But what about a turtle? Turtles are cute. I guess it could be the fact that it elephants spray water and they needed something that could also walk on land. When first approaching Vah Ruta, for normal people it'd be a mixture of 'ooh' and 'ahh' but for me it was, 'I don't understand, Mipha's a fish, why an elephant of all things?'
Sure it was a loophole, and a pretty lame one at that, but it was either that or a Lynel.
I remembered seeing some shock arrows in the shop there and went there to buy them. For the shock arrows I did end up going to Lurelin Village, the little fishing town in the far southeast.