#octo!host

[oct0bra1ns]

(Optional ask)

Yandere game show host x winning contestant reader

(Optional name giving, james x winning contestant reader)

Synopsis: A game worth winning Pairing: Yandere Game Show Host x reader Tw: manipulation, mentions of bringing harm to others , yanderes, notes: anon, ty for saving me the pain of trying to think of a name. im also tired, my dog chased me around the house. reblogs and comments are appreciated!

Yandere game show host! Who’s always had his eyes on you, from the very beginning the participants list was rigged to have you from the very start. It doesn’t matter if the game was hosted in a different country, for this season they're moving to a new location!

Yandere game show host! Who’s charismatic personality draws in a large audience, he has to show off your brilliance to everyone of course.James starts off sweet, making sure all the participants are looked after but as the game progressive people start accusing you of trying to bribe him and well, he can’t have anyone accusing his darling. It doesn’t take a genius to realise they made a mistake, of course, being as kind as he is but the next time contestants make a mistake, they’ll be eliminated from the game.

Yandere game show host! Who rigged almost every game to make sure you win no matter what, if any game gets too difficult for you, the game is stopped due to ‘improper functioning’ or ‘technical difficulties.’

As the challenges unfold, you become the focal point of James's attention. His eyes linger on you a moment too long, and his gestures of affection become increasingly personal. At first, it feels like a fairy tale romance, with grand gestures and declarations of eternal love.

The once-friendly alliances among contestants shatter as James's influence intensifies. You realise you're entangled in a web of love that's more a trap than a fairy tale. Attempts to leave the show are met with mysterious consequences, and the line between reality and the orchestrated game blurs.

Yandere game show host! Who offers you the role of his assistant for whatever you want, all the earnings of the show, a house, or to move to a new country? Anything can be arranged for you.

Yandere game show host! To invite any and everyone who wronged you to the game, he’ll make sure they suffer a fate worse than death. God forbid if anyone lashes out at you, James will make sure to make an example out of them, someone to show that whatever props he uses on set are real and so it’s much better if you stay put and listen to his instructions, lest you get hurt.

[cherry-pop-elf]

Venomized Namor

This is a design concept for this fic/au I have called

“Like A Oil Slick”

Also my friend @sleepypsycopath said I should draw it so yeah

Hope you guys like it! It was a hard thing to draw but you gotta explore your boundaries to grow. Explore what I can do. Along with have a good vision on what Namor is to look like in my fic

Lemme know what yall think!

[thesweetsvillainshowdown]

ULTIMATE VILLAIN SHOWDOWN

May the best villain win.

[ghostie-gengar]

i had way too much fun writing dialogue for commander tartar

[octoooo]

Just saw a post about how being an adult means you get to make you own decisions, even if people tell you not to.

Someone got a hot pink love seat because they liked it, Even though the sales person advised against it because it’s not very adult-like. Like yeah, let me enjoy the freedom I waited at least 18 years to get <3

Anyway this got me thinking; when I get my own house I want to paint the walls with a water gun.

Like, put the paint inside the water gun and reenact Splatoon.

Turf war in my home except you ONLY ink the walls.

[skitterplant]

Valentines day gift for @emrystheblue!! (posted late bcus I forgor,,,,,)

Beautiful boys, absolutely adore the octo-look and the Jaws hahoroejpsknsp

Thank you @thecourtjester12 for hosting the event!

Textless version:

[calamaroo]

Humanized Octo-Oc : --------- Stag ! 🦌 -------- ====================

What a friendly looking, older gentleman! I sure hope he isn't a supernatural horror hosting over the body of a man (or deer) that kills and eats people! That would be such a shame!

====================

@oatzimir P-...peepaw...

[arandomcat1717]

Coming to you live from Octo Valley....iiits the Octo Sisters!!

Aka a splatoon AU in which Octavio got the kids in the divorce. Additional lore and doodles and stuff below the cut :)

Callie and Marie are still pop idols and host the news, except they're state sponsored and a lot of what they produce is heavy propaganda. They're also both highly ranked members of the army. They are very much beloved by Octarian citizens.

Octavio is their grandfather and he totally dotes on them. He's also their producer. (Craig is also still their grandfather, but they don't know that)

They regularly hack into Inkling news broadcasts to try and disrupt the Inklings and "instill fear and chaos". This mostly just gains them a cult following obsessed with discovering the "truth" (Almost no one actually believes they're Octarians, just that it's some weird publicity stunt)

They know Marina very well, almost being like big sister figures to her. Callie knows Acht, they met when she was sneaking out to temporarily get away from her responsibilities. It's kinda a childhood friends-to-lovers type situation.

In the Splat1 story, after Craig gets kidnapped, Callie and Marie still take up the role of guides to Agent 3 (Agent 1 in this story), hiding the fact they're Octolings. They lead Agent 3 into increasingly dangerous and suspicious situations, eventually culminating in a boss fight. The two of them also help out Octavio in the final boss

That's as far as I'll go with the story for now, but I do have a pretty substantial one thought out. If anyone is interested, then maybe I'll write it out :)

[magick-mr-skull]

Get To Know My System Ask Game!! Reblog If You Want Questions In Your Inbox!

Not For You Endos. Make Your Own.

Collective Question;

🪦 - What’s Your System Name And Sub System Names?

☣️ - What’s Your Collective Name And Pronouns?

🧪 - What’s Your Collective Gender And Sexuality?

🧫 - Are You Collectively Alterhuman? If so What’s Your Collective Identity?

🔬 - What’s Your Collective Religion Or Belife Or Lackthereof?

🧬 - Do You Have A Collective Aesthetic? Does This Just Apply To Clothes Or Also Phone/Discord/Rentry/Pronouns/Octo/SP/PK Decoration? Are There Specific Colors?

&

Alter Specific;

📼 - Who’s Your Current Host? Do You Have Multiple Or Maybe A Cohost? Or No Host At All? A Council? Anything Important About Them?

📀 - Who Are Your Frequent Fronters? Anything Important About Them?

📻 - Any Specific Alters That Are Highly Important? What Makes Them Special?

🔈 - Do You Have In-Sys Relationships? Familial? Romantic? Platonic? Are Any Prominent Or Special?

🎧 - Do You Have In-Sys Animals/Non-Humans? Are They Alters Or Just NPCs? Are The Animal Alters Like Real Animals Or More Human Like? Can They Speak?

🎥 - Do You Have A Lot Of Fictives? Ifso What Is The Most Common Source? Is There A Particular Source That Stands Out?

Sven - He/Han/Er | Frank - He/Him | Abbadon - He/Destroy/It/Death

[starstruck-sillies]

Was looking through our Octocon app and saw a few funny things I wanted to share (There's no personal info in these screenshots and everyone is okay with me posting these, it's just silly stuff we put in and then forgot about)

Thank you Kaz, very informative

She was going through it, and she still doesn't like that she's the host now. We think she probably did a lot of the descs for our Octo/SP, but we can't remember for certain. It would explain a lot though. Some were definitely written by the alters themselves tho lol

We did not, in fact, update it later. This has been their desc for months and we have yet to change it

Once again, very informative I know. I'd also like to mention that he has a journal titled "new gender just dropped come get yalls juice" and it was completely empty, nothing typed in it at all. Something about TimesNewBastardFontic iirc?

Idk, I thought it'd be fun to share a few silly things we have in our Octocon (That wouldn't be tmi or make any alters uncomfortable)

((Honorable mention; Reesa, when you said "Bitch and moan some more it gets my rocks off" in one of your journals, what the fuck did you mean by that??? Girl you good????))

-Georgia

[starjelly-bah]

could i& please get a level 2 headmate ? preferably masculine , sea creature themed .

p.s. your anons are off , not sure if you meant that , but thought i'd let you know ! you get more interaction with anons on .

angel / oath ( she / he ) , host .

lvl2 masc sea creature themed headmate !

name(s) : coral , casper , finn , nix , kaito , marlow , bruce , nemo , tulen' , anton , martin , skippy , clay , mino , yuo , october

age : 16-19

labels : genderfaun , neoboy // asexual , greyromantic

pronouns : he/him it/itz hy/hym hi/hem blub/blubr sea/sear dol/dolp octo/octop squid/squids whale/whalez sha/sher bubble/bubbles fhe/fhem axo/axol 🐋/🐋s 🌊/🌊s

faceclaim : wo_habum on twitter

proxy : 🫧🦭 , 🦈💧 , 🐬🐾

likes : colour blue , routine , cool air and water , ocean themed screenholders , light rain , sand , timers , old stories , iced tea , white noise , stargazing , mint , crunchy food , early mornings , plushies

dislikes : april fools day , crowded places , being touched on the back , waking up late , steamed glass , ignorance , dry hands , plastic cups , too sweet taste , injustice

hobbies : crossword puzzles , origami , doodling , marine biology

xenos : seaic , marinic , deepseagender , altumseaic , noxlibic , oddloopsongic , knightprince , bluelimegender , magisquidgender , digitalbeing , musihomeic , bedroomgender

nicknames : cors , ral , casp , caz , cupie , ito , mar , tosha , tul , mart , burr

personality traits : punctual , private , honest , mellow , curious , observant , prejudice , sweet

typing quirks : double punctuation,,!!

[violethursday]

Got any weird very niche headcannons? :3

Indeed I do! Here are some of them!

Acht really loves cheese. You could give them a whole wheel and they could finish it in under 5 minutes. I made up this headcanon after reading this fic three months ago.

Harmony, Noiji, and Raian were definitely that odd trio back in elementary school that stuck together ever since.

Big Man is only his stage name with Rayan being his actual name because who would name their kid "Big Man"?

Both of these concept arts for Shiver are her older sisters. The one on the left's name is Shione Hohojiro while the one on the right's name is Mako Hohojiro.

Callie and Marie are pretty good at roller skating! When not on hosting duties, they would often go to the local skating rink for fun.

Ikkan's last name is Quinn, making him Ikkan Quinn. NINTENDO HE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A QUINN

Namida is an inktoling but the gang was completely oblivious about it until post-Octo Expansion

Murch became quite the lady's man post-Splatoon 2 as he got more polite and laid-back

[dogtoling]

one thing i'm not sure you've ever touched on for inkfish headcanons: what's your take on sanitization? i know you don't bother with story mode and the idols and agents, and that is entirely fair. BUT health/disease seems like something you'd write about, and sanitization is really Up There as a thing that exists in the setting

I've tried to work with sanitization a few times in the past but ultimately never made it relevant to my OCs or anything else because if you're trying to be faithful to the canon material it really is pretty much just the "weird goo turns you into a literal zombie" status with a (BIG) side of mind control. The one thing I could compare it to in the real world off the top of my head is those parasitic fungi that hijack insects and turn the body into a puppet. So the premise of sanitization as a mind control thing isn't really unrealistic, there's just a lot of other things that make it kind of hard to work with, and the way it works in the game is Not good lol.

The simplified way for sanitization to work would then be as simple as the sanitized ink having capabilities to override the subject's brain and essentially turn them into a zombie or a puppet, which we see in the Agent 3 fight at the end of Octo Expansion anyway so it's more or less how I'd assume it to work. How the sanitized ink has those properties, whether it's an... engineered or encoded thing or the ink itself is a parasitic being (the ink itself seemingly being an entity is somewhat of a minor recurring theme in the series for some reason, most noticeably with the fuzzy ooze) is less important because at the end of the day it's sci-fi and could be either. The first step is usually manual memory extraction; I don't doubt that it would be a thing in the Splatoon world as their science is more advanced, and we've already been doing that to snails, so. I do assume that would be extremely illegal unless you happen to have a lot of money and/or don't care about the law to begin with.

There are some issues with sanitization that make it difficult to work with and these are in no particular order, but the first one would be that sanitized Octolings are canonically pretty much dead, to the point of having no heartbeat or vital signs, so they're DEAD dead. Which isn't really as huge an issue as you would assume because if the ink in question is parasitic, using the dead body as a puppet and essentially replacing the brain isn't that big of a deal, though that would still probably require that 1. it is specialized to one type of host, which is pretty much the case anyway as it's just Octarians and like one squid that get sanitized, and 2. the body needs to still have SOME kind of brute forced energy supply.

I'm not really well-versed in the science of the workings of Actual Zombies so I suppose it's probably possible for the body to literally be a corpse if it doesn't need organs or a brain to move anyway. That being said I wouldn't expect it to last very long before rotting or at least so much muscle deterioration that the body just turns into slop and needs to be abandoned. You could possibly combat this by making it so that the sanitized ink has some way to protect the corpse from these effects if it's spread all across the bloodstream (or whatever used to be the bloodstream), or alternatively feed the tissues so they stay good for longer, though I don't see how this would work without the ink having some kind of way to synthesize energy by itself. A way to bypass these issues would be to suggest that the process doesn't actually KILL the subject or the body, just essentially replaces parts of the brain, so the body is functioning... just under new management. This comes with the issue of going against canon material as the sanitized Octolings are explicitly Dead, but if you don't care about that as much as you care about a sanitized Octoling having a lifespan longer than maybe 2 weeks maximum on account of rotting in real-time, it's worth considering.

To the rotting part - this is also kind of the problematic part of sanitization (if you were to pick just one from the pile). So sanitization comes with an interesting color scheme that is pretty prominent in all individuals; blues and greens with black sclerae. Overall a very sickly look which makes sense considering that's an actual corpse. The way i view that color scheme is that the pigments in the skin are the first to get broken down in the decomposing process, which leaves behind an overwhelmingly blue hue due to the color of the blood and tissues - there's more evidence for inkfish to have red blood than blue blood, but considering this is really convenient and also half the campaign is full of blue-teal Octoling smoothies made of octopus gore, I feel like the blue isn't that much of a stretch here. Alternatively they could just get dyed by the goo itself, though then you'd have to figure out why that's blue in the first place... just for funsies?

Again, the Being Dead part isn't inherently THE problem with sanitization, but rather the issue is that if your subjects are literally DEAD and being reanimated by brainwashing slop, then that should NOT be something YOU CAN RECOVER FROM. AT ALL. This wasn't really a problem until Side Order happened and Acht is apparently fine despite being DEAD for idk, years? The way I see it, the ONLY way you should be able to overcome it is by either 1. getting IMMEDIATE intervention upon infection, BEFORE it destroys your brain, at which point I still don't know how good your chances would be, or 2. literally rotting and dying to the point that your corpse isn't useful as a puppet anymore and gets discarded, so you overcome it on account of being So Dead that the Goo abandoned you. Nintendo is notoriously not very good at taking their Extremely Serious Dangerous Story Things (TM) seriously at all and this is yet another example of that. So in terms of canon, sanitization is simultaenously something that you should take extremely seriously and something that actually has 0 effects and you can forget about it once the Big Bad is dead.

Following up to the previous point - the function of sanitization is really wholly whatever. The teal goo is made largely of smoothied Octarians and I just have to say that as an Octoling, if you're getting injected with the pureed remains of thousands of other Octolings that's been sitting at probably room temperature, then being brainwashed is probably the least of your immediate worries. The way the ooze works at all and how Tartar plays into it is extremely convoluted and confusing scifi at best and Cartoon Science at worst which is not surprising from Splatoon but here we go. Taking a biological angle to the whole brainwashing thing isn't that useful (or canon-compliant at all, honestly).

At the end of the post I should add that the terminology of sanitization is also really confusing since Side Order came out. Specifically, sanitization IS NOT just the Blue Octarian Disease, and they actually went through the effort to explain how it kind of works in the dev diaries, which is wild???? Sanitization is actually a multi-step process that seemingly begins with memory extraction and then memory replacement. It doesn't even seem to actually refer to the state that 99% of the fandom associates it with, but refers to the memory extraction, and the actual brainwashing is like sanitization DLC. i'll keep referring to sanitization as the brainwashing part because that's what's clearest to most people, I would assume.

Side Order also did a lot of foreshadowing to the soul being an actual in-universe tangible thing (which wasn't exactly up for debate until now, but was easy enough to ignore and bypass if you're deliberately trying to), so. Between Side Order extra lore and Acht like, existing, in-universe sanitization really doesn't seem to be that big of a deal honestly as much as it's Just memory replacement that might go away at some point, maybe fading over time. This is if you ignore the prominent symptoms being Body Death and Green. Really, the way they ended up making it work as per Side Order extra lore makes the effects more confusing, because if it's JUST memory extraction and replacement I have genuinely no idea why that should come with a side effect of Literal (inconsequential) Death, and also why do you need Goo for that in the first place.

Finally, a lot of the Brain Death issues can be combatted if you take the information to say that the effects affect ONLY THE SOUL and then the body by proxy instead of the brain, as in the SOUL is where the memories are taken from and where they're injected (which, if I recall, Side Order supports), but then you have to deal with that being like... a Thing.

TL;DR the more realistic and canon-compliant way to approach sanitization is definitely the sci-fi route by limiting it to manual removal and replacement of memories for a type of mind control, though you'll be left with the "why are you a zombie and how the fuck do you just seamlessly recover from that" issue.

[ask-squidbeaks-agents]

so… if there’s a villain 3 and a villain 4… what about a villain 8 and a villain neo 3?? villain aus have me in a chokehold

// Well Villain Neo would be a version of Neo who was taken by Grizzco and instead of being returned to the Splatlands at 14 was instead fuzzified, becoming basically Grizzs guard dog due to their aggressive behaviour becoming amplified due to the fuzz and Neo having never gone back to Splatsville and learning how to control those urges. For Eight it's- a bit more difficult to come up with ideas since I kinda used both his campaigns for the Villain versions of Three and Four lol. For Octo Expansion he would literally just be taking Iraxxia's place so- Side Order version instead! Eight would fail to stop Order becoming a host of Order, Eight however is still some what sentient- Order having infected him with it's morals and understanding of the world. He would seek to rewrite the world into a "perfect grey utopia"

[eclipian]

Ocean Sidesystem

pt: ocean sidesystem

reminder beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited and changed as needed.

Name: Deepwater Dwellers , Marianas Trench , Trenches Cove , Coral Reef Collective , Moon Tides , Underwater Collective , Crystal Cove , Tidepool Collective , Bioluminescent Collective , The Abyssal Zone

Collec. Name(s): Marina , Mira , Alon , Calder , Hali , Bay , Cove , Cordelia , Calypso , Kai , Caspian , Meryl , Muiel , Naia

Pronouns: Ocean/Oceans , Oce/Ocem , Sea/Sear , Sea/Seas , Wave/Waves , Se/Seas , Sea/Shell , Oce/Ocea , 🌊 , 💧

Gender: Oceanfluid , Fretumgender , Inviazuresea , Thalassagender , Oceanbodiment

Orientation: Oceanobjectix

Origins / Modifers: Oceanbased , Oceanic System

Aesthetic(s): Mermaid , Ocean Grunge

Members

pt: members

Name: Kaia , Mira , Maren , Naia , Nixie , Nora , Kairi

Age: 22 yo

Pronouns: They/Them , Thei/Theim , Sea/Sear , Sea/Seal , Wave/Waves , Fin/Fins , Glub/Glubs , Kie/Kies , Oort/Oorts , 🦭 , 🌊

Gender: Nonbinary , Lorarchic , Sealthing , Sealgender

Orientation: Gai

Other Terms: Selkievior

Species: Selkie

Role(s): Host

Aesthetic: Selkiecore , Reefwave , Pixiecore

Name: Halcyon , Saga , Llyr , Marianne , Neri

Age: 20 yo

Pronouns: It/Its , Mer/Mers, Sea/Foam , Sea/Seas , Sea/Sear , Sie/Sier , Pearl/Pearls , Cor/Corals , Oce/Ocem , 🌊 , 🧜 , 🪸

Gender: Agender , Mernxu , Mermaidcoric , Mergender , Mercollector

Orientation: Aro Pansexual

Species: Mermaid

Role(s): Co-Host & Caretaker

Aesthetic: Mermaid , Coconut Girl , Auroracore

Name: Rosemarie , Zale , Nerida , Mar , Ula

Age: 25 yo

Pronouns: Sie/Sier , Scale/Scales , Sea/Seas , Sea/Sear , Charm/Charms , Ship/Ships , Sail/Sails , Cliff/Cliffs , Ne/Nym , Se/Sem , Sy/Syr , Sei/Seir , 🔱 , 🌊 , 🐟 , 🧜‍♀️

Gender: Genderfluid , Sirenlexic , Phosirenial

Orientation: Acespec Lesbian

Species: Siren

Role(s): Protector & Gatekeeper

Aesthetic: Dark Nautical , Piratecore , Ocean Grunge

Name: Mar , Amphitrite , Stellamaris , Lir , Undine

Age: 30 yo

Pronouns: She/Her , Sie/Sier , Sea/Sear , Mer/Mers , Octo/Octos , Squid/Squids , Ink/Inks , 🐙 , 🦑 , ✒️ , 🌊

Gender: Xenic Genderless, Octabomination , Octopusaesic , Octothing

Orientation: AroAce

Species: Kraken Cecaelia

Role(s): Architect & Archivist

Aesthetic: Ocean Grunge , Oceanpunk , Ocean Academia

[localacegoblin]

okok here are most of my hcs for the alphalore characters :3 this is very long. warning!!! mentions of: death/revivals, major character death, eating disorders, blood/serious injury, dysphoria, self hatred, child soldiers/being a child soldier

Multiple characters/Misc: - Each one of alphas brothers/clones inherits something from him other than personality or looks. Host is sensitive to light and thus wears sunglasses all the time, Kane has inkstains on his hands/feet/ears/tentacles and back, Billy has scars under his eyes/mask and Omega's ink is naturally the same pink/purple/magenta as the octarian's ink is. - Dave and Travis share a one-bedroom apartment in splatsville, Alpha lives on the outskirts of splatsville and has a bedroom set up solely for Billy and Bartholemew, Kane lives in an apartment at flounder heights but ended up crashing on Alpha's couch during the splatoon 3 splatlocke, Host has his own very fancy house in a quiet part of inkopolis near a library, and Omega is technically homeless but stays with Alpha and Billy in a spare room post splatlocke finale. - When Alpha sees out of someone's eyes they get a slightly blue pupil and their ink colour goes lighter. - Anyone who in some way was poisoned has slightly purple saliva (the poison is based on the fuzzy ooze which is mostly pinks yellows blues and purples) - The random Mahi-Mahi employee holds a grudge against Ink for shit talking her map. He is banned from the premises for life. It is on sight. - Travis and Dave have matching blue and orange everything while the 5 star siblings all have matching triangle earrings that assemble into one big star.

Alpha/Agent 8: - Worked in record keeping and organisation back at the octarian domes. Wanted to be an engineer working on the bosses but most high-profile jobs were reserved for octoling soldiers - Tried to escape to the surface after reading a classified file about inkopolis square and inkling life. - Made it to the nearest metro station but was interrupted by Cuttlefish, insert entirety of octo expansions events here. - Spent about a month in the metro, on and off doing tests and riding the train. - Got severe inkstains/scars all over his back, hands, feet, ears, tentacles and on swim form from constant exposure to sanitized ink from failing tests, getting hit, having to walk through it, etc. They show up as pale green splotches and are very sensitive/itchy. - Wears long clothes to cover scars/inkstains, refuses to wear anything short unless absolutely necessary. - Super sensitive to light from growing up in the domes, working mostly in big storage buildings with minimal light and spending (in my head) a month or two in the metro. Has mild nightvision in return. He wears the visor or sunglasses he has so he can actually see in turfwar and day to day life. Keeps most of the main lights in his house off, uses lamps and nightlights since they aren't as bad. - Initially very scared of inklings/inkling life having grown up hearing stories about the agents and what the surface was like, took ages to get accustomed to new life. - Speaks fluid octarian since it was his first language, Inklish is good but started very broken. Learned by picking up what Inklings said in battle, uses a lot of outdated slang - Has an eating disorder. Food was hard to grow in the domes and rations mostly went to more important positions so Alpha didn't get as much food as octarian soldiers. Plus in metro most of the food he could eat was from vending machines so he didn't have a lot to eat every day. Once he got to the surface he was still nervous about eating a lot of food out of fear it was limited - Will cuddle his Bloblobber like it's a plushie/pillow - Thinks he might have been affected by the sanitized ink in a way other than being able to create life/ink stains. Worried that he could hurt others or is in some way being influenced by Tartar's desires to create the perfect lifeform via killing others. He isn't, that would require him to actually be sanitized, but he still worries he is and tends to stay isolated from others out of fear of hurting them. Even in battles he likes staying far back so tends to go for support weapons - If he's sick or emotionally drained like he was at the tail end of the splatlocke his eyes, ink and tentacles get duller, or in the case of Wrath's influence, get a slight red tint - Experienced memory loss/amnesia up until events of Side Order where he got his memories from before the metro back -He/Him, fine with He/They. No sexuality/gender hcs cos even tho its a character I felt a bit weird.

Billy: - First brother Alpha created, technically the oldest despite mentally being the youngest (mentally around 15ish by Splatlocke 3) - Has some octoling traits because Alpha hadn't seen many inklings up close or for long periods of time when he created Billy. He has asymmetrical fangs/teeth, his ears are slightly rounded, he has the spiky hairstyle because Alpha struggled to think of how inkling tentacles looked/worked and his eye mask is slightly pointed like octoling's are. - Likes Bartholemew more than he likes Alpha (Alpha is devastated but refuses to admit it) - Has faint tear scars under his eyes which he inherited from Alpha - Host and Alpha homeschool him to the best of their abilities since Alpha couldn't get him into a normal school. - After his soul was absorbed by Omega he got some of their traits, most notably a small crack-like scar over one of his eyes and claw-like fingertips. He also gets angry more often, but his own kindness balances it out. - Easily gets overwhelmed in crowded spaces or in battles where emotions are at their highest and he can't ignore them, prefers quiet spaces. Often visits a library with Host to de-stress. They like infodumping to eachother. - Lets himself get bullied or harassed by others, partially because he wants to understand why people might do it, partially because he doesn't know how to stand up for himself, partially because he thinks he deserves it because of what he did in Alterna. - Decorates his bedroom with stuff he gets from others and Alterna. One wall is covered with pictures he's taken of himself, his brothers and Bartholemew. - Bartholemew has his own bed but half the time he ends up sleeping on Billy's face. - Has not touched salmon run or even looked at Grizzco after adopting Bartholemew and learning about Mr Grizz, the other's haven't either out of respect. - Doesn't really mind what pronouns people use for him but generally defaults to He/Him. He hasn't given much thought to his gender or sexuality but is an enthusiastic ally.

Inkspedition Host: - 2nd oldest clone/sibling physically, slightly younger or on par with Alpha mentally. - Second shortest, wears heels or insoles to compensate - Goes by Host when talking formally but goes by Ink when around his friends or their brothers. If they ever need to use a proper name they use Quinn Star. - Autistic. I don't make the rules I just enforce 'em. - Inherits Alpha's sensitivity to light, but not as severe, wears sunglasses outdoors but can handle regular lights indoors. - HORRIBLE hat hair. Man wears a beret 90% of the time his octofro is smushed to hell and back. - When he doesn't have hat-hair (hat tentacles?) he takes good care of his afro. Sometimes he'll split it back into tentacles if he feels like spicing it up a bit but he keeps it as an afro while filming Inkspeditions for recognisability. - Pretty rich off of the inkspedition, will buy lavish gifts for everyone - Enjoys studying human culture and artifacts, regularly criticises their 'map' design (aka city/town layouts) - Secretly very worried about what others think of them or if they come off in a negative way. Even though they're literally the embodiment of pride they want to be loved by others, even if it's superficial or in some way harmful. Admitted this to Dave and Travis while working on an inkspedition and cried so much their face started burning. Asked them to never mention it ever again. - Says he's so good with a charger people thought he had aim-bot. In reality he's good with it, but not that good. - He/They Non-Binary, Bisexual, Demiromantic-Asexual (sex repulsed).

Kane/Splatlocke: - Middle child physically, oldest mentally (year or two older than Alpha) - Normally tallest clone/brother, with Omega only being taller than him when they're wearing boots/or in an unstable form - Inherits Alpha's inkstains. They're faded and don't hurt/itch but are still visible. The colour of the stains isn't the sanitized ink colour, instead showing up as whatever colour ink they have - Doesn't play much outside of the splatlocke, occasionally does salmon runs or turf wars with others. - Much more inkling-like compared to Billy, still has asymmetrical fangs, but it's harder to notice. - Likes to take extra care of their tentacles, uses it as a way to de-stress/ground themself. Also does Billy's hair since he's the only one familiar with inkling tentacles/how they work. - Crashes on Alpha's couch during Splatlocke, but has an apartment in Flounder Heights. Host, David, Alpha and Billy check in on him all the time to make sure he takes care of himself outside of practicing for ranked and turfing. - Likes reading lots of philosophy and non-fiction in general. - Struggles a lot with viewing themself as a person and not a tool or just 'a husk made to serve Alpha.' Wore the starter gear even outside of the splatlocke since he believed he wasn't enough of a 'real' person to have other actually decent clothes. Doesn't like talking about his feelings but the others know and make sure to reassure him every chance they get. - Slightly near-sighted after the Splatlocke finale, wears actual contacts not fake ones. - Chronic illness/fatigue after the part of Alpha's soul in him was severely damaged by Omega - They/He/She (in order of preference), Genderfluid, grey-aroace meaning they very rarely feel sexual/romantic attraction.

Omega/Wrath: - Youngest clone/brother physically, the same age as Alpha mentally. - Also same height as Alpha and the most physically similar to him in general. - Fingertips go into black and red claws similar to Acht's, loses them post revival. - Crack-like scars over left side of face. Can't see out of or physically open left eye. Scars bled ink originally which is why they had bandages, but healed over after revival. - Hates being compared to/similar to Alpha in any and all ways. Styles hair/tentacles differently to him, refuses to get any help from him, doesn't use star as a last name, and considers themself not one of his brothers. Tries everything in their power to not be him. - Goes by Wrath normally. Hates the idea that he's just the 'evil opposite' version of Alpha. - Inherits Alpha's natural ink colour. Ink is naturally pink/magenta like octarian ink - Doesn't have a home for themself. Just kinda lurked around during Splatlocke but now stays with Billy and Alpha (mostly against his will). Billy has a bunk bed, the top bed being for Bartholemew, but after seeing Wrath have a nightmare he made him sleep in the bunk with him. Wrath refuses to admit it but it felt nice having someone care for them. - Struggles with the idea that someone could be nice to them with no strings attached, since their own acts of kindness were just attempts to kill or hurt others disguised as kindness. On-edge whenever anyone does anything for him. - Billy is the most forgiving post-revival. He thinks Omega was just genuinely trying to help, and can physically sense/see the emotions he feels (meaning he sees all of Omega's pent up pain, self-loathing and loneliness). Billy tries his best to be kind, even though Omega tends to give him the cold shoulder. Omega does have a small sea-slug plushie Billy got for him. Hides it from everyone else. Host and Kane are much more hesitant to trust Omega. They see them as still unstable or dangerous, and only interact with them when necessary. Dave and Travis actively hate it. Travis because he was unfairly and unnecessarily killed/absorbed. Dave because he took both his partner and his boss/friend away for months. They don't forgive him and don't talk to him. Alpha has the most complicated feelings. He wants to give Omega a fresh start at life outside of just being his wrath personified. Also feels incredibly bad for them since Omega was created on accident out of pure self hatred and suicidal ideation, thus inheriting those feelings. But Alpha still wants the others to be safe physically and mentally, and is still nervous around Omega. - Bad at self-care. Think it's just another version of Alpha, who it was created to hate, thus doesn't take good care of it's body. Billy and Alpha had to practically drag them kicking and screaming into the bathroom just to make sure his tentacles weren't permanently damaged or dried out. - Any pronouns but leans towards He/They/It and neopronouns, Solarian/Xenogender. Aromantic, demisexual/pansexual. (you can tell which character is my favourite in a piece of media based on how specific my gender/sexuality hcs are)

Dave: - Short. Hates this fact. - Older than Alpha by 3 years, oldest of all characters - Comes from Inkopolis, near the plaza, but his family is all from Calamari County. - His family is fine with him being trans since gender isn't really a strict construct in Splatoon, just another form of personal style like clothing and hairstyle. - Partially wears the mask because Ink has a vendetta against all with the spikey haircut and does not want to see them, partially because of gender dysphoria - Terrible at flirting or realising that people are flirting with him. Didn't realise that Travis was flirting with him for months despite being head over heels for him. - Regularly steals Travis' clothes like a little raccoon stealing trash. - Struggled to pick a name for himself at first but ended up with Dave because it was the most stereotypically masc name he could think of. - Doesn't play turf at all. Uses his brella as an actual umbrella and not a weapon. Does like watching Travis and Ink play. - Does play Table Turf. At an obscenely high level, with every card and several different decks. Currently 'coaching' Billy and teaching him how to play. Makes a lot of money in competitions, more than he does working with Ink. - Studied at Inkblot for some time. Really good artist but anxious about sharing his work with others. Has some stuff hanging up in his apartment. - Currently lives with Travis in an apartment in Splatsville for 'convenience'. Whenever someone brings up that there's only one large bedroom in the apartment he says they top and tail in bed (they do not. they cuddle all night and both snore obnoxiously loudly.) - He/Him, Transmasc, bisexual/aegosexual.

Travis: - Tallest of everyone, even without his hat/boots. Younger than Dave by a few months. - Worked as an octarian soldier in the domes, but didn't actually get sent anywhere to fight. Spent a lot of time training, however, which is how he got his skills as a turf war player. Didn't know Alpha personally while in the domes, but had seen him here and there. - Escaped to the surface after hearing the Inkantation and seeing other octolings leaving. Escaped after being moved to a station in Octo Valley near the surface. Ran away to Inkopolis. - Started transitioning/questioning his gender after getting to the surface, with Dave's support. When Travis first mentioned he was an octoling soldier Alpha got confused and thought masc octolings were allowed to fight and he was just lied to by his caretakers before it clicked that Travis was trans. - Plays a lot of turf outside of getting footage, has every roller to either 4 or 5 stars. - Got his accent from living in a more remote dome closer to Splatlands in his youth before moving to Octo Canyon as a teen for training. - Slightly broken Inklish, didn't speak it well until he started working with Ink and Dave. Very good with octarian and will chat to Alpha only using it. Struggle to understand eachother due to regional differences in the way things are pronounced. - Started working with Ink because they got put into a team with him for several turf war matches. Ink approached him about helping him gather footage of the maps in action. Travis didnt fully understand but agreed to help. - Met Dave on his first day, quickly became friends despite the language barrier. Dave helped him learn Inklish with Ink pitching in. - Started falling for him a few months after becoming friends, tried flirting with him like how octolings in the domes did but eventually started copying what he saw inkling couples do on TV/in videos. - After his soul was freed from Omega's control he has claw-like fingers and a slight red tint to his eyes. He also gets frequent headaches and migraines when experiencing strong amounts of hate, anger, self-hatred, wrath, etc. - Lived in Inkopolis with some ex-soldiers he vaguely knew before he moved in with Dave. - He/Him transmasc, gay-demisexual. T4T with Dave <3

anyways what do you guys think? :3