Submerged love.
#look! how happy! she is! #the main misconception i had about this movie was that it was a love story about both of them #when it’s more truly a love story about HER #its not like beauty and the beast where we spend a lot of time on the beast’s own journey #this is still similar to that story but the journey is 100% HERS #it’s less girl next door and the elemental river god who loves her #and more girl next door and her love for an elemental river god #that subtle difference in subject #i just love how the illustrated girl-and-fish image of this moment is sort of ethereal and dreamlike #but the reality of the moment is her delighted face!!
Goldnwulf 