@crinrict I've been playing the Runaway Teen challenge with a kid in Sulani, and his girlfriend is a randomly generated (I think) teen townie named Pania Misipeka. I took her into cas.fulleditmode to change her awful clothing and discovered she was a mermaid. I never saw her swim with a tail but my sim never asked her if she was a mermaid so I wasn't concerned. But later, I found that she was a homeless sim, so I put her in a house with a family, set all their relationships, had a mother, grandmother and little sister who were also mermaids (father was not). Then I played them for a while to get them going as a family before I mark them as unplayed again...
That's when I realized Pania no longer had a hydration bar, and she didn't transform in the bath, even though all her other family members do. Played her for a couple days, saved, quit, reloaded a couple times to see if her mermaid form would come back. It didn't. Went looking for answers, found this thread. I just did Traits.equip_trait trait_OccultMermaid_TYAE on her and voila! She's got a hydration bar and her tail came out when she took a bath and went swimming. Thank all of you who figured out this fix. You guys rawk! 🙂
