The answers to all of splatoons questions Just find the scattered info in the 7 different corners of the universe shrouded by mistranslations and obscure sources and try to make sense of it. Collect my water pages
Fantastic video! I was expecting to be on board with most of your ideas regarding this topic, but I did not realize they would connect so well to other parts of the game and basically explain Inkfish biology as a whole. This is the first time I have EVER heard a satisfying explanation for how specials work, and I pretty much entirely agree with what you’ve proposed. The whole “emotional energy” thing always kinda bugged me, but the way you’ve tied it back to (somewhat) real world science plus the in-universe culture honestly makes me like the idea so much more. So much Splat lore discussion is just trying to communicate what the lore even IS in the first place, so it’s incredibly refreshing to see an actual THEORY that draws new conclusions while making so much sense. And finally I have a place to point people to when I get comments about water, so thank you for that lol
1:14:25 agent 3’s “Limiter” being removed here is actually terrifying. imagine being conscious in that scenario, your body being figuratively and LITERALLY on fire, your muscles could give out any second, but you’re forced to continue fighting. poor agent 3 :,) just had to share my thoughts on that- loved binging this!!
Maybe it's something along the lines of how adrenaline can work? Subconsciously our brains can limit the effects of it and in some life or death situations adrenaline has been known to give a thing called hysterical strength, which has caused some very average people to be able to lift nearly 1 metric tonne in weight for a short period of time. The reason we don't have access to this at all time is because if we did, our own muscles could potentially flex too hard and rip our bones apart.
1:14:18 After giving it some thought, I think a "limiter" isn't a technological thing, but rather a biological thing. A subconscious mental block that prevents an Inkfish from using more than one special at once in order to preserve their health. After all, Commander Tartar's sanitization process is suposed to affect how inkfish think, so when it took control of Agent 3, it removed the mental block preventing them from using multiple Specials.
im sorry but the graphic of a serene body of water with beautiful boats contrasted with the text on top that just says "Death Means Nothing" is fucking HILARIOUS.
Today I learned that osmotic pressure is one of the most important secrets being kept from the western world when it comes to Splatoon. What a fascinating and important thing that was probably cut because it sounded boring or too technical for the fun squid game. Instead of it being something that could’ve been a teachable moment when a kid asks their parents.
The bath bomb speculation / theory is one that I like. Inklings do seem like the type to do something of that manner for the fun and excitement of it. As well as the shower beads.
Splatoon horror story where some friends are partying and one of them jumps into water for fun but the spawn point stopped working and they just watched their friend accidently kill themselves
Then you add the splatoon touch of comedy and the "horror" is that that made them respawn at another spawn point way too far from the party and they had to waste all the day in getting back there XD
@@lualas Inkling after spawning: "Woo! That was CRAZY! Jumping into that pool was insane but it was worth it!" Random Inkling finding him: "Who are you get the shell out of my house!"
@@StarMechVThat could be a whole plot on itself about all spawn points malfunctioning and Inklings finding themselves in all sorts of locations (I wanna say all over the world but I don't think they have actually colonized most of the earth)
man your headcanons make a lot more sense than the passing thought I had while clicking on this video of "maybe they're like chinchillas and do dust baths".
@rassicas we could then ask how in the heck they keep their weaponry through the spawning process; in turf wars especially, you get splatted and your weapon goes flying, you respawn and suddenly its back in your hands
@@rassicas The only possible way I could see it is by the same logic inkfish respawn with all their equipment already with them. the board if part of their "equipment" so perhaps is made so it comes back with them ( in real life, some boards have little straps that they go around the ankle so a board is not lost) But I guess may be one of those "just gameplay" things. Then there's also the fact my dumb brain frogot a surfer doesn't start IN the wave, it has to swim towards it first, which already sounds pretty difficult for a inkfish to reach while at the same time not getting submerged enough to splat so yeah, I'm stumped.
Rassicas 1.5 hour splatoon video and Jeffiot 5 hour disco elysium video released within 30 minutes of each other, holy cow. The rest of my day has been thoroughly commandeered.
Only over an hour long video of pure hard core lore analyzing and speculating would make the phrase "death is meaningless" sound perfectly reasonable and normal.
I’ve been saying that the special gage is ink (or osmotic, but it’s the same difference) pressure and how canned specials are concentrated ink for like a year now but I never realized how out the way the ENG localization went to keep that from mentioning osmosis. Did osmotic pressure kill the grandmothers of everyone on the NoA localization staff or something?? Edit: okay I also came to a very similar conclusion about the camp triggerfish concert and special limiter thing and I feel very validated in the fact that I was not just going absolutely insane.
I needed this video badly I always had a fanmade story about inklings diving into the ocean with advanced suits into an ancient city, so learning about their water relationship would be amazing
After watching the video Yeah i think an advanced diving suit could work to bring gameplay underwater It would probably require a really advanced tech to count for the possibilities tho
I appreciate that someone took their time going through this topic because it is unnecessarily controversial and the way you structured and paced this video is very well done. There has never been a non-head-canon counter-argument for the effect water has on Inkling or Octoling bodies so starting with that directly followed by piecing together how some mechanics do or at least could work with the info we have makes this video really enjoyable.
I’m at 46:17 but my personal hc is that ink based critters have sponge baths with an actual sponge or cloth. Obviously takes longer than a normal shower, but I’d assume being fresh(clean) makes you fresher(cool)
Dude, excellent video! This is some awesome work! I will say, the only thing I think you forgot is that, as inklings mature, they lose the ability to shapeshift. Perhaps their skins become stronger as they get older, allowing for more normal water-related activities or perhaps just enough of a resistance to it to make something like sailing reasonable. But again, maybe not. Excellent video, mate!
i am so serious when i say i had written up a section about this exact thing (like sun dried inklings having better water resistance) right after the octavio part and scrapped it bc i thought it was too baseless. Well glad you said it then LOL
Edit: Came back to this in the morning after I watched the video and I realized just how much of just rambling it is. So be warned, haha... Maybe the ink has different antigens/surface proteins depending on the color. Think blood type and blood cells again. The immune system has proteins that bind to unfamiliar surface proteins of blood that isn't your type. Now, you may counter and say 'genetics are permanent and the metaphor doesn't fit because inklings change colors and...!' couter points: 1. Epigenetics maybe? Idk. 2. Adaptive Immune system can change the kind of surface binding proteins that we produce. 3. I am not specifically saying it works exactly like blood types, just pointing out that there is a relationship between surface proteins and binding proteins (actually molecules in general I guess) that bind to each other specifically. And these binding molecules that are specifically made to bind to a surface molecule disrupt the functioning of the cell with the surface molecule. So, what i am proposing: the change in the crystals that changes their color* changes what kind of molecules can bind to the crystal. The enemy team then produces molecules (proteins most likely) that bind to the specific structural change of the crystals. And since the crystals are a big part of inkfish biology, which probably affects the stability of their cells/intercellular matrix the inkling then splodes. The will of the.... You know what. I'm too tired to explain my thoughts currently. *I think it's a structural color change too. Like blue morpho butterfly wings (and some feathers i think?) look blue without having any blue pigment. (Don't cephalopod iridophores also use structural color instead of pigment colors? I don't remember currently. But their chromatophores definitely use pigment, yeah.) Tldr: when an inkfish choses their ink color, the structure of the liquid crystals in their changes. The opposing team chooses to produce "antibodies" to that specific crystal structure that bind to the surface of the crystals and this affect the way the inkfish's cells work together. Too much antibody at once and the inkfish's form gets kaputt. ....or they change the crystals colors by specific emotions or thoughts, and if you shoot enough ink at someone they get overwhelmed by that particular emotions. Since feelings play a role in ink and rhe crysrals or something. Too tired to speculate well. Idk.
I like this! Ink color being their version of “blood type”. Even if Inklings/Octolings can change ink colors at will, they have a “birth ink” that would be their “ink type”
37:59 While I am aware that Coroika is totally non-canon, it’s also said that Aloha is a surfer, and there was even some official sketch/promo art by Sankichi Hinodeya (the author and illustrator of the series) that literally shows Aloha surfing on a wave as well! It was posted on 8/26/16, which is quite a while ago but thankfully the image is still up! 🏄♂️🦑
My guess is inklings basically are just the soul thingy and they innately form a body around themselves when they are near/in ink, and when it breaks, when their soul finds ink they reform. The spawn points just accelerate the procces of respawning, making it work better for turf war. That is kinda interesting, because maybe in the beginning they just found another member of their species and use any ink they make to respawn.
I'VE BEEN THINKING THIS TOO!!! the idea of their "soul" being their actual organic body makes much more sense to me rather than it being some spiritual. magic thing... GAS THIS COMMENT UP!
This is further implied by the fact that captain cuttlefish turned into a hyper realistic dried squid when dehydrated, suggesting that under it all cephalings are still just basic cephalopods.
@fluidfungi I feel like the Splatoon fanbase kinda just thinks of things like this in more human terms, which I can’t blame them, we are humans (most of us anyway), so people don’t really think of this. The soul is the inkling, their body just is basically a ink shell protecting it
and explains how the simplified respawning in salmon run works, their souls just move to the bouey as a protective measure since they are vulnerable to death so when someone else inks them they are able to reform their protective shells
The idea of inkfish eating whats in the pouches/canned specials is super cute..💖🥫 kind of like an energy drink. This video is excellently made and really opened my eyes on this subject among other interesting details :- )
This video reminds me about how "strong emotions" is also applicable to feeling things about *specific* things. What if osmotic pressure in Splatoon also accounts for feelings due to the liquid crystals? And what if that was why specific colored ink hurts other people with a different colored ink? What if that's why the end of the screen of a battle is "good guys" and "bad guys?" And this could be the reason why Splatfests are such a big part of Inkfish culture? They take in ideas and fight and the battles in a Splatfest are their metaphorical way of equalizing each other, and the winner overtakes the other options. Overall I think the fact that this 'pressure' is influenced by multiple things is what makes this concept very good and flexible. Heat, emotions, and physical concentration of chemicals are all somewhat similar concepts that are handled by specific systems, and it allows the world to have such a great leeway with itself in its world.
another banger from rassicas seriously, thank you so much for this - the amount of worldbuilding this simple fact led to you explaining is really stunning! something i'm surprised you didn't bring up as a theory is that special charging could happen not just because of heightened emotions, but the simple fact that spraying ink all over a stage probably uses quite a lot of water, thus increasing the osmotic pressure in an inkfish's body
i never understood people who said its just a gameplay thing to die in water when they made a specific animation of them *dissolving* in water, and the fact that theres water soluble ink and they have always been depicted as creatures made from only ink and a soul. though that ink is definitely some sci fi ink but im content with that. i did absolutely love how deep you went into it as i know very little about dev interviews, the japanese side and even in game lore. specially loved the special conspiracy theory board. its awesome
OAHHH MY GOODNESS !!!! THE WAY EVERYTHING SLOTTED IN SO PERFECTLY ‼️‼️‼️‼️ Thank you for this video!!!!! The osmotic pressure idea and all the opportunities it presents to properly piece all the bits of info together in a satisfying way is so amazing and one i didnt know about since i havent seen much of the original japanese media !! This is huge for the english fanbase and the video was so satisfying to watch ! Your ideas are inkredible (especially with your own headcanons like the bathing methods and other things youve posted on tumblr)!!! Know that if i had cool splatoon biology ideas then i would incorporate these ideas so much 💥💥💥 AMAZING WORK ON THE VIDEO AND CONGRATS ON GETTING THIS VIDEO OUT AFTER ALL THE WORK AND THOUGHT YOUVE PUT INTO THIS !!! YOUR VIDEOS ARE ALAWAYS SO FUN TO WATCH!‼️‼️🩵
I mean I would argue that they can probably treat water in some way to make it safe. (Hence showers.) They probably add or remove particulates (Depending on how the osmosis works specifically) and boom. Safe to touch.
You're insane, thank you for clawing through splatoon lore to get this one out! I hope Splat 4 has something to make this inkling + water combo even more confusing so we can get another documentary out of it :P
1:12:11 That remind me that in one of my fan concept i imagined someting like that, when a inkling/octoling having a panic attack would cause their special to overload and completely break their mind, turning them into some sort of zombie that attack everything, the reason for that would be that their body try to let the energy out by any mean, even if it mean hurt other people.
The zombie part sounds like the in game plot of a horror flick, but I can imagine being too stressed, extacsic, or in this case, panicked, could be potentially also physically harmful if they don't have any way to unwind. There's much to think about
Great video! I was a little sceptical at first on how one can explain all of that without sounding a bit incoherent (because I tried myself and couldn’t even if I was a former biology student) but I think you nailed it in this video! Every point was well paced with an easy to understand flow and sums up a lot of ramblings that I would’ve had into neat little packages. As someone who decided to give up and chalk everything to “Inkfish can’t swim, and even if they could, they’d dissolve in highly polluted/acidic water due to ocean acidification anyways”, you have converted me into the camp that this has always been a part of their biology. Unrelated note, but I found that we have similar headcanons and yelled out multiple times in sheer joy that my personal headcanons had some basis in Splatoon’s lore and/or science and it’s not me going completely insane because I can’t explain it properly to my non-STEM friends (context: I’m a creative writing and literature student now and very few of my friends who listen to me ramble have a background in STEM).
Oh this video is so interesting! I admittedly was of the camp that completely disregarded this, but this video actually turned me around so good job haha ^^ Your explanation on how this could all possibly work and the whole thing about Inklings not really caring about possibly finding a way to be able to handle water (better) now makes me tempted to make an OC who is specifically a researcher on Inkfish biology and their relationship to water...
Love the video! I think the limiter might be a organ that 'limits' the amount of specials your body can put out so that you dont over work your body Makes agents 3 mind control even more grim if tartar cut out a organ from thier body mayby thats also why they get so tried after using a special in rotm
I have a whole theory for how ink works from respawning souls to submerging entire mechs, and it all goes back to the Inkling prophet. Now I admittedly don't know the Japanese version of this, but the Alterna logs describe the Inkling prophet as having "unique characteristics that they shared with their fellow Inklings." This, 5,000 years ago, is when I think spawn points were made, during an era I personally dub the Salmon Wars (A story for another day.) Spawn points opened up the limitless potential of ink. The prophet had such a knowledge of it that he taught the Manta Clan how to make ink for themselves, like we see Big Man doing in his fight. I do think osmotic pressure could be linked to the Inkling equivalent of adrenaline, meaning they might be able to at least take more damage if they stay calm and collected. The prophet was naturally this way because of his wisdom, and that carried on after he passed. I didn't have this explanation before now, but I always thought in some way, DJ Octavio managed to get his hands on the remains of the prophet and injected it into himself as a means of protection during the Great Turf War. This would explain both what kind of injury would stunt him in swim form (or somewhere in between,) as well as what the heck is up with the glowing green X-shaped scar on an otherwise pink fluid (highly repairable) body. I also have a fun story for the Octo Samurai. Basically it's a hybrid experiment. As you probably stated before, it's been confirmed that there's no way to make a natural Inkling/Octoling hybrid. The Octo Samurai was the first prototype Octavio made when challenging this. The plan would've been to create a rival soldier that had the intellect and battle tactics of the Octarian army, while also having the tenacity and passion of the Inkling agents they faced before. The first test was done without a proper sample of Inkling ink, resulting in what looked like a severed tentacle that mutated and had a soul. He would succeed in his goal before the end of Splatoon 2, but that is ANOTHER story for another day Thank you whoever read all this
this is def one of your best uploads. easily one of the most plausible connections and theories for the mechanics of special weapons in the series, as well as very satisfactory laying of the canon groundwork that is inkfish interaction with water. kudos
5:10 I'd like to think that they're provided for free and you can only use the ones that fit your weapon. You probably would need to grab some at spawn or maybe they're refilled when you respawn in the case of jumping.
This video is incredible!! Everything you laid out makes so much sense to the point where I almost feel like it had to be intentional on the creators' part, even though it probably wasn't. Especially the end bit with the corkboard. Also props for being able to relay this information in an understandable way, especially the more scientific bits. Very appreciated! This is something I've wondered about for so long and I'm really glad to finally have an explanation that makes sense like this! Will definitely be keeping this in mind whenever I'm creating fan content from now on 🙏
If it's really osmotic pressure that kills inkfish, then wouldn't it be possible to create a solution of water concentrated enough for it to be isotonic with ink? I imagine it would taste pretty bad (have you ever had to swish saline solution for your high school biology class gel electrophoresis experiment?), so it might only be used for cases where it doesn't touch an inkfish's face too much (e.g. a swimming pool). I know you dismissed the "clear ink" idea but I think it's something worth considering.
Tangential to the main focus of the video, but the mention at 20:53 of how respawning to cheat death would go against what Salmonids believe makes me wonder if this is another source of tension and conflict between them and Inkfish (beyond the obvious "hippity hoppity your eggs are now our property" of Salmon Run, of course). We already know Nogami has said Salmonids may not ever be able to join Inkling society, as has been covered in your Salmonid lore video from several years back. This seems like the sort of difference in cultural mores that could contribute to such a situation. Please forgive if this has been discussed before and I missed or forgot the video. 🙇♀
rassicas is literally doing gods work with making sure eng lore enthusiasts are caught up with jpn lore enthusiasts and making sure everyone on eng is caught up. no one does it like you man good job
That ended up being - a LOT more than what I expected from the funny „hehe, omsosis go brrr“ explanation, you straight up managed to connect it into their entire biology Insane as it is, I kneel regardless
Your content is amazing you are one of the reasons I love this game so much I love all of the research and all of your cool speculation/theories I love how much you effort and time you put into your vids I hope you keep making amazing content and please do more drawings of both of your OCs
Here's an interesting bunch of concepts that you could spin off of the osmotic pressure connections... I did this massive amount of speculation as I watched the video. Regarding going splat: Inklings and Octolings are so versatile that they aren't necessarily weak to water specifically. It's just that when they build a body using any kind of fluid, they have to be mindful of any other kind of fluid, because said fluid will osmose into their body and increase their internal pressure. Too much of this, and they go splat. Thus why we don't see the ink flow into the water until the inkling has splatted in the drowning animation: It's not fluid leaking out, it's fluid being sucked in until they literally burst, and then that diluted ink leaking out is what we see in the animation. So there could theoretically be freshwater-based and saltwater-based inkfish, even if it seems absurd and I don't know the exact process for them doing it. But while a saltwater inkfish in freshwater, or either kind in any kind of normal inks, would indeed go splat like an ink-filled inkfish, a freshwater inkfish in saltwater (or any kind of inkfish in brine for that matter!) would dessicate like how we see Captain Cuttlefish do at the end of Splatoon 3's story mode, or like a slug being salted. More on this later. Regarding Inkfish plumbing: It's just the Respawn Tech with a different application. You regenerate your HP in-game by making contact with your team's ink or by even getting shot at by teammates, meaning that ink can osmose both ways and the pressure displaces the foreign ink. So, rather than piping different kinds of ink to every household, inkfish all receive water plumbing as the common source and have an Ink Conversion Tank as an additional feature that runs the water through Inkpowder Pucks or other forms of Ink Cartridges (like, yes, the candybead straws you mentioned) that turns the water into a color of ink of their choosing. All they have to do when they want to change out their ink color is to swap out the cartridges, and then either let the inkworks naturally transfer them along their chosen gradient from one color to the next as the old cartridges run out and get replaced by fresh ones of new colors, or cycle the inkworks to the new color by running them at full blast for a bit to clear out the old ink and then splat themselves to instantly choose their new color when they respawn. Or if they're feeling REALLY spicy, they could just go without ink cartridges in the plumbing and simply use the bath bombs you talked about whenever they wanted to take a soak in a tub. And when an inkfish moves out for classier lodgings and gets replaced by a non-inkfish, all the individual has to do to switch it to water would be to just cycle the water system and possibly install regular mundane water filters until the remaining ink has been flushed from the system, as the inkfish would have logically emptied out all unused ink cartridges from the replacement system before departing to the next residence. Regarding why both teams go splat instead of just one: Both of the above pieces of speculation leads me to one conclusion: The liquid crystals used for the ink are hygroscopic. As in, they act like dehumidifiers. So when ink lays on the ground, it absorbs air moisture and hydrates up. Then, when another inkfish of a different color makes contact, their internal ink is way "drier" than the shot/spilled ink, and sucks in the water. This increases the internal liquid pressure, eventually resulting in them going splat. As for why this doesn't happen with their team's color, the crystals resonate with each other, enabling the solute to pass through unopposed. Returning to the concept of water-based inkfish for a second, this would mean that they'd splat by rupturing from kinetic energy as they got rapidly dessicated as opposed to splatting by the same mechanism as a BLEVE like your standard Inkling (that's short for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, BTW!), and it would ALSO mean that they'd be unable to use Special Moves altogether. Something that I'm fairly certain Inkfish are against the downsides of in a Turf War battle, which is why you'll never catch an Inkling using a water-based form in a Turf War unless they are EXTREMELY skilled and want to SEVERELY embarrass their opponent. Something that the tweens and teens that we control in-game would never do because they're in it for the thrill of the teamwork and flashy moves, not the dispiriting factor of styling on your opponent so harshly you don't even need specials to beat them. And that's why Turf War goes based off of territory covered instead of successful splattings: Water-based inkfish can't tell what territory they've covered and what territory they haven't, which leads to them losing-by-default purely by the rules of the game being that you have to cover more territory than your opponent. Back to the liquid crystals being hygroscopic, this ALSO explains why every single map is surrounded by water: The liquid crystals suck up so much moisture that the places don't just get selected at random, they get selected specifically because they have such an immense amount of water that the local humidity won't be affected by literal tons of dehydrative agent suddenly being introduced into the area. The reason this is done is because of audience safety. After all, while the inkfish themselves might not be all that affected by air humidity levels, the other locals like shrimp, jellyfish, and the like _are._ If it weren't for the bodies of water, anyone who wasn't an inkfish would end up dessicated in minutes, or even seconds if the emotions were running high enough to cause extreme concentrations of ink crystals. So, long story short, even if Inkfish could make water-based bodies instead of ink-based bodies, they still usually prefer ink-based bodies due purely to how it grants them access to Specials, flashy over-the-top attacks. You know, fresh and funky techniques that aren't able to be done in any other way. Something that is _exactly_ down their alley, culturally speaking.
Even though my dislike of water killing Inklings hasn't changed, I will say Fantastic video and well done on doing all that research. You're one of the only people I see going the extra mile to actually provide this information on the Splatoon world that often gets lost due to either mistranslations, lack of translations (give us translated OE, 3, and SO artbooks, cowards), and obscure interviews that are also untranslated.
This was really good! Before watching I thought it was more about the pressure difference (inkfish seem to be mostly made of ink and they basically pop if the pressure changes are too drastic was my working theory), and the narrative reasons for them not being able to go in water were intended to distance them from sealife and make them more similar to humans (liquid crystals and all that good stuff). Osmotic pressure definitely makes a ton of sense, and I'm surprised I've never heard this brought up before! I'd also like to mention that inkfish biology is probably adapted to much higher temperatures than what we're used to, so the temperature difference between the inside of their body and a body of water could certainly contribute. Long, semi-related tangent: I also had similar thoughts about them being able to change clothes at will and summon weapons from ink, because even though these are gameplay touches, I like rationalizing them in lore. Me and my friends made a whole google doc about this, iirc we eventually decided you weren't buying physical clothes at the stores but instead patents/blueprints to make them yourself out of ink so you could change them at will. We conceptualized splatting/dying in a similar way: respawn machines basically scan your gear and appearance, then reform it out of ink when your 'soul' returns to it after being splatted, but if you don't have a respawn pad to grab your soul then it'll dissipate and you'll die. (additional note about splatting and ink: I always thought ink color changes were maybe due to some kind of dye and the fancy glitter ones/inks with logos in them are more high-end so most battlers only use them on special occasions, and the chemicals used for different colors react adversely, which sort of works for old turf war battles because you could substitute chemicals for natural dyes). Sorry for the infodump I've just thought about this topic so much that hearing someone else has too is amazing to me!!!
17:16 I havent finished the video, but maybe the ink from a teammate actually refills your body with ink which revives you. The reason you die in water is because the ink is pushed out of your body, and I’d imagine enemy works similarly. So logically, teammate ink could revive you. The tech within the life ring is what takes the ink it has collected and injects it into the player.
Rassicas I think you forgot to include anything about what happens to Cuttlefish in Return of the Mammalians where he gets dried up and then revived by Captain 3 crying on him. And also that that somehow gives cuttlefish the ability to fly
i block out most of ROTM from my brain/j i DID have a section i cut from the ending about cuttlefish, about how maybe sun dried inklings would have better resistance to water because they don't have ink in them, but i scrapped it because i felt it was too unsubstantiated to include.
@@rassicaswhat do you think of the inkling ’mummy’ we see in sunken scroll 21? if inklings can have remains after death, how does that factor into respawning, is there a corpse left behind after splatting that we don’t get to see because video game E10+?
@@Peck-gs5ptI'm not rassicas but personally I interpret the soul flying out when we get splatted as literally our empty skins flying out to get refilled with ink. And the same way as dried up cuttlefish can fly, we simply fly as well, ohohohoho
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have pools like 1 ft deep for them to paddle around in and drift around on floaties and such. After all, they can get up to their knees in water. Actually, as I was writing this comment, ink pools were brought up. Yeah, that’s about what I expected. Adaptation ⭐️ Edit: I wonder why they dumbed it down for the American version.
I love this video. I actually tryed to pice this whole water thing together myself. My theory was similar but without osmotic pressure. Thanks for the research!
29:41 to be fair to this localization choice, I don't think it's supposed to literally mean Inklings are oily. I think she's supposed to be referring to the adage "they mix like oil and water" and is just saying Inklings are like oil because they don't mix with water
On the topic mentioned at 22:25 , with octarian vs octoling souls and reforming, I think it’s worth taking into account that there’s only a separation made between Octarians as a whole and Octolings in particular in the translations. This seems to imply that there’s a point where the Octarian masses acquire the same thin skin as their inkfish counterparts, and are currently too underdeveloped to properly reform their bodies with ink. There can be a point made here about souls only being had by inkfish with proper intelligence but the Octarians are pretty damn smart either way so idk about that
regarding the splat v splat thing - i'm not really a big splatoon fan but couldn't it be that the different colored inks can't really be pressurized in the same way that same colored inks can? so if you get Literally Shot with enough different colored ink you Literally Explode because your skin loses the ability to sustain internal pressures?
also i think it might be reasonable to theorize that the inklings can maybe excise water through the skin via some sort of internal mechanism -- but that this mechanism needs exposed skin to work and probably won't be that effective if constantly taking on gallons of water (since both the amount of skin able to force water out would be lowered and the amount of water being put in would be heightened)?
I'll admit I haven't watched the full video yet (I'm sorry it's very long and I am tired lol). But my interpretation was always that inklings die if they're submerged if a pool of water, but they can handle small amounts of water just fine. As in they can drink water because that's literally a baseline requirement for all living things, and they can go out in light rain without melting away on the spot. To me it just doesn't make any sense that drinking water would kill them, and likewise nothing about their world makes me think that they're so weak to rain that it would kill them to be caught out in a storm. Though I imagine it would still hurt them a lot depending on how bad the rain is.
I am so sorry for your Osmotic pressure search, and I would like for it to be better connected with the overall localized lore, because it would be so interesting. Please Nintendo, translate it, say it is educational for all of the kids, EVEN IF THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, PLEASE! We are begging you.
The answers to all of splatoons questions
Just find the scattered info in the 7 different corners of the universe shrouded by mistranslations and obscure sources and try to make sense of it. Collect my water pages
Ah yes, the "NieR series method" as i like to call it
Collect my UNO Splash™ cards
Rassicas be collecting these like chaos emeralds 💀
Fantastic video! I was expecting to be on board with most of your ideas regarding this topic, but I did not realize they would connect so well to other parts of the game and basically explain Inkfish biology as a whole.
This is the first time I have EVER heard a satisfying explanation for how specials work, and I pretty much entirely agree with what you’ve proposed. The whole “emotional energy” thing always kinda bugged me, but the way you’ve tied it back to (somewhat) real world science plus the in-universe culture honestly makes me like the idea so much more.
So much Splat lore discussion is just trying to communicate what the lore even IS in the first place, so it’s incredibly refreshing to see an actual THEORY that draws new conclusions while making so much sense. And finally I have a place to point people to when I get comments about water, so thank you for that lol
this video really raises my osmotic pressure, thank you rassicas
1:14:25 agent 3’s “Limiter” being removed here is actually terrifying. imagine being conscious in that scenario, your body being figuratively and LITERALLY on fire, your muscles could give out any second, but you’re forced to continue fighting. poor agent 3 :,)
just had to share my thoughts on that- loved binging this!!
Maybe it's something along the lines of how adrenaline can work? Subconsciously our brains can limit the effects of it and in some life or death situations adrenaline has been known to give a thing called hysterical strength, which has caused some very average people to be able to lift nearly 1 metric tonne in weight for a short period of time. The reason we don't have access to this at all time is because if we did, our own muscles could potentially flex too hard and rip our bones apart.
splatoon lore disguised as a biology lesson. i love it here
"I LIVE, I DIE, I LIVE AGAIN!!!" - Inkfish with high pressure
*eats special puck*
"WITNESS ME!!! VALHALLA!!!"
1:14:18 After giving it some thought, I think a "limiter" isn't a technological thing, but rather a biological thing. A subconscious mental block that prevents an Inkfish from using more than one special at once in order to preserve their health. After all, Commander Tartar's sanitization process is suposed to affect how inkfish think, so when it took control of Agent 3, it removed the mental block preventing them from using multiple Specials.
We are so back!
cha cha marina
I love off the hook
Whooo! 🙌
That art of Pearl losing so bad at smash that she charged her special is too damn cute. I love it
im sorry but the graphic of a serene body of water with beautiful boats contrasted with the text on top that just says "Death Means Nothing" is fucking HILARIOUS.
I saw your comment before that scene and thought, that it can't be that funny. BOY was I wrong!
Today I learned that osmotic pressure is one of the most important secrets being kept from the western world when it comes to Splatoon.
What a fascinating and important thing that was probably cut because it sounded boring or too technical for the fun squid game. Instead of it being something that could’ve been a teachable moment when a kid asks their parents.
of course it's over an hour long, I'm so ready to watch every second of it
My brain needs more Splatoon.
It *will* consume Splatoon.
The bath bomb speculation / theory is one that I like. Inklings do seem like the type to do something of that manner for the fun and excitement of it. As well as the shower beads.
Splatoon horror story where some friends are partying and one of them jumps into water for fun but the spawn point stopped working and they just watched their friend accidently kill themselves
who kills themself for fun
Then you add the splatoon touch of comedy and the "horror" is that that made them respawn at another spawn point way too far from the party and they had to waste all the day in getting back there XD
@@StarMechV oh gosh, imagine respawning but u have no idea where u are
@@lualas Inkling after spawning: "Woo! That was CRAZY! Jumping into that pool was insane but it was worth it!"
Random Inkling finding him: "Who are you get the shell out of my house!"
@@StarMechVThat could be a whole plot on itself about all spawn points malfunctioning and Inklings finding themselves in all sorts of locations (I wanna say all over the world but I don't think they have actually colonized most of the earth)
man your headcanons make a lot more sense than the passing thought I had while clicking on this video of "maybe they're like chinchillas and do dust baths".
I always liked the idea that using too many specials at once was dangerous because it increases the stakes in the agent 3 fight so much.
ty 4 this insight youtube user transyuri4534
the "i made a cork board" at 59:29 pretty much sums up the entire video
The deadpan delivery is what sent me.
38:21 humans professionally climb things, fly planes and skydive and die from falling so idk its not that strange to see a surfer
Specially when they probably have a spawn point installed by the shore or something. So they can wipeout on a wave and just come back seconds later.
@@StarMechV i addressed this in the video 🤓 sure an inkling surfer could respawn, but what about the board?
@rassicas we could then ask how in the heck they keep their weaponry through the spawning process; in turf wars especially, you get splatted and your weapon goes flying, you respawn and suddenly its back in your hands
@@rassicasmaybe inklings surf on ink as practice for eventually surfing on real waves
@@rassicas The only possible way I could see it is by the same logic inkfish respawn with all their equipment already with them. the board if part of their "equipment" so perhaps is made so it comes back with them ( in real life, some boards have little straps that they go around the ankle so a board is not lost)
But I guess may be one of those "just gameplay" things. Then there's also the fact my dumb brain frogot a surfer doesn't start IN the wave, it has to swim towards it first, which already sounds pretty difficult for a inkfish to reach while at the same time not getting submerged enough to splat so yeah, I'm stumped.
Rassicas 1.5 hour splatoon video and Jeffiot 5 hour disco elysium video released within 30 minutes of each other, holy cow. The rest of my day has been thoroughly commandeered.
JEFFIOT DISCO ELYSIUM VIDEO????? :O I know what I'm watching first thing tomorrow, thank you for mentioning it!!!!
I don't know who jeffiot is but 5 hours of disco elysium analysis YUM sign me up I'm going there once i finish this one thank you for commenting this
Only over an hour long video of pure hard core lore analyzing and speculating would make the phrase "death is meaningless" sound perfectly reasonable and normal.
I’ve been saying that the special gage is ink (or osmotic, but it’s the same difference) pressure and how canned specials are concentrated ink for like a year now but I never realized how out the way the ENG localization went to keep that from mentioning osmosis.
Did osmotic pressure kill the grandmothers of everyone on the NoA localization staff or something??
Edit: okay I also came to a very similar conclusion about the camp triggerfish concert and special limiter thing and I feel very validated in the fact that I was not just going absolutely insane.
“The issue of Inkling biology is solved and it will never come up again!”
“A few years later, it came up again”
Somehow, inkling biology returned.
I needed this video badly
I always had a fanmade story about inklings diving into the ocean with advanced suits into an ancient city, so learning about their water relationship would be amazing
After watching the video
Yeah i think an advanced diving suit could work to bring gameplay underwater
It would probably require a really advanced tech to count for the possibilities tho
I appreciate that someone took their time going through this topic because it is unnecessarily controversial and the way you structured and paced this video is very well done.
There has never been a non-head-canon counter-argument for the effect water has on Inkling or Octoling bodies so starting with that directly followed by piecing together how some mechanics do or at least could work with the info we have makes this video really enjoyable.
I’m at 46:17 but my personal hc is that ink based critters have sponge baths with an actual sponge or cloth. Obviously takes longer than a normal shower, but I’d assume being fresh(clean) makes you fresher(cool)
Dude, excellent video! This is some awesome work! I will say, the only thing I think you forgot is that, as inklings mature, they lose the ability to shapeshift. Perhaps their skins become stronger as they get older, allowing for more normal water-related activities or perhaps just enough of a resistance to it to make something like sailing reasonable. But again, maybe not. Excellent video, mate!
i am so serious when i say i had written up a section about this exact thing (like sun dried inklings having better water resistance) right after the octavio part and scrapped it bc i thought it was too baseless. Well glad you said it then LOL
im now gona say "my osmotic puresure is really high" instead of "I'm excited now".
Hearing "let's talk about death," followed by "death means nothing" appearing onscreen in a splatoon video is _wild._
Edit: Came back to this in the morning after I watched the video and I realized just how much of just rambling it is. So be warned, haha...
Maybe the ink has different antigens/surface proteins depending on the color. Think blood type and blood cells again. The immune system has proteins that bind to unfamiliar surface proteins of blood that isn't your type.
Now, you may counter and say 'genetics are permanent and the metaphor doesn't fit because inklings change colors and...!' couter points:
1. Epigenetics maybe? Idk.
2. Adaptive Immune system can change the kind of surface binding proteins that we produce.
3. I am not specifically saying it works exactly like blood types, just pointing out that there is a relationship between surface proteins and binding proteins (actually molecules in general I guess) that bind to each other specifically. And these binding molecules that are specifically made to bind to a surface molecule disrupt the functioning of the cell with the surface molecule.
So, what i am proposing: the change in the crystals that changes their color* changes what kind of molecules can bind to the crystal. The enemy team then produces molecules (proteins most likely) that bind to the specific structural change of the crystals. And since the crystals are a big part of inkfish biology, which probably affects the stability of their cells/intercellular matrix the inkling then splodes. The will of the.... You know what. I'm too tired to explain my thoughts currently.
*I think it's a structural color change too. Like blue morpho butterfly wings (and some feathers i think?) look blue without having any blue pigment.
(Don't cephalopod iridophores also use structural color instead of pigment colors? I don't remember currently. But their chromatophores definitely use pigment, yeah.)
Tldr: when an inkfish choses their ink color, the structure of the liquid crystals in their changes.
The opposing team chooses to produce "antibodies" to that specific crystal structure that bind to the surface of the crystals and this affect the way the inkfish's cells work together. Too much antibody at once and the inkfish's form gets kaputt.
....or they change the crystals colors by specific emotions or thoughts, and if you shoot enough ink at someone they get overwhelmed by that particular emotions. Since feelings play a role in ink and rhe crysrals or something. Too tired to speculate well. Idk.
I like this! Ink color being their version of “blood type”. Even if Inklings/Octolings can change ink colors at will, they have a “birth ink” that would be their “ink type”
46:16 glad to finally have information for your character you use in your videos. I basically agree with everything you said here, keep it up!
37:59 While I am aware that Coroika is totally non-canon, it’s also said that Aloha is a surfer, and there was even some official sketch/promo art by Sankichi Hinodeya (the author and illustrator of the series) that literally shows Aloha surfing on a wave as well! It was posted on 8/26/16, which is quite a while ago but thankfully the image is still up! 🏄♂️🦑
My guess is inklings basically are just the soul thingy and they innately form a body around themselves when they are near/in ink, and when it breaks, when their soul finds ink they reform. The spawn points just accelerate the procces of respawning, making it work better for turf war. That is kinda interesting, because maybe in the beginning they just found another member of their species and use any ink they make to respawn.
I'VE BEEN THINKING THIS TOO!!! the idea of their "soul" being their actual organic body makes much more sense to me rather than it being some spiritual. magic thing... GAS THIS COMMENT UP!
This is further implied by the fact that captain cuttlefish turned into a hyper realistic dried squid when dehydrated, suggesting that under it all cephalings are still just basic cephalopods.
@fluidfungi I feel like the Splatoon fanbase kinda just thinks of things like this in more human terms, which I can’t blame them, we are humans (most of us anyway), so people don’t really think of this. The soul is the inkling, their body just is basically a ink shell protecting it
and explains how the simplified respawning in salmon run works, their souls just move to the bouey as a protective measure since they are vulnerable to death so when someone else inks them they are able to reform their protective shells
@ 100%, that makes a ton of sense, as well as the way you respawn is teammates shooting ink on you
The idea of inkfish eating whats in the pouches/canned specials is super cute..💖🥫 kind of like an energy drink. This video is excellently made and really opened my eyes on this subject among other interesting details :- )
This video reminds me about how "strong emotions" is also applicable to feeling things about *specific* things.
What if osmotic pressure in Splatoon also accounts for feelings due to the liquid crystals? And what if that was why specific colored ink hurts other people with a different colored ink?
What if that's why the end of the screen of a battle is "good guys" and "bad guys?"
And this could be the reason why Splatfests are such a big part of Inkfish culture?
They take in ideas and fight and the battles in a Splatfest are their metaphorical way of equalizing each other, and the winner overtakes the other options.
Overall I think the fact that this 'pressure' is influenced by multiple things is what makes this concept very good and flexible.
Heat, emotions, and physical concentration of chemicals are all somewhat similar concepts that are handled by specific systems, and it allows the world to have such a great leeway with itself in its world.
another banger from rassicas
seriously, thank you so much for this - the amount of worldbuilding this simple fact led to you explaining is really stunning! something i'm surprised you didn't bring up as a theory is that special charging could happen not just because of heightened emotions, but the simple fact that spraying ink all over a stage probably uses quite a lot of water, thus increasing the osmotic pressure in an inkfish's body
I know I already made a comment about this on the unlisted video, but...
1:06:01 it's the summoning salt music!
What unlisted video?
@@j.corbygaming I'm a patreon supporter. I get to see the videos early. you see my name at the end of the video
PMD AND Homestuck music in my splatoon lore video? More likely than you think
yes. yes. i've been waiting for this for years and i'm coming in at view number 9
i never understood people who said its just a gameplay thing to die in water when they made a specific animation of them *dissolving* in water, and the fact that theres water soluble ink and they have always been depicted as creatures made from only ink and a soul. though that ink is definitely some sci fi ink but im content with that.
i did absolutely love how deep you went into it as i know very little about dev interviews, the japanese side and even in game lore. specially loved the special conspiracy theory board. its awesome
I am never more excited about Splatoon than when Rassicas or John Sandwich upload.
OAHHH MY GOODNESS !!!! THE WAY EVERYTHING SLOTTED IN SO PERFECTLY ‼️‼️‼️‼️ Thank you for this video!!!!! The osmotic pressure idea and all the opportunities it presents to properly piece all the bits of info together in a satisfying way is so amazing and one i didnt know about since i havent seen much of the original japanese media !! This is huge for the english fanbase and the video was so satisfying to watch ! Your ideas are inkredible (especially with your own headcanons like the bathing methods and other things youve posted on tumblr)!!! Know that if i had cool splatoon biology ideas then i would incorporate these ideas so much 💥💥💥 AMAZING WORK ON THE VIDEO AND CONGRATS ON GETTING THIS VIDEO OUT AFTER ALL THE WORK AND THOUGHT YOUVE PUT INTO THIS !!! YOUR VIDEOS ARE ALAWAYS SO FUN TO WATCH!‼️‼️🩵
I mean I would argue that they can probably treat water in some way to make it safe. (Hence showers.) They probably add or remove particulates (Depending on how the osmosis works specifically) and boom. Safe to touch.
everytime you show the sad slug i die a little inside. i feel so bad for him
12:33 this is really funny out of context
You're insane, thank you for clawing through splatoon lore to get this one out! I hope Splat 4 has something to make this inkling + water combo even more confusing so we can get another documentary out of it :P
1:12:11 That remind me that in one of my fan concept i imagined someting like that, when a inkling/octoling having a panic attack would cause their special to overload and completely break their mind, turning them into some sort of zombie that attack everything, the reason for that would be that their body try to let the energy out by any mean, even if it mean hurt other people.
The zombie part sounds like the in game plot of a horror flick, but I can imagine being too stressed, extacsic, or in this case, panicked, could be potentially also physically harmful if they don't have any way to unwind. There's much to think about
@@thirdwheel9938 Yeah also about the "zombie part" i just didn't find a better word to describe it 😅.
I always thought of them dying in water like a cell. A cell needs water to live, but if it takes in to much water it explodes.
Great video! I was a little sceptical at first on how one can explain all of that without sounding a bit incoherent (because I tried myself and couldn’t even if I was a former biology student) but I think you nailed it in this video! Every point was well paced with an easy to understand flow and sums up a lot of ramblings that I would’ve had into neat little packages. As someone who decided to give up and chalk everything to “Inkfish can’t swim, and even if they could, they’d dissolve in highly polluted/acidic water due to ocean acidification anyways”, you have converted me into the camp that this has always been a part of their biology.
Unrelated note, but I found that we have similar headcanons and yelled out multiple times in sheer joy that my personal headcanons had some basis in Splatoon’s lore and/or science and it’s not me going completely insane because I can’t explain it properly to my non-STEM friends (context: I’m a creative writing and literature student now and very few of my friends who listen to me ramble have a background in STEM).
Oh this video is so interesting!
I admittedly was of the camp that completely disregarded this, but this video actually turned me around so good job haha ^^
Your explanation on how this could all possibly work and the whole thing about Inklings not really caring about possibly finding a way to be able to handle water (better) now makes me tempted to make an OC who is specifically a researcher on Inkfish biology and their relationship to water...
RASSICAS I MISSED YOUR ANALYSIS VIDEOS SO MUCH 😭😭😭 IM LITERALLY SO HAPPY RN
always love the editing of these videos, but the quality really has gone up! :)) keep up the good work!
Love the video!
I think the limiter might be a organ that 'limits' the amount of specials your body can put out so that you dont over work your body
Makes agents 3 mind control even more grim if tartar cut out a organ from thier body mayby thats also why they get so tried after using a special in rotm
7.8 / 10 too much water
Out of three words in this comment, one of them was water. WAYYY too much water, shit game, never playing it, -7.8/10
Lol
I have a whole theory for how ink works from respawning souls to submerging entire mechs, and it all goes back to the Inkling prophet.
Now I admittedly don't know the Japanese version of this, but the Alterna logs describe the Inkling prophet as having "unique characteristics that they shared with their fellow Inklings." This, 5,000 years ago, is when I think spawn points were made, during an era I personally dub the Salmon Wars (A story for another day.)
Spawn points opened up the limitless potential of ink. The prophet had such a knowledge of it that he taught the Manta Clan how to make ink for themselves, like we see Big Man doing in his fight.
I do think osmotic pressure could be linked to the Inkling equivalent of adrenaline, meaning they might be able to at least take more damage if they stay calm and collected. The prophet was naturally this way because of his wisdom, and that carried on after he passed. I didn't have this explanation before now, but I always thought in some way, DJ Octavio managed to get his hands on the remains of the prophet and injected it into himself as a means of protection during the Great Turf War. This would explain both what kind of injury would stunt him in swim form (or somewhere in between,) as well as what the heck is up with the glowing green X-shaped scar on an otherwise pink fluid (highly repairable) body.
I also have a fun story for the Octo Samurai. Basically it's a hybrid experiment.
As you probably stated before, it's been confirmed that there's no way to make a natural Inkling/Octoling hybrid. The Octo Samurai was the first prototype Octavio made when challenging this. The plan would've been to create a rival soldier that had the intellect and battle tactics of the Octarian army, while also having the tenacity and passion of the Inkling agents they faced before. The first test was done without a proper sample of Inkling ink, resulting in what looked like a severed tentacle that mutated and had a soul.
He would succeed in his goal before the end of Splatoon 2, but that is ANOTHER story for another day
Thank you whoever read all this
I did. I also loved the theories/headcanons/fanfic bait.
this is def one of your best uploads. easily one of the most plausible connections and theories for the mechanics of special weapons in the series, as well as very satisfactory laying of the canon groundwork that is inkfish interaction with water. kudos
5:10 I'd like to think that they're provided for free and you can only use the ones that fit your weapon. You probably would need to grab some at spawn or maybe they're refilled when you respawn in the case of jumping.
This video is incredible!! Everything you laid out makes so much sense to the point where I almost feel like it had to be intentional on the creators' part, even though it probably wasn't. Especially the end bit with the corkboard. Also props for being able to relay this information in an understandable way, especially the more scientific bits. Very appreciated!
This is something I've wondered about for so long and I'm really glad to finally have an explanation that makes sense like this! Will definitely be keeping this in mind whenever I'm creating fan content from now on 🙏
46:17 cress looks so happy here, so whimsy, joyus that he has a inkling approved showerhead that wont cause him pain.
Love the Office reference, that segment was so good lmao
this video made my brain happy :) thank you for your hard work, rassicas!! its very much appreciated
ONLY THING I NEEDED IN MY LIFE
"Water is life" squids when I become allergic to water to cheat death: >:O
I get: your ability to swim
You get: so many abilities you could be mistaken to a superhero.
…this joke would be much better in an actual meme format.
My mind has been blown like a red blood cell that burst when placed in distilled water
If it's really osmotic pressure that kills inkfish, then wouldn't it be possible to create a solution of water concentrated enough for it to be isotonic with ink? I imagine it would taste pretty bad (have you ever had to swish saline solution for your high school biology class gel electrophoresis experiment?), so it might only be used for cases where it doesn't touch an inkfish's face too much (e.g. a swimming pool). I know you dismissed the "clear ink" idea but I think it's something worth considering.
Now I'm imagining saltwater piping
god all the rust
Another rassicas upload :D
46:17 lowkey I loved reading about the OC lol
and I also love the consistency of verna having a different button down shirt for every vid it’s nice ^^
I am speechless. This is such a great video I enjoyed through and through. Good job!
Tangential to the main focus of the video, but the mention at 20:53 of how respawning to cheat death would go against what Salmonids believe makes me wonder if this is another source of tension and conflict between them and Inkfish (beyond the obvious "hippity hoppity your eggs are now our property" of Salmon Run, of course). We already know Nogami has said Salmonids may not ever be able to join Inkling society, as has been covered in your Salmonid lore video from several years back. This seems like the sort of difference in cultural mores that could contribute to such a situation.
Please forgive if this has been discussed before and I missed or forgot the video. 🙇♀
Surprised but also somehow not surprised that it took a 90 minute video to answer one simple question. I love this community.
rassicas is literally doing gods work with making sure eng lore enthusiasts are caught up with jpn lore enthusiasts and making sure everyone on eng is caught up. no one does it like you man good job
MY AUTISM HAS BEEN FED THANK YOU CASS!!!
Pray for these inkling souls, they will never be able to escape samsara with their wicked rebirth espresso machines
😔🙏
That ended up being - a LOT more than what I expected from the funny „hehe, omsosis go brrr“ explanation, you straight up managed to connect it into their entire biology
Insane as it is, I kneel regardless
Your content is amazing you are one of the reasons I love this game so much
I love all of the research and all of your cool speculation/theories I love how much you effort and time you put into your vids I hope you keep making amazing content and please do more drawings of both of your OCs
Absolutely loved this video and how much it goes into Detail that may be little but have a BIG impact on how it actually works.
Anyway Great work!
Soooo glad to see you back!
Edit: just finished the video and it was incredible, as I expected. My jaw was on the floor.
Here's an interesting bunch of concepts that you could spin off of the osmotic pressure connections... I did this massive amount of speculation as I watched the video.
Regarding going splat:
Inklings and Octolings are so versatile that they aren't necessarily weak to water specifically. It's just that when they build a body using any kind of fluid, they have to be mindful of any other kind of fluid, because said fluid will osmose into their body and increase their internal pressure. Too much of this, and they go splat.
Thus why we don't see the ink flow into the water until the inkling has splatted in the drowning animation: It's not fluid leaking out, it's fluid being sucked in until they literally burst, and then that diluted ink leaking out is what we see in the animation.
So there could theoretically be freshwater-based and saltwater-based inkfish, even if it seems absurd and I don't know the exact process for them doing it. But while a saltwater inkfish in freshwater, or either kind in any kind of normal inks, would indeed go splat like an ink-filled inkfish, a freshwater inkfish in saltwater (or any kind of inkfish in brine for that matter!) would dessicate like how we see Captain Cuttlefish do at the end of Splatoon 3's story mode, or like a slug being salted. More on this later.
Regarding Inkfish plumbing:
It's just the Respawn Tech with a different application. You regenerate your HP in-game by making contact with your team's ink or by even getting shot at by teammates, meaning that ink can osmose both ways and the pressure displaces the foreign ink. So, rather than piping different kinds of ink to every household, inkfish all receive water plumbing as the common source and have an Ink Conversion Tank as an additional feature that runs the water through Inkpowder Pucks or other forms of Ink Cartridges (like, yes, the candybead straws you mentioned) that turns the water into a color of ink of their choosing. All they have to do when they want to change out their ink color is to swap out the cartridges, and then either let the inkworks naturally transfer them along their chosen gradient from one color to the next as the old cartridges run out and get replaced by fresh ones of new colors, or cycle the inkworks to the new color by running them at full blast for a bit to clear out the old ink and then splat themselves to instantly choose their new color when they respawn. Or if they're feeling REALLY spicy, they could just go without ink cartridges in the plumbing and simply use the bath bombs you talked about whenever they wanted to take a soak in a tub. And when an inkfish moves out for classier lodgings and gets replaced by a non-inkfish, all the individual has to do to switch it to water would be to just cycle the water system and possibly install regular mundane water filters until the remaining ink has been flushed from the system, as the inkfish would have logically emptied out all unused ink cartridges from the replacement system before departing to the next residence.
Regarding why both teams go splat instead of just one:
Both of the above pieces of speculation leads me to one conclusion: The liquid crystals used for the ink are hygroscopic. As in, they act like dehumidifiers. So when ink lays on the ground, it absorbs air moisture and hydrates up. Then, when another inkfish of a different color makes contact, their internal ink is way "drier" than the shot/spilled ink, and sucks in the water. This increases the internal liquid pressure, eventually resulting in them going splat. As for why this doesn't happen with their team's color, the crystals resonate with each other, enabling the solute to pass through unopposed.
Returning to the concept of water-based inkfish for a second, this would mean that they'd splat by rupturing from kinetic energy as they got rapidly dessicated as opposed to splatting by the same mechanism as a BLEVE like your standard Inkling (that's short for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, BTW!), and it would ALSO mean that they'd be unable to use Special Moves altogether. Something that I'm fairly certain Inkfish are against the downsides of in a Turf War battle, which is why you'll never catch an Inkling using a water-based form in a Turf War unless they are EXTREMELY skilled and want to SEVERELY embarrass their opponent. Something that the tweens and teens that we control in-game would never do because they're in it for the thrill of the teamwork and flashy moves, not the dispiriting factor of styling on your opponent so harshly you don't even need specials to beat them. And that's why Turf War goes based off of territory covered instead of successful splattings: Water-based inkfish can't tell what territory they've covered and what territory they haven't, which leads to them losing-by-default purely by the rules of the game being that you have to cover more territory than your opponent.
Back to the liquid crystals being hygroscopic, this ALSO explains why every single map is surrounded by water: The liquid crystals suck up so much moisture that the places don't just get selected at random, they get selected specifically because they have such an immense amount of water that the local humidity won't be affected by literal tons of dehydrative agent suddenly being introduced into the area. The reason this is done is because of audience safety. After all, while the inkfish themselves might not be all that affected by air humidity levels, the other locals like shrimp, jellyfish, and the like _are._ If it weren't for the bodies of water, anyone who wasn't an inkfish would end up dessicated in minutes, or even seconds if the emotions were running high enough to cause extreme concentrations of ink crystals.
So, long story short, even if Inkfish could make water-based bodies instead of ink-based bodies, they still usually prefer ink-based bodies due purely to how it grants them access to Specials, flashy over-the-top attacks. You know, fresh and funky techniques that aren't able to be done in any other way. Something that is _exactly_ down their alley, culturally speaking.
Even though my dislike of water killing Inklings hasn't changed, I will say Fantastic video and well done on doing all that research. You're one of the only people I see going the extra mile to actually provide this information on the Splatoon world that often gets lost due to either mistranslations, lack of translations (give us translated OE, 3, and SO artbooks, cowards), and obscure interviews that are also untranslated.
the worst thing that can happen to a fandom is that they are region locked to vital information
This was really good! Before watching I thought it was more about the pressure difference (inkfish seem to be mostly made of ink and they basically pop if the pressure changes are too drastic was my working theory), and the narrative reasons for them not being able to go in water were intended to distance them from sealife and make them more similar to humans (liquid crystals and all that good stuff). Osmotic pressure definitely makes a ton of sense, and I'm surprised I've never heard this brought up before! I'd also like to mention that inkfish biology is probably adapted to much higher temperatures than what we're used to, so the temperature difference between the inside of their body and a body of water could certainly contribute.
Long, semi-related tangent: I also had similar thoughts about them being able to change clothes at will and summon weapons from ink, because even though these are gameplay touches, I like rationalizing them in lore. Me and my friends made a whole google doc about this, iirc we eventually decided you weren't buying physical clothes at the stores but instead patents/blueprints to make them yourself out of ink so you could change them at will. We conceptualized splatting/dying in a similar way: respawn machines basically scan your gear and appearance, then reform it out of ink when your 'soul' returns to it after being splatted, but if you don't have a respawn pad to grab your soul then it'll dissipate and you'll die. (additional note about splatting and ink: I always thought ink color changes were maybe due to some kind of dye and the fancy glitter ones/inks with logos in them are more high-end so most battlers only use them on special occasions, and the chemicals used for different colors react adversely, which sort of works for old turf war battles because you could substitute chemicals for natural dyes).
Sorry for the infodump I've just thought about this topic so much that hearing someone else has too is amazing to me!!!
That's a very interesting idea! :D
This is very similar to my own theories on how gear works, actually - glad to know I'm not alone :)
Jesus Christ. Over an hour. You are insane.
Thank you!!
17:16 I havent finished the video, but maybe the ink from a teammate actually refills your body with ink which revives you. The reason you die in water is because the ink is pushed out of your body, and I’d imagine enemy works similarly. So logically, teammate ink could revive you. The tech within the life ring is what takes the ink it has collected and injects it into the player.
Great video as always! You've fed my five years and running splatoon obsession once again.
Rassicas I think you forgot to include anything about what happens to Cuttlefish in Return of the Mammalians where he gets dried up and then revived by Captain 3 crying on him. And also that that somehow gives cuttlefish the ability to fly
i block out most of ROTM from my brain/j
i DID have a section i cut from the ending about cuttlefish, about how maybe sun dried inklings would have better resistance to water because they don't have ink in them, but i scrapped it because i felt it was too unsubstantiated to include.
@@rassicaswhat do you think of the inkling ’mummy’ we see in sunken scroll 21? if inklings can have remains after death, how does that factor into respawning, is there a corpse left behind after splatting that we don’t get to see because video game E10+?
@@Peck-gs5ptI'm not rassicas but personally I interpret the soul flying out when we get splatted as literally our empty skins flying out to get refilled with ink. And the same way as dried up cuttlefish can fly, we simply fly as well, ohohohoho
It’s heartwarming to know these are still being produced after the third war. I promise to watch the whole thing when I have time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have pools like 1 ft deep for them to paddle around in and drift around on floaties and such. After all, they can get up to their knees in water.
Actually, as I was writing this comment, ink pools were brought up. Yeah, that’s about what I expected. Adaptation ⭐️
Edit: I wonder why they dumbed it down for the American version.
I love this video. I actually tryed to pice this whole water thing together myself. My theory was similar but without osmotic pressure. Thanks for the research!
Time for another one of your videos I will surely rewatch many, many times over.
If specials can be transformations or weapons carried around the entire game which one is crab tank
Its an operable machine so weapon,not transformation. Real mystery how that gets deployed out in battle (i have some theories,but theyre baseless)
29:41 to be fair to this localization choice, I don't think it's supposed to literally mean Inklings are oily. I think she's supposed to be referring to the adage "they mix like oil and water" and is just saying Inklings are like oil because they don't mix with water
On the topic mentioned at 22:25 , with octarian vs octoling souls and reforming, I think it’s worth taking into account that there’s only a separation made between Octarians as a whole and Octolings in particular in the translations. This seems to imply that there’s a point where the Octarian masses acquire the same thin skin as their inkfish counterparts, and are currently too underdeveloped to properly reform their bodies with ink.
There can be a point made here about souls only being had by inkfish with proper intelligence but the Octarians are pretty damn smart either way so idk about that
The whole fandom needs to see this.
regarding the splat v splat thing - i'm not really a big splatoon fan but couldn't it be that the different colored inks can't really be pressurized in the same way that same colored inks can? so if you get Literally Shot with enough different colored ink you Literally Explode because your skin loses the ability to sustain internal pressures?
also i think it might be reasonable to theorize that the inklings can maybe excise water through the skin via some sort of internal mechanism -- but that this mechanism needs exposed skin to work and probably won't be that effective if constantly taking on gallons of water (since both the amount of skin able to force water out would be lowered and the amount of water being put in would be heightened)?
i love the new artwork
I'll admit I haven't watched the full video yet (I'm sorry it's very long and I am tired lol). But my interpretation was always that inklings die if they're submerged if a pool of water, but they can handle small amounts of water just fine. As in they can drink water because that's literally a baseline requirement for all living things, and they can go out in light rain without melting away on the spot. To me it just doesn't make any sense that drinking water would kill them, and likewise nothing about their world makes me think that they're so weak to rain that it would kill them to be caught out in a storm. Though I imagine it would still hurt them a lot depending on how bad the rain is.
Over 1 hour long, thank you for being the realest Splatoon content creator out there.
WE ARE SO BACK WITH SPLATOON DEEP DIVES!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥💥💥💥
Dont even care what the video is about just talk to me about inklings for hours
I am so sorry for your Osmotic pressure search, and I would like for it to be better connected with the overall localized lore, because it would be so interesting. Please Nintendo, translate it, say it is educational for all of the kids, EVEN IF THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, PLEASE!
We are begging you.
Great video! One and a half hour of Splatoon lore? Exactly what I craved xD