#Pearl Pygmy

[tizzypizza]

alternatively, YOU are the only thing preventing acht from having to witness pearl and marina making out

[celestiachan]

Fun fact! Pearl is a trans woman

[mudcrabmassacre]

And we are completely set! The tank has fully cycled, nitrites and ammonia at 0, and after a quick clean of the glass and sucking out some thread algae that bloomed in the sand, the tank is fully ready for its inhabitants!

They won't be arriving for a couple weeks yet though, I've still got to order them and funds are short atm. But soon! 🌿🌱🦐🦐

[epic-and-kitty]

......I think I have a crush on Pearl Splatoon.....

[rassicas]

Frye is not a Vampire Squid.

It's one thing to headcanon something, but it's another to pass it around a fact, which is why i have to say: Frye is not canonically a vampire squid. This idea originated from a popular twitter thread made at the time of Splatoon 3's direct, and the evidence it's based on is...weak. And yet I still see this info passed around... Yeah I think Frye is just supposed to be a regular Inkling.

the splatoon team has shown us that inklings, like humans, can have a lot of diversity. while our player character models are limited, in-universe its a different story. these are all considered regular inklings. look at the varied eye masks, faces,...they can even have blue skin! So i think that frye is just the splatoon team showing us how more diverse inklings can be.

I made a google drive folder of Inkling hairstyles with a lot of concept art, you can see many diverse examples. To address the other specific points of evidence used:

Long fangs: All Inklings have sharp "teeth"/ beaks. Inkling beak shapes can vary. the last one appears to have a snaggletooth.

Long ears: Ear shapes can vary as well. compare ears of the squid sisters with the player character. Pearl has short ears. hell even the player inkling ears between s2 and s3 are different.

purple fingertips: prior to S3, fingertip coloration was something only seen on octolings, not on inklings. with how her and Shiver can freely change finger tip colors according to their ink, it seems like just a thing inklings and octolings can Do and we just haven't seen much of until now, like how we didn't see much varied hairstyles until s2. Perhaps with how integrated octarian culture is in the splatlands, inklings have caught onto this style as well? Her earrings, the sharp pointy bits in her design: Yes this was used as evidence for the vampire squid thing. That's all eel motifs.

Now the biggest reason she cannot be a vampire squid... vampire squids are NOT squids! They're more closely related to octopuses, but really, they're their own thing (also they're called 'bat octopuses' in japanese... the language the splatoon developers speak. nothing to do with vampires or squids)

With how splatoon's designs have been so far, other species of cephalopods are not guaranteed to look like inklings, especially if not closely related to ink-producing squids and octopuses (and vampire squids are not) Here we have a dumbo octopus (not octoling). also nautiluses. In the case of a species that would be more closely related to the playable species, what seems to be an octoling based on a blue ringed octopus.

Going off this, if the splatoon team were to make a vampire squid character, it most likely wouldn't be a subtle 'inkling/octoling but 2 inches to the left,' For such a unique species, I think they would be pretty explicit about it in the design itself. And considering that they are deepsea creatures that do not produce normal ink, a vampire squid in splatoon might look pretty odd! In conclusion...please stop claiming frye is "supposed to be" or "canonically" a vampire squid, it's a flimsy headcanon based on superficial traits at best and there is zero evidence that was the developer's intent.

(And while I'm here, Pearl is not confirmed a pygmy squid, marie is not confirmed to be a firefly squid, marina is not a webfoot octopus etc. That's fanon based on their japanese names, not canon. As far as we know, the player inklings and inkling idols are all just one species of inkling. inklings and octolings seem to take inspiration from multiple species, but it's not confirmed if they are those species.)

[anilyan]

Venti is Phanes + on Istaroth and the Primordial One

Not so crack theory: Venti is Phanes and is the androgynous being born from the Chymical Marriage between the Primordial One and Istaroth, before she was betrayed by the Sinners

(I posted this before but now it's properly explained)

I am using this lore in my old mondstadt fic, Nameless (actually soon to turn into trilogy, since vol 2 is about venti rewinding time and vol 3 is present time story and I took so long to plan all the lore with all the canon crumbs and theories we had...)

Yes, a lot of the info about gods is pulled from wikipedia, I’m not being paid to research more, okay? I just want to feed the brainrot. My main sources besides those are the videos listed at the end.

I would love if this theory made its way to some big lore content creator for them to analyse and criticize, because I have been rotating this in my head but I don’t have their capacity or knowledge to tear this apart.

NOTES:

This post contain minimal mentions of 2 leaks, about the rest of the collection of The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies, and a sus minimal old leak about Venti

This post contains some references to the Penacony arc from Honkai star rail, but no knowledge about the game is required and in fact, I don't even play it myself and those are just sus parallels

0. Summary / main points

Istaroth and the Primordial One parallel Chronos (personification of time) and Ananke (most powerful dictator of Fate and mother of The Fates/Moirai), respectively.

Chronos and Ananke laid down the cosmic / orphic world that created/reshaped the world. In a way, that was an Alchemical Marriage, that also gave birth to the androgynous winged being Phanes/Venti, and to the Abyss,

Venti has many ties to fate, including extensive apple symbology visible even in wisp form. The apples, besides being a symbol of fate, also represent a dream bubble in accordance to the structure of Teyvat. Quoting his most sus birthday art, “It is written that there is a whole tiny world hidden inside an apple core”

Venti has at least some control over 1 half of Teyvat while the other half is ruled by The Night Mother/Nyx. He also offers us half of the apple in the mentioned birthday art.

Ananke was a serpent-like being, and we see a Black Serpent 1) coiled around Phanes 2) coiled around the pearl/cosmic egg in the Gnostic Chorus 3) in the Black Serpent Knights, who also had Ishtar/Istaroth’s star as a symbol 4) In Nibelung, if we consider serpents and dragons the same

Istaroth supported Khaenri’ah (thus why the Nation had her symbol) and both opposed the Heavenly Principles/Celestia, until she was betrayed by the Sinners/6 Pygmies and forgotten

The Primordial One was opposed by Celestia. We also know that Nibelung fought Celestia. They were either allies or even the same being (a black serpent), and their perceived opposition is not too different from how Remus went down misinterpreted by history

1. About the Primordial One

In case it’s not yet clear, this assumes that Phanes =/= Primordial One. After all, the book Before the Sun and Moon simply says that “The Primordial One may have been Phanes*”,* and the fandom just started equating the two.

I am of the opinion that the Primordial One and Celestia are in opposition, while Istaroth is on the side of the Primordial One, or at least opposed to Celestia too. Maybe the Alchemical Marriage was part of a plan of theirs. Read more about it in section 3.

And if the truth about Remuria taught us anything, is that some rivalries depicted in history are false. In the same way Remus went down as a Tyrant when in reality he never wanted to employ force and was even allied with Sybilla (a vishap), I would say that the Primordial One and Nibelung/dragons/vishaps probably found ways to coexist. We do know that Nibelung went to war against the Heavenly Principles/Celestia, but if Celestia and Primordial One opposed each other, that just makes an alliance between PO and the Dragon King more likely.

We don’t know if Primordial One = 1st Descender and Celestia = 2nd Descender, so I will avoid using those terms throughout the post. But if the 2nd who came = 2nd Descender = Celestia, then that would lend further credibility to the idea that Celestia and the PO are on opposing sides, since the 2nd who came basically stole PO’s ruling of Teyvat.

2. About Istaroth AND Khaenri’ah

Like I said above, I believe that Istaroth sides with the Primordial One and that both are in opposition to Celestia

Istaroth has the ability to create alt Looms of Fate through those seeds she gives away - those basically grow into trees that are databases of history outside the control of Celestia. I had already affirmed this for my fic before we got the 2nd Caribert quest, but at this point is practically confirmed.

Istaroth is based on Astaroth and Ishtar, and Ishtar’s morning star is an 8-pointed star just like the symbol of Khaenri’ah. And so the Black Serpent Nights probably served Istaroth in some way.

Khaenri’ah supposedly didn’t have a god, but let’s keep in mind Istaroth was forgotten by time. It’s also possible that, even if Khaenri’ah had a god, they still considered themselves the pride of humankind since Istaroth likely wasn’t associated with Celestia, as I mentioned

Speaking of Black Serpents, other prevalent Black serpents are the one in the Gnostic Chorus, and Nibelung, in a way (not sure if they are or not the same entity). So I would say that Nibelung is/was also allied with Khaenri’ah/Istaroth/Primordial One. Please refer to the section above for an explanation.

The 6 Pygmies and the Pale Princess is a book that is an allegory for the 5 Sinners of Khaenri’ah + Dainsleif and Istaroth. I include, at the end, a video that explains that properly and is very much worth the watch. From there (or at least, from the leaked volumes), we know that the Sinners basically betrayed Istaroth, which might explain why she ended up being forgotten and why Dainsleif is the only Pygmie that didn’t go fully down the Sinner’s path.

3. The relationship between the Primordial One and Istaroth

Like I say above, many things point to them being allied. At the very least, we can quite safely infer they both opposed Celestia/The Heavenly Principles and in turn allied with Khaenri’ah.

The cosmic/ orphic/world egg was created by Chronos (personification of time) and Ananke (most powerful dictator of Fate and mother of The Fates/Moirai). “Ananke and Chronos are mates, mingling together in serpent form as a tie around the universe. Together, they have crushed the primal egg of creation of which constituent parts became earth, heaven and sea to form the ordered universe.”

Ananke and Chronos have to be the PO and Istaroth - which one is which is a bit debatable, with their genders being a counterargument on its own. But I would say Chronos is Istaroth (due to her associations with time, although she is more a god of moments than of time) while Ananke is the Primordial One (who had the 3 moon sisters/moirai as shades + is probably the Dreamer/HSR’s SUNday parallel who plays the symphony that creates the fates reflected by the moons (read more in next section)).

The cosmic egg that birthed the world, together with the Abyss AND Venti, probably resulted from their Alchemical Marriage. I wouldn’t be too surprised if it was also the Gnostic Pearl depicted in the Gnostic Chorus cutscene, or even if the Black Serpent there was Ananke/Primordial One. In fact, that would only solidify the connections with the Black Serpent Knights and them wearing Istaroth’s symbol. And it would be extra funny if somehow the Primordial One and Nibelung were the same entity (since I already explained why I think they were are least on the same side)… and therefore were a black serpent/dragon.

Okay, but what is an Alchemical/Chymical Marriage? It’s a marriage between a Red King and a White Queen, the Sun and the Moon, gold and silver, sulphur and mercury. It’s sometimes pointed as the source of the Philosophers' Stone, and from that union of opposites is birthed an androgynous being. Btw, that marriage is facilitated by a dove, but this is off-topic and you can see why that is interesting in the last video linked. It’s also a process that sometimes involves ‘fermentation”, which is also off-topic but ties well with the wine-making process and other things mentioned in the last video too.

According to Jakob: "The Seal of Chymical Marriage was an ancient Fontainian ritual meant to seal off the source of life. Now it has been reversed, and all has been set free once more!" So, it can be used to separate the Primordial Sea from the world, which sounds similar to creating a world/pearl/philosopher’s stone/egg/dream bubble that floats in the sea of quanta or wtv is the logic used across Hoyoverse’s worlds. We confirm again this was necessary to create Teyvat's egg, and that the Primordial One couldn’t do it alone because two people are required for a marriage.

And do you know what Marriages also require? A ring. Who was escaping with a golden ring, that is an important figure of Khaenri’ah and the only Pygmy who didn’t act like the others/didn’t become a Sinner? Dainsleif, whose constellation is even a Serpent ring. May I point to the Das Rheinegold music drama, that is part of the series The Ring of Nibelung, and maybe use that as extra merit to associate the Primordial One with Nibelung?

4. About the world of Teyvat

Dragons = Vishaps = Sea slugs = Bees = Seelies. Yes. We already know that the the dragons and seelies in Genshin are based on irl sea slugs, I won’t elaborate on that. As for Bees, that is because we have seelie-like bees in Remuria, connected to the prophet Golden-Bee Sybilla (don’t mistake Sybilla with Sylla, who is a Dragon King, although I guess this is all the same family)

Teyvat is theoretically 2 worlds/halves, the version we know and the mirror world, that is probably the Abyss. Or maybe all of it is a mirror world, idk. We can even see similar world structures in Honkai Star Rail, especially in Penacony, where the world there is literally mirrored and a dream too. Some people say Teyvat is divided in 3 parts: the Light Realm, Void Realm, and the Human Realm. But I think the Pimordial One just transformed the Light Realm into the Human Realm, so there are still 2 parts only, and we know they can overlap anyway.

Cycle: People die » are absorbed by the roots » are supposed to travel to the top of the world tree (inverted, so top is in abyss) to become Irminsul fruit / stars » said stars form constellations that determine people's fate, or more accurately, since they are all in a dream, are data that allows the tree to predict their fates » it’s because people exist as stars that their fates and presence can be summoned in the form of shooting stars

Dainsleif confirmed that the leylines can be woven to determine Fate / have their records changed. The Loom used to weave them is a Symphony, or in other words, Remus’ Symphony of Fate is very similar or the same thing as a Loom of Fate, although maybe not at the same scale. It’s possible that other God-Kings also attempted to create their own Looms of Fate.

Add to that some Penacony’s parallels, and you can infer that the Symphony is controlled in a floating palace, that is actually a Grande Theater, by the Sun(day) (potentially Phanes or the Primordial One, basically the one who Dreams), and it’s reflected by the moons (Aria, Sonnet and Canon, so the musical associations are fitting). Considering that the 3 moon sisters are also probably the mythological Moirai who weave Fate, yeah, that tracks.

5. Finally, about Venti

Addressing the Venti is/isn’t the weakest Archon debate: Idk and I don’t quite care, because regardless of how much power he holds now, this theory is about his origins and role more than anything.

Venti is the one narrating the Gnostic Chorus cutscene, so clearly he knows about the origins of Teyvat and other important stuff. Yes, it can just be because of his ties to Istaroth who had the winds of time and bla bla, but I would say he has a bigger involvement.

In the Gnostic Chorus, there is a Black serpent, and I already mentioned how it ties with Khaenri’ah and Istaroth in the second section. Well, Phanes is a figure that has a serpent coiled around him too, Ananke, to be more precise.

Phanes was believed to have hatched from the egg of Chronos and Ananke (Istaroth and PO, section 3), OR Nyx in the form of a black bird and wind, OR from the cosmic /orphic egg placed in and hatched from Aether, who was the personification of the bright upper sky and another son of Chronos. Regardless, it seems like the egg birthed both Phanes AND the world?

Phanes is described sometimes as male, sometimes as androgynous. I don’t need to explain how that fits Venti. The androgynous part also fits with how a being born from an Alchemical Marriage should be androgynous due to being an union of opposites.

Phanes is also described has having wings and a crown. We are yet to see a crown, but at least the angel wings are there.

Some myths say that Phanes was Dionysus (god of wine… amongst other things), or Eros (god of love, yes I’m simplifying), and oh boy isn’t Venti the god of all of that too? Although this is complicated since it has to do with gods being iterations of past gods and such, you can read more about it here

In a certain play, after Phanes mates with Chaos, he creates flying creatures. It would also fit Venti well, especially given that tale from Amber’s Quest where he taught birds how to fly.

Okay, this gets less obvious now. Phanes is a first-born deity who emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe, and is a god of creation, light and goodness. The Abyss part is extra intriguing because the world has an abyss half, and some in-game books even compare wine with the Abyss, and also with the idea that drinking the abyss/wine is a way to acquire Forbidden Knowledge. Please, check the last video I link.

Phanes counterpart is Nyx (Night). In some tales she is Phane’s wife, sometimes his daughter, and in others she creates an egg from which Phanes is born, so wtv. I don’t know who Nyx is (besides being clearly The Night Mother from the book of the Six Pygmies), but it’s pretty clear that the Abyss half is under her responsibility in some way.

Oh, right, this was a sus leak that broke my mind months ago and seemed completely nonsensical, but since I started cooking this theory, I can’t help but look back at it. It claimed that Venti was the guide of the Primordial One. Humm… yeah, if Venti was part of a plan between Istaroth and PO, I can see that, although I don’t know what the goal could be. Maybe he is assuming Istaroth’s role now that she is gone in supporting the PO?

This is a very wild guess, but I really thing Venti has something to do with the Gnostic Pearl. Idk if that pearl is the same one that hatched the world, or something that holds the world together (think Mikha from HSR), but I can imagine him having some responsibility over taking care of it.

And if you think Venti holding Fate in his hands is a stretch… let’s talk about Apples. Especially in anime, Apples are often depicted as the fruit of Fate (look no further than Mawaru Penguindrum), and in Inazuma, the girl giving Fortune Slips is called Gendou Ringo, with Ringo meaning ‘apple’ in Japanese. Well… Mondstadt is a land full of apple trees, Venti loves apple cider and is often asking for apples to pay for his performances, is being given an apple in archon form in one of his birthday arts, created the Golden-Apple Archipelago, and even the top of his head in wisp form resembles an apple stem. Seriously, I go crazy with how many people never noticed that. This is too much in our face to not be relevant.

This sounds like a stretch, but apples are round and so the shape is not too different from a dream bubble. And do you know what the birthday art I mentioned had in the caption? “It is written that there is a whole tiny world hidden inside an apple core. Here, this half is for you. Let's take a stroll in the tiny little world. But remember to keep it a secret because... you're the only one I want to bring there.” If he isn’t holding Fate or a world in some way, then I don’t know what this is supposed to mean.

You know how I said that Teyvat is divided into 2 halves? That also connects well with his quote (when he gives us half of the apple/world), and with the idea that Phanes is the day while Nyx is the night. So maybe Venti is responsible for the half of Teyvat that we know/he gave us while Nyx is responsible for the Abyss side.

So… is there any proof that Venti is Phanes? No. Are there many many sus elements about him and connections with the things I listed? Yes. I could see the Traveler being Phanes and being entrusted the Light/Human half of Teyvat by Venti as a scenario just as likely, especially if The Abyss sibling ends up being/becoming Nyx, but I like this version more xD

But even if the main theory ends up being wrong, I hope people you got some things to think about.

Some videos for extra lore, more a less in order of relevance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZIR-tfzfd4 » Reinterpretation of all volumes of the Six Pygmies and the Pale Princess in light of finding out about the 5 Sinners of Khaenri’ah + Dain + connections of Istaroth with Khaenri’ah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3xYKtUniQ » More about the connections between Istaroth and Khaenri’ah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjY4c0Rj0k » Elaborates on how a Loom of Fate is basically another database, as opposed to the Irminsul, and mentios how Istaroth can could create several Looms of Fate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAm9uElsKd4 » Parallels with the Penacony arc from Honkai Start Rail and list of evidences that Teyvat is a Dream bubble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhST-fz6Yps » Video is from before we learned about the 5 Sinners, and I’m not fully sold on the chronology, but I still think it does a good job at elaborating n the serpent thing from the gnostic chorus and other things we can infer about genshin thanks to parallels to Penacony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCv8KFdL6M&t=1045s » Ties sacramental bread and blood with wine and the way wisdom/abilities can be passed down thrown ingesting parts of gods, and the concept of fairy rings and The Ring of Nibelung, with the concept of a Chemical Marriage.

[nephilimbrute]

with side order coming up i decided to make a recap(???) of my side order au. apologies if some of it isn't clear / doesn't make sense

it starts with the retirement of off the hook after octo expansion, roughly 2 years after splat2. (note that the chaos vs. order splatfest likely didn't happen, splat3 happens in some other way idk.) this part is a little janky but there's this "commander" (not related to tartar in any way) that decides to take over inkopolis via power and mind control. out of spite and as a first step they decided to go ahead and literally Kill pearl, who later died in marina's arms. after that marina wasn't able to do anything for the remainder of the day but hold pearl's body, and as the sun came up the next day only then did she decide to bury pearl just outside the pygmy mansion

her grief still persists, marina tried her best to keep the death of pearl a secret, during interviews she just says "oh she's been off the grid lately" or "visiting family", and when going out she'd try to make it quick to avoid being spotted by fans and it would only be for running errands. marina's grief (unfortunately) keeps her alive, she takes care of herself since its what pearl would've wanted. frequently she hallucinates pearl being there, and she's developed a fear for being around others, as well as gaslighting herself into thinking pearl is still alive, just away. she spends all of her time staying in the pygmy mansion. she waits and lingers, doing this routine over and over again for ~100 years, and eventually inkopolis itself crumbles to dust and is left barren

those 100 years pass and it's marina's time to shine!..kind of...the only feasible option for her was to brainwash everybody into a state of being "calm", making them into mindless walking zombies. despite everything she still felt guilt for what happened to pearl. inkopolis turns into a bleached dystopia, corals grow due to the neglect of it being cleaned, it becomes completely quiet and only marina is left with her thoughts

by the time the side order DLC takes place, she ""accidentally"" frees agent 8 from their "hypnosis". agent 8 suffers a splitting headache as soon as they're released and completely loses the ability to speak, their memory getting worse by each passing second. often times they get a sort of "déjà vu" or "flashbacks" of when pearl and marina were happier. marina still loves them dearly but she's afraid of hurting them, so she distances herself away from them, but 8 keeps on trying to reach her. in the DLC, marina acts like a final boss to the story, and when going against her she doesn't try to stop 8 from defeating her or attack back but instead she accepts it

extra stuff; the brain coral is used to control the minds of the inkfish, the other bleached corals represent neglect. the whole theme of side order is focusing on one's mental state and watching it deteriorate(?), memory loss (and similarly to octo expansion, 8 trying to get their memories back). marina sometimes wakes up with scratches or bruises (to which she denies), and she becomes somewhat dependent on agent 8

[lisa-russell]

Lmao, this fact of Northern Pygmy Squids and Pearl is just hilariously spot on!

Also the fact her name is related to to a family of the Pygmy Squid is even better🤣

[waterskies]

This 10gal has been sitting beside my bed empty for months now. So I just randomly set it up today. I'm not 100% on what I'm going to put in here. I was thinking maybe Celestial Pearl Danios or maybe Emerald Dwarf Rasboras. Another betta is also tempting. I would also like some pygmy corys. I would do cherry shrimp, but my water isn't suitable for them, unfortunately. I'm curious, what would you put in here?

[rockysug4r]

I like to think that one of pearlina blessings ended up bringing out the pygmy squid gen.

For me it will be "el pulpo chiquito" and that's it.

Bonus(?):

X: pearl, what do you have there?

Pearl: uh?, Oh! This? It's just one of my babies 💖

[[The little octo LOVES to hide among the Pearl crown in its first months of life]]

[[ Lol, also think both rascals would have the death cry of the houzuki family]]

[arecaceae175]

MONSTROUS FUSION LINKS AS FISH AND OTHER AQUATIC CREATURES IF MONSTROUS FUSION WERE FISH OR OTHER AQUATIC CREATURES

All characters belong to @monstrous-fusion!!! This is my other mermay contribution. Each Link has a different place in the world of cultural inspiration, so at least one of the fish included for each is endemic to that region. Endemic means it is native to that specific area and not found (naturally) anywhere else in the world!! It’s really cool. There are some fish that are endemic to a singular lake!!!! Big lakes, but still one singular lake!!!! Or one reach of a tributary stream!!! It’s super cool.

Anyway. FISH!!!!! Image descriptions at the very bottom! :D

IMAGE ID: Images are the names of each link and then a saltwater fish and a freshwater fish. Each fish has the common name, the common name in the native language of wherever it is found, and then the scientific name. The fish are listed below. Since I am posting this on mobile I only have an English keyboard, so I am only including the common names in the ISO Latin alphabet in the descriptions.

Artisan. Saltwater: Transparent goby, Aphia minuta. Freshwater: Blue discus, Acará disco azul, Symphysodon aequifasciatus.

Engie. Saltwater: Blackspot tuskfish, Marigyan, Mugadyi, Nggalanggari, Choerodon schoeleinii. Freshwater: Doumea reidi.

Eras. Saltwater: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus. Freshwater: Evia barbel, Petropsaro, Barbus euboicus.

Faye. Saltwater: Vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis. FreshwaterL Butterflyfish, Lifululu, Kanyoninfii, Akwadmakode, Ndako-nnakonyika, Lapooti, Isala kanga, Pantodon buchholzi.

Rancher: Saltwater: Bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo. Freshwater: Redline darter, Etheostoma ruffilineatum.

Minish: Saltwater: Butterfly goby, ‘O’opu, Amblygobius albimaculatus. Freshwater: Black skirt tetra, Monjita, Gymnocorymbus ternetzi.

Mirror. Saltwater: Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalus. Freshwater: Dabune bream, Abranis brama.

Tune. Saltwater: Japanese pygmy seahorse, Hachijo-tatsu, Hippocampus japapigu. Freshwater: Oopu nakea, Awaous stamineus.

Feathers. Saltwater: Blotchwing flyingfish, Peshk fluturues, Rundinella, Uçan balik, Cheilopogon heterurus. Freshwater: Van loach, Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus.

Rue. Saltwater: Pearl-spotted wrasse, Sugale-uluvela, Drividrivi, Halichoeres margaritaceus. Freshwater: Chanchita, Australoheros tembe.

Wild. Saltwater: Ornate cowfish, Arcana ornata. Freshwater: Blunt-nosed Irish charr, Salvelinus obtusus.

Zonau. Saltwater: Blue sea dragon, Glaucus atlanticus. Freshwater (brackish preferred): Banded dragon goby, Amblygobius phalaena.

/END ID.

[sonofrose]

I've thought about how the Japanese names of the idols imply they're each a specific species of cephalopod, and everyone kind of just accepted that, but since Deep Cut's JP names are not cephalopods, we're stumped on their species.

So I thought to go over each plus what I believe are Deep Cut's.

Callie's name in japanese is Aori, so she is a Bigfin reef squid or aori-ika.

Marie's japanese name is Hotaru, so she a Firefly squid or hotaru-ika.

Pearl's japanese name is Hime, making her a hime-ika a.k.a. a Northern pygmy squid.

And for those who know, yes her last name Houzuki is in reference to the daiōhōzukīka, better known as the Colossal squid.

Marina as we know is Ida in japan, which comes from īdako, the webfoot octopus.

Now for Deep Cut.

Shiver's JP name, Hohojiro Fūka, is all in reference to sharks. Fūka just means shark and Hohojiro is the great white.

But did you know octopuses eat sharks?

Or at least the Giant Pacific octopus does.

Frye's name in japan is Onaga Utsuho, with her first name referencing utsubo the japanese name for the Moray eel.

There was a lot of talk of Frye being a Vampire squid, but that might not be the case, so I went for an admittedly safe option with the Indian Ocean squid or just the Indian squid.

Not much to talk about Big Man, his japanese name is the rather impressive Manda Tarō Kizaemon Munekiyo or just Mantarō for short.

He is a manta obviously.

But I think he is specifically a Giant oceanic manta ray

[sheepishspirits]

fuck it. ponies ur sappholopods, rambling au ideas under the cut

THEMS IS HORSES!!!

Made some pony names for fun but they still go by their canon names as well as sort of nicknames bc I will lose my mind if I have to write the pony ones too many times lmao

Pearl - Shimmersong (AKA Shattersong)

Pygmy pegasus, she has to work really hard to fly bc her wings are so teeny, she ends up looking like a hummingbird with how fast she has to flap.

Her mother is a pegasus while her father is an earth pony, hence her small size and wings

Got her cutie mark from singing punk music in clubs, earned herself the nickname ‘Shattersong’ for how her vocals would destroy peoples glasses at bars.

Everything else still lines up w canon

Marina - Turquoisedream

Not actually a unicorn, Marina is a reformed changeling.

Octolings are changelings, before the great turf war they were colorful and kind, but their time underground caused their forms to dull to the gray colors of ‘evil’ changelings.

This has no actual bearing on their personalities, its more of a genetic shift, and much like canon mlp, their lack of love to share due to their situation led to the new appearance.

This means that when Pearl met Marina she was very gray and sad looking! After a few days she regained color.

Marina takes the form of a unicorn to use on the surface bc she was never a very good flier to begin with

uses her unicorn horn for engineering and holding things a lot, she’s very precise w it

Even after her being a changeling is revealed, she keeps the look up in public since she likes it, but drops it in private

Pearl was more upset about her not telling her she could fly with her than the fact that she was “lying”

They like to go on flights over Mt. Nantai :]

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I am cringe but I am free.

[thatliminal-wanderer]

Sidon (The Legend of Zelda) ID Pack

Requested by Anon

Names

Aban, Aine, Aliza, Alizah, Allegra, Ameer, Amir, Amiri, Angel, Arnav, Barindra, Basil, Beatrice, Bliss, Blythe, Brendon, Bronze, Bull, Douglas, Dusky, Fara, Farah, Frieda, Grey, Hallie, Harshavardhan, Harshil, Jatasya, Jeevika, Jewel, Jocelyn, Joy, Kaemon, Kalea, Kunwar, Kuvaya, Lemon, Leroy, Letita, Lvanish, Mako, Malik, Mandharti, Manichara, Mirza, Moana, Moses, Nadish, Namazzi, Nandini, Nandita, Nesan, Ninad, Nirvelli, Nixie, Panav, Paramanyu, Prahlad, Preenz, Prins, Pygmy, Radman, Raj, Ranen, Ray, Reef, Reginald, Rex, Rey, Rian, Rory, Roy, Royce, Sagarika, Salil, Soneera, Sultan, Tawny, Thalia, Thresher, Tiburon, Tiger, Tish, Toyesh, Udadhi, Udaka, Vaarin, Vladimir, Wainani, Yuvaraj

Pronouns

aqua/aquas, boing/boings, cheer/cheers, coral/corals, fin/fins, foam/foams, fun/funs, gem/gems, gill/gills, glee/glees, gold/golds, great/greats, hammer/hammers, heir/heirs, jew/jewelry/jewelries, jewel/jewels, joy/joys, king/kings, ocean/oceans, pearl/pearls, prince/princes, red/reds, regal/regals, royal/royals, salt/salts, scale/scales, sea/seas, shark/sharks, speed/speeds, stream/streams, swim/swims, tide/tides, tooth/tooths, water/waters, wave/waves, wet/wets, 🌊/🌊s, 🔱/🔱s, 🔴/🔴s, 🦈/🦈s

Titles

The (Prince/King) of The Zora, The (Princely/Kingly) Shark, The Fast Swimming (Prince/King), The One Of Scales and Joy, The Red-hued Shark, The Royal Shark, The Sage That Is Always Ecstatic, The Sage That Looks Like a Shark, [prn] Who Tries To See The Good

Genders

Aecoraromic, Affectisharkic, Aquacéan, Aquaprincic, Creauterrelle, Leonic, Mascsharkgender, Moonlongarine, Nautishellgender, Playfulprincegender, Priaqua, Prifish, Princelexic, Priseaic, Redgender, Sharkboygender, Sharkgender, Sillysharkgender, Waterelementic, Whimsiaquata, Zoragender

Other mogai

Prince Omninoun, Princestelic, Princevesi, Shark Omninoun, Sharkperspesque, Sharkvior

[tunabunk]

The original character sketches I had for the Ida family:

• Subject #115: Pearl Ida.

> Was born out of secrecy as a secret love child between Subjects #021 (Crusty Sean) and #083 (Marina Ida)

> Is currently on the run from the Octarion Army, and living out in safety in the Splatlands with NSBS

• Subject #021: Crusty Sean.

> Secret Tiger Prawn Shrimp love interest to Marina Ida; is the BIO shrimp father to Pearl

> Currently living in the Splatlands with Pearl, both managed to escape together

• Subject #083: Marina Ida.

> Was one of the best performing Sergeants of the Octarion Army; however, then had a falling out with her position as she had a forbidden relationship with Sean, and managed to have Pearl as her biological Pygmy inkling daughter.

Note: Will expand more on the ‘Reverse Genetics’ phenomenon that resulted in Pearl, an inkling, having been born from a prawn shrimp dad and an octoling mother.

⚠️ MORE LORE COMING SOON ⚠️

[aeriona]

Hello!!! I love your xeno designs, and I wanted to ask your opinion - it seems to be a common consensus among artists and writers that octolings are (on average) slightly larger than inklings. however, I'd like to explore the idea that inklings may have a considerable amount of size/height variation, especially at the extreme ends of the spectrum, considering that the smallest of real world squid species weighs only a tenth of a gram and the largest nearly 500kg - comparably, the largest octopus weighs only around 70kg. We have an example of smaller size variation in Pearl, but nothing for exceptionally large inklings. With the adaptations needed for moving on land, do you think larger species of squid would have kept proportionally large sizes when transitioning to a human form?

whoah thanks for the ask!

I think they definitely do, but I don't think the difference in size is AS dramatic as it is with real-world cephalopods? like,,, a pygmy squid wouldn’t be absolutely TINY, maybe just a couple feet shorter.

I’ve had this in my files for a while now, this is how I think they’d roughly be sized + variation in size for the bigger and smaller species. So nothing too crazy when it comes to size difference, but definitely enough to warrant significant infrastructure inclusivity .

I highly doubt a MASSIVE inkfish would have a terribly good quality of life, gravity would be pretty unkind to their hydrostatic skeletons so they’d spend lots of time in swim-form (DJ Octavio moment). They’d also have circulatory issues so yeah, best to stay small.

Also notice how short they all are compared to humans, there’s really only so large you can get when you have an extremely weak support structure. That fact that they can get as big as this in the first place is EXCLUSIVELY because of ink pressure in the limbs.

Compared to other evolved sea creatures, inkfish are actually pretty firmly on the tall side! Many other species only reach chest-height at best.

Yeah, that’s about it! Thanks for the ask man!