Jibaro
- Disability Immunity: The main character is deaf and uses sign language to communicate with other humans. As such, he can't be affected by the destructive voice of the siren which drives his fellow soldiers to madness and death. By the end, however, once he drinks the river tainted with the Golden Woman's blood, his hearing is restored... and his immunity has worn off.
- Fatal Flaw: Greed. He shows a love of gold and is busy picking bits of it while the other soldiers are preparing, and it eventually culminates in him sticking around the Golden Woman for a chance to strip her gold from her body. As the Sole Survivor of her initial attack (thanks to his deafness) and her eventual fondness for him, he very easily could have left the lake and saved his own skin, but after his second encounter with her in which he realizes that the Golden Woman covered in treasure, he chooses to pursue her and steals all of her treasure after knocking her unconscious.
- First Time Feeling: Jibaro becomes able to hear after stripping the Golden Woman of her gold and drinking the water tainted with her blood, causing him to freak out, and making him vulnerable to her voice. Even worse, its implied that this is his first time hearing anything before.
- Ironic Name: Jíbaro
is a Puerto Rican term for self-subsisting farmers who use traditional farming methods. The knight named Jibaro is a colonizer greedy for gold. - Sole Survivor: He survived the Golden Woman's first attack because he is deaf and so unaffected by her power. It doesn't last long, as she later exacts her vengeance on him after he mutilates her.
- Too Dumb to Live: After witnessing the Golden Woman murder his entire battalion, he chooses to pursue this potentially still dangerous creature, mutilates her by removing nearly all of her treasure from her body, and then dumps her back into the river with little regard for whether she was still alive or dead, or if she would come back for him out of revenge if she was still alive.
- Villain Protagonist: Jibaro is one of the two central characters, and is a greedy colonizer who mutilates a siren to strip her of the natural gold on her body. While the Golden Woman is certainly not a nice person, the act is portrayed as a rape-like experience for her, and Jibaro's other options of fleeing with his life or even at least killing her before mutilating her body are never considered.
The Golden Woman
- Ambiguously Evil: She kills a ton of soldiers en masse, but considering that they were there to steal her gold to begin with, it's possible that she did so as a defense mechanism. The short demonstrates that she acts somewhat like an animal, and it's not made clear whether she maliciously kills others or does it on instinct.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her true feelings towards Jibaro are a bit unclear. While she's clearly attracted to him romantically, is it genuine affection? Is it solely because he is immune to her powers? Does she mistake him for a creature like herself because of his immunity and armor? Or was she planning to still kill him eventually like the others?
- Attempted Rape: She shows little regard for Jibaro's discomfort when she "seduces" him and even licks her lips after he pushes her off of him.
- Broken Angel: Visibly despairs seeing her beautiful golden scales have been stolen, along with much of her gems and adornments. This doesn't seem to make her any less powerful as a siren, though.
- Broken Tears: Has a breakdown after waking up and finding all of her golden missing. She also tearfully compels Jibaro to drown himself.
- Compelling Voice: The Golden Woman's eerie screeching wail forces anyone who hears it into involuntary dance and compelled forward motion, leaving the victims to drown in the deeper waters further into her lake. Unlike most examples of this trope, her voice is not at all comforting and her victims are less emotionally convinced to do her bidding as much as unwillingly forced to ''drown'' themselves in a manic frenzy.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: She a seductive siren whose power comes from shrieking at her enemy.
- Fatal Flaw: Lust. Her intrigue with the Sole Survivor of the soldiers was born from her fascination with her inability to harm him, and, despite him being one of the conquering soldiers who were there to rob her to begin with, her infatuation with Jibaro ultimately gives him the opportunity he needed to steal her gold and leave her feeling betrayed and violated.
- Feel No Pain: Implied, as she doesn't flinch or even seem to notice when Jibaro removes a golden scale from her stomach, even though his doing so causes her to gush blood. Her reaction to waking up and discovering that nearly all of the jewels had been taken from her body appeared to be more shock and sadness that Jibaro had betrayed her than physical pain.
- Humanoid Abomination: The Golden Woman is this. While extra material describes her as a sort of siren, she doesn't especially follow the look of traditional sirens. The Golden Woman certainly looks humanoid, but acts more like an animal, is covered from head to toe in golden jewelry that is physically attached to her body, and has the power to drive people to dance themselves to death by screaming. Also, she seems to have some spiritual connection to the lake itself, as it runs red upstream when she is stripped of her gold and left for dead by Jibaro, and then said river develops healing properties that cure Jibaro's deafness.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: She becomes intrigued by Jibaro because his deafness makes him more or less immune to her Compelling Voice. She follows him and even sleeps beside him, and eventually tries to make out with him.
- Logical Weakness: Her Compelling Voice doesn't work on the hearing impaired.
- Marionette Motion: At first, she emerges from the lake in a fluid, seemingly choreographed dance. After Jibaro removes her scales, she rises from the lake in blocky, robotic dance with her arms flopping around and eyes closed, clearly still unconscious. This makes her nearly naked form and harm seem all the more jarring.
- Serial Killer: Outside of murdering an entire army and then Jibaro at the end of the episode, a Wham Shot shows that they weren't her first victims, as the bottom of the lake is littered with armor and skeletons.
- Our Sirens Are Different: Extra material describes her as a siren, but aside from the Compelling Voice, she does not resemble a traditional siren visually at all, as sirens originate from Greek mythology and are birdlike, while the Golden Woman is humanoid, more fishlike in nature and inspired by South Asian cultures in both her appearance and her style of movement.
- Uncertain Doom: It is left open if the Golden Woman is dying, permanently limited in her powers, or will eventually heal.
- Walk on Water: She's able to walk, dance and sit on the water without sinking. She can also easily swim up waterfalls with little effort.
- Weaksauce Weakness: She's a powerful siren that uses her voice and an invisible force to drive others mad and lure them to their death, but she is knocked unconscious for what must have been several hours by a simple headbutt, implying she's otherwise pretty similar to humans.
The Army
The group of soldiers and priests that are set to get the riches from the Golden Woman. She kills them en masse within the first few minutes.
- Church Militant: We see several priests that the soldiers kneel before, implying that whatever crusade they are on is at least partially religiously motivated. Given the incredibly loose Anachronism Stew flavor the story establishes, they don't seem to fall under a specific branch of Christianity, but their garbs bring to mind Conquistador-era priests.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Along with being forced to drown themselves, some soldiers were also compelled to slice and dice each other, making an already painful and terrifying death even more so.
- Red Shirt Army: Their deaths establish the Golden Woman's appearance, personality, and powers.
- Too Dumb to Live: Assuming they were there for the Golden Woman, surely they knew about her Compelling Voice and that it would cause their deaths if they weren't prepared.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Aside from a fellow soldier of Jibaro's speaking to him in sign language, and one knight decked out in gold armor and hyping the rest of his team up, none of the soldiers and priests get any defining personalities before dying.
