I never played Splatoon but got a bit into its story recently, thanks to constant threads on /v/.
Was it explained what the deal with Marina? From what I understand, she is of a different species than other characters and belongs to a race that Inklings are at war with. How can she not only live among Inklings peacefully, but also be a popular show host? I'm looking for canon answers, not headcanon.
The general populace doesn't care about Octolings. The only one fixated on seeing them as enemies (rightfully so, since they stole the Great Zapfish twice) is Captain Cuttlefish.
>>385017380
The inkling Hitler hasn't risen yet in the Splatoon timeline. It should happen in Splatoon 3 or 4.
>>385017380
>I'm looking for canon answers, not headcanon.
Canon answer is simple. Marina is a filthy subsquid slut and a massive bitch. Day of the Takoyaki is at hand(or tentacle, rather).
>>385017756
>Marina is a filthy subsquid slut and a massive bitch.
So, she was allowed into superior society in exchange for special 'favors' to the rulling class?
>>385017380
There is octo marketingin the plaza. Expect the octolings who are at war with the inklings to be in a cold war. Not public.
>>385017380
Only reason Inklings and Octolings are at war is because resources are scarce. The two populations have no animus.
You should probably play the game and find out some of the more deeper details.
>>385017756
>massive bitch
That's Treehouse's fault; Marina in the Japanese version is sweet as can be.
And Day of the Takoyaki is better.
>>385018027
Correct.
I think nintendo said that nobody has noticed shes not an inkling.
>>385018475
>nobody has noticed
How the fuck do you not notice that the new newscaster is a different species?
>>385018362
Are there any images that compare the dialog in English version and directly translated dialog in Japanese one?
>>385018625
Yeah, that's just silly
>>385018625
inklings are really, really, really fucking dumb.
>>385018027
where in the lore of the game have you read it?
>>385018625
by generally not paying attention to anything that's not the center of attention.
>>385018757
comment section of rule34
dude told me to trust him and so I did
>>385017380
all i understand is that inklings and octolings are fighting for terrotory because the sea level doesn't stop rising
but i don't know for marina's story since i can't play the game either
>>385017380
recent interview the developers said inklings aren't even aware shes an octoling. They just care if you are fresh.
>>385018475
But does she know she is not an inkling?
>>385018923
"if it's on the internet, it must be true!"
-Abraham Lincoln
>>385018967
I'm imagining a terrified Marina at some sort of 14/88 Inkling rally holding a big sign that says "Inklings > Octarians!" and hoping no one looks at the top of her head too closely.
>>385019042
Albert Einstein said that, idiot.
>>385018967
>recent interview the developers said inklings aren't even aware shes an octoling
what a bunch of fucking retards, holy shit. it's sir Bearington type of retarded, except you don't have stats and feats and shit to explain that.
Where the fuck did the little cat came from?
Since when do cats reproduce asexually?
>>385019710
dunno, i'm not an archeologist when it comes to physical appearence
>>385018027
Can you imagine how fucked up that would be?
Everytime she leaves her home or studio she has to endure getting grabbed by ass or tits by inkling boys.
Just the thought she is forced to get gang banged and then swallow male ink almost everyday makes me sick.
Only a sick fuck would like to see her sucking someone off just because she is inferior to inklings.
>>385020094
>tits
They don't have mammary glands; they're cephalopods.
>>385020231
Then why the fuck Marina obviously has them?
>>385018807
But she's an idol! She IS the center of attention!
>>385017593
>Stealing what is rightfully theirs
>>385020094
But that's exactly what she deserves. It's not like she wasn't allowed into society only thanks to some loud SJW squid
>>385018967
>'Breaking news, everyone! It turns out our very own Off the Hook member Marina has been an Octoling all along! Who knew!'
>'I-it's true, I'm sorry Pearl, I'm sorry everyone, but with everything going on, I just couldn't tell you the truth...'
>'Don't sweat it, Marina. It could have been worse. At least you're not black'
>Marina's face when
>>385020595
Hiding in plain sight. Think about it, anytime anyone would consider that she looks suspiciously a lot like an Octoling, they would get shot down by a claim that Octoling would never be part of public like this.
>>385018475
>>385018625
It would make sense that in a city the people just wouldn't care. It would probably take some ol country squid or cuttlefish to come in the city and start raising hell that some Octo is in the spotlight.
>>385020860
>*BREAKING* Local squid slanders Marina, gets run out of town
>>385021075
They clearly have stated that Inklings haven't noticed, not that they don't care.
one of the sunked sea scrolls tells of how the general populace saw the story of the first game as a combined concert between the squid sisters and Octavio, in that image you can see a young Marina looking at the "concert"
it could be assumed that she was inspired by this to become a musician herself and maybe even work with a squid as Octavio "did"
>>385021263
>All the octo plots are just Kayfabe for some weird people who want plot around their concerts
>>385020648
i laughed too hard at this
>>385021863
Epic :)
>>385022036
i know right
>>385020094
>Marina dreamed to be an entertainer since her youngest years, she wanted to make people smile with her songs, since music was the only thing that allowed her to keep going after both her parents died in the War
>she knew she won't be able to ever be a true star in Octo Valley, so she moved to Inkopolis, chasing her dream
>she had to work dead-end jobs for barely any pay, had no friends, no one to rely on, was constantly mocked by Inklings for being of the loser race and only found time to practice her singing, dancing and instrument playing after entire day of hard work
>and even though her dream never seemed to close on her, she kept going
>one day some big-wig producer heard her sing during her usual, dead-end work
>he approached her, listened to her story and invited her to an audition
>that was it, she thought
>she had to perform in front of group of elderly Inklings and she was killing it
>afterwards, the big wig producer that scouted her told her she could become a co-star of a new idol group, Off the Hook, but, if she wanted them to choose her, she would have to put in that extra effort...
>but she was ready to do anything for her dream
>and so, during day, Marina is a big star on everybody's lips
>but at night, she is degraded to a play thing for old, fat Inklings, to do as they please with her, at least until she still isn't broken and isn't thrown away like a garbage she is
>but as long as she can endure this, she will be the star she always dreamed to be
Jesus, that was pretty dark of Nintendo to include a story like this...
>>385019597
>pic
Is there a full Inkling language manual?
>>385019597
>Oy vey
There is nothing wrong with being a octoling
>>385023041
>sympathizing with an enemy
octoling detected, splat it
>>385019597
What makes you think she isn't into it
>>385020016
There was an extra pod in the capsule the big cat was frozen in.
>>385022856
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54992cc4e4b08b1b044a6794/t/583aa32e9de4bb04c558d801/1480237973587/Inkling+Language+Guide.pdf
>>385018625
because humor
>>385023489
>half of Inkling /pol/ is just Octolings wearing "SQUID PRIDE WORLD WIDE" T-shirts
Has anyone posted all of the sunken scrolls anywhere yet? I don't have a switch yet so I can't find them myself but I'm dying to read them.
>>385023549
Neat
Thanks anon
Octavia Amiibos when? I want to cum on this brown octopussy
>>385023792
Civic Squidalism was a mistake.
>>385023792
Do you think Inklings even have a 4chan?
>>385023948
Octavia?
>>385023843
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0IVd3Z2eE
What did she mean by this?
I think they need to put DJ Octavio into Arms as DLC
>>385024168
Octavia
>>385024243
ink pumping -> Blood pumping -> Increased bloodpressure -> Excitement
Splatfest gets her excited
>>385017729
Except there was a world war a long time ago. Nowadays people don't give a fuck. Just like IRL.
>>385017380
What is this feud between squidlings and octolings? Give me the quick run down.
>>385024489
>ink pumping -> Blood pumping -> Increased bloodpressure -> Excitement
But what comes after excitement?!
>>385024761
A very long time ago there was a war between Inklings and Octolings, and the Inklings won. Nowadays only a couple of old farts care about it, while the rest of the world moved on and it's focused on having fun.
>>385024243
Master bluffer. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason no one notices is because everyone just assumes pearl is the non-squid of the duo, and a fully non-squid idol group wouldn't get popular, right?
>>385019797
Keep in mind that the war between squid and octopi took place many years ago and they've been living in their freaky teakettle domes in Octo Canyon ever since. All of the inklings who hang out in Inkopolis Square are children and they've probably never seen an octoling before. The only members of the community who could probably spot an octoling on sight are really old and they would never pay much attention to some pop stars.
>>385024761
Limited resources because of rising sea level. Octarians need loads of energy to light the underground caves they live in and constantly steal the Zapfishes (A natural energy source)
>>385024879
Pretty sure that's where it ends
meanwhile at merch we'll never get
>>385025806
I work at Wal Mart and we just got a bunch of Splatoon themed Water Guns.
Why is she so visibly shy and uncomfortable?
>>385017380
story spoilersOctavio uses goggles/shades to mind control Octolings.
Marina doesn't have them, so she's fine. The little tentacle guys that don't have them are just tentactles given sentience, not actual Octolings.
In an interview the director of the game dodged the question about Marina being an Octoling, and made a passing comment saying that "her hair was very interesting." He also explained that the inklings don't really care what she looks like as long as "she's doing something fresh."
>>385026729
we cant have a black octoling look up to a white inkling or it'd be racist
>>385026729
She's a rape victim
>>385026729
literally the only octoling in inkling society
>>385026746
Didn't the makers also say Octavio is using hypnotic music all throughout Octo Valley to control the entire Octarin Race? DJ Octavio probably has a doctorate in Hypnotism
I kinda hoped the featured musicians in Splatoon 2 would have been a Rock band or something.
splatoons are for eating
http://imgur.com/a/fdt6d
>>385027316
It's not really a doctorate level thing, more of a 1 week class and 2000 dollars for a piece of paper that says you're "Certified".
t. certified hypnotist
>>385020094
>>385027515
Nice
>>385024002
Squid /v/ probably bitches about all the missing songs on Ika Radio 2 and how they're all on-board and are just waiting for a timer.
>>385028320
Arcade machines in japan go by timer unlocks all the time these days
>>385018625
ironic
>>385028815
Just makes me wonder what those songs are. I mean, some of them are splatfest songs, but that leaves 2 unaccounted for. What are they, and why are they mixed in with the splatfest songs?
>>385027376
blame niggers
for everything
>>385026746
Huh, that clears that up for me then. I was always wondering why there's such wild diversity among Octarians, and the sunken scroll in splatoon 2 about the tentacle tech just raised more questions. I'm just curious as to where the tentacles actually come from. Are they just genetically engineered or are they being pulled off of some regenerating creature?
Are all the weird variants going to go extinct with Octavio out of the picture and it'll just be Octolings? Octarians are weird.
>>385018625
Sqiggers kinda all look the same.
>>385031169
*Gasp* Racist!!!!!!
>>385018362
>Marina in the Japanese version is sweet as can be.
How very bland and nip of them.
>>385017729
But cuttlefish is already in the game.
>>385031660
He's not in this one, he's on a research trip.Hope he comes back, that would mean Marie wouldn't be stuck guarding Octavio and can actually do something postgame.
>>385030734
octopi can regenerate. Fuck cephalopods got a plethora of cool abilities and adaptationThe only reason humans are the apex are octopi very short life and unability to impart it's knowledge to it's youngs
>>385018625
I mean there's a ton of different species in inkopolis and the recent octo wars are secrets, not that inklings would care if they found out.
>>385017380
Inklings don't care for your appearance as long as you're fresh so it's just that no one gives a fuck.
Does this Splatoon System still hold up in Splatoon 2? Or did the language change?
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54992cc4e4b08b1b044a6794/t/583aa32e9de4bb04c558d801/1480237973587/Inkling+Language+Guide.pdf
>>385031910
>Have a giant mother Octopus in some chamber being constantly pumped full of weird Octarian drugs to speed up the regeneration process and keep her docile
>Constantly tear off her tentacles to make new troopers and then inject said tentacles full of whatever the green sentience jelly is
>Octolings come from her ink runoff during the process
>>385029857
There's probably splatoon 1 music in there.
>>385032227
That's pretty damn cool. I may try to decipher some of it later on.
>>385032328
Btw
Octopus live a short life ( max 5 years for the big one, a few years max for the ''normal'' versions) because they starve themselves looking after their eggs
BUT, if you cut their optic nerves (ie blind them) then they start eating again and live longuer
>>385032696
>A giant purposely blinded mother octopus in a chamber
Octarians are brutal. I know this is just headcanon territory but I always get "Stalin's ape soldiers" vibes from them. Like if all that weird wartime pseudoscience actually worked, Octarians are what would happen.
>>385023549
>94 Pages
>>385032227
I went through this whole thing and not once did they try and give a definintion of "Woomy". Am i retarded, or did they really think a full translation of the first scene in seinfeld was more important than the most iconic squid noise there is?
>>385024879
>>385025273
And splat of ink.
So only octolings have titties?
>>385017380
affirmative action
>>385023792
>implying /pol/ isn't full of scared mystery meats trying to uncle tom for whitey so they are spared from the gas chambers
>C-can us based non-whites stay in the ethnostate?
Too bad they all have to go.
>>385032227
Well, the language in game is bunk anyway, "rock" and "cake" is the same word in game. So I don't think it matters either way.
Suggestive squid innuendo.
Implied octopus mating.
They're a different species but because this is fantasy and not real life there's no real conflict between the two these days.
Also, Marina is cute.
>>385034767
Maybe they think they'll get installed as bantustan eliteswhich they probably will desu
>>385035527
They'll get shipped to Liberia with the blacks. It has our US constitution so they shouldn't have a problem with that since they're all civic nationalists :^)
If they refuse they get the gas.
>>385035401
I don't think that's safe. The suckers on those tentacles look fierce.
Splatoon 3 is about Octos and Squids fighting against the Salmon.
>>385036079
I was thinking about that though. Why not put them in the Caribbean? There were plans for that after the Civil War and it seems more logistically doable. Also
>not installing someone friendly to you to run your colonies
>>385036547
>Octolings are finally playable
>Add a Salmonling enemy type
>Now everyone wants playable Salmonlings
>>385037261
Just make them as disgusting as Salmonids look
>>385036805
It would take more time to swim from Africa than it would be swim from the Bahamas.
Apparently the jews were really good at stacking up blacks like lincoln logs in the slave ships. We should try that again.
Anywho
>non whites
>friendly
It doesn't matter. They're useless wildlife. If they didn't get foreign aid and white people medicine/technology they'd be irrelevant jungle people living in huts and not bothering anyone. The only people I'd worry about are the chinese.
>>385037261
>>385037467
I made a quick mockup with my mouse, just for you anon.
>>385017380
>Girls this young with tight bodies and exposed breasts and midriff
Nintendo are absolute madmen
Why did NoA have to make Marina snarky as if they're just redoing the whole Callie and Marie dynamic? Her facial expressions don't even match what she's saying half the time. Like others said she always looks shy and uncomfortable.
>>385027515I don't even like vore, but I popped a huge boner. Why does Marie have to be so erotic?
>>385023549
Thank you, anon.
>>385020094
Yeah, nothing pisses me off more than the thought of that poor, innocent, fertile young woman being treated like some kind of sex tool or a thick piece of juicy meat.
Nothing but indignant rage at the very notion of that chocolate goddess just being publicly humiliated and degraded, gradually escalating from hurtful and crass comments about her ample breasts bouncing as she walks and her fat, round ass that would jiggle like jello with every firm spank, to the more overt pinching and fondling from young boys passing by as she desperately holds back tears to preserve her precious image lest her career take a nosedive.
And right before she makes it home, just when she thinks she's made it all the way through another one in one piece, I am enraged beyond belief by the thought of her catching the predatorial gaze of a rowdy group of young adult squids strong with the odor of smoke and alcohol, and surrounded like the terrified prey she is. Before she can stammer any plea for mercy they lay their hands and lustful degredations upon her with full force, frightening her terribly as they break her spirit with curses and insults about what shameless cock-addicted sluts the octoniggers taught their women to be, how much they must love getting gangfucked like the cumsluts they look like if they walk around alone just to provoke large groups of horny men into pumping their every wet hole full of piping-hot ink, all of this tearing her soul apart as they do the same to her clothing and brutally penetrating her most delicate and private places, just fucking burying her under an avalanche of cock, her sobs and screams muffled by a thick penis viciously violating her throat while her pussy and anus are pulverized by member after member, and after hours of this unendurable torture she's left too broken even to cry as she lies in the street mindbroken and soaked with the semen of a dozen strangers.
Nothing fills me with more horror and disgust. Absolutely nothing.
>>385018475
She kinda had me fooled at first, was too busy staring at her butt.
>>385045170
I see.
I was indifferent to Pearl into I looked into her japanese name and reference and found out she's a pygmy squid and will never get bigger. Eternal loli squid.
>>385018362
>That's Treehouse's fault
Not really, because she isn't a bitch, just blunt. She's not insulting Pearl, Pearl is actually a complete shithead and she just points that out. It's actually pretty close to Japanese humor now that I think about it.
>>385045170
Reminder that squids do not have penises. Groping her in just the right way would be enough to get her knocked up with superior inkling kin.
>>385046258
I frowned in sadness at that one conversation when Pearl said she went to that one stage with her best friend and Marina is like, "But I don't remember going with you."
>>385045990
it's kind of weird for a mother to put her newborn in a bikini before bathing it
>>385046820
Wow that is actually worse than anything Marina says. Got a screenshot?
>>385046414
And they also don't usually have entirely human bodies save for tentacle hair and some superficial facial features, so I doubt sincerely that penises and vaginas are out of the question.
>>385037467
Like that would stop people.
>>385036547
Octarians and Salmonids are already trade partners.
>>385050082
hmm... so octarians are like germany and salmonids are like italians , all in ww2?
i want a draw of this now
>>385019597
>squid orthography looks like a mashup between Korean and Hebrew
What did they mean by this?
>>385050240
The Octarians are Japan what with the multiple samurai motifs.
>>385050862
well then , but the salmonoids still being italians
>>385023549
>https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54992cc4e4b08b1b044a6794/t/583aa32e9de4bb04c558d801/1480237973587/Inkling+Language+Guide.pdf
...impressive
>>385019797
She has something far more effective actually, tits and a pussy.