# Wet Magic — Character guide

> Key figures in Wet Magic by E. Nesbit.

- [Francis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/francis.md): Francis has spent years longing for the sea and never quite reaching it, so when the family finally rents seaside lodgings he arrives with an aquarium and a head full of poetry. His passion runs ahead of his patience: he
- [Mavis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/mavis.md): Mavis is the practical heart of the four siblings, the one who turns Francis's crushed aquarium scheme into a fresh-water compromise and keeps the younger children from tears. She is truthful to a fault, quietly stubborn
- [Bernard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/bernard.md): Bernard is the family's calmest voice, the boy who compares mermaids to radium and asks why a talking sea creature shouldn't speak English. He is also stubborn in his own quiet way, refusing to join the adventure unless 
- [Ulfin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/ulfin.md): Ulfin belongs to the underwater kingdom the children stumble into, and he becomes their interpreter and ally in a place where human rules do not apply. His loyalty to the sea people puts him at odds with whatever the chi
- [Kathleen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/kathleen.md): Kathleen is the baby of the family, still playing with a headless Lord Edward while the older children hatch plans she is not told about. She is hopeful and easily wounded, and she bargains hard for even the smallest inc
- [Reuben](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/reuben.md): Reuben has cut his lucky from the tents and is hiding in bushes with no plan beyond running from rather than toward anything. Practical and a little hardened, he knows caves and hiding places the sheltered siblings never
- [Cathay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/cathay.md): Cathay is the little sister whose longing to believe in magic pushes the others past their caution, and whose nickname 'Fido' marks her as the family's cherished tag-along. When the mermaid's cup of forgetfulness is pass
- [Aunt Enid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/aunt_enid.md): The children's aunt who sends them on their seaside holiday.
- [Mother Romaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/mother_romaine.md): An elderly woman who knows about the magical underwater realm.
- [Maia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/maia.md): Maia is the royal Mer-woman the children haul out of a barrow and back to the sea, and she repays them by treating their world as a curiosity worth studying. Brought before the King and Queen, she refuses to betray the f
- [Mrs. Pearce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/mrs_pearce.md): A housekeeper or caretaker at the seaside location.
- [Princess Freia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/princess_freia.md): Freia is the royal Mer-woman whose demands pull Mavis, Francis, Kathleen and Bernard out of their seaside holiday and into the deep, where her cause is not theirs but becomes so. She is proud, exacting, and quick to test
- [The Under Folk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/the_under_folk.md): A mysterious underwater race encountered by the children.
- [Queen Boadicea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wet_magic_se/characters/queen_boadicea.md): A historical figure briefly mentioned or appearing as a book character.

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