Hot take of the week; The castle swimmer fandom hates on Susca WAY TO MUCH and liked Shoal WAY TO MUCH.
Okay, hear me out. Both Susca and Shoal are written incredibly realistic. They’re not perfect at all, they have flaws, they have faults and regrets. However, i see people scorn and hate Susca to an extreme amount and I think it’s completely unfair to hate HER if you like Shoal.
Susca not only lies to her people, she almost kills the Beacon to protect her sons life. She would willing kill and lie to protect Siren. Ask any parent and they’d say, “Yes, I’d do anything to protect my child.”
Pim threatens her castle’s leaders because they were mistreating Pagoon and left with him.
Mucku gives up her memories to protect Neth.
So why are we hating Susca for trying to protect Siren?
“But Susca tried to kill Kappa!!! She lied to Siren!!! She hurt him!!”
If you had a child, would you rather have them killed by a stranger or kill that stranger to protect them?
She did lie. She lied to everyone. But not for her own sake of being. She didn’t lie to comfort herself or because she could bare seeing people get hurt, she lied to protect her child.
But so did Shoal.
“Did I really leave to find a way to break our curse? Or was it too much of a coward to stay and watch our people die because of our decision?”
Shoal lied. Both he and Susca made the prophecy up. If you hate on Susca for putting Siren under pressure, you should also hate on Shoal for doing it to. It’s both their faults.
Susca hurt Siren on complete accident. Siren was the one to jump in front of her spear. And after she told that castle what she did and owned up to her mistakes and would have accepted being banished. She got insanely good character development.
But what did Shoal do?
He abandoned both his wife and son. He is, by definition, a deadbeat dad. Yes Susca made mistakes but she owned up to them and apologized and let Siren leave and accepted that Kappa and Siren love each other.
Shoal wasn’t even there to see Siren turn ten!
Shoal uses excuse after excuse to try and say he made the right choice and that leaving his wife and child behind was excusable. It wasn’t.
Yes, he does regret it, but what does he do to show his remorse for abandoning his family? Stay gone.
He had ten years to come back. He never did. He even admits the real reason he left is because he couldn’t bare to see his people get hurt because of his decision.
“Did I really do this to save Siren? Or did I abandon him because it’s to painful to stay by his side?”
Yes, Shoal, you abandoned your son.
I think the only reason people like him is because he’s attractive and he’s shown to love Siren.
But how much can you truly love someone, if you abandoned them because you couldn’t handle emotional turmoil?
Shoal does regret leaving, but never comes back? Back to his wife or son? Or his people?
He forces Susca to become not only a Queen, but a single mother raising the child Shoal couldn’t bare to stay around because it was to painful and forces Siren, who was nine at the time, to lose his father and go through life without a father.
Imagine the abandonment issues Siren must have because of Shoal. Most Sharks die for their family, Shoal left his.
Shoal is never shown to have any character development at all. He doesn’t change from the sad, deadbeat dad he was ten years ago.
Susca changes into a much more responsible and mature women and admits her mistakes and accepts if Siren never wants to see her again.
What did Shoal ever do for Siren that was for only his benefit?
Susca is a liar but Shoal is a coward.
Hate on Susca all you want, but remember that she was the one who stayed.
Susca was the one who stayed. Shoal wasn’t.
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