#h2o anon

[godmademewithoutarms]

Does this make sense to anyone other than me

[charlotterenaissance]

im so sorry if this is rude, (or alr asked&answered), but may i ask why you are so team charlotte? dont get me wrong, i felt for her for most of the season, but i cant get over how she treated lewis and the girls after she became a mermaid. how can you support her after that? /gen

Not rude at all, anon! This was a really kind ask, I appreciate it 🥰

This is kind of a complicated answer, and this ended up being an essay, so for the sake of everyone’s dashes, I’ll put this under a cut.

I’d like to preface this with that these are just my opinions and how I view the show and how it comes across to me. I never hold it against anyone if they don’t like Charlotte for any reason. This is just my perception of the show and the characters.

Back in 2012, I did a rewatch of the show because I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid. I don’t remember how I felt about much of the show or even Charlotte in particular, I was more focused on how pretty the scenery was and the mermaidness of it all. But I hadn’t seen it in a while, I was about to graduate high school, and I was feeling nostalgic, so I decided to give it a another watch. I’d say it was around there that I started to notice some things that… didn’t quite sit right with me.

Now, I’m not ashamed to admit that a lot of my sympathy for Charlotte comes from the fact that I’ve been in her situation a lot: the one where you like someone and they don’t quite like you back the same way, but you’re too head over heels to care, and you’re willing to hurt yourself for the illusion. That’s where it started, but then I started looking at the season as a whole, with more of a storytelling eye.

I would like to preface this next part with a slight correction: I’m a Charlotte supporter, but I try not to make excuses for the more unforgivable things she does. She shouldn’t have bullied Cleo to the point she ran away, she shouldn’t have locked Emma and Cleo in the closet during the party, or stolen Lewis’s phone, to name a few things. Those are bad things she did, I’m not denying that or trying to handwave it away. However, I don’t consider her a villain or an abusive monster that most tend to. I approach the character of Charlotte Watsford by seeing the situation from her point of view, and realizing that what she does? It’s not dissimilar to what the other characters do, the only difference is that we give them the benefit of the doubt, or see things from their point of view, or realize that they’re teenagers, of course they’re not going to be making the best decisions.

And Charlotte Watsford does not get the same courtesy. No one seems to remember that this was a normal sixteen-year-old girl who didn’t have a clue about magic or mermaids, who fell a little too hard for a boy she didn’t pursue until she had the permission of his ex, who wanted to be the girls’ friend when she found out about the secret and was met with scorn and derision until she finally decided not to take it anymore. Did she make the wrong decisions? Yes. Did she do bad things? Yes. But her character goes deeper than that.

Anyone’s who’s followed me for a while knows that I will rant and rave about the Narrative of the show and that it seems to actively hate Charlotte while supporting the main characters. Why shouldn’t it? After all, Charlotte’s the designated antagonist of the season, of course we’re not going to like her. But what is it about her that incurs more rage than Dr. Denman, who just last season held four teenagers hostage for the sole reason of using one as leverage to make the other three let her experiment on them, or Sophie, who committed eco-terrorism and blew up a volcano after spending a season of scamming and lying to people? I really, really want to go with the answer that Charlotte is more rounded than any of the other “villains,” that Brittany Byrnes’ performance is just that memorable, that maybe it’s her connection to the other characters that makes her stick out more than anyone else. But while I think those are absolutely valid answers, I think there’s a little more to it. There’s something so malicious about the way the narrative treats her that’s hard to put a finger on, and it’s why I think she’s deserving of support and is more than the one-dimensional, man-stealing character that she gets stripped to, the kind of character that leads the actress to get hate mail to this day.

Charlotte does many bad things, I’m not denying it. She gets petty, she gets vindictive, she bullies the other girls from time to time. She lies and steals things. But one of the reasons I support her? It’s because so do the other characters, they just have the support of the narrative.

For example, in the first season, Zane stalks an old woman because he wants to know about some treasure that she says has and causes her to have a heart attack when he chases after her, and then, when Emma and Lewis show up and try to get her to help, he elects to stay behind and rob her houseboat while it sinks. He’s a bully to the girls whose prank on Cleo is the catalyst for the show. We explore his bad home life and his relationship with his abusive dad, and he gets to have a redemption arc and becomes a love interest for Rikki. Nate, his best friend, is constantly being gross and boundary-crossing to any girl on screen, physically attacks Lewis on more than one occasion, and is just a general creep, and no one barely says anything about it. Miriam is a semi-generic mean girl who barely does anything but get in the way occasionally. And these are just the side characters!

(I’m also tempted to explore how the male characters are sympathetic and get redemption arcs or rewards and the female characters are irredeemable, but that’s another topic for another time.)

Emma, Cleo, and Rikki aren’t much better than Charlotte when you really think about it. Cleo steals Charlotte’s diary and reads it, then confronts her in front of everyone. She barely apologizes and it’s more because she was wrong about what she was reading. There’s the infamous episode six where they all attack Annette and Charlotte, two women whose only crimes are, as far as they believe at the time, having romantic interests in people in their lives. They apologize to Annette, but only because they were wrong about her being on a date with Don. There’s the time that Emma and Rikki, in full mermaid form in public, play pranks on Lewis at the detriment of other people because, and let me check my notes here, Cleo was fired because of something she did and he was hired to fill that job. He is almost arrested because them doing all this caused a dolphin to escape and they barely apologize, in fact Rikki laughs off the idea of buying a replacement laptop (the reason he got the job).

Then there’s everything they did to Charlotte herself. Again, attacking her during their dinner because she dared to have a romantic interest in a boy she dumped and verbally said they were just friends when Charlotte asked if this was going to be a problem. They make snide comments to her all the time. I’m fairly certain Rikki tried hitting her with lightning during the camping episode, and while I’m on the subject of that episode, Lewis spits a drink all over her, and then laughs with the others about it! And they claim that the reason they do this is because they think Charlotte might be a mermaid now, but come on, if they really believed that, why would they risk an exposure like that? The answer is that they didn’t really think that, they just wanted an excuse to humiliate her.

Then! The second she is on an even keel with them, power-wise, that all stops, because now it’s a few episodes to the finale and we need a climactic ending, so now Charlotte becomes the most evil character you can imagine. It doesn’t matter that we’ve seen some twenty-odd episodes of three girls with superpowers use them against a normal girl whose sole weapon in her arsenal is being kinda mean to girls she does not care about unless her boyfriend is ignoring and ditching them for her. It’s okay when the main characters do it to the girl who is designated as the villain, but the villain can’t do it to them. Emma and Rikki can be in full mermaid form in public using their powers against someone for an imagined slight, but Charlotte can’t do the same thing to a person who just attacked their friend. Cleo can use her powers against people for no real reason except she’s mad at them, but Charlotte can’t make a mistake and use her powers to fend off an animal she’s afraid of.

There’s a subtle thing the show does that makes it easy to side with the main characters: no one holds them accountable, whereas with Charlotte, that’s all anyone does. Lewis half-heartedly says maybe they shouldn’t do things because it’s dangerous or wrong, but he’s just told to leave it alone or to shut up. Then when Charlotte becomes a mermaid, she tries her hardest to be nice and do everything to be their friend, but they just talk down to her and jump down her throat at every opportunity. Finally, in the last couple episodes, she just says enough and starts acting toward them like they’ve been acting to her. Which is bad. Because she’s… the bad guy.

And yet, I don’t hate Cleo, Emma, and Rikki for what they do, even as a Charlotte supporter. Cleo especially is going through a rough time that makes even the incredibly out of character things she does make sense. But why doesn’t Charlotte get the same curtesy? I don’t even mean in the fandom, but in the show itself. Why does everyone treat her like she’s out to get them, specifically? Charlotte doesn’t even care about them, or Mako, really, just in the sense of how it relates to Lewis and the grandmother she lost when she was a kid. It’s kinda funny, because even though Dr. Denman is never mentioned once after season one, you could write off their paranoia as part of being held hostage and almost used as a science experiment, which would be really interesting, if a little heavy for a kid’s show, if they explored that.

But it’s not, and, somehow, it’s Charlotte’s fault. It doesn’t matter if the show goes out its way to show how being ignored and ditched and lied to is obviously hurting her, because it’s not doing it out of being fair to her. It feels like a punishment, more than anything. Lewis can lie about spending time with his ex and straight up tell Charlotte to her face that he doesn’t have to tell her things if he doesn’t want to. The girls can attack her, and humiliate her, and laugh at her for having a silly fear. That’s fine, we can explain why they act like that. But we can also see things from Charlotte’s point of view too, even if the narrative doesn’t want us to.

I always say that if you don’t like Charlotte, that’s fine. I hope, and I am happy to see more often, people’s opinions of her change though, I’m not gonna lie, especially when I see her described as a needy, man-stealing abuser. That has never sat right with me, and I’m happy to go into that if anyone wants me to.

At the end of day, I find Charlotte a very tragic and fascinating character, one that I’ve dedicated a blog, multiple fanfics, and an essay I spent a week working on to exploring. I think there’s more to her than what I’m supposed to see her as, and more than one side to the whole situation, as I hope I’ve demonstrated above.

Thank you again for the kind ask, I really enjoyed responding 💚

[deliriously-drawing]

Heeyyyy…. ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/ How y’all been? Lol I come back with mermaids of all things haha. Wish I could say imma be uploading more but who knows dude, my art brain dry as hell right now lol.

Anything interesting happening in the fandom? (･ω･) or in general? （´∀`)

[maiiuelle]

mermaid!reader would try to join jj's adventures? bc she decided to change into a human (ariel style) and she's soo goofy!!

yesss that’s the plan!! even before she has legs she helps the pogues out with underwater treasure hunting. i do want her to end up with legs, and once she does, she would be such a fun addition to the pogues. <3

she’s curious about people, and loves a good adventure — she’d definitely want to take part in what they do and ends up so invested. she grew up with a very strict family, it sort of comes with mermaids living in hiding, so being free and able to explore the world with her new friends is super exciting to her!!

buuut i’m not sure if her transformation should be permanent, or if she should get her tail back when she touches water.. (like h2o just add water) what do we think?

[moonchild-in-blue]

Hi bb!! Long time follower first time asker lol hehe, I love how vessel makes lil shapes with his hands instead of the hearts!! but I don't think st or even vessel does things without thought, everything has a meaning. So I noticed that his hand shapes are similar to the shape of the image of the Jaws song art so maybe he's doing that?

Hi my beloved mystery anon!! 💙

The truth is, there are some theories here about what could he possibly be doing. I've seen that one - the Jaws symbol; I've seen people speculating it's actually a W in Eden Cypher (looks like ♦️) for "Worship".

My previous theory was that he just gets so overwhelmed at the moment, that his hands shake way too much to hold any coherent shape (although I'm not super into that thought anymore). He has done some pretty solid-ish 🫶 in the past, so who knows what he's doing.

(i'm assuming you're asking this because of my previous post - that was a info i needed to FINALLY announce the Wembley Bingo results lmao. I am posting that right now - almost a month later 💀)

[vampmilf]

h2o is the best! rikki and cleo should kiss

YOU get it!!!!!

[dykerikki]

try as i might im not really getting anything conclusive by searching "crime man" please please tell me about him

YESSWWWSSSSS SUCH A MOMENT FOR ME PERSONALLY WHEN RIKKI GRABBED THAT FISHERMANS GUTTING KNIFE. THEY SHOULD DO MORE CRIME LIKE THIS

ohhh my god YES its all coming together. lewis with his gizmos and whatchamacallits rigging up waterproof radio earpieces and shit.... yes yes YES

[itsrlymine]

heyyy it’s weed anon 🩷

girl i wanna tell u about my waiting room because Ooooo it’s yummy

I live by the sea and omg it’s a total coconut girl dream!!! a lovely little house by the beach, the water is turquoise and clearrr, so clean as well!! think of the caribbean and cancun 🐬🐠💦

I live alone (i might put a dog idk) and i’m always in summer clothes (think y2k kinda trashy, blues greens pinks yellows, springer breakers type shii but also punk)

and ofc since i’m the weed queen i’ve got an endless supply!!! purple haze, gelato, vapes, carts, ediblesss (im like Rihanna smoking a blunt on a surf board)

ok that’s all i wanna say love ya xx

Babe I love you so much omgg why did I also just get major h2o vibes but way sexier vibes wowwww. I love living by the beach so much it’s not even funny! Living by the beach and smoking is my favorite thing ever o swear. It sounds like we are living the same life fr omgg.

I’m so happy for you bc this is such an amazing way to live life fr.

And ofc when I’m typing this response only girl in the world by Rihanna is playing loud asf on the radio����

[bellaheartly]

underwater scenes for anon. ♡ ↳ h2o: just add water ✧ s01e09, “dangerous waters.”

[xxplastic-cubexx]

hiiii i know you said you're not very good with headcanons but maybe... just maybe.... since everyone is having a conversation about inappropriate use of mutations... you could give us a few nsft hcs.... please.....

you cant just ask me for my nsft hcs anon you knooww im not good at these.. but i was daydreamin during class this morning so you can have LIKE. SOME semblance of something. below the cut (╯▽╰ ;; )

i dont think i need to jot down roleplay is integral to their sex life but i will anyway. we'll double this review with bdsm/bondage Also being significant (if that not just being an extension of the Roleplay bit. or rather their roleplay is a part of their bdsm--)

charles is the more vocal one between the two of them (but im greedy and despite erik Trying to keep himself under control i imagine he gets a lil more vocal the closer he is to coming anyway...)

Speaking Of Inappropriate Use Of Mutations we already talked Extensively about erik's but how does the crowd feel about telepathic threesomes. its like an h2o molecule but horny. bonus points for scenarios where charles gets to watch himself fuck erik first-class-emma-frost style (Double Bonus Points who's to say movieverse!cherik couldnt have been inspod from that moment huh)

More Inappropriate Use Of Charles' Mutation charles can control how fast/hard erik rides/fucks him

when charles orgasms he (mostly) unintentionally causes erik's to feel more intense alongside his own (bonus points charles can negate the feelings of the refractory period if they're up for another immediate round)

strip chess. its even sexier because in chess sometimes it's the best strategy to sacrifice a piece to advance (the question now is is the objective to win the game or to get naked faster ... curious ... could be both and win in the psychological-warfare department or something...)

eriks a lot more tender than probably expected. i know hes a lover at heart .... (but he will be rougher if that's what charles is looking for that night)

Such Scenarios usually being on nights charles is collared and gets to be eriks 'pet' complete with liberal pulling of the collar and name calling (or is it 'petname' calling Please Laugh)

on that note aftercare is Extensive: they're triple and quadruple checking to make sure the other one's alright, especially if their powers were involved

[raihanfucker241]

raileon, but merman AU

Hiiii anon thanks for the prompt. I wanted to draw a couple designs based on pokemon (dragonair and dragalge for rai) but i ran out of juice sorry. i never had a mermaid phase (other than watching h2o for a bit as a tween) so i’m not very good at drawing merpeople.

bonus because i’m not serious about anything ever

[dearlot]

I love the anon who sent thoughts about mermaid!Lottie because now I can't stop thinking about mermaid!Nat and looking at my moodboard of her

https://www.tumblr.com/theprismyyy/758982146787606528/mermaidnatalie-scatorccio?source=share

Mermaid! Natalie would definitely be a half-human child, as if her mermaid mother had gotten involved with her human father (I'm getting Merlia Summers in Barbie vibes). Maybe she could shapeshift into a human form like the girls in H2o, but she doesn't really do that... like, she lived part of her childhood as a human but it didn't work out for her, so she went to the sea where she feels most at peace.

Mermaid! Natalie has a golden orange tail like the girls in H2o...maybe with slight purple patterns that are kind of chromatic, because I imagine each of the girls having different colored tails. The colors of mermaids' tails can indeed be repeated and I think the most common color would be navy blue, while the rarer colors would be orange/gold (like Nat's), slightly grayish purple with details in shades of white and baby blue (like Lottie's) and green with details in blue and purple (like Shauna's, her tail would be similar to Ariel's).

Mermaid! Natalie whose main fun is to make fishermen's lives hell, but not just any fishermen, for example she doesn't do anything to those who do it respectfully, without dumping trash and respecting marine life, without catching more than necessary and stuff like that... now, she loves to make the lives of illegal fishermen a complete hell :)) she's just a little devil with a tail who will tear their nets, pull their fishing rods so hard that they can't pull back and they break or get released, sometimes she just takes the bait off the hooks and leaves them there like idiots😭 she would also scare away the fish nearby and steal any item left on the edge of the boat while they were distracted ;)

Mermaid! Nat likes to peek at the coast of islands and watch people hidden, she finds it fun and I can easily see her appearing to some poor unsuspecting child who was watching the sea😩 she would first scare the child by suddenly emerging from the water, but soon she would start talking to him and stuff :))) some children leave crying with the scare, others leave totally enchanted screaming for their parents to warn them about the "magical mermaid", others are little cheeky ones who engage in a fun conversation with her and ask to touch her tail after promising not to tell anyone <3 in all cases she has so much fun with these little pranks.

Mermaid! Natalie would also steal items forgotten on the sides of any other boat, like a silly hat left by a snobbish old lady on the side of a speedboat :))) Does Nat need this? No, but it's fun and there's always something that ends up interesting some of the girls.

I'm a huge fan of H2O: Just Add Water and I can't stop thinking about this whole AU taking place in the same universe as the series, just in a different time... maybe modern?? Whatever, but think about all the mermaid girls living in the dormant volcano pool on Mako Island😩😩😩 imagine that still around the island there is an entrance to a much larger sea cave that is where they actively live and it's so big and cool<3

Something like this, but completely decorated by the girls with everything they find cool or interesting:

I love mermaids and I clearly got excited

YESYESYES!!! mermaid nat my beloved <3 mermaid nat whose tail can change colors based on how she's feeling? like when you first spotted her, she was kinda surprised and shy, so her tail blushed with hot reds and dark oranges.

maybe reader whose dad is one of those fishermen nat hates??? you go along with him one morning because you really have nothing better to do and you HAVE been wanting to fish for some time. she spots him and scowls, but she tilts her head curiously when she notices you. i think she'd still fuck with you a lil, probably splash some water or hold onto the hook and suddenly let it go so you stumble 😭 but she's just a menace with your dad. he definitely ends up in the water at one point. thinking of spotting her while you're cleaning up and kinda just staring at each other for a moment before she scurries away.

and UR SO REALLLL i loved h2o as a kid bro.....literally top 10 shows ever. thinking about scuba diver!reader who somehow gets injured underwater near the cave and mermaid nat who rescues you!!! dragging you by the fins too because she's kinda apprehensive. maybe she was supposed to be out looking for food and the yjs joke about how it's too early to resort to humans when she brings you 😭 they all help put you on the surface and try to fix your wound, and nat kinda gets attached? idk. thinking of her slapping the other girl's hands away when they try to touch your face or arms because maybe they've never been this close to a human and are curious.

GAHHH. thinking about dates with her in the cave???? nat shoving all the girls out because ur swimming over 😭 bringing a lil picnic basket and a towel to put on the sand so you can lie on ur belly and face her since she'll be in the water and you on the surface. she'd probably decorate the cave with whatever she could find in the ocean and it's so cozy and cool looking 😞

okok i remember the full moon like fucking with the girls powers in the show..... mermaid!nat who turns into a SIREN during the full moon????? thoughts??? suddenly she's so clingy and possessive and maybe she goes onto the surface for the first time in years just to show up at your house.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I drink between 2 liters and a gallon of water a day when I can lol it's so good to stay hydrated, I love water.

I’m proud of you anon . I love water as well #h2o #hoeforh2o

[katz-rambles]

Hii I just got island living extension pack to sims 4 and it got me thinking how would ghouls act with mermaid s/o. Have nice day and btw I love you're works <3

Aaaa!! Thank you smm 💓💓 Have an amazing day, too, Anon!!

Unfortunately, I didn't do all the ghouls/ghoulettes, with me being sick. I haven't had as much motivation to write, so I apologize because it's short.

(headcannon time!, gn!reader, mermaid!reader, fluff, this is it!)

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰

• He's a water ghoul, so he probably loves you. He thinks you're the coolest thing ever.

Rain

• His favorite thing to do is take you down to the Abbey Lake and watch as you grow a tail. It's his favorite date idea.

• You two can spend hours in and under the water. Sometimes people get worried and send people looking for you two, but you guys are fine!

• He likes to play with your tail. It may sound weird, but he loves the way your scales feel.

• He also likes to be with you under water. Because you're a mermaid, you can probably breathe under water, so you two just hang out under there! It was probably your guys' first date after he found out you're a mermaid!

• You've managed to siren him, and he doesn't want to break your spell any time soon.

˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊

• *insert the H2O theme here*

Swiss

• He's intrigued with you. He wants to study you in the best way possible, and he just might.

• You two go to the ocean or the Abbey Lakes, and he watches as when you play and swim in the water. If you're feeling nice, you might grab him something you found at the bottom!

• Just like Rain, he loves to feel your tail. The scales are so cool, and he loves how they feel.

• He will make fun of you by soaking you with water and watching you struggle. It's all in good fun, though.

• All together, he loves it. He wants to study you, and he will. He's a sweetheart, and even though he will tease and make fun of you until the end of time, he aodres you and your tail.

˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˚₊

• She's enamored when she first sees you. It's probably an accident too! You're at the lake, and she happens to stumble upon you as you're trying to fry yourself off. She may just fall head over heels right there.

Cumulus

• Please let her look at your tail. She just loves the way the scales shimmer. She's like a little kid watching a mermaid actor. She's in a trance when she sees you.

• When you two have movie nights, she purposefully makes you two watch H2O or Mako Mermaids.

• She carries a towel with her at all times just in case you happen to get wet while you two are out and about. She's so precious!

• She loves to do your hair before you go in water. Please let her put those lretty colourful flowers in them. She'll pass away from joy.

• She will also want to study you, not in the same way as Swiss, though. She's more interested in how this happened to you. She's so confused, and honestly, you are too. You two are so silly together.

[soft-likethesunset]

neens your truly so inspirational like everytime i see one of ur posts its like a breath of fresh air idk you just radiate life and you make me want to be a better person and to live life to the fullest! i know your just so beautiful like i imagine u as one of the h2o mermaids bc your so full of beauty n such a wonderful person & we are all so blessed to stumble across you and ur blog!! ily loads nina 🤍🤍

OH MY GOD I TRULY LOVE YOU SO MUCH ANON THANK YOU THIS MADE MY ABSOLUTE DAY!!! ABSOLUTELY LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST IT'S GONNA SWING RIGHT BY WE GOTTA GRAB IT WHILE WE CAN!!!

AND STOP OMG H2O WAS MY LIFEEEE ricky was my bi awakening ngl IT'S SUCH A GOOD SHOW IF WE EVER MET IN REAL LIFE I JS KNOW WE'D PLAY MERMAIDS TOGETHER OR SOME SHIT

this genuinely made my day, so much love to you and if you ever wanna reveal yourself so i can figure out who you are and hopefully interact more if we don't already then i'd absolutely love that!!!

[your-ace-fluffy-neighbour]

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