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• Player Information •
Name: Alex
Age/18+?: 27
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Other Characters Played: Gene Khan, Miles Upshur, Aly Haskell
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Age/18+?: 27
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Other Characters Played: Gene Khan, Miles Upshur, Aly Haskell
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• Character Information •
Name: Kai / Agent 4
Canon: Splatoon 2
Canon Point: Plotwise, from the end of the main campaign, after defeating DJ Octavio and rescuing the Great Zapfish; out-of-plotwise, shortly after the squid-vs-octopus Splatfest
Age: 14
Type of Character: Canon (malleable protagonist)
Reference: Canon Wikipedia
Personality: For Agent 4 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon, the hero who fought her way through Octo Canyon to its very depths to return the Great Zapfish to Inkopolis and rescue Callie from DJ Octavio's mind control...Kai's kind of lazy. A major criticism of young Inkling culture is that darn kids these days are obsessed with music, fashion, and mock Turf War battles, and Kai is 100% that to a T. (Tweenklings...) The only thing she really gets off her butt for is Turf Wars, and she's surprisingly bad at those. She gets splatted during games more often than not; she's very bad at working in a team, so heading off on her own to rescue the Zapfish was right up her alley. She hates being told what to do, which is part of why she's so terrible at teamwork. Unfortunately for anyone who's stuck on a Turf War/Splat Zones/Tower Control team with her, she's contrary and will do whatever she wants. The only time she's capable of working in a team is when she takes the occasional part-time shift at GrizzCo to fight back the Salmonid incursions, and collect golden eggs for Mr. Grizz. Hey, it's a way to make money to get new clothes to look even more fresh, so she's not about to complain.
She was too starstruck to talk to Marie much during the main campaign, but in normal circumstances, she's a bit of a motormouth. When she's out of danger and just hanging out with her friends, she's kind of silly - just acting like a normal teenager, doing stupid stuff for fun, skateboarding at Blackbelly Skatepark, taking dares, and going to The Reef and Arowana Mall. She and her friends even do ink graffiti in Inkopolis Square, a common Tweenkling pastime. It doesn't last long, but it's fun to make art. She loves food - she spends a lot of time between matches hanging out in Inkopolis Square with a snack from Crusty Sean's, chewing on a deep-fried shwaffle while scrolling through Inkstagram. Ever eaten a waffle with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and tempura shrimp on it? Don't knock it til you've tried it.
Kai doesn't take anything too seriously unless it's a complete and utter existential threat, and she's good-natured and carefree. Even when she loses a match (which is pretty regular for her), she isn't salty for long, and goes up to congratulate her fellow players on the other team. (She can also sometimes be a bad sport, pulling faces, and, in cases of a severe thrashing, throwing brief tantrums. At least her dualies can take a beating after she throws them on the ground.) She's got a competitive streak a mile wide, and anything she's challenged to do she'll immediately accept, if not double down on it. She's lost a lot of good gear on bets that way.
(She will eat sea prunes if dared to and she might even like them.)
When she's not playing games with her friends and/or saving the world and/or doing normal teenager things, she goes to school. She's not a bad student, but she has a tendency to daydream, and after her recruitment as Agent 4, she's gotten even more restless in classes. How can she even focus after she's gone to save the city? She's learned the history of the Mollusc Era, however vaguely, and can explain a little about it if she's asked to. After tests, she essentially dumps whatever information she deems unnecessary out of her head. She knows what's important, after all, and that's having a good time. Despite her best efforts, though, some things manage to stick.
Kai isn't dumb, but she acts without thinking a lot, and in addition to being carefree, can also be careless. It's better to be lucky than good, the saying goes, and she's pretty lucky. She's not a strategist, preferring to charge headlong into situations. She got into some pretty sticky situations, like being surrounded by Octolings, but she managed to find her way out of all of them (by the skin of her pointy little teeth). There were a lot of times where she thought she'd get splatted in enemy territory, but she was either lucky enough to find a way out or good enough to fight back. She's smarter than she looks and acts, and more tenacious than you might think, but she's still just a teen. She just wants to hang out and have a good time.
Appearance: Here's the squidkid!
Abilities:
There are disadvantages to being a squidkid, though:
Canon: Splatoon 2
Canon Point: Plotwise, from the end of the main campaign, after defeating DJ Octavio and rescuing the Great Zapfish; out-of-plotwise, shortly after the squid-vs-octopus Splatfest
Age: 14
Type of Character: Canon (malleable protagonist)
Reference: Canon Wikipedia
Personality: For Agent 4 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon, the hero who fought her way through Octo Canyon to its very depths to return the Great Zapfish to Inkopolis and rescue Callie from DJ Octavio's mind control...Kai's kind of lazy. A major criticism of young Inkling culture is that darn kids these days are obsessed with music, fashion, and mock Turf War battles, and Kai is 100% that to a T. (Tweenklings...) The only thing she really gets off her butt for is Turf Wars, and she's surprisingly bad at those. She gets splatted during games more often than not; she's very bad at working in a team, so heading off on her own to rescue the Zapfish was right up her alley. She hates being told what to do, which is part of why she's so terrible at teamwork. Unfortunately for anyone who's stuck on a Turf War/Splat Zones/Tower Control team with her, she's contrary and will do whatever she wants. The only time she's capable of working in a team is when she takes the occasional part-time shift at GrizzCo to fight back the Salmonid incursions, and collect golden eggs for Mr. Grizz. Hey, it's a way to make money to get new clothes to look even more fresh, so she's not about to complain.
She was too starstruck to talk to Marie much during the main campaign, but in normal circumstances, she's a bit of a motormouth. When she's out of danger and just hanging out with her friends, she's kind of silly - just acting like a normal teenager, doing stupid stuff for fun, skateboarding at Blackbelly Skatepark, taking dares, and going to The Reef and Arowana Mall. She and her friends even do ink graffiti in Inkopolis Square, a common Tweenkling pastime. It doesn't last long, but it's fun to make art. She loves food - she spends a lot of time between matches hanging out in Inkopolis Square with a snack from Crusty Sean's, chewing on a deep-fried shwaffle while scrolling through Inkstagram. Ever eaten a waffle with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and tempura shrimp on it? Don't knock it til you've tried it.
Kai doesn't take anything too seriously unless it's a complete and utter existential threat, and she's good-natured and carefree. Even when she loses a match (which is pretty regular for her), she isn't salty for long, and goes up to congratulate her fellow players on the other team. (She can also sometimes be a bad sport, pulling faces, and, in cases of a severe thrashing, throwing brief tantrums. At least her dualies can take a beating after she throws them on the ground.) She's got a competitive streak a mile wide, and anything she's challenged to do she'll immediately accept, if not double down on it. She's lost a lot of good gear on bets that way.
(She will eat sea prunes if dared to and she might even like them.)
When she's not playing games with her friends and/or saving the world and/or doing normal teenager things, she goes to school. She's not a bad student, but she has a tendency to daydream, and after her recruitment as Agent 4, she's gotten even more restless in classes. How can she even focus after she's gone to save the city? She's learned the history of the Mollusc Era, however vaguely, and can explain a little about it if she's asked to. After tests, she essentially dumps whatever information she deems unnecessary out of her head. She knows what's important, after all, and that's having a good time. Despite her best efforts, though, some things manage to stick.
Kai isn't dumb, but she acts without thinking a lot, and in addition to being carefree, can also be careless. It's better to be lucky than good, the saying goes, and she's pretty lucky. She's not a strategist, preferring to charge headlong into situations. She got into some pretty sticky situations, like being surrounded by Octolings, but she managed to find her way out of all of them (by the skin of her pointy little teeth). There were a lot of times where she thought she'd get splatted in enemy territory, but she was either lucky enough to find a way out or good enough to fight back. She's smarter than she looks and acts, and more tenacious than you might think, but she's still just a teen. She just wants to hang out and have a good time.
Appearance: Here's the squidkid!
Abilities:
- You're a kid now, you're a squid now: As an Inkling, Kai possesses the ability to almost instantaneously shapeshift at will from her humanoid form to a squid form that's about two and a half feet long. However, the squid form is very slow and almost entirely useless without...
- Aw, you guys made me ink!: Inkling ink is a thick, iridescent, (reasonably-quickly) biodegradable substance that is produced via their ink sacs. They can harness this ink into tanks worn on their backs and use it as a weapon to fight Octarians and Salmonids, or engage in friendly matches with each other. In order to replenish it, they must wait for their ink to slowly refill the tank, or hide in the ink in their squid forms, which lets them absorb some of it to re-use. (This does not remove ink from the ground because that would make the game way too complicated, probably.) This ink can be washed away with water, and is eaten up by microbes in the air after a few hours otherwise. So if you find a spray of colorful ink somewhere...look for a squid.
- Can you ink with all the colors of the squid?: Inklings possess chromatophores and the ability to change color, much like some real-life squids. They are actually shapeshifters made of viscous ink, so when they are in their squid forms, they can hide undetected in their own-colored ink, and swim through it at high speeds. However, when encountering different-colored ink in either form, they move more slowly, as though through syrup, and are gradually hurt by it.
- Mission Inkpossible: In squid form, Inklings can swim up inked walls, through grates and wire fences, and fit into very small places. If there's something that's usually inaccessible, Kai can probably reach it. Like if you dropped your wedding ring down the sink, maybe. (Just don't turn the water on after her. She'll get mad.)
- I'll never hide - I can't, I'm too shiny~: Inklings are very slightly bioluminescent. It's not extremely noticeable, but they do give off a soft glow in the dark, comparable to a nightlight.
- I'm defying gravity, and you can't pull me down: Inklings don't get hurt when they fall. They even fall slowly - probably because they can change their density. Being a boneless shapeshifting squid creature sure has some pretty neat perks.
There are disadvantages to being a squidkid, though:
- Thalassophobe: Inklings, being made of viscous ink, don't do so well with water. Puddles, showers, and regular rain are all fine, but downpours and deep water will hurt them and make them dissolve - think the Wicked Witch of the West.
- I'm going ghost!: When an Inkling is "splatted" (covered with enemy ink or falls into water), they become a little ghost that's unable to interact with anything until they're submerged in their own-colored ink again. Being splatted and respawning is an actual canon mechanic referenced in story mode but there's no explanation given for how it works.
Suitability: Kai is the hero who saved the power source of Inkopolis from an evil DJ (which makes sense in context) who was using it to power war machines. She also fights horrifying mutant salmon - some of which are twice her size and others of which use freakish machines of death - for some cash in her spare time. She has also been splatted. A lot. (Example: being beaten to death by a giant ambulatory salmon with a frying pan.) Despite all of that, she is still completely chill. All of that's weirdly normal for her. Aifaran's just going to be Inkopolis without the Turf War battles.
Inventory:
x1 pair of Splat Dualies and ink tank
x1 set of extremely fresh clothes (Jellyvader Cap, Black Urchin Rock Tee, Zombie Hi-Horses)
x1 squid-shaped smartphone
Talent Preferences:
1. Alteration
2. Destruction
3. Conjuration
• Writing Sample •
[A young teen is looking at the camera and grinning, showing three prominent pointed teeth - two on the top, one on the bottom. There's a black outline around her eyes, crossing the bridge of her nose, like a raccoon's markings, or a domino mask.
Oh, and her hair is tentacles. There are two long green tentacles hanging down, one on either side of her face.]
You've gotta be squiddin' me. I'm dreaming, right? There are humans here? Like, real, live humans? You can talk? Splat my butt and call me calamari. We kinda thought you were all stupid. You know, with your little heads and all. So tiny! [She holds her hands apart to approximate the size of a human head. Hers is proportionally bigger.]
So, tell me everything! What are you like? How is it having bones? I always thought those would be pretty easy to break. What do you eat? No, seriously, what do you eat. This squidkid is starving and I don't see anything like Crusty Sean's truck around. Did you guys ever invent deep-fried shwaffles? 'Cause they're, like, the best food in Inkopolis, if not the universe. I will also accept non-fried shwaffles.
I just really want a shwaffle, okay? I gots a craving.