Galatea

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Princess Galatea
Title	Princess Galatea of Melody Fairy of Melody
Profile
Class	Fairy
Gender	Female
Age (at first appearance)	Possibly 16
Professional Status
Affiliation	Alfea Winx Club Melody
Powers and Abilities	Sound Manipulation Music Interpretation
Personal Status
Origin	Melody
Family	Unnamed parents
Relationships	Liang (boyfriend?) Mr. Sol (friend)
Debut
Cartoon	The Mirror of Truth
Last Appearance
Cartoon	The Fall of Tritannus
Voice Actors
Italian	Francesca Manicone
4Kids	Erica Schroeder
Atlas Oceanic (Nickelodeon)	Jennifer Hale

Princess Galatea is the princess of Musa's home world, Melody.

Appearance

• Civilian
• Winx

Galatea has very long blond hair with side swept bangs, a pale, porcelain peach skin tone, and blue eyes. Her facial features are similar to Musa's. She wears a soft blue top under a soft lavender dress with a ruffly skirt and hanging ruffled tips of the sleeves and a large opening that shows the shirt under it outlined in ruffles with a vampire neck and connected soft lavender tights. She also wears a yellow crown with a gold diamond on the top and a black necklace with a gold diamond and two black hair bows in her hair.

Galatea wears a pale green ruffly dress that has two points at the end that cover lighter green ruffles and has a blue belt with a gold music note on it. Her hair bows have changed to lime green and she wears a blue head piece with a gold question mark on it, she also wears a pale yellow necklace. Her shoes are light yellow heels with gold laces going up her legs and hang of the sides. Her wing are pale yellow with gold trim and resemble treble clefs.

Personality

Galatea appears to be a friendly person. She is brave and selfless being able to stand up to the Trix alone and she even tried to save the spells from the forbidden library even after Icy shattered her wings as well as telling Musa to leave her be so that she may escape from the fire. She can be authoritative though, using her status as a princess to command others, but it appears that she only uses it when she needs to like towards the Trix.

Series

• Season 3
• Season 5

In the episode Episode 4 ,when Musa walks into the room where Galatea is playing the musical instruments, she is amazed by the wonderful music that Galatea was composing. Musa introduces herself and is honored to meet the princess of her realm.

Galatea captured by the Trix

When the group of fairies split up to look for the Trix, Galatea spots them first. The Trix demand her to show them the spells. Galatea tries to send a message, using sound waves, and it catches Bloom and Musa's attention. Musa explains that using sound waves are a way of communication, and that Galatea needs help.

In Episode 10, Galatea's wings are frozen and broken when Icy becomes mad at her. The Winx comes in time and fights of the Trix. When Darcy set the library on fire, the Trix leave and Galatea rushes back into the fire to save the spell books.

Musa rushes into the fire to save Galatea, and receives her Enchantix. With the help of fairy dust used by Musa with her new Enchantix, Galatea gets her wings back.

Galatea and her father (on the far left side) on Andros

Although she only made a cameo apearance, Galatea appeared in "The Devourer" and in "The Fall of Tritannus". She's seen at Domino's palace, discussing ways to defeat Tritannus and in Andros in the fifth season final episode, attending the celebration for Tritannus's defeat.

Magical Abilities

Galatea sending sound waves

Galatea's powers are also related to music and sound waves like Musa, but specifically speaking, hers are melody. She can communicate with Musa via using her sound waves, trying to warn her that the witches are in the library.

Uses of Magic

• Sound Sphere
• She played music with her magic.
• Levitating instruments.
• Sound Wave Communication.

Trivia

• The name Galatea (Γαλάτεια: "she who is milk-white") means "White as milk" in Ancient Greek.
  • According to Greek Mythology, the King Pygmalion of Cyprus, carved the statue of a woman out of ivory but fell in love with it because of the statue's beauty. Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, was touched by Pygmalion's love and his prayers to her and turned the statue into a living human being named Galatea. Pygmalion then married Galatea.
  • Galatea is also the name of a Nereid (a Nymph of the Sea) of Greek Mythology. Galatea and Acis, a young shepherd, loved each other but Polyphemus, a Cyclops, also loved Galatea and killed Acis out of jealousy. Devastated, Galatea then turned the blood of Acis into a river of Sicily, the Acis River which flows past Akion (Acium in Latin) near Mount Etna.
  • Galatea is also a name of a woman in Greek Mythology who was the wife of a man named Lamprus and who prayed to the Goddess Leto that her daughter becomes her son, and Leto changed the girl into a boy named Leucippus.
  • Galatea is also the name of a village in the North Island of New Zealand.
• Erica Schroeder used to voiced Piff and Daphne in the 4Kids dub.
  • Erica also voices Faragonda, Icy , Piff, Critty and Squonk in the DuArt dub.
• She, King Radius, Ligea and Miele were the four characters whom the Winx saved to earn their Enchantix.