NPCs · first: NA E12
Alba Mac Lir
In the twelfth episode the Sea Witch is only mentioned, not named, by Mira. Mira says her father has made alliance with terrible forces and banished the sea witch, and adds "If only I could find her again." NA E12·01:42:49
In the thirteenth episode a painted old witch woman speeds a boat through the water by magic, with a ballista mounted on its side, and a card names her the Sea Witch NA E13·01:12:57 NA E13·01:13:06 NA E13·01:13:20. She shouts "Mira, daughter of the deep, get yourself out of there!" and then says she is too late NA E13·01:13:12. She says "Right, hello, everyone! I've got a whole deal!" and later calls the shot on the Dogfish's other eye NA E13·01:41:57 NA E13·01:44:07. After the fight she says "I showed up to help, but you know... Sorta didn't do a lot" NA E13·01:53:49. Brennan ends the episode with the Little Mermaid staring at the Sea Witch, a look of frozen rage on her face, beholding the woman who took her voice and drawing a weapon NA E13·01:54:18.
In the fourteenth episode a card calls her Alba Mac Lir, the Sea Witch, and she says "Alba Mac Lir is my name." NA E14·00:11:44 NA E14·00:02:50 She flicks Mira a glowing nautilus shell that gives Mira her voice back NA E14·00:02:53 NA E14·00:03:23. When Mira says she took her voice, she answers "No, I bought your voice. It was a fair deal." NA E14·00:03:49 She says she wanted the prince dead after his great-grandfather wronged her, that she gave Mira's sisters, who sold her their hair, a knife that could kill the prince only if the Little Mermaid used it, and that she hoped the times of shadow would push Mira to do it NA E14·00:23:04 NA E14·00:24:36. Her clamshell holds only a picture of a pipe organ of other people's voices, which she says is back at her sea cave NA E14·00:30:03 NA E14·00:30:45.
She says she is a full witch, so nobody cursed her, and Brennan says she has never not been the Sea Witch but comes from the sea itself, something old and powerful like the Baba Yaga NA E14·00:17:05 NA E14·00:19:36. She calls the Baba Yaga her great and dear older sister NA E14·00:22:30. She says the Gander's wrath is great and she fears he seeks out his long lost twin, and that the Golden Goose was last seen far north in the land of giants NA E14·00:17:28. She tells of the Baba Yaga's meeting with Rapunzel, where the Baba Yaga swore to snatch the tongue from Rapunzel's mouth if she uttered a lie NA E14·00:32:54. Brennan notes a furrow in her brow when she mentions the princesses, a thought she keeps to herself NA E14·00:18:27. She steps onto the sea and flies off into a storm NA E14·00:38:55.
By episode
NA E12: A Warm Heart and a Tombstone
NA E13: Terror on Toy Island
- The Sea Witch (she/her; card: "???", The Sea Witch, The Little Mermaid) — card 01:13:06; an old, painted witch woman speeding a boat by magic, a ballista on the side; Lou says one arm is a claw; calls Mira "daughter of the deep"; arrives late, calls the shot on the other eye, takes no part in the fighting; Brennan: Mira beholds "the woman who took her voice" — 01:12:57, 01:13:12, 01:13:20, 01:44:07, 01:53:37, 01:54:18
"Right, hello, everyone! I've got a whole deal!" — 01:41:57
"Right, well, I showed up to help, but you know..." — 01:53:49
NA E14: Daughters of the Crown
- Alba Mac Lir, the Sea Witch (she/her) — card "ALBA MAC LIR (SHE/HER) THE SEA WITCH" (00:02:50); previously called only the Sea Witch. Gives her name — 00:11:41
- A "full witch, so nobody cursed me"; Brennan: "She has never not been the Sea Witch. She comes from the sea itself" — 00:17:05, 00:19:36
- Calls Baba Yaga "my great and dear older sister" ("a sort of collegiate" sense, "like a sorority") — 00:22:30, 00:22:48
- Took Mira's voice in a deal ("No, I bought your voice"); her clamshell holds only a picture of her pipe organ of other people's voices, which is back at her sea cave ("I don't have it here, it's enormous. It's back at my sea cave.") — 00:03:49, 00:30:03, 00:30:45
- Her account: the prince's great-grandfather had wronged her; she cursed his house, protected by "some petty fey"; Mira's sisters sold their hair and she gave them a knife that could kill the prince only if the Little Mermaid used it; she hoped the "times of shadow" would push Mira to do it, whereas "in many other worlds, she refuses and dives overboard" — 00:23:04, 00:24:36
- Says the Gander "seeks out his long lost twin" and the Golden Goose was last seen "far north, the land of giants"; Mother Goose's path to witchdom was "a curse by a rogue goose", the Gander — 00:17:17, 00:17:28
- Her price for the bridle: "a sliver of a conversation I had with my older sister when she told me why she had turned down the princesses"; Baba Yaga swore to take Rapunzel's tongue if she lied, and "The Princess Rapunzel curtsied and left without a word." — 00:32:20, 00:32:54
- At the Insight nat 20 Brennan notes "a little furrow of Alba's brow here as she mentions the princesses, just a little thought that she's keeping to herself." — 00:18:27
- Walks off across the sea into a storm — 00:38:55
"Alba Mac Lir is my name." — 00:11:44