#all octolings are agent 8

[ghosthoodie]

hi friends!! here are all of my new artfight references!! im updating descriptions right now so no link yet but ill post it+link in replies when im done:)

[springtz]

I HAVENT POSTED SPLATOON STUFF IN AGES HERE WHAAAAT... uhmm take some agent 8 stuff ft my agent 4. from newest to oldest (the last one is from back when side order released)

[stupid-puppycat]

Reason there wasn't a valentine's day post

[novaluxvi]

I'm not in this part of the fandom but I remembered that "Xeno designs" were a thing and decided to make one for fun! (They were right it is fun)

[aeriona]

Group photo with the Agents! (+ Little Buddy, It was Four’s idea).

(Total drawing time: 13 hours, 32 minutes. Dear God, please reblog.)

[blueskieswastaken]

the nuclear warning architecture got to me

decided to put some text on some images.

[sybeez]

side order of fries

redraw

[astronnova]

#8, regret

[ask-squidbeaks-agents]

// Some lore on Eight's older siblings-

// So in order there is- Ace, Eight's eldest sister, 34 years old, She is a top of the range Elite Soldier. She refused to move up to the surface and still currently lives down in Octo Canyon. Deuce, Eight's eldest brother, 33 years old, He's one of the very rare and few male Elite Soldiers. Like Ace he refused to leave the domes and currently works in Octo Valley. Trixie, 28 years old, the first of Eight's siblings to make it to the surface. The second sibling to reconnect with Eight. April, 27 years old, twin sister to May, she went missing and ended up in the Metro a short while before Eight, she was subject 10,004. She failed her tests and was subsequently sanitized. Eight is currently the only one to know of her fate. May, 27 years old, twin sister to April, she stayed in the domes hoping April would come back one day, but she never did. Some time before Splat3 May was kidnapped by Grizz and fuzzified. None of her siblings know of her fate. Victor, 26 years old, the second of Eight's siblings to make it to the surface. The last sibling to reconnect with Eight. Nana, 25 years old, last of Eight's siblings to make it to the surface. She was the first to find and reconnect with Eight, she is also the only one who knows of him being an Agent. Octavius, 24 years old, or better known as Agent 8.

[splattsy]

My hot octo wife / Me doing whatever the hell she wants

[nerissalmao]

The Sexualization of Octolings

Hey y’all! My friend Ray suggested this lil thread essay post whatever it’s called, and I figured it would make perfect sense to do. I’ve never really made an in-depth Splatoon post before, but I’m not afraid to try. Today’s topic is.. the sexualization of Octolings.

We all know Octolings. We all think they’re cute and fun and cool, but they’re just so.. you know.. sexy. That’s not a bad thing, but it seems like it’s their whole entire species which is literally sexualized and shown in midriff-baring, skimpy outfits. I mean, come on guys. When Callie, the most wholesome Inkling around, briefly joins the Octo Party, she’s suddenly turned into the hottest dominatrix-looking rigid icon ever (a number of my friends started to crush on her after that).

It’s definitely not just Callie. We all know Marina, guys. I don’t even have to show you images to prove what she looks like, her and her love for crop tops. And Marina, as we all know, is an ex-member of the Octarian army, like all Octolings.. like Agent 8, whose Octo Expansion outfit was on the sexy side with a crop top and high-heeled little booties. And who later in Side Order wears a form-fitting bodysuit that shows off their midriff and causes several Splatoon players to meme the fact that their backside seems to be lookin’ large to death. Why is it that Marina and Eight, who used to be in the army, have sexualized attire even now? And when Callie linked up with them, she too was wearing a shirt that in certain poses accentuates her chest, and pants so loose-fitting you can see her actual underwear.

Have you seen the enemy Octoling’s outfits? Yes, they’ve got on armor, but it’s stylized as crop tops and short shorts. Not to mention that most of the enemy Octolings present as or resemble females, and their armor has the age-old shoddy trope of having extra panels for their breasts. They’ve got little booties too and look more like a dancing glam squad or sexualized warrior cosplay than actual warriors, but this is just a design choice and doesn’t affect the way they fight. A pretty weird design choice for a game like Splatoon if you ask me.

I find this very bizarre and random. Because it seems that the entire Octoling enemy brigade has some level of sexiness to them, especially the females. Every single one. But wait on a second. There’s two Octolings we haven’t covered yet. Shiver, an Octoling, has an outfit no more racier than Frye, her Inkling co-star’s. And Acht’s outfit may have a questionable thigh slit, but that’s nowhere near the typical belly-button-bearing short shorts of the Octarian army. That seems to make my theory seem dumb, huh?

Not in the slightest. See, Acht was never in the Octarian army’s fighting unit with the rest of the girlies (they were in the army and wore the same uniform, but as they were never on the front lines they seemed to be able to wear it differently, tilting it so their midriff wasn’t easily seen and wearing a bracelet instead of those tight gloves). As for Shiver, she was born into a clan of Octolings long separated from the other Octarians. Agent 8 on the other hand was once an Octarian warrior, as was Marina (she was later promoted though, but even so along with other enemy Octoling warriors was there during Octavio’s fight with Agent 3), and Callie was turned into one briefly, or something like one, despite her being an Inkling. It seems all the sexualized Octolings were once on the front lines strutting their stuff while fighting. So why is this?

Well, here’s my theory added onto another random semi-theory that I am here to share with you all. You see, in Japanese, the enemy Octolings, preferably the ones you fight, are called “Octo-Amazons”, and the Amazons are legendary female warriors. So perhaps DJ Octavio knew what he was doing with this, and it’s a sort of empowerment move that perhaps the masculine Octolings work on maintenance jobs or something given we never see them, whereas most feminine Octolings are fighters with their female-ness put on blatant display, waggling their little hips as they jump in to do battle with the Inklings. And this practice is so well-known among Octolings that those formerly in the army still tend to gravitate towards more revealing clothes even when they are free. Just a penny for your thoughts, Splatoon community.

[loki-ioki]

"Why do they think I'm you?"

[nyan-ryder]

SPLOON DLC SOON

Commissions!

[shiverhohojiro]

every so often I see people who believe that The Entire Octarian Army is Female Only. sometimes simultaneously inventing very weird new forms of gendered oppression to go along with it. when DJ Octavio (male octoling) is right there. He's at the head of it. He's a guy? His squad of elite attack lesbians (the takozones) does not represent the army as a whole even if they're the only octolings we see not in swim form. People's eyes simply glaze over him. It would be like if people insisted there are only female squids because all the idols are female [Craig Cuttlefish continues to exist right there]

[stupid-puppycat]

RAAAAAAH SPLATFEST TIME!!! GOING WITH TEAM VANILLA!!!

[aeriona]

side order.

she was originally going to have something in her hand, but i couldn’t get it to work. so that’s why her hand is awkwardly hovering in the air haha.