LET THEM PARTY

LET THEM PARTY

THEY DESERVE TO CELEBRATE TOO EVEN AFTER WE MURDERED OVER A BILLION OF THEM DURING THE RUN

Grand run is over, why are they still here!?

damn i really should try and write down this really cool salmonid based campaign idea i've been cooking in my head for some time like please nintendo give us salmon people not salmon enemies

Splatoon salmonid rambles

Hi ok so big run (grand run?) just passed like yesterday or something and I had the most sickening idea for splatoon 4

I want the story mode to give salmonid lore. I want them to be treated like people. They are a society. They are conscious. They ARE people. But in the games they’re literally just “kill as many of those guys as u can and give me their eggs pls 🐻” which is fine I guess but…they canonically are people. They have culture and beliefs and traditions and music (the music that plays during Salmon Run is made by an in universe band called omega-3 (except the word “omega” is a symbol, probably the Omega symbol but I’m stupid so I wouldn’t know) like they are literally People.

And u might be asking urself “bee wtf does this have to do with a potential story mode for splatoon 4” and to that I say

The total amount of golden eggs gathered during this past Big Run was

1,535,611,351

(For anyone who struggles figuring out how much a big number actually Is, it’s Over one billion and a half. Lotsa eggs)

And I’m very proud of the community for getting that many! That’s really incredibly impressive!! Especially considering how the original quota was 700,000,000 (seven hundred million, also a very big number, but considerably smaller.)

What I want from the story mode of splatoon 4 is the ramifications of this. I want the salmonids to be allies. I want to see their societies, learn about them. I want them to be CHARACTERS, not just ENEMIES.

I think an interesting way to do this would be to have Grizzco be at the center of the evil happenings..again. But this time under the iron fist (paw) of Lil’ Judd. Because if u pay attention to detail, there are some things that possibly imply that Lil’ Judd is running Grizzco while Mr.Grizz is in space. Maybe Lil’ Judd, fueled by his superiority complex, tries to do what Mr.Grizz couldn’t, or maybe something even worse. Maybe Lil’ Judd doesn’t even care about mammals and inkfish and salmonids, he just wants to rule everything, have everlasting control. He doesn’t want to keep living in Judd’s shadow.

Anyways yeah I’ll stop rambling now. Sorry if this makes no sense lmao

Splatoon means art

Splatoon means a lot to me, it really does. I first heard about it from a close friend 1st to 2nd grade, and I loved the concept. Who wouldn't love a squid person who could shift in and out of kid to squid form, and would shoot paint out of a water gun? I didn't play the game at that time, and I lost interest after a bit, but it stuck.

Sooner than later, I got my hands on Splatoon 2, after the Splatpocalypse. I adored the game, even if I didn't have online at the time. I made many memories playing the hero mode. I remember running around trying to find all the sunken scrolls, hungrily eating up the lore like a madman. I eventually got online, and had a blast playing turf war. I then got my hands on the Octo Expansion, and that was probably one of the best things I've done. It was just so amazing to finally play through after a long time. I knew a lot of the lore because I went online to search for it. Then I ended up forgetting about the game in my infamous Sonic phase. One of my favorite memories playing Splatoon 2 was playing Salmon Run for the first time. The training scared me so bad, I avoided Grizzco at all costs, but eventually I decided to try it out, and after that, I've been a Salmonid lover forever.

I don't remember when I got Splatoon 3, most likely a Christmas a year or so ago, when we went up to Minnesota to visit family. Our switch didn't have much space for it, so we had to push the switch to add it in. I was very excited to play. But after a bit, I lost interest, going into my love of Warriors Cats once more. This is where the channel comes in, and I do a lot of Warriors stuff. I believe somewhere in February of this year, I had a dream about playing Splatoon 3 again, and so the next morning, I decided to try and force my switch to get the game running again. It took some pushing and pulling of data, but I got it to work, and I've been playing ever since. I've gone far down the rabbit hole of lore, analyzing as many things as I could to understand the story and it's themes.

This phase of loving Splatoon came to me while I was in a dark moment in my life. A longtime friendship was falling apart, and it did fall apart soon enough. Splatoon was able to get me through that, and it was a place I could escape to when life got rough. It's a world full of color and art, something that I love. I am an artist and a musician, a creative and a writer. I am LGBTQ+, and Splatoon is a safespace for all of those things.

Splatoon, at its core, is about art. It's about embracing yourself and seizing the moment, creating a mess just for the fun of it. You paint with all the colors of the rainbow, and you might end up saving the world because of it. This world is our own, far, far, far in the future. Splatoon is a warning against climate change and war, for humans are gone because of their own sins. It warns against total chaos and total order, and it's a warning against the evil systems that we as humans struggle under. The world of Splatoon is a world where you can escape from the pain of life into a silly game with humanoid squids and octopi who shoot each other with paint guns.

Salmon Run, and the Salmonids, have become a big interest of mine. The Salmonids are my comfort characters, and I find comfort in them by relating in some way. In real life, I'm quite unique compared to the uniformity of girls in my grade. I don't conform, I'm loud and proud, and I'm strange. Compared to the rest of the cast of Splatoon, the Salmonids are strange and don't conform to the norm. They have their own society and culture that is vastly different from everybody else. I get bullied every once and a while, and the Salmonids get exploited and mass murdered for their resources because others see them as animals and not people! Of course, that's a really big jump, but can't you see the contrast? I see myself in the Salmonids, which is why I love them very dearly. I want Nintendo to do more with them sometime. I want more of my comfort creatures.

The Grand Festival has been a roller coaster of emotions. I just finished crying over Daybreaker Anthem, and earlier, I was sobbing over Three Wishes. I'm really happy that I was able to experience such an event, and I'm looking forward to whatever Nintendo has next for the Splatoon series. I'm going to cherish these memories forever. No matter who wins, I want to wish all of you a good game. Past, present, future, we're all the same in the longevity of time. We're just a small piece in the vastness of history, so let's savor that small piece while we still have it, okay?

Shine on!

Starts tomorrow!!

Look what I made! Salmon Run themed prompts for October! Salmon Run is obviously my favorite game mode, and I want to dedicate October to it because I was honestly scared of it when I first played it. I would love to see some people follow this list because Salmonids are really cool!!

I did a combination of Days 14, 24, and 27 for the first picture and did Day 25

1st Pic: DAY 14/24/27 of NeoMagicStar Salmon-tober Art Prompt- Fear/Hate/Cohozuna

How Breaker got his Scar

TW: ||eyestrain||

2nd pic: Day 25 of NeoMagicStar's Salmon-tober Art Prompt- Rage

A flame burns in anger as many lives are lost to GrizzCo… A flame that combined the Soul of an Octoling and a Soul of a Unknown King Salmonid

Also put my signature on top, i think i inspired Neo's way of Eyestrain pictures…

TW- ||Eyestrain||

That one meme with my comfort characters

it's literally just my wife and a bunch of salmonids

i can't draw my wife