Damir

Episode 15

Prince Damir, also known as **Damir**, is a Prince from the story *The Little Sea Maid*. He is the Prince Aurelia has fallen in love with.

## Appearance

Damir has dark brown skin, black hair and brown eyes.

His outfit consists of a white shirt with a golden hem, an ornamented blue, black and golden coats with green pearls sewn into it, white gloves, as well as black pants and flat blue green and golden shoes. He also wears two big turquoise earrings.

## Personality

Damir appears to be a kind and benevolent ruler, as all his subjects and servants speak fondly of him. He seems to like animals, judging by his love for his dog and his ordering his pet to "leave the fish alone" when he chases after one (really Aurelia).

Damir is unsatisfied with his life, feeling that he is missing part of his destiny and bored with the harshly scheduled life of a royal. He presumably gets over this after meeting his future bride.

## Synopsis

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Usually Damir's character would be overtaken by a Prince Charming and his personality would be suppressed.
### Before Forever After

Damir celebrated his birthday on a ship sailing over the Sea King's kingdom. When a storm surprised the party and sank the ship, Damir was thrown overboard and would have drowned if not for the intervention of Aurelia. Aurelia carried him to a nearby beach and sang to him to wake him up. However, as she swam away before he opened his eyes, Damir never knew who his rescuer was. Some time later Damir met Aureli proper, this time as a human and speechless, due to having traded her tail and tongue for legs. Damir took her in, but treated her as little more than a mute pet, much to her despair. Damir eventually met his future bride, a princess from a foreign kingdom, fell in love with her and prepared to wed her, unkowingly breaking Aurelia's heart. On Damir's wedding day, Aurelia commited suicide rather than kill her prince to get her tail back, to all of which Damir remained oblivious as he happily married and lived on with his wife.

### Forever After

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Due to Robin changing her role from a Prince to a side character, Damir's character was not suppressed and thus he played out his part throughout the story.

Damir's story starts out much like it did before: He is swept overboard by a storm during his birthday cruise and barely saved by Aurelia, who drags him to shore and sings to him to wake him up, then flees when he does. Damir is found by his servants and brought back to the castle. A few days later, Damir finds himself utterly apathetic toward the celebration in honor of his future bride and unsatisfied with his life in general, feeling that a huge part of his destiny is missing. He leaves the preparations to walk his dog along the beach, unaware that he is being watched by Aurelia, Robin and Tank. He catches a glimpse of Aurelia while looking over the sea at a pier, but she disappears before he can truly see her. He then hears her sing again and attempts to follow her voice, but merely gets a splash of water to the face for his troubles, as Aurelia flees from him again.

Damir continues to brood while wandering his city. He is eventually found by Kesten who tries to encourage him to help with the preparations, to which Damir shows no interest. He confesses his dissatisfaction to Kesten, who merely insists that Damir is right where he belongs and always has been, to which Damir dejectedly agrees. He states he needs some time alone and leaves. He ends up at the beach, where Aurelia is washed up right before his eyes. Damir doesn't seem to see Aurelia, even though she is right in front of him and mistakes her for a fish, admonishing his dog for chasing her. He leaves for the castle again, unaware of an utterly heartbroken Aurelia watching him go.

What happens to him afterwards isn't shown, but one can assume he marries his bride and lives a Happily Ever After of his own.

## Relationships

### Aurelia

In the original story, Aurelia falls in love with Damir after saving him from drowning. She gives up her tail and her voice to become human and be with him. While Damir grows fond of her, he never truly reciprocate her feelings and unknowingly breaks her heart by marrying another girl. In the changed story, while there are some hints that he might grow to love her, Damir never really meets Aurelia in the end and they remain strangers.

### Kesten

Kesten is Damir's servant and best friend. He is very concerned with Damir's image and always tries to get him to act responsible.

## Etymology

* The name Damir is possibly derived from the slavic words *da* meaning "give/take" and *miru* meaning "peace" put together.

## Trivia

* Damir's design was inspired by the indigenous Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest.

## References

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/923096635628740728/923100004799889418/1089537577851301928
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/HannahAlexArt/status/1435703817023021056