so can we agree that charlotte might've had a little obsession with cleo, not lewis. like i wholeheartedly feel like she is a lesbian and that she thought that she wanted to be cleo, but in reality she wanted to be with cleo so she got together with lewis to make her jealous subconsciously but still. it makes too much sense in my brain.
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.