I like to think that the hair can melt with a hairdryer, similar to jello or plastic in a way. This could explain the afro hairstyle as it's all the tentacles melted together, as well as the "Spikey" hair where cut bits are held by drying to to keep shape. Also this could give a fun idea where someone with some ink on their head can use pieces of other people's hair and fuse them together.
I have a theory that an inkling/octoling's entire external body is just made of ink while their ghost form is their more solid innards compressed into a smaller form that can float away, allowing any octo/inkling to float away quickly once splatted and reform using more ink.
I think that could be that she’s an adult, so maybe when the octolings get older like the rival octolings, their hair develops the mind of their own that they have. And then that could be the age where they start getting their hair cut to create octotroopers, which would explain why all of the rival octolings and marina have one short tentacle
@@sage4855 In the Octo Expansion chat logs, Cuttlefish has a picture of Marina before she defected from the Octarian Army, and in this photo, her hair is shorter akin to enemy octolings you fight. So I presume the tentacles grow back and they were cut every so often.
I remember seeing an animation that takes on the idea of cutting inkling hair, if they feel pain or not. It's been a while since I've seen it, I think there was two versions. One where the inkling was in immense pain and the other was completely okay.
2:23 actually this is a huge misconception, while the art book does say that, in truth it’s referring to octotroopers and other tentacle like octarians not octolings, “Octarian” is more of a general term used for them but it was confirmed that octolings and octotroopers are made differently
@@quack-tastictictac1630 maybe this isn’t the source they were talking about, but paul from sashimori is a baby octoling! he has some art of him if you wanna look him up, he looks very similar to the early stages of inklings in the art books
My head cannon: Inkling hair is strange. By cutting it normally, it initially looks like the "bangs" haircut for Inkling Girls, and eventually heals up to become the end of a tentacle. For the bangs haircut, they have to keep on cutting it every...I'd say every two ish weeks. It does not hurt when an Inkling gets a hair cut. All Octolings start out with smaller hair like the Inklings, before getting puffy-er hair when they're older, at around 17-18 (actually canon) Inklings have blow-dryers and combs, as we can see examples of these in the manga and I think Octo Expansion? Inkling hair can get tangled or fuzzy, as we see something similar to this in the manga with gloves during the third hero arc. You can actually run your hand or whole arm through Inkling and Octoling hair, given it's almost completely ink. We see Inklings and Octolings run their arms through their hair a lot in the square, as well as in the Splatoon 3 trailers. Adding on to that last point a bit, it seems like if Inkling hair is in a hot climate for too long, it "melts", and makes it more floppy and easier to run your hand through. Again, we see this a lot in the Splatoon 3 trailers. Inkling hair is strange. Also go check out John Sandwich's "Good Hair Day" Splatoon animation for how he sees Inkling hair and what would happen if an Inkling cut her hair.
@@Lynk56 I don't remember exactly where I heard it, but during the time Octo Expansion was first announced, people were wondering why Agent 8 looked different than the Rival Octolings we usually see. It was later revealed that this was because Agent 8 is younger than Rival Octolings (8 is 14, Rivals are 17-18). This also applies to why Agent 8's eyes look more square-like rather than that oval-like eyes that Rivals have. I could get more into how I think Octoling eyes work as they age, comment if you'd like to hear about that. But anyway, we see that this "hair getting bigger as you age" rule is also applied to Marina and Warabi (the male DJ in the duo band "Diss-Pair", similar age to Marina), as we see that their hair is bigger than player Octolings and more akin to the Rival Octolings in story mode. This rule could also possibly be applied to Inklings as they age. We see that Pearl has a similar hairstyle to the short cut hairstyle we got in Splatoon 2, but bigger and more stylized (I should mention Pearl is also 21 years old). It's harder to pinpoint with the Squid Sisters, as it seems like they both have similar sized hair to regular Inklings, and they are both around 19 by the time of Splatoon 2. However, this could be explained due to the bow hairstyles they both have. This hairstyle could leave them with smaller looking hair if it's all pulled back into a bow all the time. Also, if you take into account the hair that makes up their bows, they both have extremely long hair, Callie especially. This could be apart of it, because if the hair gets bigger, it gets longer too. This can also be seen in Marina's hair too. Most Rival Octolings have their hair curled up, but if you see a Rival with their hair uncurled (my source was from source film maker), it is a lot longer. Marina's hair is also about that same length, because she keeps her hair uncurled. But I've been rambling too long, so in conclusion, both Octoling and Inkling hair gets bigger and longer as they grow up, their hair can shrink a bit if they keep it tied up too long, and playable Inklings and Octolings aren't old enough to get this kind of hair yet.
I imagine their hair is like ferrous fluid, controlling it mentally with some sort of electromagnetic mechanism which isn't too much of a stretch for sea creatures. Then product and scissors could be used to style it and then they just 'maintain' it subconsciously. And wigs are probably entirely synthetic.
EXACTLY and they can change its shape at will but wonder what limits them to the set specific styles in game, probably because they choose what’s in style
They probably can change their hair at will, but most can only do it in a very limited way, so they go get their hair styles and then they can maintain it.
Inkling tentacles are actually slightly prehensile as well, it's hard to notice but they can flex them or bend them slightly. The best example I can find in game is when you shoot Callie in Octo Canyon in Splatoon 2, her tentacles curl upward like she's flinching.
I remember hearing Captain Cuttlefish had himself dried/Sun-bleached, which extended his life span and probably cut down his ink production. If true. His bald head might be a side effect of not having much ink.
If we presume that the hair is indeed just ink, then I can imagine that an inklings hair cutting process would consist of the putting their hair in a mold and having it trimmed afterward. That would explain not only the haircut style but also the absurdity of the afro, because they put it in a mold to get it that way.
The wigs could also be explained by the ink theory. Maybe some inklings don't produce enough ink to have hair, so a synthetic "hair" substitute would be made to compensate.
@@kristofertaft194 this would also explain Captain Cuttlefish's baldness, as he's been drying out in the sun to live longer and can't produce ink as young inklings do.
@@saury5146 That would then also apply for Octavio because he is also dried, but because he is in his octopus form we can't really tell. Maybe because he wants to look younger?
i had always just assumed they could shapeshift it into different styles i mean they can already go between humanoid and squid is it really that much of a stretch to think they can go to humanoid with a different hairstyle? or maybe they can just straight up change their appearance at will if you want to take our ability to change our character's gender, skin tone, eye colour and hair as a canon ability and not just something for us
with the whole thing about octolings cutting off tentacles to make new octolings, Rassicas actually covered this. apparently there was an interview with a splatoon dev who explained that octolings and octarians (the standard enemies) are 2 different things, the octarians come from cutting off a tentacle, but not the octolings.
My theory: an inking or octoling shaves their head to somthing similar go the buzz cut, then when it grows back they can choose the location on their head where the tenticles grow
I always imagined that the octo afro was the scalp part of their head bubbled up to look like an octopus mantle. And the tentacles are either gone or inside the fro floating around. There is a fan artwork that has the same idea but I don't know the artist's name.
My HEADcanon (ha) is that the hair is tentacles arranged in different shapes and only the outer part of the tentacle is constantly deploying ink making it colorful and shiny. So the afro is just arranging the tentacles into a round blob while hiding the white part inside for example
Now thinking about it, I actually think the octo boy’s Afro hair is actually the head of the octopus form, it’s probably a nod to how big the head of an an octopus is. I mean just look at it ->🐙
@@Denzo41Hater octoling : Has 8 limbs ( arms and legs, 4 hair tentacles ) hair tentacles are outwards no line across the face, Different teeth, Different language, Circle ears Hair has donut shapes on the hair Inkling: inward tentacles, 10 limbs ( 6 hair tentacles ) line between eyes, Different teeth, Different language Hair is full circle at the ends Triangle ears
headcannon: inklings hair are like clay but more liquidy, which explains the afro. they use blowdryers to make their hair more solid, so curls arent that hard to achieve. inkling hair grows in smaller strands but they sorta melt together. wigs are made with ink left over from splatfests and cut tentacles.
I love the fact that the number of hair “limbs” tend to stay consistent with the species. In both the inklings and octolings, 4 of their cephalopod limbs became humanoid arms and legs. There are 6 “limbs” on inkling hair because their squid ancestors have 10 limbs (8 arms, 2 tentacles - yes, there’s a difference). However, this video made me realize that the same idea occurs in the octolings. They have 4 “limbs” on their hair because octopi have 8 arms.
another small thing from the manga (that wasn't mentioned in the video) would be the use of a hairdryer! It could be seen as something used to smooth out an inklings hair, since gloves' hair was all wrinkly after presumably a shower.
My head canon is that the inklings can hold themselves in the like totally inky body (like the mid transformation stage between squid and human) and in this state their whole body is inky and like malleable and then they can grab the tentacles and style it how they want, pulling/cutting chunks of inky tentacle off or pulling/stretching it out if they want it short or long etc and then when they go fully back into human form it sets as their proper head tentacles. Ive had this head canon since splat2 was accounced since on the box art of splatoon 1 it says _fight in 3 different forms_ and has the in between as its own form and I took that as yes they can hold that form they just dont in turf wars etc cuz well in game they’re obvs playing a fast pace game so they wouldn’t need to have that form in-game but it is possible like at home and in everyday life etc (also they can only change their hair in this state as it will bleed in the humanoid state since they’re actual tentacles) TL:DR They can mould their tentacles in the state between humanoid and squid form (that just slightly solid state) to shape their tentacles
I dont think the "hair" on inklings are technically really their tentacles, because if you select the style where it's kind of aggressively cut the squid form doesn't change at all.
octolings dont actually grow from cut off tentacles. Only the non octoling octarians do from cut off octoling tentacles. it was confirmed in a dev interview. however this begs the question... can octolings,,, cut their hair without... spawning another octarian????
@@slosh7072 well does the hair actually have strands like it like tenticles you know and if it does have strands does that mean....octarians are made of hair (non octolings)
It’s noted in one of the Japanese articles for splatoon that the trumpet player for ink theory has a mutation that allows them to have multiple ink colors at once on different tentacles which you can actually see in the cover art for ink theory
10:31 Granted, the Octolings were not even playable before the "Octo Expansion" add-on for Splatoon 2, and that new game mode was already expensive enough.
My head canon: it’s ink, it has the same inky texture as the squid/octo forms and as actual ink. I believe they just reshape the ink hair into different styles, similar to how they can transform into squids/octos. I like this because it makes the fact that they can change hairstyles whenever feel more intentional rather then it being there for ease of game mechanics
I like to think that their hair has 3 main qualities: it’s easily moldable and shiftable, it can be removed and reattached with ease like with wet clay, and it can be regrown either by consuming ink or applying ink to the hair. Making ceramic sculptures and styling hair would technically have the same qualifications.
going back to the topic of whether or not inkling/octoling hair has a mind of its own, we see marina’s hair constantly wiggle and flail about in her news animations. it’s like it’s almost doing it out of her control.
Considering that their hair is the rest of their limbs, I think that its properties may extend to their arms and legs. Things like wether cutting their "hair" is painless or not, its ability to regenerate, etc. But it could also be completely different due to each set of limbs specializing in their evolution (something seen in irl cephalopods, to the point where every single arm is unique in some species). The remaining question being to what extent.
I like to think that hair is a vestigial version of the tentacles that they used to have. It used to be functional when they were still squids and octos but nowdays it's mostly cosmetic.
9:54 I never actually noticed, but inner part of the back hair you can see a suction cup which is interesting and drives the fact that it’s somehow just one big tentacle
i think that jellyfish barbers have a special "ink" and "ink" gun that can make "hair" for the inklings, the "ink" solidifies while still staying shiny
Awesome vid! Inkling and octoling hair is one of the most confusing things in the game in my opinion. However I don’t think the manga is canon and I’m pretty sure rassicas translated a developer interview that confirms that octolings reproduce sexually and only the lesser octarians are cut off from a host
In the artbook of splatoon 2, there's a drawing of the respawn point. It looks similar to a cappuccino machine (and the respawn points in splatoon 3 look even more so) and explains that inklings are "reformed under pressure" So inklings/octolings are basically coffee? Lol That's what I remember anyway
For what we're shown; their literal, metaphysical soul leaves their corpse when it's destroyed. But it can regrow an entire new body if there's a friendly respawn nearby. This has several implications, like the fact that souls ARE a thing that, without artificial means, will just depart this world, effectively killing someone for good. Also, this means that non-octoling octarians (besides the great weapons interestingly) don't have souls! Does this mean that they're mindless drones without a will of their own? Maybe, but not necessarily given that salmonids have a culture, family history and relics and they don't have souls either. With all this in mind, it seems like souls are a very cephaling specific thing. Wether this has any mayor implications or will just stay as a quirk of the gameplay's design, who knows. Going back to the respawn itself, I have a couple of more sci-fi headcanons: A) The ghost is their actual body, and what we see most of the time is just a massive blob of ink that the true body controls. Kinda like a mech pilot. Also akin to gems in Steven Universe. When they're splatted, their very light body floats away to safety, and without a friendly respawn it could take forever for them to regrow their ink exterior. B) Both their body AND their ghost are their actual body. How? The ghost is just a heavily dehydrated swimming form. As a defense mechanism from sustaining too much damage, their body will expel 90% or more of their liquid in a very fast burst (aka they get splatted). This leaves their body in a very delicate state, but it becomes so light that, paired with the splatting's momentum, it lifts them up and allows them to glide to safety. And from there it's the same, they need the spawn point to regenerate fast.
@@GandalfTheTsaagan I thought to A or B. But their clothes and "hair" style are problematic. And At the end of octo expansion Agent 8 die even before he/she succesfully escapes and TarTar intitate the world destroying plan probably sooner than TarTar planned.
It’s probably something like ink/slime held in place by fine fibers, similar to hair, which is the vestigial remnants of tentacles. When it bunches up to a certain degree, it forms into pads resembling the ends of tentacles.
I mean, they can canonically shape shift, not only being capable of changing skin, "hair," and eye color on a whim, but also changing shape from squid to kid.
If we’re gonna return to this question one day, I need to talk about this now. In the Splatoon 3 story mode trailer, we see Callie’s hair is a bit different as one of her tentacles if moved from the back of her head to the front, replacing one of her bangs. I can’t even think of how it’s possible for that to happen since she basically “moved” her longer hair to the other side of her scalp.
Well, I do want to mention something about the octoling hair creating other octarians. When they mentioned that, I think they were referring to the Octo Troopers (the tentacles with faces), not the actual octolings themselves. My theory is that Octolings are the natural species (of which they reproduce naturally if you know what I mean), while Octarians are artificially made. There is evidence of this in the sunken scrolls, in which you see those tentacles found on the great octo weapons were made artificially. I think the same can be said for the Octo Troopers. After all, have you noticed there's that one short tentacle on the enemy octolings' hair? Well, I think they would cut a piece of hair off once it reaches a certain length, then Octarian scientists would reanimate it into a living troop. But if you were to just cut off the hair on its own, nothing would happen. This can all be supported by the fact Octavio was a militarized dictator, so it would make sense for him to want to have as many troops as possible. And yes, I believe Inklings and Octolings actually do have sentient control over their hair, as you do see Marina's hair moving around too much for it to be "the wind". Also, if you look closely at Inkling hair (it's best seen on the hippie hairstyle), you will notice the tentacles are not completely limp. They look as if they are holding themselves up (kinda like how a human's arms aren't completely limp). So it is logical to assume they do have control over their hair, they just don't really use it for much because they have hands with opposable thumbs on their humanoid arms, so they have little reason to use their tentacle hair.
Actually if you look closely at the Octoling boy punk hairstyle, you can see the tip of his hanging tentacle wiggles up and down, so it does look like limbs they can still control, and maybe they still do feel stuff in those tentacles
i never even played splatoon but i had this on my home and since i always loved fantasy details like tentacle hair i decided to watch this at first look, i thought they were regular tentacles too but watching my friend play and a few different hairstyles i guessed that they are probably are fleshy appendices that grow from their head where they have no real sense of pain, and will regrow when cut off this video was very cool tbh figuring out fantasy biology of non existing creatures is something i always loved 10/10
Until we get a canon answer, I'm just going to go with the interpretation John Sandwich made. Seems simple enough! Though, we can change to a longer hairstyle at will, and no time seems to pass. So, my thought on that regard is that ink is used when going from a shorter to a longer hairstyle. Inkling hair is quite odd. Also another headcanon: Inklings do not feel pain when getting their hair cut, while octolings do. Octoling haircuts tend to be much messier consequently, and you'd have to destroy the pieces so they don't turn into Octarians.
I am pretty sure there are multiple fanarts of a jellyfish barber. I remember one of an inkling girl from when the new hairstyles were revealed and one fancomic of an octoling asking for an inkling hairstyle and the jellyfish messing it up.
I think that to make the Shaved W/ Spikes down the Middle haircut, they have some sort of suction tool similar to a Vacuum that they put on the flat hair and turn on to suck out a shape of hair. Also, I like to think the Afro was made by taking the four tentacles, swooping them up and tying them into a Man Bun, and then balling up an overkill amount of ink around the bun
Inkling hair always concerned me because of the tentacles i just tought they were flesh and they were just cutting their head flesh. It is also confusing BECAUSE they have varying amount of tentacles in different directions in different areas.
i like to think, as squids can change their dna, the inklings have used this tactic to make hairstyles, as it is part of their dna, they dont need to sustain it, still doesnt explain wigs tho.
5:46 in the first game one of the scroll shows the inklings brains, this is just about their ink. My own head canon for their hair is that they just turn it into ink when they wanna style it.
14:25 Good point, jud was cloned beteren splatoon 1 and 2, so knowing this game, i wouldnt be surpriesed if some octolings would pop up Tho i think they first need to reach a fully mature age before their tentavles can be cut and grow into octolings Octavio's tentacles are cut to produce the octolings controling the octobosses afterall, he seems to be a octoling that chooses to stay in squid form and not an octarian, and we know he is around cap. Cuttlefish's age
Perhaps natural hair is a sort of coagulation or congealing of secreted ink proteins into an internal semi-permeable structure and "skin" with different proteins making the colored topside and white underside. This would also allow for basically doing whatever you want by properly controlling said proteins and congealing, as well as controlling volume by injecting or drawing ink from different areas. Grilling hair could be done by cauterizing proteins.
I always assumed their hair naturally looked like the afro or the basic hippy style. I think the hair grows into tentacles but if you get it hot enough then it will turn jelly like and you can create the afro or other hair styles that don't have a lot of tentacles.
Short explanation: squids evolved to not feel pain of their tentacles being cut off so basically if you have a hairstyle then you’ll keep it forever unless you want to make your hairstyle shorter but you cannot grow hair *I don’t think*
this is honestly a question that popped in my mind at least once during my time with Splatoon, and i'm glad you pointed this out. i'm just assuming that their hair is made of ink, which can easily be cut to any style, or give the inkling ink to grow into any style. it would kind of explain how they are able to switch between various hairstyles.
Yeah definitely feels like they can MANIPULATE the ink to look any form they want but we will question it forever until there’s a TRUE answer, unlike inklings being 4’11”..
I feel like itd make more sense that every single hairstyle takes multiple months or years to make and it’s just done the same as that old tradition that has people bind their feet or whatever to keep them small. It’s make more sense like the wavy one where they just shove their tentacle down a specialised tube and just have it there until it stays that way. Slick would be just cutting it off and then sticking it at the top where it just connects at some other place
I think that with inklings their hair would be considered “dead” and just be ink that they can do whatever they want with, but Octolings hair is not dead. Maybe it could be that some octolings have “sensitive scalps” and can feel their hair a little bit, but for others the nerve is completely cut. I wonder if octolings can move their hair at will. Either way, I doubt Inklings or Octolings get hurt when cutting their hair, it just doesn’t seem like something that would happen.
Usually all of this cuts become mentally permanent once they choose, considering they can switch to inkling form to human form very often in battles, and because of this there body is indeed ink morphed to model like humans (the camouflaged octopus reference) while keeping the hair similar to their based form. They cut/mold the hair easily because of their way to manipulate the body like its all clay and once they chose this hairstyle they can just mentally have it whenever they become inkling form to human form once again same goes to their clothing i find it weird that their clothing is also fabricated to ink
Im honestly very curious how a follow up video to this would look like considering not only do we have the 8 new hairstyles in splatoon 3, but we also have shiver and frye's base haircuts and the haircuts they and off the hook have in suffer no fools. Maybe you could even analyse the concept haircuts from the artbooks aswell!
I like to think that the hair can melt with a hairdryer, similar to jello or plastic in a way. This could explain the afro hairstyle as it's all the tentacles melted together, as well as the "Spikey" hair where cut bits are held by drying to to keep shape. Also this could give a fun idea where someone with some ink on their head can use pieces of other people's hair and fuse them together.
This makes a lot of sense
Oooooh so they make figs by heating up the parys and sticking them
having heat make afros makes a lot of sense, since for black humans, the difference in hair type/skin tone is because of isolation in hotter places
Good idea wouldn’t explain the tentacles on the inside tentacles
1 hot day and inktopolis will look like a horror movie
If you look at marinas hair, it moves a lot, it’s practically alive
This is very true and something I did forget to mention
All of the cephalopods hair is like that, I mean it's one of their tentacles that were alive, just marinas is WAYYY more noticeable
@@miakiikazu maybe the tentacle is so long its almost starting to grow into a baby octoling?
@@mateo4508 Lol maybe
I'm reminded of Mike's girlfriend from Monsters Inc, the one with Medusa hair.
TrinityRGB: "Hair! We all have it."
People who cannot physically grow hair: *vine boom sound*
"hair we all have it"
3 secs later: "and some dont have any at all"
:)
got ahead of myself, wanted to talk about other hair like eyebrows, staches and the likes but I kinda just FORGOT
PUEBES guy
they're just like us
@@Envy_May who needs them
Inklings recreationaly explode their entire bodies and reform them in seconds. I dont think cutting their hair hurts.
that's a very good point lol
Either that or they are desensitized to pain
When you put it like that they're sort of intimidating...
I have a theory that an inkling/octoling's entire external body is just made of ink while their ghost form is their more solid innards compressed into a smaller form that can float away, allowing any octo/inkling to float away quickly once splatted and reform using more ink.
Maybe the respawn pad can somehow mitigate the pain, as when an inkling or Octoling die, they make some sounds that see to indicate pain.
Octolings hair actually has a mind of its own. Marina is the best example of this
I know I've seen Marina's hair constantly move, but I don't think I've seen it happen with other octolings, whether enemies or players
You’re not wrong but maybe cause Marina is SUPER big brain
Rival Octolings… we don’t know…
I think that could be that she’s an adult, so maybe when the octolings get older like the rival octolings, their hair develops the mind of their own that they have. And then that could be the age where they start getting their hair cut to create octotroopers, which would explain why all of the rival octolings and marina have one short tentacle
@@sage4855 In the Octo Expansion chat logs, Cuttlefish has a picture of Marina before she defected from the Octarian Army, and in this photo, her hair is shorter akin to enemy octolings you fight. So I presume the tentacles grow back and they were cut every so often.
I remember seeing an animation that takes on the idea of cutting inkling hair, if they feel pain or not. It's been a while since I've seen it, I think there was two versions. One where the inkling was in immense pain and the other was completely okay.
I think youre talking about the video called "good hair day" made by john sandwich.
@@anekonova nah its not I can't remember what it's called but it's a different
"Hair cutting with Inkling Girl", right?
@@lucasnanami Yep!
Yes indeed and it is quite silly but I wonder how accurate it is
2:23 actually this is a huge misconception, while the art book does say that, in truth it’s referring to octotroopers and other tentacle like octarians not octolings, “Octarian” is more of a general term used for them but it was confirmed that octolings and octotroopers are made differently
Noted, thanks for that gamer
@@TrinityRBG no problem! I also think Octo Fro’s are made by somehow letting the tentacle fill up with ink from a young age causing the ‘fro to happen
yeah octolings are born the same way as inklings we can even see a kid octoling
@@engineergaming3830 Where? I don’t I’ve seen one before.
@@quack-tastictictac1630 maybe this isn’t the source they were talking about, but paul from sashimori is a baby octoling! he has some art of him if you wanna look him up, he looks very similar to the early stages of inklings in the art books
My head cannon:
Inkling hair is strange.
By cutting it normally, it initially looks like the "bangs" haircut for Inkling Girls, and eventually heals up to become the end of a tentacle.
For the bangs haircut, they have to keep on cutting it every...I'd say every two ish weeks.
It does not hurt when an Inkling gets a hair cut.
All Octolings start out with smaller hair like the Inklings, before getting puffy-er hair when they're older, at around 17-18 (actually canon)
Inklings have blow-dryers and combs, as we can see examples of these in the manga and I think Octo Expansion?
Inkling hair can get tangled or fuzzy, as we see something similar to this in the manga with gloves during the third hero arc.
You can actually run your hand or whole arm through Inkling and Octoling hair, given it's almost completely ink. We see Inklings and Octolings run their arms through their hair a lot in the square, as well as in the Splatoon 3 trailers.
Adding on to that last point a bit, it seems like if Inkling hair is in a hot climate for too long, it "melts", and makes it more floppy and easier to run your hand through. Again, we see this a lot in the Splatoon 3 trailers.
Inkling hair is strange.
Also go check out John Sandwich's "Good Hair Day" Splatoon animation for how he sees Inkling hair and what would happen if an Inkling cut her hair.
This is a nice theory 👌
I absolutely adore the idea of taking animation clipping and turning it into actual lore! 10/10
Where did you find info about how octoling hair gets poofier? I wanna read it too 0:
@@Lynk56 I don't remember exactly where I heard it, but during the time Octo Expansion was first announced, people were wondering why Agent 8 looked different than the Rival Octolings we usually see. It was later revealed that this was because Agent 8 is younger than Rival Octolings (8 is 14, Rivals are 17-18). This also applies to why Agent 8's eyes look more square-like rather than that oval-like eyes that Rivals have. I could get more into how I think Octoling eyes work as they age, comment if you'd like to hear about that. But anyway, we see that this "hair getting bigger as you age" rule is also applied to Marina and Warabi (the male DJ in the duo band "Diss-Pair", similar age to Marina), as we see that their hair is bigger than player Octolings and more akin to the Rival Octolings in story mode. This rule could also possibly be applied to Inklings as they age. We see that Pearl has a similar hairstyle to the short cut hairstyle we got in Splatoon 2, but bigger and more stylized (I should mention Pearl is also 21 years old). It's harder to pinpoint with the Squid Sisters, as it seems like they both have similar sized hair to regular Inklings, and they are both around 19 by the time of Splatoon 2. However, this could be explained due to the bow hairstyles they both have. This hairstyle could leave them with smaller looking hair if it's all pulled back into a bow all the time. Also, if you take into account the hair that makes up their bows, they both have extremely long hair, Callie especially. This could be apart of it, because if the hair gets bigger, it gets longer too. This can also be seen in Marina's hair too. Most Rival Octolings have their hair curled up, but if you see a Rival with their hair uncurled (my source was from source film maker), it is a lot longer. Marina's hair is also about that same length, because she keeps her hair uncurled. But I've been rambling too long, so in conclusion, both Octoling and Inkling hair gets bigger and longer as they grow up, their hair can shrink a bit if they keep it tied up too long, and playable Inklings and Octolings aren't old enough to get this kind of hair yet.
John Sandwich rules!
i was the entire vid thinking about that one animation
I imagine their hair is like ferrous fluid, controlling it mentally with some sort of electromagnetic mechanism which isn't too much of a stretch for sea creatures.
Then product and scissors could be used to style it and then they just 'maintain' it subconsciously.
And wigs are probably entirely synthetic.
EXACTLY and they can change its shape at will but wonder what limits them to the set specific styles in game, probably because they choose what’s in style
@@TrinityRBG :D
@@TrinityRBG I would say just like in real life it is a bit difficult to style ones own hair. So the styles are those the hairstylists will do.
They probably can change their hair at will, but most can only do it in a very limited way, so they go get their hair styles and then they can maintain it.
Funfact, Inklings hair flops around, but Octo hair is prehensile (it can move around).
Makes sense when you look at squids and octopus biology
Inkling tentacles are actually slightly prehensile as well, it's hard to notice but they can flex them or bend them slightly. The best example I can find in game is when you shoot Callie in Octo Canyon in Splatoon 2, her tentacles curl upward like she's flinching.
marina knows exactly what shes doing and she finds it funny as fuck when we’re baffled about how its literally a liquid
I remember hearing Captain Cuttlefish had himself dried/Sun-bleached, which extended his life span and probably cut down his ink production.
If true. His bald head might be a side effect of not having much ink.
OHHHH I see I’ll have to remember that one 🤔
If we presume that the hair is indeed just ink, then I can imagine that an inklings hair cutting process would consist of the putting their hair in a mold and having it trimmed afterward.
That would explain not only the haircut style but also the absurdity of the afro, because they put it in a mold to get it that way.
The wigs could also be explained by the ink theory.
Maybe some inklings don't produce enough ink to have hair, so a synthetic "hair" substitute would be made to compensate.
Huh, a mold to shape their hair, that sound pretty neat.
@@kristofertaft194 this would also explain Captain Cuttlefish's baldness, as he's been drying out in the sun to live longer and can't produce ink as young inklings do.
@@saury5146 That would then also apply for Octavio because he is also dried, but because he is in his octopus form we can't really tell. Maybe because he wants to look younger?
@@crashdragonkoro6484 I just remembered something from a video that’s now deleted, and I shan’t say anything more… but you are onto something here!
i had always just assumed they could shapeshift it into different styles
i mean they can already go between humanoid and squid
is it really that much of a stretch to think they can go to humanoid with a different hairstyle?
or maybe they can just straight up change their appearance at will if you want to take our ability to change our character's gender, skin tone, eye colour and hair as a canon ability and not just something for us
This is probably the case tbh
irl squids and octopi can change their colors too so I agree with you.
with the whole thing about octolings cutting off tentacles to make new octolings, Rassicas actually covered this. apparently there was an interview with a splatoon dev who explained that octolings and octarians (the standard enemies) are 2 different things, the octarians come from cutting off a tentacle, but not the octolings.
My theory: an inking or octoling shaves their head to somthing similar go the buzz cut, then when it grows back they can choose the location on their head where the tenticles grow
You know that seems possible but wonder how long it would take for it to grow back
@@TrinityRBG they are made of ink...
@@TrinityRBG probably like a day or two
I always imagined that the octo afro was the scalp part of their head bubbled up to look like an octopus mantle. And the tentacles are either gone or inside the fro floating around. There is a fan artwork that has the same idea but I don't know the artist's name.
I’ve seen a comic dub about an Inkling wondering about Octoling hair, especially the mantle-based Afro.
@@RabidLeroy yeah that's the one I was thinking of as well
I've seen a comic where the octoling opens the top of his afro to reveal 4 tentacles. It's funny but I can't remember the comic
@@miakiikazu Tenctacle Confusion!
@@thefactspherefromportal2740 Omg thank you
My HEADcanon (ha) is that the hair is tentacles arranged in different shapes and only the outer part of the tentacle is constantly deploying ink making it colorful and shiny. So the afro is just arranging the tentacles into a round blob while hiding the white part inside for example
Now thinking about it, I actually think the octo boy’s Afro hair is actually the head of the octopus form, it’s probably a nod to how big the head of an an octopus is. I mean just look at it ->🐙
hey what is the diffrence between an inkling and an octoling ive been playing splatoon for 2 years now but i never informed me about the story or so
@@Denzo41Hater octoling :
Has 8 limbs ( arms and legs, 4 hair tentacles )
hair tentacles are outwards
no line across the face,
Different teeth,
Different language,
Circle ears
Hair has donut shapes on the hair
Inkling: inward tentacles,
10 limbs ( 6 hair tentacles )
line between eyes,
Different teeth,
Different language
Hair is full circle at the ends
Triangle ears
@@PEARLOFFTHEH00K inklings also have square fingers while octolings have pointed fingers!
and one ear is concave while the other is flat on octolings!
headcannon: inklings hair are like clay but more liquidy, which explains the afro. they use blowdryers to make their hair more solid, so curls arent that hard to achieve. inkling hair grows in smaller strands but they sorta melt together. wigs are made with ink left over from splatfests and cut tentacles.
I love the fact that the number of hair “limbs” tend to stay consistent with the species.
In both the inklings and octolings, 4 of their cephalopod limbs became humanoid arms and legs. There are 6 “limbs” on inkling hair because their squid ancestors have 10 limbs (8 arms, 2 tentacles - yes, there’s a difference). However, this video made me realize that the same idea occurs in the octolings. They have 4 “limbs” on their hair because octopi have 8 arms.
I appreciate this video cuz it helps me try to decide how my inkling OC's hairstyle would work realistically.
MAKE IT AS WACKY AS POSSIBLE!
another small thing from the manga (that wasn't mentioned in the video) would be the use of a hairdryer! It could be seen as something used to smooth out an inklings hair, since gloves' hair was all wrinkly after presumably a shower.
Which page was this? :0
@@dumbpablo5755 i think it was in volume 12? where goggles and gloves entered splatoon 2's hero mode
My head canon is that the inklings can hold themselves in the like totally inky body (like the mid transformation stage between squid and human) and in this state their whole body is inky and like malleable and then they can grab the tentacles and style it how they want, pulling/cutting chunks of inky tentacle off or pulling/stretching it out if they want it short or long etc and then when they go fully back into human form it sets as their proper head tentacles. Ive had this head canon since splat2 was accounced since on the box art of splatoon 1 it says _fight in 3 different forms_ and has the in between as its own form and I took that as yes they can hold that form they just dont in turf wars etc cuz well in game they’re obvs playing a fast pace game so they wouldn’t need to have that form in-game but it is possible like at home and in everyday life etc (also they can only change their hair in this state as it will bleed in the humanoid state since they’re actual tentacles)
TL:DR They can mould their tentacles in the state between humanoid and squid form (that just slightly solid state) to shape their tentacles
I dont think the "hair" on inklings are technically really their tentacles, because if you select the style where it's kind of aggressively cut the squid form doesn't change at all.
do you want nintendo to make and pay for individual 3d squid models (that you rarely see since you're usually in ink) for every single hairstyle
@@elliot_rat not really.
octolings dont actually grow from cut off tentacles. Only the non octoling octarians do from cut off octoling tentacles. it was confirmed in a dev interview. however this begs the question... can octolings,,, cut their hair without... spawning another octarian????
Whenever an Octoling gets a haircut, they have to euthanise each cut strand to stop the barber shop from swaming with newborn Octarians.
@@slosh7072 well does the hair actually have strands like it like tenticles you know and if it does have strands does that mean....octarians are made of hair (non octolings)
@@slosh7072 they gotta abort their hair to keep it from forming an infestation in the barbershop
@@slosh7072 that is a good point and a great idea
@@boneman9751 No way. That is morbid. Their hair is not by default alive. It has to go through treatment to become sentient.
It’s noted in one of the Japanese articles for splatoon that the trumpet player for ink theory has a mutation that allows them to have multiple ink colors at once on different tentacles which you can actually see in the cover art for ink theory
Oooo, I see that’s very interesting
Afro is so unique that it interacts with certain headwear in fun ways.
I’m sorry but the manga panel edits are fucking HILARIOUS
10:31 Granted, the Octolings were not even playable before the "Octo Expansion" add-on for Splatoon 2, and that new game mode was already expensive enough.
My head canon: it’s ink, it has the same inky texture as the squid/octo forms and as actual ink. I believe they just reshape the ink hair into different styles, similar to how they can transform into squids/octos. I like this because it makes the fact that they can change hairstyles whenever feel more intentional rather then it being there for ease of game mechanics
This question has been asked multiple times, over and over,to ourselves, and to other people.
How the hell do you brush tentacles into a perfect afro?
murder drones gang
By pure strenght and will
I've been missing the Have You Ever Wondered series.
Well you’re in for a surprise this year I hope
I like to think that their hair has 3 main qualities: it’s easily moldable and shiftable, it can be removed and reattached with ease like with wet clay, and it can be regrown either by consuming ink or applying ink to the hair. Making ceramic sculptures and styling hair would technically have the same qualifications.
going back to the topic of whether or not inkling/octoling hair has a mind of its own, we see marina’s hair constantly wiggle and flail about in her news animations. it’s like it’s almost doing it out of her control.
Considering that their hair is the rest of their limbs, I think that its properties may extend to their arms and legs. Things like wether cutting their "hair" is painless or not, its ability to regenerate, etc.
But it could also be completely different due to each set of limbs specializing in their evolution (something seen in irl cephalopods, to the point where every single arm is unique in some species). The remaining question being to what extent.
Considering teenagers play a blood sport for fun very commonly in these universe I don't think octolings and inklings actually feel pain at all
0:14 is that bobble hat from the manga in the background :O
Something I feel is notable is that The Captain (old agent 3) in Splatoon 3 has Scars on her tentacles in the trailer
I like to think that hair is a vestigial version of the tentacles that they used to have. It used to be functional when they were still squids and octos but nowdays it's mostly cosmetic.
For the afro hairstyle they just use those afro combs and just comb it
I mean yeah it can be simple as that
9:54 I never actually noticed, but inner part of the back hair you can see a suction cup which is interesting and drives the fact that it’s somehow just one big tentacle
I think it’s really interesting to note that Marina’s hair moves on it own, it’s really mesmerizing
i think that jellyfish barbers have a special "ink" and "ink" gun that can make "hair" for the inklings, the "ink" solidifies while still staying shiny
"Hair. We all have it!"
10 seconds later
"some people have hair and some people don't 😀"
Octoling barbers must have a very...interesting time at work
Awesome vid! Inkling and octoling hair is one of the most confusing things in the game in my opinion. However I don’t think the manga is canon and I’m pretty sure rassicas translated a developer interview that confirms that octolings reproduce sexually and only the lesser octarians are cut off from a host
Thanks! But I really do have to watch more of their videos, they do a great job with all the interviews from what little I have seen!
3:47 I know what you are talking about ! The octoling wanted a squid haircut as I remember, maybe its just some weird mandela effect lol
every problem can be made more complex with the "how does respawning work?" question.
In the artbook of splatoon 2, there's a drawing of the respawn point. It looks similar to a cappuccino machine (and the respawn points in splatoon 3 look even more so) and explains that inklings are "reformed under pressure"
So inklings/octolings are basically coffee? Lol
That's what I remember anyway
Also when they're splatted they also seem to have a ghost that flies to the spawn, and I think that gets pressed into the new body of ink
I kinda go with the idea of an invisible forcefield that guides the inklings soul back to the spawn point.
For what we're shown; their literal, metaphysical soul leaves their corpse when it's destroyed. But it can regrow an entire new body if there's a friendly respawn nearby.
This has several implications, like the fact that souls ARE a thing that, without artificial means, will just depart this world, effectively killing someone for good.
Also, this means that non-octoling octarians (besides the great weapons interestingly) don't have souls! Does this mean that they're mindless drones without a will of their own? Maybe, but not necessarily given that salmonids have a culture, family history and relics and they don't have souls either.
With all this in mind, it seems like souls are a very cephaling specific thing. Wether this has any mayor implications or will just stay as a quirk of the gameplay's design, who knows.
Going back to the respawn itself, I have a couple of more sci-fi headcanons:
A) The ghost is their actual body, and what we see most of the time is just a massive blob of ink that the true body controls. Kinda like a mech pilot. Also akin to gems in Steven Universe.
When they're splatted, their very light body floats away to safety, and without a friendly respawn it could take forever for them to regrow their ink exterior.
B) Both their body AND their ghost are their actual body. How? The ghost is just a heavily dehydrated swimming form. As a defense mechanism from sustaining too much damage, their body will expel 90% or more of their liquid in a very fast burst (aka they get splatted). This leaves their body in a very delicate state, but it becomes so light that, paired with the splatting's momentum, it lifts them up and allows them to glide to safety. And from there it's the same, they need the spawn point to regenerate fast.
@@GandalfTheTsaagan I thought to A or B. But their clothes and "hair" style are problematic. And At the end of octo expansion Agent 8 die even before he/she succesfully escapes and TarTar intitate the world destroying plan probably sooner than TarTar planned.
Note that blurb you pooped up about octolings refers to the octarians which are presumably cut from octolings
3:53 I think I remember seeing a fan animation like that, maybe that's what you're referring to.
3:38 I think you mean John sandwich’s “Good hair day” splatoon video here on TH-cam
It’s probably something like ink/slime held in place by fine fibers, similar to hair, which is the vestigial remnants of tentacles. When it bunches up to a certain degree, it forms into pads resembling the ends of tentacles.
I mean, they can canonically shape shift, not only being capable of changing skin, "hair," and eye color on a whim, but also changing shape from squid to kid.
If we’re gonna return to this question one day, I need to talk about this now. In the Splatoon 3 story mode trailer, we see Callie’s hair is a bit different as one of her tentacles if moved from the back of her head to the front, replacing one of her bangs. I can’t even think of how it’s possible for that to happen since she basically “moved” her longer hair to the other side of her scalp.
9:25 Maybe it's like Play-doh and they just smoosh the ink-hair through a rectangular hole.
Well, I do want to mention something about the octoling hair creating other octarians. When they mentioned that, I think they were referring to the Octo Troopers (the tentacles with faces), not the actual octolings themselves.
My theory is that Octolings are the natural species (of which they reproduce naturally if you know what I mean), while Octarians are artificially made. There is evidence of this in the sunken scrolls, in which you see those tentacles found on the great octo weapons were made artificially. I think the same can be said for the Octo Troopers. After all, have you noticed there's that one short tentacle on the enemy octolings' hair? Well, I think they would cut a piece of hair off once it reaches a certain length, then Octarian scientists would reanimate it into a living troop. But if you were to just cut off the hair on its own, nothing would happen. This can all be supported by the fact Octavio was a militarized dictator, so it would make sense for him to want to have as many troops as possible.
And yes, I believe Inklings and Octolings actually do have sentient control over their hair, as you do see Marina's hair moving around too much for it to be "the wind". Also, if you look closely at Inkling hair (it's best seen on the hippie hairstyle), you will notice the tentacles are not completely limp. They look as if they are holding themselves up (kinda like how a human's arms aren't completely limp). So it is logical to assume they do have control over their hair, they just don't really use it for much because they have hands with opposable thumbs on their humanoid arms, so they have little reason to use their tentacle hair.
The fact that I got a hair and splatoon ad during this 💀
Actually if you look closely at the Octoling boy punk hairstyle, you can see the tip of his hanging tentacle wiggles up and down, so it does look like limbs they can still control, and maybe they still do feel stuff in those tentacles
“Hair we all have it”
10 seconds later
“Some don’t have it at all”
i never even played splatoon but i had this on my home and since i always loved fantasy details like tentacle hair i decided to watch this
at first look, i thought they were regular tentacles too but watching my friend play and a few different hairstyles i guessed that they are probably are fleshy appendices that grow from their head where they have no real sense of pain, and will regrow when cut off
this video was very cool tbh figuring out fantasy biology of non existing creatures is something i always loved 10/10
Ever since i've known Splatoon, i had the idea that everytime they cut their hair it hurts like hell for them.
Until we get a canon answer, I'm just going to go with the interpretation John Sandwich made. Seems simple enough! Though, we can change to a longer hairstyle at will, and no time seems to pass. So, my thought on that regard is that ink is used when going from a shorter to a longer hairstyle. Inkling hair is quite odd.
Also another headcanon: Inklings do not feel pain when getting their hair cut, while octolings do. Octoling haircuts tend to be much messier consequently, and you'd have to destroy the pieces so they don't turn into Octarians.
I am pretty sure there are multiple fanarts of a jellyfish barber. I remember one of an inkling girl from when the new hairstyles were revealed and one fancomic of an octoling asking for an inkling hairstyle and the jellyfish messing it up.
The Afro in splatoon is the equivalent to 4c hair or hair that grows up rather than down I think it’s meant to be different
I think that to make the Shaved W/ Spikes down the Middle haircut, they have some sort of suction tool similar to a Vacuum that they put on the flat hair and turn on to suck out a shape of hair.
Also, I like to think the Afro was made by taking the four tentacles, swooping them up and tying them into a Man Bun, and then balling up an overkill amount of ink around the bun
Inkling hair always concerned me because of the tentacles i just tought they were flesh and they were just cutting their head flesh. It is also confusing BECAUSE they have varying amount of tentacles in different directions in different areas.
I always thought the afro was supposed to be the big head of the octopus, but it's now just hair
11:29 thats called a bob ross cut
i like to think, as squids can change their dna, the inklings have used this tactic to make hairstyles, as it is part of their dna, they dont need to sustain it, still doesnt explain wigs tho.
0:07 : "I'm sure we all have unique hairstyles"
Me, in a borderline militaristic school, who is forced to have some basic ass haircut
It’s unique to you cause your hair is like no one else I think :)
But ya got me there lol
"hair, we all have it....
... and some don't have any hair at all"
2:43 I love how you used GStandard
This whole video is something I’ve been questioning my whole life.
9:50 My favorite!! I love the banger😄💞
"Heck even inklings dont have a mind of their own"
I'm clearly missing something
5:46 in the first game one of the scroll shows the inklings brains, this is just about their ink.
My own head canon for their hair is that they just turn it into ink when they wanna style it.
I think that the way some haircuts work is that the hairstylist mushes there tentacles together and then cuts it out
14:25
Good point, jud was cloned beteren splatoon 1 and 2, so knowing this game, i wouldnt be surpriesed if some octolings would pop up
Tho i think they first need to reach a fully mature age before their tentavles can be cut and grow into octolings
Octavio's tentacles are cut to produce the octolings controling the octobosses afterall, he seems to be a octoling that chooses to stay in squid form and not an octarian, and we know he is around cap. Cuttlefish's age
Perhaps natural hair is a sort of coagulation or congealing of secreted ink proteins into an internal semi-permeable structure and "skin" with different proteins making the colored topside and white underside. This would also allow for basically doing whatever you want by properly controlling said proteins and congealing, as well as controlling volume by injecting or drawing ink from different areas. Grilling hair could be done by cauterizing proteins.
I always thought it would be kind of painful to cut the tentacle-hair lol
I feel like inkling hair is like those squishy things you stick to windows but slick
Yea!!
I always assumed their hair naturally looked like the afro or the basic hippy style. I think the hair grows into tentacles but if you get it hot enough then it will turn jelly like and you can create the afro or other hair styles that don't have a lot of tentacles.
This would have been the best video for a Keeps promo, hope to see it on the next inkling hair video.
I like to think they can feel pain when they cut their hair, they're just badass.
I like the idea that they can do whatever they want because it’s ink
I get the feeling that their hair is really just tentacles that they choose to shape during transformation.
Short explanation: squids evolved to not feel pain of their tentacles being cut off so basically if you have a hairstyle then you’ll keep it forever unless you want to make your hairstyle shorter but you cannot grow hair *I don’t think*
this is honestly a question that popped in my mind at least once during my time with Splatoon, and i'm glad you pointed this out. i'm just assuming that their hair is made of ink, which can easily be cut to any style, or give the inkling ink to grow into any style. it would kind of explain how they are able to switch between various hairstyles.
Yeah definitely feels like they can MANIPULATE the ink to look any form they want but we will question it forever until there’s a TRUE answer, unlike inklings being 4’11”..
I feel like itd make more sense that every single hairstyle takes multiple months or years to make and it’s just done the same as that old tradition that has people bind their feet or whatever to keep them small. It’s make more sense like the wavy one where they just shove their tentacle down a specialised tube and just have it there until it stays that way. Slick would be just cutting it off and then sticking it at the top where it just connects at some other place
I think that with inklings their hair would be considered “dead” and just be ink that they can do whatever they want with, but Octolings hair is not dead. Maybe it could be that some octolings have “sensitive scalps” and can feel their hair a little bit, but for others the nerve is completely cut. I wonder if octolings can move their hair at will. Either way, I doubt Inklings or Octolings get hurt when cutting their hair, it just doesn’t seem like something that would happen.
Fun fact: in the splatoon manga, this concept is played with, as one of the Inklings gets his hair cut, only for it to grow back
3:10 That is some top tier localization.
"this is comedy"
"among us"
"tbh I'm just typing nonsense rn"
"pls sub"
I dont think its styled, they can probably shape it however they want by will. It makes sense when you think about how they can shapeshift.
Usually all of this cuts become mentally permanent once they choose, considering they can switch to inkling form to human form very often in battles, and because of this there body is indeed ink morphed to model like humans (the camouflaged octopus reference) while keeping the hair similar to their based form. They cut/mold the hair easily because of their way to manipulate the body like its all clay and once they chose this hairstyle they can just mentally have it whenever they become inkling form to human form once again same goes to their clothing i find it weird that their clothing is also fabricated to ink
Inkling hair looks delicious
I've always wondered this
Great minds think alike
"Hair! Everyone has it."
Later
"Some don't have any hair at all."
The hair on the first frame of 0:24 is what I'll be using!
Im honestly very curious how a follow up video to this would look like considering not only do we have the 8 new hairstyles in splatoon 3, but we also have shiver and frye's base haircuts and the haircuts they and off the hook have in suffer no fools. Maybe you could even analyse the concept haircuts from the artbooks aswell!
I think you're not supposed to think about it too hard
But it's fun.
But that’s the POINT
I imagine that the Afro is like 4 tentacles swirled together in a sort of bulb, and then they add some ink to the top to make it look sorta polished