Beibei

Beibei was the one of the mermaid princesses of the South Atlantic Ocean and Hanon’s ancestor. She was the original Little Mermaid before Lucia but her story was a little different from Lucia’s.
== History ==
Beibei was the one of the mermaid princesses of the South Atlantic Ocean and lived there with her mother, the mermaid princess of the South Atlantic Ocean and keeper of the Aqua blue pearl, her father, her maternal grandmother and her six older sisters, each one of them born a year apart. Beibei was a good swimmer and talented at aquatic sports and had a beautiful singing voice. Beibei was also fascinated by the world above the sea, and human beings, and kept a statue of a human boy in her garden in the palace. Lonely and feeling isolated from her family, she yearned to explore the world above, and constantly asked her grandmother to tell her stories of humans.
When a mermaid is at a mature age, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to catch a glimpse of the world above. When the seven mermaids became old enough, each of them visited the upper world one at a time every year. As each returned, Beibei listened longingly to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human beings. Beibei’s elder sisters, however, soon become jaded of the world above and are content to remain below the sea.
When Beibei’s turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watched a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. A violent storm then hits, sinking the ship, and Beibei saves the prince from drowning. She delivered him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, Beibei waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies-in-waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees Beibei or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life.
Beibei becomes melancholic and asks her grandmother if humans can live forever. Her grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than mermaids (around 300 years), but that they have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven, while mermaids turn to sea foam at death and cease to exist.
Beibei, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch who lives in a dangerous part of the South Atlantic ocean. Although the witch warns Beibei that her attempts to win the love of the prince are doomed, she willingly helps her by selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her voice, as Beibei has the most enchanting voice in the entire world. The witch warns Beibei that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her body. When she recovers, she will have two human legs and will be able to dance as no human has ever danced before; however, the pain of losing her tail will never leave her: she will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives, and her feet will bleed terribly. Moreover, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the love of the prince and marries him, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries someone else, Beibei will die with a broken heart and dissolve into sea foam upon the waves.
After she agrees to the arrangement, Beibei swims up to the surface near the prince's castle and drinks the potion. The liquid feels like a sword piercing her body and she passes out on the shore. She is found by the prince, who is mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though he discovers that she is mute. Most of all, he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him and does aquatic sports despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon, Beibei becomes the prince's favorite companion and accompanies him on many of his outings. As she is mute, he confides in her his deepest thoughts and feelings—but he does not fall in love with her at all: he regards her more as a friend than a lover, and has her sleep in a separate bedroom next to his bedroom.
When the prince's parents encourage him to marry the neighboring princess in an arranged marriage, the prince tells Beibei he will not because he does not love the princess. He goes on to say that he can only love the young woman from the temple, whom he believes rescued him. It turns out that the princess from the neighboring kingdom was the temple woman, as she was sent to the temple for her education. The prince declares his love for her, and the royal wedding is announced at once.
The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage aboard a wedding ship, and Beibei’s heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a sword that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If Beibei kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, she would regain her voice, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family. However, Beibei cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new wife, and she throws the sword and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks.
Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a good luck doll-like being called a Fuwa, and regains her voice. As Beibei ascends into the atmosphere, she is greeted by the other Fuwas, who tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. 
Because of Beibei’s sacrifice, she is given an immortal soul and cries happily as she has tears in her eyes for the very first time and says goodbye to her family, friends and the prince and princess, promising to visit them all one day before leaving with the other Fuwas. Also thanks to Beibei’s sacrifice, the mermaids and mermen were all given eternal souls and the ability to transform into humans as well. Beibei and the other Fuwas have since become the 2008 Olympic mascots.
Category:South Atlantic Ocean Mermaids
Category:Princesses
Category:Mermaid Princesses
Category:Mermaids
Category:Females
Category:Female
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Category:Mythical Mermaid Color Overs
Category:Revived characters
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