#Cephalo Pods

[plazainkfish]

[jeremy-xliv]

here's a guy

jus realized i posted like 3 pieces of art on this site like 6 months ago and no more i'm gonna fix that

[frogoru]

cephalos your pods

[splatsvilles-fashionista]

Outfit prompt: octoshot. I'm currently rocking a full set of octarian armour with mine, all decked out with actually useful chunks because i am boooooring XD

Like Ttek I don't have much to say about the Octoshot. I don't like the main or the special, and it looks cool I guess? But it's not interesting in my opinion. It's simply not for me, and that's fine.

Cephalo Pods / Toni K. Baseball Jersey / Crab-Trap Squidkid III

Tried going for a somewhat self-serious look to match the gun without leaning into the aesthetics of the Octarians.

[wwraithsart]

Finally finished the updated reference sheet for Gale's team (that I started back in... january). Click for better quality!

More about each team member below:

Monty:

Main gear: Tentaclinger Earring (not pictured), Urchins Jersey, Blue Slip-Ons

Favors mid-ranged slayer type weapons (sloshing machine, slosher, most blasters but especially range blaster) but is generally pretty flexible

There's a somewhat small independently published magazine in Splatsville about what's currently popular (fashion, weapons, splatfest speculation, etc). He writes articles for it, mostly noting what is currently popular, what that means for the direction of the meta, that kind of thing.

He's one of the founding members of Gale's current team. He likes to analyze how teams play and experiment with different team compositions and strategies. He tries his best to stay on top of what's new.

Outside of competitive stuff, he likes card games. He likes to collect stuff and is kind of a completionist.

Jessica:

Main gear: Retro BluFocals (not pictured), Patchwork Bomber, Mako Bucket Hi-Tops

Really enjoys backline, anchor type weapons. On her own she plays the Hydra, though she's skilled with most other splatlings. She also likes long range chargers (scoped E liter, splatterscope, snipewriter), and if you give her enough time to de-rust she's good with the jet squelcher.

She plays X rank in her free time, her peak power being in the 2600s, though she still has plenty to learn. A goal she sets for herself is to have more self discipline, since she occasionally feels herself get impatient and "one more set" or "one more match" when she probably shouldn't.

She and Monty are the founding members of Gale's current team. She'd known him from seeing him a lot in X rank, since they had similar powers at the time. They both share a similar philosophy regarding competitive play; not doing it for the glory of winning, but for self improvement and enjoyment.

Outside of competitive stuff, she likes to play video games. She's really into open world games. She also sometimes offers individual, one on one coaching for younger players.

Leela

Main gear: Cephalo Pods, Lime Ski Jacket, Gray Sea-Slug Hi-Tops

Likes weapons that skirmish a lot, and was a tetra dualies one-trick for a while. She doesn't mind playing support roles either, so she'll play the n-zap or splash o matic if the situation calls for it. She also likes the trislosher, but that's more for when she's playing soloqueue rather than on the team.

She's pretty new to competitive play. She met Jessica through X rank lobbies, where Jessica saw a lot of potential in her. Leela occasionally struggles with coordination-- she's very used to soloqueue, so she'll miss callouts and get caught off guard. As such, it's her main focus of improvement.

Outside of competitive stuff, she loves music. She almost always has earbuds in and is trying to discover new bands. She also plays the saxophone. She's optimistic, talkative, and can be stubborn to a fault.

Gale

Main gear: Knitted Hat (+ heart pin), Chili Octo Aloha, Violet Trainers

She's fairly flexible in what she can play, but she's strongest with shooters (her favorites being 52 gal and splattershot, sometimes splash o matic). If she can be aggressive with it, she'll play it.

She's the newest member on her team. She met Leela after regularly seeing her in anarchy lobbies, and Leela introduced her to the rest of the team. At first, Gale would fill in during scrims when one of the team members wasn't available, but when that team member had to leave, Gale took their place.

Gale hadn't played on a competitive team in a while, so they were a bit rusty. Monty recognized them from their previous team years ago, though he never mentioned it. He knew they had potential, though. They take their role on the team very seriously out of a desire to do better than last time.

Outside of competitive stuff, they like to cook. They're very social and dedicated to their work, but tends to hold themself to impossibly high standards.

[nope-secret]

A few days ago i was talking to my dad about cephalopods but he understood "C-phallopods" and commented how he was scared about the implications of that word.

To explain:

What I meant: cephalo = head pod = feet

Cephalopods = animals that have a "head and feet", such as squids

What he thought: phallus = penis pod = feet

C-phallopods = animals that walk on their dicks, category C

I'm so amazed by his mind

[hiroshotreplica]

okay y'all asked and shall receive. gonna drop my veronika headcanons cause i think about her a lot

okay firstly orientation and all that. i imagine her as being nonbinary and female at the same time but i cant decide on which label fits that (bigender or demigirl are my current options. im indecisive as hell WAH). uses she/they. people usually nickname her rika but hiro calls her ron :)

also adhd haver i think... i love projecting onto characters

for battlegear, they notably dont like, have headgear in a lot of promo art? usually i imagine her using the cephalo pods and wearing them outside of battle to listen to music too. probably listens to music during battle LOL (i imagine deep cut, maybe squid sisters too when shes neo 3..)

personality wise? kind of lines up with common interpretations i think. energetic and a bit wild, a little weird to most. a bit of a prankster, too- if youre confused by her words, she's probably messing with you (lightheartedly, of course). but they can be genuine in moments, mainly toward their closest friends (roommates, in my mind, lol)

speaking of roommates, i like imagining she lives with hiro, ane, and little buddy. specifically moving in with ane and hiro after spending most of her life with little buddy as her only friend. neo 3 or not, i like seeing them as having a close, familial-type bond with them, though that label's never put to it in words. ane and hiro are friends they love turf battling with and against (usually against due to how i have main teams sorted in my brain) but theyve got a little something going on with hiro.. (wow im hironika shipper? no way! crazy)

their main team? i call it yellow team, but not publicly cause i dont wanna get into coroika territory there. its based off of this part of some promo art specifically where theyre with yarrwhal, stephanie, and kayoss :) i still think she battles outside of this team though, mainly w/ hiro and ane (cause she lives with them and all)

main weapon is DEFINITELY tri-stringer. i think she could use reeflux and splatana wiper too.. but theyre the type to stick to a main, despite their chaotic nature

love them as neo 3 but i like neo 3 hiro.. they can both be neo 3 too i think. argh. lots of possibilities there. i think she'd be a great agent, sort of like agent 4 but more chaotic.

extra lil bit of info, i think she likes drawing. cause of like... one thing from a trailer i dont remember the url of. but still.. i think about this wayyy too much

(this is from my fic planning doc)

okay thats all im gonna share about 'ron..bye

[cepho-facts]

Cepho fact #07

The word cephalopod originates from the Ancient Greek words κεφαλή (kephalē, head) and ποδός (podós, feet). Cephalopods were named "head-feet" in reference to the simple looking body of a head connecting to their arms.

[freshest-fits]

Cephalo Pods // Forge

Lime Ski Jacket // Inkline

Neon Sea Slugs // Tentatek

[valeriewarrior137]

Hiii! I'm back!!

I had a horrible episode of art block and soo many unfinished drawings. But I'm back.

Pls gib me art ideas and some asks. I'm desperate.

And I drew my splatoon avatar in the official art.

Meet Verdi.

Username: Agent 7 / Oatchi :> (i change the name often)

Headgear: Cephalo Pods

Clothes: Green Cardigan

Shoes: Force ReBoots

Weapons: Splatana (main), Splat Roller, Bloblober, Inkbrush, Stringer

Favourite band: Chirpy Chips

She is a menace to Maws.

[ourple-octoling]

♫ from eden!

send in ♫ to catch my muse humming/singing !

Without Me - Gyroaxia

"Without me, without me you're nothing Just letting you know that you're not alone..."

Vio had his Cephalo Pods in, pressing play he starts humming away to some human music he found in Alterna he as set up the flower shop for the morning. A routine honestly, just tune out everything while you start opening the store.

"Take my hand Come on, light the fire Shake it off until the end of this world

Just take my hand tonight No matter what the future holds I don't care. Because without you, I am nothing." He sings to himself as he drags out a few buckets of roses to the front of the store for display. Valentines' was less than a month away-- Roses were pretty popular at this time. What coincidence, this song he was listening to was considerably... romantic.

Roses were a symbol of romantic feelings too. That brings him to the thought... What should he give Eden for that day? Flowers would be too... Cheesy. Maybe he'll just ask her. It would be a lot easier.

[mevil]

You have a problem with the Cephalo Pods Dadfoot Sandals Shooters Squid Squad syndicate ?

Throwing up over this subway long title

[thewebcomicsreview]

Any thoughts on the roller coaster that is Sleepless Domain Chapter 15’s last ten or so pages?

Yeah: Holy shit.

I don’t know if I can offer much more high level analysis beyond that, but there are some little details I liked, like how Cassidy - whose power is to split herself into two - was in two unrelated magical girl groups, making it doubly ironic that she died alone. 

I like the dramatic irony of Bud casually realizing “Oh, we should tell Cassidy’s team to keep an eye on her” six pages too late for it to matter.

I like how the pattern of the barrier has a bunch of hands throwing out rock-paper-scissors signs, but none of the hands are showing scissors until Cassidy starts beating monsters, causing all the hands to throw her sign.

And then when the fight turns against her they’re all throwing rock.

Also, the only two times we see a hand throwing paper - which we need to see anyway to understand the significance of the fist but is also the sign where Cassidy’s scissors win- are next to word balloons of Kokoro trying to convince Undine to talk about her problems more. That’s because the sorce of Cassidy’s suspicion that set off this whole chain of events is Undine keeping the purple girl a secret. With a bit more honestly, Cassidy could’ve won (this is also reflected in the cover page for the chapter, where Cassidy sits in a puddle of Undine’s spilled (purple!) tea. Cassidy’s death isn’t Undine’s fault, but it’s “downstream” of her secrecy).

I like to occasionally post this Every Frame a Painting video about how whenever “a chair” appears in a movie (or comic), the writer should think hard about what kind of chair, and if there’s a way to get more value out of the chair than just an ass receptacle. This applies to any visual doohickey or effect in your comic, and getting the most mileage out of these little details, and I’m increasingly coming to the opinion that thinking about this a lot is one of the ways a comic writer can cut his pagecount and earn his keep, and this little gimmick with the hands is a great example of that, being a subtle bit of symbolic foreshadowing and even a karmic commentary with the paper signs.   

But what really jumps out at me is how short this chapter is. Not counting the cover, it’s a smooth thirty pages. 

For comparison, the Bath Time chapter of Saffron and Sage is 43 pages, over 33% longer, and it’s basically just this one gag and a really long fight scene.

So much stuff is crammed into this 30 pages, and there’s even time for Zoe and Rue to pop in all “Oh look at us popular minor characters maybe we’re gonna die oooooh wouldn’t that be a twist!”. We have Cassidy getting rejected by Heartful Punch, Cassidy getting unintentionally rejected by Team Flash, Cassidy backstory, team Rue/Zoe, Harley and Bud getting a bit of characterization. So much stuff happened that I’m 500 words into this post and I’m only now getting to

All the Korodine stuff! I don’t know what to say about that stuff, though, besides pointing out some foreshadowing for it

And by “foreshadowing” I mean that it’s all but stated that Heartful Punch and Outrageous Lime used to be an item and Lime implies that HP has a thing for smol girls. 

And then HP schedules a meeting to confess to Undine that gets hijacked by Momtalk revelations thanks to a Goops call and we never actually learn what Kokoro initially intended to be open with Undine about (though at this point we can put it together) (also a chance for subtle worldbuilding is taken here because Kokoro’s phone number is in roman numerals). 

Oh, and that Kokoro’s romantic interest in Undine was so obvious that it was part of why Cassidy hated Undine in the first place, tying everything together in a neat little orange hair bow.

[splatsvilles-fashionista]

could you do an outfit for vstamper?

Yeah woo Stamper!

I love this thang, I love it so much that I've already written about how much I love it!

Cephalo Pods / Silver Tentatek Vest / Chained DC ToeJamz

[wwraithsart]

monty with 1 and/or leela with 10?

What is the character’s go-to drink order?

"Cold brew. Or green tea if they've got it"

10. What objects do they always carry around with them

"I keep a reasonable amount of stuff in my tote..." cephalo-pods, phone, wallet, keys, spare (saxophone) reeds, notebook + pen, at least 3 different chapsticks, and some loose food/drink tickets.

Link to character asks

[captdedeyes]

Here are my Splat3 outfits since launch!

More details under the cut~

These are the loadouts I've been working on from September-December 2022:

Tentatek Splattershot, Squid Hairclip, Annaki Choker Tee, Red & Black Squidkid IV

Dualie Squelchers, Cephalo Pods, Patchwork Bomber, Red Hi-Tops

Heavy Splatling, Firefin Facemask, Pineapple Ringer, Suede Bosses