Chelsea/Mermaid Power

Chelsea Roberts
Information
Movies	Barbie: Mermaid Power
Species	Human/Mermaid
Relatives	Barbie (older sister) Skipper (older sister) Stacie (older sister)

Chelsea Roberts is a character in Barbie: Mermaid Power. Chelsea, her sisters and Brooklyn transform into mermaids to go on an undersea adventure in Pacifica. During their adventure, Chelsea discovers an innate ability to communicate with sea animals, which allows her to awaken Water powers and become a Water mermaid.

Story

During a cleanup effort in the middle of the ocean, Malibu is alerted by Stacie to a glow emanating from her backpack and reveals the necklace given to her by Isla before they parted ways at the end of their previous adventure. When Brooklyn expresses skepticism about the existence of mermaids and real magic, Chelsea, Stacie, and Skipper all insist that the story is true. Skipper and Stacie persuade Malibu to take them all with her on this new adventure, and Chelsea is equally excited, as she has often been fascinated with mermaids. With everyone in agreement, the sisters and Brooklyn all join hands and leap underwater, where they are all transformed into mermaids and express their amazement over their new forms.

With Malibu's necklace as a guide, the five new mermaids soon meet up with Isla, who welcomes them all back with open arms, referring to the younger girls as "guppies". Their old friend leads them into Pacifica, where they are all welcomed into the kingdom by Coralia, who presides over the opening ceremony of the Pacifica games. Chelsea, Stacie, and Skipper are later befriended by a mermaid child named Aquaryah, who demonstrates her balance with her prosthetic fin, and a vaquita named Viva, while Isla explains of the different powers merpeople can gain and use. Stacie is excited about the thought of gaining her own powers so much that she scares a pufferfish Chelsea has named Puffy, while Chelsea is able to calm the new fish down.

As Chelsea watches Brooklyn and Malibu undergo the training session overseen by Aquaryah, Finn, Aquaryah's older brother, tries to convince her not to interact with these strangers any more than she already has, and Aquaryah argues that she is capable of handling herself. Overhearing this heated exchange causes Skipper to turn her anger on Finn and hit him with a blast of air, which in turn awakens her Air powers and turns her into an Air mermaid, for which she is congratulated by Aquaryah and Chelsea.

At a Power-Off located near a deadly whirlpool, Chelsea witnesses another heated exchange between Brooklyn and a mermaid named Talleigha, during which they both gain Fire powers and awaken as Fire mermaids. However, Talleigha immediately uses her powers to sneak-attack Malibu and push her dangerously close to the whirlpool. Malibu is only able to survive through Stacie's awakening of Earth powers and quick thinking by blocking the whirlpool's current with a manipulated boulder.

Before the games are about to begin the next day, Chelsea learns from Viva that Aquaryah has not been seen since the previous day, so she ventures out with the vaquita to search for her. They find Aquaryah in a secluded area of a kelp forest, practicing with various elemental powers, and try to convince her to come back to Pacifica. It is through this exchange that Aquaryah learns that Chelsea has awakened as a Water mermaid. After more conversation, Aquaryah agrees to return to the city with Chelsea and Viva, but they lose their way and are eventually kidnapped and imprisoned in a tank in an undersea vessel owned by the sisters' old foe Marlo and her new assistant Oslo.

During their time as Marlo's prisoners, Chelsea notices a pair of anglerfish imprisoned in the same tank as her and Aquaryah. Aquaryah has an idea for Chelsea to get the anglerfish on their side, and Chelsea makes a deal with them: If the anglerfish help the two mermaids escape, they'll get them back into the ocean. The anglerfish accept her offer and pop the lock on the tank. With that deed done, Aquaryah and Chelsea escape the undersea vessel along with the anglerfish.

Chelsea and Aquaryah later catch up with Malibu and other merpeople (including a reformed Marlo) as they are working to clear away an island of trash accumulated near Mermaid Rock, and Malibu reveals Aquaryah as the Power Keeper the merpeople need to clear away the entire island. Once Aquaryah awakens as the Power Keeper, Chelsea, working alongside the other merpeople, channels her power into Aquaryah, who uses her newfound abilities to eradicate the entire island of trash. At Mermaid Rock at the end of the day, Chelsea joins in the celebration of the Mermaid Moon Festival.

Personality

The sweet, funny, and clever youngest sister, Chelsea is very girly and cute, but rather clever and smart for her age, and also a bit sarcastic. Like Stacie, she is outgoing and makes friends easily. As a typical seven-year-old, her obsession with mermaids is why she insisted on becoming one with Malibu and Brooklyn and did not want to miss out.

Physical Appearance

Human

Chelsea retains the look she had in Dreamhouse Adventures and It Takes Two, but wears her blonde hair down, just as she did in Dolphin Magic. She wears a one-piece light-blue swimsuit with a fish-scale design and emblazoned with the drawing of a mermaid on the front.

Mermaid

Her color scheme is very similar to Barbie's, probably because they are the two sisters that look the most alike. Her hair is a soft periwinkle color. She has a tail colored mostly purple, but it gradients to pink. She is the smallest mermaid, even when compared to Aquaryah.

Mermaid Powers

• Water manipulation/Hydrokinesis: Chelsea can control and manipulate water at will. It is unclear however if her powers will remain in her human form.
• Aquatic animal communication: With the gift of the power of water, Chelsea can communicate with aquatic animals whilst no other mermaid/merman can do. This is seen where she communicates with Viva.