Nixie

“	"I can swim all day and night without stopping"	”
	— Nixie to Ben

Nixie
General
Full Name	Nixie Santos
Nickname(s)	Nixie
Gender	Female
Species	Mermaid
Resides In	Lives at Rita's House
Occupation	Swimming
School	Mermaid School
Relationships
Parents	Dead
Siblings	The Pod
Others	Lyla (best friend) Sirena (best friend) Zac Blakely (friend) Rita Santos (pretend aunt) Ben(friend)
Enemies	Cam
Appearance
Eye Color	Blue
Hair Color	Brown
Height	5' 2½"
Interests	Swimming Being Mermaid
Talent	Swimming Dolphin Language Magic
Secrets	-She's a mermaid -She, Sirena and Lyla were the three mermaids who we're in the moon pool when Zac fall in. (exposed to Zac, Cam, Rita) -She lost Cam's phone (exposed) -She helped Sirena enchant David
Powers	Hydrokinesis/Invisibility
Production
Season(s)	Season 1. Season 2 mentioned
First Seen	Outcasts
Last Seen	Decision Time
Portrayed By	Ivy Latimer

Nixie is the main character in Mako Mermaids. Nixie character is very adventurous and loves playing around and sometimes gets into trouble because she can't stay still. Her admiration for "land people" before she was a mermaid, has effectively put their life on land to good use, knowing the wrongs and rights about being on land. She's far more level-headed, and only wants the best for everyone's intentions. 

Description

Nixie is adventurous and fun-loving to the extent that she sometimes gets herself in trouble, acting before she thinks. It's Nixie's mischievousness that helps lead to disaster for Sirena, Nixie and Lyla when they accidentally let Zac into the Moon Pool. Nixie was seventeen years old in the first season.

Nixie thinks both Sirena and Lyla could afford to lighten up. Since she was a hatchling, she's been obsessed with land-dwellers, and has spent countless hours watching them from mainland beaches. Because of this, she is more familiar than the others with the ways of humans, from fashion to ordering food in cafés. That said - her knowledge of human social rules is sometimes patchier than she would like to admit - and though Nixie throws herself into life on land, she often gets things wrong - much to the amusement of the other mermaids. There is a possibility that cam will develop feelings for her.  

Personality

She is a little bit like Lyla. She is also confident in herself and also sometimes she can be rude and selfish.Nixie is adventurous and fun-loving to the extent that she sometimes gets herself in trouble, acting before she thinks. She is also a little bit bossy. Everything she says to Sirena, Sirena does it.She is not very patient and she does everything at once not even trying before. She is taking magic as something very easy, but sometimes she sees that's not as easy as it looks.

Appearance

Nixie has wavy brown hair that stops mid-back and blue eyes. She is quite beautiful despite some of her insecurities. Throughout the series, Nixie would often arrange her hair in various styles ranging from simple buns, braided, loose, or pony-tailed. She has long brown straight or sometimes curly hair. She is short height and medium weight. As a mermaid, her hair is let down and she has an orange-scaled tail with a matching orange-scaled top. She is a very fast mermaid and also very competitive. She wears lots of t-shirts with also like Lyla short jeans trousers. She wears lots of purple shirts so there's a chance that purple is her favorite color.

Character History

• Season 1
• Season 2

In Outcasts it is shown that she is very fun and likes to race with Sirena in

the sea to find out who is faster. At the end they came to Zac and Cam's boat and they started to play with them, by pulling the fishing net so they would think they had caught a fish. When the pod leaves she is very sad, just like Sirena and Lyla. Then later, when she is with Sirena and Lyla at the moon pool relaxing, Zac falls into the moon pool. She, along with Lyla and Sirena, tries to find Zac and remove his tail.

In Getting Legs: she is the one who says that they need to get legs to get to Zac. She is the most sure and confident about getting legs.

In Meeting Rita: she is shown to be scared of cats, which is why she doesn't want to go to Rita's house, but Sirena convinces her.

In Lyla Alone: she and Sirena leave Lyla alone, but when they don't see her for a long time they go to look for her.

In Blizzard: she goes somewhere alone but then comes back and helps Sirena and Lyla overcome the snow rash.

In Dolphin Tale: Nixie accidentally becomes tangled in a net and she is cornered until Lyla, Sirena, and Zac (believing it is a dolphin) find a way to rescue her. 

In The Siren: Nixie enchants David so he falls in love with her. She makes him serve her. When he tries to kiss her she doesn't mind.

In Zac Returns to Mako: Sirena and Nixie strictly reject Lyla's request to use Sirena's Moon Ring to open the entrance.

In Sirena's Secret: Lyla and Nixie try to stop Sirena falling in love with David, so they change her voice to sound terrible.

In Truce: Lyla, Nixie and Sirena help Zac get the phone David has that's got footage of Zac swimming, that Nixie took away from Cam.

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Appearances (26)

Season 1

• Outcasts
• Getting Legs
• Meeting Rita
• Lyla Alone
• Blizzard
• Dolphin Tale
• Zac's Pool Party
• Zac's Return to Mako
• The Siren
• Zac Returns to Mako
• I Don't Believe in Mermaids
• Close Call
• Betrayal
• Battlelines
• Sirena's Secret
• Truce
• Moon Ring 2
• The Trident Job
• Where's The On Button
• Nowhere To Hide
• Aquata Returns
• Evie Times Two
• Zac's Choice
• Trust
• Betrayed
• Decision Time

Relationships

Sirena and Lyla

They are both her best friends. They all live in the same pod and they share the secret.

Mermaid Powers

Nixie possesses the ability to transform into a mermaid ten seconds after at the touch of water. She turns back into a human a few minutes after she is out of the water and when the water on her has fully dried. Once her body is completely dry, her human form reverts back to what she appeared to be before her mermaid transformation.  She has the ability to swim at super speed of 600km/h, hold her breath for more than fifteen minutes, and possibly dive at a depth lower than any ordinary human being. 

Telekinesis

In "Zac's Pool Party", Nixie uses telekinesis to move a beach ball to hit Zac so he would move away from Evie.

Hydrokinesis

Nixie uses this power in "Meeting Rita" to make the fountain at Suncoast High explode with Sirena and Lyla's help so Zac would get wet.  

Invisibility

In "Dolphin Tale", Joe, David's brother, started chasing Nixie when she was swimming and she hid in the canal.  She got her tail stuck in the nets and turned herself invisible so anyone looking wouldn't see her.

Etymology

The name, Nixie, refers to a magical water creature similar to a Mermaid called a Melusine or Neck. The Melusine are often depicted as having two tails. Also, Nixie is the name of a different Germanic mermaid shapeshifter and water spirit. Some legends depict the original Melusine as transforming only on Saturdays. A version of a Nixie/Melusine is the Starbucks logo that has two tails. Also, some legends depict Melusines sometimes transforming into dragons when they are discovered.

Quotes

Nixie: Stay out of this land boy.

Nixie: This is actually very easy.

Nixie: What a pain, he needs to control himself.

Nixie: Stop giving me a hard time do you want me to help you or not?"Nixie": Look Tyler I Know You Want To Be A Superhero and I Know You Miss You're Mom But Evreything's Going To Be Ok I Love You But Between You And Me I Think That Misty Is To High Matinence For You So Dont Bother With Her Anymore If You Really Want Some One To Love You I'll Be You're Girlfrend

Trivia

• Like Sirena, she can speak dolphin and chicken.
• For a short time David had a crush on Nixie after looking at her while Sirena sang the siren song.
• It is possible that out of the three of them, she is the leader of the group.
• She loves lobster.
• She loves when people serve her.
• She often feuds with Lyla.
• The only one of the three girls not to have an episode named after her.