Mutya

 Mutya is a TV series premiered on January 31, 2011 on ABS-CBN's primetime slot.. Mutya is a Philippine fantasy series produced and aired by ABS-CBN that is based on Pablo S. Gomez's comic of the same name. The series introduced the network's newest discovered child actress.

The Plot:

Mutya (Mutya Orquia), a child mermaid, was born due to the love of her parents, Cordelia (Precious Lara Quigaman), a human, and Prinsipe Irvin (Alfred Vargas), the Prince of the seaworld kingdom. However, their relationship was forbidden as Irvin is set to be married with another royalty mermaid, Nerissa (Nina Jose). Cordelia was pregnant at the time of their relationship, and was forced to give birth to the child. The child was born with an unknown disability, where her legs were attached to each other. Cordelia's mother, Delilah (Sandy Andolong), sees this, horrified and decided to dispatch the child. She assigned Tonyo (Jayson Gainza) to take away the baby. Tonyo however brought the child into their home and treated her as their own and named her Mutya. As Mutya grows up, she was protected by her older brother Aries (Jairus Aquino), who has always been there for her. Mutya was still yet to realize that she is a mermaid. With her legs being attached to each other, it was mistaken as a disability although it was actually her mermaid tail slowly forming. As the story unfolds, Mutya struggles to blend in to the human world while her parents struggles to find and be reunited with her. As they find their own way to blend in with people, they've been adopted by a drunk woman that used to be a singer, who later mistakely found out Mutya is a mermaid but her both legs are de-formed.