![]() ![]() Which is what pushes Lira in To Kill a Kingdom to be as brutal as she can, so that she’ll be remembered long after she fades away. I thought it was a really sad thing for such powerful creatures to become nothingness. Hans Christian Andersen’s mermaids also become sea-foam with they die-something I had to pay homage to. But even though she doesn’t get the prince in the end, she does get a chance to earn a soul, which inspired Lira’s journey about what it means to be human. This is such a dark tale, and the mermaid suffers a lot throughout the story. ![]() ![]() The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen So, without further ado, here are my top five dark sirens and mermaids! opens in a new windowġ. When writing To Kill a Kingdom, they all helped to inspire the world I was building and led me to create my own dark siren story, filled with killer princesses and pirates, and an entire kingdom of creatures as wonderful as they are deadly. There are tons of stories devoted to them some beautiful, some deadly, some both. I love the idea that below the ocean, right under our noses, an entire world exists, filled with creatures beyond our imagination. I’ve always found stories about sirens and mermaids fascinating. ![]()
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