#Splatoon OC Guar Gum

[guarshroom]

Sorry about this, I know the poll ended weeks ago but I didn't get any notifications or reminders that I had it going sooooo.... y'all are gonna get the info on Guar now!

(I used a picrew ok? I personally cannot art for shit, the Splatoon OC Picrew should be on another post I reblogged)

Meet Guar! A 25 year old Inkling that originally lived in Inkopolis but moved out to Splatsville after being banned from Turf War!

Guar's story, a synopsis

● Guar is obssessed with tinkering with any weapon he can get his hands on, doesn't matter what kind, Splatannas, Rollers, hell he'll even give your bucket an upgrade

● His main weapon (and baby) is his modified Ballpoint Splatling which he has named 'Clickit Maw' (Parodied after a certain scientific Ratman from ancient earth games [bonus points if you can guess who]) or 'Clicky' for short

● With his love of weapons came an love of Turf Wars where he would get to see it all in action (some times a little too close and personally)

● Guar would eventually start to lose interest in the 'base line' Ball Point and its kit variants so he would tinker with his leading to the creation of Clicky.

● Clicky differs from a normal Ballpoint in that Guar modified it's rapid fire to be more concentrated, it's long range to fire faster, and to make the modes switch on a toggle. This all came at the cost of greater ink consumption

▪︎ (I should take this moment to say that my personal head canon is that the weapons and kits we get from Sheldon are the 'Regulation Leagal' sets)

● Guar would come to start using Clicky in Turf Wars and while no one noticed at first due to the sheer chaos of Turf Wars (and him using the regulation Sub and Special), eventually folks and officials started to take notice after watching replays of his matches and started raising lots of complaints. This would eventually lead to an investigation that would result in Guar's ban from official Turf War.

● After his ban Guar attempted to get work with the Ammo Knights but was shot down when his ban came to light with 'we can't hire someone who cannot/will not work within the refulations put in place' being sited as the reason why

● Guar was listless for awhile, living with his family, picking up shifts at Grizzco to earn some money, continuing to tinker with Clicky for something to do

● Eventually he would hear about Splatsville and how it's a lot more chaotic/free, so thinking that his weapons would be more accepted there Guar packed up and moved out there.

● long story short, they still have an official league out there, and Guar was still banned from it

● Guar resumed his aimless living now in Splattsville and meets little Buddy along the way (but that's a story for another time), this all changes when he spots a certain cuttlefish

● Being a huge weapon nerd also took him down the rabbit (sea bunny?) Hole of the original Turf War so he follows Cpt Cuttlefish of course.

● At this point events follow 3's story line and Guar would become my version of New Agent 3

● While he does meet the original Agent 3 (as well as the Squid Sisters and Deep Cut), he doesn't like being the 'New' Agent 3 so after the events of 3 he stays on with the New Squidbeak Splatoon as Agent 6,000 or Agent 6K for short.

● His assignment in the Splatoon is to safeguard Splattsville from exteral threats (as I have also headcanoned that Splatsville is sort of a border territory), be they Octarian or mammalian along with his new partner Agent 24 (aka Nil)

Personality

● I am admittedly a big sucker for the loud, rough, sunshine characters being paired with the quiet, scheming, moon type characters so Guar fits into the former category for the most part

● Guar is, more specifically, what I would refer to as a 'high intelligence, low wisdom' type character

▪︎ This is to say Guar is extremely smart especially in his field of interest, can talk for hours about his hyperfixation, and is pretty handy during trivia night a the local Squb [Squid Pub]

▪︎ However this means he's not so great at picking up on the subtler parts of conversations, tends to tunnel vision on his interests, and can't read people for crap

▪︎ Guar also has a bit of a volume issue in normal social interactions

● Around new people he tends to have a harder time talking since he's not sure where the line is with them. When he knows where you stand with him he has a harder time not talking

● Like his favorite Splatling blasting ink, he will unleash a torrent of puns given half a chance

Misc

● Favorite clothing brand is Annaki outside of his Splatoon work, he'll often wear tank tops since Splattsville is a lot warmer than he's used to

● Still picks up shifts at Grizzco despite the events of the campaign (gotta pay bills somehow and shiftwork lets him set his schedule)

● Guar has both Parents who work as food scientists (hey, someones gotta make new kinds of cereal after the dominant species switch), and a little brother who live up in Inkopolis

● Guar's last name is Gum! So his full name is Guar Gum! (Maybe he'll get a middle name later). Continuing this His Dad's name is Carob, Mom's name is Acacia (she married into the family but it was a happy accident), and his little brother's name is Xanthan (his nickname is Zan for short)

● As stated before when Guar did Turf war he mainly used the Ballpoint splatling but would happily use any weapon you would give him

● Guar's main role outside of missions in the New Squidbeak Splatoon would be similar to that of James Bond's Q. Which is to say, weapon and gadget maintanence and invention.

● During missions he's generally the demolitionist or used as the distraction given his fondness for utilizing the weapons he creates and the fact that he'll bring Clicky and an extended ink tank on everything except the stealthiest of missions

▪︎ because of this propensity to haul a huge weapon around Guar does his best to do weight lifting so he can haul the Splatling, its ammo bag, and everything else he'll need on a mission

▪︎ Guar also has the bad habit of bringing new toys along on missions for *ahem* "field testing", this goes about as well as you'd expect

Phew! I think that's all the basics I can think of right now for Guar, feel free to send me any questions about the character! He mostly started as a thought excersize during the slow times at work and one version of a Splatsona but he's slowly getting more fleshed out and becoming his own character. Thank you to those who read the entire thing and to those 11 folks who voted in my random poll. I'll probably get around to Nil at some point!