Player Settings
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Upon starting the Splatoon games for the first time or selecting "Player Settings" from the Options menu, the player is given a variety of options to customize their Inkling or Octoling.
Splatoon
In Splatoon, the player has the option to change the following:
Gender
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Girl (Hippie hairstyle)
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Boy (Topknot hairstyle)
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Skin tone
Eye color
Splatoon 2
Splatoon 2 added the ability to change the player character's hairstyle and legwear, as well as additional options for eye color. Four new options for hairstyle and four for legwear, two for each gender, were added in Version 2.0.0. Hairstyles and legwear can also be changed in the Equip screen. The Octo Expansion added the ability to play as an Octoling after beating the campaign. The introduction of the Splatfest team names in Version 4.0.0 also revealed official names for the different hairstyles for the first time in the Splatoon series.
Skin tone
Eye color
Hairstyle
Inkling Girl
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Hippie
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Haircut
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Double-Bun
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Wave
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Pigtail
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Banger
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Inkling Boy
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Topknot
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Slick
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Buzz-Cut
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Hipster
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Spiky-Haired
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Mush-Cut
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Octoling Girl
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Tentacurl
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Pony
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Octoling Boy
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Punk
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Afro
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Legwear
Girl
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Classic Shorts
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Skirt with black shorts
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Tight capri sweatpants
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Leggings
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Loose sport shorts
Boy
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Classic Shorts
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Loose shorts with leggings
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Drawstring cargo pants
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Leggings
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Loose denim shorts
Splatoon 3
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In Splatoon 3, genders are now referred to as styles. Gender locks on customization features are removed, now allowing both styles to access any hairstyle and legwear. More customization options are added, including customizing the hairstyle of the player's "little buddy" (a Smallfry) whom has 7 available styles. This game also allows the player to play as both Inklings and Octolings from the beginning of the game.
The player will also be able to change their character's eyebrows. In previous games, gender and species determined the player's eyebrow shape. In Splatoon 3, each style has 4 pairs of eyebrows to choose from, amounting to 16 pairs of eyebrows total: classic eyebrows, slit eyebrows, thick eyebrows, and thin eyebrows. The specifics of each brow vary from style to style.
There are 12 total legwear options total. Choosing leggings shows the choice between standard black leggings, colored leggings, colored patterned leggings, or ripped black leggings.
Style
Quotes
“ | Wow... between new features and returning favorites, it seems players will have more options than ever to create characters that express their individual styles. I'd call our mathematician for an estimate, but I'm still mad that she tricked me into dividing by zero. | ” |
— @SplatoonNA on Twitter[1]
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“ | Between new features and returning favourites, players will have more options than ever to create characters that express their individual styles. | ” |
— @NintendoEurope on Twitter[2]
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Inkling
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Feminine style
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Masculine style
Octoling
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Feminine style
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Masculine style
Skin tone
Eye color
Quotes
“ | Squid Research Lab here, fresh off the excitement of customizable eyebrows with another ocular observation - tricolor eyes! Apparently unique to the Splatlands, these player-selectable, triple-tone peepers are so cool, I don't even have a cornea pun to make! | ” |
— @SplatoonNA on Twitter[3]
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“ | These player-selectable, triple-tone peepers are unique to the Splatlands! | ” |
— @NintendoEurope on Twitter[4]
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Gallery
Hairstyle
Quotes
“ | Squid Research Lab here, bristling with excitement to reveal new hairstyles! These new looks for Inklings and Octolings are a follicular phenomena that- Pardon me. An intern SPRINTED in here waving some papers. Oh! It seems the "hair" is tentacle based. NEW TENTACLES DROPPED! | ” |
— @SplatoonNA on Twitter[5]
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“ | Check out these four new hairstyles for Inklings and Octolings! Well, they're tentacles to be exact, but let's not split hairs. | ” |
— @NintendoEurope on Twitter[6]
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Inkling
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Hippie but with a braid on one side.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Slick and Topknot.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Haircut but dried and tousled.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Mush-Cut.
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Hippie
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Topknot
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Haircut
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Slick
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Wave
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Buzz-Cut
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Double-Bun
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Hipster
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Banger
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Spiky-Haired
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Pigtail
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Mush-Cut
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Octoling
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Tentacurl but with tightly curled tentacles.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Tentacurl with the tentacles parted in the middle rather than the sides.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Slick but with Octoling tentacles.
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Unnamed hairstyle similar to Punk but with a curl.
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Tentacurl
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Punk
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Pony
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Afro
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Eyebrows
Quotes
“ | Squid Research Lab here with another hair-adjacent update. It seems that Inklings and Octolings now have full eyebrow autonomy. In layperson's terms, you can literally browse brows! OW. I told Linguistics to pinch me every time I made a pun, and they are NOT messing around. | ” |
— @SplatoonNA on Twitter[7]
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“ | It seems that Inklings and Octolings now have full eyebrow autonomy. In other words, you can literally browse brows! | ” |
— @NintendoEurope on Twitter[8]
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Feminine Inkling
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Classic
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Slit
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Thick
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Thin
Masculine Inkling
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Classic
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Slit
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Thick
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Thin
Feminine Octoling
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Classic
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Slit
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Thick
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Thin
Masculine Octoling
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Classic
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Slit
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Thick
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Thin
Legwear
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Classic shorts
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Black leggings
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Colored leggings
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Colored patterned leggings
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Ripped black leggings
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Baggy sweatpants
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Loose sport shorts
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Tight capri sweatpants
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Skirt with black shorts
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Loose denim shorts
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Drawstring cargo pants
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Loose shorts with leggings
Little buddy
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Buddy's classic style
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Buddy's mohawk style
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Buddy's spiky style
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Buddy's pompadour style
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Buddy's swept style
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Buddy's bun style
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Buddy's pineapple style
Music
Area | Fictional Band | Song Name | Audio |
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Splatoon | Character Creation | ||
Splatoon 2 | Fest Zest (Player customization version) | ||
Octo Expansion | Player Editor |
Trivia
- There is a separate player customization screen in the Octo Expansion, having the playable Octolings floating naked in a test tube full of green liquid with lime-green stains across their bodies. It is functionally identical to the normal one, except that Inklings and the legwear option are omitted. As such, if the player uses this screen to customize their Octoling, then they will always have the default legwear outside of the Octo Expansion.
- As an added detail, the selected Octoling will appear to "wake up" more and more as they are customized, going from having their eyes shut and being completely still (representing sleeping) when picking gender, to progressively opening their eyes and looking around (representing waking up) as more options are selected, to finally looking at the camera and crossing their arms with a determined expression (representing being fully awake) once their appearance is finalized.
- In the Octo Expansion, it is possible to choose Agent 3's appearance, using the same limited options as the player customization in Splatoon.
- In Splatoon, when changing the player customization, both gender Inklings have the same skin tone and eye color as the player's most recent choice. However, if it is the first time picking a character, then the default Inklings have the girl with the second lightest skin tone and orange eyes, while the boy has the third lightest skin tone and blue eyes. Both of these are based on the main Inklings often featured in promotional material.
- In Splatoon 2, one of the Inklings and Octolings corresponds to the most recent Inkling and Octoling the player used, while the other assumes their default look. The default Inklings and Octolings have both girls with the middle skin tone and orange eyes, while boys have the third lightest skin tone and blue eyes. This is again based on the main Inklings and Octolings featured in promotional materials.
- Additionally, when switching from an Inkling to an Octoling or vice-versa, the game will save the player's most recently used appearance as the opposite species, which is used for the single-player modes: Octo Canyon always uses the player's Inkling, while the Octo Expansion always uses the player's Octoling.
- In Splatoon 2, one of the Inklings and Octolings corresponds to the most recent Inkling and Octoling the player used, while the other assumes their default look. The default Inklings and Octolings have both girls with the middle skin tone and orange eyes, while boys have the third lightest skin tone and blue eyes. This is again based on the main Inklings and Octolings featured in promotional materials.
- In Splatoon 2, the player's character animates differently for each stage of customization, such as looking down when deciding on legwear or hunching over towards the camera when picking an eye color. These animations are the same between both Inkling genders, but have slight variations for the female Octoling, who has a 'shy' demeanor.
- In the announcement trailer for Splatoon 3, there is no eyebrow selection, and the customization options looks different compared to the final one.
- The Tri-Stringer is also absent in the final customization with the player starting out unarmed, instead.
- By multiplying the customization options, the number of all possible character creation combinations can be determined.
- Splatoon offers the option between 2 genders, 7 skin tones and 7 eye colors, giving a number of 98 possible looks.
- Splatoon 2 offered more and more options over the course of both its updates and added DLC.
- After launch there were 2 genders, 7 skin tones, 14 eye colors, 4 hairstyles and 3 legwear options, giving a number of 2352 possible looks.
- After Version 2.0.0 there were 2 more hairstyles and 3 more legwear options, giving a new total of 5880 possible looks.
- Starting the Octo Expansion gives the option between 2 genders, 7 skin tones, 14 eye colors and 2 hairstyles, giving a total of 392 possible looks for the Octoling.
- After finishing the Octo Expansion players are able to choose the legwear too, giving a new total of 1960 possible looks.
- Adding all final Inkling (5880) and Octoling (1960) options together gives a total of 7840 possible looks for the playable character.
- Splatoon 3 offers an even higher amount of options due to the addition of more customisation features and not genderlocking hairstyles.
- Inklings have 2 styles, 9 skin tones, 21 eye colors, 16 hairstyles, 4 eyebrow and 12 legwear options, giving a total of 290304 possible looks.
- Octolings have only 8 hairstyles and thus only half the possible looks compared to an Inkling with a total of 145152 possibilities.
- Adding the option of both species together means that there are 435456 possible looks for the playable character.
- Despite Smallfry's 7 hairstyles not being part of the player character options, they are still part of the customization options available in Splatoon 3. This means that there can be a maximum of 3048192 accounts where no sequence of options is exactly the same.