Lori Lemaris

Lori Lemaris is a student at the Conservatory of Sorcery in Atlantis.

Characteristics
Lori resembles most depictions of a mermaid, in that her upper body looks human but her lower body is a fish tail.

History
At the Conservatory of Sorcery, Lori attempted to perform a translation spell, but was afterwards uncertain whether it had worked.

Production background
Lori Lemaris was a character from DC Comics who originally appeared in Superman #129, May 1959. She was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and originally designed by Wayne Boring. In the comics, she was an old girlfriend of Clark Kent. The version in Young Justice is a new version of the character, although both are mermaids.

Lori was designed for Young Justice by Character Designer Jerome Moore, who was instructed to make her a young girl. He tried to avoid making her look like Disney's Ariel from The Little Mermaid, and also decided not to use the typical mermaid design, where the tailfin is angled like a cetacean and shaped like a chevron. Instead, he based her tail on those of real fish, so that she must swim using a sideways tail motion instead of a dolphin kick.

He also tried to keep nearly everything she wears as recognizably aquatic as possible, for instance by making her hair is banded with green kelp. However, in the final episode, the colour of the hair bands was changed to pink. Her necklace, vambraces, pauldrons, and the tiara atop her head are fashioned from shells and coral.

In the episode "Downtime", a translation spell cast by Lori Lemaris at the beginning of the episode facilites the use of spoken English. In-universe, all of the characters from the Atlantean segments (except Black Manta, his men, Superman and the Justice League Computer) are speaking the Atlantean language, but the audience hears English because of Lori's translation spell.

Appearances

 * "Downtime"