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I always have too many fic ideas. I cannot write everything at once, brain.

Okay so the original PIDW Qing generation never made it to ascension, most of them Just Died. But they fared much better in the new timeline, every last one survived, and with Bingqiu and Moshang in their positions, probably going to stay that way!

They are all supposed to ascend together but lbr, Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua are not leaving their banned-from-the-Heavens demon husbands.

They talk it over! And ultimately, after a lot of back and forth, it's decided that the rest will ascend without them but with their blessings when the time comes. Decades later, it's finally time.

Luo Binghe is hyped, man, 90% of the people that take his husband's time away from him are leaving, Especially Liu Qingge! Shen Qingqiu is not hyped, these are his friends, Especially Liu Qingge, but he thinks he's come to terms with it, he's had plenty of time knowing it was coming.

So the other ten Peak Lords ascend, SQQ and SQH retire, and a new generation takes over, it's Happily Ever After time, right? ...Right?

Except Bingqiu find that Liu Qingge was maybe more entwined with their lives than they realized.

Binghe actually dealt with a surprising amount of his stress by picking fights and having stupid hunting competitions with LQG. And everyone else just kind of accepts that he overpowers them, LQG was the only person in his life trying to catch up. There was something grounding about that, in having at least one person that doesn't see him as an unreachable pinnacle.

SQQ has no idea where half his fan collection is, because LQG doesn't bring them back anymore. He still makes notes on beasts he thinks LQG would enjoy fighting before he remembers. He has half a box of LQG's favorite tea and he cannot bring himself either to drink it or throw it out.

Why the fuck did they think it was okay to let him ascend?

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Just in case Trump wins:

right after Trump was elected in 2016, suicidality skyrocketed. If you’re considering suicide in the wake of the election this year, at least wait until after it’s absolutely certain that he’s won - after every vote has been counted, every state certified, and maybe even after he’s been sworn in (IF he wins), just to make sure he doesn’t go to prison instead. Watch the results come in live here, but don’t obsess or let them sway your vote. (To be clear, I don’t want a single person to commit suicide over the election results, no matter what. But I know from experience that “don’t do it” is thoroughly unhelpful, so instead I’m saying at least wait.)

if you’re considering suicide because you fear worsening material conditions, you might think a hotline can’t help with that. and it’s true that they can’t change legislation or promise you’ll be safe. but it’s worth double checking whether what you’re actually hurting from is in fact unfixable. right now, just getting through the emotions can help you regain a more objective view of the situation, and then you can work on surviving it. plus, when something bad happens, we tend to vastly overestimate how bad it will seem in the future, no matter how bad it actually is.

In my experience, it might take a few tries before you find a hotline that picks up, either because they’re so busy, or they’re closed at that time, or they simply don’t serve your location or demographic, so under the thingy I’ve listed more than just the same handful that tend to show up on other websites. Even if you’re not actively suicidal, you can talk to them about your hard feelings, ask for material resources, or just vent to a compassionate listener.

FIND HELP

HopeLine - call/text: 877-235-4525

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - call/text: 988 | chat

Crisis Text Line - text HOME to 741741 | chat

help getting out of the military

for underrepresented adults:

Thrive Lifeline - text THRIVE to 313-662-8209

for pre-teens, teens, and young adults:

Your Life Your Voice - call: 800-488-3000 | text VOICE to 20121 | email

for teens (limited hours):

Teen Line - call: 800-852-8336 | text TEEN to 839863 | email

for trans and questioning people:

Trans Lifeline - call: 1-877-565-8860

for people with substance dependency:

Never Use Alone Overdose Prevention Hotline - call: 877-696-1996

for BIPOC (“with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens”):

BlackLine - call: 1-800-604-5841

for college students of colour:

The Steve Fund Crisis Text Line - text STEVE to 741741

for LGBTQ+ young people:

The Trevor Project - call: 1-866-488-7386 | text START to 678678 | chat

for homeless or runaway youth:

National Runaway Safeline - call/text: 1-800-786-2929 | (has chat and email, but I think the link includes tracking)

for Muslim youth (limited hours):

Naseeha Youth Hotline - call: 1-866-627-3342

Amala Hopeline - call: 1-855-952-6252

for Jewish queer youth (warmline, may take up to 24 hours to reply):

JQY Warmline - call/text: 551-579-4673

for veterans:

Veterans Crisis Line - call: 988, option 1 | text: 838255 | chat

for veterans and their families:

Lifeline for Vets - call: 888-777-4443

for pregnant people:

Crisis Pregnancy Hotline - call: 888-628-3353 | text: 714-448-8323

for parents unsure of their ability to care for a newborn:

National Safe Haven Alliance - call: 888-510-2229 | text SAFEHAVEN to 313131

International Council for Helplines Member Organisations

Warmlines - for emotional support, if you just need to talk; a lower level of support than crisis hotlines

NAMI Helpline directory

Key warmline directory (unclear if 317-550-0060 might also be a warmline, I haven’t tried it)

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line (limited hours) - call: 888-407-4515

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Optional Part 6, funky headcannons/fun facts:

Tint:

Favorite songs are produced by Turquoise October, his personal favorite is shooting starfish” and “the girl from Inkopolis” he enjoys off the hook music as well, and recognized the melody of Ebb&Flow as the same one that Marina used to hum in octo valley.

They tried out rollers when their octobrush broke one day, he ended up loving the roller and it has become his favorite weapon, Octavio designed a roller that has Tint’s favorite abilities for when he returns from his assigned mission

Tint has collected all the weapons with “OP Specials” that had to be banned because of damages, he was able to figure out how certain octarians could wield inkstrike.

After hours of planning and research, Tint figures out how to recreate the Splatoon 3 specials and created defense areas of triple inkstrike missiles and tacticooler boosters.

Saw Callie as a bit of an older sister during and after she lived in octo canyon.

Despises Marie with a burning passion for 1. Putting Octavio in a snow globe the first time 2. Calling octarians “octo-jerks” 3. Taking away Callie from octo valley 3. Putting Octavio in a snow globe again even when Callie told her not to 4. Assuming it was Octavio who stole the Zapfish while it was really Mr. Grizz 5. Thinking no Inkling would side with octarians but octarians could side with Inklings 6. Getting low tide ink all over the “boss fight” area.

Worked with Marina in at least 1 mechanical project, but they weren’t friends at all, just coworkers.

Will straight up murder Cuttlefish if he hurts Octavio at all

Favorite foods are Octavio’s crab recipes (they also happen to be Callie and Cuttlefish’s favorites)

Has eaten sand and drank seawater before.

Tint ends up causing a lot of character divergence for both DJ Octavio and Callie, shaping them into their found family dynamic and changing some of their motives.

Octavio:

Planned to leave Tint when he was 2 and that hopefully someone else would go pick him up, but after thinking that that’s what Cuttlefish would have probably done, he decided to be the bigger one and take Tint in

He’s old as balls, like 130-ish

Used to date Cuttlefish before the great turf war but they broke up mid war at some point.

Was planning to brainwash Callie, but after a couple of real conversations with her and seeing how attached Tint got, he dropped the brainwash plans.

Gets really desperate under pressure, like last resort used before it’s an actual last resort desperate under pressure.

Actively looked for solutions to the octarian energy crisis aside from the Zapfish after he got attached to Tint, but he wasn’t able to find any in time.

Didn’t think much about Marina’s disappearance because he had bigger fish to fry in that moment.

Really wants octarians to have the best life they can get

The middle part in “I am Octavio” was both a sick fuckin beat but also a distress call to all the old enough “Elite Octarians” into their headsets, this excluded Marina, but he also programed it to send to Tint’s gear so he would know if he was ever in danger.

Makes crabby cakes for Octarians who passed their missions, they’re very popular comfort food for octarians, the recipe is unknown, and Octavio and Tint are the only ones that are able to make them right, so he spent a lot of his free time making them with Tint

Scars from sanitization hurt from time to time, but he’s doing much better than when he was being mind controlled

Apologized a lot to Callie after being de-sanitized because mind control was torture. Callie already forgave him since she did willingly join his side like twice though.

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the pronouns for characters:

Tint (he/they/it), Smile (he/they), Bucket (they/it), Zap (he/they), Knitted (he/they), Cap (they/it/she/he), DJ Octavio (he/they), Captain 3 (they/it/ve), Agent 4 (they/it/she), Agent 8 (they/them), Cuttlefish (he/him), Callie (she/they), Marie (she/her), Shiver (all pronouns), Frye (she/it), Big man (he/him + neos)

And for the Splatoon 4 idols that are mentioned like once: Aurora (she/they), Gull (he/him), Adri (she/her), Baye (they/it/he)

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Left to right: Gull, Aurora

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Left to right: Baye, Adri

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The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore

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PART 5 (FINAL PART OF LORE)

After clearing all the levels, instead of the “climb to the surface” in octo expansion, it’s actually a descension to further underground the metro, aka. The music studios

A remix of some of Octavio’s tracks and Splatattack starts playing from a booth nearby, the closer the squidbeak gets to the booth the louder the music gets.

When Tint reaches the chamber, he’s met with Dedf1sh playing music non-stop and a very tall and old-looking octoling with long hair changing the tune of the music, the octoling turns out to be Octavio (finally let go of ZR lmao) in his octoling form. He’s sitting in a pool of sanitized ink and the half of his face (opposite to Captain 3’s) is stained with ink.

Boss fight happens, it’s a custom fight since I already made the “game” incredibly hard by all the special spamming, specials are activated on rhythm with the song, since this is still a (really broken) “game concept” turned AU, Tint and Agent 8 are the only ones that can enter the fight, however, 8 can only go help in the final stage of the fight. The rest of the squidbeak has to send outside support by singing or special fuel.

Phase 1: Bomb rush, ink storm, and ink ray. Tint gets infinite ink armor and tacticooler.

Phase 2: tenta missiles, killer wail 5.1, and bubble blower. Tint gets infinite bubbler.

Phase 3: ultra-stamp (thrown),

Phase 4: mini-Inkstrike & Kraken (breakable armor) + DJ 2v2. Tint gets his own inkstrikes if the amount of power eggs before entering is higher than 2000, Agent 8 helps in the fight with the same AI that Octavio and Dedf1sh use, just against the two.

After de-sanitizing Dedf1sh and Octavio, Dedf1sh has permanent sanitization patches all over their skin and her hair is still sanitized. Octavio is fine-ish, he can’t change back to his octopus form because of the sanitization and de-sanitization damage, and has a noticeable scar in the side he was splashed with sanitized ink. But he’s okay ig.

The squidbeak turn off the music, Marie and Callie destroy the DJ booth and they all head out to the surface, end credits are them eating crabby cakes together.

Cuttlefish tells Octavio he’s sorry for the whole great turf war “forcing the octarians underground” thing and says that all octarians are welcome in many cities now, Octavio sends out a message to the octarians in octo valley and canyon that if they’d like to head to the surface and live among inklings, they now can, the war is over, again, but really this time.

DJ Octavio tells Tint to go back to the team and to explain why he left, since the inklings and octolings aren’t gonna be fighting anymore.

Tint returns to team rainbow and they all yell at him for just leaving all of a sudden (- Bucket), Tint explains why he left but that he’s back now, at least partially, because he’s going to live with Octavio in octo valley on the weekends.

The group is fine with this and immediately go and play some turf war. Bucket, and Smile are re-allowed to play ranked mode.

Tint is forcefully enlisted into school by his friends and Octavio, since while he knows a lot of stuff, he didn’t really finish school ever, so he’s enlisted into the same school as the rest of team rainbow.

Team rainbow participates in turf wars a lot during the weekdays, and when Tint is with Octavio on weekends, the team visits.

And that's the lore !!!

If you're gonna ask a question that's set in the past, do mention what game (splat 1, 2, 3, or 4) it's set in, and if it's specific, put in around what time in the timeline :D

The asks will be defaulted to after Splatoon 4 if there's no time specifics, so do keep that in mind.

The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore

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PART 4

The squidbeak agrees to help find Octavio on the condition that Tint hands the Great Zapfish back, Tint reluctantly agrees, but does threaten to send the octoweapons their way if they don’t follow through with their end of the deal.

Bucket, who’s tired of assisting both sides, puts the duty of helping the squidbeak into Operative 1’s hands (Start of 4th campaign), Callie agrees and Tint is sent to work with the squidbeak, Callie goes to check that he’s not planning any betrayals, she tells bucket to just enjoy some turf war, decorate their apartment or do some salmon run back at Inkopolis or Splatsville instead of spending their time saving societies, Bucket takes the opportunity and goes and buys an apartment in Turfton to just relax for the next couple of days. (End of 3rd campaign)

Tint is made into Agent 7 and gets his own squidbeak uniform, he gets to keep his goggles as long as they’re also connected to the squidbeak group chats and voice channels. He's being supervised by Captain, since they beat Tint in a fight without using their full “limiter removed” abilities. Callie is arguing with Marie, Cuttlefish is tired of still being as dry as beef jerky, Deep Cut left as soon as they could, and the rest of the squidbeak have to deal with all this.

7 is sent on a mission with Captain 3 first, they’re sent to restore Octo canyon and valley, but Captain discovers that Callie and Tint already fixed most of the areas, only the “boss fight areas” were destroyed, and most of them were already repaired. Captain 3 and Tint are able to repair that area in less than a day with Tint’s tech

Callie and Marie have a “friendly conversation” about the octarians and how Marie and Cuttlefish have been just slightly too judgmental of them, even when Cuttlefish was proud of part of their octarian heritage he was still a bit specist. Cuttlefish and Marie tell Callie they’ll try to be better.

Tint and Captain 3 return to the squidbeak camp, Tint volunteers to make the food, crabby cakes, Cuttlefish immediately agrees (he knows Tint is gonna use Octavio’s secret recipe), Marie is assigned to watch him make them to make sure they aren’t poisoned. Everyone ends up loving the recipe, Tint tells them it’s the one his dad used to make him whenever he felt sad, or whenever an octarian succeeded in a mission. Marina takes a whole batch of them home.

Missions to find Octavio start, Sanitized octarians seem to be on the rise for some reason, there’s a few sanitized inklings as well, which is disturbing since sanitized Inklings are very rare but now, they’ve shown up in mass.

Agent 8 and Captain 3 fear the worst: Tartar being back from the dead, he is a robot after all.

The entire squidbeak goes to explore the area where all these sanitized octarians seem to be coming from.

They end up making camp near Hammerhead bridge (Turfton side) and a mass of Sanitized and mamlian-ized octarians come out of the bridge.

Marie gives the squidbeak tanks full of the de-mind control ink (mix between Captain 3’s tears, golden eggs, Low tide ink, and a few other ingredients) Captain 3 tells the squidbeak to fight with “all they got” which leads to Tint’s fight mechanics working the same as in the fights with inkstrikes, dropping multiple all throughout the map, along with tenta missiles and Callie catching up with his strategy and joining in with her modified special by Tint “Bomb Rush Crush” using a modified roller with the power and speed of burst bombs and being able to send any secondary possible.

Callie and Tint are able to bring all the Octarians back to normal essentially by themselves (main character abilities and all). Captain asks how Tint is able to throw that many inkstrikes at once, since they’ve gotta have a limiter, all inklings have one. Tint explains that Octavio never saw the need for a limiter, and he could technically cheat in battles, but often doesn’t. The octarians kneel before Tint (he’s kinda their prince remember?) but he just asks them if they know where Octavio might be kept.

The octarians explain how they were lured into a tunnel bellow the sea by a familiar memory, they recall the song sounded like one of the songs a DJ (Marina wasn’t a DJ at that time, it’s not her lol) used to play before she disappeared and the melody of Octavio’s “I am Octavio” track. Captain 3 and Agent 8 both realize what that could entail and thank the Octarians for the information. Tint offers to make small crabby cakes for everyone and gives them the route back to octo canyon and octo valley, and if they hear that melody, to never approach and stay away, and if it gets closer that they should flee to either Inkopolis or Splatsville depending on which is closer, since they accept Octarians there now. After getting their mini crabby cakes, the octarians leave for Octarian society.

Captain 3 and agent 8 break the news to the squidbeak that the DJ was probably Dedf1sh, and that there’s a chance that Octavio got sanitized. Tint gets up from his seat and immediately heads to the deep-sea metro, the squidbeak follow him since they still don’t want him to destroy Inkopolis and stuff.

Tint ends up at the site where Tartar’s broken telephone is kept, since the telephone is still there and is absolutely broken, the rest of the squidbeak gets there, the music in the background is one of Dedf1sh’s songs, Tint is beginning to connect dots.

Tint tells the squidbeak about an old DJ in Octo Valley and how she disappeared one day. He mentions how the music sounds extremely similar to the music she worked on before disappearing.

The squidbeak goes through the deep-sea metro and Tint has to complete the missions that were there before, however, he also has to use de-sanitization ink (limited supply that if it runs out, ingredients have to be gathered) in any levels with enemy octolings, in these levels, enemy inklings can now appear.

Levels have similar structure to splatoon 3, where you only need a certain amount of level beating (not all levels) before you can do the boss fight

This shit's so long it's gonna need a part 5 LMAOOO, I'll see y'all there ig

The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore

[ask-the-splatoon-ocs-i-made]

PART 3

Bucket ends up at Octo Canyon, the figure recruits Bucket as “Operative 3” for the time being, quoting what Octavio said to her when she was made Operative 2: “even if you’re an inkling, we need all the help we can get”

Octavio is trying to restore Octo canyon and Octo valley to their former glory before the electricity crisis that caused him to steal the great Zapfish.

Bucket goes through several missions to steal back the zapfishes and mini zapfishes to power octarian society again.

A mysterious ally is “Operative 1” who’s working on inventing new sources for power, and maybe stealing the great Zapfish again to contribute for research.

These levels bring back music from the splatoon 1 and 2 campaigns.

Operatives 1 and 2 get quiet whenever the topic of Octavio comes up

Octavio turns out to have gone missing after a trip to Octo Valley to try and find more octarians

Operative 1 ends up stealing the great Zapfish to bring power to both octo valley and octo canyon, but he also did it to lure the new new squidbeak splatoon and to fight them for trapping Octavio in a snow globe.

After restoring both octo valley and canyon the squidbeak splatoon comes back to take the great Zapfish, and Operatives 1, 2, and 3, have to fight the Squidbeak splatoon.

First “boss” is Frye, with her new moves her eels learnt and her modified Stringer, she’s now able to use inkstrike, trizooka, and tenta missiles. Operatives 2 and 3 fight her, 3 has to do most of the work because Operative 2 is undercover, but 2 sends support by being able to throw bombs via a robot she and 1 built.

Second “boss” is Shiver, new moves with master mega and their own attacks with a modified splatana, they are able to replicate the moves of nearly all salmon run boss salmonids. Operatives 2 and 3 have to defeat them, with 2 sending support by bombs again.

Third “boss” is Big Man, who gained double his regular health by training on how to use the old special ink armor and using tacticooler liquid. Operative 1 helps in the last bit of the fight by sending inkstrikes to wherever 3 is standing in that moment.

After defeating Deep Cut, Operative 3 tries to negotiate with Operative 2 to give back the Great Zapfish, but she’s stubborn and wants to make sure the octarians have enough power before sending it back to Turfton.

Fourth “boss” is Pearl, who’s been temporarily recruited into the Squidbeak with Marina to get the Great Zapfish back. She uses her modified O.G. killer wail along with Splatoon 3’s killer wail 5.0 on top of a helicopter in her fight. In her final phase she jumps down from the helicopter and uses a pair of modified dualies, and can charge up tenta missiles along with her killer wails. Operative

Fifth “boss” is Marina, who uses the weapons she made in her time with the octarians, and her bombs who’ve been programed to no longer have to be manually activated. Tint helps in this fight with inkstrikes to reverse the bombs and Tenta missiles to distract the octo weaponry. In Marina’s final phase, she uses a splat brella variant, and Operative 1 physically comes down to help, not only throwing inkstrike after inkstrike, but also using a roller to take down Marina’s shield and ink the stage. In her dialogue she recognizes Operative 1 and calls him “crown prince” she super jumps out of the fight, and a cutscene with Operatives 1 and 2 is triggered.

In this cutscene, 2 tries to comfort 1, since she knows that Marina used to be 1’s role model. To change the direction of the conversation, 1 tells 2 that from the patterns of fights, Marie is probably next, and if 2 wants to fully sit this out he’s fine with that. 2 tells 1 that she’s sat too many fights out and she’s gotta help. Bucket just kinda stands there for 90% of the cutscene, but eventually they ask why Marina referred to 1 as “crown Prince”  1 tells them that they were taken in by DJ Octavio a long time ago but “the details aren’t important “

The next fight (sixth boss), as predicted, is Marie, or Agent 2, she’s able to recognize Bucket as an Inkling from their tentacles and uses her “low tide ink” in her charger the whole duration of the fight. Operative 2 remarks how Marie wouldn’t believe that an Inkling was working with octarians if it was in front of her face. During Marie’s final phase, Operative 1 switches spots with 3, Mechanics change from regular battle to battle with pauses to aim inkstrikes and tenta missiles. Marie is eventually defeated and 1 stays in the battlefield to remove as much of the low tide ink as possible.

The seventh boss is Agent 4, for this boss fight, Operative 1 heads there alone. Agent 4 has support from Marie and the charger-hero shot combo is chaotic to say the least. Midway through the fight Operative 1 says that “If you inklings hadn’t treated my dad the way you did this fight wouldn’t have happened in the first place!” and “I’m only gonna ask you this time, where are you keeping Octavio?” After the fight is completed there's a cutscene in Alterna with the squidbeak.

In this cutscene, Agent 4 and Marie ask Marina is she knows anything about a son of Octavio, to which Marina replies with a lotta exposition and backstory, she also mentioned how anxious Operative 1 (as he’s called by most octarians) got after Octavio left for missions, The squidbeak feels extremely guilty for giving the kid with severe separation anxiety major trauma from putting their dad in a snow globe. Agent 8 chimes in saying that Operative 1 was one of the highest ranking soldiers in the octarian army, even at just 5 years old he was coming up with ingenuous ideas for upgrades to the great octoweapons, which was even above Marina’s skill level at the time. Safe to say, the squidbeak is getting slightly intimidated.

Agent 8 volunteers to be the next to try and retrieve the Great Zapfish, they try reasoning with Operative 1, which ends up working on Operative 2, but 1 doesn’t listen because “we need the Great Zapfish, you should know this too! You traitor to the octarians“ and so the eighth boss fight happens. Operatives 2 and 3 help in the final phase by spamming tenta missiles.

Ninth boss fight (and the final boss) is Captain 3, who beats Operative 1 in their second phase, Captain gained full control over the specials they could use and how to fill them up even quicker than before. Operative 1’s headgear is knocked off with the swirl of an inkstrike to the face. Then it’s revealed that Tint was Operative 1 and after being defeated he just falls to the ground face first. Operative 2 suggests going back home but Tint doesn’t answer, so 2, worried to death about what could have happened to their low-key brother figure, jumps from an octo trooper and into the battlefield.

Marie recognizes 2 as Callie and shoots off the glasses with low tide ink, but aside from “ruining the look” it does nothing. Callie shakes Tint awake and asks nicely to the squidbeak, where they put Octavio in this time. The squidbeak doesn’t know shit about this, and tells the two the truth, Bucket super jumps to Tint to yell at him about how he just left without warning and how worried everyone has been, yada yada, they remove their own glasses and reveal to be Bucket.

They are siblings your honor...

Fuck making your OCs make cannon (/j) I'm making mine found family with cannon

Lore part 4 is gonna be the 4th campaign, I guess???

The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore

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PART 2

Splatoon 4:

Bucket is set on bringing the group back together (campaign #1), they discover that everyone moved to a new city of color: Turfton

The city is split in half, with two idol groups: Tentarock (Tentacle & Rock), and Hinkhop (HipHop & Ink), Tentarock focuses on more rock and metal music, the band members are Aurora, and Gull, the band is the news broadcasters on the west side of the city. Hinkhop focuses on more upbeat pop and hip-hop music, the band members are Adri, and Baye, this band is the news broadcasters on the east side of the city.

Smile and Knitted live in the west side, Zap and Cap live on the east side. (Zap has been un-banned from ranked since they’ve been showing very good sportsmanship)

Bucket goes after Zap and Cap first, they have to defeat the both of them in a turf war and in a rainmaker round 1v2, since it’s a private battle between the three, Bucket is allowed to play ranked in these rounds, Bucket manages to defeat them in both modes, and they join the team again. Zap doesn’t want to even see Smile’s face again, so Bucket has to convince them that meeting smile again cannot possibly be that bad.

The three move to the west side of the city to get Smile and Knitted to join the team again. Bucket has to defeat Smile and Knitted in turf war, clam blitz, and splatzones, Once again Bucket and Smile are able to play in ranked because it’s a private battle. They end up winning these rounds and Smile and Knitted reluctantly join the team.

Smile, Cap, Knitted, and Zap, still have massive beef, so Bucket volunteers to have a 4v1 so they can restore their friendship.

Bucket loses the battle and is proud of the team for coming together to win, but the team is still mad at each other.

There’s a figure similar to Callie looking through a vent in the west side of Turfton and Captain 3 (old agent 3) is looking through a pothole in the east side of Turfton.

Bucket decides to go east (campaign #2), they are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon (minus Callie (she’s “taking a vacation” at the moment)) as new agent 3. Instead of fighting octarians, they have to help restore Alterna for inklings and octarians alike to be able to live there by completing kettle levels against fuzzy and sanitized octarians who moved from the deep-sea metro.

Mid campaign, the Agents discover a way to de-fuzz and de-sanitize the octarians, the rest of the campaign is gathering ingredients for the de-fuzzing and de-sanitizing

When the octarians are brought back from their mind control by Tartar and Mr. Grizz, most stay in Alterna to wait for Octavio to come back for them, some go and try and get to octo valley and octo canyon again.

After restoring Alterna (end of campaign #2), Bucket heads to the west side of the city (start of 3rd campaign), where “Callie” was looking through the vent.

This lore is longer that I thought it'd be omg.

PART 3 is the 3rd and 4rth campaign (if it'll fit within Tumblr's word limit lol)

The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore

[ask-the-splatoon-ocs-i-made]

The lore of this AU! (It's long, REALLY long)

Pre-Splatoon:

Humans go extinct

Great turf war

Cuttlefish used to side with the octarians, but he soon teamed up with the other inklings after he discovered of the creation of the great octo weapons.

Cuttlefish becomes a hypocrite by helping Ammoses Shellendorf (shelldon’s grandfather) create inkling weapons of mass destruction.

The great turf war ends in inkling victory

Some octolings sided with the inklings and vice versa. The octos with the inklings were sent to a land at the other side of the world and the inklings with the octos were taken in by the other inklings and conditioned to forget about their time in the octarian army

Callie and Marie are both 1/8th and 1/16th octarian respectively, they’re also half cuttlefish, a subspecies of inklings. They’re aware of their heritage, curtesy of Cuttlefish, who while still a dick to most octarians because of the war, has still respect for octarian culture from when he was “friends” with Octavio

86 years after the great turf war an inkling couple has a child, they raise them for about 2 years, but at one point they can’t raise them anymore, so they leave them near octo valley, hoping that someone will be able to raise them, Octavio ends up finding the kid on a stroll through the valley in his octoling form, he takes the kid in and raises them.

By age 5 the inkling child, now named Tint, has gotten past Marina’s level (currently at age 9), an achievement never reached before by any octoling nor inkling.

Around this age, Tint was being recognized by the octarians as the crown prince, even if he was an Inkling. He worked with Marina at some point as well.

By age 9, Tint’s designing upgrades for the great octoweapons, but focuses most of his time helping Octavio design his Octobot so the octarians can get more electricity

Tint helps Turquoise October with some of their songs.

Tint is assigned a mission by age 13, when he reaches age 14, he’ll infiltrate inkling territory and keep an eye open for the squidbeak splatoon Cuttlefish seemed to have re-made.

Splatoon 1 - before Splatoon 2:

Octavio is defeated right before his 14th birthday, the birthday he’d become a fully-fledged inkling, join the octarian army fight training, be able to start his mission, and be able to participate in inkling turf wars. He’s comforted by the other octarians in Octo Valley, but goes on to try and achieve his mission

Marina leaves the octarians seeking a music career with the Inklings, Tint doesn’t appreciate the double slap of emotional damage that day.

Tint speaks broken inklish with a semi-thick octarian accent, but people don’t really notice

He joins the other inklings in Inkopolis plaza and stumbles across Knitted and Cap, who happen to be at the plaza that moment. They ask if he wants to join them for a turf war, since he seems new, he agrees and has a blast in turf war. He thinks it’s a replacement for traditional Octarian training.

He gets an apartment with the money that he was given to fit in with inkling society by the octarians not so long ago, and that night he gets a message from his secret mic and speaker in his headgear glasses that are directly to Octavio. He tells him happy birthday, apologized for not being able to be there in person, and that he’s stuck in a snow globe for now, but to not come to rescue him, because he’s already got a plan to get out. Tint thanks him, tells him about how the mission is going smoothly, and wishes him good luck.

Tint is in a 3-person team, and they’re able to surprisingly win many rounds

Tint uses the Octobrush, one of the only inkling weapons the Octarians use as well

Around a year passes with Tint becoming decent friends with Knitted and Cap. Marina also leaves the octarians before this time skip.

Tint ends up finding Agent 3 in a round (they were wearing the hero runners and was able to beat them in a turf war, after telling Octavio the news, he realized that the squidbeak wasn’t currently looking for members because they already had enough, he calls Octavio to tell him this realization, Octavio tells him he’s nearly free and to head to Octo canyon so he can see them again.

Cuttlefish and Agent 3 go missing

Callie helps Octavio break out of the snow globe in exchange for living with the octarians to take a break from life in Inkopolis (and to learn a little about her heritage, but that’s a secret).

Octavio reunites with his son, not really caring about showing weakness or his octoling form in front of Callie, because after a year of being away from his son, he’s finally able to see him in person again

Tin

Callie realizes that maybe putting Octavio in a snow globe was a little cruel, and takes a mental note of that

Tint introduces themselves to Callie, and shows her around Octo Canyon, he also mentions if she ever wants to produce any music, Turquoise October (the main octarian band) would be happy to have her as vocals.

Tint helps Callie with learning octarian language, octarian culture, and such.

After a while Tint reveals to Callie that he’s an Inkling himself, and that even if a small minority of octolings wouldn’t welcome her into octoling society, if he was able to fit in, she can as well.

Tint helps her write “girl from Inkopolis”

Callie volunteers to be a test on the octoshades, Tint and Octavio let her use them, but they find that the effects aren’t reversing.

Splatoon 2 – before Splatoon 3:

Octavio is trying to find a way to break the mind control so he can return Callie and not have to fight the squidbeak again, and Tint is working on stealing the Zapfish by himself to get enough power to rewire the shades

The squidbeak immediately try and defeat the octarians again and get their Zapfish back, Tint was gone during the final fight. He regrets ever leaving that day

When Callie is brought back, she only wanted to give the Zapfish back to the Inklings and protested against Octavio being put in the snow globe again, but wasn’t able to convince Marie or Agent 4

She talks with Octavio when everyone’s asleep and helps him know about how Tint has been doing in turf wars.

The octo expansion happens, afterwards, Zap and Smile leave the octarians and end up meeting Tint, after they lie about being on a mission, they all form a turf war team with Knitted and Cap.

Smile meets Bucket when they’re walking around the plaza

Smile convinced Zap to join them for ranked battle, Bucket invites a friend so their team can be finished, they all hit X rank within just a few weeks, but in one battle against another team, they’re all banned from ranked battle for a decade, Smile lost their temper, Zap may have hacked into the game mode, Bucket tried to bribe Judd and threw a suction bomb too hard at the opposing team, and Bucket’s friend pushed them all to their limits, they’re all still friends but they don’t like to remember the ranked battle incident.

Smile and Zap part ways with Bucket after they have to go to a rich person meeting.

During the squid vs octopus splatfest, Tint, knitted, and Smile vote octopus, Bucket, Zap, and Cap vote squid. Tint ends up being in the leaderboards for the splatfest, reaching the #1 spot, he’s recognized by a lot of the octolings in the splatfest, and a majority of them end up respecting Tint’s passion, but he was obsessive over this particular splatfest. (Bucket is still doing rich person thing)

During the final splatfest (the splatocalypse), Tint, Cap, and Bucket chose chaos, Zap, Smile, and Knitted chose order. Tint wants chaos because Octavio would have chosen that side (and Callie showed support for chaos on the news), Zap and Smile chose order because old habits die hard, they were raised to be orderly and it feels more natural, Cap and Bucket chose chaos because they think it’d make for a world that’s more fun, Knitted chose order because they want things to stay the same with the team. (Bucket is still doing rich people things)

After chaos wins Bucket moves to Splatsville to help the city grow, they don’t bother building a house for themselves (this comes back to bite them later)

Tint comes up with a headgear design (inspired by splatoon 1’s octoling goggles) and pitches it to a clothing brand, they think the idea is genius and start manufacturing it, Tint makes a lot of money for making fresh clothes, and he makes a replica of the gear with a camera, mic and speaker built in, directly connected to Octavio.

After Splatsville becomes the city of chaos we know and love, The group moves to Splatsville.

Splatoon 3 – before Splatoon 4:

Zap finds little buddy on the side of the road, since they’ve never done a salmon run shift, they pick him up and give him a pineapple looking haircut

Bucket joins the team when they re-meet with Smile and Zap. The team is officially called “Team Rainbow”

Smile and Zap are recruited into the squidbeak splatoon as agents 6 and 5, since agents 3 and 5 are awkward names.

Tint helps Octavio escape the snow globe and build the new octobot king just in time to arrive and fight agents 5 and 6, who are really fuckin scared because:  holy shit that’s DJ Octavio

Zap, Smile, Cuttlefish, and DJ Octavio are dragged to Alterna by the fuzzy ooze, and hero mode goes as normal, Zap and Smile are stuck in Alterna and message the rest of the team about their absence.

Tint is worried sick about Octavio, the rest of the team doesn’t know why their friend is so down, and Tint can’t answer that question without “failing the mission” so he takes out his frustrations in turf wars.

Tint starts to become one of the top splatters in the leaderboards, eventually switching to the octobrush to get even more splats, he doesn’t lash out against his team, but his unusually splat count is raising questions within the team, who think he’s worried about how Smile and Zap are doing/where they are.

Hero mode goes basically the same, but Zap and Smile are able to return twice as fast by doing levels individually and at the same time.

Octavio uses the blueprints that Tint made for the octobot king he wasn’t able to complete and used parts from Alterna to repair and upgrade the robot,

During the fight with Mr. Grizz, Zap is the one to control the octobot king, while Smile splatted all fuzzy octarians that attacked them. The teamwork turned useful when Mr. Grizz used twice the normal amount of fuzzy octarians as planned

After defeating Mr. Grizz, the two head back to Splatsville, and Octavio contacts Tint, telling him his mission is over and he can come back home.

After Zap and Smile arrive, Tint gets the message from Octavio and leaves the group, Zap, Knitted, Cap, and Smile end up arguing amongst themselves about Tint and split the team. Smile and Knitted decide to stick with each other, while Zap and Cap stick together as well.

Bucket is a bystander in the fight and witnesses the team break up. They return back to their parent’s house to sulk, but decides that the team split up for a stupid reason and they’re gonna get the team back together

The team:

from left to right: Tint, Smile, Bucket, Zap.

Smile uses the new Agent 3 gear, Zap uses the old Agent 3 gear in Splatoon 3 hero mode.

THIS IS ONLY PART 1 BTW

I'll try and reblog with the Splatoon 4 lore