Syrena

"You're killing her!"

- Philip to Blackbeard concerning Syrena

Syrena was a beautiful and alluring young mermaid who resided in Whitecap Bay. She was one of many who were involved in the quest for the Fountain of Youth.

Biography
Not much is known about Syrena's early life in Whitecap Bay. Syrena wasn't a typical mermaid, while the other mermaids are quite dangerous, she was rather timid. During the search for the Fountain of Youth, the Crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge arrived to Whitecap Bay to capture a mermaid on Blackbeard's orders, as they need a mermaid's tear in order to make the Fountain work. Syrena was captured during the mermaid attack on the crewmen, with Philip Swift striking the wounding blow, and was taken along for the journey in a large water tank. On land, Syrena loses her aquatic scaly form and assumes a gentle human shape. Wounded and unused to walking on two feet, she is a stumbling, vulnerable figure. Her humanity calls out to a fellow spirit.

At some point during the search, Syrena falls deeply in love with a young missionary named Philip, who also served as Blackbeard's slave. It is Philip who gives the mermaid her name of Syrena, in order to make the pirates see her as a person and not a creature. He is the only human to treat her with any dignity.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides