10/10
Original title "The Mermaid Princess" Hans Christian Anderson
3 February 2007
Warning: Spoilers
*Spoiler* Princess MARINA turns 15, receives a PEARL HAIRPIN for her birthday. She ventures to the surface with her dolphin friend FRITZ. Falls in love with a human prince after saving him, the prince thinks it was a woman at a temple who rescued him. Marina trades her voice to the sea witch for a potion so she will have legs. Prince finds her and believes that shes a princess because of her pearl hairpin. CAT tries to get rid of her while the prince and her is out riding. she gets attacked by wolves, prince rescues her. The princes told he has to marry a princess. He refuses then later tells marina that the only girl he wants to marry is the girl that saved him but since he cant find that girl he would like to marry her. The king and queen trick him into meeting his future bride. He is excited because it is the girl he thinks saved him. They get married and it breaks marinas heart, her sisters meet her at the boat and give her a dagger to plunge into his heart that they traded their hair for. She goes to the prince in his wedding bed but cant kill him. He wakes as she is going out to die on the deck, realizing it was her that saved him. She leaves her pearl hairpin and a scale from her tale on the edge of the boat, he reaches the deck in time to see her turn into sea foam.
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