Eris


 * "Eris is my evil aunt! She wants to rule Oceana, and everybody in the kingdom is scared of her wicked ways!"
 * —Merliah describes Eris in her scrapbook.

Eris is the villain who appears in Barbie in A Mermaid Tale and in Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2. She is Queen Calissa's younger sister. She is jealous of her older sister and imprisons her to become queen. She is voiced by Kathleen Barr.

Personality
Eris is vain and loves power and attention. She is the only one in the royal family who cannot spin merilia (the life force of the sea) and that makes her jealous. She gets very angry when someone doesn't listen to her. Whoever displeases her, she throws them into an orange magical whirlpool that sends them to her dungeon. In the end, her whirlpools are what finally get rid of her. In the sequel, she is capable to make nightmare spells, who make the worst fears of others come true. She is also a good actress being able to act nice.

Appearance
Eris has short reddish brown hair with orange streaks, she has dark brown eyes, her mermaid tail (which in the end of the sequel is turned into human legs by one of her own nightmare spells), and top has streaks of orange tones, she wears a big red headress with a golden crown, she wears spiked earrings, golden bracelets and a red protective necklace that is thrown and broken by Merliah to show the habitants of Oceana that Calissa is alive.

Trivia

 * Eris is voiced by Kathleen Barr, who also voices Snouts.