Marina (Empath stories)

Marina is a character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. She is a mermaid whom Handy Smurf encountered a few years before Empath's final return from Psychelia in the story "Handy's Sweetheart", where he rescued her during her attempt to swim up the River Smurf to get lilyroot to cure her ailing father King Aquarius. During the course of the events in the story, Marina fell in love with Handy, but unfortunately couldn't stay with him or have him be with her in her undersea home of Atlantica, and so had to leave him behind as she returned home. During a later encounter a few years after Empath's final return, it was discovered that Marina fell in love with a Snorkelian named Dylan and thus her relationship with Handy had ended, though they still remained as friends.