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“I’ll stay with you!”
“I’ll protect you!”
Octo Expansion Marina if she was cool and awesome 💪💪
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So, according to a Japanese Splatuber...
You can get rewards if you do this stage without using sub weapons.
It’s easy to do this at the beginning but...
I forgot about this part where you had to really use the sub weapons to get to the goal. So, as stubborn I am to get the rewards...
...I make this stupid decision for a lot of times. And for one time, I managed to get it.
Japanese cephalopods... do you ever sleep?
(P/S : It’s worth it)
I am not even joking.
my birthday cake of my favorite splatoon image. unfortunately it cost one hundred dollars because safeway does not say that different types of cake cost more or less on the custom cake form and i accidentally made it twice as big as i should have. so many people were looking at me funny in the safeway so it was both hilarious and embarrassing i think. i hope yall enjoy this stupid joke
After finishing the octo expansion I drew some shit, I have been an Octoling main ever since -D-)
So yeah that DLC
Why does no one talk about the fact that side order completely ruined Marina and Pearl as a duo??
In the Octo expansion, they’re seen as a duo who banter for fun but still deeply care for each other. This is seen in both the DLC chat logs and the news, where Marina often makes fun of Pearl for either her size or not being able to do tricks with the Dualies, etc. Etc. Pearl does the same for Marina, just not so much and mostly acts like the punchline in the jokes— acting annoyed (although jokingly so).
They make fun of each other but are still close, which is supported by Pearl’s whole “fight” with Cap’n where she defends Marina and clearly states that if Cap’n came close to harming her, he would be the one getting hurt instead.
Or when Marina quite literally supported Order only because she was scared of losing the stability in her life— one of the main points of that stability being Pearl herself, and Marina almost crying on live TV because she thought Pearl wouldn’t want to be off the hook anymore.
There are a lot of factors that support pearlina in the story, and they were literally so well written personality wise in the second game.
Until the third game came along.
In side order, most of Pearl and Marina’s dialogues in the elevators consist or quite literally flirting with each other— of course, this is pretty much a big implication of Pearlina actually having some kind of canon confirmation, and that’s a huge step for the franchise!! However, it becomes annoying once the ship is overrepresentated.
Comparing the dialogues from octo expansion and side order, there’s a CLEAR difference. While in the first dlc, Marina and Pearl clearly cared about each other and still bantered in their own ways, they were each written to be their own character. Pearl and Marina had different world views, Marina’s being very impacted by Octoling society while Pearl was convinced octolings existed no longer. Not only that, but the whole Chaos V. order discourse in the second game.
In the third game, they’ve been dumbed down to “Pearl and Marina.”
It was obvious Marina’s views on order would change after the Splatocalypse, but didn’t Nintendo have a better way of demonstrating it than the choices taken in side order? Her and Pearl’s character have almost completely merged together— same views, always agreeing on everything, always flirting, etc.
I’m not saying the DLC was bad, although it kinda was. I just feel the need to point out that The whole playful off the hook dynamic that made it so obvious that they cared for each other has quite literally been dumbed down for shipping value and it makes me so sad to see, they were such good characters who got dumbed down for no reason as Nintendo (once again) pays more attention to the money.
I made the Octo Shot in 5 days for con... but I didn't like the finished product sadly so I didn't use it.
I dislike the texture, but I still wanted to show my creation. It's kinda cute I guess.
Agent 3's mind has been hijacked!
Alternative edit below:
'Hey... Wake up... We still have unfinished business here!'
YOU'VE DEFEATED THE HERO WITHIN
I spent a few weeks making my own Golden Toothpick!
Made from a chopstick, polystyrene ball and a lot of paper mache and paint, I finally achieved replicating my favourite Splatoon gear.
THE TELEPHONE.
THE SPLATOON SEXYMAN (or woman) CONTEST ROUND 1 BATTLE 2
IN THIS CORNER WE HAVE
COMMANDER TARTAR
AND IN THE OTHER CORNER WE HAVE!,
C.Q CUMBER
Splatpoll input Fascist phone vs ticker collector
A little rushed doodle of 8 in a different style...
Connect these to button inputs and play Splatoon with them, trust me
This little octoy says hello UwU
something something side order
i was thinking this is what 8s physical body is doing when in the spire
first time posting a finished piece <3
side order reimagined ideas
before more information was revealed on the dlc i actually thought that side order was being more focused on agent 8s backstory (remember that weird green sludge water from the octo ex customisation screen?) and that the all white inkopolis plaza place was taking place in someones mind
im imagined that it was kind of like a kamabo co hive mind where all the sanitised octolings minds go when they become blended / zombies
or kind of 8 traveling back through their past experiences ? also that image with many agent 8s
we still don’t know so many things like how are the test applicants chosen / who attacked us snd brought us to the deep sea metro
and since agent 8 is the one that had a whole theme with recollecting memories (mem cakes) and having flashbacks (inner agent 3) an inner world travel through their memories would also have been very fitting
my thoughts are not very organised and neither is my writing help </3
side order is looking crazy…! still, i miss the 80s/90s vibes of octo ex, nothing can beat that aesthetic…
i have cooked once again
agent 8 is so cute fr