Claire Brown is a teenage human girl, a freediver, and the deuteragonist, who is portrayed by Emma Roberts. She is best friends with Hailey and Aquamarine. She is 15 years old and the same age as Hailey.
Personality[]
Unlike her best friend, Hailey, Claire is shy and reserved. She is a little serious but she is very sympathetic and friendly too, she tends to feel hurt easily but it is because she is sensitive. she also likes to give love advice to others and does not like to hurt other people's feelings. At first she is somewhat fearful but later she becomes more daring and determined as she overcomes her phobia of water. She is very stubborn and energetic, she is also very impatient and gets crazy easily sometimes. She has a trauma due to the death of her parents who drowned when they were on a boat, she is also very mature despite her youth. Claire is also a girly person as she claims to be an expert on boys. She is very sensitive and caring overall. She is a freediver and loves to go freediving.
Appearance[]
Claire dresses nicely and modestly for a girl her age. She prefers jeans and a casual t-shirt/tank top. She also wears reading glasses. When she goes freediving, she wears her bikini, her diving mask, her flippers and holds her breath underwater.
Role in the Movie[]
One night, after a violent storm, her best friend, Hailey Rogers (JoJo), wishes for a miracle that will make her mother change her mind about moving, and so they find a mermaid named Aquamarine (Sara Paxton) in the swimming pool of her grandparents beach club.
The mermaid tells the girls that she needs to prove to her father that love does exists for 3 days or she'll be married with a merman who she hates. She promised that if they helped the fish out, then they would get a wish.
Feeling like this was their last hope, they introduced the mermaid to Raymond, so Aquamarine could possibly fall in love with him. The first time Aquamarine and Raymond meet, she asks him if he loves her which he say no and told her that she was hot.
The three decide to make Raymond fall in love with Aquamarine in the next three days. They use strategies found in teenage magazine. So, Aquamarine, Claire and Hailey proceed to stalk Raymond around town. At a street fair, Raymond gives Aquamarine an inflatable shark, and buys her cotton candy.
He mentions wanting to see her at a party the next night and she runs away, fearing the sunset that causes her legs to transform back into a tail. Claire and Hailey show Aquamarine a water tower for her to spend the night in and promise to visit her the next day.
In the morning, the three take a bus to Tampa for a classic shopping montage to obtain clothing for the party.
After three days are up, Raymond still has not fallen in love with Aquamarine, and her father calls her back home in a giant storm.
Hailey and Claire swim after Aquamarine after she tries to defy her father again and they discover the meaning of platonic love. Aquamarine's father is satisfied and the girls receive their wish.
They decide to not use it to keep Hailey from moving away and instead they part ways with Aquamarine, with promises that they will remain friends despite their distance from each other.