King Aquarius (Empath stories)

King Aquarius is a character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the father of Marina, a mermaid whom Handy Smurf encountered a few years before Empath's final return from Psychelia in the story "Handy's Sweetheart". During Marina's attempt to swim up the River Smurf to get lilyroot to cure her ailing father, she was rescued by Handy while he was testing out his deep-sea diving suit. King Aquarius was soon brought to the village and reunited with his daughter as the Smurfs brought back the cure, during which Handy fell in love with Marina. Papa Smurf and King Aquarius knew that the relationship between them couldn't last, as Handy and Marina couldn't live for long in each other's world, and so the two parted ways, keeping contact with each other until she met Dylan the Snorkelian.