In many of our previous readings about bodily transformations in Western societies, it’s usually the mermaid/aquatic creature that gets transformed into a human not the other way around. In the tale of Ti Jeanne, this assumption gets turned on its head when Ti Jeanne, a human, turns into an aquatic creature and leaves the human world behind. Ti Jeanne’s body adopts more monstrous qualities like a fishtail and serves as Maman Dlo’s servant for eternity as a punishment for her vanity (p.276). Even though she is not outright killed like other people would be for disrespecting the sanctity of the forest, she now can only reside in the aquatic domain, thereby cutting her contact with humanity. Although Ti Jeanne is punished for her vanity, Maman Dlo also acknowledges Ti Jeanne’s beauty which highlights the duality of gendered social expectations when it comes to beauty: it is something to be strived for but it’s also something to be rejected or controlled. As Maman Dlo’s eternal servant, her body and by extension her beauty are also in Maman Dlo’s possession and realm of control.