Seventh Thought

I've been throwing this character around in my head for several years now. I'm just going to say her name is Ariel 2.0. Ariel 2.0 is a mermaid that was a character in a story i wrote for an English class many years ago. Well, a half mermaid to be more precise. She's evolved quite a bit. She was brunette, and now she has dark red hair, almost a maroon. While before she was a Mer-General, now she's a naval mercenary. Her character was previously motivated by duty to her country and to the army she served in, but now she sells her violence to others. Her mother was murdered when she was very young, and in either version of her it makes her inwardly bitter and outwardly cold. In the case of Ariel's newest incarnation, she used the navies she travels with to comb the sea for her mothers killers, in hopes of exacting revenge. However as decades went by without any sucess she used her occupation as a way to let out her frustration and anger. She is eternally displaced. The naval officers who hire her view her as a dangerous investment at best, while the larger human society looks at her as a freak of nature. Merpeople are a relativley unadvanced society, raised outside of it, she is culturally estranged and considered a walking taboo, a child of two races, an abomination. She is well aware that she is unwelcome in her late mothers society, beacuse it was in their great hate of her mothers love for a human (and letting him fertilize her eggs no less) that they killed her many unborn sons and daughters, smashing their fragile fish-eggs. Although her mother escaped with a single egg (Ariel 2.0) she was later killed by her infanticidal kin. Ariel 2.0 clings to the small comfort she gets from being accepted (albiet warily) by the various navies she is mercenary for. When not hiring herself out, she uses the money she earns to invest in a seaside house, and in buying speacialized weapons and armor. Her home is hidden along a rocky shoreline. While she can transform into a human, the red (red not orange) of her hair and the unusal blue of her eyes betray her inhuman heritage, and she lives in this housein seclusion with the exception of the little hired help she has, who a bribed heavily into secrecy, not just with money, but with the many intesting treasures she takes home from her travels.