Coral the Mermaid

## Overview

    Coral the Mermaid is a side character and singer in the entertainment restaurant Danny Diver’s Pizza Place, a spin-off location created by Fazbear Entertainment. She is an animatronic mermaid who, like with the other animatronics of her location, have the ability to roam around during the night.  From 12:00 am to 6:00 am, she is free to wander around the pizzeria. If she sees a night-guard or any adult after hours, she will attempt to make them part of the band, ie put them into a standard-issue animatronic suit, which will kill whoever is put inside.

## Description

### Physical Description

Coral the Mermaid is an animatronic mermaid, appearing as a mermaid with magenta hair, a red seashell bra, and a teal tail. Her exoskeleton gives her a magenta nose and lipstick, a pearl bracelet, and a three-segmented tail. Her eyes are light orange in color, with eyelashes coming out of her pink eyelids. She has a head of magenta hair with a light orange sea star as an accessory. Her chest is covered by two large red seashells giving the appearance of a bra. Her tail, longer than her top half, is teal in color, with lighter teal fins coming off of the third and bottom segment. Unlike the other characters, Coral does not have a jaw part to her exoskeleton, and rather has a permanent smile cut out, with her teeth visible through the mouth to give the appearance of a mouth, similar to the animatronic characters Circus Baby and Ballora from Circus Baby's Pizza World.

### Personality

When the pizzeria is open, Coral the Mermaid is programmed to act sage and kind. She acts as a sort of musical teacher, singing songs and informing guests of the basics of music. Her personality gives her the appearance of a gentle but seasoned teacher. In her backstory given to her by Fazbear Entertainment, she was captured by pirates, but was saved by Danny the Diver. She is very close to him, as well as Samantha the Seagull. Additionally, she takes care of Simon the Seahorse, and can be seen with him when no orders have been placed.

### Robotic Aspects

Coral functions similarly to her animatronic friends, operating via a hard drive in her torso, with a separate drive containing information regarding speech and memory in her head. The top half of her endoskeleton is the standard Fazbear model, with her arm joints replaced by ball joints for improved fluidity and movement. The lower half of her endoskeleton, however, is quite different. Instead of having a waist/hip connector for legs, she has a simplified one, with the leg sockets adapted to connect to a hinge, moving her middle tail segment. The middle segment is basic rods connecting to another hinge to move the bottom segment of her tail. Her eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, and jaw are controlled via rods attached to rotors, and her neck, fingers, and limbs by remotes in the operator's booth. Her singing and speech is prerecorded, but can be rerouted to a microphone for a more immersive performance by her voice actress.

## Nocturnal Behavior

Separate to her friends, Coral begins the night in Mermaid Grotto on her rock. As she doesn't have legs, and is unable to walk, Coral instead pulls herself around using her arms. To get around the building, Coral uses the building's vent system, entering through the vents behind her rock. From there, she will drag herself through the vent shaft all the way to the office's ceiling vent opening. Unique to her is the fact that she is unable to be seen on the cameras, and instead sings a note every time she moves. She is only visible when at the vent opening, where her hair will fall through. When at the vent entrance, she will sing a four note melody. She will then, if not blocked, enter the office. Closing the vent door in time will cause her to be sent back one to three movements away.

On Night One, Coral is inactive.

On Night Two, Coral is inactive.

On Night Three, Coral becomes active, and will move at a moderate pace. When at the vent entrance, there will be a two second window after she sings. She will move back three spaces in the vents when blocked.

On Night Four, Coral speeds up slightly, and has her window shortened to one and a half seconds. She will move back two or three spaces in the vents when blocked.

On Night Five, Coral is at her top speed, and has only a second to be blocked after singing. She will go back one, or rarely two, spaces in the vents when blocked.

## Trivia

* Coral got her name from a plush mermaid doll.
* Coral was partly inspired by Ariel from the Little Mermaid in design.
* Coral was originally the rough equivalent of Mangle
* Coral was the fourth character to be designed in the Danny Diver lineup.
* Coral's pink motif was partly intended to act as an opposite to Danny's motif of green.
* Like her animatronic friends, Coral is able to swim in water. She is the best out of all of the animatronics.

## Gallery

Early sketches outlining Coral's anatomy, movements, and aggressive formFinalized sketch of Coral's design from the top tail segment up, shown in an A poseA full-body image of Coral in color, with sketches around herA full-body Coral on her false rock in Mermaid Grotto