#cleo sertori

[deathnoteshit]

Story time

I was looking out the window and saw it was a full moon so looked at my sister and said "oh you know what that means?" and started doing a fish dance. My sister then with excitement said: "Stolas and Blitzo are having sex?"

I was taking about an innocent mermaid show and she just started talking about THAT?! I was speechless...

[h2ojustaddmako]

The Tortured Mermaids Department

[b3droomgirl]

in my mind i'm one of them

[minipizza]

no ordinary girl.

[clewis]

H2O: JUST ADD WATER + The Four Elements

[sunny-rants]

this scene altered 12 year old me’s brain chemistry

[bellaheartly]

♫ let's move away from the shore, let's drift away above the ocean floor. ♫ ↳ h2o: just add water ✧ s02e01, “stormy weather.”

[xiaolanhua]

PHOEBE TONKIN as CLEO SERTORI H2O: Just Add Water (2006-2010) – 3x7

[welliwenttoschoolinolympia]

she is so me

[atwistinthetail]

I think we’re all on the same page about the full moon not just making mermaids act differently, but making them act on some kind of “true” or subconscious desire. but I wanted to look more closely at the full moon effect on all our girlies and what it means.

cleo’s larger journey is to self-assurance from where she starts as mostly an ingenue. under the full moon she is confident and has a clear ability that makes her stand out. cleo has spent most of her life as best friends of an absolute beast star athlete, and of a science whiz. in 1x20 she speaks about helping lewis like it’s the first favor she’s ever been able to offer him. her siren power is a special talent unique to her which sets her apart from her friends. she finally commands and basks in all this positive attention, instead of being embarrassed in the limelight like she was at the start of the ep.

moonstruck emma most obviously abandons all responsibility, unburdening herself for maybe the first time in her life. she is flirtatious with byron and with rikki (even drunk I’ve never called a platonic friend baby I’m just saying). she also has a big appetite, which I only recently was thinking about. emma is a lifelong athlete with an extremely strict diet. even at a slumber party she has prepared “sensible” snacks. under the moon’s influence she gives herself freedom to literally eat whatever she wants. and of course she very adamantly wants to stay a mermaid, flying in the face of her usual cautiousness, and is just enjoying that sweet mermaid life.

and rikki has much more awareness during the full moon, not just because she is controlling the effects better but because she is not usually suppressing her impulses. she generally speaks her mind and acts on what she wants anyway, so there isn’t as much for the moon to “reveal.” instead it prompts her to self-isolate, succumbing to her existing fear of not belonging or of being some kind of liability. she acts on her attraction to zane after admitting in 1x6 that she’s insecure about being liked. and she verbalizes her fears and insecurities to somebody besides her friend’s kid brother for the first time.

the full moon eps are such a fun silly way to be like, “let’s make everyone do something crazy and then immediately retcon it” but idk, even though none of these are hot takes I just like how it reveals a lot about our besties

[outatmako]

headcanon: Don Sertori believes in mermaids. it's said several times in the show that he knows the waters of the gold coast like the back of his hand. he's a seasoned fisherman, and a lover of the outdoors, who isn't afraid to visit Mako. obviously the original mermaids would've been a bit older than him, but still, it doesn't seem farfetched to me that he could've seen Julia or Louise when he was a teenager and they were in their twenties. he knows no one would ever believe him, but it's part of why he respects the sea as much he does. he knows it holds secrets and magic.

of course, he still has no idea about his own daughter being one. but when he does eventually find out (bc I firmly believe Cleo and Emma eventually tell their families), he takes it in surprising stride. when Cleo questions his chillness, he admits that this isn't the first time he's seen a mermaid.

[cleo-serotonin]

"lewis knows!!!!

he is soo cool. he understood completely. he knows about all of us and will help us to keep the secret - i am so lucky he is our friend.”

-cleo’s diary

[h2ojustaddmako]

THIS is the life I was promised as a kid, not this garbage capitalism bullshit

[b3droomgirl]

[melonsodapop]

Autistic Headcanon

Cleo Sertori from H2O Just Add Water

1. She doesn’t like change

Out of the trio Cleo was the one most reluctant to accepting that she was a mermaid, and who can blame her? That’s a lot of tail to get used to.

2. She has a special interest in marine life

She works at a marine life institute and has shown her love for marine life multiple times. Also this scene in particular, dressing up as specifically a “Portuguese Man O’War” and then having to explain that it’s a kind of jellyfish, autistic mood.

3. She is often blunt in conversation

She says it like it is, and I love her for it.

“I know, I just don't handle hatred like you do, I mean I bet your use to it alot of people find you so-"

4. She has a strong sense of justice

Cleo has a strong sense of justice, even managing to get caught in a net because she was trying to save some turtles from getting caught.

Gifs by @bellaheartly

5. She stims

Honorable mention:

This autistic mood, same girl.

“Sometimes I don’t even want to hang around me.”

[clewis]

Cleo Sertori — H2O: JUST ADD WATER 💜 characters & colors