#max hamilton

[quintessentialquincy]

'don't reveal the mermaids' secret' mfs when they meet one (1) granddaughter of a past love who was a mermaid:

[h2ojustaddmako]

[moonlovinliv]

we didnt get enough of emma and lewis' friendship........ we hardly got any louise and max's friendship......... its just not right

[opalsiren]

max and gracie h2o just add water you will ALWAYS be famous

[emily-ispirata]

the time's gonna come when you no longer need me but stay by my side 'til the sun has gone down fly to me, keane

[deafchild2000]

I don't care how you guys feel about Charlotte, if there's one thing I'm glad S2 (in it's prime) explored - it was generational merfolk magic.

(Admitting Charlotte truther here) I find it fascinating exploring Mako Island and the generations of mermaids over the years for many reasons. Let's be honest, there's plenty of H2O fanfiction on Fanfiction.Net that tried exploring the H2O gang growing up and having powers to various degrees. Some focus on adulthood and drag it out while others get to the marriage and children phase a bit too quickly, but a few stand out just right (and by right, I mean "I could read this as if I'm watching it on TV"). But what I gather trying to read is Next Generation fics. Some writers opt to say the girls had normal children and don't tell them the Secret - which leads to history repeating and the daughters and/or sons finding their way onto Mako and going through the Metamorphosis. Others say the children are born with their powers, therefore automatically in on the Secret. And I think I recall a fic that ventured into the girls (or maybe just Cleo) becoming grandmothers themselves.

(FYI: It's a lot more telling how long ago a fanfic was written if the mermen in them have orangey-gold tails or any other colors pre-Mako Mermaids.)

Overall, I do appreciate those stories, but that doesn't diminish my preference for the past mermaids or what they could've/would've done if taking the present canon into account. I wanna explore how being mermaids in the 50s had worked out, if Gracie's choice was what split the group up, or if it was the tip of the iceberg. But mostly, I wanna know why Gracie was the only one to have a family and the implications of her ties to Mako after no longer being a mermaid. Did Gracie leave and never look back? Could Annette have been an 80s mermaid if she had returned? And regardless of how she came in, was Charlotte being drawn to Mako and becoming a mermaid really shocking?

Or what about Julia? The only reason we found out she died was because her locket sold at an estate sale and ended up at a jewelry shop. But did that have to necessarily mean she was alone or could it be implied she did have family and they sold her stuff without realizing the significance of the locket? What if someone did try to look for it and couldn't track it down? Maybe, if not directly a grandchild, but a grand-niece or nephew?

So in that hypothesis, out of the 4 known members of the 50s group, Gracie and Julia had more reasons to have had families in their lives while Louise (an elderly widow) and Max (a recluse hermit) didn't.

I understand we got used to the iconic OG girls, but there are too many holes and plots to be left unexplored.

((Before I end on this note, let me send this off that next-generation tropes don't necessarily have to apply to children and grandchildren. I'll fan the flame that Kim Sertori could have received the torch and become a mermaid. Cleo and co. were off the college and with the moon pool supposedly damaged, it wouldn't be like more mermaid hijinx could occur...that they'd be aware of. And what if Taryn Marler (Julia in S2 and Sophie in S3) had been brought on as a twenty-something woman who endured Metamorphosis, unlike the teenagers before her? Her character - Rachel Samuels from Blue Water High S2, free to watch on YouTube - had a much more preferable persona for H2O, so why not combine them into someone fleshed out? Instead of the main characters having children or having them help out the next random group of teenaged Merfolk - why not focus on a narrative of a mermaid's siblings finally stepping into her shoes and a woman entering her adult years as a mermaid?))

[outatmako]

season 1 AU where Zane’s interest in local ocean mythology leads him to Max Hamilton—maybe Max is mentioned in an old article or something. Max, is at first justifiably wary of Zane. But Zane is nothing if not persistent, and desperate for the truth about what happened to him, and eventually, after weeks of needling, Max caves. He tells Zane about the 50s mermaids, and Mako, and the Moon Pool. But he also says that as far as he knows, there haven’t been mermaids on the Gold Coast in years. So, the next full moon, Zane finds the Moon Pool. To his disappointment there are no mermaids in the pool. But it does bubble with magic, and he is so intrigued that he reaches out to touch it—and falls in.

And suddenly the guy who kept insisting mermaids were real does a hard 180 and begins insisting the opposite. In secret he still works on his research, because he’s sure there must be others like him. But somehow he and the girls always just miss each other at Mako. Emma and Rikki have caught a couple glimpses of his tail, but it’s blue, so they’re not sure what to make of it. (Emma probably refuses to admit it’s anything more than a really big fish).

Cue the return of Dr. Denman, but this time Zane is caught in the Moon Pool (she doesn’t tell Harrison the truth about the merman she caught) and the others have to help him escape. When he asks why they helped, they reveal their shared secret, and tell him the eclipse thing. Rikki and Zane don’t have to break up. Lewis is extremely salty that Zane gets to be a mermaid and he doesn’t.

[murdockhawkeye]

was it ever actually explained how the '50s generation found out about the fifty years moon? 'cause it doesn't really sound like the kind of thing you can guess based off of planetary alignments

gracie could've turned into a goldfish for all she knew

[cleo-serotonin]

ok MAYBE max hamilton was a little weird for stalking two teenagers from behind a tree, but if i saw someone wearing a necklace that i hand made for my now deceased love of my life, i would also need to know more

[juicenet]

i've finally completed the epilogue of silver triptych (the 1950s mermaid fic) and you can read it here! so glad to give closure to this story that's been in the works for a while now <3

you can also start with chapter 1 here :)

[team--charlotte]

macie 》》 love lost

[rana030]

Pov: you're reading fanfiction and suddenly y/n starts to call him daddy

[moonlovinliv]

miss chatham saying "be their friend. oh it mightn't seem like much, and you mightn't get it right every time, but those girls need a friend like you" to lewis like she knows how beneficial max's friendship was for her and her friends !! oh the friendship between two characters we only saw interact ONCE in a flashback and just barely

[theereboseffect]

all the f1 x gladiator drawings i've done so far

[opalsiren]

if i could hold you for a minute, darlin' i'd do it again

h2o: just add water (2006–2010) / hozier, 'francesca'

[emily-ispirata]

Fifty years after a broken Gracie left the Gold Coast as a completely ordinary girl, she returns with her granddaughter. Haunted by her memories, she's terrified of what she will find waiting for her. But maybe it's not just the past she'll find there- maybe her future is waiting, too.