Danica

Danica is Empress Jasmine's right-hand mermaid. She has blonde hair and is one of the prettiest mermaids in Lyraka. She cares a lot about beauty and is a bit stuck-up. Danica plays the golden harp with grace. She found the big, golden harp after a ship sank from the above world and she practices frequently so that she may entertain the royalty.

Danica's got her heart set on this mer-dude, Leodan and she is always doing crazy stuff like swimming after him in the middle of the night after's he's been who knows where. She even abandoned her pearl collection and sunken treasure for him! Danica has always been kind of deperate and blind to reality. The empress gets quite perturbed with Danica. No matter how hard Empress tries, she just can't convince Danica that this whimsical mer-dude has other plans. All of the other mermaids wonder why she doesn't spend more time playing dress-up and applying make-up, instead. Why wouldn't such a beautiful mermaid rather gaze into a mirror?

Excerpt from the screenplay:

DESDEMONA

'Twas a dark and misty night
For a lofty ship's plight
A tall and handsome sailor
Was in a watery fervor
In desperation he grasped
And frightened, gasped
Lovestruck eyes in the sea
She begged him, "Come to me"
Forbidden love sequestered
A mermaid had murdered
To release her longing
For loving arm's belonging
She felt anguish and sorrow
like a widower tomorrow

Before a spell was cast on the people, pirates and other sea-goers would anchor near Mermaid Islands. When Danica fell in love with a pirate captain...she pulled him down with her into the depths. Danica felt so guilty after. She never told anyone about what she did. She became distant...an idealist of sorts. Danica looks outside of herself to avoid her torment inside. She secretly feels the need to be punished for her actions. She plays the harp in the minor key all the time and her sadness seeps through the notes like angel voices through the air. Danica longs to be a living music box...a trinket - an ornament of sorts. She dislikes being asked questions about herself...thus she becomes mostly an aesthetic addition to the royal court.

Danica enchants her audience each time she plays...The Empress longs to bring her out of her depression. Danica is so gorgeous and pitiful when she cries that she puts to shame the most beautiful flowers of Lyraka, insults the softest rose petals and make bitter the sweetest honeysuckle.

Coming soon: Artwork of Danica playing the golden harp.

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