Inkling



Inklings are characters that players control in Splatoon. The Inklings in Splatoon live in the city Inkopolis.

Background
100 years before the events of Splatoon, the Inklings and the Octarians engaged in a great Turf War. A young Cap'n Cuttlefish and the Inklings won, sending the Octarians away.

Appearance
Inkings can alternate between a humanoid form and a squid form that bears a resemblance to the Bloopers from the Super Mario video game series.

The humanoid form has a black marking resembling a mask around their eyes, pointed ears, and "hair" that resembles a squid's tentacles that changes color randomly in turf war when you start a battle and in a predetermined way in hero mode. They possess pointed teeth that appear to be similar to a squid's beak. The squid form resembles a brightly-colored cephalopod with two pronounced tentacles and two large eyes that seemed to be joined.

Known colors for Inklings and their ink include orange, blue, lime green, white-green, violet, cyan, yellow, scarlet, and magenta.

Inklings are also customizable. If the player chooses a girl inkling, their inkling will have thin eyebrows and ponytails that hang from both sides of the head. A boy inkling has noticeably larger eyebrows and the ponytails are in the middle of the back of it's head, appearing to be tied together with a band. Skins, hats, clothing, and weapons can be changed to the player's liking.

Abilities
Both of the Inklings' forms have abilities associated with them. In humanoid form, Inklings can splatter a special type of colored ink by using various weapons, such as a gun that resembles a Super Soaker water gun. This ink can be quickly spread over many surfaces, with the exception of green barrel-like objects, black pavement, and glass surfaces. This ink can inhibit the movement of Inklings that do not have a matching color. When used as a projectile, ink can damage opposing Inklings. In squid form, an Inkling can swim and jump quickly through ink of the same color, using this mechanic to swim up walls and through wire fences and grates into areas that are not typically reachable. However, squids cannot travel past striped barriers, preventing them from swimming into inaccessible areas. While squids form inklings are in their own ink color they will be invisible if they stay still and when moving only slight ripples will appear. While in ink, they will also gain more ammo or paint the humanoid inkling can fire. When squid form inklings are on land without paint, they will be very visible and move very slowly, even slower then a humanoid inkling.

Inklings are unable to swim in water. When underwater, their form dissolves for unknown reasons. The official American Splatoon Tumblr has mused that this may be because their bodies are actually made of liquid. Another reason to support this is that squid form inklings can go through grates.

Deaths
There are three known ways an Inkling can die. They can die from water, enemy Ink, and falling off of a ledge. When they die in water, they dissolve. When they die from enemy fire, the inkling's weapons will fall to the ground, while the inkling will explode in the enemy's color. When they die like this a ghost that looks like the squid form inkling, will float into the air. Also, if they fall of a cliff, they will explode as well, but in their ink color. When an Inkling dies, it will respawn at the Respawn Point or at the Check Point if they are playing in Hero Mode.

Trivia

 * According to the EDGE article, Inklings get full control of their squid and human forms at age 14. Since the playable Inklings seem to have full control of their squid and human forms, one can assume that they are 14, despite their appearance.
 * An Inkling's ink color is random online and in Hero Mode it depends on the chapter.

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