Madison (Splash)

Madison is the main protagonist of Disney's and Touchstone's 1984 live action film series Splash. She is portrayed by Daryl Hannah as an adult, and by Shayla Mackarvich as a child, and later by Amy Yasbeck in the sequel.
==Background==
===Personality===
===Powers and Abilities===
*Mermaid Tail: Madison can swim faster and more efficiently than even a military man in scuba gear, and can use her tail to evade hazards in the water. This power is listed as "mermaid tail" rather than "mermaid swimming" because it was granted to Daryl Hannah in real life for as long as she wore her tail in the water. The mermaid tail is a prosthetic which included a built-in monofin, enabling Daryl to swim faster than human wearing individual swim fins, and in recent years tails of equal quality have become available to professional (performing) mermaids.
*Water Breathing: In mermaid form, Madison can breathe water as well as air and can thus remain submerged indefinitely.
*Vocal Modulation: Madison's real name is a sound so high-pitched that it can shatter glass, which suggests that her natural speech patterns are much like those of the bottle-nosed dolphin (though it is unknown whether she can speak with them or other cetacean non-human persons). Nevertheless, she can also speak human dialects with ease and even possesses a limited ability to read and speak English (which she enhances by imitating what she sees on television).
*Mermaid Kiss: Madison's kiss bestows the ability to breathe underwater, so long as the recipient remains in fairly close proximity to her. She gives this kiss freely to those people (and objects) for which she has affection, but the resulting water breathing ability is only bestowed if the kiss is delivered underwater while Madison is in full mermaid form.
*Mermaid Metamorphosis: Due to her human half being the dominant characteristic, Madison may at times transform into a full human being. Doing this requires her entire body to have been out of the water long enough to have completely dried off, at which point it will transform into a pair of human legs. However, Madison's connection to the sea means that she must transform back into a mermaid once every 24 hours (though this was only specifically stated in a deleted scene involving Madison's meeting with the sea witch), which is accomplished by bathing her legs in saltwater. Additionally, despite the convenience of being able to assume both human and mermaid forms, the transformation is not consciously voluntary; merely splashing Madison with a sufficient quantity of water will cause her legs to instinctively be drawn together by muscular spasms and revert to a mermaid tail.
*Aquatic creature communication: Madison can communicate with cetaceans like dolphins. Dolphins would swim with and play with her and a dolphin can recognize her as a mermaid even in human form.
*Water sensing: No matter where she is or how far from the ocean she is, Madison can always sense which direction the sea is in and find her way back to her element.
*Water visions: By running her finger in a circular motion over water, Madison can create windows that allow her to see anyone anywhere in the world. She can also communicate with people via these windows though the other person will only be able to hear her and not see her. Madison only just got back this ability in the second movie as she lost it after her first human transformation.
==History==
Back when Madison was a mermaid child, she rescued her childhood love, Allen Bauer, from drowning. When she grew up, she had a romantic relationship with him.
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