What Is The Inkblot?

I have a headcanon/idea of diseases within the Splatoon universe and the best way to start of is the Inkblot Disease! Basically, this disease infects Inklings and Octolings (Basically most Cephalopods), turning them into a black inky mess as their body slowly melts into a monster.

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OH YES, I LOVE THE IDEA YOU’RE THINKING!!The infected may have some sort of nostalgia from the music, slowly regaining their memories but not fully. Eventually, it’ll become passive and controlled. However, the effect of calamari inktation may cause the infected inkling/octoling to mentally break down from the sight of seeing themselves turned into a monster; the point they wished to forget. It’s rarely likely to regain themselves back together, I mean imagine finally regain your usual self along with some recalled memories, but then you see yourself into something…horrible. That sounds pretty messed up, right?As for a single infected cephalopod, it’ll be quite traumatic for the poor thing. Confused and scared.Yet for the Cephamalagam, it’s much, MUCH worse.

Hearing the thoughts and memories of thousands of strangers amalgamated, not to mention so many voices overwhelming you. You then realized not only deluged to many other cephalopods, but seeing yourself turned into an abomination. Soon enough everyone, all combined together, came into realization one by one, go into a mass hysteria.T͙̦̬̲̦ͅh͕͕͍̳̲͈e̥͚̼̥̦ ͡sc̭r̵̪̩̗̗̞e͔̼̘̩̣̖̦͠a̬͈̝͎͎̣m͚̬̳͍͈͟ị̴̭͚̫̝n̪̫̦͍g̛ w̢̜ò͓̖ṇ̨'̡͇͖͎̣̭̘t͔̳̯̞̠̜̝ ̸̣̳̪̗̣̹s̞̣͡to̧͇͈p̫̝͡

*Cracks knuckles* Buckle up your seatbelts and get your snacks, kiddos. Because it’s time for some learning! It’s quite long so let us keep reading below! 

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Interestingly, it’s thought dissolving the Cephamalgam into the water could be the cure/permanent solution back then during the Great Turf War. However, since the consistency and sticky, gooey thickness of the monster is, It doesn’t make it dissolve. Just makes them float. Kinda like this:

And yes, the water gets contaminated, unfortunately.

As for organs, it’s quite unknown. Since this creature can form any shape, there’s without a doubt it has no organ system. This baffled many researchers on how they’ll hunt and consume smaller prey despite lacking no organs. Basically, like a Trichoplax!

It ends up killing the poor Salmonids :( I did mention some info about it here!

However, I do have an idea the Salmonid’s corpse becomes like a host for the Inkblot; a perfect breeding ground for the pathogen. The corpses stomach ends up bloating and eventually explodes, something like this!!

Here’s an art dump of this bastard. trying to get use to the design and all. We all know he’s known as Subject Zero, though his real name remains unknown. After the tragic incident, he became the embodiment of the disease itself, a known ringleader of the hivemind. He takes the form of some sort of inkling and octoling from the result of the experiment. He can even turn himself even more of a horrific monster as he please.