Elizabeth Fisher

Elizabeth Fisher Elizabeth's part of The Little Mermaid is easy to get overshadowed by Atlantis, the lab and everything happening to Erica, but she's been living with the loss at the center of this story for years. We first see her trying to handle business aboard Prince Fayed's yacht. The boat goes down in a storm, and Issoro saves her. She doesn't just forget that happened and go back to work. She returns to the area looking for him, and eventually they get their time together after he uses the Sea Witch's potion to become human. The pregnancy and what follows are where her story gets really rough. She leaves for the hospital after hearing about her mother's illness, gives birth, and her baby is taken. Later, we see Erica being handed to Howard and Carissa. I want to be careful here because the original abduction and the Sea Witch taking Erica later aren't the same event. It would be easy to compress all of that into one sentence and end up telling it wrong. In the present, Elizabeth is still trying to find her daughter. She's making calls, looking for answers, and eventually has to deal with the Sea Witch herself. The Witch knows exactly how badly she wants information and uses it. Elizabeth doesn't have a trident or an army to bring into that conversation. She has a missing daughter and someone standing in front of her who might actually know where she is. I also liked the underwater scenes because they don't simply forget that she's human. The Witch initially brings her down in an air bubble. Later, Issoro gives her the ability to live beneath the sea permanently, something he had intended to give her years earlier. That ability is given to her. It isn't something she suddenly discovers she always had. She's not the person tearing through the laboratory, but she's a big part of why the rescue happens at all. And her history gives Erica's situation a different weight. This isn't just a girl discovering a secret royal family. There are people who lost her and have been carrying that loss for a very long time.