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* PimpingTheOffspring: Catarina was sold into sex slavery by her parents in exchange for cigarettes and vodka.
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* LeftForDead: Nausicaa tells Luce the story of the Unnamed Twins, the first mermaids, who were born to a shepherd's wife 3,000 years ago. They were sickly, and as girls not worth saving, so their father left them on a cliff beside the sea to die. Instead, they were rescued and raised by Proteus, and transformed into mermaids as adolescents.
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* MosesInTheBulrushes: Nausicaa tells Luce the story of the Unnamed Twins, the first mermaids, who were born to a shepherd's wife 3,000 years ago. They were sickly, and as girls not worth saving, so their father left them on a cliff beside the sea to die. Instead, they were rescued and raised by Proteus, and transformed into mermaids as adolescents.
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* BrokenMasquerade: Catarina is always careful to only let her tribe sink a ship every few weeks in order to avoid the attention of humans. However, after Anais takes over, she and her followers recklessly sink every ship they can find, attracting the attention of the government, who start hiding cameras in the area. Luce destroys the camera she finds, but it isn't enough. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Waking Storms'', the entire tribe is massacred, with the exception of Anais, who is taken prisoner so Moreland can interrogate her, and a few girls who manage to escape.]]
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* InhumanableAlienRights: As Moreland tells Anais, legally she doesn't exist, so the law doesn't apply to her. Government agents have no qualms about massacring entire tribes of mermaids. [[spoiler:This is what leads Luce to decide that going public with the existence of mermaids is the safest option - if she and her followers can get average humans on their side, the government won't be able to kill mermaids with impunity anymore.]]
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* ElectricTorture: In ''The Twice Lost'', Anais is captured by government officials, who attach electrodes to her that will shock her if she sings.
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* BrokenAngel: If a mermaid's tail is out of the water for more than a few seconds, it will start to transform into a pair of legs. The process is so horrifically painful that most beached mermaids die of shock. [[spoiler:At the end of the first book, Miriam commits suicide by dragging herself onto a beach.]]
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* BrokenAngel: If a mermaid's tail is out of the water for more than a few seconds, it will start to transform into a pair of legs. The process is so horrifically painful that most beached mermaids die of shock. [[spoiler:At the end [[spoiler:In ''The Twice Lost'', Catarina is one of twenty mermaids captured in a net and dragged out of the first book, Miriam commits suicide by dragging water. All die of shock except Catarina, who awakens in a hospital and is horrified to find herself onto trapped in a beach.human body.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In ''The Twice Lost'', [[spoiler:Andrew]] goes to Peter's house, planning to kill him for trying to rape Luce. He can't bring himself to go through with it, so he settles for beating Peter up.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: In ''The Twice Lost'', [[spoiler:Moreland has Anais sing to Andrew Korchak in order to drive him insane, which is the best way to hurt Luce without being able to capture her. However, after Andrew is released, Luce is able to heal the damage to his mind with her own song]].
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* SelfHarm: Jo, a mermaid who was kicked out of her previous tribe for trying to contact her mom, constantly bites her hand, sometimes hard enough to draw blood.
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* NavalBlockade: ''The Twice Lost'' has an unusual example. [[spoiler:Hundreds of mermaids in the San Francisco Bay, working together with their voices, raise a wall of water hundreds of feet tall that touches the bottom of the Golden Gate Bridge. This forces the government agents to stop shooting at them - if enough of them die, the tsunami will swamp San Francisco. The plan is not only to stop the killing of mermaids, but also to attract media attention and force the government to listen to their demands.]]
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* NavalBlockade: ''The Twice Lost'' has an unusual example. [[spoiler:Hundreds of mermaids in the San Francisco Bay, working together with their voices, raise a wall of water hundreds of feet tall that touches the bottom of the Golden Gate Bridge. This forces the government agents to stop shooting at them - if enough of them die, the tsunami will swamp San Francisco.]]
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* NavalBlockade: ''The Twice Lost'' has an unusual example. [[spoiler:Hundreds of mermaids in the San Francisco Bay, working together with their voices, raise a wall of water hundreds of feet tall that touches the bottom of the Golden Gate Bridge. This forces the government agents to stop shooting at them - if enough of them die, the tsunami will swamp San Francisco. The plan is not only to stop the killing of mermaids, but also to attract media attention and force the government to listen to their demands.]]
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* SexSlave: Catarina's parents sold her for cigarettes and vodka to people who used her as a sex slave. Because of everything that was done to her, Catarina hates humans more than almost all the other mermaids, and thinks that making peace with such evil creatures would be impossible.
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* MakingASplash: While Luce practices singing, trying to train her voice to do something besides kill people, she discovers that when she sings a certain way, she can make waves rise out of the water and move the way she wants. Catarina says she's never seen anyone else with that gift except for Marina, who was Catarina's queen when she lived near Russia. In ''Waking Storms'', Violet discovers that she has the same ability, even though she isn't otherwise a very good singer.
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* MakingASplash: While Luce practices singing, trying to train her voice to do something besides kill people, she discovers that when she sings a certain way, she can make waves rise out of the water and move the way she wants. Catarina says she's never seen anyone else with that gift except for Marina, who was Catarina's queen when she lived near Russia. In ''Waking Storms'', Violet discovers Luce uses her power in battle against both humans and other mermaids, as well as to conjure up currents to carry herself along. Conventional wisdom is that controlling water is a gift that only a few mermaids have, but Luce is convinced that anyone could learn with practice. She's proven right in ''The Twice Lost'' when she has the same ability, even though she isn't otherwise gives singing lessons to a very good singer.group of other mermaids, and all but one manage to conjure up at least a small wave.
