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miku is trying to reach a bunch of people who are so burnt out, apathetic and exhausted about trying and not making it, that they give up on what they truly want to do

but she can't reach them with her voice because she can't sing a full song about that experience or connect with them alone

so she goes and finds the project sekai kids, because they're creative, active artists who can connect with people through different forms of outputs and, ultimately, when miku can't reach people, they can

they use miku as a starting point to create different songs that apply to the creative signature and the spirit of each group, and that variation in perspective (that only human experience can provide) is what ultimately does reach people

for leo/need, it's a song that goes like 'hey, you're sad, I'm also sad sometimes, if it's too difficult not to be sad right now, let me throw you a hand and let's take step by step together'

for more more jump! it's like 'don't worry, I know things can get bad, but you can totally do it, a failure doesn't mean it's all over'

for wonderlands x showtime it's a chorus of voices showing fear and uncertainty and one relentless (emu) voice going like 'breathe with me and carry on because I believe in you and you should to'

for vivid bad squad is the direct approach of 'punch that self doubt right in the face, prove it you can do it, no matter what, you're still yourself'

for nightcord at 25:00 it's like 'I go to that place a lot myself too, the bad stuff doesn't just go away, but we can use it to create something that lets us reach those who feel the same'

so, it's the idea that technology can't by itself make something that can reach the human core of the need to be creative, but that people can use it as a tool to make something themselves

something that reflects the human experience, something which would let others know they're not alone

human creativity flowing means there will be different ways to say the same things, but that variation in perspective will be crucial in helping the message reach people who's experiences connects the most to one of those ways

it's never a waste to create from the heart

which is what people in real life have done through vocaloid all this time, starting out careers for immensely creative artists, who go on to fill the world with their own art and still go back to miku and vocaloid sometimes, like yonezu kenshi, for example

it's both the idea that technology alone can't connect to humanity without the human creative input to give the message the soul it needs, and also that no matter how many times a message is shared through art, your unique perspective of it is needed to reach someone out there who needs to hear it right now the way that you say it

reproduction lore posting 🔥🔥🔥 i see them as egg layers. maybe them being ovoviviparous could work maybe but??? idk, eggs have to be involved. also them being egg layers is weird and i like when inkfish are Weird. I've gotten into this topic before on this blog but it's been a couple years and i think it's worth rehashing First thing to address: bellybuttons. They have them and I hate it almost as much as i hate that they have breasts. i think both are just a result of "imitating" humans in universe, and for design reasons so they don't come off as too uncanny to us, the human playerbase. which is just cowardice to me but okay.<3 In this concept art for Callie in the Art of Splatoon 2 i think this is the only time bellybuttons are addressed, in the top right corner:

"I realized this while drawing, but inklings have bellybuttons..."

that really sounds like it was a design choice that wasn't thought about that deeply...

now there's 2 things that make me believe they have to come from eggs. first from the first artbook:

This is the growth cycle of a squid from its larval to juvenile stages.

larvae come from eggs.

second, this excerpt from the Splatune album jacket about the Calamari Inkantation.

Of course, when we talk about these girls, we can't leave out the "Calamari Inkantation" which is both heavenly to listen to and heavenly to sing. This song, which is also used as the train melody for the Inkopolis Line, is imprinted in the DNA of all Inklings. The sea is our mother, the place where all of life hatched from, and the place where there is no way to return. Since ancient times, this song has been filled with the swirling feelings of "love" and "reverence" towards the sea.

I translated this myself, the word there is specifically "hatched" like from an egg, and not a general term for being born.

One could argue that since this is referring to the squids of the past, it might not apply to modern inkfish. But still real life cephalopods lay eggs, and I don't think it'd be out of the question for modern inkfish to do the same. There are other sapient species that didn't "evolve out" of egg-laying, evidenced by Nishida's 247 siblings and this scroll on coconut crabs.

Regarding Octarians, Octolings develop in the same way Inklings do. so they too would likely come from eggs.

we're ignoring this because 1. it's clearly just concept art that 2. has more recent evidence going against this being the norm for octoling development. I think this is just a weird edge case or just straight up not canon.

baby marina matching the 3rd stage of inkling development shown on the above chart while paul looks like the 4th stage. There's also smollusk that looks like the first stage/ a real octopus paralarva, but since it's a digital entity, who knows how valid that is? Also, Mashup/Warabi from Diss-pair was also confirmed in Ordertune to have come from the same hometown as Acht (the underground) and was described in Haikara Walker as having parents. So Octoling development=Inkling development=eggs??? finally, not 100% if this is what you're asking but as for cut-tentacle Octarians, but with Inklings, this has come up...once

-- But the Octarians like the Octotroopers...? Amano: That's a different thing. Inoue: All together they're part of the Octarian species, but Octarians like the Octotroopers are a separate thing.  --Does that mean that there are some squids that can't take a humanoid form? Inoue: So far, none have been discovered. There may be some somewhere, though

I think the "there may be some somewhere" is just keeping it vague in case they wanna use that idea. but i seriously doubt they will at this point. the concept behind octarians is that octopuses have basically tiny brains in each of their arms, so those tentacle octarians are like if their arms grew into a separate being. Real squids are not built like that, and we even see in game inklings having less movement in their tentacles, and use more styles that cut into their tentacles compared to octolings.

Ruikasa detective au~!

i love themmmm!!! AHHHHHH

Here's a description of what I think this AU would be like:

In my head, Rui is the lead detective from a police station and Tsukasa is his assistant. In this AU, I see Rui as someone who struggles to express his emotions and who isn't easy to talk to.

In contrast, Tsukasa would be someone easy to talk and who inspires confidence (making all the social paperwork easier, while Rui can take care of the more technical aspects)

They would be assigned coworkers, and Tsukasa immediately noticed that Rui wasn't someone easy to approach, but his curiosity, or perhaps his stubbornness, made him want to know Rui better no matter what! (Luckily) And Rui was too proud or perhaps distrustful to accept the captivating presence of his now assistant... For now.