil)

Usami/Monomi (Danganronpa)

Kirara Amanogawa/Cure Twinkle (Pretty Cure)

Minto Aizawa/Mew Mew Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Yuuki Yuuna/Hero Form (Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero)

Meimi Haneoka/Saint Tail (Saint Tail)

Lucia Nanami/Mermaid Form (Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch)

Karin Hanazono/Athena (Kamichama Karin)

Zoe Orimoto/Zephyrmon (Digimon Frontier)

Sayaka Miki/Magical Girl (Madoka Magica)

Elina/Rainbow Fairy (Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow)

Cassandra/Moonstone Cassandra (Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure)

Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (The Incredible Hulk

Cleo Sertori/Mermaid Form (H2O Just Add Water)

Rikki Chadwick/Mermaid Form (H2O Just Add Water)

Bloom/Fairy Form (Winx Club)

Power/Blood Devil (Chainsaw Man)

Dani Fenton/Dani Phantom (Danny Phantom)

Mermista/Mermaid Form (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Utena Tenjou/Car Utena (Adolescence of Utena)

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa/Demon Weapon (Soul Eater)

Korra/Astral Form (Legend of Korra)

Ariel/Human Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

Ursula/Vanessa (The Little Mermaid)

I will be taking suggestions up through April 23rd or until I get 1 more characters to fill a 32 player bracket!

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1B, MATCH 6 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Sayaka:

It's a clever play on the story where, rather than the littlest becoming human for love and a soul, instead she becomes a mermaid after loosing both, even gaining the bittersweet ending of having a chance at heaven but she still needs to do good after death

i was surprised to learn that sayaka's story is based on the little mermaid, but it makes more sense the more i think about it. such a heartbreaking, tragic tale that i get emotional ocer every time.

A lot of Madoka Magica fans believe she is based off of the original Little Mermaid story cuz, just like the original Little Mermaid, Sayaka loved a boy and said boy did not reciprocate. SPOILERS, she makes a contract with Kyubey to become a magical girl and in return her wish was to help Kyosuke (the guy she likes) who was disabled. Later on when she becomes a witch cuz she felt she wasn't good enough for Kyosuke and doesn't tell him about her feelings, her witch form is a mermaid. I suck at explaining but I hope my propaganda helps 🙏

(Major spoilers for madoka magical)Okay so I will admit her allusion to the little mermaid ain't super obvious, but let me explain, she is based on the original story for the little mermaid, she makes a wish for the sake of a boy she loves basically sacrificing her soul, well he ends up in love with another girl, and as a result she ends up going on a downward spiral and transforms into a monster known as a witch, her witch form is a mermaid.

Even though she's not a mermaid outside her witch form, her story is made to be a direct parallel to the self-sacrificial nature of the little mermaid, even letting herself die. This isn't the end tho because in one of the happier endings of the little mermaid she still becomes sea foam/dies but she also has a chance at becoming a sea spirit and helps others, this is very similar to Sayaka's final fate in the anime where after Madoka rewrites the universe Sayaka still gets corrupted/dies but instead of becoming a witch, she becomes apart of the law of cycles and helps Madoka save other magical girls. There are way to many similarities to her story and the little mermaid for it to just be coincidence imo.

Poor girl is stuck in a craptastic world where horrible monsters kill you, the only way to fight back is to become a zombie child soldier killing what remains of your own kind for survival, the wish you made will inevitably blow up in your face because the person granting it is a jackass, and the writer is hellbent on shitting on the girl power ethos of the magical girl genre by making it so that girls suffer and die for trying to achieve reasonable desires like "not starving to death" and attaining agency in their lives dooms you even harder because of womanly emotions. She needs a win. Also, she is explicitly paralleled with The Little Mermaid--she is a tragic figure who makes a deal to help the boy she loves in exchange for putting her life on a ticking clock, only to be passed up in favor of another girl. As a result, she dies and becomes something else--in this case, Oktavia von Seckendorff, "the mermaid witch."

Ponyo:

determined 5yo girls are more powerful than god

PONYO!!!!

As a child i did not even realize this was a little merm adaptation, but it really reads. She is sooo strange and other worldly and the movie absolutely captures that dreamlike fairy tale vibe

Ponyo a roughly five-year-old magical goldfish who can transform into a frog-type thing and a human girl. She's the eldest daughter of the literal goddess of the sea and a former human sailor given immortality. She falls in love with the five-year-old boy who cares for her and is thrilled to explore his ordinary yet magical world. She's bouncy, exuberant, and joyful. She loves ham. She doesn't have to give up her voice.

ponyo ponyo ponyo little fishie in the sea!

Little fishy

THEY LOVE HAM

[pyreflydust]

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[tothepointofinsanity]

Sleepy stream of consciousness writing I did yesterday for anyone who wants to read the text in the last picture in a legible format:

You are a secretary for God. Sayaka Miki has a graceful pair of new shoes to fill after shelving up her previous ones. Hardware renewed for a persistent, limerent virus in this computer. The world is spam when you are wired to the Law of Cycles. Can you keep your eyes ahead? Staring at your feet won’t accordingly shrink the role you accepted, and you think too much about yourself being cursed with your old form simply by treading concrete lime and meeting with Miss Devil. The mermaid bubbles and plays a scene of a drowning girl - you - in your head. She mimics your quiet bubble of anger, inside out, and your hands curl with ire to the wave of her swaying tail. You are her mistress, and the witch betrays little opposition to endorsing your gritting mood. Beneath the sunscreen and cream cuffs, your scales itch, and your heart isn’t where it should be. Not that it has ever been in the right place if everyone thinks drawing strength from your heart is wrong. You tossed it away, but you wouldn’t be surprised if that person brought it back up onto the table, she probably finds it cute, cuckoo over the nest that she is, or however unpleasant the people would put it, and perform that secretive smile as she gifts you your own heart back in a red box. Maybe with a purple ribbon on it, too, so you’d never have the grace of mistaking it as a present from Mami, who had the elegance of gold, nor Madoka, who reshaped the world in a pink, thornless rose.

This and that, pointless mental councils that don’t get you far if you rely on the gurgling of your idle witch. You sat in front of the Devil, white chair grating against the pebbled road, and you were grateful, though never verbally to her, for the lovely umbrella extended on the side which shaded you from the piercing sun. This sentiment is adjacent to courtesy more than anything as you consider that the sun in this pocket world is also fake. It feels warm, it burns you, but the real sun would make you chase for a bathtub to soak yourself in every other hour under it. You wave your hand dismissively. Authenticity is overrated, but you are a knight. What else in this world could be fabricated if the sun itself does not even feel proper? So, you’ve decided to come, the Devil says, clapping her hands together, and there’s suddenly a smoking, gilded tea cup in front of you. You subtly jut your chin out, and it’s affirmed by your senses that it’s chamomile. Whether you could even trust your senses, you refused to indulge the strain on. However, you don’t need to open your mouth to explain that you won’t be drinking or eating any pastries provided from her devilship as her eyes narrowed in that omniscient confidence, and you just continued staring at her. She goes on to say something about how peaceful things have been, then to something about Madoka, and then she stopped herself only when one of her children flung a tomato at her hair.

You didn’t feel amused, rather, the tell of sympathy returns heavy on your tongue. You would speak if she let up her spiral gaze, but it seemed you would not be doing that anytime soon. Miss Devil pranced onwards and onwards on different topics ranging from the potential restrategising of the incubators, the boring academic curriculum, how her dolls are a handful at times…and in the back of your head, as you laid there like a prop skeleton she dug up and sat on the seat herself, you wondered if she was incredibly lonely, that she was no longer content with conversing over the shivering lump of an incubator, and so she invited you here to listen, or at least, watch her talk. Your stubbornness and her eccentric mannerisms have closed off any potential understanding you would have for her, though, and you only continued staring, waiting, glaring for her to conclude.

Today, the Devil concludes with a slow sip of her tea, and flits her eyes to your own. She’s smiling, an expression barely concealed by the petals of the cup she raised to her face, and you drummed your fingers on the glass. Your breath returned to you, and you immediately told her you haven’t the foggiest idea what she had been prattling about, but you were not interested in it in any case. This was the third time she had invited you to tea, and you were never one to turn down social invitations, much less one as posh and sacred as tea, but this was the same procedure as the last time, and then the one before that, and the transfer student you came to be cautious of just repeatedly stroked the back of her palm, studying you.

With this scrutiny, you could do nothing more but do as you would under her influence - sit and wait. Ah! You were almost close to breaking yourself out of her spell by smashing the porcelain tea cup over your own head.

Out of Character.

[sayakube]

art by zyyyyjune

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