History Characters / SongOfTheSea

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the credits, her name is spelt "Bronach".

* MeaningfulName: Her name roughly means "freedom" in Irish, and she turns out to be the key to freeing the rest of TheFairFolk from Macha's TakenForGranite so they can return home.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Saoirse has selkie blood in her, but unlike Ben, she has the abilities of one. [[spoiler: She loses those abilities when Bronagh severs the tie between her and the fairy world, but in exchange, she's finally able to speak without her selkie coat.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Saoirse is the last selkie child.

* WaterIsWomanly: A polite, kind young girl who is the last selkie child. She's also strongly associated with water due to her selkie heritage.

* ADogNamedDog: His name really just means "dog" in Irish.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Every appearance has her not wearing any shoes.

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as an incredibly petty [[BigBrotherBully bully]] and jerk towards Saoirse, but [[JerkToNiceGuyPlot gradually comes to let go of his earlier resentment and realize he does actually love her]]--to the point where [[spoiler: he risks his life to dive into the stormy sea to recover her selkie coat to save her life, despite having a major [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes fear of water]] and knowing full well he can't swim]].

* HartmanHips: Bronagh, as seen [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qRy1vRnkYz8/UAhvFi5zT3I/AAAAAAAAEZc/cXXUWxuieBQ/s1600/bronaghreturns.jpg here]].

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ben associates his sister, Saoirse, coming with his [[MissingMom mother leaving]], which causes his negative attitude towards her. Her birthday is on the anniversary of their mother's disappearance. He then deals with his grief by bottling it up and taking it out on Saoirse.

* AloofOlderBrother: He blames his sister for their mother's disappearance and their father favoring Saoirse only causes Ben to resent her more. When he isn't [[BigBrotherBully being actively mean]] to Saoirse, he tends to shrug off her attempts to bond with him.

* BigBrotherBully: When he isn't being an AloofOlderBrother towards Saoirse, he's being this, particularly when he tells her the story of Macha the Owl Witch just to scare her and saying that no one would love her if Macha turned their father to stone.

* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: He resents and silently blames his sister, Saoirse, for the disappearance of their mother, Bronagh, on the day of her birth. Not helping his attitude is the fact that their father, Conor, is [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy very loving towards Saoirse]], sometimes at the expense of Ben, leading Ben to develop into an AloofOlderBrother at best and a flat-out BigBrotherBully at worst. However, [[spoiler:when she's dying from being half turned to stone, he apologizes and admits that none of it was her fault.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Ben has this happen after experiencing some life-or-death situations with Saoirse, realizing how much he actually loves her deep down.]]

* AndYouWereThere: His appearance and heartbreak is analogous to Conor.

* TheSpeechless: Saoirse is six years old and still has yet to talk. This is because Conor locked away her selkie coat, and she can't speak without it. [[spoiler:She finally speaks when Ben and Conor reunite her with her coat, and while she has to [[BroughtDownToNormal give up her selkie side]] to stay with her family, by the end of the story she's permanently able to speak without the coat.]]

* BlindingBangs: His eyes are hidden by his fur about half the time. He ''is'' a sheepdog, after all, and in real life, it's pretty common for them to have hair in their faces.

* BrattyHalfPint: To Ben when they run away from Granny's home, she refuses to budge and kicks him when he tries to send her back, spits on the shell-flute to put him off reclaiming it and then forces him to get off the bus and follow the faerie lights and kicks an empty can to tell him they're lost.

* WaterIsWomanly: A polite, kind young girl who is the last selkie child.

* NeverLearnedToTalk: Subverted. It's said that Saoirse has never spoken even though she's six years old, and Conor mentions taking her to a doctor because of it. It is later revealed that she cannot speak without her selkie coat, which has been locked away for years. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, she [[BroughtDownToNormal loses her selkie side]] and can freely speak.]]

* NeverLearnedToTalk: Subverted. It's said that Saoirse has never spoken even though she's six. It is later revealed that she cannot speak without her selkie coat, which has been locked away for years. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, she [[BroughtDownToNormal loses her selkie side]] and can freely speak.]]

* RapunzelHair: She has hip-length hair.

* RapunzelHair: His hair is so long that it spreads out all over the cavern he lives in. Each of these hairs is a story relating to the ''Daoine Sidhe'', though very few of them still grow since so few of his kind are left. He also gives other fictional hair a run for its money (including ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel's]]!'').

* RapunzelHair: His beard goes all the way down to his waist.

* IllGirl: Saoirse's health starts to fade the longer she's without her selkie coat.

* SmallParentHugeChild: The small parent to Mac Lir's huge child.

* SmallParentHugeChild: The huge child to Macha's small parent.