is me.. calli3 dude...

LOOK AT THEMMMMMMM i love the little tidbits and even the fact they described Splatoon as "post apocalyptic" (i feel like they never do that but it's RIGHT) it's very well written loll

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do you think it makes sense?

Yeah, that's what I've assumed too!

to make this post more interesting with some niche lore, the team represented on the B-ball Jersey gear item has a name: the Okhotsk Uniers.* This was only shown in the Tower Records exhibit.

*Uniers is just how I assume ウニアーズ would be romanized Now uni means sea urchin, and Okhotsk is in reference to the sea of okhostk, a sea enclosed by Russia and the northern coast of Hokkaido.

There's another basketball team called the Tasman Lob-stars, in reference to the Tasman sea.

...This implies there are either regions or major cities in the Splatoon world named after seas!

222 Alterna After going through the Crater, we arrived at a land called “Alterna”. It was once home to a fairly advanced civilization, though they no longer exist. In the center of the six sites, there appears to be a rocket launch pad.

223 The Memories of Alterna live on in the Relics A massive shelter that is the last thing built by humans who escaped from the rising sea levels. These survivors named the place “Alterna” to express their regrets for their past deeds and their wish to build another Earth, free from the boundaries of things like time and race. The islands floating in the waters of Alterna are decorated with monuments that resemble famous landmarks from around the world, as if to recreate the Earth as it once was. Despite its subterranean location, the sky is visible, but this is due to the liquid crystals applied to the walls of the cavern, which emit light to imitate the sky.

224 and 225 are typeset, includes ALT text.

Does anyone else ship their Captain/3 with Callie? No? Just me?

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i wonder how the splatlands and inkadia were so isolated from one another

obviously back then there was no bridge to cross between inkadia and the one weird peninsula to get to the splatlands but if the splatlands and inkadia are prefectures and not anything larger then thats not too terrible a distance to travel right??

my theory right now is like the great turf war widened the divide between them not literally but ideologically

when the flood that uprooted the eiffel tower (how the fuck did that happen btw) happened it spurred on the great turf war (it wasnt just this flood it was other stuff too) but in the splatlands the three clans were able to fix the problem meaning they didnt have to fight over land in the war but inkadia and the octarians still did this meant that octarians could continue to live in the splatlands but not in inkadia perhaps the inkadians didnt like the splatlands due to the octarian population and thus theyre so isolated

thus somehow throughout all of the splatoon series no splatlandian brought up to an inkadian that off the hooks dj is clearly a fucking octopus and how the fuck does pearl not know what an octoling is i can accept the inkadians not recognizing octolings but they sure as hell know they exist its just been so long since theyve seen one that they dont know what to look for and the eye mask thing isnt that much an indicator because inklings like the lady from squid squad with a separated eye mask exist

but pearl nintendo is so focused on making sure she had no idea what an octoling was (in the og japanese version) how the fuck did she not know that

how the hell did no fucking inkadian meet a splatlandian online that happened to be an octarian and notice when they started popping up in inkadia

now that i look at the map though the only way to really walk from inkadia to the splatlands would require crossing octarian borders so thats a no and the easiest way to get from a to b was the hammerhead bridge which want constructed until 2015 and took 7 years to finish but there are still planes and boats how the fuck has nobody in inkadia noticed a splatlandian octoling tourist

do octolings just not visit inkadia because the people there are scarily racist???

obviously splatlandians and inkadians dont rlly have a reason to visit bc they dont like each other (implied by deep cut beef) and if i remember right its stated nobody really gave a shit about the splatlands until recently but there had to be a few curious fellas

if the splatlands and inkadia are prefectures then thats such a short distance to be so isolated from one another especially in an age with the internet and air travel anyone in inkadia could google octoling

but of course we could just?? say the splatlandians did engage in the turf war and also sent their octarians to domes and shivers family happened to be an exception because they helped with the flood?? but then why would they need to fight if the flood was dealt with??

— non discord addendum

the mentions of distance between the prefectures might be innaccurate im not an expert on japanese geography. i used some community made stuff layering the splatoon map over tokyo bay for reference and based my assumption of the splatlands and inkadia being prefectures on 4’s home being in a place called chi ba which is a real world prefecture. but its probably a longer range than i think it is and bigger than what im acting like in the rant

out of context it sounds like i made a lot of this shit the fuck up and its 9 in the morning its far too early to find every post i got my conclusions from so the source rn is regrettably trust me

in hindsight (i rambled about this one hour ago) traveling distances like that throughout history is no easy feat especially with a whole bay in the way lengthening the total travel time but they have fucking planes now

Yes you can and here it all is!! Presenting…

tldr: She comes from a family of big name actors in the industry, and shes been raised from hatching to continue their legacy. Its…a lot of pressure to put on a kid, especially one who just wants to make her (impossible to satisfy) family proud. Despite being surrounded by impossible standards, the fakest friends chosen for her, being given everything she can ever want (except what she really needs), and putting on a hundred masks for everyone in her life for survival’s sake in a cutthroat industry, she chooses to be kind.

more details under the cut!!

YES OF COURSE, COMING RIGHT UP!!

INTRODUCING…MARGOT! She is a sleepy girl. She’s worked too many salmon run shifts. She mains the tri-stringer!

She’s quiet and introverted and doesn’t really care what others think of her. She also never had a lot of friends. This leads to her being a little blunt and off putting….but she’s working on it!!!

She started working salmon run shifts around splatoon 2 when she was only 14 years old. She lied about her age and Grizz didn’t really care. She started working at Grizzco for 2 reasons:

1: she wanted to make some money for herself. She lived in foster care / jumped around foster homes and orphanages most of her life and wanted to save up enough money so she could buy her own apartment and live by herself.

2: She is absolutely FASCINATED by salmonids. She can’t get enough of learning about them. And fighting them. It’s a chaotic fascination.

She does so much salmon run and doesn’t sleep enough or take very good care of herself. But she’s making good money and improving her skills and learning a lot about salmonids. She even found a little buddy that seems to really like her! She named him Socks.

She also made a friend named Millie who works salmon run shifts with her! (She’s the inkling pictured with Margot in the first image!) She’s a little clingy and weird, but..Margot likes her. She’d never admit it! (Millie belongs to the amazing @paninipanem)

She turned 17 during splatoon 3, and got recruited by Cuttlefish while walking home after a Grizzco shift. She thought he was kind of weird but went along with whatever he wanted. She may not care what others think, but she does have morals.

And then they FREAKING FELL DOWN A HOLE INTO ALTERNA AND WENT MISSING FOR MONTHS. Oops. Thanks cuttlefish.

Alterna was really confusing and…exciting for Margot. She didn’t want to show it, but she was super happy to form such deep relationships with Callie, Marie, and Reese (Captain 3.) Although the four of them were hopelessly lost in a scary place, they made it really fun.

She began to come out of her shell and feel comfortable around them. When she was in the foster care system, she never stayed with any families for very long, so she never opened up to anyone or made any friends. She didn’t even have bullies because they didn’t know she existed. She was invisible her whole life.

The NSS made her feel seen. She became emotionally attached to them. She’d never admit it, but she totally did! They treated her like a little sister.

But all things considered…Alterna was pretty terrifying. She had some close calls with the fuzzy ink. And when the final boss fight happened and she got LAUNCHED INTO SPACE? WTTFF????

The fact that MR. GRIZZ - HER BOSS. ENDED UP BEING THE VILLAIN. Her whole world got turned upside down.

She managed to beat him with the help of the NSS and even Octavio. She was injured on both her legs where fuzzy ink had struck her on the spaceship. When they returned to the surface, she wasn’t sure what to do. She was injured, she wasn’t ready to go back to grizzco, and her Foster family seemed to have forgotten about her.

Callie and Marie seemed to realize this and took her in. YAY!

Fast forward a few months…everyone is recovered and happy and the NSS is currently working to rescue octolings and keep salmonids from coming too close to Inkopolis!

And two of the old agents came back after being MIA for months. They were in the weird hell dimension. Whatever that’s about. (Side order)

Margot is back at Grizzco. She couldn’t leave her friend Millie hanging! (Millie was so worried those months that Margot was in Alterna. She stuck missing posters all around the place and could barely complete a single Grizzco shift without her amazing partner!)

But yeah! That’s the basic gist of it. I feel like Margot has a lot more I could say about her (lore and personality wise) but I’ll save that for another time!