If You Help A Mermaid You Get A Wish

consider: aquamarine (2006) but zikki. that's it that's the post

watching 1x20 'hook, line and sinker' when zane and rikki are only just starting to warm to each other, and am back on my 'rikki and zane know each other better than anyone else' bullshit. even then zane knows rikki well enough to know that he can get her to come to his hotel room by saying that doing so will piss off his dad. also rikki tells zane to think of a speedboat or a car to get him to calm down after he starts panicking since he's afraid of heights, which works almost immediately. that's soulmateism

"pretend… i'm something you admire." except he doesn't actually have to pretend. then they double down on this admiration with "she WAS one of the girls at the seminar only SMARTER!" who else at this point has really admired rikki's intellect? zane doesn't just acknowledge this intellect, he defends it TO HIS DAD (whose respect had previously been what zane wanted above all else)!

If you're younger than 50 years there are termite queens who are older than you

happy pride to them