Hey there! You can call me rassicas. I have abandoned my gender for an encyclopedic knowledge of Splatoon lore. (they/them) I like to make videos about Splatoon's lore and worldbuilding, with a bit of theorizing. I also have an undergrad degree in linguistics, and have been studying Japanese for some years. I'm not totally fluent in Japanese, but I at least know enough to translate Japan-exclusive Splatoon info into English... there's a lot of it! My goal is to make information about Splatoon's lore more accessible. Aside from lore videos, I like to draw. there's a couple speedpaints and and amvs and unrelated things in here....not making a separate channel for those. if you like my content, consider subscribing if you haven't yet, or following me on twitter or tumblr. If you want to support me more directly, consider joining my patreon or buying me a Ko-fi!
do you have any recommendations for splatoon servers discussing lore and translations / do you have plans to make your own? I would love to get more involved in that side of the community!!
13:47 a little late to comment but about this point matpat did a video on splatoon where he explained that squid a can changed their dna faster than we do
Dark asf fact: Octopus when they mate...the female one will snack the male one...when the female octopus lays eggs, she will quit eating and wastes away(basically rotting), and by the time the egg hatches...she dies This process is called senescene where after an octopus mates/lay eggs...they die Woah...luckily they didnt add THIS kind of things in da splatoon lore, if not it'll get as dark as my mind
Man this interview was surely helpful to differentiate Octoling and Octarians I surly hope the devs doesn't make a humanoid Octarians boss that when splated show to have a spirit like Inklings and Octoling 😉
I know this is like 3 yrs too late but im really invested in splatoon lore again especially salmonoid lore and i found out that the song dilurge dirge has kind of a dark meaning a dirge is a mournful tune that expresses lament and grief. Because on every run we actually kill the salmonoids which is also a dark detail imo
I have a theory about the magnetic anomalies thing in the Deepsea Metro. So, basically, the deep sea is located in domes built by the ancient humans in an attempt to survive the rapidly rising sea levels. Assuming that their technology was more advanced than ours today and, judging from the size of those things, that they were made to be occupied by millions, if not billions, they could have laid superconducting cables to transport their electricity around. Superconductivity is a phenomenon that is actually already used today (just in very niche applications) where a material loses all its electrical resistance, allowing it to transport HUGE amounts of electrical current without loss. So, assuming those humans were more advanced than us today, to supply those facilities with power such cables would have made sense. Now, something strange happens when a loop of superconducting material is subjected to a changing magnetic field: the field induces a current in the wire, but that current.. Never dissapers - the loop becomes a permanent magnet, of equal strengt and opposite direction to the field that was imparted on it. Now we need to account that humans had world wars, during at least one of those nuclear weapons were used (and who knows what other freaky technology was utilized). Nuclear weapons on detonation create an EMP - a powerful burst of electric and - yes - magnetic fields. So if, by accident, the engineers of the Deep Sea domes had created a loop out of their superconducting wires in the grid (and such loop could be kilometers in size, as large as an entire dome perhaps) and some bozo overground were to detonate a nuke above it, the loop would become permanently magnetized by the enormous field strength of the EMP, creating a zone inside it, where the magentic field strength would be ~magical~. For the same reason octarian floating technology could be allowed to exist - small, metre sized loops of superconduting wire would get locked in the magnetic field like peas inside honey by the same mechanism, and remain floating indefinetly (or until corrosion breaks down the wire material).
As a fellow squid autistic, is there a link to that spreadsheet perchance? I'm OBSESSED with thes deep dive videos. I've been so much more invested in splatoon's lore and worls than the actual online gameplay
i feel like the deepsea metro map is DEFINITELY intentional!!! iso padre takes the place of spyke in inkopolis square so i feel it's safe to say that if not repurposed, it was at least made aware to general public. along with the time gap and the nils statue in hammerhead, i feel the deepsea metro was "refound" (it was already connected to the square, just seemingly abandoned?)
Haha i know this video is older and splatoon 3 has since revealed some things xD but Salmonids begin the 'goblins and orcs' of this world has also been something ive thought quite a bit about. Just an entirely different culture, and one that can and will eat you sdfsdfsdf
This was such an interesting watch, thank you for sharing this info with us! I have no idea why that washington train is on splatoon kyoto, maybe one of the devs is a train freak? LOL
ik now it may seem silly and to an extant it is, but bear (funny pun ik) with me. everyone saw the small fry in the trailer and it was very obvious that grizz was the viliian of splatoon 3 that people said then grizzco must be done so this took ppl by surprise. (i joined with splatoon 3 so im only just saying what i saw in videos from 2021-2022 before the release of the game so i could be wrong idk)
i live for this kind of full deep dive, the trash can, the accessibility stuff, i loooove those so much, I was literally planning to be a prop modeler because I yearned for cups and pots and trashcans with LORE
It’s actually kinda funny that after I get back from my trip to Japan in the spring, the new season comes out and I see the new stage and I’m like “hey I was literally just there in this station and now its a stage”
i'm guessing the eiffel tower was just carried away by the water all the way to the middle east or even far-east asia, since that would work with the Japanese mountains keep in mind, the ocean had TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS to carry this piece of metal, it could have probably done it in 1200 years
WAIT! Yknow how some octolings have green eye whites? What if THOSE octolings come from cut tentacles, and characters like Marina and Agent 8 were birthed by two parents. Lmao idk just a thought.
thank you so much for linking the spreadsheet/wiki in the description. you know your audience so well because yes i did want that. You have very much earned a like-and-subscribe from me, and I would give you Patreon money to go do more squid autism were it not for my being a broke college student.
I personally would like to see other videos on other stages like this in the future, if it's possible that is. I really enjoyed the deep dive into a stage that I have mildly mixed feelings about.
