Pearl and Marina are gay 

Then Side Order happened and made it as canon as it can be without actually being canon.

There is literally no heterosexual explanation to any of these images

I was thinking about this before playing side order and then Marina pulled out the “aw, Pearlie, you say the cutest things” ALONG WITH PEARL BEING HER WALLPAPER AND I JUST DIED INSTANTLY AAAAAAA

Not to mention Pearl stated during the news that she was an “octo-pie girl at heart” and she got extremely upset when she and Marina were interrupted while they were visiting the mountain during Octo Expansion. Alone, in a secluded area.

For any doubters, there as an official, reviewed and accepted by someone at nintendo, corocoro comic where marina writes pearl a love letter, and sees her as attractive, so do with that what you will.

0:30 pearl’s face is literally “who tf looking at my wife”

tall precious lesbian and her little gremlin wife

I can confirm, that was gay.

Pearlina is canon especially with Pearls latest lines after the final splatfest

From the future and yeah, those elevator dialogues say alot about these 2, especially Pearl mentioning "Us Time" and "Real Fun"

“Yeah we gay, keep scrolling”

I'm back from side order and HOLY SH!T It gets gayer.

**FLASHBACKS TO THE CHAOS VS ORDER RESULTS ANNOUNCMENT**

0:48 You know what you’re right that proves everything

It is cannon, my lads!

Hey! Fun fact! In the Japan relationship charts, if you translate THE WHOLE PAGE the Marina and Pearl relationship states that Marina is “a maiden in love” This is true! Look it up for yourself! And also, don’t tell me “love” and “maiden” are platonic because you sure as hell wouldn’t say that about a straight ship, don’t lie.

Let's be honest Marina fanboys. Y'all really WISH you were in Pearls position, since Marina is loving on Her and such.

Pearl and Marina are gay *We know* Nintendo did this to attract the LGBT community? *We don't know* I will find clues

“No off the hook can’t break up” -Marina AutoCorrect: We can’t be breaking up!

they better get married in Splatoon 3

Does anyone remember that one dialogue where Pearl says she took her best friend to a cake shop and Marina’s sad because she doesn’t remember going to a cake shop? Marina. You’re obviously not her best friend. You’re her wife.

Remember guys Marina sleeps with a Pearl plushie, Marina has Pearl as her homescreen on here laptop, and Pearl had promised Marina “us time” after their world tour. All of these things are true, according to Side Order.

awwww i love the idea of them being couples its so cute its makes my lesbian heart flutter

The new Side Order DLC has tons of Pearlina moments that shows their loving dynamic and spicy other romantic implications.

Edit: Your guys' comments made me curious enough to buy Side Order 👀 Here's a little uhh.. something different I did for fun since Splatoon 2 splatfests are coming to an end soon! Please don't be an a$$ in the comment section about this ship or LGTBQ in general. Thank you! ♥

Pearlina’s status: semi canon, Marina canonically has a crush on Pearl in the JP version, but Pearl’s side is uncomfirmed. She is rather clueless about Marina’s crush on her in the JP version but has said things that obviously imply Marina means a whooooleee lot to her. Just kiss already!

"I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE INK,THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN SQUIDS GAY!" Does anyone know that reference?

on the Octo expansion its obvious they couple, the final "kiss" on the floor, the picture of marina sleeping TAKEN BY PEARL, the fact that maria waits for only saw pearl; in fact the Octo expansion is a laaaaaarge proof of perlina and I LOVE IT they`re a very cute couple :w:

when seeing the inkopolis news on my switch i remember marina calling pearl cute i squealed (in my head)

1:39 I MEAN CMON THEY LOOK EACH OTHER LIKE THAT HOW IS THIS NOT GAY

Ahhh yes my favorite couple Pearl and Harbor

Subtitles: [applause] Its not wrong there

Ah, yes, completely platonic friendship, gals being pals, peak heterosexual

I think this needs a little update now that pearlina honeymoon simulator dropped

“They’re such good friends”

Blazing Love Meteor should be their hit single in Splatoon 3. I imagine them still being the idols in that game.

Side order Made This 20 Times More Cannon

after playing side order, it is so heavily implied to the point where it's pretty much blatant. i think the only reason why they're not outright saying it is because they want to avoid any outrage. it was still pretty wild that four characters in the DLC were heavily implied to be queer though.

Pearl eating French fries is adorable af

I'm CONVINCED that anybody who doesn't ship Pearlina A. has either never played Splatoon 2, Octo Expasion, or just Splatoon at all B. Is an AI that pretends to be human and pretends to enjoy splatoon or C, is a basement-crawling crusty straight dude who ships himself with Marina and is jealous of the fictional clump of pixels known as Pearl.

WHEN WILL THEY KISS GOD DAMNIT

Coming here after side order released. This HAS to be cannon at this point

Also, when team Chaos won, this happend: "I'm just playin', Marina. You know I love you." "Pearl... I... I... I'm so happy right now... *sob*" "It's you and me against the universe, 'Rina!"

The ending of Octo Expansion when Pearl and Marina was so cute, they’re perfect for each other!

Before Side Order it was kinda subtle, but now after their just screaming in our face and i love it

This ship makes my heart go ❤✨UwU✨❤

There’s no straight explanation for this masterpiece 👏👏👏👏

I am so grateful Side Order made it even more canon than it already was

All I needed was that “Octo-pie” comment Pearl made and it was clear what I was looking at here

why do i religiously come back to this video every single time this pops up on my homescreen

“Oh sorry! I was just daydreaming about how adorable you are in this drone form.” -Marina “The two of us formed Off the Hook and ever since, I’ve felt like I’m just waiting to wake up from a dream”- Marina again.

Told my friend I shipped them...he said marina deserves something better, smh 🤦‍♀️

I ship

I just got into Splatoon but this is already my OTP, Marina and Pearl are awesome together.

Side order made them even gayer somehow

after playing side order i never want to see the "theyre just friends" response ever again. not even bihldorff is denying it at this point

and that's on EVERYTHING!!

1:42 this is definitely how you stare at your best friend! nothing gay about it all folks!!!

I see no logical reason why anyone could object

Adorable

1:38 YOU’RE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THIS IS PLATONIC????

Nice to see you back

They look cute together UwU

Splatoon two pearl and marina: not that obvious… Side order: Marina: Aww Pearlie!😳😳😳

"And they were roommates"

I love how this has just been progressively more right over the last 4 years.

i actually love this shipp its so cute

Reading the marina dev diaries makes it even more obvious somehow Acht can CLEARLY tell

Also Pearl said “I love you” to marina

Squid Sisters: Actually cousins Deep Cut: Just a bunch of friends Off the Hook:

AHWWWWWWWW PEARLINA WEDDING WHEN!??!?!

Side Order just drives this point home even further. Marina literally has a picture of Pearl as her wallpaper for her laptop. No one does that unless they're dating that person.

this escept now with side orde PLEASE I BEG

That’s some aggressive hugging

We love the gay cephalopods

marina "maiden in love" ida 😭

Hey, the future here. You're not gonna believe this...

More fuel… Marina in response to being asked about favorite memories immediately starts talking about the day she first met Pearl… I want you deniers to ask yourselves. What is it you’re so afraid of?

historians: they were pretty good friends :)

Agent 3 and Agent 8 are gay also ( ◠‿◠ )

If anyone looks at this image 1:40 and tells me there just friends I will flip I mean just look at the way there looking at each other

ah yes, just gal pals, nothing more..

Tbh it was so obvious it’s accepted as fact in the community

After the post Mario splatfest dialogue, this is even more true

I want to argue this statement but... all the pictures and videos are real and legit so... I can't argue. I mean who can after veiwing these right?

Ya'll its basically canon atp

In my headcanon Marina Ida is Bisexual and no one will tell me otherwise.

And people are like “They’re just really good friends”

heterosexuality was never an option

This is the video that truly started my Splatoon obsession

i played this game 5 years ago thinking it was about inking everything. boy was i wrong. i love pearlina with all my heart

Did this make my day? Yes. Yes it did

IM SCREAMING

Nah marina’s wallpaper in the dlc is a picture of pearl 💀 they gfs fosho

You people when two girls are best friends: 🤯🤯🤯 they must be homosexual, there's no other explanation

Nintendo, grow a pair and give us the wedding cutscene in Spl4toon when it comes out damn it

While Nintendo hasn't explicitly confirmed it. They sure as hell aint making an effort to deny it either

kindergarten: two girls holding hands mean they are best friends highschool: two girls holding hands mean they are DATING

It is even gayer in side order

devs serving the allegations on a golden platter yet again😻😻