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tentatechnologies · 3 years

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it’s irritating me that i have no place to put info on my really small ocs whom i haven’t draw yet so here’s an incomplete list. mild spoiler warning?

NIKOLAI: an inkling, same age and taller than soda prior to their growth spurt, though much trimmer. pine-green ink. long tentas cut flat and bound low. might be british cause i think it’d be funny, we’ll see. he doesn’t have a lot of muscle but he doesn’t need it, he was a bamboozler mk ii main, and one of the most proficient at that. soda recruited him for the charger courses/amiibo challenge (and called him nikky, which he hated) and sometime after he suddenly disappeared.

he’s your typical bad-tempered shounen rival, constantly looking severe and contemptuous. he Did not believe in rules but had a strong sense of justice and didn’t hesitate to put his foot down. incidentally, he also thinks the splatoon is stupid and fostering violence. this definitely, totally did not come back to bite him... but he had his reasons for joining. he never connected easily with other people after his older sister died (also under mysterious circumstances) and he wears her earrings still. he collected jewelry, most of it rose gold.

he’s in that weird half-developed limbo state where i have impressions of what i wanna do with him but nothing solid, woops. here’s his tag and pinterest and a couple songs i’ve got for him are What Did I Do?, Only One Not Smiling, and Puppet Loosely Strung (and others by other bands but these are the least spoilery, sobs)

JESSAMINE: soda’s handler or minder, or most accurately, babysitter. she doesn’t really manage or assign them but she does make sure they don’t break from their agency assignments too far---though she doesn’t have love for the systems that govern inkopolis either, so she lets soda slide a little farther than they should be able to. pink betta fish and appropriately stubborn and ready to pick a fight at all times, which is the only reason she can handle soda. gay, ambitious, takes no shit and begs no man pardon, and desperately lonely. she doesn’t know what life is like outside the agent business any better than soda does. still have a lot to do on her concept.

PHEE: agent eight, who despite having a full board and entire playlist is wildly underdeveloped. i still don’t know what pronouns work here so that’s fun. late 30s. phee is just out to freewheel and live a good life, not caring much for the octarians’ plight and octavio’s bad strategy but having no kindness for inklings, either. former elite, never vibed with it and had a reputation for rebelling; independent, self-possessed, and crafty. never formally defected and was marked missing. has some stuff to work through not limited to a midlife crisis and finding out that perry showing up like ‘phee, i’m YOUR WIFE’, but that all happens far outside soda’s sphere of influence so i haven’t thought about it much WOOPS.

LEIT: cut from perry. 19. biotechnician, works in the farm domes. short, chopped up, dark tentas. loves his mom a lot---he took a lot from her mechanic prowess, but never felt suited to the military, and hated to see how agent three’s victories took a toll on her. wears NOTHING but black. wants nothing more than to see real rain and sky. in an effort to escape mounting stress he tries to get out through the domes and nearly gets sanitized, at which point soda rescues and rehabilitates him in their penthouse, and cue good ol’ opposites attract enemies to lovers plot cause i’m a SUCKER. he’s a pretty mundane character, loyal, doesn’t speak until spoken to. like half my characters are reserved and i have to come up with a different twist each time so we’ll see what his is!!!! same concept stage as jessa and phee for now.

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evangelos5647 · 7 years

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Tell us about your splatoon OCs!

Hoo nelly, alright. This is gonna get a bit long so click keep reading to see it all.

First off is Penny: pink hair, lime green eyes, and is totally a nervous wreck. She works with a crew at Grizzco comprising of herself and my other OCs; Tara, Niall, and Basil. She worries that she’s holding them back because she’s not great at Salmon Run, but it’s the only income she can manage because she has absolutely no desire to play Turf War or Ranked. She’s totally in love with Mitzi, a girl who eventually joins the team after Niall quits Grizzco due to an accident. Unfortunately Penny has no clue how to communicate these feelings, so she admires Mitzi from afar, hoping she’ll notice. (I should elaborate I’m currently writing a fanfic that goes into more detail over most of these characters, expect that some time in the future.)

Next is Mitzi: short mint green hair, pink eyes, and a rebel with a short temper. After years of using unregulated modified weapons and gear, and getting into many fights over lost battles Mitzi is eventually banned from Turf and Ranked. With her source of income (and the outlet for pent-up anger) gone, under protest she turned to Grizzco for employment. She works in the crew with Penny, Tara, and Basil. She reciprocates similar feelings to Penny, but Mitzi plays it off in a flirtatious and laid-back attitude. Truth of the matter being she’s a hopeless romantic who doesn’t have much confidence in herself.

Tara: very long orange hair, silver eyes, and kind of a pretentious bitch. She’s the self-appointed leader of the Salmon Run group, and often criticizes her teammates for under-performing; namely Penny. She’s S+ rank, and has top marks during almost every battle, Turf or Ranked. Despite being a prodigy for ranked battle, she still works at Grizzco simply because she finds it more exciting than turf battles. She strongly dislikes Mitzi for her unsportsmanlike behavior, and will often antagonize her for being too rowdy.

Niall: green hair in a short ponytail, brown eyes, and probably the friendliest Inkling you could meet. His chipper attitude can be both comforting and at times, overbearing. He used to work at Grizzco with the crew until a harrowing accident makes him quit. He now works at a grocery store in Inkopolis Square, and despite this accident he still retains his jovial demeanor. He keeps in touch with his old coworkers and even gives Penny relationship advice when she asks for it. Whether she puts that advice to good use is kind of a mystery.

Basil: shoulder-length black hair swept over one eye, dark blue eyes, and the definition of indifferent. He is so distant and soft spoken, people are prone to forget he’s even there. He works at Grizzco and is very good at his job, he’s a very good strategist (even better than Tara) and when he makes a plan, it almost always works in the teams favor. He’s totally into punk-rock fashion and music, which is kind of a stark contrast to his reserved demeanor. He has a small crush on Tara but absolutely no one catches onto this, and he doesn’t act on it (for a while at least).

These are the main five I’ve actually developed, and the remaining few aren’t anywhere near as developed and serve moreso for ideas I have in the future (be it animations or fanfics).

Rey: Octoling with blood-orange hair and yellow eyes. She works as a low-ranking scientist for the Octarian menace beneath Inkopolis. Despite being a girl of science she is a total badass and can hold her own, she even goes on field missions alone. She has feelings for her commander Opal, but tries to repress them in order to focus on her work.

Opal: Octoling with lavender hair and brown eyes. Although she’s a high-ranking commander in the Octarian army with plenty of combat experience, she’s a huge softy and is into all sorts of cutesy things (namely Inkling fashion).

Mr. Mogi: Inkling man in his early thirties, droopy purple hair that go past his shoulders, and hazel eyes. He owns the apartments that Penny lives in, and he’s like the most chill dude ever.

Evan: Inkling boy with a yellow low ponytail, and bright pink eyes. Procrastinates a lot. Literally my self-insert/avatar, not much to talk about.

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! If anyone has any more inquiries I’ll probably answer them, and when the time comes for me to start posting that fanfic I’m working on, I’ll let it be known on this blog.

#ask #squad-damage #splatoon ocs #my ocs #mine

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rhapsody-crossing · 6 years

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S2: IYHO Tournament - A Reflection [Part 3]

PART 1 is here. PART 2 is here. This written series now has a tag #iyho series

7) Unexpected Champion of the Loser Bracket

If Ink Your Heart Out event is a anime, I would dedicate an episode or two to SST (Sotong Serba Tahu). Their captain, Riderman, used to be an active player but stopped due to university and life. Dinie is one of the rare badass female gamer who shows her skills with action instead of bragging. Jazmi was a skilled A ranker brush user (probably an S now). Three of them, along with a few others from the OC, were part of MAWS-- a team created for a SEA Tournament held on April. Malaysia did not do well on that tournament, but their bonds held strong and true. As such, Riderman’s return is equivalent of seeing a retired yet respectable general picking up his blade again and called his companions to arms for this upcoming war. They took in a newbie name Heraan as their fourth member.

SST lost to littleSOTONGS in the winners’ bracket, most likely due to the lack of coverage or connection issues. They tore through the loser bracket by defeating EPDS and INKvaders with a brilliant display of skill and team synergy that was almost touching to watch. It was unfortunate that they encountered an obstacle in the form of member disconnection, which led them to forego the match against Avengers...

On the other hand, Harapan’s experience was the opposite of SST. They encountered disconnect issues when battling Avengers in the normal bracket, which landed them on the loser’s bracket. Nevertheless, they powered through their opponents, beating Team 7, Gugu Team, Avengers and littleSOTONGS with a clean 2-0. It is also well noted that the teams they defeated contain at least one OC member, so my OC group chat was filled with awe and surprise of their skills and victory.

From surface, Harapan seemed ordinary: only their captain najmuddin and Afif were level 50s. syamin is in his late level 20s but is amazingly good at slaying. Rais was the last and latest addition, and he’s only ONE week into the game. We would later learn that captain najmuddin is actually part of the police force in real life. What happens when a police officer coins strategies in Splatoon 2? Apparently, it results lots of victory in a form of team synergy.

Harapan was like the black horse, the unexpected final boss. True to their namesake, waiting for them to start was akin to waiting for Malaysia’s GE14 votes to be tallied (their matches were delayed for an hour due to prayers, and was again further delayed due to connection issues). And yet, true to their namesake, they defeated almost everyone in the loser brackets much to everyone’s surprise.

If Avengers had won, we would expect a tough fight with some confidence that we could win. But Harapan threw every prediction out of the window, so the only way to find out who won was through the battle itself.

8) Finals - First Set

When the time came, Low was suffering from disconnect issues. As such, slap, louhai, Furi and I proceeded ahead.

It was terrible. I felt as if I was locked by their range. They were never alone, and the missiles kept coming. The whole match resulted in our first tournament loss:

Our team went on a state of panic. Everyone demanded for Low to come, poor connection be damned. Furi and Low were the pillars of slaying, so if both of them were on, everything should be okay, right?

What resulted was a close match but a loss:

Harapan won.

9) Finals - Second Set

What almost everyone had forgotten is that this tournament runs on Double Elimination format, meaning everyone gets a second chance, also meaning Tofu team had one more attempt. NCY and I had to stop everyone from dispersing in order to proceed to the Final match.

However, Tofu took a hit in the morale: to louhai, Furi and Low were invincible, and he felt like the weakest link. He wanted to be subbed out so that slap could play and turf, but the four of us rejected that idiotic and paranoid notion (”because bby”, I wanted to tell him, “one does not turf with Dynamo”). For the past week, we have seen louhai worked hard, and we trusted louhai with our backs. If we were to compare to ink brush’s sneakiness and Dynamo’s AoE, we needed the former more. Even slap could see that.

(At that moment, I took an internal hit in my weapon choice and skills as well. I chose NZap to better support my teammates in turfing as well as to give louhai and slap the freedom (hah, pun unintended) and pressure to kill, but this comes with an exchange on my ability to aim and kill more efficiently. If I had stuck Tri-Slosher, would things have changed? If I had more practice on aiming, would we not have suffered those loss? If I had took ranked more seriously, could we have won...?

Unbeknownst to my teammates, I was really conflicted, but louhai was freaking out, and that itself gave me the strength to be strong.)

Except, we were unfortunate to have gotten Walleye Warehouse as our next map. Walleye Warehouse is a narrow place with tons of alleys and tight spots, and very little place to run. In short, it was a terrific place for Tenta Missiles and long range users. I tried to sneak, but my poor judgment and aim got myself killed. louhai managed to snuck past last minute, but it was too late:

The second match would be the decider. If Harapan won, they would be champion. If Tofu won, then we may have chance to win the overall tournament.

“S’ok let’s do our best.” was what I imparted.

As if they took it literally, Low changed back to his main weapon Dapple Dualies Nouveau. Furi and louhai returned to their Octobrush Noveau and Inkbrush Nouveau roots respectively. If Nouveau is a real brand, they ought to sponsor us as their spokesperson.

Moray Tower is one of the oldest maps, appearing in both Splatoon 1 and 2. It is an interesting map with two tall buildings with narrow paths and a rather tight middle. It is by no means as constricted as Walleye Warehouse, but it allows for a lot of ambushes and backdoor attacks, and with harder-to-aim Tentas.

In a sense, the map was advantageous to us: Low charged forward as if he owned the territory, louhai followed behind and did what he does best-- sneaking and ambushing unsuspecting peeps, Furi was a mixture of defensive and aggressive play (while assisting me with Tenta), and I did what I usually do best a.k.a support (except with much more confidence as Moray Tower is a familiar territory). It also helped that one of my favourite songs, Riptide Rupture was playing, so I was especially pumped.

The middle was controlled well, with Low and louhai invading their tower and slaying most them. Harapan was thrown into a disarray as they were not able to charge their specials fast enough. All in all, we secured a victory in this one:

At long last, the final match. If everyone was sleepy beforehand, they were definitely awake after this match. Whoever wins this would be crowned champion.

When Manta Maria was chosen, I was relief. The ship is spacious with plenty of place to climb. It will be hard to aim Tenta Missles in this one, but it will also be easier to charge them. it also allows a few opportunities for backdoor attacks, which Low and louhai could use.

With well wishes from the OC, and an encouragement threw to the team... we proceeded towards the final battle.

Unlike other teams, Tofu Team did not do voice chat during matches. This was due to a majority of us using hotspots, and we wanted the connection to be fully utilised in our matches.

And yet, during the penultimate and final battle, it was as if there was an unspoken agreement between us. That Low and louhai would charge forward, that Furi would maintain a defensive position in the middle, that I would be entrusted in the turfing of our base.

The final battle that felt as if all gears have connected, a continuous dance between us where everyone watched each other’s back. It was our unspoken synergy against their trained synergy.

We pincered our enemies and got pincered in return. I aimed my Tentas at them, and was aimed in returned. We killed our teammates’ slayer and got slain in return; an endless cycle of reacting, splatting and turfing...

Three minutes flew, we got our results:

West Mountain Tofu is the champion of Ink Your Heart Out Tournament!

P.S. Full recording of the both Final Sets can be seen here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/268577433

9) Overall Results

10) Aftermath

I woke up the next day with a huge migraine from the lack of sleep. I was also greeted by tons of positivity and congratulatory messages by others.

Yes, Tofu team received much congratulations, mostly thanks to the goodwill that louhai garnered with the community as well as my subtle connection with the OC.

Speaking of louhai, he made a HUGE heartfelt thank you Facebook post to the OCs and quickly befriended every other players on Switch. This man has continued to form connections and hone his skills in hopes to become a role model for the players of his state. He has big dreams for Johor community, so I doubt he would stay as a Tofu... Or perhaps he would make a Tofu Team version 2? Regardless of his choice, I wish him best of luck, as it may be a little hard to get us “past champions” together.

For one, slap is not a dedicated player. He has moved on to Detroit: Become Human as soon as the tournament ended.

Secondly, it would be difficult for Low to join due to some complications.

With Low gone, and the fact that the OC actually needed more assistance, I would like to focus more on assisting in the development of Splatoon 2 Community and its events.

On the other hand, Furi was in for a long haul. louhai’s heartfelt post made her admitted that she had been a solo bird in Splatoon 2, that she was so close to quitting yet decided to give the tournament a try. She was tremendously glad to have found us, and we were tremendously glad to have adopted her. It was without a doubt that Tofu team was happy to have her, that I was happy to have gained a friend in her! The fact that her workplace is 10 minutes away from my house means meeting up with her is relatively easy, heck, we actually met up for dinner that Sunday evening to celebrate our victory.

The group chat for Western Mountain Tofu remains for a more Spla2n-centric discussion, group-play invitations and Salmon Run hostings.

On a final note, I made a plea on the rewards towards the OC-- as all five of us had done battle, everyone in the team deserved a prize, so could the OC kindly request an additional eshop card from the sponsor...?

The request was approved by the sponsors, and our Splatoon 2 life continued oh-so-peacefully.

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