#ω-3

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Song: Bait & Click (Mutation) Artist: Ryo Nagamatsu, ω-3 From: Splatoon 3

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[igagoro]

[glassesfreekjr]

FOR REAL THIS TIME

The King Salmonid who all Fish Sticks aspire to be. The first Griller to surpass their mortal coils and ascend to a state far more... eldritch. A grotesque autonomous collective and yet a ruler in its own right. The aquatic roi des rats of the whirlpool's roil, whose name shall not be uttered. The worlds worst maypole by far, 0/10.

And yet there are sea creatures far worse, and far scarier, out in the unknown depths... beyond the splendour of the tempest; the sandbank’s luring smile. Encircled by flopping hordes of mindless and amorphous dancers, lulled amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

Waiting for their moment.

(Rough concept art courtesy of @zenders-art)

[splatoonna]

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[darminky]

Big runs if they were good

ANYWAYS ω-3 I LOVE YOU

[vivalich]

Day 4 of Splatband Sprites:

The Firstborn Child of Alkyne, the Hidden Blade of Yakiharas from ω-3

He doesn't have an official colored ref, so I just gave him the same coloring as the other salmonids.

[ranidspace]

hello ω-3 fans go visit seigen tokuzawa's youtube channel he's the real life human cellist for the fictional salmonid band so check him out. he hasnt posted in 3 years though :(

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

Frothy Waters // Splatoon 3 (2022)

[haxardouswaste]

meggy 3 headcannons bc they infested my brain again

transcript and some adjustments under the cut if yall can’t read my handwriting

Dj (aka Faith), 25 y/o

- Many piercings

- Flat snout thanks to birth defect, his tongue can’t fit in his mouth bc of it

- Irresponsible, needs to be reigned in by the other two constantly

- Comes from an affluent family, but left to pursue music

Timpanist (aka Val), 38 y/o

- Several scars from childhood injuries

- Ran away from the Hell Canyon as a teen and never looked back

- Acts like an older brother to Faith

- Eyesight is not the best (Well No Shit)

Cellist (aka Jr), 59 y/o

- More eel-like than fish in appearance

- Tiny scar on mouth

- Has a minor limp due to a leg injury in his youth

- Tired and fed up all the time (Same bro)

[thelovelyblark-barg]

I'm still really upset that we never got to see ω-3 as models

genuinely one of my favorite splat bands

[surveillance-0011]

Come join in the last hurrah,

with open sores and open jaw

well thought out twinkles - silversun pickups

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Imagine being a salmonid and looking outside and seeing That Fucking Thing and having to wrap your head around being the same species. Must be wild. No wonder Toxic Anoxic sounds like that.

Please don’t repost!

[igagoro]

[glassesfreekjr]

Since the first do-over somehow sounded even more like ass, I remastered/redid the whole track now that I have more experience.

Picture this as the OST for a surprise XTRA WAVE during the next Big Run. Even better if this "King Salmonid" isn't announced anywhere beforehand.

Imagine, if you will, that distorted victory jingle plays to signify a King Salmonid, but nothing happens. All eight(?!) players Super Jump back to their starting locations and Mr. Grizz pipes in to express his confusion. Then he notices... no, no, he definitely sent out a four-man squad! Why are there more of you? How long have these conspicuous individuals in the same uniform been trying to blend in amogus? Are those Grizzco weapons?!

Then without a word, the interlopers all open fire at once. Cue the music.

Although the firefight would break out as the music kicks off, the 100-sec Xtra Wave would only officially start at 0:22 — when the Grizzco helicopter is blasted out of the sky with a Trizooka, careening into the ocean in a catastrophic, firey wreck. Mr. Grizz lets out a long, garbled string of curses and hails the emergency speedboat he prepared in advance to come pick you up. But will it make it to your squad in time? Here's hoping.

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Ditching the odd time signatures and overdriven timpanis in favor of breakcore drum loops is kinda like sanitizing what made the music ω-3 (the band for Salmon Run) special and shoving what's left in a place where it don't belong — which is similar to my interpretation of what "salmonlings" would be like. Literal fish out of water.

Salminid culture is heavily tied to the belief in the circle of life (via being cooked alive). It's why they're so willing to zerg rush players during Salmon Runs. So imagine being torn away from said cycle, altered so irrevocably that you barely recognize yourself. My intent was to capture that feeling of horrid mania, and the music I sampled from/covered lended itself well to that, I think.

I've also found a good in-universe performer at last: DJ Unregistered Hypercam 3 (by @teethflavoured on Tumblr), a retired Mudmouth turned solo artist for whom I instantly fell head-over-heels.

(sample source list and an ultra-rad visualizer can be found on my YouTube)

[mcsalturn]

splatoonies doodles

[squid-bean]

At the next hologram concert they should have ω-3 turn up and hijack the concert