How Does Hair Work In Splatoon? 

This makes a lot of sense

Oooooh so they make figs by heating up the parys and sticking them

having heat make afros makes a lot of sense, since for black humans, the difference in hair type/skin tone is because of isolation in hotter places

Good idea wouldn’t explain the tentacles on the inside tentacles

1 hot day and inktopolis will look like a horror movie

This is very true and something I did forget to mention

All of the cephalopods hair is like that, I mean it's one of their tentacles that were alive, just marinas is WAYYY more noticeable

@@miakiikazu maybe the tentacle is so long its almost starting to grow into a baby octoling?

@@mateo4508 Lol maybe

I'm reminded of Mike's girlfriend from Monsters Inc, the one with Medusa hair.

"hair we all have it" 3 secs later: "and some dont have any at all"

:) got ahead of myself, wanted to talk about other hair like eyebrows, staches and the likes but I kinda just FORGOT

PUEBES guy

they're just like us

@@Envy_May who needs them

that's a very good point lol

Either that or they are desensitized to pain

When you put it like that they're sort of intimidating...

I have a theory that an inkling/octoling's entire external body is just made of ink while their ghost form is their more solid innards compressed into a smaller form that can float away, allowing any octo/inkling to float away quickly once splatted and reform using more ink.

Maybe the respawn pad can somehow mitigate the pain, as when an inkling or Octoling die, they make some sounds that see to indicate pain.

I know I've seen Marina's hair constantly move, but I don't think I've seen it happen with other octolings, whether enemies or players

You’re not wrong but maybe cause Marina is SUPER big brain

Rival Octolings… we don’t know…

I think that could be that she’s an adult, so maybe when the octolings get older like the rival octolings, their hair develops the mind of their own that they have. And then that could be the age where they start getting their hair cut to create octotroopers, which would explain why all of the rival octolings and marina have one short tentacle

@@sage4855 In the Octo Expansion chat logs, Cuttlefish has a picture of Marina before she defected from the Octarian Army, and in this photo, her hair is shorter akin to enemy octolings you fight. So I presume the tentacles grow back and they were cut every so often.

I think youre talking about the video called "good hair day" made by john sandwich.

@@anekonova nah its not I can't remember what it's called but it's a different

"Hair cutting with Inkling Girl", right?

@@lucasnanami Yep!

Yes indeed and it is quite silly but I wonder how accurate it is

Noted, thanks for that gamer

@@TrinityRBG no problem! I also think Octo Fro’s are made by somehow letting the tentacle fill up with ink from a young age causing the ‘fro to happen

yeah octolings are born the same way as inklings we can even see a kid octoling

@@engineergaming3830 Where? I don’t I’ve seen one before.

@@quack-tastictictac1630 maybe this isn’t the source they were talking about, but paul from sashimori is a baby octoling! he has some art of him if you wanna look him up, he looks very similar to the early stages of inklings in the art books

Makes sense when you look at squids and octopus biology

Inkling tentacles are actually slightly prehensile as well, it's hard to notice but they can flex them or bend them slightly. The best example I can find in game is when you shoot Callie in Octo Canyon in Splatoon 2, her tentacles curl upward like she's flinching.

marina knows exactly what shes doing and she finds it funny as fuck when we’re baffled about how its literally a liquid

This is a nice theory 👌

I absolutely adore the idea of taking animation clipping and turning it into actual lore! 10/10

Where did you find info about how octoling hair gets poofier? I wanna read it too 0:

@@Lynk56 I don't remember exactly where I heard it, but during the time Octo Expansion was first announced, people were wondering why Agent 8 looked different than the Rival Octolings we usually see. It was later revealed that this was because Agent 8 is younger than Rival Octolings (8 is 14, Rivals are 17-18). This also applies to why Agent 8's eyes look more square-like rather than that oval-like eyes that Rivals have. I could get more into how I think Octoling eyes work as they age, comment if you'd like to hear about that. But anyway, we see that this "hair getting bigger as you age" rule is also applied to Marina and Warabi (the male DJ in the duo band "Diss-Pair", similar age to Marina), as we see that their hair is bigger than player Octolings and more akin to the Rival Octolings in story mode. This rule could also possibly be applied to Inklings as they age. We see that Pearl has a similar hairstyle to the short cut hairstyle we got in Splatoon 2, but bigger and more stylized (I should mention Pearl is also 21 years old). It's harder to pinpoint with the Squid Sisters, as it seems like they both have similar sized hair to regular Inklings, and they are both around 19 by the time of Splatoon 2. However, this could be explained due to the bow hairstyles they both have. This hairstyle could leave them with smaller looking hair if it's all pulled back into a bow all the time. Also, if you take into account the hair that makes up their bows, they both have extremely long hair, Callie especially. This could be apart of it, because if the hair gets bigger, it gets longer too. This can also be seen in Marina's hair too. Most Rival Octolings have their hair curled up, but if you see a Rival with their hair uncurled (my source was from source film maker), it is a lot longer. Marina's hair is also about that same length, because she keeps her hair uncurled. But I've been rambling too long, so in conclusion, both Octoling and Inkling hair gets bigger and longer as they grow up, their hair can shrink a bit if they keep it tied up too long, and playable Inklings and Octolings aren't old enough to get this kind of hair yet.

John Sandwich rules! i was the entire vid thinking about that one animation

EXACTLY and they can change its shape at will but wonder what limits them to the set specific styles in game, probably because they choose what’s in style

@@TrinityRBG :D

@@TrinityRBG I would say just like in real life it is a bit difficult to style ones own hair. So the styles are those the hairstylists will do.

They probably can change their hair at will, but most can only do it in a very limited way, so they go get their hair styles and then they can maintain it.

The wigs could also be explained by the ink theory. Maybe some inklings don't produce enough ink to have hair, so a synthetic "hair" substitute would be made to compensate.

Huh, a mold to shape their hair, that sound pretty neat.

@@kristofertaft194 this would also explain Captain Cuttlefish's baldness, as he's been drying out in the sun to live longer and can't produce ink as young inklings do.

@@saury5146 That would then also apply for Octavio because he is also dried, but because he is in his octopus form we can't really tell. Maybe because he wants to look younger?

@@crashdragonkoro6484 I just remembered something from a video that’s now deleted, and I shan’t say anything more… but you are onto something here!

OHHHH I see I’ll have to remember that one 🤔

You know that seems possible but wonder how long it would take for it to grow back

@@TrinityRBG they are made of ink...

​@@TrinityRBG probably like a day or two

This is probably the case tbh

hey what is the diffrence between an inkling and an octoling ive been playing splatoon for 2 years now but i never informed me about the story or so

@@Denzo41Hater octoling : Has 8 limbs ( arms and legs, 4 hair tentacles ) hair tentacles are outwards no line across the face, Different teeth, Different language, Circle ears Hair has donut shapes on the hair Inkling: inward tentacles, 10 limbs ( 6 hair tentacles ) line between eyes, Different teeth, Different language Hair is full circle at the ends Triangle ears

@@PEARLOFFTHEH00K inklings also have square fingers while octolings have pointed fingers! and one ear is concave while the other is flat on octolings!

I’ve seen a comic dub about an Inkling wondering about Octoling hair, especially the mantle-based Afro.

@@RabidLeroy yeah that's the one I was thinking of as well

I've seen a comic where the octoling opens the top of his afro to reveal 4 tentacles. It's funny but I can't remember the comic

@@miakiikazu Tenctacle Confusion!

@@thefactspherefromportal2740 Omg thank you

Whenever an Octoling gets a haircut, they have to euthanise each cut strand to stop the barber shop from swaming with newborn Octarians.

@@slosh7072 well does the hair actually have strands like it like tenticles you know and if it does have strands does that mean....octarians are made of hair (non octolings)

@@slosh7072 they gotta abort their hair to keep it from forming an infestation in the barbershop

@@slosh7072 that is a good point and a great idea

@@boneman9751 No way. That is morbid. Their hair is not by default alive. It has to go through treatment to become sentient.

MAKE IT AS WACKY AS POSSIBLE!

do you want nintendo to make and pay for individual 3d squid models (that you rarely see since you're usually in ink) for every single hairstyle

@@elliot_rat not really.

Which page was this? :0

@@dumbpablo5755 i think it was in volume 12? where goggles and gloves entered splatoon 2's hero mode

murder drones gang

By pure strenght and will

In the artbook of splatoon 2, there's a drawing of the respawn point. It looks similar to a cappuccino machine (and the respawn points in splatoon 3 look even more so) and explains that inklings are "reformed under pressure" So inklings/octolings are basically coffee? Lol That's what I remember anyway

Also when they're splatted they also seem to have a ghost that flies to the spawn, and I think that gets pressed into the new body of ink

I kinda go with the idea of an invisible forcefield that guides the inklings soul back to the spawn point.

For what we're shown; their literal, metaphysical soul leaves their corpse when it's destroyed. But it can regrow an entire new body if there's a friendly respawn nearby. This has several implications, like the fact that souls ARE a thing that, without artificial means, will just depart this world, effectively killing someone for good. Also, this means that non-octoling octarians (besides the great weapons interestingly) don't have souls! Does this mean that they're mindless drones without a will of their own? Maybe, but not necessarily given that salmonids have a culture, family history and relics and they don't have souls either. With all this in mind, it seems like souls are a very cephaling specific thing. Wether this has any mayor implications or will just stay as a quirk of the gameplay's design, who knows. Going back to the respawn itself, I have a couple of more sci-fi headcanons: A) The ghost is their actual body, and what we see most of the time is just a massive blob of ink that the true body controls. Kinda like a mech pilot. Also akin to gems in Steven Universe. When they're splatted, their very light body floats away to safety, and without a friendly respawn it could take forever for them to regrow their ink exterior. B) Both their body AND their ghost are their actual body. How? The ghost is just a heavily dehydrated swimming form. As a defense mechanism from sustaining too much damage, their body will expel 90% or more of their liquid in a very fast burst (aka they get splatted). This leaves their body in a very delicate state, but it becomes so light that, paired with the splatting's momentum, it lifts them up and allows them to glide to safety. And from there it's the same, they need the spawn point to regenerate fast.

@@GandalfTheTsaagan I thought to A or B. But their clothes and "hair" style are problematic. And At the end of octo expansion Agent 8 die even before he/she succesfully escapes and TarTar intitate the world destroying plan probably sooner than TarTar planned.

Oooo, I see that’s very interesting

I mean yeah it can be simple as that

It’s unique to you cause your hair is like no one else I think :) But ya got me there lol

Well you’re in for a surprise this year I hope

Considering teenagers play a blood sport for fun very commonly in these universe I don't think octolings and inklings actually feel pain at all

Thanks! But I really do have to watch more of their videos, they do a great job with all the interviews from what little I have seen!

But it's fun.

But that’s the POINT

Yeah definitely feels like they can MANIPULATE the ink to look any form they want but we will question it forever until there’s a TRUE answer, unlike inklings being 4’11”..

Great minds think alike

Glad someone noticed LOL

Well it says that for OCTOLINGS and not really Inklings. And Octolings are under control.

Once this video pops off they’re going to HAVE to give me a call for part 2 even tho so my hair is still there

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BRO, how did you do it? Was it because you hit the BELL icon to get notified IMMEDIATELY???

@@TrinityRBG I did not get the notification until minute 1 sooo he just found the video in recommendations and clicked and commented very quickly

I LOVE THAT VIDEO but that is an inkling cutting another inklings hair and I KNOW there are barber jellies