#off the hook hc

[superjumpintomyheart]

headcanon but like you know how in the concerts whenever Off The Hook perform Shark Bytes Pearl would like jump out of the stage? In some concerts she decides to just reefslide onto the stage

It's usually loved by the fans but the clean up crew and government hate it cause of the mess and the fact that she's using a special outside of the splatlands

oh I love this idea that would be so cool!!! imagine her reefsliding onto the stage and when it bursts, pink and teal ink go everywhere like those colored smoke bombs!! fans in the front rows will wear white shirts so when the ink splashes from the reefslider their shirts get colored with it and they have a unique piece of merch to remember the concert <3

i can absolutely see like the president or governor or ... king/ queen? whoever controls inkadia or something- the person in charge being like "we ought to fine you for use of a special weapon outside of a designated turf war area!" and pearl is like "oh my bad, how much?" and they say like 2,000 dollars or something and pearl hands it to them in CASH from her pocket, giving them a thumbs up and saying "I'll be sure to pay beforehand next time I do it! We run on a tight schedule, I don't wanna delay our flight handling stuff like this. See ya!"

They.... make an exception for Off the Hook, because it's clear a fine will not stop them and the fans like it a lot. Maybe they temporarily declare the stage a turf war area so there's like a legal loophole for pearl to use the reefslider without getting in trouble. Either way, pearl is rich and gives no fucks, she'll do whatever she wants even if she has to pay for it later.

[squid-seraph]

I'm like 100% sure this happens all the time

[beanbeanbee]

Some stuff I never posted

[urfavhasavpd]

Marina Ida from Splatoon is Autistic and has AvPD!

her safe person is pearl ^_^

[canichangemyblogname]

*grabs popcorn* why did you tag 'the writing did her so dirty' re: taylor kelly?

I finally found the words for this answer. For me, it has everything to do with the way she was written in 5A as if they were domesticating her, partially at the expense of what really made her an interesting character. I’d like to have seen her as that girl everyone loves to hate, but for the right reasons. “She’s a bitch.” Yes, and? “She hurt all these people.” Yes, and? Also… and this is just fan-canon, not something that I think the show would’ve (or could’ve) done, but pansexual Taylor in an established relationship with a woman is my absolute favorite 🫶.

Like… I hate to give buddie fans any points because most of them are committed to misrepresenting the point and a scene, but the whole “if Eddie were a girl, they’d have kissed already” held a bit of water during the Buck x Taylor era, but not because Buck and Eddie are queercoded, but because Buck x Taylor had the same vibe as “two people who met through work and only really have work in common, but dated anyway.” The two of them talked about their work lives more than any couple on the show. I feared that if either of them had a change of job, they’d cease to have anything to talk about, which *would* be the case for two people who are co-worker adjacent, but shouldn’t be the case for a couple. IMHO, Buck x Taylor wasn’t a result of Buck’s comp het, but societal comp het. They also—as I mentioned previously—seemed to stifle a bit of Taylor’s passionate, ambitious, career-above-everything characterization for a little bit there in 5A, and she kinda simply became Buck’s GF. There was a degree of domestication for her character there, and I hated that for her. 

Also… 911 honest opinion? I think Buck and Ali should have had a longer arc. 🫣 More on that below:

It really seemed like they had been narratively setting something up between Buck and Ali, given how the show paralleled Buck + Ali and Maddie + Chim with that one outro monologue about how sometimes the best things start with second chances. Because that monologue that introduced us to Buck x Ali had been all about “second chances,” I genuinely had assumed that she was coming back and that they’d work out their issues. Their relationship also felt narratively weighty because of *why* Buck chose to date her. He had a choice between old habits (re: Taylor Kelly) or making his happiness (re: the Buck Actually theme). They also chose an apartment together. Plus, their “break up” did not feel very final. Something about it felt unresolved.

Cast contracts permitting, if *I* had been on this project, I would have written Buck & Ali as tentatively working on their differences post-injury. When their relationship does end, I’d explore the concept that sometimes, genuinely liking one another—or love—is not enough (which I think would have been great to explore after the Daniel reveal, as love was not enough for a happy Buckley household). Ali & Buck may have progressed past health scares and job fears, but find themselves on two different paths in life (with her job and dreams taking her one way and his keeping him at the 118). Here we could also incorporate Buck’s Big Mistake™️ that we saw in his relationship with Taylor: keeping/hiding things from his partner and overcompensating for that out of guilt to keep the relationship. Maybe that something is family related (re: Daniel) or maybe job related (revisit old wounds that weren’t actually healed during the sniper arc, an emergency he expressly doesn’t tell Ali about for fear of her reaction). Hell, it could be Taylor-related (with Taylor, someone he has a previous dynamic with, “being Lucy” in this situation), if you really want, although I’m personally disinclined to taking this hypothetical story in that direction (mostly because I hate cheating arcs, but also because I think Buck and Taylor work better as friends).

I also think Buck could have still grown into the person he is now through this hypothetical of events instead of through shorter-term relationships.  Reasons I think this turn of events could have also worked for Buck’s growth:

We would still get Buck 3.0 seeking out therapy after being crushed, being dumped, and being assigned desk duty. Maddie points out that he’s not handling it well, and he takes it upon himself to do something about that, just like in canon. Maybe later in that season or early next, we find out that Ali had reached out, and Buck reaches back out to her following his conversation with Abby and some therapy, not wanting to leave things unsaid and knowing he hides his true feelings from people. Maybe he tells Ali about him wanting to work on himself and start again. This means that, yes, he’d spend season 3 single before getting back together in early season 4 to “try again” and “see where it goes.”

However, Buck will still be lonely at this time, now essentially having bought into the comp-het idea that part of the reason for our loneliness is not being partnered (just like in canon, but he’d be partnered instead of single during this). If work or a difference in life pulls Buck and Ali apart, we’d still get Buck dealing with this gaping loneliness. It’d be less of a “He hasn’t put himself out there since Abby” and more a “He’s in a relationship and still feels alone.” Maddie and Chim invite Josh to poker night not because of Buck’s “tragic singleness,” but because Ali couldn’t come (which means we still get everyone’s favorite Buck x Josh joke). The scene will lay the ground for the relationship issues he’ll run into in late 4B. Something like, “Buck never gets out of the house” or “He has a girlfriend, but no one would know,” while Josh tells him to be glad he’s got someone because it’s “rough out there” (all while still foreshadowing Josh’s later gay bashing that episode). And this hints at an element of compulsory heterosexuality to this scenario: Buck doesn’t just feel the need to make the relationship work because he wants to be there for people, but because he feels a need to be partnered. His parents are visiting and they’re always disappointed in him, but they’ve met Ali and they’re happy Buck’s partnered. So, he stays. He reads the love languages book (absolutely quackery of a theory, imho) for some ideas on relationship growth and making it work and he stays. He expresses that he really wants this relationship to be successful and meaningful (and that’s why he’s trying the self-help book), and he stays. But maybe we get the Buck equivalent of “my relationship feels like a performance.” Maybe Buck expresses some discomfort with what are essentially traditional aspects/dynamics of het relationships (something the 5 love languages is centered around). Things like, “I want to provide, but I also want to be taken care of.” We’ll also get a few scenes that suggest he and Ali don’t know each other well (like not knowing what to get each other for special occasions, and some conversations between Buck and Bobby). But, otherwise, Buck & Ali’s interactions with one another are sweet and romantic. He goes on a successful date with Ali instead of Monica. He also goes on a successful double-date with Monica x Albert, with Ali as his gf. Ali’s genuine affection for Buck really shines when Buck runs into his season 4 family issues, and she gets along with everyone in Buck’s life, including Maddie, Chim and Albert, and even his parents. Their personal lives will seem to go strong because it’s the way their work lives interfere with their personal lives that will drive the wedge between them. Red’s warning about being too consumed by the job and how hard this is to compete with swirl around in Buck’s head the whole relationship. Buck fears that much like Red, he’ll never be able to make it work.

Eventually, however, we would get Buck figuring out that he doesn’t have to stay with someone just to stay with someone. (“I’m not happy. And if this isn’t a healthy relationship, then maybe the best thing for me to do is be the one who leaves.”) So, in early 4B when issues he thought they’d worked through rise again and maybe Ali discovers that Buck’s keeping something from her (I’m leaning toward him purposefully keeping aspects of his job from her, like not telling her about the sniper [among other things], once more revealing how Buck puts other’s comfort above his personal life and happiness and again reinforcing the idea that Buck’s career is too “consuming” and too “dangerous” for some partners, but also revealing that he doesn’t trust Ali not to run again -> but this leads Ali to not trust that Buck won’t keep important things from her and also leads her to realize that he will ice her out of important parts of his life), Buck decides, “I do like you, but I don’t think this is going to work out.” He then spends all of season 5 single, and it would be cool to see a “I’m working on myself, I want to be single” storyline, which would factor well into his further self-improvement arc during the interim-Captain storyline. He will then still meet Natalia in season 6 and they’ll be drawn together and apart for many of the same reasons as in canon.

But crucially, this means that I’d have kept Buck and Taylor friends in seasons 4 & 5 because 1.) I think the men of 911 do not have enough women in their life platonically outside blood relations, 2.) I found their dynamic *before* they started dating much more compelling, and 3.) them making Taylor Buck’s GF seemed to stifle her character a little, so she was less the ambitious, passionate reporter and more just… a sweet girl. In my hypothetical, she’s still there in seasons 4-5, and ever the go-getting reporter. Maybe she has less screen time, but she’s still there. Many of the work-related scenes between her and Buck would and could (and should) remain. Anything related to investigations and her reporting would absolutely stay. I think that Taylor could neatly fit into a similar role that Josh does with Maddie. She’s blunt, no holds barred. He tells her about his family, roommate, and relationship issues in S4, and she always gives him the tough answer. She confides in him when the pandemic becomes too much. They team up for the hit-n-run investigation and the treasure hunt (Ali also joins them). She is his friend—and maybe one of the only ones outside the 118 family— who is there when his best friend, Eddie, gets shot (but clearly—and crucially—not in the same way Maddie is there for Chim or Karen is there for Hen because she’s *not* Buck’s GF or a potential LI, and also not in the same way that Ali is *not* there for Buck, given Buck goes to lengths to hide this development from Ali, like putting on his vest in secret). She is still hard on him for his “neediness” and “impulsivity.”

IMHO—not too much changes between them. There’d be fewer scenes between them, sure. They wouldn’t kiss. Some of their more emotional conversations would be less couple-y, like the coffee date where he talks about his family. (And I personally love the idea that this whole time they’re friends, Taylor is dating a woman and Buck has met this woman or heard about her, but that is, again, just fan-canon.) Also, we’d miss that scene of Taylor in her black lingerie (sorry lesbians) and Buck in that grey A-line Tee (sorry to me), but not much is otherwise changing. Hell, even the way things eventually break down doesn’t need to change (minus the issue with Buck asking Taylor to move in after he and Lucy kissed). Buck will still learn that he can’t fix everything because Taylor will still prioritize her career over her friendship. Plus, a friendship crashing and burning is its own beast, and one that would teach Buck that it’s not just in his romantic relationships that he gives too much of himself. (Cough, cough, a lesson he could learn with Eddie.)

Also, with this breakdown coming so soon after breaking things off with his gf, his best friend damn near dying, and his sister running away, Buck will go to lengths to try and fix the issues in his friendship, lengths like going to Oklahoma to support her (a trip where he meets her GF in my fan-canon). He wasn’t enough to inspire Abby to stay. He couldn’t make it work with Ali. Eddie fucking got shot. Maddie’s run away. And now a difference in world views has put him and a friend at odds with each other (something that *seems* fixable). So, he’ll try his damndest to fix things, desperately wanting this to work out as everything else goes haywire. “I can’t lose a friend, too.” “You were there for me after Eddie got shot, I want to be here for you now.” “Everything else is a mess; I want to help where I’m needed.” No more losing people. Except, it doesn’t work. Meaning, Buck would still come to understand himself and his localized view of himself relative to others vs. Taylor’s more universal view of herself as their friendship falls apart.

This also all still leaves Tommy to be different compared to Buck’s past romantic relationships, most of which happened on his partner’s terms rather than his own. It also still leaves Taylor in the series and her impact on Buck remains without half-nuking her character. Buck also maintains much of his character growth, as I will always maintain that Taylor was very important to Buck’s character growth.

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[tanupoki]

wahoo! im back to posting on tumblr! :D anyways hello!

i give you my pearl headcanon!! before i knew it was a mistranslation, i always thought pearl would have lightning scars from her electrocution incident (turns out that never happened sdhfgh), so now i theorize she got them from busting those speakers at the folk singing contest! 

[nephilimbrute]

kicking my legs.... hey queen could we hear about some goofy splatoon headcanons that you might have to offer the world is dying to know (its me im world)

HELP hello...also OF COURSE!! i have a post detailing idol headcanons but in this post i'll add on to it (so you should probably go read that first)

okay so if you didn't know all the idol groups are insane (especially the squidsisters.) off the hook more like off the meds. they kill people and they're able to get away with it coz they can cover it up well. that's like the main thing in my...universe

now, adding on to callie she's like. buff/physically fit. and she's stronger than she is intelligent, she hits people on accident sometimes (gave marie a scar once (or maybe a few times)). she also tried to bite marie several times and tried to eat her hat. she's an accomplice to marie's killing

onto marie, as i said before she kills people. for fun! though, in splatoon 2 i picture the whole missing-callie situation to be tough for her so in splat2 she's more like her canon self, but it's harder for her to communicate and for 4 to actually complete any missions

pearl and marina don't have much extra coz i think they're awesome already. but pearl is a little more of a loose cannon (still gentle with marina), and marina... (in the future of an alternate timeline) um.. yeah . anyways, pearl has adhd and she's a big hit with the ladies (self-projecting)

shiver speaks in a more formal manner, and it's easier to get on her nerves. one word to describe her would be psychopathic. fuck being good she's all evil baybee! also hc that she sounds like bmo from adventuretime

frye is fucking Unhinged. still really silly though. she gets a big kick out of killing people. also she has like , 3 or 4 normal shirts and the rest are about her...

callie is a cuttlefish, marie is a cuttlefish/firefly squid mix. pearl is a northern pygmy squid, marina is a giant pacific octopus. shiver is a mako shark/??? mix, frye is a vampire squid and big man i suppose you know already

i'm open to any questions (angel emoji)

[nartblartmallcop]

every time i see this post i think to myself "HOLY SHIT SPLAT2 HERO SHOT" so i thought id visualise it

[superjumpintomyheart]

How do you think Pearl’s family reacted to Pearl dating Marina? I assume they’re chill with it and I’m 100% gonna assume that they’re going to pay and go all out for their wedding (also maybe Pearlina wedding hcs?)

People tend to either think pearl's fam is chill af or terrible and i prefer the first option LOL, it's nice as an AU for plot angst and stuff but I think pearl is on good terms with her parents!! she's definitely a daddy's girl

When she told her mom she was dating marina her mom was like "Great, when will I meet her? Are you bringing her to family dinner on Sunday? How much food should I expect her to eat?"

Her dad was like "Cool." Which is actually dad speak for "I'm so proud of you and I can't wait to meet the love of your life."

The Houzuki family is rich as fuck so they will absolutely pay for all the expenses of their wedding and honeymoon, so they can literally do whatever they want. following this idea, here are some pearlina wedding hcs:

They have all their friends and family come of course, oth is popular so they invite all sorts of people they've become acquainted doing business with

Pearl's maid of honor is Callie, Marina's is Marie ofc

They both have some of the agents as their brides maids, agent 3 is one of Pearl's, agent 8 is one of Marina's, 4 and neo 3 are there too but not in the bridal parties (they haven't really met much yet so they are both invited bc NSS members but neither of them are close)

Pearl has a suit dress combination, a short, fluffy white wedding skirt with a pristine white blazer with teal accents. she has a teal tie on as well

Marina has a form fitting, shimmery, white dress that reaches the ground and has a high slit by her leg for mobility. It has really delicate, thin straps made of lace or beads, they're really just there for show instead of support but the beads have hints of pink in them

They have the most mushy and from the heart vows ever, Marina saying that Pearl saved her, gave her hope that inkopolis would be a home for her and she fell in love with the kindest most beautiful person ever. Pearl saying how Marina changed her, how she made her evaluate her actions and life choices and became such a better person because of her influence, and there was nobody she’d rather spend the rest of her life with than Marina. 

They have the most gorgeous wedding ring sets, Marina has a round blue sapphire with diamonds around the band of the ring, and a wedding band that fits over the ring to make it look like an infinity symbol. Pearl has a square (but its tilted on its side so its a diamond shape) pink diamond surrounded by smaller white diamonds, and a wedding band that points in the middle making the set look like a crown <3 

Pearl’s dad absolutely cries during their first dance, hes so proud of his daughter and he also gives Marina a dance because she doesn’t have family that she can do that with ;-; that makes Marina cry 

Pearl and Marina’s first dance is so emotional and they have a beautiful dance routine they practiced, a simple ballroom dance with lots of twirling and Marina dipping Pearl and kissing her. Everyone is just so happy for them and the two of them are so excited to spend the rest of their lives together

Their honeymoon is in like a tropical forest/island environment, somewhere they’re kind of secluded in a beautiful nature setting and can chill and relax as wives without worrying about being off the hook

[quiveringdeer]

how would u imagine bertholdt who knows his true potential? he’s no longer timid or passive and he knows how much power he has

Ok. So Bertie comin into his own would definitely be an adjustment for folks. I mean I kinda think about it as the Bertholdt we see when Rei is down for the count and Bert is confronting the others at the last battle at Shiganshina.

He got that bass in his voice and doesn't mince his words. His mind is made up and even if he doesn't like what's gotta happen, he's prepared to see it through. Gots to see it through ma boy. 🥲

But in terms of him being this way in NOT such sad situations. I think much of that holds true. I still don't think that power would go to his head though. He's always going to be a sweetheart as long as the safety of his loved ones isn't at stake.

I'm kinda waffling back in forth in my head between like semi canon verse and modern au verses thinkin about this which is making some things hard to parse out.

But I don't know if I can ever see him "throwing his weight around" in ways of intimidation or such. I see Bertie more as a--carries a big stick but doesn't necessarily care if anyone notices or not cause if the time comes they'll figure out their mistake quick enough? Like I've never watched Peaky Blinders, but that clip of the brothers showin up and the two who aren't actually in charge are makin a big show like they are while main dude is all silent, laid back and chill?

Which is now makin me pine for some Mafia/Crime Boss Bertholdt hcs.....👀

[fairysylveon]

Jackothy headcanon

They both hate Claptraps so much. Jack has professional reasons, Tim is just really really petty.

Jack is very possessive. Tim digs it (at first)

Tim steps in for Jack when he's hungover sometimes. No one notices because a grumpy Tim and a hungover Jack have the same level of bitchiness

I, personally, rly like tim being begrudgingly fond of at LEAST fragtrap, mainly because my first run through tps (as tim) was alongside a claptrap, but also some of his lines in claptastic, but like I understand you and that's a respectable take!!

I looove possessive jack, I think about it often 🥰 tim loving it up until the points where it gets in his way is so fun. bc like, jack is definitely not even pretending they have anything exclusive, esp considering he has a girlfriend, but when TIM even implies he might sleep with someone else, jack gets unbelievably pissed off, which in turn pisses tim off because of the audacity. buuuut he has to admit, it's still kinda hot... and maybe it kinda goes to his head that jack isn't that possessive about any of his other partners (and, of course, it's different when jack has him act in adult films, that's all perfectly fine because it was jack's idea)

you're so right omg I love this one ✨ bonus if tim is extra grumpy because he's hungover too, but he doesn't get to call out of work

thank you for sending these in, made me happy to get these in my inbox 💞

[arolesbianism]

Breakcore may not be a super strictly defined genre but I swear ppl will call anything that has noises at all like y'know music has like just normal ass music from any other genre breakcore with a straight face and I just have to sit there and try to not reveal I'm a pretentious fuck when it comes to this stuff

[jesytr]

you don't see color & want to go back to black & white .

it hit her like a nail pushed into a coffin. the needle lunging in deep enough to keep its living corpse trapped within. she could feel a thought stirring deeply within her noggin'. rustling around with other more important thoughts. those like . . . define black and white ?? . . . what did it matter to him ?? . . . and how'd he guess it so easily??

reading her like an educated tutor telling their student how to do mathematics. she didn't enjoy the thought that what he was doing was digging deeper into the parts of her that lacked color. that crept forwards with an afterthought of feeling left behind. that how she saw the world was exactly like a colorful giraffe on a tight rope. eventually they'd either break the rope , or . . .

" ya' know me. " she chewed out her words. though with slight fascination on how he had figured it all out in the span of a couple words. MASKING QUICKLY BEHIND BLUE EYES THAT LOOKED AWAY, " it's not my fault. " she added. her hands flexed and she pulled out a chewable piece of candy. rolling it in her fingers. feeling the texture of the wax paper settling against her fingers.

" ya' don't know this about me, but my dad used ta' kick me around. " eyes went down. no longer presently there. her mind floating away from her body. pulling up out of daydreams she was somewhere else. listening to looney tunes intros on repeat. as if that old man could still reach her from his stay plugged up in Gotham height's hospital bed, " yea . . . real messed up childhood. ma didn't think ta' leave him then , only when it was her turn ta' look black n' blue. "

she pulled the papers off her piece of caramel before plopping it in her mouth. sticking to candy as one of her main habits of nervousness. not quite stable enough to understand maybe it was a coping skill. settling back in her seat. legs crossed. hands beginning to fidget. keeping up a described version of what anyone wanted out of herself. she let out a nervous chuckle. one that pitched almost to the extreme. only laughing at the memories of her father. kept safely locked behind her eyes. she laughed, and laughed before settling on her next words, " Ahh! Too funny! I haven't laughed like that in awhile. maybe next time I'll tell ya' about this boy I knew. he thought he'd hurt me like my old man. " she wiped tears out of her eyes before continuing, " I knocked out a few o' his teeth. "

[brawlqueen]

" . . . damn , work didn't clear up last night . " she's frowning patently as she checks her cell phone ; fingers twiddling through contacts as she huffs in the streets outside. regardless , for a bit of fun , mizuki still humored herself in a witch's costume with an added adorabbit charm at the end of the wide hat's tip , small bat wings incorporated into the shoulders . the skirt is layered with lace and cobwebs; mostly black with hints of naturally, mizuki's trademark color, yellow to yellow-gold .

glancing around she sighs and slips a piece of chocolate into her mouth. " and i look really cute too . . . geez ! if i go home , date's gonna steal some of this stuff , so maybe it's better i give some of it away . . . old man really did steal so much of my sweets as a kid. " she remembered when she literally had some, in her opinion, very cute outfit similar to adorabbit but with some traditional bunny traits . her cheeks lightly puffed out in a rare display of pouting ; mismatched eyes squinting in annoyance. so much for that !

" . . . well , i'm gonna find some kids who still want some . after i stuff my face with what i got . . . " maybe she'll find some people that are as glum as her about all this . . .not that the young detective, psyncer and businesswoman sees anyone to commiserate with . . .

" oh well, i have candy . . and hey, i do look really cute, and next time i'm definitely planning for me to be involved in scheduling a more . . . uh - organized but still practical break for my employees . . "

[ ugh! nevermind . . . i'm pissed too. another chocolate in my stomach it goes . . ]

[mystical-strawberry-sheep]

Other than your loved ones, who are three people that have made an impact on your life recently? The twist: You can’t mention them by name.

"Mm... If I had to really think about it, I guess I have met a lot of people in the recent past, huh? Have they really impacted my life that much...? I guess I would say... The one that's decided to let me be his friend. I'm... really grateful for him. And... I met someone who can see everything I do. She's really nice. Oh, and one time, when I was in Ginza, I was kinda helped out by this guy? I thought for sure he was going to hurt me at first, but he was actually really nice. I guess I've been pretty lucky, even if I don't feel like anything is happening around me."