Evie McLaren

**Evie McLaren** is one of the main characters in the spin-off series *Mako: Island of Secrets* and formerly a major supporting character in the first season, becoming a protagonist in both Season 2 and 3.

## Pre-Series

Evie McLaren was born to Doug and Sarah McLaren in late 1990s. When she was six years-old, she met and became good friends with Zac Blakely. Since at a young age, Evie demonstred interest in the sea and its creatures, by watching a gold fish for hours in a glass bow. In her early years, her mother tragically passed away, leaving her under the care of her widowed father.

## Biography

Evie McLaren is Zac’s long-term girlfriend. She’s a good-looking, easy-going girl with a strong work ethic and plenty of ambition. Her mother died several years ago and now it is just Evie and her father looking after each other. They are very close. Evie’s life experience makes her mature beyond her years. This maturity, along with the support of Zac, helps her to deal with the upheaval of becoming a mermaid.

Apart from working hard at school, she also works the small shop/dive business outlet at the Ocean Cafe. Evie stocks and sells sporty beachwear items, as well as booking the scuba diving tours and other aquatic activities that her father runs off the local beaches.

She always has been a battler. Nothing has ever been delivered to her on a silver platter. Whatever she's achieved, she's done it herself.

A keen triathlete, she trains hard on the beach and in the water, which is how she and Zac originally met and began dating. According to Zac, they have been close ever since they were 6, and he has had a crush on her since back then. Both share a love of the beach and an active lifestyle, so it was inevitable that as the years went by during shared training sessions, romance would blossom. It is later revealed that the seeds of Evie's romance with Zac began to sprout during her 12th birthday party as Zac's feelings towards her were shown to be mutual at least by that point. As the series progresses, Evie and Zac are shown to be extremely loving and dedicated to each other. Both of them agree that they are not just boyfriend and girlfriend, they are best friends and neither one can imagine their life without the other.

When Nixie, Sirena and Lyla appear on the scene, Evie notices the rather odd, unusual out-of-towners, but only begins to resent their presence when Zac spends increasing amounts of time with them instead of her. Worried that her life is about to come crashing down, Evie cannot help but become suspicious, especially of Lyla. She and Zac used to have something really good going on. Is this newcomer going to mean the end of that? As Zac grows closer to Lyla and Evie notices them holding hands, she is pushed over the edge with his lies and breaks up with him. This changes when Zac ends his friendship with the mermaids after learning about their deception. He apologizes to her and they make up at some point off screen. Her suspicions and resentment of the mermaids continue to grow and she realizes they are hiding something and becomes determined to find out what.

Eventually, Evie found out all about Zac and the mermaids and was able to embrace her boyfriend's differences. She apologized to Lyla and the others for judging them too quickly and she became a part of the group.

## Mermaid Powers

Evie possessed the ability to transform into a mermaid ten seconds after physical contact with water. Once her body was completely dry, she turned back into human along with the outfit she was wearing before she transformed. As a mermaid, Evie once possessed the ability to swim at a super speed, and dive at depths no human being is capable of, completely protected from its cold and water pressure. She was also capable of holding her breath for at least fifteen minutes.

As Evie was the only human at the time of her transformation at the Moon Pool of Mako Island, she was by gifted with all the regular powers, but she only displayed the powers of Telekinesis, Hydrokinesis and Hydro-Thermokinesis. Evie also had the natural ability that all merpeople have to make herself invisible. While sick, she also had displayed the weather powers of Cryokinesis and Pyrokinesis, but she couldn't control it, though, and were presumably gone again after she got cured.

Unfortunately, the Water Dragon's cold fire stripped Evie's tail and all of her magical powers, and she became a human once again. She was also forced to give up her Moon Ring, giving it back to Mako's Mermaid Council.

## Weaknesses

Before her transformation, Evie had all the typical weaknesses of a human. When she transformed, she was susceptible to all the weaknesses of a mermaid. After her transformation, due to being once a human and going through metamorphosis in a Moon Pool, Evie was susceptible to all the Full Moon's special events on a Moon Pool, like the temporary twelve-hours Lunar Eclipse or the dangerous power-stripping Moon of Fifty Years, while also being formerly susceptible to Mako's Moon Pool's well-being, meaning if it is destroyed or deprived of its powerful, magical Moon Water, she would perish and die with it. Being deprived of her tail and abilities, and having her bond with Mako's Moon Pool broken permanently, Evie has again all the weaknesses of a human being. Since she was once a mermaid and was bewitched by the Water Dragon's cold fire, Evie is permanently immune to the effects of the Metamorphosis, which means she can never become a mermaid again by coming into an active Moon Pool and her original human status remains permanent.

## Trivia

* Evie's character's last name has been confirmed as McLaren, the same as the last name of Angus McLaren, the actor who played Lewis on *H2O: Just Add Water*.
* Evie is the editor of the school magazine with David as her photographer.
* Evie noted bathing was a major hassle for her, since she only had a shower at home, causing her to fall and hit the floor repeatedly.
* As of "*Reunion*", Evie is officially the only land person on *Mako Mermaids* to become a mermaid in the Moon Pool, much like Cleo, Emma, Bella, Rikki and Charlotte in *H2O: Just Add Water*.
* Evie was a mermaid from the beginning of Season 2 until about halfway through the third season.
* Evie acquired her Moon Ring in the final episode of season two, but gave it back to Mako's Mermaid Council by the middle of Season 3, when she was bewitched by the Water Dragon's cold fire and became a human being again.
* When Evie was little, she had a pet goldfish and would look at the bowl for hours on end.
* Evie and Zac have known each other since they were six years old similar to Cleo and Lewis and they have had a mutual crush on each other at some point before Evie turned twelve years old.
* Like Cleo Sertori in the beginning, Evie did not enjoy being a mermaid until she went for a swim since her transformation.
* She is the first mermaid to lose her tail on-screen in the spin-off series, and the third one overall. Like Charlotte, losing her tail was involuntarily. Whereas Charlotte lost her tail in the same way as her grandmother, Evie lost her tail in the same way as Eastern mermaids. These are also the only known intances of a merperson losing their tails.
* Some fans speculate that with the Water Dragon gone, her tail might come back.
* She is similar to Charlotte in many ways:
	+ Both serve as the "fourth mermaid" of their respective series', separate from the main trios of mermaids, but associated with them in some form.
	+ Both become a mermaid in the second seasons of their respective series'.
	+ Both seem to live with a single parent (Evie with her father, Charlotte with her mother).
	+ Both appear to be an only child.
	+ Both serve as a love interest for the primary male character of their respective series' (Evie for Zac, Charlotte for Lewis).
	+ Both are involved in a romantic rivalry of sorts with another mermaid for the affections of their boyfriends (Evie with Lyla, Charlotte with Cleo).
	+ Both spend their initial seasons being continuously kept unaware of the existence of mermaids by their boyfriends (and with both growing increasingly suspicious of what's really going on as the seasons progress) before finding out towards the end of the season.
	+ Both have a strained relationship with the other mermaids at some stage.
	+ Both throw a surprise party for their boyfriends at some point (a regular pool party in Evie's case, and an actual birthday party in Charlotte's case).
	+ Both transform into a mermaid for the first time on-screen by falling (in Evie's case) or jumping (in Charlotte's case) off a pier in front of their respective boyfriends.
	+ Both levitate the other mermaids at some point (accidentally in Evie's case, purposefully in Charlotte's case).
	+ Both lose their powers in the Moon Pool, after following their love interests to Mako Island (Evie followed Zac against his will, whereas Charlotte was "lured" there by Lewis, despite already knowing what he was up to).
	+ Both, after losing their powers, symbolically relinquish an item of jewelry they acquired during their time as mermaids (Evie returns her Moon Ring to the Pod via Rita, while Charlotte returns Gracie's locket to Cleo via Lewis).
* The main differences between Charlotte & Evie:
	+ Unlike Charlotte, Evie doesn't become a antagonist, doesn't abuse her powers, and becomes friends with the other mermaids eventually.
	+ Also unlike Charlotte Evie became a mermaid by accident while trying to protect Zac from Mimmi & Ondina whereas Charlotte became a mermaid on purpose thinking she was meant to be one like her grandmother Gracie.
* Evie is currently the only confirmed ever mermaid to had been metamorphosed in a way different than all the known others; while the rest were transformed by a power of a regular Full Moon, Evie had been metamorphosed by the power of fifty moons which were specifically destined to only erase a merperson's magic and mer-self while trying to protect Zac.
* It is currently unknown if Evie had ever developed the weather powers naturally, like Charlotte did, during her time as a mermaid, as the only instance she used any of these powers, specifically Cryokinesis and Pyrokinesis, was when she got sick, just like when Rikki, while under the Moon Spell, was able to ignite fires before she got that power under the Special Planetary Alignment.