Episode 19

**Episode 19** of Forever After is the nineteenth episode in the series.

## Summary

Robin and Tank take Aurelia on a tour of the Human World that can be viewed from the ocean.

## Plot

Aurelia apologizes for wanting to see the human world, but Robin tells her its fine as Tank asks if there is anything she really wants to see. Aurelia doesn’t know, because it was so much bigger then she dreamed, and after one last look at the Sea Witch's lair, asks Robin and Tank to show her. Robin and Tank guide Aurelia to a tropical area where they see a human snorkeling, showing the Sea Maid that in some places humans would come to her. A brief look above the surface had Aurelia viewing some dancers, and back under the water, a net gathers fish to be taken onto a ship.

Quickly continuing the tour, Robin explains bridges, waterfalls, salmon runs and the grizzly bears that feed on them. Further up the coast, Robin shows Aurelia Musk Ox as she explains that humans don't survive far from water. Saltless water confuses Aurelia, despite the river eventually flowing into the ocean, but is delighted by the rain that falls all over the world and washes salt from the land into the ocean.

Even further north, Aurelia is shown icebergs, which are all freshwater because salt doesn’t freeze. Robin explains that one day the icebergs would melt back into the ocean, Tank adding that in warmer places the water is sucked into the air while leaving the salt behind, and Aurelia starts to take notes on stone tablets as realizes that everything she has seen is all connected. As the group views ships in a river, Robin explains that water connects human settlements, and because they fear the unknown, they stick to the routes they already know best.

At a deep water port, Robin points out the larger and more dangerous ships, and warns Aurelia to keep an eye out for when the humans clean out ships that had sunk to the bottom. Back out in the open sea, Aurelia announces she's ready to go back home. Robin asks if she's certain, which Aurelia confirms as Tank playfully scolds Robin's desire to be idle. The pair watch Aurelia happily play with a pod of dolphins, commenting that she actually looks her age for once.

Back in the Sea King's palace, Aurelia greets her family, who are so glad to see her, and swarm her with questions about what she found. Aristina approaches Robin, relieved that she had caught her sister in time for Aurelia to decide against getting legs. As Aurelia tells her sisters about the bridges that connect land together, Triton angrily tells Robin that he wanted her to cure his daughter's fancy for upworlders, not encourage it. Robin and Tank point out that a dream can't be killed, but it can be encouraged to grow in a healthy direction.

Aurelia cuts in, telling her father that she has learned much and that they can't pretend that humans can't exist. Humans and Sea-People are part of each other's world, and the humans sail the seas and changed their environment, for better or worse. Sunken ships can house families of sea creatures and she has seen humans help newly hatched sea turtles to the sea, but humans also catch many fish and drop anchors in bad places, which can hurt them.

But that is why the Sea-People need to know the Humans. Triton asks Aurelia to explain, and is happy as she describes what she has learned from Robin and Tank: humans are dependent on land and water, so that makes them predictable since they use the easiest and well known routes between settlements. Robin opens her book, which is no longer hot to the touch, and Tanks asks if she is going to finish the story. Robin confirms, and as they happily look on at a content Aurelia, who is well on her way to becoming an anthropologist, Robin speaks the words to complete the story of *The Little Sea Maid*.

Up on the seashore of the Fates' forest, Robin is once again a human and Tank is a fairy. Tank comments that no one had changed a story like that before, and Robin suggests that the original stories might be overrated. All she had done was show Aurelia there was another way to get something that she had felt was impossible to obtain without changing herself, which was the main crux of the story.

Tank expresses that he is glad that the Fates picked Robin before spotting the Wicked Witch behind them, dressed in a cabana outfit. Tank mentions that he'll be in trouble when the Fates find out he is there, but the Witch says they're a bit busy undoing the combined efforts of Hira and Makemnoit in one of the stories, and he's simply there to ruin the moment, so Robin demands that he stops spying on them

The Wicked Witch replies that it was a shame that they didn't meet the Sea Witch, and Tank adds that he's surprised the Witch didn't meddle. The Wicked Witch tells them he thought the story was folked up enough as it was because the happy ending was the sea maid dying, or it had been. And while he wasn't sure how Robin pulled it off, he was going to start working harder to stop them.

## Important Events

* Robin and Tank finish the story of *The Little Sea Maid*.

## Characters

Aurelia

Tank

Robin

Triton

Aristina

Affrea

Azusa

Aluska

Adamantia

Anita

Coira (Cameo)

The Fates

Makemnoit (Cameo)

Hira (Cameo)

Sea Witch (Mentioned)

## Credits

*Written by Violet Matter*

*Storyboarding by Valery Yu*

*Art by Hannah Patten*

Backgrounds by Megan Roberts

*Lettering by Kylie Hunsinger*

*Copy editing by Kat Vendetti*

*Produced by Quinn Sosna-Spear and Wil Kennedy*

## Trivia

* This was most likely a reference to the song, "Part of Your World" for Disney's animated feature film The Little Mermaid (1989) which based it's plot around the Little Sea Maid.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part\_of\_Your\_World