#I have no idea if this makes sense??

[risuia]

Is the death of coral affect also sea anemones? /Or/ Are the sea anemones changing color (slowly matching the colors of dying coral) when growing older? (/And/ What about urchins?)

As I was happily thinking, having more references for a sea anemone OC with the new appearance of Annie in splatoon 3’s DLC, I couldn’t stop thinking about Annie’s new design.

Mainly, her ‘hair’ color change. The moment I saw her made me ask a LOT of questions. (maybe for no reasons)

Anyway, here is my (hopefully understandable) rambling!!

- First of all, let’s put basic stuff:

like the fact that sea anemones aren’t corals: they aren’t as rigid, since they are invertebrate, (corals have a skeleton!) and thus, soft. But they are still sea animals heavily related corals.

(I’m not an expert AT ALL on this subject, this just scratch the surface, but hopefully this is correct)

Now, in Splatoon:

In the first game, there is a sunken scroll with a “realistically accurate” (from our point of view as human from their past) sea anemone, …

… acknowledging an evolution that was made through time. Similarly, to inkling and octoling, depicted in a “realistically accurate” way that we see throughout the three games.

While, in the announcement of 3’s DLC we saw, well, dead corals everywhere.

(And they obviously didn’t evolve, them not being sea animals like sea anemones.)

- Now the basic stuff is put, let’s talk about Annie:

In Splatoon 1, while her artwork seemed dull in comparison of her render, it’s important to take account of the warm light source in her shop, which in the end made her “hair” as vibrant as the art.

Let’s compare with the matching light source with the render of her new design:

The main color went from a vibrant pink-orange warm color to one waay less vibrant and more cold-ish, the orange in the color is gone. The same goes with the green accent, they can even seem even white. (or transparent at some point?? With less opacity?? but that may be just me)

White like dead corals.

Once again, corals and sea anemones are different as talked before. But they are still related, and it made me ask:

Are sea anemones affected by the source of what is causing coral death? (which some of us theorized to be from a nuclear winter)

- I could have stop there. But Annie isn’t the ONLY sea anemone, enter Harmony:

She wasn’t in any game before 3, the only resources we have from her BEFORE the 3 is an artwork for Chirpy Chips for each of the two first game.

Here they are, with the art and render from splatoon 3:

She went from pale to vibrant, unlike Annie.

If there’s truly coral dying and impacting sea anemones, there wouldn’t be any reason why Harmony isn’t hit as well.

-Putting aside the ‘coral dying impacting sea anemone’ thing, I thought of other possibilities:

Age:

We can easily imagine Annie being way older than Harmony, being a shopkeeper, and online shopkeeper as well.

So, what If their color is fading growing up?

-But it still won’t fully line up with Harmony, which led to the last idea:

Health:

Harmony is known to have issue taking care of her (poor) clownfish, their color indicating neglect.

She may have been neglecting herself prior Splatoon 3. Maybe from overworking herself, or even from her own neglect to her clownfish (since sea anemone and their clownfish have a symbiotic relationship).

(And thinking about their symbiotic relationship, could it be Annie’s clownfish, Moe, dying? Since their lifespan is different and all.)

-Oh, and by the way; what about the urchins?

Nothing.

They aren’t corals, nor as close by family or whatnot to them!! They are closer to mollusks. So, no ‘withering’ like coral!

Of course, it could be simply just a change of style from Annie, and for Harmony, as I said, there’s not much to work with, all of it is thin ice in the end!!

But I still find it odd the change made for Annie, no other NPC had any change similar like that (change of color, not like Spyke and Murch who had simply grown) but, maybe, in the end, she simply grown old as well!

Pheww, anyway, that’s it!! Thank you for reading this theory/headcanon thingy!! Hope it’ll give ideas or watnot for headcanon or OCs!!!

(also I don’t know if anyone already talked about this before, but here u go!)

(Also, I’m pretty unexperienced using Tumblr, so I apologize if I do something clumsily !!)

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[you-know-i-get-itt]

we’ve all talked about how andrew minyard being the goalkeeper is symbolic of his position as the protector of his foxes, but can we also talk about aaron and nicky being backliners whose job is to stop the ball before it can reach the goal at all and therefore protect andrew specifically

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

I’m sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon

And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing

And I’m sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesn’t sound like anyone else we know

[iztea]

imagine if they didn't pull that sword out of Bram in time and then Fyodor got reincarnated as a lollipop stick

[verflares]

(draconifies your zelink) oh whoops lol

+ an extra pic of em hanging out together :]

btw, you can find these guys on inprnt! both as a pair, or apart :] You Choose.

[violetwolfraven]

The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.

[stemmmm]

ok a third one. i've got a third one

context: 1 2 3

[justaz]

au where merlin doesn’t know balinor is his father and he and arthur are chilling in his cave and balinor mentions hunith and merlin Locks In as he subtly questions the random man and boom arthur and merlin are aware that the last dragonlord is his father.

[guinevereslancelot]

it's a beautiful day at the roman senate and you are a horrible goose

[azz-modeus]

Every time Dick tries to have a serious conversation with Jason it gets shut down very quickly. If anyone asks the context imma just say they’re taking a small break on patrol and Jason took off his helmet to smoke.

[seefasters]

i think it took mob some time to get used to expressing his emotions openly again so for a while he just reacted disproportionately to random things

[maxipad33]

in brazil we went hunting

it was hard finding time to draw while i was in korea but i finally finished this beast on the plane! max verstappen brazil 2024 you are so special to me

also feel free to use as a wallpaper!

alt versions under the cut

[cowardlykrow]

“Not my circus, not my monkeys”… Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus

[gordonfreemanspussy]

happy october :]

@scienceteamtober day 1: before the game

with lovely beautiful awesome forever character art by @winkreallyisntable goes CRAZY!!! full art below the cut.