#splatoon tribute

[grinbrothers]

Splatoon - Rest In Peace Wii U's Online: Souldin Special!

In tribute to the Wii U's online services last day, premiering at 9PM BST on 8/4/2024! Nanka escapes a kraken, witnesses an inkling plunge to the watery depths, and gets lost looking at a map.

Nanka with Wii U Gamepad by KymmaFox: https://twitter.com/kymmafox Nanka with Sign by ShySamArt: https://www.deviantart.com/shysamart/art/Commission-Nanka-966702081 Music from Eternal Radiance by Visualnoveler. Splatoon is exclusive to the Nintendo Wii U. Check out BeeLy1011's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMkA-vIz65khU5unv9dG-fw

Date Made: 7/1/2024 to 28/1/2024 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grinbrothers Tumblr: http://grinbrothers.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrinBrothers

[orawyra]

i never was able to play the first game before the bucket kick but i dont think youd need to play it to understand how much of an amazing and life changing community it managed to so quickly cultivate and continues to foster nearly 10 years later. this franchise has shaped me so much since i first became a fan in 2017 and began playing in 2019 i honestly dont know who i would be today without it.

thank you splatoon

[big-man-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Big Man shouldn’t be plummeting into the Galactic Nova!

[crescentfool]

adventures in makomart!

[almostvermin]

the funniest thing ive ever thought up is the idea that octarians just. dont have biological sexes. like they reproduce with mitosis whats the point

"but flick!" you cry, "we have octarians with gender! what gives?" we know inklings consider human gender entirely a fashion statement, i.e. you look so boy today! very fresh. whos to say its not the same for octarians?

but no my thought was what if octarian gender depends on job.like, certain roles are male-alligened, ect. octavio gets to be a guy hes a dick-tator. duh. the military octarians we fight, plus canon!eight, ect, are girls. lower sentience octarians are referred to with it/its by craig, who from his homoerotic situationship, obviously knows octarian gender customs and is being respectful while forcing children to commit genocide. the one from gold bazookas is a trumpet player which is clearly a fem-alligned job, but the fact its brass means shes butch. hirooo plays anarchy for a living which is obviously masc. shiver and acht are criminals of course theyre nonbinary, but shiver also uses she/her on stage because being a fugitive of the state isnt integral to their music (which as aformentioned is a fem job) as criminality is to acht's, who only uses they/them. this also explains the fuck-up made by presumably a new fan who wasnt aware of achts links to the criminal world. marina is a warfare engineer turned fugitive turned dj, so she used she/her in all the time we knew her but was clearly non binary at some point in the middle

does this make sense

[pineflowerart]

My piece for @NSBSplatoonZine on Twitter!!

[violethursday]

Let's go in the garden You'll find something waiting Right there where you left it lying upside down When you finally find it, you'll see how it's faded The underside is lighter when you turn it around

Everything stays right where you left it Everything stays But it still changes Ever so slightly, daily and nightly In little ways, when everything stays

[X]

[nullamirrors]

did anyone else take this long to realise all the Octoplush songs are disco arrangements of older tracks

"Crater Eighters Routine" is "Eight-Legged Advance" (everyone knows this. not a mystery)

"Nine Out of Tension" is "Tentacular Circus" (the wiki already noticed this one at least)

"Underwater Neon" is "Cephaloparade" (this is what made me realise. "Unconscience" is also a cover of this song)

"Flop to It" is "Inkstrike Shuffle"

next on the tracklist is just "Octoling Rendezvous" (so the first five tracks follow the same order as Splatune 1, then it gets messy)

"Smoke and Mirrors" is "The Girl from Inkopolis"

"Ride or Fry" is "Shooting Starfish"

"With Flying Colors" is "Octoweaponry"

"Seep & Destroy" is "Buoyant Boogie" (omg right)

"Marine Machines" is… "Dubble Bath" (after the new lobby design put him out of a job or rather cost him his precious royalties, Bob Dub/Cala Marley swore revenge on squid civilisation and joined the Octarians)

"#35 caught" is "#13 shade" (I think. the Octo tracks are so minimal it's hard to tell. the title makes it sound like it ought to be '3's #5' or maybe another remix of "Clickbait" but it sounds most like this. maybe they should've called it #13.3 lol)

"Don't Flinch" is "Octarmaments" (underappreciated honestly)

"In Filtration" is "Clickbait" (bringing a whole new level to the 'stripped-back cover' while "Inkoming!" continues to cry in a corner)

right?

[thingsmysplattershotjrtoldme]

does like, ANYONE, ship Skull x Aloha? I tried looking up aloskull and there's literally nothing on Tumblr.

I know poly S4/S5 exists but even then there's NOTHING?

Am....am I just weird that I think they're cute together?

[zephyrfuse]

tribute to proper parking spaces on flounder rip

proper squid parking lesson

[potat0bag]

hey splatheads, your favourite deep cut archivist is back with some horrifying implications to shove directly in your faces.

don't know how many people are aware, but the splatlands is canonically flood-prone, as informed to us through one of the dialogues when Undertow Spillway is in rotation:

cool stuff! with that in mind, let's jump to the past real quick. okay, so we're all pretty familiar with Sunken Scroll 2 (Splatoon 3), seen below. detailing an extreme flood that ravaged the splatlands years ago.

"Long ago, our splatted lands were almost washed away by a great flood. All was presumed lost... until three lights appeared and united to consume the disaster. Thankful for their salvation, the townsfolk threw a festival with three portable shrines as a tribute." If we look closely, the area depicted in the flood is the Crater, as we can tell from the upturned "eiffel tower". Why do I bring up these two tidbits? Well, from the 2nd Big Run, located at Undertow Spillway, there was Splatcast dialogue (when you load up the game during the Big Run) detailing how the floodgates that keep Splatsville unflooded are currently (or at least, at the time were) broken. This is how Undertow Spillway was vulnerable to being flooded itself in the first place, and means that if Splatsville WERE to flood, there'd be no surefire way to drain the water - and Splatsville would likely suffer irreparable damage.

With the latest September 2024 Big Run (some of us are calling it Grand Run, I love that), the Salmonids' target is the Grand Splatlands Bowl, located in the Crater.

Alarm bells should be ringing, as this is the 2nd time the Crater is being devastated by flooding. The clans are still in practice, and the three lights were referenced to be the cause of Hugefry in the climax of Return of the Mammalians, so we're definitely not going to see long-term consequences from this that won't be prevented from the Grand Festival uniting three groups itself.

Still, considering how close Splatsville and the Crater are- the implications are rather ominous. And I'm sure everyone - young and old - in Splatsville is probably feeling it too.

[calware]

i just saw alice peralta's latest music video and realized that her outfit it is a tribute to marina from splatoon, the character she voices! that's such a sweet detail :')

[stupjam]

This year I drew a lot of Splatoon and played a lot of Zelda. There's a lot going on in the world and I hid from it all. I'm going to have to face it soon. Thanks for looking.

Drawings in order on carousal: Zelda Splatfest, Triforce teams Alternate Deep Cut feat. humanoid Big Man, ice cream Splatfest Tribute to Dr. Lonnie Johnson, inventor of Super Soaker Pearl and Marina hugs, based on Octo Expansion ending

[abyssalshriek]

With the new song with translated lyrics, "Three Wishes" from Now or Never Seven (the collab group between the Squid Sisters, Off the Hook, and Deep Cut), I think it is clear why each group chose the team they did, and not just because they go in order of their games.

Starting with the Squid Sisters of Team Past, they clearly value the past and how it shapes the present and future. They mention how the rocky journey they've shared has brought them to where they are now. They mention how all the help they give out to other artists are seeds that will take time to grow. And we've seen this philosophy from them before in the the interview stating Wave Goodbye was intended as a tribute to the humans that came before them, an acknowledgement of the past that shaped their present and will shape their future.

Now, for Off the Hook of Team Present. They are together, today. They live in today. They'll do and experience what they want, today. The past may have brought them together, and the future is where they're going, but the present is where they and their feelings are. They want to seize the moment, loving each other in the here and now. I know discussion of shipping can annoy some people, but through all their dialogue throughout the franchise, even Pearlina's greatest detractors can at minimum acknowledge they clearly care for each other a great deal, and they live in the moment so they can be with each other now, in the moment.

Next, we end with Deep Cut on Team Future. They've always been shown as very goal oriented, with their focus during Rise of the Mammalians being on getting the treasures. They look to the future because what they want is there, and that is where they will find it. They may not be as big as the Squid Sisters or Off the Hook yet, but that's where they're going. They will be big in the future, they'll continue to get treasure for the Splatlands in the future, and they'll keep racing towards it and all the mysteries that await in the future.

If the Grandfest is really the send-off for this part of Splatoon, if we really will move on to new regions and characters, much like other franchises like Pokemon or Fire Emblem do, then this song is a great finale for these groups. We see each of their bonds and how it carried them to now and will continue to carry them forward. They and all the characters we love will be missed, and even if I'm certain we will still see more of them in the future, as a closure to this chapter, despite the bumpy rides getting here, it's a wonderful finale, and will make for a grand fest.

[silvergarnet12]

Splatoon was the first Nintendo game to push me out of my comfort zone of single player games, and with the closure of it's servers I wanted to draw a tribute to a game that really means a lot to me.

Some long rambles about the game under the cut.

When I first played the Global Testfire I was 15, and the only mutliplayer games I played were with friends in the same room.

Splatoon was also the first shooter I ever picked up, as I always liked bright colours over more realistic graphics in my games, and back then the only shooters I knew about were Halo(and that was only really a name to me!) and the CoD games.

Any worries I had about being bad quickly vanished as the sheer vibe of chaotic fun the game had, particularly when no one had played it before, got rid of any worries, and all I remember is having fun. And choosing to play as the guy instead of the girl for the first time, solely becuase I wanted a ponytail like in real life(I would continue to use the guy through the series as a tradition, a contrast to what I saw most people online doing).

When the game came out I binged the single player, and vividly remember the first time I fought DJ Octavio, and the first time I heard Calamari Inkantation. If ever a game was to convince me that a song could irreversibly change your life, it was Splatoon. Because to teenage me, in that moment, with Calamari Inkantation playing in the background while I fought an octupus DJ, it did.

It gave me terminal brainworms for this series. And here I am, 8 yrs later. Older and more tired, been through some shit, had some good times, tried, succeeded and failed in things throughout the years.

I've always been grateful that they made the decision for the player character from 1 to return, everytime they've shown up it's felt a bit like seeing an old friend, especially since as the games time skips have always had them close to my age(which probably helped my attachement back in the first game). So hi Three, can't believe we both probably pay taxes now.

I have the original two Inkling Amiibos, in a collection that is slowly building, I'm still attached to Marie, and yes I was on her team for the Final Splatfest.

I cried when it was over, just like I did in 2's Final Fest(I was team chaos, two for two baby!) and will probably do so for 3's as well. Something about this series just makes me super attached to it's world and characters.

So booyah Splatoon, my final online game of yours was well and truly years ago, but I replayed story mode to share you with a friend recently, and I think I'll refight Octavio tonight in honour of the good times.

You encouraged me to try out games I wouldn't have otherwise(hello Overwatch and Deep Rock Galactic), and outlasted one of the other major games of my teenage years(...Overwatch 1 I miss you). So thank you for that.

I'll miss Squid Jump, Inkstrike, the og kit for the NZap 89(why does it's new one not vibe with me ;-;), the Squid Sister's broadcasts and the more saturated colours. At least I can always return to the Plaza in 3, and that Spyke isn't dead like I was concerned he was when 3 released, and see the Squid Sisters perform during Splatfests again.

I have so much more to say in my heart about you but no more ways to word it.

You've been a fantastic game, and will always be a treasured experience that I am grateful to have been a apart of from the very beginning.

Now bring back Moray Towers in 3 damn it! It's in 2 but I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY FAVOURITE STAGE IF IT"S NOT IN 4.

[lunch-squad-askblog]

Reminiscing on the 8th of April

As someone who no longer has my Wii U, I've decided to draw my version of Agent 3 as a tribute of sorts to salute the end of Splatoon 1. I will admit I could've done better with the background lineart, but I didn't wanna be late.

Man... To think I wasn't even interested in this franchise back when it started out. I remember being excited for the Wii U and frowning at the free game that came with it. But low and behold! After giving it a shot, all of these funny colorful squids now live in my head rent free (and I wouldn't change it for the world).

Other than that? I don't think I have anything else to add so I might as well keep the end on the simple side.

Thank you Splatoon, for being so fun, for introducing me to colorful characters, as well as now, years later, thank you for being the gateway for me to meet amazing new people. I love them all so much!

And of course,

Thank you for letting us enjoy this Festival of Life :D

Catch you all later!

- Xenon