Cala Maria

Cala Maria has a physical appearance reminiscent of a typical humanoid female character. She is a giant, tall, slender mermaid with fairly wide hips and a small waist. She has pale skin, a small button-nose, and two scar-like markings on the bicep of her left arm (though how or why she got them is unknown, but it could be a reminiscent of eel bite marks).

On her head, she has a dead, purple octopus with pale lavender eyelids over X-crossed eyes, with a lighter purple coloring and pale pink suckers under the tentacles. The octopus clearly acts as her hair since the three tentacles in front of Cala's face are flipped back over her head, resembling curly hair-bangs in a pompadour, while the octopus's head vaguely resembles a hair bun. Although it appears to be dead, the octopus's eyes clearly open during Cala's "summoning" animation, revealing simple, black pupils.

Cala has big, pale turquoise eyes with sea-green eyelids and three short, black, triangular eye-lashes each. She also has thin, black eyebrows and rose-pink lips.

As a sign of her mermaid status, Cala wears a sky-blue seashell bra with no shoulder straps, and her lower body is a sea-green, fish-like tail with round scales, connected with a water-ripple-like pattern below the waist line. Although we do not see her full tail in the game, various merchandise has shown that the fluke of her tail is shaped like two small waves split in two with three rounded tips on each side.

However, in her second phase, Cala Maria gets bitten on her midriff and shocked by two eels, resulting in a much more menacing appearance—a gorgon-mermaid hybrid, greatly resembling the famous mythology figure, Medusa.

Her once pale-lavender skin turns to a pale green color. Her fingers become longer and more pointy. Her lips turn an emerald-green color, her tongue becomes forked, and her teeth are now quite sharp. The markings on her arm remain unchanged.

Her eyes become menacingly cat-like with yellow sclera and black, slit-shaped pupils, losing the irises completely.

Her lower body takes on a more forest-green hue and the scales become sharper and more triangular. Her once sky-blue sea-shell bra is now a green bikini top which seems to be made from seaweed.

The most distinctive part of her new form is the octopus on her head, which has now seemingly fused onto her head and has become a marginally different shade of purple. The tentacles each transform into menacing-looking snakes with lavender, segmented underbellies, yellow, cat-like eyes, and small fangs and pink forked tongues in their mouths. Only the snakes acting as her bangs are active, while the rest are asleep.

Cala Maria's personality is initially seductive and flirtatious, trying to charm Cuphead and Mugman with a "Yoo-hoo!" and classic pin-up poses, but this quickly shifts to hostile, sadistic, and aggressive, especially after her electric eels turn her into a gorgon, revealing a more vicious, ship-sinking, pirate-stoning sea monster who loves her monstrous career. She's sassy, powerful with aquatic allies, and seems to enjoy her destructive lifestyle, even if it leads to loneliness, though she'd rather focus on being a scary sea creature than romance.