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Tamara is a beautiful and deadly young mermaid. She is one of many confronting travellers who come to Whitecap Bay for the Fountain of Youth.

Like most of her kind, Tamara is extremely beautiful and extremely dangerous. She is very seductive, using her beauty to attract sailors before dragging them into the water to their doom. Tamara's personality seems to be the same as that of an ordinary mermaid: - vicious and bloodthirsty, at least from a human perspective.

"The mermaids were amphibious beings, a hybrid of human and fish. The average mermaid had the appearance of a beautiful girl with long, flowing hair the colors of the sea, and pearly-white skin flecked with scales. From the waist down, however, a mermaid was comprised of a long, shimmering scaly tail. Further undermining their conventional beauty, mermaids hid sharp, fang-like teeth in their mouths.[1]

It was possible that this beautiful appearance was not the true form of the mermaids; if viewed peripherally, they lost their outward beauty and seemed to transform into creatures with clawed tentacles, fangs, and barnacles and boils covering their scales. They often spoke in harmony, singing a melody commonly attributed to the Sirens. Like the sirens, mermaids are incredibly beautiful women–incredibly seductive women–that lure men to their deaths. A mermaid's greatest weapon is her radiant appearance. The light of the moon illuminates their skin and their long locks fall seductively, and their eyes are as deep as the ocean and possess the power to entrap any adventurer.

"I heard it said that a kiss from a mermaid protects a sailor from drowning."
"Don't be a fool. Mermaids are all female, son. And lovely as a dream of heaven. But when it comes to churn butter, so to speak, they snatch a sailor out a boat or off the deck of a ship, have their way. Then the sailors are pulled to bottom, and drowned, and eaten!"
"Sometimes...the other way around."
―Derrick, Ezekiel and Scrum



They are women but they are also animal. The water line defines where they're women and where they’re creatures. Under the water, they are creatures and over the water, they're women. They feed on the men, and that’s how they see men, as something that sustains them. They may look lovely, but they can shred a human limb from limb in seconds. They can survive long enough on land to drag a sailor back into the sea, where they can entangle them in a powerful grip. The mermaids use long strands of seaweed as a form of lasso to pull sailors off ships or cliffs out of reach.

They can also live on land in human form. However if they are partially in the water, trapped in mermaid form but not enough in the water to live, they can dry out and die.

Mermaids are drawn to man-made light and song and this is often used as away to capture them."

-- Entry 'Mermaids' from the PotC Wiki

Mermaids are among those mythical creatures (like the minotaur, sphinxes, or centaurs) that symbolise the 'animal' part of humans; mermaids especially, being all female, reflect a male urangst of the 'animal' nature of women. The old-fashioned way in which PotC handles the mermaid myth points to the fear a sailor from an all-male wooden sailing ship must have had of the otherness of all women. The mermaid as the lovely enticing but ultimately deadly man-eater can be seen as a misogynistic projection of insecure manhood: - women want to ensnare a man and tie him down and suck the life out of him, robbing him of his independence and his 'free' life at sea. Mermaids embody everything about women that some men fear. The way I am going to play Tamara will reflect those stereotypes, but will also turn them around and subvert the tropes, as of course (even though she is alone in Milliways) she is part of the all-female mermaid swarm to which all humans (which to them means almost exclusively male humans) are the animals: simply prey.-

And here is Halia Meguid covering the entire song, much as I would imagine Tamara singing it.

The mermaid Tamara is from 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4 -- On Stranger Tides', and is the property of Disney, and Jerry Bruckheimer. She appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing in milliways_bar, from which no profit whatsoever is being made. She is munned by yakalskovich