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  1. redeyedsheepskull Sat 08 Oct 2022 05:40AM UTC

    "baah" - a sheep, probably

    i'm in a server with a few others and one of the members posted your stuff like "yoooo remember this writer from early splat2? guess who came back" and we were all incredibly normal about it. anyways hello this fic is really good

    i love how you present them stealing the zapfish. "yeah this guy was just wandering the streets so we pulled it into a sewer and now a fish powers our preschool/maternity ward and also the ration factory." it feels surprisingly coherent with splatoon but also how subtly... idk how kind they're all trying to be, all things considered. they just want to support their people and keep them safe. you do a good job of... i don't want to say humanizing them because they're meant to be octos, but it's the only word i can think of

    also the way you bond shiver with octarian troops is both very natural and really funny. i don't think it would happen in this fic but i'm imagining agent three, age 14, popping into a dome and then being like "is that an actual shark" and then seven years later watching new 3 fight the exact same shark and thinking "IT'S FUCKING BACK?"

    anyways good fic thank you

    Last Edited Sat 08 Oct 2022 05:40AM UTC

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    1. chillout Sat 08 Oct 2022 05:47AM UTC

      thank you so much!! (and omg i didnt realize that people remembered me from back then?? wow)

      and yes, i do my best to take a sympathetic(? is that even the right word? imma use it) route with the octos, theyre truly just going through a power crisis and being led by octavio, who has surely taught them to hold the same grudge he is lmao

      omg thats hilarious- i think literally the entire splatoon was probably absolutely shaken by the sight of a gigantic shark fighting the new recruit, not to mention the hoarde of eels lmao- definitely a "sINCE WHEN ARE WE FIGHTING WITH ACTUAL SHARKS??? HELLO???" kind of moment

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