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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Main_Cast_7546.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:(L-R) [[CloudCuckooLander Blaire]], Amy, Kelsey, [[BigEater Brenna]] ]]
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4	-> '''Amy:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} I can explain.]]\
5	'''Brenna''': [[LampshadeHanging That's what you always say.]]\
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7	''The Secret Life of a Mermaid'' or ''SLM'' is a Website/YouTube webshow, created by Christine aka teenie989.
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9	Amy Samuels (Christine) is a preteen girl who loves to swim and is constantly in a SiblingRivalry with her older sister [[DirectedByCastMember Tess]] (Bridget). After Amy mysteriously sprouts a mermaid tail and powers, she wishes for a friend to rely on, but she also wants to protect her secret. Her new friend, Brenna, becomes a mermaid as well. Another new friend, Kelsey, becomes jealous of their friendship, discovers their secret, and soon shares it. They learn they each have a different power: Amy has [[MakingASplash water (manipulation of water)]], Brenna has [[PlayingWithFire heat (fire, boiling)]], and Kelsey has [[AnIcePerson ice/freezing]]. One day while swimming, they meet Blaire (Tessa), whose mother was a mermaid and [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her and her father to live in the ocean.]] The three mermaid girls struggle with keeping their secret, having problems with their powers, and interacting with Blaire.
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12	!!This series provides examples of:
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14	* AdultsAreUseless: Borders on ThereAreNoAdults. The only adults appear for only a scene or two. They're Amy and Tess' mother, Brenna's mom, Amy's aunt and Blaire's dad. Bridget briefly plays Kelsey's mother in ''Power Hour'', whose only purpose is to comfort Kelsey from a nightmare.
15	* AloofBigSister: Tess is hardly anything that counts as nice and she's basically the rival of Amy (her younger sister) until the latter starts to catch up to her.
16	%%* AnIcePerson: Amy at first, then later Kelsey.
17	%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Blaire on a regular basis, although the others have their moments of this as well.
18	%%* BeachEpisode: The Lost Episode, The third and fourth Season Finales all feature beaches in them.
19	* BroughtDownToNormal: In ''Scarce Scales'' the three girls lose their tails briefly.
20	%%* BreakTheCutie: Poor Blaire. And Tess
21	%%* BreakTheHaughty: Tess after the third SeasonFinale.
22	%%* BrokenBird: Blaire, although it's more shown in Season 4. Tess after her LaserGuidedAmnesia.
23	%%* CloudCuckooLander: Blaire once again.
24	%%* ControlFreak: Kelsey has shades of this at times.
25	%%* DeathGlare: Brenna has a very scary one. All three of them give a down-right creepy one to Tess in the Season 3 Finale.
26	%%* DishingOutDirt: Blaire's mom.
27	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Christine wrote and recorded one with her cousin, and sings a cover of Swimming by Florence + The Machine (in Season 5, Emma sings it with her.)
28	%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Amy and Kelsey have shades of this.
29	%%* FloatingWater: Amy occasionally does this.
30	* FreakOut: Kelsey in the third SeasonFinale:
31	--> Kelsey: "Oh no! Tess found out, didn't she?!? I'll never be able to finish 5th grade, let alone high school! And then I won't get into a good college! And then I-"
32	--> Amy: "Chill Kelsey! She didn't find out!"
33	%%* KickTheDog: Amy's treatment of Kelsey is very unnecessary in Season 2.
34	* NoodleIncident: Apparently, Amy got locked on the roof once. And Tess got her a pet rock once for her birthday that somehow died, and they became best friends:
35	--> Amy: (to an unconscious Blaire) "He was much better company than Tess anyway..."
36	* PlayingWithFire: Amy could boil water at first, but Brenna receives this power later on. Her power ranges from hot air to literal fire to boiling water.
37	* ParentalAbandonment: Although she has the excuse of being a mermaid, Terra left Blaire and her dad on her daughter's first birthday.
38	%%* PutOnABus: Blaire in Season 5.
39	%%* NerdsAreSexy: Kelsey. Terra is also an example due to all the research on mer-genetics in Season 3.
40	%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy is the main reason Brenna and Kelsey became mermaids. Plus there's the fact that Tess found the scrapbook that had pictures of her sister and her friend as mermaids which Amy knocked over and attacked her (although she did it unwillingly) and kept the fact that Blaire was developing powers in ALL OF THE FREAKING FINALES!
41	%%* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tess' plan to expose her sister backfired in so many levels.
42	%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Tess in Season 5.
43	%%* TheStoic: Kelsey is the OnlySaneMan of the group, minus her little freak outs and her SanitySlippage in Cabin Fever. Blaire as well.
44	%%* SanitySlippage: The main plot in Cabin Fever and Tess in Season 5.
45	* SlowMotionPassBy: Lampshaded in "Birthday Splash" after walks down the stairs in slow motion.
46	--> Amy: "Hey guys!"
47	--> Kelsey: "What up with the slow-mo?"
48	--> Amy: "It's for a-"
49	--> (pauses to [[HairFlip toss her hair dramatically over her shoulder in slow motion.]]
50	--> Amy: "Dramatic effect."
51	%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Tess is a rare human example. Brenna when in her SuperPoweredEvilSide, which Amy calls "the hulk".
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