[hider= Obnoxiously long but this is what I had planned for my story]

  So this story was supposed to go very differently. It originally had three parts: Ascent, Struggle, Descent. 
Things that were supposed to happen include:

  Lumina going to the surface with the help of Ulsa's transformation cloak
  Lumina meeting Princess Erica, the daughter of the leader of the island tribes
  Lumina going to the Iron City, a dark and industrial place.
  Lumina finding out that the island tribes hunt Merpeople and have killed her oldest brother.[b] *this is as far as I got in writing*[/b]
  Lumina running away with the help of Erica.
  Lumina and Erica fall in love.
  Lumina and Erica fight Ulsa as she comes to the surface to reclaim her seashell necklace, since Lumina failed.
  Ulsa was in love with a human: Erica's father. He has the necklace still around his neck from his younger days, and his boat is swept out to sea.
  Lumina and Erica fight Ulsa out at sea, Lumina tears the necklace from Erica's father's neck, and throws it at Ulsa.
  Ulsa smashes the necklace. It represented her last shred of humanity. It was the only thing holding her back from becoming a god.
  She vanishes after zapping Lumina with lightning, which makes her permanently a human, but also a cripple. Erica and Lumina live together away from the tribes in a hut, where Erica tends to Lumina for the rest of their lives.

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