Splatoon is OVER! Time to Expose their BIG LIE! | Gnoggin - Splatoon Theory

the squid sisters have a secret we know they aren't really sisters but are they even squids okay okay I know that sounds weird they're the squid sisters they're Inklings right hear me out have you ever looked at the squid sisters their ears their eyes they aren't normal they're different from most Inklings in fact the idols in general are all slightly different from the Inklings and octolings that we play as in the games and this may be no accident if we take a gander at the evolution chart from the first games sunken scroll number 10 we see that Inklings ears being like isosceles triangles evolved directly from the shape of their mantle the ear shape then is indicative of their origin species this is corroborated by the fact that octolings evolved from octopodes and thus have round ears similar to an octopus mantle and what ear shape do we observe in the squid sisters they are to the regular isosceles almost equilateral triangles like the playable Inklings no their long flat on the top and curved on the bottom they don't resemble the mantles of squids or octopi they resemble the mantles of cuttlefish [Music] and who would've thunk it their grandfather Cap'n cuttlefish also shares this ear shape and it's worth noting that the idols pupils are also different their cross shaped in real life squid eyes tends to have round pupils like the Inklings or as cuttlefish pupils or more w-shaped it's also worth noting that while octolings typically have round pupils like Inklings Marina has bar bell-shaped pupils more closely resembling the rectangular pupils of actual octopodes of course it's worth noting that platoon is fairly loose with how close or not it's races are to their origin species for example we have seen gastropod based species both with full humanoid body types and with well gastropod body stomach foot what it means flow a sea slug has a stump from the waist down ending in a foot and well one of the members of Sasha Mori is this she literally just is a person with a sea snail for a head what do you say to something like that and yes I am telling you that the two characters whose grandfather is literally named captain cuttlefish are cuttlefish now squids pretty obvious in hindsight isn't it though we actually see some evidence of this in other places firstly the elephant in the room pearls forehead I mean pearl ah I can hear you now in the splatfest part her ears are shaped like that of an inkling and she has cross shaped pupils what do you say to that and to that I say dear viewer we're going back to the octo expansion again we just keep using the auto expansion to justify stuff it really packs a lot of lore in there do you remember this scene well if we observe that scene and better yet if we observe her in-game model directly we see that her ears are small and rounded much like the mantle of her Japanese names the he may iike or the northern pygmy squid which isn't quite a squid at all it's more closely related to V you guessed it the cuttlefish Colley's Japanese namesake as well the a re Iike or bigfin reef squid also has superficial similarities to cuttlefish given the shape of the fin around its mantle however it is worth considering that in general splatoon character names are not always one-to-one with their species raymond named for crayfish is a shrimp Krusty Sean he's also a shrimp despite in Japanese being named Roe boom after a lobster names in splatoon seem to be very loose but before you think they're not really squids is sort of unprecedented there actually are cuttlefish Idols cannon - splatoon in the octo expansion art book hi Cara Walker there are images of mini CDs found in city 14 stick and move station among them are this a picture of what the book describes as cuttlefish idols and we know for a fact that they are cuttlefish idols because the book calls them Kawika rather than simply iike which more correctly refers to the super order of deca pata forms which means it could mean squid or cuttlefish do you see anything familiar here longer ears in the case of the darker-skinned Idol whose ears are more defined curved on the bottom and drooping downwards also cross shaped pupils and most surprisingly of all on the lighter skinned Idol tentacles that change color at the tips a feature that is exclusive to the idols we've seen until now and Captain cuttlefish perhaps such a feature is exclusive to cuttlefish as the only other time we have seen this is any member of the band inked theory and inkling named Yoko but in this case every tentacle is fully a different color and it is described per Inca pedia as a mutation that comes at the cost being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure particularly during very sunny or rainy days that is very unlike the two tones tentacles we see sported by these cuttlefish idols as well as the idols in each game and it would be very questionable for Kali Marie or marina to be the capable fighters that they are if they had such a weakness the same goes for captain cuttlefish as well who is even a decorated veteran of the great turf war so clearly Yoko is vastly different from them interestingly we have also seen pictures of the squid sisters and pearl as children in splatoon sunken scroll 17 and splatoon two sunken scroll number one notice anything interesting they aren't in the typical inkling child stage it is said that Inklings typically do not have a full humanoid form until 14 years of age however it is noted that some Inklings can develop a humanoid form early is that a scientific fact though or a mistake motivated by misidentifying what I will from hereon call cuddling's as regular Inklings given that our only examples of this are kylie marie and pearl i think this is worth considering now it is also worth addressing that some fan artists have suggested that the cross-shaped pupils and different ear shape may be signs of inkling physical maturity as the Inklings we play as are much younger than these idols however if we reference this art from the shiokara bushi traditional version video posted on Nintendo's Japanese YouTube channel we can see both cross shaped pupils and flat top-to-bottom curved ears on the squid sisters as children and given how many frames this shows up in and that it is corroborated by the sunken Scrolls just mentioned I feel like that debunks the physical maturity argument and there is further evidence to be considered as well do you remember how we keep stressing that Inklings don't have bones well what if I told you that unlike squids cuttlefish have an internal structure called a cuttlebone and that callie and marie and their grandfather captain cuttlefish have on multiple occasions referred to having bones I guess that's a cuttlebone then squids of course have a somewhat similar structure at Gladius however it is significantly more flexible explaining why cuddling's would have bone like structures and Inklings wouldn't of course though this calls our past videos into question where we use the squid sisters shoulder blades as evidence though these are all just theories I'm not gonna say it now let's get through some things that can be disproven by looking at translations as these carry less weight then we'll get on to the more significant examples firstly we have a quote from Murray in stage 14 of hero mode - parking garage surprised you haven't broken any bones well squids don't have bones whatever behind the implication of this of course is that Murray briefly forgot to hold the facade of being a squid and thus having go bones unfortunately as is the case with many lines in spittoons translation it has been punched up for effect credits to Samuel obscure messner translator of team space world for translating the original Japanese for us which reads as follows whoa this is back-breaking work but keep going up though if translated literally it would read your bones sure break easily keep going up which obviously makes no sense secondly we have a quote from captain cuttlefish in the octo expansion ah whooped agent eight good arrest my cuddle bones here for a bit unfortunately this again was punched up for the translation in the original Japanese what he says is more to the effective I'm going to take a rest for a short while is not so helpful but if we look at the dialogue for black barely escaped parts inkopolis news bumps in the first game we get something more promising Kali I'm bad at skateboarding I'd probably break a bone Murray squids don't have fun but whatever and it's translated from the original Japanese this one actually still holds up Kelly I don't like skateboarding I feel like I'd break a bone or something Marie we don't have bones like the parking garage quote this shows a temporary cement above the tongue Culley being a bit of an airhead at times forgot to hold her facade of being a Squidling an inkling being a squid and Marie had to remind her in a way that doesn't draw too much attention of course we do know that inkopolis news is scripted see the squid sisters remarks during the mountain food versus seafoods blood fest but as someone who's worked in the news industry news anchors go off the script constantly adding in bits of their personality or thoughts now and again or coming up with something on the fly and messing up all of the pre-planned camera angle changes and they especially do this when they're talking about something fun like a festival or an event or something so that's very possible and of course it's worth noting that Captain cuttlefish has a visible rib cage so cuddling's got bones another thing of note is the Japanese name for the squid sisters geo con rods ooh it's my pronunciation of it anyway this is a portmanteau of shiokara or salted fermented seafood entrails and colors most people are aware of the Iike shiokara implication but what many may not realize is that Akashi Okara is typically made not with squid entrails but with the entrails of cuttlefish it's all coming together but I can hear you asking now why would they do this why would these cuddle Ling's choose to hide amongst Inklings instead of making themselves known well it is important to remember that this is not unprecedented when the octoling refugees from octo Canyon came on to inkopolis instead of making themselves known what was it they did they passed themselves off as Inklings following a strange hairstyle fad octopodes were thought to be extinct after the great turf war led to their exile to the dilapidated human domes and it was likely assumed that if they suddenly really sort of cover story it would cause some sort of mass panic in the public both among those who thought they were gone and among those who remembered the great turf war I mean we saw captain cuttlefishes deliberately portrayed as racist initial reaction to this and he continued his well intended but still insensitive behavior towards marina during the octo expansion so it could be problematic if such behavior became a widespread issue so it is feasible then that likely octolings after them cuddling's would choose to hide among Inklings encouraged by their close physical resemblance to them which is not unlike real-life cuttlefishes ability to camouflage using the chromatophores in their skin it is then also possible that since Kali marie and pearl already have experienced hiding amongst Inklings and with agent eights direct connection to the new squid beak spittoon and marina being immediately aware when the octolings arrived in inkopolis these cuddling's helped the octolings devise a strategy to blend in it's also possible that given the games are very Japanese in nature the intended distinction between Inklings and octolings is decapod a forms versus octopod forms in which case squid Inklings and cuttlefish Inklings are different species but considered part of the same group or as octopus iron pletely different regardless though the fact that both Inklings and cuddling's are both decapod a-- forms explains why cuddling's would side with the Inklings during the great turf war so I suppose you could say that they aren't the squid sisters they are the cuttlefish cousins but that just leaves the issue of marina if she isn't a regular octoling what is she well that's probably a question for never unless we get another lore exposition from Nintendo and speaking of never never stop using your noggin good night everybody also if you're really into splatoon and its world and lore check out ink tank info our splatoon writer math has been adding a load of stuff to it lots of little lower bits that are really interesting but not really video worthy you know check it out and big things

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Keywords: splatoon, splatoon 2, splatoon 3, splatoon theory, kid or squid, inkling, octoling, cuttling, pear and marina, marina and pearl, callie and marie, amiibo, splatoon amiibo, not squids, not even squids, squid sisters, cuttlefish, cuttleling, off the hook, splatoon ost, splatoon 2 ost, splatoon 2 octo expansion, splatoon lore, splatoon 2 lore, game theory splatoon, inkling biology, inkling guide, inkling is op, inkling is broken, inkling smash ultimate, splatfest, splatocalypse

Id: ZNpqXVnVMVY

Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 02 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Whelt]

The idols and important characters look slightly different... 😨😨😨

Yeah, because it would be so cool if all the NPCs looked exactly like generic player characters!

They're Inklings.

[u/No-User4931]

Boneappletea It’s cuttlefish