#marie.pdf

I personally believe the Callie vs. Marie Splatfest was indicative of the Squid Sisters’s rapidly dissolving relationship. Throughout the course of Splatoon, we saw Marie relentlessly insult, bully, and humiliate Callie on live television. As much as people don’t want to admit it… This was an intentional move by the writers. Marie was not being “sassy,” she was being extremely, overtly mean, entirely unprompted, to Callie’s face, on live fucking television. Callie dealt with this at first, because taking a few digs from your friend now and then is par for the course, but over time… We see it start affecting Callie more and more.

There were times where Callie would snap back at her in self defense, actually getting fed up with Marie’s relentless insults. It was undeniable that Marie was crossing a line- several, even!- but she kept at it anyway, because she’s… Honestly just not a very nice person. Hell, she even basically told Callie, through the language of Splatoon, to kill herself in the middle of a broadcast!! The tensions between the two of them were high by the time the Final Splatfest was rolling around- and for good reason, especially on Callie’s end.

The Final Splatfest represents this tension, and it does so extremely literally- by directly pitting the two of them against each other. It’s showing the divide between them at its worst! That’s why Splatoon 2’s Final Splatfest had no fight over which member of Off the Hook was better- Pearl and Marina genuinely didn’t have anything against each other, so it wouldn’t have made any thematic sense. It wouldn’t have been a satisfying Final Splatfest, because I honestly think the Final Splatfests are an embodiment of what divides the idols the most. For the Squid Sisters, it was their own failing relationship. And for Off the Hook, it was their opposing world views.

God, yeah, she is really hard to deal with in Splatoon 2. It is downright gnarly. I don’t know what her problem is- Callie, the one who literally got kidnapped, has significantly less issues with the Octarians than Marie does? It’s completely baffling. She needs to be put in timeout or something. Normal people don’t just start belting out slurs and making weirdly sexual comments unprovoked just because they’re stressed out. Get some therapy, girl. Work through that. God damn. No wonder Agent 4 just completely fucked off.

I’m glad she seems to have grown up a little and stopped being such a racist weirdo. Her being able to actually bounce off of someone really helps- she’s not really someone that’s supposed to be written alone, all the strengths of her character come out when she has company. On her own, with no one to really talk to but the silent protagonist and someone she clearly doesn’t respect, she totally falls apart and just comes across as hateful and annoying.

Yup, this is true!! Callie’s side was generally a safe pick, and this was noted even during the game’s run- it was also rather openly remarked upon by Callie and Marie themselves, in a rather heated confrontation!! It was a very harrowing moment when it first happened, especially considering it was, unbeknownst to the audience, right before the Final Splatfest… Things were rather… Tense between them.

secondly you have totally opened my eyes to marie. she was never my favorite and i could never put my finger on why i didn't like her- your posts about how mean and hostile she is to callie (not to mention the casual octo racism, guess she kinda takes after cuttlefish there if im remembering OE dialogue correctly) really made it set in. callie deserves SO much better good lord

Oh, hi!! Thank you so much, I’m glad you’re enjoying your time here so far!!

It’s my pleasure!! Sheldon has been my absolute favorite character since the first game, and my love for him has not relented once!! What sucks the most about him being so violently hated during the first game is that that was textually a pretty low point for him mentally… The first step to really liking him is realizing that he’s a bit of a mess. His self esteem was pretty low at the time, and he was very much so a social outcast- made distant from his peers and lacking any friends or seemingly any real comfort outside of his interests. He was just as disliked in universe as he was out of universe, it seems. It’s really saddening… He literally didn’t do anything wrong other than be autistic as fuck, I guess. :/

And, with Marie… Yeah. She’s not a very pleasant person. Between her being mean to an uncalled for extent to Callie on Live TV, to her ego, to her extreme racism, and just being kind of a freak unprovoked to a 16 year old… I can’t say I’m fond of her! She’s an interesting character, but she’s undeniably a Vriska to me. She has done so many things wrong.

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There is something wrong with that woman. I don’t say this affectionately, but I do say it with intrigue. Those are two vastly different things. She’s like a Petri dish. I’m studying her under a microscope.

I find it extremely hard to enjoy Marie as a character in the same way I enjoy Callie as a character- which isn’t a bad thing by any means, don’t get me wrong, it’s just an interesting distinction. She’s not someone who reads as a friend to me in any regard. I would not trust her with jack shit if I knew her in real life. Marie’s pretty hard to like when you’ve been diehard sympathetic towards the Octarians for years… Her racism, man. What the fuck.

I have so many thoughts about her and I know a lot of people aren’t going to like it because several have already gone out of their way already to inform me of this fact that they, personally, do not agree with me. It is as I always say, though… Just move on. I’m not worth the energy, and I do not mean that to self deprecate.

... I'm not? I've never been "allergic" to any of that. I don't know what made you think I was "allergic" to it, genuinely. Why the baseless accusation? Is it because I didn't respond to an ask the moment anyone sent it? Look, I'm not posting on Tumblr constantly. My blog runs on a schedule, which is fully loaded for the day before the day even happens. You don't need to be rude, this is a personal blog run for personal enjoyment in which I get to asks when I get to them. Please learn some patience- I am a real human being with my own life and my own priorities, and you cannot earnestly expect people to put you at the top of that list.

Anyways... To answer your question, disregarding the rudeness... I have actually posted about it before. (Link embedded in text.) I believe someone on NoA's Localization Team may have had some kind of sweat and body odor fetish at the time, because Marie has a rather odd fixation with both of those things in Splatoon 2's Story Mode. It's pretty off-putting, considering gross out humor isn't something that's very present within Splatoon as a franchise. The post I've linked only includes two examples of her making strange remarks about those things- I didn't take the time to photograph each and every instance of her being an oddball, apologies. I didn't think people would get so confrontational about this, and didn't exactly consider it a huge deal.

While sweat and body odor aren't inherently sexual, the way her dialogue about it is executed in Splatoon 2 definitely comes across as a little bit fetishistic to me, and judging by the tags on that post, I am definitely not the only person who had that takeaway from the text.