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2 [[caption-width-right:349:Something's fishy about one of these bishies.]]
3''Siren's Lament'' is a American Webtoon by instantmiso. It is very unique in that each chapter is accompanied by a musical score by [[http://twitter.com/kennycomics KennyComics]].
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5Lyra is a quiet young lady who has taken over her grandmother's flower shop after graduating high school. A big responsibility, but she has some competent help in the form of Shon, her very handsome employee who constantly attracts girls to the shop intent on gawking, as well as boys to buy them flowers.
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7Too bad for them Shon is already devoted to his girlfriend... who is not poor Lyra. One evening, she heads out to the coast and starts having a good cry over her unrequited attraction, when the railing she's leaning on gives way, sending her plummeting into the ocean.
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9As she starts to drown, she is saved by a beautiful merman, who kisses her. Then she suddenly finds herself with a tail instead of legs. Thus begins Lyra's journey into the world of the sirens...
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11Can be read [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/sirens-lament/list?title_no=632 here.]]
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13!!This webcomic includes examples of:
14* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Lyra (and a lot of her customers) pine for Shon, but he has a girlfriend. He in turn longs for Lyra but a chain of misundertandings has led him to believe she doesn't feel that way about him.
15* BetaCouple: Tua and Pele.
16* CursedWithAwesome: The sirens are cursed to lose their memories of being human, but in return they get a tail and underwater breathing when wet.
17* DeathIsCheap: Zig-zagged. Some characters stay dead, but some do not. Thankfully.
18* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: As it turns out, this is what [[spoiler: Lyra is to Ian]] is in the early stages, though it's complicated in that [[spoiler: Ian can't remember Emilia]], and the two characters don't stay romantically linked.
19* EarnYourHappyEnding: Do they ''ever''. By the last chapter, the leads have all taken on the Siren's curse at least once, Lyra has lost [[spoiler: Hona and Shon]], and countless Sirens have lost their memory for good.
20* TheEmpath: Sirens can detect a human suffering heartache -- they literally see a glowing heart on the chest.
21* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: A potential one in the future. Since [[spoiler: the resurrected Emilia]] is ''way'' too young to be [[spoiler: Lyra's]] mother, but still notices their resemblance, she decides that they must be sisters. It's played for laughs.
22* FirstGirlWins: A male example. [[spoiler: Shon, Lyra's first long lasting crush and childhood friend, is the one she ends up with.]]
23* TheGlomp: Ian introduces himself to Shon by glomping on Lyra. This earns him an elbow to the stomach.
24* MaybeEverAfter: The last image of the series is Ian and [[spoiler: Emilia]], implying this may be coming.
25* MermaidProblem: Ian and Lyra’s legs change on land, so averted. Not so much to the rest of Sirens.[[spoiler: This is what killed Lyra’s mother when she couldn’t give birth properly]]
26* MrFanservice: Both Ian and Shon. Chapter 9 jumps through hoops to contrive to get Shon shirtless, to the fangirls' delight.
27* MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle: In the first arc, anyway. Shon is a normal boy who secretly is in love with Lyra. Ian, on the other hand, is a Siren with no memories of his human life, who is starting to show interest on her. [[spoiler: As the comic goes on, the love triangle element disperses.]]
28* PowerTrio: Lyra, Shon, and Ian grow into one of these.
29** TwoGuysAndAGirl: Again, Lyra, Shon and Ian.
30* PrecociousCrush: Shon and Kori's little brother Coen has one on Lyra. She's 14 years older than him and used to change his diapers.
31* RaisedByWolves: Ian doesn't really understand land mannerisms yet. Like not going through Lyra's stuff without her permission, or sitting on her counter.
32* RelationshipUpgrade: Lyra and Shon mutually pine for one another, but the two go through a ''lot'' before getting together. [[spoiler: And then go through a whole lot more before the end, but the last chapter ends with Shon proposing]].
33* ShipperOnDeck: Tua is "Team Ian" when it comes to whom Lyra should end up with, while Pele supports Shon/Lyra.
34* SirensAreMermaids: Lyra calls Ian a merman at first, but they apparently prefer the term "Siren".
35* ThickerThanWater: Discussed late in the comic between Lyra and Ian, with Lyra coming to the conclusion that [[spoiler: while her birth mother is probably alive]], it's the people she's found for herself--her adoptive grandmother, Shon and his siblings, Ian, and Tua and Pele by implication--who are her real family.
36* WalkingShirtlessScene: Ian, whose fangirls rabidly demand he stay that way.
37* WhamEpisode: Episode 84-85. [[spoiler:The Poseidon is confirmed to be real. Ian became completely human. Shon kissed Lyra and took the siren curse upon himself. Pele was picked by the Poseidon for unknown purpose]].
38** Episode 163. [[spoiler: Hona and Aleah are sisters]].

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