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palossssssand · 2 days
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With the new lore in Side Order, it looks like sanitized octolings will likely receive treatment and possibly recover - would the other members of the squad try to arrange this for Agara? If so, after regaining her memories, would she adapt well to a new life on the surface? Do you think they'd remember their time being sanitized, and would this place strain on its relationship with Kinoga, whom it had (not intentionally) tried to kill?
Hohoho........ spoilers for more detailed side order lore below:
So I haven't really decided on if this will be "canon" or not, but I think what side order gave us fits surprisingly well into the current timeline. The whole deal with Marina recruiting octoling engineers to help create the memverse and Order being a manifestation of those octoling's desire for stability is so perfect for Denchu's arc. Denchu, who still holds on to the belief that the desire to see the surface and leave the domes was the thing that tore their squad apart, and it still hurts. Though he is happy to be reunited with the squad, those thoughts still linger. So, it seems very logical that Denchu would jump on this chance to finally have some agency to do something for their squad after being isolated for so long.
I'm not like....100% sure on how exactly the memverse works, but from what I gathered, it downloads the memory data from Kamabo Co. and sanitized octolings can regain those memories by entering the tower. In any case, I don't think she'd remember specific details about being sanitized, perhaps a feeling of numbness and brain fog from the whole ordeal. She definitely would need the support of her squadmates to help her adjust to surface life, especially for it being so different, and everyone's changed.
I think in terms of her relationship, the first thing she experiences is being surrounded by her squadmates, so there's definitely no ill will there. I actually feel like Agara's sanitization had more of an adverse effect on Kinoga more than the other way around, them having to come with the terms that they had somehow caused this, and getting to see Agara slowly regain consciousness while walking around like a corpse. Will have to figure out more specific details but yeah :(
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palossssssand · 2 days
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How did Jilon's escape go? Did he also get the Kamabo Co Experience, or did he find another way out? You'd mentioned that he acted as Kinoga's right-hand man, are/were they close? What are/were his relationships with the rest of the squad like? (re: a short comic about Jilon) Does he ever end up reaching out to Trito?
I haven't 100% decided why Jilon leaves, but he doesn't go through the metro for it. I think the squad's escape "arc" is divided into two phases: the first being when Kinoga leaves for the metros, and Agara and Trito follow soon after. The second being the gap in time when Kanu, Denchu, and Jilon are left, and it's at this point where Kanu leaves to go look for the metro departures, and Jilon also leaves for some unknown reason.
See, I haven't really figured out what his whole deal but here's my thoughts that I typed out a while ago:
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Like in the time that the squad was together it was clear that they meant more to each other than just an assigned unit. And I think Jilon was Kinoga's right hand man in a Job kind of way (and maybe a fruity kind of way) and he backpedals on this mentality when the group breaks up, not willing to acknowledge that it hurt. Maybe Jilon leaves the squad to be re-assigned, maybe he leaves to also find life on the surface, maybe he has family that leaves and he goes with him. I really don't know.
His relationship to the rest of the squad was a more passive role than Kinoga's as the leader, he was the one to take notes and relay them to Noga, but he grew close to the rest of the squad on account of the rest of them being attached to each other, and it started as a "I'll roll with these guys" and then he ends up getting attached in a more personal way.
As for the short comic in question: it's at the bottom of these other images but unfortunately Jilon doesn't end up reaching out to Trito, but ends up making friends with Spyke, who frequents the bar he works at. Spyke doesn't know Trito at this point and meets him sometime later (Haven't decided how they meet and become friends but they do. they go out to drink sometimes). Spyke ends up taking Trito to Jilon's bar, not realizing that Jilon knows Trito, and they reunite that way.
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palossssssand · 2 days
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You mentioned that Trito and Kinoga eventually went back to the domes to find the other members of their squad, and met Denchu there - were they not in contact with Kanu at the time? Or if they were, did he decide not to come with, or did they not tell him they were going? As for Denchu (whose design I really like btw!!! they're very stylish and expressive!), once Trito and Kinoga find him again, does he end up going to the surface with them?
Nope, at the point in time when Trito and Kinoga went down to the domes, the only squad members they were in contact with were each other. They find out where Kanu is directly from Denchu, since Denchu had been communicating with Kanu through radio sparsely through the years. You can read about it in this short comic! At this point in time also, Kinoga is the only one aware of what happened to Agara.
Arrghhhh it pains Denchu to see them so much. How he had doubted so much that the others would return and being grateful that he had stayed behind to wait for them, but at the cost of everything. Finally seeing them and not knowing whether to be angry or to happy, never knowing the details about sanitization or what happened in the metros until the others tell her about it. After Kinoga and Trito get Agara and decide to take her back to the surface, they do offer Denchu to come with them, and even then, she's hesitant to leave the place she'd always known. At least now, she knows that Kinoga, Trito and Agara are (debatably) okay and at least alive, and that the surface had treated them well. Despite all this, it's still strained for them, viewing the surface as something that drove them all apart. They do want to reunite with the others, but not before clearing things up in the domes and heading up when they're ready. They treat it with a lot of hesitancy, but they decide to put more trust in the squadmates that have experienced it.
Denchu tells Kinoga and Trito where to meet Kanu, and eventually does go to the surface to live with Kanu.
And my thoughts from typing things out in the tags. I always end up typing more things than in the actual text post LOL
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palossssssand · 3 days
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hello!! is it ok to ask questions about your ocs?
Absolutely! Shoot away, I’ll do my best to answer them :]
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palossssssand · 3 days
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palossssssand · 3 days
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Which Splatoon OC Are You?
HELLO. I have put together a fun little quiz to find out which of my splatoon ocs you would be, because I want to know and I love them a lot. Here is the quiz, and if you'd like to read about them, here is their toyhouse folder!
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palossssssand · 4 days
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Hello everyone!! Here's a sneak peek of a piece I did for @inkpopzine, it will be available as a digital PDF on March 16th, all proceeds will go towards Food Baskets for Gaza. Consider purchasing to see everyone's lovely work!!
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palossssssand · 4 days
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A long overdue ref done for Rena, one of my splatoon ocs! The team captain for Trito and Maggie, they get on her nerves but she appreciates them nonetheless. She’s good at planning and strategy, less good at having fun but she’s warming up to it.
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Assortment of sketchbook doodles: Kinoga, Kanu, bunny Trito, and figuring out new characters!
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palossssssand · 6 days
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A long overdue ref done for Rena, one of my splatoon ocs! The team captain for Trito and Maggie, they get on her nerves but she appreciates them nonetheless. She’s good at planning and strategy, less good at having fun but she’s warming up to it.
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New things have been added to my store! I've finally stocked leftover pins and stickers that I designed for @ultrainfinitepit's Angelology III campaign, featuring a Bigfin squid enamel pin and a holographic earwig sticker. I've also restocked my hydra pins, though this batch came with a slight recolor so they're priced as seconds-grade!
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palossssssand · 20 days
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assorted doodles :]
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palossssssand · 22 days
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New things have been added to my store! I've finally stocked leftover pins and stickers that I designed for @ultrainfinitepit's Angelology III campaign, featuring a Bigfin squid enamel pin and a holographic earwig sticker. I've also restocked my hydra pins, though this batch came with a slight recolor so they're priced as seconds-grade!
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palossssssand · 1 month
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Some doodles of Dr. Walworth(cuttlefish) and Smooks!
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palossssssand · 1 month
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Valentine’s day comic ❤️
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palossssssand · 1 month
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reblogging this here also for oc talking and also go see my original tags on these for supplementary thoughts
talk about kinoga. NOW.
GAH I JUST THINK THEY ARE SO............. well first of all. they are so cute and handsome. look at them right now
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Second of all I have one million feelings about them and it's barely an exaggeration. For those who aren't familiar, Kinoga is one of my beloved splatoon ocs and I think about them all the time. Originally made when I tossed a "what-if" idea about Trito, my first splatoon oc, who was once part of the octarian military, if he runs into one of the old squad members on the surface, and Kinoga was born with the help of @igneouskit. Brainworms ensue. its terminal. check out their toyhouse
(extremely brief rundown for those unfamiliar with splatoon lore the relevant bits are as follows: some octolings are part of a military that were forced underground after a war with the Inklings over land due to rising seas. At some point during the plot, the song Calamari Inkantation is sung by the two idols, which is apparently imbued in the DNA of all creatures and compels octolings to see the surface. In the splatoon 2 DLC, octo expansion, some octolings are recruited by a shady company called Kamabo Co, which entices participants to enroll in tests through a deep sea metro, and offers the "promised land" as a reward. Completing the tests entails collecting parts of a blender, and the "reward" is getting blended into sludge. This sludge can get injected into other octos which causes them to lose their will and consciousness ("sanitization").
timeline-wise much of their story takes place between splat 2, through octo expansion, and is currently in the splat 3 era. When they were still in the military, they ended up hearing the Calamari Inkantation like Agent 8 did. Kinoga and their squad were incredibly close to each other. Unwilling to just up and leave the underground but wanting to give their squadmates a better life, Kinoga hears about Kamabo's "promised land" and wants to seek it out, so they leave the squad to embark on the metros and promises to return. They do not <3 Some of the tests make them encounter sanitized octolings and they begin to question what's really happening in the metros. Their tipping point is when they run into Agara, one of their squadmates that decided to enter the metros to look for Kinoga and ends up being sanitized. Kinoga, facing the crushing realization that their squadmates had followed them, unaware of the danger, narrowly escapes being killed by Agara and eventually makes it to the surface.
This results in them experiencing a good amount of crushing guilt about leaving, they never knew it would lead to the possibility of dooming their whole squad that followed after them because they were loved and trusted. Kinoga had no way of letting the rest of them know that they should turn back and it's so. AAUGH. They have no choice but to continue on, finding life on the surface and eventually making it to splatsville with the belief that the rest of the squad may be gone. Agara and Trito end up running through the metro, Agara gets sanitized and Trito survives, albeit without getting a nasty scar from an accident that nearly got him sanitized.
Trito makes me insane also. he's my funny silly rabbit. I care about him so so much. trito goes through the metros, to maybe catch up with kinoga or meet them at the promised land, trusting that it was worth leaving if Kinoga decided it was worth it for all of them too.
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Trito, upon learning about The Horrors in the metro later, realizes what could have happened to Kinoga and Agara and is unwilling to return to the rest of the squad with this knowledge, struck by the possibility that they're both gone. <-also has to realize that these horrible things have been happening to all the octlings that left to go do the metro tests. He too, eventually escapes to the surface and makes it to Inkopolis.
Years later, Trito, on a day trip to Splatsville, encounters Kinoga on the streets, and they lock eyes. and. fuck. They thought they were dead and had dealt with the grief and accepting that they were gone, effectively pushing those thoughts aside, and now they're physically in front of each other and they have to deal with it again. they make me SICK. Kinoga knowing that trito went to the metros and followed them and made it out also. Trito knowing that Kinoga experienced the horrors as well and survived. Neither of them able to return to tell the rest of the squad but they're both here, alive on the surface and aarrghhhhhhh. now they have to cope with this. they hastily exchange contact information, having to leave each other again, and end up meeting later to really catch up.
I'm so normal about kinoga and their relationship to trito post-domes. They don't even realize that they miss each other so much because they accepted that they were already gone. Seeing how much the other had changed. Being each other's only tie to their previous lives and it dawns on them that they never can move on from this. Kinoga struggles to tell Trito that they couldn't bring themselves to go back, not knowing if they could escape a second time, not knowing if any of their teammates were still left, already dealing with occasional spurts of being wracked by grief. Trito feeling the same, wanting to forget the terrible things and find happiness on the surface, but disheartened when learning that Kinoga also couldn't bring themselves to go back to look (though now that the both of them are together.....they do eventually muster the courage to go back to the domes to look for their old squadmates). It like. sucks so bad. They didn't intend to abandon their squad, but they were given circumstances where they just could not, and none of the other squad members could have known and suffer for it. aarghhhhh.
They end up at Trito's place, Kinoga and Trito end up being very affectionate towards each other after reuniting, definitely Trito being clingier...Compelled to hold onto each other and not let go, not after feeling so much regret about leaving in the first place. It's like. they left once before and terrible things happened out of their control, so they're allowed to hold each other as close as they can so it doesn't happen again (THE DEMONS) (GRIPS). it's irrational for Trito especially to think that he'll never see Kinoga again when they have to leave, since they live in separate cities and have to go in the morning. and kinoga knows it's irrational and they do their best to comfort him anyways because. who could blame him for wanting to keep them there after being gone for so long and so unexpectedly. The slow, crushing experience of not fully registering that someone could be gone and it creeps up to them until it hits. auuuuugh. they have to be so tender with each other, not really knowing where to take things afterwards but relishing in the moment of having each other there. riding the high of each other's comfort. fuck. this post is just getting worse as it goes. Trito breaking down in Kinoga's arms because he's had to hold in his grief and having nowhere to put it and then finally being able to release it. just being able to feel Something again. kinoga feeling so heartbroken to see trito like this, remembering that he was always so outspoken and smiling and having him curled up against them unable to say anything. holding him as tightly as they can. Feeling the need to take good care of him. They aren't his squad leader anymore but they still feel compelled to look out for him because then they can feel like they're doing at least something right. whatever. you guys get the gist. I'm way too much of a sucker for like...............pained intimacy. I'm down terrible. I think both of them deserve a little kissy and more. again. very touchy and affectionate with each other, I guess theyre still like "friends" (A WARRIOR'S BOND. OR WHATEVER) and are not "together" like a couple but here are words from igneouskit who put it better then I could ever. they love each other so much and they make me blow up. worlds most situationship
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and also one bit I forgot to mention is that Trito has a huge scar on his chest that he hates talking about, it just brings back the fear and pain felt when he got it, and by association reminds him that he's alone from his squad who may never see again, so he's very protective of it. Upon getting back to kinoga, they do find out about the scar accidentally, and Trito lets them. like auuuugh they were so familiar with each other and now get to see what's changed since the last time. exploring eachother's bodies. whatever
Kinoga also ends up feeling really guilty at some point for Trito being immediately so affectionate towards them, they harbor thoughts that they don’t deserve it after having him go through that pain, and trito having to tell them that he made his own decision, nobody was forcing him to go, and besides, did it to see kinoga and now that they’re right in front of him he can give him all the love he’s been holding for them. Auuughhhh. Like don’t worry about feeling guilty for it. It wasn’t their fault. What matters to him now is that they’re both alive and with each other. I feel like blowing up
Even after Kinoga goes back to splatsville the next day trito is still aches about them......like a few days of reunion could never be enough to compensate for the years that they spent apart. every time they meet up after that trito jumps in kinoga's arms and kiss them like it was the first time they'd reunited
anyways. they eventually go back down to the domes to find the others. By that time, Agent 8 had dismantled Kamabo, the Sludge shit was no longer in operation, and octolings have started going to the surface. Kanu, another squad member, left the domes to find Kinoga, Agara, and Trito(jilon was another squad member who left for reasons I haven't decided yet). Denchu, the last remaining member, stayed behind, holding on to the hope that the missing members would someday return (denchu is a whole other can of worms. theyre everything to me and I feel so terrible for them <3). Trito and kinoga meet denchu, they update them on everybody else, leaving agara unaccounted for. Kinoga, who was the only one to see Agara firsthand, knowing that she might be completely unsalvageable, hesitates to bring it up, but Trito insists on going to look for her. aughhh. kinoga wants to spare trito the pain of seeing her dead or unconscious. They do eventually find her </3
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She is alive, but not doing well at all, Kinoga desperate to maybe find some way to undo sanitization and restore her to full health, knowing full well that it may not be possible. They take Agara back with them to the surface and Kinoga spends a lot of time agonizing again over having caused this, feeling that agara's state is somehow their fault (ITS NOTT they're beating themselves up so bad for this because they feel responsible for the squad. aughhh).
I think thats all I have for kinoga. for now. obviously there are more thoughts I can get into but currently my brain has just latched so hard on trito and kinoga's fun situation and I love them so much. didn't think I'd get attached to them this bad but here we are </3. I hope everyone who has read this far also enjoys them as much as I do
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palossssssand · 1 month
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got asked what my splat ocs would be as animals :3
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