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cartoonfan21 · 2 years

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Cartoon Saloon's, Irish Folklore Trilogy, main deuteragonists with their mothers.

🍃Aisling and Eriu🍃 (Secret of Kells)

🐺Mebh and Moll🐺 (Wolfwalkers)

🌊Saoirse and Bronagh🌊 (Song of the Sea)

All three movies are directed by Tomm Moore.

#Aisling #Eriu #The secret of Kells #Mebh #Moll #Wolfwalkers #Saoirse #Bronagh #Song Of The Sea #Cartoon Saloon

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bramblrose · 1 month

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"Come away oh human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

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collector-noceda-clawthorne · 9 months

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👩‍🦰Women of Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy☘️

#the secret of kells #the secrets of kells #aisling #song of the sea #saoirse #bronagh #wolfwalkers #mebh óg mactíre #moll mactíre #robyn goodfellowe #cartoon saloon #tomm moore

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archerandbrown · 2 months

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THE BABIES

"hey girlll"

Request from @stevenblueniverse !! Sorry for not including comby, perhaps I'll do a sketch later to make up for it :)

#steven universe #blue diamond #art #song of the sea fanart #song of the sea #bronagh #familiar steven universe #blue diamonds pool #btw she rockin that towel go girl #spotify

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alexx-drawss · 1 month

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still super proud of this

request from @stevenblueniverse (sorry for tag) !! Blue and Bronagh chilling in her pool !

gonna try an ID, I suck at these okay ? 😭

[ID: First image includes Blue Diamond from Steven Universe sitting in her Pool wearing a blue towel, her hands on her cheeks with a surprised expression on her face, image two includes Bronagh from Song of The Sea sitting opposite Blue, her waist and below submerged in water. Both characters have water dripping down themselves. End ID]

pls gimme constructive criticism that was STRESSFUL 😭

#steven universe #blue diamond #blue diamond su #art #bath.. pool.. thing?#extraction chamber!#thats it #Bronagh #song of the sea

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lechantdelamer · 5 months

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Why did Bronagh’s hair turn white? Was she becoming a stone too?

It's not super clear, since I think turning to stone had more to do with removing your emotions, and the hair turning white seemed more to do with being disconnected from her selkie self.

#bronagh

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lizziebylife · 1 year

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Still need to finish Bronágh's design sheet totally but here's some snippets! Character design is one of my favourite things to do, I tend to get very lost in all the little details

#bronagh #my art #Dungeons and Dragons #dnd #the wild beyond the witchlight #dnd5e #harengon #charcater design #bunny #art #fantasy #Fanart

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atarahderek · 1 year

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Song of the Sea: A Criticism of Bronagh

Bronagh is probably my second least favorite character in the entire Irish Folklore Trilogy by Cartoon Saloon (nothing can beat Oliver Cromwell, but at least him we're supposed to hate). It's not that I hate her, but I do think she's a terrible person who didn't deserve her family, because the only reason she had them was to use and lose them. So in this essay I will explain how Blue Diamond pulled a Pink, but in Ireland and with pinnipeds.*

Who is Bronagh? A Recap

For those unfamiliar with Cartoon Saloon's Song of the Sea, Bronagh is the mother of Ben and Saoirse, the protagonist and deuteragonist of the film respectively. She is a selkie, which is basically the Celtic version of a mermaid. She can shift between a seal and human form, and is considered to be part of the fairy (or fae) race. She wears her seal coat at all times, which allows her to move between land and sea at will.

On the night her second child, Saoirse, is born, Bronagh falls ill while in labor and is forced to permanently return to the sea, allowing her newborn to wash ashore for her father, Conor, to find. Bronagh's departure traumatizes both Conor and Ben. Conor believes his wife has abandoned him and has no idea why, and he's left in deep depression, especially on Saoirse's birthday. Meanwhile, Ben develops aquaphobia because he believes his mother drowned at sea. He wears a lifejacket wherever he goes for this reason.

Bronagh remains absent for six years, until one Halloween night when Saoirse, embracing her selkie heritage, sings the titular Song of the Sea, opening a pathway for all fairy kind to travel to Tír na nÓg, the land they originally came from. Bronagh does not stay long, however, and bids her family farewell for the final time, taking Saoirse's seal coat so that the girl can stay with her human family. They never see Bronagh again, and are honestly happier for it.

As they should be. Because frankly, Bronagh is a grifter.

Selkies

The legends surrounding selkies typically involve either humans or selkies seducing one another (usually men of either species seducing women of the other species), resulting in an inter-species marriage. If a selkie woman marries a man, this is usually because the man found and hid her seal coat, preventing her from transforming back into a seal. When she finally finds the coat, she returns to the sea forever. In one legend, a selkie maiden willingly takes a human husband, and when he goes out to sea in a storm against her warnings, she's forced to rescue him. But because of the specific rules established in her legend, she is then unable to transform back into her human form, and has to remain at sea, separated from her family. In some forms of the legend, the selkie is able to hide their identity from their lover, out of fear they will lose their seal coat and be trapped on land forever. But in these legends, the selkie is always forced to return to the sea by one circumstance or another, thus having to abandon their lover.

The gist of all this is that selkie-human marriages always end in a broken family. And the selkie frequently leaves behind children.

Bronagh's Secrets

Now, in SotS, it's established that Bronagh and Conor are happily married, with seemingly no coercion from either party. Bronagh is free to wear her seal coat all she likes, and Conor knows she's a selkie. It's only when Saoirse is born that Conor makes a habit of hiding away the seal coat for fear of losing her like he did her mother, resulting in Saoirse becoming mute without it. It comes as a shock to Conor when Bronagh returns permanently to the sea, abandoning him and their children. Obviously he was previously unaware that Bronagh could not continue living both on land and at sea, and that she would eventually have to return to the sea.

But this isn't the only secret Bronagh kept from Conor. As one party in selkie-human marriages is wont to do, Bronagh was using Conor for her own gains.

We learn from a group of fairies that a selkie is needed to open the way to Tír na nÓg by way of her singing. Saoirse specifically seems to be the selkie required to do this. Because Saoirse is half human, she thus represents a connection--a bridge--between the human realm and the fairy realm. Ben did not inherit Bronagh's selkie magic, so even though he is technically half selkie himself, he's unable to become that bridge. There's also an implication that Bronagh knew that in order to assure that Saoirse had selkie magic, she would have to birth her at the expense of her life on land. Saoirse is the product of Bronagh's real goal; to create a bridge and open a pathway for her kind to their realm. For this she needed herself a patsy.

Enter Conor.

The Grift

Conor is a gentle lighthouse keeper. He is strongly introverted, has a love of the sea and doesn't let his overbearing mother dictate his life. He is well aware of the legends of selkies and is determined to not be that kind of husband. But he doesn't know everything he needs to know about them, and that suits Bronagh just fine. What he doesn't know can't hurt her, right? So Bronagh tells him all about where she's from, and together they dream up an idyllic life split between sea and shore. But what she doesn't tell him is that she wants him for his DNA, and once she gets what she wants, she's outta there. She leaves him bereaved and confused, with two children to raise on his own, both of whom can be read as having special needs because of their trauma and/or the circumstances of their birth. And one of those children she only produced to be a tool, just like Conor.

All this, of course, leaves poor Ben in the painful and unfair position of having to repair his entire family practically by himself at ten years old.

While I can understand that Bronagh would be hesitant to tell Conor exactly what her mission was, the fact is that by not telling him, she was exploiting him and their children. Conor was just a cog in Bronagh's machinations. She didn't marry him out of love, and she basically captured him and held him captive. Which makes her no different from any other selkie legend, except this time it's the wife doing the exploitation rather than the husband.

Basically, Bronagh is not a good person.

Consequences and Conclusion

If Conor had known the truth about Bronagh's mission, there's certainly a decent chance that he would've opted out. But what if he hadn't? What if he was so in love with this seal maiden that he agreed to help all her people? Had that been the case, he could've better prepared his children for not only the day Bronagh had to leave, but also for the day Saoirse would fulfill her purpose and open the path to Tír na nÓg. And he would've been better prepared himself. Bronagh could not have foreseen that her actions would ultimately lead to the main antagonist Macha's redemption, and the fairies whom Macha had turned to stone being set free after Ben was forced to confront his own trauma and the emotions that came with it. So Bronagh pretty much just traumatized her son because she wanted to keep her secrets. The trouble and pain she caused did ultimately have a greater good come out of them, but that was certainly not her doing.

Now, while I don't think Bronagh is a good person, I do think she is an effective character. As I said, her actions ultimately lead to all of the fairies being freed and Macha being redeemed and reunited with her son MacLir. Had Conor been completely on board with Bronagh's plans, there might not have been as important of an impact on Ben, and he wouldn't have been in a position to help Macha. So from a story writing perspective, Bronagh works quite well. But as a wife and mother, Bronagh fails utterly. As a selkie, she's so typical it hurts.

Moral of the story: Don't marry a selkie unless the contract includes an ironclad absolutely-no-secrets clause. Or just...don't marry a selkie, period. Save yourself the heartbreak.

#Cartoon Saloon #Song of the Sea #Bronagh #selkie #Ben #Saoirse #Irish Folklore Trilogy #*Go look up Bronagh's voice actress #Steven Universe

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iukasylvie · 8 months

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Trisha Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist, Sohyon from The Beast Player, and Bronagh from Song of the Sea have much more impact on their children than Coco's mother from Witch Hat Atelier does on Coco even though they only have little time devoted to them.

On top of that, Ed and Al from Fullmetal Alchemist and Elin from The Beast Player are much more determined about their goals—restoring their bodies in the case of Ed and Al and learning about the secrets of her mother, Toda, and Royal Beasts in the case of Elin—than Coco about turning her mother back to normal and learning about magic to do so.

So far, Shirahama has never expanded on:

Coco's comment in Chapter 1 that she's memorized every spell in the Brimmed Cap Iguin's picture book after a forbidden spell turns her house and her mother to stone.

Tetia's comment at Romonon that the spell to turn people into statues of gold is similar to the petrification spell.

Iguin after Romonon even though he spends a portion of the series watching Coco from afar, hoping for her to liberate magic.

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rowanul-tyr · 1 year

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stolen glances

just a coupla she/theys bein pals (i gave myself brainworms about these two earlier today so as soon as i could i had to make this happen even if bronagh is stuck in arr right now so she’s nowhere near meeting zero)

#bronagh #bronagh zasertylsyn #zero ffxiv #ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #my stuff

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koroart · 4 months

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