#hugefry

[magulon]

Recent commission! Agent and her lil buddy have some crazy dreams…

Concept: @heinousactszx

[tizzypizza]

how neo agent 3 saphia lost her smallfry / why nana doesn’t have a li’l buddy (in a world where the fuzzy ooze is corrosive)

[al-xks]

"When smoke rises from the seven rings, The pinkfish will emerge from the sea, devouring all the creatures of the land."

[herringaid-draws]

King Salmonids (& Hugefry) as the weather trio

[alish-artie]

Fries.

[toothpaste-for-the-skin]

Some more Splatfest themed doodles between Toothpaste and Hoover as kinda a sequel to this lol

(Ok tbh Hoover probably cannot actually become Hugefry bc he is not Neo 3’s Little Buddy ((Toothpaste is not Neo 3)) but I thought this was funny)

[flyingbunniesart]

my boy.............. my son

[f3l-tsm30w]

I did a combination of Days 14, 24, and 27 for the first picture and did Day 25

1st Pic: DAY 14/24/27 of NeoMagicStar Salmon-tober Art Prompt- Fear/Hate/Cohozuna

How Breaker got his Scar

TW: ||eyestrain||

2nd pic: Day 25 of NeoMagicStar's Salmon-tober Art Prompt- Rage

A flame burns in anger as many lives are lost to GrizzCo… A flame that combined the Soul of an Octoling and a Soul of a Unknown King Salmonid

Also put my signature on top, i think i inspired Neo's way of Eyestrain pictures…

TW- ||Eyestrain||

[ziggystarart]

Updated the ref for L'il Partner, and also made a ref for their Hugefry form (Partner Grande)

[sick-ada]

my captain 3 isnt the bravest, but i honestly dont blame them for this one, anyone who isnt scared of a horrorboros has no self-preservation (including N3, of course)

[third-king-of-salmonids]

THIS SALMON IS: 🐟 USUALLY TAKEN FOR A MEAL OR SOMETHING FIRST BEFORE BEING ASKED THAT COD DAMN 🐟

AFTER THE SUCESS OF LAST YEARS OFFERING WE ARE ONCE AGAIN WISHING EVERYONE* A HAPPY SALMONTINES DAY! ❤️

*EXCLUDING MR GRIZZ WHOMST THE COMPANY SINCERELY WISHES A PROFOUND SENSE OF LONELINESS AND ALSO STEP ON A LEGO

[rassicas]

Hey!!! question here

i can’t seem to find. any info at ALL on fuzzy ooze besides fan theories. I was curious if there was any process of mammalisation revealed anywhere?? Im assuming not cus we only recently got sanitisation up to scratch. But is there any important info on fuzzy octos at all? CEO of splatoon lore pls help!!

i was really looking forward to the S3 artbook giving us SOMETHING about fuzzy ooze or filling in any of the numerous gaps in ROTM's story. cannot begin to express how disappointed i was when i opened up the artbook to find that THIS was the only page on fuzzy octarians

the blurb on the top can be boiled down to "why are octavio's troops in alterna? wow theyre fuzzy. do they even have any ego left?" like ok that's just. basic observations and things that were mentioned in promo materials. and we cant say this is like out of spoiler avoidance because the previous page has (also very little) concepts for hugefry and grizz. go girl give us nothing! In terms of dev interviews, the april 2023 famitsu interview has 2 questions regarding fuzzy octos:

----Was it the effects of the fuzzy ooze that caused the Octarians in Alterna to grow hair? Inoue: under the effects of the fuzzy ooze, they're on the verge of becoming mammals.  ----In the case of the new Agent 3, when they come into contact with the ooze they suddenly grow hair. Are the Octarians supposed to be in the middle stage? Inoue: That’s right.

Within less than a year of Octo expansion's release, we got a few dev interviews and a whole artbook giving further clarification on sanitization, tartar's motives, the octarians in the metro...even though some elements were unclear until side order and some responses were dodgy, there still was something to work with and some gaps filled.

in the two years since ROTM we got uh. the one dev interview, which, while that did explain a few things with alterna and smallfry, gave us Nothing about fuzzification or mammalization. whatever it's called. aside from those 2 answers above. is the process reversible? how did grizz get all those troops? why is there an octoplush track that uses dedf1sh's naming scheme? oh yeah, and literally nothing about ORCA or any expansion on grizz's character in ROTM. ORCA goes completely unmentioned in the artbook. hello. im getting side tracked.

and before we couldve gotten another chance for answers on ROTM, side order came out, and all focus in terms of splatoon's story got directed towards that.

I will be genuinely surprised if bancalawalker gives us anything on ROTM since that's seems to be the side order/later update artbook my only hope is that, since there's some suspicious things unanswered for about lil judd and grizzco, maybe, hard maybe, the fuzzy octarians could be addressed in any capacity again, like how side order expanded on OE? But idk it seemed like ROTM was a way to just wrap up the squidbeak saga and they could just Not mention it again lol. one last thing. these amped octostamps, an enemy introduced in rotm, have full 3d renders. notice a uh. lack of fur.

or another wacky thing. is how the only artwork we have of an octarian (non octoling) in the tableturf style is a normal non fuzzy octotrooper.

my Game Theory is that. i think rotm had some... late in development decisions in terms of story direction, with the fuzzy octarians being one of those later decisions.

[justanothersquidblog]

My Neo 3’s Big Buddy. Becoming Hugefry, he knows will take everything. I get emotional thinking of this poor guy

[sailorsplatoon]

Happy Halloween!

Alt version (w/ names)

I’m very much still learning how to do digital art, so definitely don’t expect art from me regularly. I just did this because Halloween is my favorite holiday. And if you see a mistake in this, not you didn’t. (We’re just going to ignore that Kai and Sage are the only ones with necks. And for the record, I do know how to draw hands I just… didn’t want to draw that many hands…) Also, if it wasn't obvious, I did trace the hugefry in the background from an in-game screenshot, but everything else I drew.

That said, happy Halloween to everyone once again!

[general-ysines]

return of the mammalians was a wonderful story mode. my only issue with it is that it felt like it only half committed to being salmonid-oriented or deep cut-focused and then didnt even try with the chaos theme we were promised.

i also think the smallfry gets magicked by mysterious dieties that were never mentioned in the series before outside of one sunken scroll and turns into HUGE SALMON AND WRESTLES THE BEAR! is a little weird and idk. cheesy?

the good thing abt hugefry tho is the salmon eating grizz statue lol. i find it so funny

[dr-spectre]

Do you have any opinions or theories or something like that about the Calamari Inkantation?

I think you once called it a really catchy song, but while true, I feel it really is so, SO much more than that.

Yeah you're right, it is more than just a catchy song. It's a song that's existed for possibly hundreds of years as it's a folk song in Calamari County and it's renowned as it's chorus. And guess who grew up in that area? Callie and Marie.

"The customary chorus of Calamari County. Nowadays, this song and dance may as well be carved into the very DNA of all Inklings. It began as a way to celebrate and show respect for the bounty of the sea."

Even when you listen to the original Splatoon 1 version of the song, it's almost sort of trance like in its instrumentation and sound. It gives this mysterious techno vibe which fits the song. Hell Inkantation is just incantation spelt with a K, the word means to chant words that trigger magical effects on something or someone. It's power is so mysterious and it has various different effects on different sea creatures.

It gives Octarians the motivation to wanna go up to the surface. It gave strength to Captain Cuttlefish and he was able to bust out of his restraints and boogie. It gave Callie's mind a surge of positive memories and bring her back to her senses, freeing her from darkness and anger. It transformed Smallfry into Hugefry. the song is THAT powerful and mysterious. The real connecting point between these effects is that it gives these characters strength and motivation just in various different ways.

It's called "that heavenly melody" for a reason. The only theory I have on why this song could be so powerful is this YouTube comment I found on a Calamari Inkantation 3mix video. They bring up a very interesting point.

I feel like the Calamari Inkantation has to be tied to humans in some way because it's so old and it's so engrained into the hearts of sea creatures.

The only thing I wanna dismiss about the song is that it's some sort of brainwashing or mind control cure. No. That's false. It doesn't free Octarians from "brainwashing" and it didn't free Callie from """brainwashing.""" That is a false assumption about the song and boiling it down to that is just such a lame take I'm sorry. The song is more than that.