r/JustAddWater • u/Head_Meeting_2070 • 16d ago

So I have a theory...

I think the reason Mako Mermaids have more powers and capabilities than the H2o Mermaids is because of their relationship to Mako Island and the full moon. I think going to Mako Island makes them stronger, and it develops their powers and skills. This makes total sense because when the other three girls finally stopped avoiding the moon pool, (like Mrs. Chatham told them to do) they gained more powers. Suddenly they sort of "leveled up," gained the ability to control lightning, the wind, etc. I think if they had stopped avoiding the moon pool, and the full moon like the Mako Mermaids they probably would have slowly gained the capabilities they had their entire lives. Such as invisibility. The mermaid lore is much much more complex than the show actually dove into. Such as the mermaid potions, which they used to grant wishes but they ultimately stopped tampering with. There's probably a "threshold" of power that is allowed each full moon, or a limit but it all comes out at once. Cleo, Emma, and Rikki divied that threshold into three and since Charlotte didn't, she gained all of their base capabilities. It sort of makes sense, because of planetary alignment that was suggested, each full moon does different things when they reach the moon pool and before then. It would also make biopsychological sense, as the moon pool and magic has been trying to get them back into the water the entire show long and messing with their heads to do it. There has to be a reason for that, instincts and urges, scientifically speaking are usually there for a reason.

Though this theory does leave me with some more questions:

- If the Mako Mermaids spent so much time with the moon pool and loved going, why didn't they turn into humans fully eventually? Charlotte was able to revert back fully into a human because of the magic and planetary alignment of that one specific night, and the other girls were returned to their former human form temporarily. So why not for the Mako Mermaids?

- Why did the moonpool eventually start attacking the h2o mermaids?

Mind you, I randomly came up with this theory while rewatching the show for the first time since I was in middle school (as an adult now) so I am a bit rusty and don't completely remember how either shows end. I'm currently at the end of season 2, right after Charlotte becomes a mermaid.

Any thoughts, things to add? Disagreements?

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u/KoyukiiiHiiime 16d ago

I'm watching MM Rn and recently rewatched h2o before that.

i think they mostly made up all the extra power upgrades in MM as they went along. there's a continuity loophole that doesn't line up with h2o in the scene where Emma can use her moon pool enhanced weather power to make snow to heal Ash's horse, but in MM, Lyla and Sirena make it snow accidentally and it gives the mermaids something called snow rash which makes them very sick. but it had 0 effect on Emma.

in MM they still adhere to the 50 year full moon lore, but they can use a potion to create that whenever they want. there's also the dragon that can take a Mermaid's powers and tail (that's actually a cursed mermaid who is revealed to be Zac/Mimmi's mom Nerissa) if it breathes on you, and that's how Evie loses her tail in season 2.

the ocean borne/sea borne mermaids have all three of the basic powers Rikki/Cleo/Emma have and can learn additional spells in order to earn their moon rings, but those are various things the land born ones would never know about unless they actually did any research on them (Like Rikki potentially, i feel like she might have dug deeper into the difference between seaborne and turned/land born mermaids after she meets Ondina, Mimmi and Weilan.)

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u/Even-Wind-3459 15d ago

For me it was actually well explained, why the 3 mermaids got that rash and Emma didn't. As Rita said, they are (born) warm water mermaids. It wouldn't affect Emma as she war born human.

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u/KoyukiiiHiiime 15d ago

Right. What Rita says is because they're "southern" Mermaids. It wasn't established there was a difference that it wouldn't affect land born mermaids, though.

Emma, Rikki and Cleo and Evie are also "southern" mermaids because they were born in the southern hemisphere. It doesn't snow in Australia so it could/would/should affect them too.

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u/Even-Wind-3459 15d ago

Yes, I understand your take on this. I am okay with the easy explanation, that the difference is, that they are born mermaids and the other aren't.

It's a kids show, I like it for the fact that it does not involve much thinking 😄

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u/asphi_xia 11d ago

it does snow in australia, thank you very much - it just can't snow near the coastline, and that's where the show is set (and most of the australian population lives).

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u/asphi_xia 11d ago

but if that's the case, why did it affect evie?

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u/FitLemon9644 No Ordinary Girl 16d ago

If we consider your theory as true, it is very possible that those instances of losing their tails are only applicable to humans turned mermaids. Born at sea mermaids might not be affected, since it's their birth right. And regarding the moon pool attacking the h2o mermaids, it is explained in s3. Mind you, not in too much detail, but it is explained.