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lisa-russell · 16 days

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Bruh. I looking up stuff about how music effected Inkfish and came across this Reddit post....

They are all reasonably good points and are probably as close to the truth...what do you think ?

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lytmeowtif · 2 years

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Calamari Inkantation is a Big Deal.

Splatoon 3's campaign has a WHOLE LOT of lore in it, a metric fuckload, and in there are some tidbits that make me really REALLY emotional. But one major facet of the backstory 3 introduces retroactively makes the climaxes of both Splatoon 1 and 2 resonate with me so, so much more.

This is gonna be super super detailed and has MAJOR spoilers for Splatoon 3's campaign, so don't click Read More until you've gotten all the logs! (except the postgame one, I haven't read it yet lol)

So. to get to Calamari Inkantation we first have to discuss literally all of the Alterna Logs and the backstory they present. Namely, we have to talk about the liquid crystals, and about humanity's desire for freedom.

The small pocket of humans that escape the effective end of the world take refuge and build their new home inside a flooded volcano crater. They survive by eating the sea life already living in that crater, particularly the squids and octopi. They manage to build a thriving society, and are safe in their cavernous home of Alterna. But they always long for more. They miss the outside world dearly.

They discover that they can make liquid crystals out of the body fluids of the cephalopods native to the crater's waters. When screens are made using those crystals, like modern LCD displays, they react to the thoughts and emotions of those near them. They set them up throughout the entire cavern, covering the walls and roof completely.

Those crystals could display anything, anything at ALL that humanity had on its mind. But the desire to return home to the surface is so strong - so overwhelming - that every single liquid crystal reacted to it and let them see the sky they longed for, the sky that they had been without for 25 long years.

Humanity of course fucks up, and the crystals all overload when humanity tries to escape their tunnel system via rocket and cave in almost everything, destroying Alternan society.

But their desire doesn't fade with them. Their desperate need to see the sky, their longing to escape out into the world again, is still stored in all those billions of liquid crystals which have now collapsed into the ocean. All that longing for freedom, all that desire to see the sun again, is now polluting the waters and over centuries is gradually absorbed into the sea life of Alterna.

Little-by-little, those desires become the desires of the squid and octopi and assorted sea creatures that live there, and they adapt. Their evolution is accelerated by their desperate need to see the sun and the sky.

Humanity never achieved their desire to escape the caves of Alterna. But their desperate longing was soaked up by the life of the sea, and the squid and octopi followed their new calling and found freedom. They absorbed the feelings and memory and hopes and fears of humanity and built an entire society just like the one that humans had left behind.

(From here I could diverge and talk about the tragic irony of Tartar wanting to eliminate inkling and octoling society for things that likely were also inherited from humans, but others have covered that ground.)

Instead I'm going to talk about humanity's desire for freedom, and about Calamari Inkantation.

Calamari Inkantation isn't just a really cool bop that everyone loves, written by the Squid Sisters. It borderline has magical powers; it dispels the last of Callie's mind control in Splatoon 2's story and is described as having "blown the hearts and minds" of anyone who witnessed it in Splatoon 1's finale. Marina heard it, said "This changes everything", vanished and immediately made for the surface. Agent 8 was similar, as Marina recounts:

DJ_Hyperfresh > I could tell right away that Agent 8 had also been touched by the Calamari Inkantation. DJ_Hyperfresh > Once our souls have been freed, there's no way we can continue to live under the oppression of Octarian society.

The parallels are there for sure, but how can we be sure of what's going on? This scroll from Splatoon 1:

"The customary chorus of Calamari County. Nowadays, this song and dance may as well be carved into the very DNA of all Inklings. It began as a way to celebrate and show respect for the bounty of the sea."

That heavenly melody that makes you wonder what's out there, and break past the artificial sky.

It's that same feeling, passed down for thousands of years. The longing of humanity, that desperation to escape their confines and see the sky, to break free!

It endured in Inklings and Octolings, for all of time, passed down in their blood and in their culture and song and dance, and that desire was so STRONG that hearing it in musical form was enough to bring those feelings flooding back to every Octarian and immediately make them defect and seek the surface world.

Humanity may be long gone, but their hopes and desires and dreams were so strong and rang so true that they live on even now, aeons later, withstanding the passage of time.

That's it. That's Calamari Inkantation.

#splatoon #splatoon 3 spoilers #calamari inkantation #splatoon lore #i just... FUCK #it makes me so emotional!!!

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achidraws · 1 year

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Surpass the hero within!

Through vague memories, I see you. Despite my gear, I'm not your tier. This time, a win I shall pursue.

#splatoon #splatoon fanart #splatoon 2 #octo expansion #agent 3 #agent 8 #my art #artists on tumblr #pixel art #digital art #calamari inkantation #inner agent 3

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chromateclipse · 2 months

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🌟 F A M E 🌟

I’m gonna make it to Heaven, light up the sky like a flame.

I’m gonna live forever, baby, remember my name!

A Splatoon x Trolls crossover‼️

I figured these two would be the stars of the octoling world. Perhaps, as children, Velvet and Veneer saw a stray concert poster or old performance video of the squid sisters and after that, aspired to be just like them, doing anything they could to make that happen; and they’d be just in luck, for their king has struck up a deal with them. They’d kidnap the beloved inkling popstars and steal their singing abilities while Octavio would probably attempt to steal the Great Zapfish to improve the lives of his people.

I think their mission would be to enlighten the octolings with music in the same way they were awoken as children by hearing Calamari Inkantation. However, their songs never seemed to affect the octolings in the same way. While their listeners would definitely be invigorated by their music, it didn’t have the same “properties” as the Squid Sister’s Calamari Inkantation did. But through their music, they’d gained fame and fortune, never again would they have to go through military training nor scavenge for scraps. Maybe they could turn a blind eye to their original mission. It’s not like it’s hurting anyone…

Right?

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thespianinthebackcorner · 2 months

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I just noticed something about the Spicy Calamari Inkantation- specifically- and I've checked it over with both the S1 and 3MIX versions.

The song has an absolutely banger intro, right? But I noticed something. Literally right when the Squid Sisters start singing, you can hear a droning sound that's a little like an alarm. It's part of what makes that intro so insanely good.

Taking us back to S2's Octavio bossfight, we can remember two things: 1, the Octarians know that the Calamari Inkantation has the ability to make soldiers defect. And 2, the bossfight took place in a concert hall right in Octarian base turf. So it'd make sense that especially in a music hall, the song would be cause for alarm- get out of hearing range, it's not going to be good. But Octavio isn't immune either. Hence why he sounds the alarm, but it only plays a few times before fading off as the song really kicks in and Octavio submits to it (and refocuses on Agent Four beating his ass with the Dualies... Or whatever weapon they're fighting him with in their attempts to 100% their own missions). From there, the alarms stop entirely- for better or worse, the Squid Sisters have control of the aux cord, so to speak, and the song is going full steam ahead.

Huh. Makes sense, but how come I never noticed it before???

#splatoon 2 #splatoon #calamari inkantation #squid sisters #agent 4 #dj octavio

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astrolotte · 1 year

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Imagine if Taylor Swift made a cover of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and it bopped so hard that people started calling it "that godlike song" and played it en masse.

This is the status of Calamari Inkantation in Splatoon.

#splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #squid sisters #callie and marie #splatoon callie #splatoon marie #calamari inkantation #splatoon music

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jkijqz · 1 year

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dancing to that heavenly melody ♪ ♫ くコ:彡

#splatoon2 #calamari inkantation #RAAAAHHH I LOVE THESE FUCKERS #agent 4 #sheldon splatoon #squid sisters #me desperately adding as much tags as i can so i get a good reach #splatoon fanart #rgkg #callie splatoon #marie splatoon #ballsluvr673

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octolingplush · 5 days

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ya weni or something idk i’m not a gay squid

#calamari inkantation #get it. get it guys.#DO YOU GET IT.#splatoon

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oktaviaslabyrinth · 1 year

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Calamari Inkantation 3MIX // Splatoon 3 (2022)

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #return of the mammalians #squid sisters #DJ octavio #deep cut #calamari inkantation #nintendo switch #nintendo #game #vocal #inkling #2022 #oktaviaslabyrinth

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navarresimp · 1 year

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mentally ill old octopus and his strange music

#splatoon #dj octavio #octavio takowasa #calamari inkantation #splatoon fanart

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pop-roxs · 1 year

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#ive been waiting so long for this #splatoon #splatoon 2 #splat2n #splat2 #splatoon 3 #splat3n #splat3 #squid sisters #calamari inkantation #splatoon music #tumblr polls #water posts

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lothricshopsathottopic · 1 year

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#This #This is me #Calamari Inkantation #I mean it's pretty much an anti-Vecna song in-universe already #Shitpost #Meme #stranger things #Splatoon #max mayfield #callie and marie #squid sisters #Vecna #Nintendo #Netflix #Inklings #Octolings #dj octavio #Gaming

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stupjam · 1 year

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Inkling Invasion: Marina's Dream. clip from Takotsubo Heartbeat. When the inklings attack, they play a song over the loudspeakers that has certain effects on anyone that hears it. It changes Marina's life in a major way. See the full story in the 22-minute animatic: https://youtu.be/7w7im-5C0-w

#takotsuboheartbeat #splatoon #marina #calamari inkantation #animation

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bobs-memes · 27 days

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I do think if I was being mind controlled, calamari inkantation would definitely make me snap out of it