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
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.
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.
When I saw this moment, I thought of 3 being “a living corpse”, similar to a metaphor I saw used elsewhere (most likely in a different game) but I don’t remember where
What if this had permanent effects on agent 3 and so in splatoon 3 as the captain we see them more affected by being in a special state than they otherwise would have been.
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.
Reminds me of a anime where a character becomes so violently he removes the subconscious limiter of his punches, wich make us not harm ourselves too much in the process of punching something too hard, and so this character punched at his maximun strenght to the point it broke his bones
And maybe it could explain special weapon challenges by the "rules of turf war being changed" but that would mess with infinite special levels in 2 and 3
I also like the idea of Captain somehow learning to remove this limiter themselves without this weird sanitization process as I don't think they really knew they would need all the ink gotten from high osmotic pressure even as the machine was being built, so maybe they were able to remove the limiter to get it all almost instantly. Or maybe I'm just being a biased Captain fan who thinks it'd be cool if they had some big cool thing that nobody else could really do lmao
New headcanon: Special charge up on gear means that your inkling character really likes that piece of gear and is excited to wear it, cousing their special to charge faster.
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)
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.
Would also gel with the osmotic pressure theory, it dosent even have to fully convert the water to ink, just needs to put enough ink solute into the water to smooth out the concentration gradient enough
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.
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".
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
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 had the idea of a special chemical substance that if it were be drank from, it would make the skin thicker and not very permeable (this gets rid of the squid/octopus swim forms) but allows them to survive in water. It’s a weird concept, but it’s all I had in mind.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 :- )
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! 🏄♂️🦑
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
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.
Your comment reminded me of how in mid 2021 to early 2022 I was deeply hyperfixated on Toni Kensa (yes, the brand and designer😪) and finding out that he had an interview but that it wasn't translated broke my poor autistic heart. It wasn't until last year that I finally found the translated interview and omg even though it's not my hyperfixtaion anymore I desperately NEED to see how they translate it 😪😪
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
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.
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
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)
the osmotic pressure conspiracy was so crazy. WHAT ELSE ARE THEY KEEPING FROM US might watch it a second time later to appreciate the editing better! i put this on the background while i was cutting my hair, lol really nice video i wish i could triple like it. in honor of splatoon 3
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).
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
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 was prepared to consider the buildup a bit overkill once I was finished with the video, but the osmotic pressure section had me fucking hooting and hollering. I LOVE THINKING AND MAKING CONNECTIONS. This is that good shit, that pure unfiltered autism. Thank you for being abnormal about splatoon
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
42:12 I feel as though the fact that the ink storm IS a weapon at all implies that rain is a deeply held fear for inklings, that they thought to create a weapon out of it; so its probably the case that enough rain WOULD be deadly, but it would have to be a lot
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”
I never played the splatoon games myself but I've always been a lurker fan of the series. These videos bring so much joy, and hearing Stars Of Density play halfway through felt like the perfect cherry on top. This might be my new favourite splatoon lore video from you!
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
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...
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
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!!!
OSMOTIC PRESSURE, OSMOTIC PRESSURE, I KEEP GETTING TRANSLATIONS FOR OSMOTIC PRESSURE- I GOT BOXES FULL OF OSMOSIS!!!! Seriously, rassicas- you did an amazing job with this documentary. Glad to see that even after a decade of this franchise being around, we still have yet to fully understand the world we've been obsessed with. Keep up the good work!
The grizzco special packs could also function like hand warmers, where if you crack it, it will warm up, so maybe the special packs do that but instantly, instead of gradually
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.
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!
I actually have this thought. From what I remember in the splatoon 1-2 hero mode, you have 3 lives to restart back to when you get splatted before you actually die. (and it could mean that the player is dead dead like Agent 8 in those escape stages but I don’t know) It’s likely because of the fact that those spawn points don’t have enough energy as the ones in Turf war, probably because of the Zapfish missing at that moment or since they’re near Octo Valley/Canyon and it doesn’t get much energy as the surface does.
Near the end, I started to think about the ability Tenacity, where you get a boost in special gauge the less teams are active. This could be easily translated to when you are the only survivor thus you get an adrenaline/emotional increase. Other clothing abilities revolving around increase of special gauge would probably be the fact that the inkling/octoling likes what they are wearing. And isn't specials like Inkjet and Ink Vac shooting out hot, pressurized ink?
I had accepted that osmotic pressure was the cause some time ago- I think after you linked a translation of that interview on twitter- but I didn't actually *understand* how that worked until now, you gave a great explanation for something I definitely did not pay enough attention to in highschool Biology class. I'll say that I think just HOW FAST it's fatal is probably a gameplay/story segregation thing though instead of needing an additional concept to explain it. I would expect an inkling can be submerged momentarily, even if it absolutely sucks, without immediately dying like they do in-game, much in the same way a person can be completely on fire momentarily but live, except that we don't have the luxuries of shapeshifting into goo & coffee-necromancy to help repair the agonizing damage.
Water being lethal to inkfish is something that I've been onboard with and have understood as canon for a while, but what I still can't rock with is the permeable skin aspect. Like, mollusks like Slug and Squids are really, REALLY squishy creatures and I'm pretty sure skin like that is very fragile. For the kinds of activities that the inkfish engage with, I just can't see this as being true, with them running around with skin that has the durability of tissue paper. There's a reason why creatures even have skin and membranes in the first place, to keep good stuff in and bad stuff out and why your red bloods cells and the like, are trapped behind your skin. I feel like the very air they breathe and other trace elements that they walk through would also just dissolve them as well if this permeable skin idea were really true. Also great work as usual on this video. Very good stuff! :)
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 🙏
38:04 although its a mistranslation i could TOTALLY see inklings and octolings making up crazy extreme sports like "Water surfing" in order to have adrenaline pumping daredevil fun! Like, if you wipe out on the board you get splatted and a non inkfish species has to rush out and capture your 'soul' in a life ring, as such due to the incredible danger of the sport, whoever participates in it are some of the greatest surfers on land or sea, hoping to beat non ink based species and radical fresh competitions!
I really like the idea of a really old respawn machine that gives the inklings and octolings weird messed up proportions, and before they had a decent design for respawn machines everyone would line up behind the incredibly inconsistent spawn point after a splatfest re-rolling themselves until they got back to something vaguely reminiscent of how they looked before. maybe some 'fishy' snake oil salesmen trying to get you to buy a REAL AUTHENTIC FULLY-FUNCTIONAL PERSONAL SPAWN POINT
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
This was such an insanely entertaining and informative video! I thought the art of your Splatoon OC's helped explain the lore in a personalized way. I also thought the explanation of how your youtube channel name came to be was really neat! I think the detail of how inklings and octolings hair begin sway from emotional excitement and light up in flames when a special is charged made much more sense aside from gameplay purposes after watching this video. Along with the Splatoon 3 kid to squid/octo form rapid in-between transformation to have a resemblance to red blood cells, this design detail really had more merit to the lore than we could have realized!
Really really great deep dive into some elements of the Splatoon universe! It still baffles me how much stuff from the worldbuilding is hidden from localisations and interviews or things that never got shared worldwide... Personally since I'm French seeing this video is so weird, because it seems the French localisation of the games did a mix of both the English and the Japanese release: some weird original parts from English games are not in the French one (or very limited), yet there's still no reference of the osmotic pressure. On one side, Marie in S1 still talks about getting a shower and Marina still reacts harshly to Pearl about drinking water, yet the Sunken Scroll in S1 do say that the public had "des montées d'encre" ("surge of ink") and Pearl and Marina talk about putting swimsuits... for sunbathing. The most interesting part of the French localisation is for the Manta Maria in Splatoon 2, Pearl says "il faudra qu'on donne un concert sur ce bateau !" ("We have to give a concert on this ship!") While Marina replies "Tant que tu ne te jettes pas à l'eau sur le coup de l'adrénaline..." ("As long as you don't jump into the water on adrenaline...")
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.
I put this on as a second-screen video while doing other stuff but it soon became the main attraction. Deeply engaging and legitimately educational. I just got bamboozled into watching a biology lecture and I liked it.
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.
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. 🙇♀
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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 💀
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!
Hearing "let's talk about death," followed by "death means nothing" appearing onscreen in a splatoon video is _wild._
"I LIVE, I DIE, I LIVE AGAIN!!!" - Inkfish with high pressure
*eats special puck*
"WITNESS ME!!! VALHALLA!!!"
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.
@@Slimeade hysterical strength is the human special weapon (?)
When I saw this moment, I thought of 3 being “a living corpse”, similar to a metaphor I saw used elsewhere (most likely in a different game) but I don’t remember where
What if this had permanent effects on agent 3 and so in splatoon 3 as the captain we see them more affected by being in a special state than they otherwise would have been.
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.
oh, like that thing that prevents you from biting down hard enough to shatter your teeth! cool!
Reminds me of a anime where a character becomes so violently he removes the subconscious limiter of his punches, wich make us not harm ourselves too much in the process of punching something too hard, and so this character punched at his maximun strenght to the point it broke his bones
@@whichcache2517 i think it could be a mix of both! which makes what tartar did even scarier lol
And maybe it could explain special weapon challenges by the "rules of turf war being changed" but that would mess with infinite special levels in 2 and 3
I also like the idea of Captain somehow learning to remove this limiter themselves without this weird sanitization process as I don't think they really knew they would need all the ink gotten from high osmotic pressure even as the machine was being built, so maybe they were able to remove the limiter to get it all almost instantly. Or maybe I'm just being a biased Captain fan who thinks it'd be cool if they had some big cool thing that nobody else could really do lmao
That art of Pearl losing so bad at smash that she charged her special is too damn cute. I love it
this video really raises my osmotic pressure, thank you rassicas
New headcanon: Special charge up on gear means that your inkling character really likes that piece of gear and is excited to wear it, cousing their special to charge faster.
This is so cute I love this idea
splatoon lore disguised as a biology lesson. i love it here
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)
“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.
we still dont know how they give birth
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.
Would also gel with the osmotic pressure theory, it dosent even have to fully convert the water to ink, just needs to put enough ink solute into the water to smooth out the concentration gradient enough
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.
im now gona say "my osmotic puresure is really high" instead of "I'm excited now".
We are so back!
cha cha marina
I love off the hook
Whooo! 🙌
off the hook
the "i made a cork board" at 59:29 pretty much sums up the entire video
The deadpan delivery is what sent me.
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
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.
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".
well maybe they ARE like chinchillas
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
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 had the idea of a special chemical substance that if it were be drank from, it would make the skin thicker and not very permeable (this gets rid of the squid/octopus swim forms) but allows them to survive in water. It’s a weird concept, but it’s all I had in mind.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 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 :- )
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!
the worst thing that can happen to a fandom is that they are region locked to vital information
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! 🏄♂️🦑
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
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.
Your comment reminded me of how in mid 2021 to early 2022 I was deeply hyperfixated on Toni Kensa (yes, the brand and designer😪) and finding out that he had an interview but that it wasn't translated broke my poor autistic heart. It wasn't until last year that I finally found the translated interview and omg even though it's not my hyperfixtaion anymore I desperately NEED to see how they translate it 😪😪
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
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.
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 ^^
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
46:17 cress looks so happy here, so whimsy, joyus that he has a inkling approved showerhead that wont cause him pain.
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)
like a car wash lol
edit: "aight time for a relaxing shower" (gets hit in the face with a rotating sponge pillar)
the osmotic pressure conspiracy was so crazy. WHAT ELSE ARE THEY KEEPING FROM US
might watch it a second time later to appreciate the editing better! i put this on the background while i was cutting my hair, lol
really nice video i wish i could triple like it. in honor of splatoon 3
everytime you show the sad slug i die a little inside. i feel so bad for him
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).
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
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 am never more excited about Splatoon than when Rassicas or John Sandwich upload.
I was prepared to consider the buildup a bit overkill once I was finished with the video, but the osmotic pressure section had me fucking hooting and hollering. I LOVE THINKING AND MAKING CONNECTIONS. This is that good shit, that pure unfiltered autism. Thank you for being abnormal about splatoon
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.
"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.
12:33 this is really funny out of context
PMD AND Homestuck music in my splatoon lore video? More likely than you think
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
yes. yes. i've been waiting for this for years and i'm coming in at view number 9
42:12 I feel as though the fact that the ink storm IS a weapon at all implies that rain is a deeply held fear for inklings, that they thought to create a weapon out of it; so its probably the case that enough rain WOULD be deadly, but it would have to be a lot
RASSICAS I MISSED YOUR ANALYSIS VIDEOS SO MUCH 😭😭😭 IM LITERALLY SO HAPPY RN
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”
I never played the splatoon games myself but I've always been a lurker fan of the series. These videos bring so much joy, and hearing Stars Of Density play halfway through felt like the perfect cherry on top. This might be my new favourite splatoon lore video from you!
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
Surprised but also somehow not surprised that it took a 90 minute video to answer one simple question. I love this community.
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
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...
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 😅.
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 :)
ONLY THING I NEEDED IN MY LIFE
OSMOTIC PRESSURE, OSMOTIC PRESSURE, I KEEP GETTING TRANSLATIONS FOR OSMOTIC PRESSURE- I GOT BOXES FULL OF OSMOSIS!!!!
Seriously, rassicas- you did an amazing job with this documentary. Glad to see that even after a decade of this franchise being around, we still have yet to fully understand the world we've been obsessed with. Keep up the good work!
The grizzco special packs could also function like hand warmers, where if you crack it, it will warm up, so maybe the special packs do that but instantly, instead of gradually
this video made my brain happy :) thank you for your hard work, rassicas!! its very much appreciated
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
Alright, I think I feel a light breeze coming, idk know
always love the editing of these videos, but the quality really has gone up! :)) keep up the good work!
Pray for these inkling souls, they will never be able to escape samsara with their wicked rebirth espresso machines
😔🙏
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.
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!
I actually have this thought. From what I remember in the splatoon 1-2 hero mode, you have 3 lives to restart back to when you get splatted before you actually die. (and it could mean that the player is dead dead like Agent 8 in those escape stages but I don’t know) It’s likely because of the fact that those spawn points don’t have enough energy as the ones in Turf war, probably because of the Zapfish missing at that moment or since they’re near Octo Valley/Canyon and it doesn’t get much energy as the surface does.
Soooo glad to see you back!
Edit: just finished the video and it was incredible, as I expected. My jaw was on the floor.
Near the end, I started to think about the ability Tenacity, where you get a boost in special gauge the less teams are active. This could be easily translated to when you are the only survivor thus you get an adrenaline/emotional increase.
Other clothing abilities revolving around increase of special gauge would probably be the fact that the inkling/octoling likes what they are wearing.
And isn't specials like Inkjet and Ink Vac shooting out hot, pressurized ink?
Over 1 hour long, thank you for being the realest Splatoon content creator out there.
My mind has been blown like a red blood cell that burst when placed in distilled water
Love the Office reference, that segment was so good lmao
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!
Idk if your avatar's squid form has ever been shown on camera before. I love it!
I am speechless. This is such a great video I enjoyed through and through. Good job!
I had accepted that osmotic pressure was the cause some time ago- I think after you linked a translation of that interview on twitter- but I didn't actually *understand* how that worked until now, you gave a great explanation for something I definitely did not pay enough attention to in highschool Biology class. I'll say that I think just HOW FAST it's fatal is probably a gameplay/story segregation thing though instead of needing an additional concept to explain it. I would expect an inkling can be submerged momentarily, even if it absolutely sucks, without immediately dying like they do in-game, much in the same way a person can be completely on fire momentarily but live, except that we don't have the luxuries of shapeshifting into goo & coffee-necromancy to help repair the agonizing damage.
Water being lethal to inkfish is something that I've been onboard with and have understood as canon for a while, but what I still can't rock with is the permeable skin aspect. Like, mollusks like Slug and Squids are really, REALLY squishy creatures and I'm pretty sure skin like that is very fragile. For the kinds of activities that the inkfish engage with, I just can't see this as being true, with them running around with skin that has the durability of tissue paper. There's a reason why creatures even have skin and membranes in the first place, to keep good stuff in and bad stuff out and why your red bloods cells and the like, are trapped behind your skin. I feel like the very air they breathe and other trace elements that they walk through would also just dissolve them as well if this permeable skin idea were really true.
Also great work as usual on this video. Very good stuff! :)
i love the editing choices in this one, especially in the deep end chapter, great references!
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.
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 🙏
38:04 although its a mistranslation i could TOTALLY see inklings and octolings making up crazy extreme sports like "Water surfing" in order to have adrenaline pumping daredevil fun! Like, if you wipe out on the board you get splatted and a non inkfish species has to rush out and capture your 'soul' in a life ring, as such due to the incredible danger of the sport, whoever participates in it are some of the greatest surfers on land or sea, hoping to beat non ink based species and radical fresh competitions!
i love the new artwork
Great video as always! You've fed my five years and running splatoon obsession once again.
I really like the idea of a really old respawn machine that gives the inklings and octolings weird messed up proportions, and before they had a decent design for respawn machines everyone would line up behind the incredibly inconsistent spawn point after a splatfest re-rolling themselves until they got back to something vaguely reminiscent of how they looked before.
maybe some 'fishy' snake oil salesmen trying to get you to buy a REAL AUTHENTIC FULLY-FUNCTIONAL PERSONAL SPAWN POINT
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
This was such an insanely entertaining and informative video! I thought the art of your Splatoon OC's helped explain the lore in a personalized way. I also thought the explanation of how your youtube channel name came to be was really neat!
I think the detail of how inklings and octolings hair begin sway from emotional excitement and light up in flames when a special is charged made much more sense aside from gameplay purposes after watching this video. Along with the Splatoon 3 kid to squid/octo form rapid in-between transformation to have a resemblance to red blood cells, this design detail really had more merit to the lore than we could have realized!
Really really great deep dive into some elements of the Splatoon universe!
It still baffles me how much stuff from the worldbuilding is hidden from localisations and interviews or things that never got shared worldwide...
Personally since I'm French seeing this video is so weird, because it seems the French localisation of the games did a mix of both the English and the Japanese release: some weird original parts from English games are not in the French one (or very limited), yet there's still no reference of the osmotic pressure.
On one side, Marie in S1 still talks about getting a shower and Marina still reacts harshly to Pearl about drinking water, yet the Sunken Scroll in S1 do say that the public had "des montées d'encre" ("surge of ink") and Pearl and Marina talk about putting swimsuits... for sunbathing.
The most interesting part of the French localisation is for the Manta Maria in Splatoon 2, Pearl says "il faudra qu'on donne un concert sur ce bateau !" ("We have to give a concert on this ship!") While Marina replies "Tant que tu ne te jettes pas à l'eau sur le coup de l'adrénaline..." ("As long as you don't jump into the water on adrenaline...")
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.
Jesus Christ. Over an hour. You are insane.
Thank you!!
I put this on as a second-screen video while doing other stuff but it soon became the main attraction. Deeply engaging and legitimately educational. I just got bamboozled into watching a biology lecture and I liked it.
1:13:34
The “All you can splashdown” level in question:
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.
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. 🙇♀