19: The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1837, and adapted to start the Disney animated film renaissance, has a mermaid falling in love with a dry land boy, wishing for legs and losing her voice - and in the original version everything - for love. The animated version goes hard on moving to a pre-heavenly happy ending.
One of the most literal fish out of water stories, we don’t get much of the undersea world but enough to inform adventures in such settings.
One note is that the titular mermaid is little as she has older sisters who have all been to see the surface world as a coming of age. and none of them were all that impressed.
The Kerfuffle Between The Land And The Sea
A port, dam, sea conflict or other large project impinging on the sea earns the ire of the people living under it
See For Yourself
Young characters from a close community come of age and go to see the outside world. How many ways can this go wrong?
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