Splatoon Lore Questions Answered!

I asked my community if they had any burning Splatoon lore questions a while ago and today I'm here to answer some of your Splatoon Lore questions!

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[subatomicsubhuman]

who needs to be able to remember important school stuff when i can fill my brain up with sploon lore

[nolangerrans]

I’d like to mention for the parental advisory warning question that pearl literally has a song called “#$@%* dudes be #$@%* sleepin” so yeah, swearing is canon

[zacharybush]

9:23 I personally think that Inkling/Octoling hobbies are just one's personal preferences, just like how it is with us. Some Inklings/Octolings might like video games, while others might like sports (other than Turf War), dancing, art, exercising, or any combination of those plus more. Heck, there might even be some Inklings/Octolings that DON'T like Turf war.

[varsity.]

5:14 I had my own theory on this!
Respawn pads, aside from being a video game mechanic to literally respawn, is a beacon for the inkling or octoling to have a definitive safe area to rush back to reform into their normal size.
Their souls that fly off when splatted are still the inkling or octoling itself, but is a defense mechanism developed so that they can essentially fly themselves back to a safer area and respawn. I’m following this “flying” logic along the reasoning of the Japanese Flying squid and how it can spread its fins to create lift in the air (or in game super jumping).
Anyways, in normal games, your inkling soul floats up and back to spawn. In both story modes, when fighting a boss battle, Octo samurai for this example will try and respawn into his own mobile spawn point, but ultimately just explodes presumably because agent 4 and agent 8 already slapped him around enough and damaged the spawn point so bad.

[Typi]

I think when it comes to Tartar being alive, we could take a page from the manga. After the explosion, Marina takes its "corpse" with her, saying something along the lines of "I hope you can see the difference someday" regarding Humanity and Inklings/Octarians. It's implied that Marina might have tried fixing it in the manga, and while the canon is a bit different compared to the game canon, I think they left that question open so that they can bring them back if they have more ideas.

[iris]

1:17 Lol I always imagine myself the teams meet up and decide what colour their ink is gonna be. Sounds a bit childish, I know, but it's a bit like sports, you get to hear what colour outfit you're gonna wear before a match begins so yeah

[swampbottom]

For the ink color changing, I think maybe they can change their colors at will whenever they feel like it, but that would leave a few plot holes to be answered. And for the record, I don’t know if this is canon, but in a 2018 concert video, pearl and marina can be seen changing their ink colors in plain sight.

[JustAnotherHaiku]

I should probably expand on Toni Kensa and Marie's relationship:

In the Splatoon 2 art book, it is shown that the Kensaki family emblem (the one Toni Kensa is a part of) in embroidered on Marie's kimono, and the Octo Canyon armor has the Toni Kensa logo on it as well. While their relationship is never explicitly stated, we can assume that they're related due to this.

[sketchfluffer]

I mean theoretically the inkling / octoling hair colour thing may not be entirely hormonal since there was canonically an inkling with rainbow hair at one point, and it's a little hard to see but in the splat 3 trailers some inklings have a slight tint of a second colour on their hair as well, so the hair colour(s) could be maintained with enough concentration, like a skill that you can get better at over time.

[omegacanon]

Was hoping you'd mention the jellyfish hive mind caste. They make up probably 80% of all actual work in the economy. Inklings seem to have a luxurious and hedonistic lifestyle and that they have the option to work or not because of this. Kinda analogous to automation in real life.

[rafeyos]

So in the lore (at least if I remember correctly) it is mentioned that human bones are common finds, so does this mean that other human artifacts would be common finds too? And I guess to expand on that, does that mean that an inkling or octoling could have found human weapons and maybe even used them?

[aser_]

About the ink colour, we see Pearl and Marina change ink colour in the live irl concerts, where their tentacles get a glitching effect, turn white and change to the new colour, which implies that its controlled by will

[icy.blue.neptunee]

My head canon, and this should definitely be real, is that the inklings and octolings have a default ink color that they could change if they wanted to

[frankie]

My request in the post was for a further insight on Inkling and Octoling biology, thanks for clearing a few things up. I can't wait for Inkling/Octoling souls and Inkling Polotics!

[psiseven]

My headcanon for Octavio never changing forms is that is has something to do with how his tentacles are used to operate the other bosses. Or it's maybe he's doing some sort of life-preserving technique like Cuttlefish. Also I assumed we only see him in his octoling form, not his human form

[spewku]

"So they can just do it whenever they want, its just an ability they have to change skin color"



Wait so Marina just wants to be different then, huh

[Bobo-]

*Why do inklings die in water?*
Inklings evolved from the ocean which is *salt* water. Most stages in game contain *fresh* water. As a salt water creature they cannot live in fresh water and will die of *Water Intoxication.* With the stages that *do* posses salt water there are death barriers preventing you from touching it in the first place.
*What about salmon run?*
Salmon are salt water creatures too but they migrate upstream (*fresh water*) to spawn. And salmon run takes place during their spawning.
*Can fresh water reservoirs be that big?*
As a matter of fact yes. Above the state of Ohio lies Lake Erie which is so huge you can’t see the other side.
*Anything to prove this?*
In octo expansion after you beat the game, you can look through the hole a *certain someone* made. Through that hole you can see what appears to be a layer of water, meaning they are *under* the water. Also the place is called Deep *Sea* Metro. This concludes my scientific analogy of a kids game.

[gloopgloopington]

Inner agent 3 is so powerful because they removed their special limiter, proven by dialogue.

[BugsyRabbit]

Splatoon lore boiiiis! Always fun and interesting to find out and theorise more stuff about such an in-depth series! :)

Also, I was wondering, do Inklings die/get splatted if they drink water? Or can they drink it normally? Or only diluted? It's just an interesting question to think about.

[burnttoast]

I love splatoon








Although I do have one suspicion about adult /older inklings/octolings in the splatoon 3 trailer there is an inkling with half dried tentacles, I believe I heard somewhere that octolings/inklings tentacles dry as they get older or something? I don’t know if this is correct or incorrect. Can someone tell me?