#this is abt splatoon ofc

[snailslunchpail]

i need that goofy robot emote now

[tetraduels]

idk man its just. theres something about this last hurrah of splatoon 3 thats really getting to me.

seeing people posting photos of their inklings and octolings watching idols perform, mess around with teammates in matches, making jokes about the side characters that are there, taking cinematic photos of the venue, just. the players are really what makes the world of splatoon alive, what makes players characters feel REAL.

its probably corny but i keep going back to look at peoples posted photos, their characters in the plaza, and imagining those inklings/octolings as real, conscious people in the splatoon world, who are given life by the fans love for the series.

and isn't that kind of beautiful? for a game with a story about sea creatures that evolved and grew and made the world their own because they inhabited the wishes and feelings of the human race, isnt that so fucking beautiful?

[nightseeye]

Ive been struck w a ton of Captain 3 thoughts lately so! Here he is!!! My legally dead nonbinary prettyboy who doesn't! Have a name yet!!!

[ultimatepinkgirl]

Pearl splatoon is like canonically 4’9 and 26 years old as of splatoon 3, and is the first nintendo character to canonically cuss. Shes the only white girl rapper i trust. Shes even gay.

I love how this ask is phrased bc up until I started this blog then only thing I knew about pearl WAS that she's gay😭

[inkedmyths]

Forever young, I want to be forever young...

[mspeevee]

picrew update

but i guess i may not have even posted about this WIP here

I wanted to add at least 5 of each item slot before releasing it and might release a heavy WIP and then have continual updates whenever I add more to it when I am in my Picrew Mood

ofc i want 30 of each hair slot, mouth slot, and nose slot first though~ never feels right releasing a picrew w only a few hairstyles available personally

[brokentoothmarch]

Getting Distracted mid-Drawing fr Artfight to Edit my Splatoonsonas Artfight desc bcs th Feeling of Being scared tht Other ppl Thinking tht shes a One note "Only trait is tht they dislike discrimination" Character of Colour Racism allegory Got too Much Finally

[ecstasydemon]

MADE MY FIRST FRIEND AT COLLEGE CAUSE SHE PLAYED SPLATOON AND WHEN WE TALK ON DISCORD SHE LITERALLY ASKS THIS HELPPP

[gglitchshit]

been bingewatching character design videos again and i rly want to make a video or post or anything abt character design for ocs who are just "official characters" dressed up in a game. like talking about the restrictions you have but also ways to break out of said restrictions and make your character unique in a way...

[chisatowo]

A very important concept I need ppl to understand abt deep cut is that if they were to have a swear jar in the first place, it would have been made by Shiver and then exclusively filled by Shiver. It's not that the other two don't swear, Shiver just never remembers to call them out on it, and also Shiver swears like 5 times more often and the other two always remember to call Shiver out on it. Once it's full Big man gets to use it to buy expensive eyeliner <3

[nohh-r]

!! having so much fun w the tri color battles !!! good luck fellow team grass 🌱🐙 !!!

[gauntghoul]

1hr left til my weekend and i just started my period

[scootatwoni]

Games I am gonna try my darnest to play this year include jet set radio and space channel 5

I was not a Sega/Dreamcast kid growing up so please forgive me for not having played them before 😭

I love love love the aesthetics of these games and what I know/seen of gameplay I think I'll love as well!!

[t4tklonoa]

TELL ME ABOUT COROIKA. TELL ME ABOUT THE SILLY TEAMS AND YOUR SILLY HCS AND ANYTHING ELSE 🦔

YAYYYY. ON IT BOSS

I'm gonna talk abt team Gloves bc I lov them

the team is integrated by Gloves, Half-Rim, Clip-Ons and Straps... THEIR DESIGNS. are all based on promotional inklings from splatoon 2... Gloves beinf one of the closest ones :] green squid...

^ look atthem... colored art... it's kinda rare that side characters that aren't. their captain. getting those so. awin for the sillies

they. went thru appearance changes for some reason. Half-Rim got its clothes changed and Clip-Ons got her weapon changed (even in the cover above she has the wrong one).. no idea why

Gloves isso silly. she can't stand being called uncool so she goes to the mountains to think abt how he can b more fresh, this sounds silly without context. also she goes bald in multiple occasions. don't ask.

Half-Rim is so funny. it makes fun of ppl alot ina light hearted way.. and it's rll inexpressive. it couldbe laughing its ass off but it keeps a B| face. autism swag. it also appears on two of my favorite extra stories.... the charger and glasses one :]

unfortunately Clip-Ons and Straps don't get much personality :( but. I headcanon. Clip-ons is v organized and plans most of their training sessions... green also is v supportive and gives somuch energy totheteam. Straps is opposite to Half-Rim, they are really expressive and talk a lot, it is responsible for coming up with strategies..

for tha. hcs. Gloves is transfem anduses she/he/it/shiny/armor pronouns !!! Half-Rim is genderfluid and uses only it/its pronouns. Clip-ons is agender and a lesbian, she uses she/green pronouns. anddd Straps is unlabeled and uses any pronouns !!! Gloves and Half-Rim are also both aro and qpps :3

Clip-Ons choose their ink color bc green. loves green

Me thinks. Gloves considers Emperor, Prince, N-pacer and Eging as her older siblings... shiny tends to train witthem alot

Armor is siblings with Metry so team cardigan, rider, and inkfall (I decided. I don't wanna add inkfall to the s4 poly. so now he gets to b their wingman(kinda bc he's cringe fail)). recent headcanon btw. that's why ididnt include it when I talked abt Metry.

Armor also spends alot of time with Goggles... besties

Anddd I think that's it ??? I <3 family headcanons as u can see. making it my mission 2 make Metry's family sofucking big

[zyk1ng]

I was gonna make this post way way earlier but I forgot lol but Uhm

I have played through the splatoon 2 story fully and am replaying it (for a future post bc a lot of the dialogue is rlly funny) and honestly while I absolutely loved it it makes me even sadder that splat 2’s story mode was kinda tossed aside (for valid reasons ofc) because it’s so Cool.

Excluding the gameplay, I think they did marie so well, because she sells the desperation of someone who’s got nobody she knows by her side. While she of course keeps the sassy attitude of sneak dissing her best friends (agent 3) and also telekinetically telling you to fuck off if you talk to her too much it’s very clear she genuinely cares so much about agent 4 and is so grateful they’re doing what they do.

these are only two screenshots of 8(?) of Marie randomly being really sentimental to 4 because this stranger chose to help her in her time of need rather than just ignore this GROWN WOMAN hanging out on a sewer drain

It’s like heavily emphasized multiple times that Marie could not be more grateful for 4’s help in retrieving not just the zapfish but also her cousin.

But then revealing that 4 knew about Callie the WHOLE TIME (I have a lot to say about this part but it’s mostly hc so) which is so KIND OF THEM???? this random woman recruits them into a secret military agency and hides the fact she rlly misses her cousin but they help anyway bc they WANT TO. (They didn’t even know either of them were famous btw) Marie shows a lot of gratitude toward 4 ESPECIALLY after the big reveal.

(You could make arguments for 3 being similar bc an old kook made them do it but this isn’t about them..)

And it’s not just being grateful for the one time, she genuinely enjoys 4’s company and wants to be better friends with them and chat after the zapfish and Callie are saved 😭😭😭

It’s so cute too, because 100%ing the game and even just being a little nosy is something that Marie picks up on, and remembers way later in the game. (More abt this later)

god I love this socially inept squid woman and her adopted child soldier that likes finding pieces of paper

Speaking of said soldier! I think the way they characterized 4 via the actual gameplay rather than art/statements/whatever is so cool

4 doesn’t have many illustrations besides the chaos splatfest and that one group photo where they’re being funky in the corner (and the apartment) but I feel like the reason for that is the fact that a lot of Marie’s dialogue as well as how splatoon 2’s hero mode is structured/designed speaks a lot about how they wanted to represent 4.

From a realistic standpoint, of course splatoon 2’s story mode has to be more creative both prompt wise and secret wise. But it feels like the reason its that way is because both 4 and Marie are separate types of people from Craig and 3.

The bosses help a lot with this too, being more gimmicky and weird (subtracting stamp.) Octo shower and samurai being bosses where you have to either react well or change your positioning to effectively beat them. (Octo shower is my fave btw I loved fighting it the first time)

The level design also shines in this aspect because if I’m honest I remember none of the splat 1 levels significantly besides the few octoling ones. Splatoon 2’s levels are very detailed (and also insanely pretty) and have some rlly fun puzzles in a handful of them and even the more fast ones are a blast to play through

And then all the little extras (sardiniums and scrolls alike) are hidden so well and you usually have to go out of your way to find them and even the secrets that aren’t either of those things have substance

Small note, a lot of extras are also made so that it flows well with the levels design (like the first dualie request mission) which is also extremely fucking cool.

the way marie touches on those little discoveries is so smart too because it (as I said before) characterizes 4 as someone who loves to look for things even if it’s on a whim especially since the sunken scrolls in the game are so much harder to find than in splat1.

And the fact that unlike splat 1, you can (technically) 800% the game by playing EVERY SINGLE LEVEL WITH EVER SINGLE WEAPON TYPE. to me it feels like it deepens the fact that 4 likes to be really thorough. marie goes “you have a problem.” When you break like two hidden egg crates in this one level and it’s so great.

I love what they’ve done with 4, whether it was intentional or I’m over-analytical.

Nothing gets past them, looking in every nook and cranny whether or not there’s secrets to be found. They’re too nosy and thorough and they like to be around marie after completing missions, they don’t know who the squid sisters are, hate balloons, may or may not be ok, have impulsive secret finding, partake in many extracurriculars, can be needy at times, go with the flow and they apparently smell better than agent 3.

Agent four, of the New Squidbeak Splatoon.