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and here i was just thinking about how i hadnt hatched an xyx yet...
you were already gonna get the lil special eye icon when i posted you because of that immediate faceted, but you just had to be an overachiever huh...

keeper, 6th personal double / 5th double hatched


updating from the last guy, so now thats 3 xyy's, 2 xxy's and 1 xyx






I DIDNT REALIZE HOW MATCHY OCTOPUS WOULD BE WHAT







note to self; if octopus ever transitions to being a modern gene you are going to be splatoonified, that is a when not if.
specifically you will be the newest oc, based on ska blam (aka blam)
which imma start jotting notes down for

> has the spiraling hair style, the 4 segments that all spiral in at the center
> a part of anarchys little group, consisting of clickbait, depth and now blam (and eventually tide once she's rescued from alterna)
> another dome octoling, one who hung around in inkopolis between s2 and s3 before migrating to splatsville alongside a bunch of other inkfish
> joined the group while anarchy was doing their stuff in alterna, so they didnt get to meet until after the great zapfish returned
> blam is able to piece the zapfishes return with anarchys sudden reappearance afterwards, they aint stupid they lived through s1 and 2 in the domes and heard about both incidents from the surfaces pov after the fact, they know what that means.
> regardless blam joins in with the splatsville natives when asked, as they're down a player with anarchy being busy with.. something (clickbait is getting constant updates and probably knows the general gist of things, and has not shared it with anyone else per anarchys request)
> blam learns a bit about this mysterious third member, another octoling, as they become friends with click and depth
> and eventually, one day they go to the lobby and the zapfish is back! and sitting near click in the usual waiting spot blam has come to be familiar with, is another octoling with clear signs of having been from the domes.

interrupting story notes for some headcanon-y stuff. every inkfish has a quote unquote 'default' ink colour they're born with, usually relating to their parents ink colours in some way. ink colour is determined by a specific set of proteins or other scientific stuff in the inksac, a certain amount of protein a and smaller amount of protein b would result in say, orange ink.
ink colour can be changed naturally, either subconsciously or with a single thought.
but staying that colour for a long period of time is much trickier, as the inkfishes ink will gradually drift back to their natural colour.
there are ways around it, such as absorbing a small amount of ink thats the colour you want, but its still temporary (but lasts much longer in comparison) 'changing your default color' is pretty tricky to do
its basically kind of like how a vaccine works? where it requires several instances of the body learning to produce a certain thing to the point it remembers it, except instead of antibodies its instead the amount of proteins/whatever to create certain colours. the default colour will always be remembered, but it can be 'replaced' by a different colour after enough times

this is important, because all dome octarians natural ink colours range from red, to purple. reds, pinks and purples were the only colours they could hatch with (imo because of clan stuff, ie shivers clan would be naturally cold tones, blues purples and maybe greens, while the inkadian octarians were their own clan and were those more warm reds and purples), with some darker variations to show rank, that were still within those ranges. so spotting another dome octo is pretty easy, because you're simply looking for like 2 things
> red/purple/pink toned tentacles (includes brown or black tentacles in those values, ie marina or any other elite rival octoling)
> and a purple tinted mask (likely resulting from the years and generations spent in the domes, causing the dark pigment to reduce due to not needing it as much. the original black is most likely some sort of sun protection, and they didnt really need it in the domes). ranges from near black to fully purple, but there is still some tint to it (some regain a decent chunk of the pigment fairly quickly once reaching the surface, but no dome-born octolings have gotten back to the pitch black of their sister species)

> anyways, anarchy and blam lock eyes and are instantly just 'fellow dome octo spotted'
> blah blah blah anarchy and blam are introduced to each other, its a little awkward especially for anarchy because theyve just returned from their impromptu hero journey and suddenly their two main friends have found another octoling that theyve befriended
> this fades once they get into a few matches and anarchy finds that they actually fit into their little ragtag team really well, since anarchy favours mid ranged skirmishing weapons, click prefers his 92 gal, and depth flips between shooters, dualies and sloshers depending on their mood, blam focusing on backline or more supportive weapons just finishes their little group almost perfectly





> i have no clue what the timeline is but i kinda want to have yoko and the gold bazookas be a thing around this time (just not a turf war approved band yet), and blam is so obsessed with their debut song already
> anarchy is quick to rejoice when they learn that blam is just their nickname, because 'you should have seen them when ska-blam first released

might have to nudge that back a bit since i kinda want to follow the irl timeline a bit more especially following the splatfests and stuff, so this would be months down the line actually... hmm