Calpsa

Calpsa is Mermista’s cousin.

Recolor of an illustration from She-Ra: Song of the Sea Witch

### Appearance

Calpsa has brown eyes, tan skin, and long green hair that is usually in an updo, often involving two braids or low pigtails. She always wears dresses and skirts, usually mini- or midi skirts, usually paired with high heels, ballet flats, or mary janes.

### Personality

Essentially a stereotypical mean Valley girl, Calpsa is snobby, self-absorbed, shallow, and more concerned with fashion and beauty than anything else. She is quite passive agressive and tends to casually insult anyone she’s around, particularly their style sense, and seems to think she knows best about everything, making her quite bossy.

### Powers

**Bubble powers:** Calpsa has a magic ring that allows her to create and control magic bubbles. The bubbles are strangely hard to pop, more like translucent balloons than ordinary bubbles. They can also be giant, if she wants, big (and strong) enough to hold a person inside.

### Relationships

#### Mermista

Calpsa will call herself Mermista’s “favorite cousin”, but really she is her only cousin, and the two don’t get along the best - Mermista is constantly annoyed with her (even more than she is with most people).

The two have very little in common as far as interests go, and Calpsa doesn’t understand why Mermista would want to fight with the Rebellion. (“It’s so gross and sweaty! Yuch! Like, what’s even the point?”)

When she visits Mermista, Calpsa tends to sort of take over the castle. Not literally take over, she doesn’t actually try to overthrow Mermista; she just talks about how much better she could do, and bosses everyone around.

Calpsa is somewhat envious of her cousin’s Princess status. Her own family parents are already wealthy aristocrats, and she doesn’t have much interest in actually running the kingdom, but she likes the sound of being Princess and ruling Salineas. And as she thinks herself much better than Mermista (and everyone else), it seems sooo unfair that Mermista is Princess and not her.

#### Sea Hawk

Calpsa used to quite fancy Sea Hawk, whom she thought very good-looking, and kept flirting with him. Sea Hawk rather enjoyed the attention, and flirted back, but when Calpsa tried to ask him out he told her that “[his] heart belongs to Mermista”.

Mermista then suggested that Sea Hawk take Calpsa somewhere, as Calpsa was annoying her and Mermista wanted her out of her hair. The “date” was something of a fiasco, and by the end of it Calpsa had decided Sea Hawk was annoying, discovered his pyromaniac tendencies, and concluded he was stupid and terrible and she wanted nothing to do with him.

So now she hates Sea Hawk, and doesn’t see why Mermista ever seems to like him at all. Her favorite thing to do with him is to bounce him around in a magic bubble - it’s “fun”. (Sea Hawk does not enjoy it, and Mermista does not approve.)

### Trivia

* She is inspired by one illustration in the novel *She-Ra: Song of the Sea Witch*. Her creator, who had several issues with the book, chose to treat it as non-canon, going with what she thinks is the funnier idea: that instead of an evil sorceress taking over Mermista’s kingdom (the plot of the novel), it’s just that Mermista’s annoying cousin is visiting and Mermista isn’t pleased.
* Her name is a misspelling of Calypsa, the name of the titular sea witch from the aforementioned novel. The misspelling was first found in a description of the book on a library website: “When Adora, Glimmer, and Bow arrive in Salineas, they find it in the clutches of the evil sorceress Calpsa. Can She-Ra defeat Calpsa and save her friend Mermista?”
* She is rather similar to Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Kit has described her as being the Cordelia to Mermista's Buffy.
* Her idea of being “nice” is much like Galinda in “Popular” - i.e. giving someone a makeover or similar advice, whether they want it or not.
* She uses slang like the characters in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (e.g. “totes amaze”).
* She is also quite similar to Raquelle from Life in the Dreamhouse; or, more than that, she’s like Raquelle-ified Teresa from the episode “Little Bad Dress”. (As Raquelle describes Teresa in that episode: “She’s the most self-absorbed, snobnoxious [snobby + obnoxious] diva I’ve ever met. I’m impressed.)
* Her birthday is July 24, National Cousins Day.