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| − | '''<big>Warning: The sheet I apped Coco with is a mess I am to this day surprised it got approved. So I am not sharing that one. Instead, have my plans for her and Mermaid Melody as a whole in a future Mush.</big>'''
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| − | = Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch =
| + | The Mermaid Princesses' power come from their pearls, through which they are born should the pearl be currently unconnected to a mermaid princess (that is to typically say, should the mermaid princess have died). The pearls gift them their melodious singing voice, while the songs are a gift of Aqua Regina, the goddess of the seas. Coco's power comes from the Yellow Pearl. The pearls are a great power source for any that can lie their hands on them, but in the hands of their rightful owners, they can turn into a magical microphone called E-pitch, increasing the reach and potency of her voice, as well as enable Idol transformations. |
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#FF66B2">From the musical pitch of miracles, let a new song be born, shimmering like the story that leads all life toward paradise.</center></span>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#FF9933">To sever the wheel of strife, take hold of your wishes, even those worn thin, even those left aching and forgotten.</center></span>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#FFD700">Remember... Those who have turned from love... Those who have defiled the sea...</center></span>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#00CC66">Even if they walk their own path, they were born from that same love, cradled by that same mother.</center></span>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#33CCFF">One day, when the scars of the heart have healed, we'll all be returning to the same sea.</span></center>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#3A4ED0">So take the heart within you, the one that has become immersed in truth, and let it become one with the seven-pitched melody.</span></center>''
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| − | ''<center><span style="color:#C266FF">That melody, that transparent arrow connecting beyond the Seven Seas, is nothing less than the feeling of a mother's love.</span></center>''
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| − | Unknown to humanity, the sea harbors life much richer than simply animals and plants. Secluded kingdoms thrive in hard to reach corners of the oceans, home to sea fairies, mermaids and other sapient beings of the deep.
| + | As Yellow Pearl Voice, Coco wears a short golden yellow dress with a sleeveless high-neck halter top and a short yellow pleated skirt. The two are sections separated by an orange band that twirls downwards at the front. |
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| − | Of these realms, seven of the greatest lie within the Seven Oceans themselves, taking their names from the waters they rule. Their rulers and protectors are the Mermaid Princesses: blessed envoys of Aqua Regina, and the living alter egos of the Seven Pearls created by the sea goddess.
| + | Two yellow-orange ruffles run parallel to each other towards the skirt on the sides of the blouse, which is also accessorized with a yellow-orange bow on the back. This form includes a matching pair of pale yellow high heel boots and light yellow gloves with two layers of pale yellow cuffs for both pairs. |
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| − | While the Mermaid Princesses are devoted first to the defense of their kingdoms, they care just as much about the lives on the surface world, and despite hiding from humanity, both the sea and land benefit from their protection.
| + | At her right wrist and on her ankles she wears bracelets with orange beads, and on her left wrist she is wearing a bracelet with a yellow band and a white dial with a yellow circle on top, small yellow beads circling it. An E-Pitch Microphone is tightly held in Coco's right hand, the Yellow Pearl safely nestled on the center of its head. |
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| − | For most of the history of the oceans, the Mermaid Princesses have been accompanied by the Panthalassa Clan, a fully humanoid sister race to the mermaids, in the protection of the Earth, as entrusted to the two races by the Ancients.
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| − | However, ever since a major conflict divided the Panthalassa into two factions, those among them who still adhered to peace chose to migrate to the surface, mixing with humanity, while the warmongers were sealed away by Aqua Regina.
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| − | Should the descendants of the Panthalassa reawaken to their calling, their legacy and magic would return to them, restoring the musical gifts once used to defend both land and sea.
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| − | == Mermaid Princesses ==
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| − | Every mermaid possesses the ability to communicate with sea creatures and often relies on them to communicate across vast distances. Their aquatic nature also offers them resistance to frigid cold in their true form, allowing them to suffer no discomfort even when swimming in icy waters. This does not extend to magically induced cold.
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| − | For the purpose of interacting and defending the human world, all mermaids can transform into a human form as they wish, to move freely between sea and land. But contact with water on their shell locket or pearl can temporarily dispel their human transformation, reverting them to mermaid form. Transforming back into a mermaid can instead happen at will, and presents no limitations.
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| − | For this and other reasons (among which that they will turn into seafoam should they reveal their secret to a human), the laws of the mermaid kingdoms prohibit their princesses from having contact with the human world, and they are only allowed to interact with the surface for the sake of fighting back against great danger.
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| − | With some exceptions, a Mermaid Princess’ singing voice is drawn from her Pearl, and they are unable to maintain it should they lose the sacred jewel.
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| − | The Seven Pearls are potent artifacts: sources of immense power that can be coveted by others. Their true purpose, however, is to give birth to new Princesses whenever the previous one disappears, and to serve as the focus of the Princesses’ magic and voice. After their birth, the Princesses are physically and developmentally 6 years old until time has caught up with their actual age.
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| − | To ensure that even if evil strikes and the worst happens, Aqua Regina made it so Mermaid Princesses would get a second chance at life before the Pearl would generate an heir. For this purpose, when the Pearl gives birth to a Mermaid Princess, it creates a dual existence for her: one to be found and adopted as a human infant with no awareness of her other life, and one to live as a de facto Mermaid Princess beneath the sea.
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| − | Both lives grow up and acquire experience in parallel, and their memories don’t normally overlap. However, should the mermaid life perish, her mind, powers and Pearl transfer into the parallel human life, where they lie dormant within the human until a magical threat awakens her mermaid self again.
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| − | In their rightful hands, the Seven Pearls transform into E-Pitch Microphones, amplifying the princesses’ voices and allowing them to assume their Idol Forms: radiant transformations that reflect each princess’s personal style with which they fight against evil.
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| − | The songs channeled through these Pearls are expressions of the integrity of the princesses' hearts, enabling them to purify the darkness in people's hearts, dispel curses, hurt evil, and heal emotional and physical wounds. When they sing, their power manifests as a radiant sphere of light known as the Live Stage, a protective space that can even allow levitation and shelter from environmental harm.
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| − | Each Mermaid Princess also possesses unique, personalized powers that reflect her oceanic domain, personality, and the song within her heart.
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| − | Through Aqua Regina’s blessing, the Mermaid Princesses can achieve a higher transformation: the Super Idol Form. Activated by the bracelets on their wrists while already in Idol Form, this state enhances their voices and unlocks their most powerful songs, capable of uniting hearts across land and sea.
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| − | Idol Songs: Legend of Mermaid, What is Love?, Super Love Songs!, Splash Dream, Ever Blue, Star Jewel, Riding on the Winds of the Aurora, Return to the Sea, Beautiful Wish, Birth of Love
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| − | Super Idol Songs: Bonds, Beyond the Dream, Heartbeat ~Perfect Harmony~, Mother Symphony, Aquamarine Melody, Piece of Love, The Tale of the Seven Seas ~Pearls of Mermaid~, Across the Sea and Sky, The Sound of the Bell of Hope ~Love Goes On~
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| − | Should the descendants of the Panthalassa reawaken to their calling, their legacy and magic would return to them, restoring the musical gifts once used to defend both land and sea.
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| − | == Panthalassa ==
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| − | Despite once living under the sea, the Panthalassa are completely indistinguishable from humanity. They can walk on land with the same ease they do underwater, the only magical gift they can still express ever since they moved to the surface after the conclusion of the first war of supremacy that split their race in two factions.
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| − | Without their magic, their lifespan was reduced to match that of humanity, and the Panthalassa have since then mingled indistinguishably with the people of the surface, even marrying and leaving descendants among them. All of their children inevitably present one of two colour palettes: copper–to–brown hair with warm brown eyes, or ash–to–black hair with grey-to-black eyes.
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| − | Their talent for the mastery of musical instruments never truly left them, however, and children of their lineage still grow up to become great violinists, guitarists, orchestra conductors, flutists: however the gift of music manifests in their hands.
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| − | Their magic isn’t really gone forever either. It is merely laying dormant, biding its time until the desire to defend land and sea reawakens in their hearts.
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| − | At that moment a fairy of the sea will emerge to assist the newly restored magical guardian, and an emblem of their power, the Panthalassa Lumen Charm, will manifest from their heart with a ray of golden or silver light.
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| − | There is no specific shape the Charm takes\; many forms have been attested, with rings, brooches, and lockets being by far the most common.
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| − | The Panthalassa Lumen Charm bears the insignia of their lineage, the same mark that appears on their forehead whenever they use their powers, and allows them to undergo a transformation that outwardly expresses the ideal locked in their heart, allowing them to fight against evil.
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| − | Insignia of the Panthalassa: https://ibb.co/tpw2gbkr
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| − | More often than not, the Panthalassa’s magical strength is expressed through the instrument for which they have a natural affinity, but exceptions can emerge when that power influences their environment, such as by opening a small Realm (roughly equivalent to a tiny Labyrinth), or, more rarely, a Recess into the dreamworld.
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| − | Besides what’s outlined above, their magic can manifest in multiple forms, and flames, ice, plants, and more are all equally likely.
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| − | = Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Event Timeline =
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| − | == Up to 10000 years ago ==
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| − | The Ancients were a race of creatures of the air that lived in their own realm. Led by their god Michel, they guided the merfolk and the Panthalassa with steady hands towards the safeguarding of the Earth's ecosystems.
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| − | At one point, they withdrew completely from the Earth, when they felt their guidance was no longer needed, and the Oceans' denizens were finally able to stand on their own and protect the lands and seas from the threats that would upset the thriving balance. | |
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| − | == The 1700s ==
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| − | The King and Queen of the Panthalassa start a war for dominion of the Oceans, causing many deaths. Despite the fighting back of the Seven Seas, the situation soon becomes unmanageable when the mermaid princesses die and can only return thanks to their parallel lives.
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| − | Aqua Regina intervenes, using the majority of her power to seal away the warmongering faction in the Panthalassa palace. Their domain sinks into the perennial darkness of the abyssal depths, and the Goddess of the Seas creates the Sealing Key, entrusting it to Hippo, the Guardian Hippocampus of the Mermaid Princesses, for safekeeping. The peaceful Panthalassa choose to build new lives among humanity.
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| − | == 2003 ==
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| − | After centuries, the two monarchs have a son and heir: Gaito, born with the Panthalassa's power of Darkness.
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| − | == 2004 ==
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| − | The reigning Princess of the Indian Ocean dies her second death, and Sara is born from the Orange Pearl to succeed her, on the 21st of November (Sunday). Her human half gets sent to the surface, to live at Port Louis, Mauritius.
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| − | Mitsuki Taro is born sometime this year.
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| − | == 2006 ==
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| − | Rihito Amagi is born sometime this year.
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| − | == 2007 ==
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| − | The reigning Princess of the South Pacific Ocean dies her second death, and Coco is born from the Yellow Pearl to succeed her, on the 7th of August (Tuesday). Her human half gets sent to the surface, to live at Nouméa, New Caledonia.
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| − | == 2008 ==
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| − | Princesses Coco and Sara first meet, starting their strong friendship.
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| − | == 2009 ==
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| − | The reigning Princesses of the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean die their second death, and twins Noel and Caren are born from the Indigo and Purple Pearls respectively to succeed them, the former on the 12th of February (Thursday) 1 minute before midnight, the latter on the 13th of February (Friday), 1 minute after midnight. Their human halves get sent to the surface.
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| − | == 2013 ==
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| − | Kaito, second son to the Panthalassa royals, is born with the Panthalassa's power of Light on the 21st of January. The Panthalassa monarchs, sensing that this is their chance to break free and restart their dominion of the oceans, use the power of the two kids against the Seven Seas.
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| − | The seven princesses gather again to fight off this threat, but before their hearts can unite, the reigning Princess of the South Atlantic dies her second death, on the 17th of May. While they are able to save the blue pearl, it's a losing fight for them from that point, and the birth of the new Princess of the South Atlantic, Hanon, on the 22nd of May (Wednesday), isn't enough to turn the tides. The blue Princess survives the confrontation, and her human half gets sent to the surface.
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| − | With the second death of the Princess of the North Pacific on the 28th of June, the North Pacific mermaids opt for sheltering the new princess Lucia, born on the 2nd of July (Monday), and keeping her unaware. Her human half gets sent to the surface.
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| − | Many storms and violent watersprouts still shake the kingdoms, but things finally take a positive turn, thanks to the Princess of the North Atlantic, who manages to open a path for the other princesses to take the two Panthalassa kids away, albeit at the cost of her own life. Aqua Regina chooses to send one of them, Kaito, to the surface where he is found by the Domoto family, so that their dangerous power may never unite again.
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| − | She instead sends Gaito to the kingdom of giant squid with the fishes of his family so he would have an element of familiarity with him, hoping that under the guidance of Doctor Somegoro, the kingdom’s wise and gentle ruler, Gaito would have a home where he could feel welcome and grow into a just and capable person. However, the Panthalassa Prince still harbors a grudge towards Aqua Regina for separating him from his parents.
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| − | The Panthalassa monarchs plan to use dark energy as a last shot for their rule, even knowing that it is by now beyond their means. They die from the backlash, and when news of the event reaches Gaito, he is devastated, further embittering him.
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| − | Michal Amagi is born sometime this year.
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| − | == 2015 ==
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| − | Sara meets and falls in love with prodigy pianist Mitsuki Taro, her love reciprocated and becoming all the stronger when Mitsuki finds out Sara is a mermaid on his own, ending all secrets between them.
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| − | == 2019 ==
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| − | Thinking Sara's relationship with Taro would be doing no good to her duties, an attendant to the Indian Ocean tells him that Sara's duties will force her to choose between him and her home, prompting him to want to spare her the hardship, and breaking up with Sara without a single word, an act that leaves her heartbroken and plants a seed of darkness.
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| − | Sara's tumultuous heart causes a storm over the Indian Ocean, destroying its kingdom and sinking a cruise ship that was passing through its water. Everyone on it dies, including the Domoto family. Moments before, their adopted son, Kaito had spotted Lucia singing in the water, and feeling herself drawn to him, the pink mermaid stays until the storm happens.
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| − | Lucia saves the boy and brings him to the coast, placing her pearl on him so its powers could save his life, but wounded as she was through the storm, she can barely manage to escape back into the sea before succumbing. Kaito is left on the beach alone, with only a hazy recollection of the smiling mermaid he saw.
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| − | Sara, feeling she has lost her right to be a mermaid princess, gives in to the darkness and steals the Sealing Key from Hippo, taking advantage of the hippocampus being asleep, and having heard of that being the access to Gaito's ancestral home and of the prince's pain, she brings it to Gaito intending to start a plan for revenge with him. The two of them share their pain to each other and become lovers.
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| − | Motivated by a desire for revenge against Aqua Regina, Gaito sets out to fulfill his ancestors' ambition and gift the Earth to Sara, waging war against the mermaid kingdoms with the intent of gathering all the pearls and obtaining Aqua Regina's power. He empowers his beloved family fishes, granting them human form and turning them into the Dark Lovers.
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| − | Sara asks Coco to meet her, and despite knowing it's a trap, the latter agrees to meet her, not having given up on trying to mend Sara's broken heart. Despite trying her best to reach out to her, Sara’s tumultuous heart causes another eruption of their powers, killing them both and destroying the South Pacific Kingdom.
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| − | Furious at Sara’s death, Gaito sends his forces to completely destroy the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Arctic Kingdoms, but they are unable to capture the Princesses alive, who die with their kingdoms. Rina had initially escaped thanks to Noel’s intervention, but the Dark Lovers caught up to her, and she died during the fight. The monarch of the deep seas vows to find all Seven Princesses’ human halves, and let Sara return to his side after awakening her.
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| − | == 2021 ==
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| − | Mitsuki Taro becomes a teacher-in-training at Radiant Heart Academy.
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| − | 2023, sometime before July
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| − | Gaito recruits the Black Beauty Sisters.
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| − | = Locations =
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| − | == Awami Shrine ==
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| − | A shrine in Tokyo that has been run by the Hamasaki Family for generations. They are responsible for the shrine's upkeep and occasionally send out calls for Shrine Maidens to perform their duties at Awami Shrine. The building is divided in three spaces: a warehouse, a rite chamber and an offerings chamber.
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| − | Inside the rite chamber, Shrine Maidens perform votive rites with their intricate dances, to the presence of the temple's priest and the crowd of visitors. Inside the darkly lit offerings chamber, many candles lay in front of the goddess' sacred space, the offerings of those who have etched their names and that of their love on it, in the hope of receiving the goddess' blessing and seeing it come true.
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| − | The shrine has a legend associated with it, that of a man who loved the sea, and the sea loved him back, having gained the affection of a mermaid during one of his many boat trips. The mermaid dared not approach the man, for she knew a careless slip of the tongue caused by her love would have meant her doom, so she settled for watching him from afar during his many trips.
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| − | The days went on unchanging, until on a fateful day a storm started picking up strength, the darkened skies taking away the man's sense of orientation, and the furious waves threatening to topple his boat. All the man could do was try his best to stay alive. The mermaid, unable to bear the sight of his love in danger, decided to reveal herself despite the risks: gathering wood from nearby trees, she made a torch out of it, and, keeping the fire away from the fury of the sea, she revealed herself to the man and started leading him to shore with the guidance of the burning light.
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| − | The Hamasaki family claims descent from that same man, who built this shrine to honour the event, turning the mermaid into a symbol of love and the temple's protector. From then, the ritual of the candles was born, with the saying that she would use the flame to guide the lovers happily in life much as she did the man to shore.
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| − | == Pearl Pier ==
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| − | The Pearl Pier is a beachside hotel located in the Yumegahama Ward. It is owned by an elderly woman known as Madame Taki, an eccentric individual that is never seen without her crystal ball and is always dressed like a fortune teller. However, Nikora Nanami, the hotel's manager, is a resourceful young woman, whose commitment keeps the hotel operating smoothly.
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| − | The Pearl Pier's immaculate white exterior strikes a contrast with the smooth, dark stones of the path leading to its large double doors that coupled with the soft murmur of the waves guides guests inside. The hotel is situated across two stories: the ground floor has the reception, a kitchen, and a dining area, along with a few staff rooms on the left side. The upper floor is instead completely dedicated to guest rooms.
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| − | The interior dining area is bathed in natural light and adorned with potted plants that embellish the creamy yellow walls. Three French doors open to a fenced backyard designed for al fresco dining, featuring tables positioned between two yellow couches and shaded by a large umbrella. During the dining hours, the soft clinking of cutlery and the murmur of pleasant conversations create a pleasant hum that confer a lively atmosphere to the tables.
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| − | The kitchen, discreetly separated from the dining area and accessed by an open entrance, features a large rectangular island counter at its center. The island counter has multiple drawers on its longer sides and dishcloths neatly hung from handles on the shorter sides, above which a large lamp provides illumination. The walls are painted a warm yellow and are lined with modern appliances: a refrigerator, a built-in oven, a dishwasher, a microwave, and a cooktop with a ventilation system while various pans, in different shapes and sizes, are stylishly displayed hanging from the walls.
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| − | == South Pacific Kingdom ==
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| − | Hidden within the vast South Pacific Ocean lies a Golden mermaid kingdom, a realm where the sea cradles both pyramid-domed buildings and gleaming streets traversed by mermaids each day.
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| − | After Sara’s grief brought ruin to the kingdom and robbed both her and Coco of their lives, its remains slumbered in silence beneath the waves. Only with the Mermaid Princess’s awakening within her human form did life and color begin to return, and the mermaids could finally begin rebuilding their home.
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| − | The palace lies at the center of the kingdom, home to the Pool of Vows, the Shell Throne, Coco's chambers and many more rooms besides. Kitchens, ballrooms and great halls are not all it contains, but it also offers a residence to all kinds of mermaids and guests.
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| − | Coco’s chamber rests atop the palace’s highest tower, and its balcony, decorated by vases of corals and golden roses, opens over the reborn city. A yellow reclining chair with star-shaped cushions sits there, a quiet sanctuary Coco can retreat after her duties are done.
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| − | Markets, artisan quarters, and Live Amphitheatres spread outward from the palace among the homes of the kingdom's citizens, alongside broad boulevards paved with smooth golden tiles and lined with low colonnades.
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| − | ='''<big>Coco Delrieu</big>'''=
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| − | == Personality ==
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| − | === Lively ===
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| − | Coco is bright, loving, and exuberant, with an energy that fills any space she steps into like the radiance of the Live Stage. Expressing what she thinks is her default state of being, with a playful nature that makes her all the more outgoing. The mermaid's fun-loving nature draws others to her, with a warmth that makes it hard not to smile in her company.
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| − | === Loyal ===
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| − | Fierce devotion is how Coco lives her relationships, with a loyalty to her friends that runs so deep that reason sometimes slips away, leading her to take reckless risks if it means protecting or saving someone she cares about. Once she calls someone a friend, their wellbeing becomes inseparable from her own.
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| − | === Expressive ===
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| − | Coco has no skill for pretending, and lying makes her uncomfortable. With feelings that surface easily, whether in joy, shock, or worry, those around her rarely need to guess what she’s feeling. But when Coco needs to keep a secret for a friend, no force in the world is able to make her express what she is thinking, not with a secret so important to someone dear to her.
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| − | === Romantic ===
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| − | When one of her friends might have a crush they struggle to express, enthusiasm takes over Coco and she will stop at nothing to make sure they have the chance to get together, even mixing with her daring streaks, marking her as the instigator of playful trouble that will get them close. Love is beautiful, after all: if they can be happy, why not be?
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| − | == Profile ==
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| − | Coco is a bright, loving and outspoken girl, who throws herself into life with all her heart and has always lived by one creed: unbreakable loyalty to her friends, which blinds her sometimes, driving her into danger to rescue someone she holds dear. Her friends' secrets are hidden so well nothing could drive them out of her, but the same is not true of her emotions, worn on her sleeve for all to see.
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| − | Her hobbies are matchmaking, gardening, swimming, and singing. She enjoys setting people up when she notices unspoken feelings between them, finds calm in tending her balcony plants, enjoys swimming in the water of the sea, especially when she needs to steady herself, and finds joy in singing, lifting her spirits and of the people around her.
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| − | One day she came under attack by weird people calling themselves the Dark Lovers, and discovered the other half of herself, the Mermaid Princess of the South Pacific Ocean, when her parallel life started flowing into her mind. Her best friend Sara is likewise the Indian Ocean princess, who after a disastrous romance with the musical prodigy Mitsuki Taro, fell into darkness. When Coco followed Sara into a trap to heal the wound in her heart, both their underwater lives ended as a result of Sara’s powers going wild over her emotions.
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| − | Carrying deep guilt that her other self couldn’t save Sara, Coco’s purpose remains simple: bring bright joy to her friends, mend Sara’s heart so she can find peace, and defend the kingdom the other half of herself has vowed to protect with the power of her voice.
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| − | == Background ==
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| − | === The Mermaid ===
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| − | Coco was born from the Yellow Pearl on the 7th of August, and was from then on raised by her kingdom’s attendants. Having 13 more years until she would actually take up her role, Coco spent this time playing with those of her age and being educated by her attendants.
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| − | Much like all Mermaid Princesses, Coco’s growth was frozen from birth, fixed at the physical and mental age of six until that same span of years had passed. The delay left her isolated from friends who grew up while she remained unchanged.
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| − | The young princess did not let this get to her, carrying on the same smile and solar attitude as always. With her attendants explaining to her this would not be forever, she started looking forward to the day she would get to be like everyone.
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| − | Coco would get a reprieve from her situation a year into her long wait, when she met with the princess of the Indian Ocean, Sara. Although the orange princess was halfway through her time of stasis, Coco’s solar attitude immediately bridged the gap between the two of them, and the bond they would forge held on strongly enough to last through the remaining three years of Coco’s stillness.
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| − | Despite being polar opposites in extroversion, the two girls found plenty of common ground: Sara balanced Coco’s boundless social energy, while Coco brought lightness and laughter to moments when Sara found herself tongue-stuck.
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| − | The start of their friendship was marked by a simple symbol: a yellow rose from the garden of Coco’s kingdom, offered to Sara as a token of warmth. The orange princess accepted it dearly, with a quiet word of thanks.
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| − | As soon as she hit her sixth birthday, adversity struck and the Panthalassa monarchs used the magical powers of their sons to start a new magical war, and the seven Mermaid Princesses were called to fight against them.
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| − | The magical power of their songs clashed with the water demons sent by the Panthalassa, and many of them were purified and returned to their fish form. Orange song mixed with Yellow, and Purple song with Indigo, and their bonds cut through the darkness shining brightly.
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| − | In those moments, with hers and Sara’s friendship giving strength and vigour to her voice, the yellow mermaid found in Sara’s presence the resilience she needed to find the way forward, and the same was true for Sara.
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| − | Yet the battle wasn’t so clear cut, and the oldest Princesses still remembered the aftermath of the previous Panthalassa War. Clinging to their resentment, their hearts were unable to unite with the younger generation, and in the end lost their lives as a result.
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| − | Only the sacrifice of the North Atlantic Princess brought a positive solution to the conflict, allowing the remaining Princesses to put a stop to the threat posed by the Panthalassa by removing the two brothers from the enchantment that was using their powers to wreak havoc.
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| − | Gaito was sent to live in Coco’s Kingdom, and his brother Kaito would be sent to the surface.
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| − | Things would quiet down for many years, even more so after the Panthalassa monarchs lost control of an immense amount of dark energy and got consumed by it. Sara and Coco would keep exploring and strengthening their friendship, as well as get to know the twins of the Poles with whom they sang during the previous confrontation.
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| − | One of these moments was when Coco invited Sara to the surface on occasion of the Summer Solstice. The yellow mermaid had a secret place, a small breach under a cliff she had found while searching for a space safe from human eyes. But that haven surprised even her, with a kind of flower that only opens under the warmth of direct sunlight.
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| − | One summer Coco invited Sara to the surface to see something she had found: a small cleft under a cliff, a hidden nook she’d discovered while searching for a place out of human sight. Even Coco was surprised by it, due to a patch of flowers that never opened except when the sun struck them directly.
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| − | Only at high noon on the summer solstice did a narrow shaft of light reach down into that gap and warm the flowers, who bloomed like tiny lanterns for about an hour.
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| − | An unfortunate spot, but Coco was charmed by the resiliency of the flowers that never forgot the kiss of the sun, and immediately sought to show it to Sara the next time.
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| − | Coco was especially fidgety the following month, as the secret threatened to jump out of her mouth anytime Sara gave her a questioning look. She really wanted to give her friend that moment more than anything however, so she kept it to herself until the solstice.
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| − | Even if Coco managed to keep her plans under wraps, Sara could tell she was preparing a surprise and prepared one of her own: over the next month, she gathered up all the flowers dearest to Coco, and fashioned them into garlands for the two of them to wear.
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| − | In the end, the two mermaids watched the flowers bloom in the bright sun crowned by the garlands, and spent the rest of the hour lying on the warm stones and letting the light and the blooms soothe them in silence.
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| − | Times stayed serene and unchanged until from the shore, a melody drew Sara closer. The human playing it spotted her, but instead of fleeing Sara stayed, and the human likewise approached. The only shock both felt was overpowered by curiosity.
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| − | Sara fell in love with Mitsuki Taro, and so did he. Coco’s heart was divided by worry and happiness at Sara’s news, but in the end the yellow mermaid chose the latter, and helped the two of them get together.
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| − | Great joy crowned their days, until Sara’s attendants started worrying Sara would neglect her duties for a human. The Indian Princess was furious and didn't listen, so her elderly caretaker approached Mitsuki and drove him away from Sara by explaining the responsibility and risk Sara underwent.
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| − | The musician broke up with her without a single word, and the heartbreak drove Sara to despair, engulfing her kingdom in a great storm that reduced it to ruins and sank a cruise ship of the humans.
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| − | Horrified by what her rampaging powers had done, Sara decided that if she had gone this far, there was no point in being a Mermaid Princess anymore, and stole the Sealing Key from Hippo when he was asleep.
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| − | Great worry filled Coco when she heard that her best friend had approached Gaito and led him to his ancestral home, starting a new chapter of the Panthalassa War.
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| − | Trying her best to find Sara and heal her heart, Coco showed no hesitation in approaching Sara when she turned up at her Kingdom. Callousness and grief had by now devoured her, but even so, Coco never wavered in the belief that the genuine person she knew was still there.
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| − | However the confrontation drove wild the dark emotions fueling Sara, and her powers destroyed the South Pacific Kingdom, killing both of them. Their consciousness reached their other selves and remained dormant there to one day awaken once more.
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| − | === The Human ===
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| − | Coco's human half was born from the Yellow Pearl on the 7th of August, and was immediately delivered to human society, at the coastal city of Nouméa in New Caledonia.
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| − | It wasn’t unheard of for babies to turn up at hospital doors. But sometimes someone managed to slip them through the cracks unnoticed, and each case added to a paper trail stretching back as far as records allowed. What followed was ER taking care of her while social services added her to the system, and weeks later the baby was placed with a family who’d been waiting for a few years to adopt, by the name of Delrieu.
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| − | The first years of her life on land were very uneventful. As soon as Coco could walk, she chased after her mother whenever she heard her voice sing among the plants while she was tending to them, and soon her voice would start imitating her, humming tunes in a way that came weirdly natural to her. Around that time, a pediatrician suggested she try swimming to help Coco grow strong and healthy.
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| − | The young girl took to it with instant ease: whenever she wasn't playing with her peers or learning from her mother how to coax a square of earth into sprouting basil on the Delrieu balcony amidst lovely tunes, she would spend hours diving, splashing, and racing along the shallows, strengthening her body while feeling completely at home.
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| − | She never questioned why at times swimming felt like muscle memory for something she had never done, or why being in it made her heart feel whole. What had once been pure freedom would, in time, become far more complicated, but for now, it was simply somewhere she felt welcome.
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| − | When Coco was six, the Delrieu household let themselves take a long trip after an invitation to take part in a renowned botanical festival in Port Louis, Mauritius. There she met the other Sara, who had been placed with the local Naidu family after having been born from the Orange Pearl, bumping into her when she was arranging pots of Roussea.
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| − | Coco burst towards her with the warmth of sunlight, attracted by the unknown yellow-orange flowers. Their first contact came and went with the icebreaker provided by the Roussea, and by the end of it, the two girls were already on a first name basis, and Sara was left with a single yellow rose from the Delrieu garden Coco had pressed into her surprised hands.
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| − | Despite having to go back home, that wasn't the last they heard of each other. he Delrieus and the Naidus arranged carefully supervised online chats, and the girls turned those virtual playdates into a real kind of closeness despite the distance between Nouméa and Port Louis.
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| − | Their friendship settled into that rhythm for the rest of childhood, and the two of them kept exchanging what was going on in each other's life. Coco’s messages brimmed with plants, songs meant for harmony, and little disasters of newfound affections, while Sara's replies tidily listed daily routines, quiet writings, and private songs.
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| − | A specific subject showed up frequently in their chat, however, a frequent oddness they registered in their feelings, when faint fragments of frustration, joy, sadness and calm showed up unattached from anything they were doing at the moment. Neither could explain what was going on, and eventually they both decided it was just some oddness they could deal with.
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| − | When the two girls became thirteen, both families found reasons to move to Tokyo. For Madame Delrieu it was a job transfer at a cultural office in Tokyo that combined research on Pacific island flora with a program supporting young artists, and Rajesh Naidu’s tech firm assured a partnership with a Japanese company that required him to relocate. Both families then ended up transferring the girls to a local school named Radiant Heart Academy.
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| − | Neither girl expected how it would feel to arrive and find each other again. The reunion in Tokyo was awkward and luminous. They laughed and hugged dearly, as if they were trying to make up for all those years of online distance, and shared with each other everything they couldn't have conveyed via simple text messages. To the two of them, it felt like life had suddenly become that much brighter.
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| − | Radiant Heart Academy offered Coco many opportunities to express herself, and she took all of them: from the gardening club to the swim club to the music club. Sara was in the last two ones as well, and Coco shined the most whenever they spent time together.
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| − | Radiant Heart Academy also marked the time when Coco first embraced Y2K fashion, after the music club asked members to dress in early-2000s outfits for a recital and she enjoyed its aesthetic immensely.
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| − | Despite the many activities, she didn't miss the opportunity to be on the look out for unexpected feelings among her new friends, and always all too eager to help them find each other. Sara wasn’t among these, and when the subject came up, she only said she didn’t feel drawn to anyone; something that Coco, for reasons she couldn’t name, never questioned.
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| − | Time passed quickly between harmonic afternoons on the academy’s stone steps, and trips to nearby karaokes and beaches, and in the end it was Coco who first got a crush on someone. She’d never been shy about flirting with boys, and yet that was the furthest thing from her mind when her feelings started blossoming.
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| − | During a meeting of the music club, Coco was asked to accompany with her voice a small orchestra who was going to play out a music sheet made by their director. The girl’s heart filled with pride and excitement as she looked over what she was supposed to sing: she wasn't just going to do well, she was going to ace it.
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| − | But when the symphony started, that joy gradually softened and she found herself increasingly drawn to the boy whose graceful movements brought their music together piece by piece.
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| − | She started volunteering for his rehearsals, admiring each time the elegant precision with which he guided the musicians. Little by little, a warmth spread in her chest she hadn’t felt before.
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| − | From then on, Coco’s flirting no longer fell to any boy that looked appealing to her eyes, but had Rihito Amagi as a specific target, giving greater joy to her fast heartbeat whenever she saw him.
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| − | Coco’s life followed the same predictable beats everyday, from homework to classes to clubs (and meetups with Rihito) to hangouts with Sara and other friends, until one day the same odd feelings they were so used to getting broke through more intensely than ever before.
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| − | A wave of anxiety gripped Coco’s heart intensely, while hurt and despair cut Sara’s heart in two. It took a while for both of them to calm down, and many frantic words got exchanged at the unusual strength of the phenomenon. They began to write down every odd occurrence, trying to make sense of what they had been living with all along.
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| − | Before they will be able to understand or finish their notes, two women calling themselves the Dark Lovers will appear separately in each girl's life. This encounter will awaken what was slumbering deep inside them: the memories of another life as Mermaid Princesses and songs that carried a bright promise of peace and joy.
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| − | Sara’s other life will however darken her heart quickly, and wounds, resentments, loyalties will all come back, making her rush toward Gaito’s side and taking up the path her mermaid self had undertaken. Coco will be left distraught by Sara’s sudden departure, but she won’t let that stop her.
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| − | Endowed with her now magical singing and grappling with the truth of her nature and what her awakening entails for her, Coco’s purpose remains simple: bring bright joy to her friends, mend Sara’s heart so she can find peace, and defend the kingdom the other half of herself has vowed to protect with the power of her voice.
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| − | == Skills ==
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| − | Singing, Flirting, Flaming Aura, Choral Gardening, Passionate Matchmaking, Striving Devotion, Otter Network of Intelligence, The Bell of Hope, Words Hurt
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| − | == Vital Trivia ==
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| − | Name: Coco Delrieu
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| − | AKA: Yellow Pearl Voice
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| − | Gender: Female
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| − | Series: (CC) Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
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| − | Origin: Mermaid Princess
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| − | Grade: 10
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| − | Clubs: Music Club, Gardening Club, Swimming Club (Quit)
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| − | Group: The Seven Seas, Radiant Heart Academy
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| − | Quote: As her friend... As a princess... I will not allow that girl to sink any further into the abyss!
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| − | Age: 16
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| − | Height: 164 cm
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| − | Blood Type: 0-
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| − | Birthday: August 7th
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| − | Likes: Hawaiian Music, Couples, Panoramas
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| − | Dislikes: Insincerity, Grating Noises
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| − | Favorite Food: Mango
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| − | Least Favorite Food: Anything with a pungent taste
| + | On her neck Coco wears a yellow seashell locket decorated with pale yellow wings. |
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| − | Favorite Subject: P.E.
| + | = Powers = |
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| − | Least Favorite Subject: Phylosophy
| + | == Human transformation == |
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| − | Online Tag: HeartBeatCircle
| + | They can adopt a human form, however putting water on their shell lockets or pearls dispels this form for a time. |
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| − | == Powers == | + | == Mermaid transformation == |
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| − | === Human transformation ===
| + | They can go back to their mermaid form. |
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| − | Can go into a human form, however putting water on her shell locket or pearl dispels this form for a time, making it impossible for her to swim in public.
| + | == Idol transformation == |
| − | Mermaid transformation: can go into her mermaid form
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| − | === Enhanced physical prowess ===
| + | All mermaid princesses employ a wide array of songs to repel demons, dispel hypnosis, purify evil from the heart of people, heal and act as a balm against negative feelings and weariness. They have two stages of transformation, depending on the strength they need to put into her songs. |
| − | Songs that repel demons, dispel hypnosis, purify evil from the heart of people, heal and act as a balm against negative feelings and weariness. Two stages of transformation, depending on the strength they need to put into her songs
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| − | === Cold resistance ===
| + | == Cold resistance == |
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| − | Can swim in even the coldest waters with no ill effects in mermaid form. This doesn't apply to cold caused by magic
| + | In mermaid form, they can swim in even the coldest waters with no ill effects. This doesn't apply to cold caused by magic. |
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| − | === Sealife communication ===
| + | == Sealife communication == |
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| − | Mermaids can communicate with sea animals and employ them as messengers | + | Mermaids can communicate with sea animals and employ them as messengers. |
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| − | === Live Stage ===
| + | == Live Stage == |
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| − | A sphere of light that provides a zone safe from environmental effects, even allowing for levitation. Coco can use her song to duplicate the Live Stage platforms across the battlefield as means for elevated strategies for allies' benefits, throw it, make it repel unapproved entry or exit via song or make it induce a mild paralysing effect. | + | A sphere of light that provides a zone safe from environmental effects, even allowing for levitation. |
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| − | === Yellow Corridor === | + | == Miscellaneous == |
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| − | The ability to open a corridor that crosses from reality to the world of dreams and back into reality that allows easy access to the Hidden Realm of the South Pacific Kingdom and back to where she first opened it from.
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| − | == Outfits ==
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| − | === Casual outfit ===
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| − | Coco is a 164 cm tall girl with golden-blonde hair that falls well below her hips in loose waves. Two thin braids go from near the temples to just above her waist, and her eyes have a marked golden colour.
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| − | When not in school, she typically wears an outfit following early 2000s fashion, and the yellow shell locket keeping her Yellow Pearl safe is clipped to the left of her skirt.
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| − | On Coco's head sits a soft slate-blue baker cap with stitched paneling and a short curved brim, worn slightly tilted forward.
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| − | Moving to her neck, she wears a close-fitting choker, layered over a necklace with a small round pendant bearing a heart. Her arms are bare save for faux-fur arm warmers that reach from her wrists to slightly below her shoulders.
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| − | Coco also wears a yellow off-shoulder blouse with thin straps of white lace and a central zone whose colour switches to a pale yellow and features a pattern of brown hearts. White lace borders the two colours vertically, and is also present at both ends of the blouse, forming a succession of triangles at the bottom.
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| − | Around her waist and hips is a short, high-waisted medium-blue denim mini skirt. A metal belt of hearts runs all around it, stopping at her right front side with one more dangling heart. A pair of beaded necklaces (one yellow, one white) is clipped to the right side of her skirt.
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| − | Slouchy jean fabric covers the lower third of her legs, with pronounced folds from the slouching, resting above chunky white platform sneakers. The sneakers have a gap in the sole about one-quarter of the way from the heel.
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| − | At school she wears the typical Radiant Heart Academy uniform, just with the blue skirt swapped out for a pale yellow one, and her shell locket is worn at the neck.
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| − | === Gala outfit ===
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| − | Coco is wearing an off-shoulder sleeveless dress with an asymmetrical V-neckline, her usual shell locket dangling from her neck.
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| − | The dress is held up by spaghetti straps and featuring two layers of fabric, one orange below and one yellow and transparent above, ornaments of brown pearls and stars made of white gold resting atop the latter, a slit on the dress showing her left leg as she walks, pale yellow pumps at her feet.
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| − | On top of her head a golden crown rests, gores filled by golden spheres resting atop a circular frame decorated with a similar treatment, a golden frame resting atop the gores.
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| − | Two bracelets of yellow pearls are on her right wrist, while her left upper arm presents a single orange bracelet connected by a single yellow pearl.
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| − | === Yellow Pearl Voice ===
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| − | As Yellow Pearl Voice, Coco wears a short golden yellow dress with a sleeveless high-neck halter top and a short knee-length yellow pleated skirt, the two sections separated by an orange band that twirls downwards at the front.
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| − | Two yellow-orange ruffles run parallel to each other towards the skirt on the sides of the blouse, which is also accessorized with a yellow-orange bow on the back. This form includes a matching pair of pale yellow high heel boots and light yellow gloves with two layers of pale yellow cuffs for both pairs.
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| − | At her right wrist and on her ankles she wears bracelets with orange beads, and on her left wrist she is wearing a bracelet with a yellow band and a white dial with a yellow circle on top, small yellow beads circling it. An E-Pitch Microphone is tightly held in Coco's right hand, the Yellow Pearl safely nestled on the center of its head.
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| − | On her neck Coco wears a yellow seashell locket decorated with wings that has her yellow pearl inside it, and a key with one end decorated by a seahorse head and the other end forming a spiral circle.
| + | - Enhanced physical prowess as Yellow Pearl Voice, purifying/revitalising song |
| | + | - duplicating the Live Stage platforms across the battlefield as means for elevated strategies for allies' benefits via song |
| | + | - being able to throw the Live Stage via song |
| | + | - making the Live Stage repel unapproved entry or exit via song |
| | + | - being able to induce a mild paralysing effect through the Live Stage via song. |
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| − | === Yellow Pearl Voice Super Idol === | + | == Healing == |
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| − | As a Super Idol, Yellow Pearl Voice is wearing a left glove adhering to her arm with a pattern made up of water ripples, while on her left leg a stocking has shown up with the same water ripple pattern above a simple shoe with the downward swirls that are also typically at her waist. On her right hand and left leg there is a yellow glove and shoe with two layers of flowy extensions, the internal one with a yellow paler than the other. | + | As the living alter ego of the Yellow Pearl, Coco can temporarily part with it to completely heal someone she deeply loves, but doing so brings her misfortune. This ability may only be used in a specific plot with staff approval. |
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| − | Corals radiate outwards from her neck, covered by a transparent veil with brown pearls and white stars decorating it, just above a yellow blouse with parallel frills that extend vertically on both sides of her bust. The same decoration of pearls and stars is applied to a transparent layer of fabric extending backwards and downwards from above her yellow skirt, above another layer, this one orange in colour, with the water ripple pattern on the outside extending in much the same way from below the skirt.
| + | == Yellow Corridor == |
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| − | An E-Pitch Headset is on Coco's head, the Yellow Pearl safely nestled on the right side, while her very long flowing hair is decorated by a yellow star and a yellow flower on the right side of her head. On her neck Coco wears a yellow seashell locket decorated with wings that has her yellow pearl inside it, and a key with one end decorated by a seahorse head and the other end forming a spiral circle. | + | An inferior version of the Orange Pearl's Dream Corridor. Like it, it uses the world of dreams as a travel medium, but can only reach the South Pacific Kingdom. It also allows a return to the exact spot where it was first opened. |
