Ursula

**Ursula** was the victim in Poor Unfortunate Souls (Case #20 of Graecita).

## Profile

Ursula is a 780-year-old sea witch who has messy white hair, purple eyes, violet skin and black tentacles. She wears a glittery black dress with purple necklace lace, matched with a golden shell necklace, a golden tiara and a pair of golden amethyst earrings. She also dons heavy makeup look which consists of blue eyeshadow, thick mascara and red lipstick.

## Murder details

The deep sea was dark, narrow and infested with many creepy animals, some which could cause harm by simply being touched. Natalie and Mia had to be very careful and while both of them felt terrified swimming through the region, they found humor in the situation by imagining how Ophelia would act if she was here. As they giggled, they managed to make it to Ursula’s lair without facing any harm. Fear rose into the girl again, who quietly swam into the lair, hoping not to disturb the sea witch. Surprisingly the lair seemed quiet yet it looked like a mess, as if a fight had broken through. Out of curiosity, Natalie and Mia took a look around and they found a fat lavender-skinned half-octopus lady laying on the ground, with a cauldron on top of her. The girls tried to help her, but the lady appeared yo be dead. Natalie then gasped when she recognized the figure as how **Ursula** was portrayed, stating that this must be her.

## Killer and motives

Eventually, Ursula’s killer turned out to be her understudy, Maris. Maris reacted defensively toward the murder accusations, claiming that they only believe she’s the killer since she lives under the same roof as Ursula, but once she was presented with evidence, she admitted that she killed Ursula because she stole her life. Maris explained that back when she was in her early 50’s, she met a merman who was both handsome and muscular, but he could not talk. This made it difficult for him to socialize, but Maris liked the mysterious vibe he gave off and decided to befriend him and eventually she fell in love with him over how shy and tender he was for a really big man. It only took three days for them to share a kiss, get intimate and they got matching necklaces to symbolize their “undying love”. But after that day, the man disappeared and Maris went looking for him everywhere but never found him. Maris went into depression, refused to date anyone else and it her over 60 years to finally heal and by now she was already too old for anyone to find her “desirable”. Eventually, Maris found Ursula and started working for her and one day Ursula told her to feed the worms, who used to be mermen and mermaids who came to Ursula for gifts but failed to pay their price. Maris did as told and she realized one of the worms wearing a necklace similar to hers. It didn’t take Maris a second to process and realize that worm was her lover and that Ursula had turned him into the worm. While Maris was happy to be reunited with him, she was furious to see him at that state and went to confront Ursula. Ursula realized that Maris was talking about “Nestor”, a skinny merman who came to her for the gift of strength to win over a girl he fancied and that she turned him to a worm as he failed to get his true love kiss. Maris called Ursula a liar, revealing that she loved Nestor for more than his looks and that Ursula had no right to punish him. But Ursula simply laughed and told Maris that men are shallow creatures, that she may have truly loves Nestor but to him, Maris was nothing but a sex object who he was likely to dump now that she is “old” and “ugly”, and that she should be grateful for Ursula as she saved her from heartbreak. But Maris refused to see it in that perspective and she threw a boiling cauldron at Ursula where the content burned her to death. As they promised, Natalie and Mia took Maris to Morgana who turned the heartbroken mermaid into ice.

## Case appearances

* Poor Unfortunate Souls (Case #20 of Graecita).

## Trivia

* Ursula is based on a character of the same name from the 1989 fantasy children movie, *The Little Mermaid*.
	+ Furthermore, she was modeled after Queen Latifah who played the character on *The Wonderful World Of Disney Presents The Little Mermaid!*.

## Gallery

Poseidon, Ursula’s father.Morgana, Ursula’s sister.Maris, Ursula’s killer.