#conelia

Well, since you're here, I think it's best that you met the team here at home base

💚 let's start with @wordsofwizdumb and @kindred-spirit-93, working in our HR department, any aliens try n slander you, go to them for some wordsof-shrey or blueberry poetry

💚 on the octavia mission, is @undergroundcookie. This is possibly one of the most important in the area, including timekeeping. Time is incredibly easy to lose track of in a space like this so definitely handy! Not sure why it needs to be underground though... WAIT IS THAT A TUNNEL TO-

💚 next up is my beloved presentation duo: @im-literally-so-dun and @roughbuddy! Think they're meant to be presenting shrey's rambles next week but they spend most their time drinking at the boston chai party or looking for em's missing hat with @maddytheweird

💚 @thatpersonwithbooks is our resident librarian, alongside @typingwithmyhandstied, amazing pair, we are SO lucky to have them n you can bet you WILL catch shrey in the books, if not in the rey tag! with @loulooser

💚 yes, even the area has gardens and greenery and @m4y-be is the girl who takes care of them all, including all the most climbable trees! Could say she has a 🌸 thumb

💚 @miranaisnotdead, @dippyfresh14 and @randomslinky are in charge of blasting some sick tunes to hide the alien sound they're pretty cool, whip out mcr whenever they can n it's iconic tbh, great for advice aswell, conelia and stuff marcy says! are always incredible!

💚 @cardans-mortal and @sunny13star make up our satellite social media team, charming all the girlies with their incredible sunnyblogging

💚and of course, factoring into this is our incredible editorial,and critiquing and advice column, run by our wonderful @zorya-reads

Firstly, thank you so much for the ask and interest!!

Secondly, I sure do! Conelia's my first and main Splatoon OC so she has. a lot. of lore, and I'll gladly infodump some stuff :D

Let's start with her general reference sheet! I think it makes for a nice introduction:

I think the first thing anyone asks (reasonably so) when I tell them that she's the captain is "Why not Agent 3?" In my agent story, Agent 3 is completely MIA since the end of Octo Expansion, and even without taking that into account, Conelia spends a lot more time with Marie and Callie than he (being very introverted) ever did, and she's definitely more dedicated to being a good fighter. So, when it came to choosing who's going to be the next captain, she was a very clear choice.

Being one of the captains of her competitive team, she was already used to this sort of responsability, too! The NSBS sure can sponsor her dream of being a professional competitive player, and this just meant more time to be spending with the Squid Sisters, which can't be a bad thing in her opinion.

Here's an overall of my (active) agents:

Asra and Radish are a bit outdated since I've added more interesting things to their lore since I made this picture, but the rest pretty much remains the same!

Conelia really enjoys Asra's company as her first pupil, being much more proactive and giving more pieces of random advice than we see the Captain do in the game. After the events of ROTM, the two of them very often communicate mostly through sign language, since it usually feels more comfortable for Asra (who is mostly nonverbal due to some circumstances in their life, but with Conelia they sometimes speak). She's super excited and wants to teach Asra everything she can, acknowledging that they "have a lot of potential".

She also has a long friendship history with both Agent 3 and Agent 8, but they might not be super relevant to the conversation at hand? I do have this relationship chart from some time ago that could be a fast, superficial view however (don't mind the old designs, drawings are a little old, but the info is still correct):

So yeah, if we talk about the general character, Conelia has most of the attributes usually associated with Agent 4 (the excitedness and general perceived vibe, the "always busy with school" aspect of it, living far from Inkopolis or Splatsville, etc). The most important aspect of her personal life that I feel affects how she handles leadership (and therefore her work as a captain) is having inattentive parents who forced her to be independent since way too young.

It took her some convincing from the Squid Sisters to accept recruiting a new agent, even though 8 is mostly not working with them anymore - she just wants to do everything herself all of the time, even though she knows that workload would be too much for her.

Do you think Dan or Phil got more gifts for each other this year?

hypothetically

I turned this over in my head a couple minutes n I thinkkkk if it's just for the memes, defo Dan, if it's fr, Phil, that kid loves the novelty XD