#octoling backup dancers

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octoling backup dancers

Concept art for the final boss! In the game Callie is alone on stage but in this one art she has these cool octoling backup dancers. There was also a concept art comic with the backup dancers but they didn't make it into the game :(

coconut.vtf

There was a meme going around of "the coconut that if you delete it destroys TF2" but actually it's just a replacement for coffee beans in a taunt that was never released.

Okay ok ok SO. the TF2 coconut jpeg has such an interesting history. coconut.vtf, or coconut jpg file, is an unused image of a coconut found under a texture file in the game. you have to actually convert the file type to view it, but sure enough it's literally just a jpg of a coconut. here's where things get interesting. someone found the file after it was added in a 2014 update and posted it on reddit. From that post, someone made a joke comment saying "I have no fucking idea who put this here, but when I deleted it the game wouldn’t start. Words cannot describe my fucking confusion", which was then missatributed to be an actual comment from a developer at valve. This snowballed into many people actually believing to this day that this coconut file crashes tf2 if deleted. The coconut does not actually hold the game together, and of the 4 files you need to run tf2 it is not one of them. you can delete it at anytime with no issue. in reality it was an effect for an unused taunt that never got implemented into the game. but it's history of misinformation is so interesting to me. btw one of the file you ACTUALLY need to run tf2 is the 2fort cow, which isn't cut content I just think that's fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLx_3bON0Mw

[justanothersquidblog]

Almost one year ago I drew and posted here four silly octoling soldier designs as a backup dancer harem inspired by the concept art of Callie having backup dancers.

I decided to redo them! A nice clean redo with more details and more confident character design decisions.

From left to right; Ingrid, Mira, Cynthia, and Sasha. I hope you like them!

Extra version that show's more 'details':

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OK SO MY FRIEND DID THIS WITH HER AGENTS AND I FINALLY GOT AROUND TO DRAWING ALL MY AGENTS (yes i know theres one extra im going to explain- Character details (and what the text says if it ends up being too small down in the cut. I'll also give approximate species details for those that do that

Brook (Captain 3) -Been through hell and back -Serious, but is deeply protective of friends -Charger pro -She doesn't like to talk about her old group of friends before joining the NSS (they be dead.) -Was lucky not to get any lasting scars from the sanitation event in OE, but that does not mean she didn't get scars later down the line -Probably would be an angel clubhook squid

Chase (Agent 4) -Self appointed meme master -Friendly, but also likes to play pranks -Doesn't get invited to missions ofter -Absolutely love squee-gs and autobombs, keeps them around his house and they roam around -His favorite is a squee-g named pablo -Also stole one of those sea cucumbers from the deepsea metro and has one of those -brush main. does not like chargers. -Fond of history, doesn't get to talk about it much -probably would be a humbolt squid, albeit a small one

Ray (Agent 8) -Universe's favorite chew toy -Prone to nightmares and anxiety -Shy, but nice. Braver than he thinks he is -brella main -ungodly dancer. you should see his moves when he plays squidbeatz -Likes to keep everything tidy -Probably either a dumbo octopus or an umbrella octopus

Coral (Agent 12) - Was originally a backup for agent 4 if he wasn't good at agent work - A little better but not by much - Secret finder extrordinaire -has a vendetta against birds (the feeling is mutual) -Prone to changing mood based on the moods of others. If someone is crying, chances are she's now crying too. -Probably a glitter squid (bigfin reef squid)

Ruth (Neo Agent 3) - Carries a switchblade at all times - Unhinged and wild - A bad influence, but is good at fighting - Part of her beak is chipped from a fight. She still has the piece, and treats it like a trophy and has a special case for it and everything -Extremely good throwing arm, getting hit by something thrown by her HURTS. -Has a brother that doesn't know about hew work as an NSS agent, or even chooses to care -Doesn't like bread crust, and feeds it to Katrina -Probably some species of whiplash squid (with photophores)

Killer Apostle to the Terrible Ruler Inasore (Katrina) - Ruth's little buddy (NOT A PET) - The bane of ankles everywhere - trans salmon trans salmon trans salmon- (dont ask me how this works, i dont know.) -Thinks of everyone in terms of strength in battle, and can literally smell weakness -Very defensive of Ruth, and protects her the best she can -Knows a little of the inkling language, but knows more octoling because of the salmonid's relationship with the octarian army

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I forgot to mention that I had Just prayed to nintendo for them to release those concept comics for bossfights n such and it seems that the Hi-Color Walker will include them and I am so happy. Excited. Hungry for new lores

[yardsard666]

Well, I kinda think the ValkyriexCallie piece is very cute, and gay. Here's to (probably) more pieces of them together! (Still think its kinda funny how Callie is almost always shipped with an octoling. If it's not agent 4, then its dedf1sh. Now we got background backup dancer from the artbook to add to that list.)

THANKS ANON we love callyrie. We love Callie/octo soldier ships. It's very gay and sweet like waffles from the waffle house Valkyrie works at

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distilled emotions

It’s a cut mechanic, that likely would have worked like the confusion grenades from the first game. They were distilled emotions thrown at targets to induce that emotion. Bottled love, sadness, anger, joy, more. There’s a ton of cut dialogue for this- different characters reactions to being hit with different emotions.

This mechanic would have allowed the player to obtain bottles of pure distilled emotions, anger, sadness, and love specifically, which seem to have primarily been used to get more character dialogue? It's unclear if there were plans for any sort of application outside of this, but either way I'm still so sad they had to scrap it. It got cut mostly due to time and budget constraints that came up during the worst of the COVID pandemic in 2020, but there are still a ton of voice lines left behind that people have found of characters responding to the different emotions. The fact these didn't make it into the final game is CRIMINAL because there are some characters who do NOT get enough exploration and these lines add so much to their characterization. Like, some characters who act like jerks? Their cut lines give a deeper insight to WHY they're jerks and it's so much more compelling. I really wish this mechanic made it in the final game.

human woman

In the final version there are six playable pilots, the main 4 characters from the first game plus two newcomers Miyu and Fay. In the 2020 Nintendo Gigaleak a ton of early builds and assets for SF2 came out including a heap of characters that were candidates to be playable pilots. The human woman stands out especially as humans have never appeared in a Star Fox game.

octoling backup dancers

Concept art for the final boss! In the game Callie is alone on stage but in this one art she has these cool octoling backup dancers. There was also a concept art comic with the backup dancers but they didn't make it into the game :(

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rabbit designs

These were one of the original player character designs for the game! From what I can personally gather based on screenshots, they would have been black vs white rabbits and the tips of their ears would have had the ink colors. The first game actually had an animation in it that many speculate is recycled from this era, one of the Inkling boy losing animations. (He hops up and down very quickly and aggressively) Rabbits were originally considered because of the contrast their fur could provide and their territorial nature in the real world, but were scrapped because, why were rabbits shooting and hiding in ink?

tcrf link: https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Splatoon/Early_Development

octoling backup dancers

Concept art for the final boss! In the game Callie is alone on stage but in this one art she has these cool octoling backup dancers. There was also a concept art comic with the backup dancers but they didn't make it into the game :(

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octoling backup dancers

Concept art for the final boss! In the game Callie is alone on stage but in this one art she has these cool octoling backup dancers. There was also a concept art comic with the backup dancers but they didn't make it into the game :(

final boss battle backgrounds

it's assumed the masked man fight would have had a bunch of various backgrounds cycling through that deal with claus' pain and humanity. instead of being the regular trippy patterns, they focused on claus and more secondarily lucas. but also some designs that are exclusive to them. the robot with the x across its forehead, and the gold angel. i guess they count as claus' "halves" being yknow... an undead robot kid

Phoenix Wright heart eyes

An unused animation where Phoenix has hearts for eyes. The animation was supposed to be used when encountering April May for the first time in court, however later on during development it was changed so that Phoenix's first meeting with her ended up being before the trial began, during the investigation phase instead during which Phoenix's sprite isn't on screen so the animation ended up not being used in the final game.

https://gamecom.neocities.org/Ace_Attorney/AA_Unused_Content/en/#Phoenix-Unused-Anim-1

Starbeans Café crossover cameos

Unused leftover text and sprites suggesting that the Starbeans café was meant to feature cameos from different Nintendo characters instead of just E Gadd as in the final game. There is (mostly) finished text and animations showing Wario, Fox McCloud, Olimar, Samus, Excitebike racer and Link. The text corresponding to each character is unique and reflects their source, like Fox getting a call from Slippy Toad and Olimar speaking in narration.

https://tcrf.net/Mario_%26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga/Unused_Cameos

[justanothersquidblog]

Did your octoling ocs escape Octarian society or were they born on the surface?

Like ALL my octoling ocs? Ummm, the ones I made that were Callie's backup dancers, those were octarian society.. and Keyes and Hachi were also once soldiers before Kamabo.. so.. yeah all of them are octarian society! I suppose!

The only one that was born on the surface that I have is this darling named Honey, who's splatlandian native. And he's co-owned by me and my friend @potat0bag so Im not sure if she counts.

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Matchups, Round One!

Botsun | beta Alice Yabusame (Your Turn to Die)

playable Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) | Vah Manta (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

life indicator rune | early concepts (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Termina Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) | Unicorn Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

cut dungeons (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) | The Legend of Zelda: Mystical Seed of Courage

Yosuke Hanamura romance route (Persona 4) | devil Joker boss fight (Persona 2)

Moonjumper | Timmy (A Hat in Time)

Sand n Sails | Vanessa's manor third floor (A Hat in Time)

distilled emotions (Psychonauts 2) | Li-Po document (Psychonauts)

human woman (Star Fox 2) | Dinosaur Planet (Star Fox Adventures)

Michael Tutori (Wii Music) | fish render (Wii Party)

"like, half the game" (combined with cut levels of Monty Gator Golf) (Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach) | coconut.vtf (Team Fortress 2)

F-Stop | Cave Johnson cube (Portal 2)

Czar Dragon (Final Fantasy VI) | musketeer class (Final Fantasy XIV)

room_water_prebird (Undertale) | unused art (Undertale console versions)

twisted sword | everybody weapon (Deltarune)

unused Ralsei battle (Deltarune) | final boss battle backgrounds (Mother 3)

wolf howls | beast boy (Minecraft)

Rana | Steve and Black Steve (Minecraft)

beta Arceus | beta Giratina/Kimairan | ???-type Arceus (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl)

Pokémon Z | Paldean sea and skysphere (Pokémon Scarlet/Violet)

cut beta pokémon (combined with unused baby pokémon) (Pokémon Gold/Silver) | Kotora and Raitora (Pokémon Red/Green and Gold/Silver)

unused trade theme | Mew (Pokémon Red/Green)

Honey the Cat (Sonic the Fighters) | Tiara Boobowski (Sonic Xtreme)

good Cortex (split from Good Cortex and Evil Coco) | evil Coco (Crash Twinsanity)

8 beta colossi (combined with Spider colossus) (Shadow of the Colossus) | "Hot Coffee" minigame (NSFW) (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)

backdash | ancient_bench (Hollow Knight)

extended Abyss | Pure Vessel dream nail dialogue (Hollow Knight)

the Aviary | Daylight Prairie invisible boat | early Isle of Dawn (split from the entirety of Sky: Light Awaits) (Sky: Children of the Light)

arms on the player characters (Journey) | Omori keyhole cutscene (OMORI)

original rabbit designs (Splatoon) | octoling backup dancers (Splatoon 2)

Singing Mountain (Chrono Trigger) | multiplayer sabre (Halo: Reach)

Selph/Self | robo NiGHTS (NiGHTS into Dreams)

fur (Wobbledogs) | Ancient Castle Spires (Neopets: The Darkest Faerie)

Dude (Hylics) | FN F2000 (Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades)

BomBom (Angry Birds) | Snick the Porcupine (Pizza Tower)

Golden Deer!Ashe (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) | Jagen death scene (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)

Laura Cruz (Tomb Raider) | Kale quest (Eldin Ring)

Dragon King: The Fighting Game (Super Smash Bros.) | Melee selected animations (Super Smash Bros. Melee)

Meteor Slime (Slime Rancher) | SNES CD-ROM (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)

the original story (Bayonetta 3) | Kid Kirby

Bionis Shoulder (Xenoblade Chronicles) | pitcher plants (The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion)

Phoenix Wright heart eyes | early concept art (Ace Attorney)

cut character models | docks mission (Dreamfall Chapters)

Musa boss battle (Skeleton Boomerang) | the plot (Ace Combat 03: Electrosphere)

Starbeans café crossover cameos (Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga) | Bottles's Revenge (Banjo-Tooie)

Shipwreck Cove (MySims Kingdom) | MySims Agents 2

Shockwave (Genshin Impact) | doki17.mp3 (Doki-Doki Literature Club)

Satsuki Rin (Touhou Project: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) | anti-piracy measures (Higurashi: When They Cry)

elh (Luigi's Mansion) | Tramplin' Stu (Super Mario Sunshine)

cats (Super Paper Mario Korean version) | dragonhead flower (Super Mario Galaxy)

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Matchups, Round 3!

playable Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) | Termina Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) & cut dungeons (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)

Moonjumper (A Hat in Time) | Yosuke Hanamura's romance route (Persona 4)

octoling backup dancers (Splatoon 2) | coconut.vtf (Team Fortress 2)

room_water_prebird (Undertale) | final boss battle backgrounds (Mother 3)

beta Arceus (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl) | cut beta pokémon (Pokémon Gold/Silver)

Rana (Minecraft) | Honey the Cat (Sonic the Fighters)

cut dream nail dialogue (Hollow Knight) | The Aviary (Sky: Children of the Light)

Singing Mountain (Chrono Trigger) | anti-piracy measures (Higurashi: When They Cry)

Dude (Hylics) | unused fish render (Wii Party)

Melee's selected animations (Super Smash Bros. Melee) | meteor slime (Slime Rancher) & SNES CD-ROM

original story (Bayonetta 3) | the plot (Ace Combat 03: Electrosphere)

Phoenix Wright heart eyes (Ace Attorney) & Starbeans café crossover cameos (Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga) | Korean cats (Super Paper Mario)

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Matchups, Round 2!

playable Zelda (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) | BotW early concepts (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Termina Ganondorf (Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) | cut dungeons (Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)

Moonjumper | Vanessa's manor third floor (A Hat in Time)

Yosuke Hanamura romance route (Persona 4) | Selph (NiGHTS into Dreams)

distilled emotions (Psychonauts 2) | human woman (Star Fox 2) | octoling backup dancers (Splatoon 2)

coconut.vtf (Team Fortress 2) | Cave cube (Portal 2)

room_water_prebird (Undertale) | twisted sword & everybody weapon (Deltarune)

wolf howls | Rana (Minecraft)

beta Arceus (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl) | unused trade theme (Pokémon Red/Blue)

Pokémon Z | beta pokémon (Pokémon Gold/Silver)

Honey the Cat (Sonic the Fighters) | evil Coco (Crash Twinsanity)

final boss battle backgrounds (Mother 3) | 8 beta colossi (Shadow of the Colossus)

ancient_bench | cut dream nail dialogue (Hollow Knight)

the Aviary (Sky: Children of the Light) | arms on the player characters (Journey)

Singing Mountain (Chrono Trigger) | Jagen death scene (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) | Czar Dragon (Final Fantasy VI)

Botsun (Your Turn to Die) | Fur (Wobbledogs) | Dude (Hylics)

Snick (Pizza Tower) | Melee selected animations (Super Smash Bros. Melee)

Laura Cruz (Tomb Raider) | Meteor Slime (Slime Rancher) & SNES CD-ROM

original plot (Bayonetta 3) | Bionis Shoulder (Xenoblade Chronicles)

docks mission (Dreamfall Chapters) | the plot (Ace Combat 03: Electrosphere)

Phoenix Wright heart eyes (Ace Attorney) | Starbeans crossover cameos (Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga)

Shipwreck Cove (MySims Kingdom) | fish (Wii Party)

Shockwave (Genshin Impact) | Higurashi anti-piracy (Higurashi: When They Cry)

Elh (Luigi's Mansion) | Korean cats (Super Paper Mario)

I tried to pair them by popularity of the game, but I have little knowledge of which games are popular.

Please let me know if I accidentally included a contestent that didn't win the first round.

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Matchups, Round 4!

playable Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) | Moonjumper (A Hat in Time) | cut beta pokémon (Pokémon Gold/Silver)

octoling backup dancers (Splatoon 2) | final boss battle backgrounds (Mother 3) | Phoenix Wright heart eyes (Ace Attorney) & Starbeans café crossover cameos (Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga)

Honey the Cat (Sonic the Fighters) | cut dream nail dialogue (Hollow Knight) | original story and design for Thule (Bayonetta 3)

anti-piracy measures (Higurashi: When They Cry) | Dude (Hylics) | meteor slime (Slime Rancher) & SNES CD-ROM