#I hope this will all help us appreciate Beika more in this month of Beika

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Splatband Analysis - The Beika Files

Gotta keep the Beika train rolling, folks, and what better way to do that than to stare at some fake tweets at 11 in the evening instead of sleeping, right?

I'm gonna be looking at these tweets to try and craft a progression of events for Beika. Try and hazard what his thoughts were behind every tweet and how his day went. Let's begin.

Edit: Oh, just to clear up, I got all these from Inkipedia's page for Splatune 3. Check it out if you'd like.

Anyway, onto the tweets.

Beika's day begins with Kikura being late, as is normal for her. This little event gets him to talk about how she quit the band but later rejoined, probably to show off that this seems to be normal behavior for Kikura. The way he says it ("Who else but Kiki,") makes it sound like she's prone to making decisions and then changing her mind soon after, to the point he and Uotora are used to it by now.

This little moment of band tomfoolery seems to kickstart a reminiscence tour for Beika, going from talking about Kikura's shenanigans to thinking about the music C-Side has made. The vibe here just screams "I love my band" here, talking about having fun with his bandmates and enjoying the cover ω-3 made of Clickbait. He's so sweet.

Buuuut, it seems that the happy times ended up leading to the bad times. He's gone from thinking about the good times making music to how "Now or Never" was stolen from C-Side. Note the language here, "C-Side Original". Even if it's clear he wrote the song, he attributes it as a team effort, how sweet!

It's a jarring jump, though, and the next tweet seems to give an idea of his mental state.

Asking people to tell him that eating dinner, alone, drunk, is perfectly normal and in fact better than anything else. Safe to say that once he started thinking about "Now or Never", Beika just... spiraled downwards, and got smashed to cope while alone at home. Pauses the start of a massive rant to have his followers convince him that he's fine.

Back on track, his mind is still on "Now or Never". He starts off by making it clear he's fine with Deep Cut's version, probably trying to clear up that his beef is with Ichiya specifically, which is made extra clear when he starts to talk about him.

He tries to brush off Ichiya as just some dude he knew, but all the clues here point to the two having been close friends, and the betrayal hurt. And it's just Ichiya, he can't even be bothered to remember Squid Squad. Though he does explain he covered "Splattack" to show off, and states that he fully believes any of his fans could make music that's just as good (it sounds like a weird mix between a compliment to fans and a dig at Ichiya, that any amateur could make music at his level).

He does seem to give him the benefit of a doubt and says that he thinks he's gotten better at music. Probably just trying to be humble, or showing the one thing he's willing to give respect for.

This takes place the day after, now as sober Beika. He seems to be doing damage control by making it clear that he doesn't "hate" Inkopolis, and genuinely wants to make music for everyone.

And that's Beika's day. In summary, he got started thinking about the good times, and then it was downhill from there, mentally speaking.