🐟 Simone Salmone Il nuotatore controcorrente

🐟 Simone Salmon The swimmer against the current

In the colorful and noisy universe of the comic The Brainrots, not everyone shines in the spotlight. Some characters exist on the fringes, in silence, letting the world flow past them.
Simone Salmone is one of them.

A direct cousin of Tony Tonno, Simone represents his absolute opposite: where Tony struts, Simone swims. Where Tony draws eyes, Simone avoids them. Where Tony eats… Simone waits.

 

🌊 Who is Simone Salmone?

Simone Salmone is a recurring character in the comic The Brainrots, often present in the background of the most crowded marine scenes.
He is an anthropomorphic salmon with a simple appearance, always turned against the current, with a shy look and an expression suspended between dreaming and resignation.

He doesn’t wear necklaces.
He doesn’t wear sneakers.
He doesn’t follow fashion.

He only follows the flow… the other way.

 

🧭 Swimming against the current (literally)

In the The Brainrots canon, Simone is famous for only one thing:
👉 he always swims against the current.

Not out of rebellion.
Not out of protest.
But because that’s just how he is.

While everyone goes one way, he goes the other.
While the music gets louder, he looks down.
While Tony Tonno is invited to dinner… Simone is left with an empty plate.

 

💔 The relationship with Tony Tonno

The bond between Simone Salmone and Tony Tonno is one of the most subtle narrative contrasts in the comic.

  • Tony is pure charisma
  • Simone is a silent presence
  • Tony conquers
  • Simone observes

There is no real envy, just a natural distance.
In the comic, Simone never criticizes Tony.
He simply… can't keep up with him.

 

🐟 Social life (virtually non-existent)

Simone Salmone is known for:

  • having no fans
  • having no admirers
  • never being the center of anything

The ladies?
In the comic, they always end up at dinner with Tony.
Simone stays behind, often with an empty plate and a polite smile.

 

🧠 What Simone Salmone represents

In the symbolic language of The Brainrots, Simone Salmone embodies:

  • the shyness in an exaggerated world
  • an identity that doesn't shout
  • a loneliness that is not tragic, but constant
  • the silent courage of being different

He is the character who doesn't win,
but endures.

 

🐟 A necessary presence

Without Simone Salmone, Tony Tonno would shine less.
Without silence, noise wouldn't exist.
Without those who stay behind, no one would understand what it means to move forward.

Simone doesn't change the world of The Brainrots.
But he makes it more real.

Simone Salmone is not a star.
He is not an icon.
He is not a legend.

He is the one who swims against the current while everyone is looking the other way.

And in a universe like The Brainrots, perhaps that is the most revolutionary gesture of all.

Back to blog

Leave a comment