History Characters / InkopolisChaos

* {{Catchphrase}}: “It’s just how octolings are”, or “It’s how octolings are”, she constantly goes on about genes, and stereotypes her own race, to the point it’s become her catchphrase. [[spoiler: It even becomes her PreMortemCatchphrase.]]

* AdaptationalWeaponSwap: The girl she's based on wields Splat [[GunsAkimbo Dualies]] in promotional material. This version of her is a [[SniperRifle charger]] main.

* AdaptationWeaponSwap: The girl she's based on wields Splat [[GunsAkimbo Dualies]] in promotional material. This version of her is a [[SniperRifle charger]] main.

* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit is the neo octoling armour, which has her midriff exposed.

* TheAtoner: She felt horrible for her past actions, and constantly tries to make up for them. [[spoiler:After her HeroicSacrifice, we can say that she’s definitely more then made up for anything she did in the past.]]

* EnigmaticMinion: [[spoiler: The story makes it very unclear if she has reformed or not. While it’s likely, considering she abandoned Scarlet after a threat to slit her throat, she also hasn’t yet made an effort to apologise for her actions like James did.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:She brutally tortures Natalie purely out of sadistic spite.]]

* {{Fanboy}}: He's a huge fan of the Squid Sisters, is enraged at Octavio's past brainwashing of Callie, and only sided with the second Final Fest's Team Order because of Off the Hook's Marina.

* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: A few weeks after the events of Inkopolis Chaos 3, she is promoted to the Captain of the squidbeak splatoon after Cuttlefish resigns.]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:She is this to Cyalux from the second story. While both are racists to the other humanoid species, they have different methods to dealing with them. Cyalux simply wants to get rid of Octolings the nice way by forcing them out of their new habitat but not necessarily killing them. Obsidian on the other hand wants to get rid of Inklings the nastier way by destroying all life on the surface, (which not only includes Inklings, but also Octolings). Also, they both have different [[FreudianExcuse excuses for what they did]]. Cyalux wanted revenge on Ruby for killing his brother whom he deeply loved, Obsidian was bullied and not accepted by both Inklings and Octolings from Octo Valley and Inkopolis, which made her hate the Inklings and killed various people from both species just because she can. While you could still feel some sympathy for Cyalux, Obsidian positively sheds any redeeming qualities that could've made her excuse understandable.]]

Melissa is Samuel’s protective older sister. She constantly worries about him, and is very overprotective of him. It’s especially bad when she meets Natalie, and has the mindset that all octolings are evil due to [[spoiler: losing her best friend, auntie and uncle to them]]. After she is saved by Ruby from the Octobusters, she changes her mind, and realises that not all octolings are the same. She apologises to Natalie for being so harsh on her, and then begins to treat her like a little sister. She’s a very caring person, despite her paranoia.

* HateSink: Scarlet is portrayed as an absolutely horrible person with no present redeeming qualities. She is first introduced bullying Melody, then gets very hostile towards Samuel and Luke when they stand up against her. She then beats Samuel up in a forest as petty revenge, and when Natalie comes, she begins making racist comments towards her, making her even more unlikeable. She remains as a sadistic and racist bully for the first half of the first story, but then gets even worse in the second half, where she starts committing actual crimes, [[spoiler:mainly torturing Natalie out of pure sadism and vengeance, and if that wasn’t bad enough, her actions in the third story where she slaughters a bunch of random people, including a child]], should be enough to prove how she was intended to be unlikeable as possible.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Regularly spreads propaganda about octolings, and he’s even believing his own propaganda.
* BigBadFriend: Although he's the main villain of the second story, he was formerly a good friend of the heroes and even hides his true nature throughout the sequel for them.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: She constantly gaslights others on how bad inklings are, telling lies. Yet she’s convinced her lies are the truth.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: It's confirmed that she was neglected by her parents and admired fictional villains' ability to gain respect via fear. However, this doesn’t justify her actions in the slightest, considering she’s obviously no longer insecure, and long past her rough childhood.

* ShrinkingViolet: As a young child, she was very quiet and without any real friends. This is obviously {{Subverted}} later on.

Lieutenant Obsidian is the overall main antagonist of the trilogy. She is the new leader of the octarians, and somehow manages to be worse then Octavio. Due to her horrible experiences in life, she grew into a delusional, heartless monster, who has a strong hatred for inklings, wanting to drive them to extinction.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: When she explains her backstory, she gets called out that her tragedy doesn’t excuse her atrocious actions with Dylan even saying that she lies about certain parts of her backstory to gain sympathy.

* ColourfulThemeNaming: His name is a portmanteau of "cyan" and "lux", the latter being Latin for "light".

* ColourfulThemeNaming: His name is a portmanteau of "magenta" and "dark".

* FreudianExcuse: It's confirmed that she was neglected by her parents and admired fictional villains' ability to gain respect via fear.

* ShrinkingViolet: As a young child, she was very quiet and without any real friends.

[[folder:Lieutenant Rebecca Obsidian]]

!!Sub Lieutenant Blakeson

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Obsidian checks most of the boxes. She climbed the ranks of the Octarian army via sheer intimidation, sets up concentration camps to hold those she captures, [[spoiler:callously executes innumerable Octolings to make an example of deserters, desires a world where only her most loyal followers remain alive, and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled willingly lets herself die when defeated]], just like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] did]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: He tortures Sylvia offscreen, but it’s enough to traumatise her.]]

[[folder:James Axowe]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: After Scarlet threatens to slit Jess’s throat, he and Jess both abandon Scarlet entirely.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He redeems himself by the end of the third story by helping the squidbeak splatoon on a mission, by giving them the key they need to free Cap’n Cuttlefish, Callie, Marie and Bethany.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: He is the only member of Scarlet's gang known to reform and later helps out the heroes.]]

[[folder:Katelin]]

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is the most friendly and bubbly character by a long shot. She’s often trying to make friends, try new things and can act quite oblivious sometimes. [[spoiler: Temporarily {{Subverted}} whenever she’s doing agent work.]]
* GeniusDitz: She often acts clumsy and naive [[spoiler: outside of agent work. But when it comes to agent work, she becomes more professional and serious. It’s even stated that she always checks her weapons before using them to make sure their working properly.]]
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: [[spoiler:She's Agent 8 of the squidbeak splatoon, and trusts the heroes not to leak this, even introducing them to the other agents. When she is doing missions, she switches away from her childish side, and turns completely serious. She is also revealed to have trauma from her experiences in the metro, as even the sound of a blender is enough to set her off. She also is very curious, outgoing and willing to try new things, but will become quieter if she’s nervous.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Without question the purest character in the story. She is incorruptible by the villains, even after she [[spoiler: regained her memories, which she should’ve done by now considering how long ago the octo expansion was.]] She is also kind to most people and shows no corrupting qualities.
* LipstickLesbian: She acts more affectionate and girly then her girlfriend, who is tough as nails and usually dead serious.

* TraumaButton: [[spoiler:Just the sound of a blender is enough to remind her of the time she was almost blended by Commander Tartar, and send her into a panic attack/mental breakdown]].

[[folder:Bethany]]
!!Bethany

* GirlsLoveChocolate: Samuel states that she’s anywhere where there’s chocolate, and on her Deviant Art bio, it’s stated she loves chocolate.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler:She injured her leg after escaping from prison, so she was sent home by her sister Jade Grady, because she was in no condition to fight. She even apologizes for this later, saying she would’ve fought but she would’ve only slowed them down.]]

* FreudianExcuse: It's confirmed that she was nevlected by her parents and admired fictional villains' ability to gain respect via fear.

!Main Characters

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She starts out as a typical high school popular bitch, but later she becomes far worse then that, becoming a full on criminal who commits evil actions just for fun, [[spoiler:even claiming a body count of 11 before her well deserved death]].

* DarkIsEvil: She has black ink and wears completely black clothes, and is the BigBad of the series and a ruthless dictator.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She simply doesn’t understand anything good in the story. For example, she finds it absolutely hilarious that an inkling is dating an octoling due to her sheer racism, and fails to understand why the octolings such as Ruby are deserting Octo Valley. She also makes a homophobic remark at Jade when she comforts Katelin after she used a blender to intentionally activate her PTSD. And yet, despite all this, she still sees herself as the hero and everyone else as evil.

* BattleCouple: Him and Natalie often fight together.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:He and Cyalux used to be friends before Cyalux revealed himself as the octobusters leader and betrayed him in a cold way.]]

* BattleCouple: Her and Samuel often fight together.

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:She jumps in front of Samuel to protect him from a tranquilliser dart, which gets her sent to the concentration camps, tortuered by Blakeson, and given substantial PTSD to recover from.]]

* AxCrazy: Underneath her unpleasant but calm demeanor [[spoiler: lies a bloodthirsty psychopath willing to hurt or murder lots of people for fun and/or petty revenge.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: She returns in Inkopolis Chaos 3 after being freed from prison by Obsidian, albeit blackmail is involved.]]

* CoDragons: She alongside Blakeson are this for Obsidian.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: She brutally tortures Natalie purely for sadistic spite.]]

* FrameUp: [[spoiler: She frames Samuel, Natalie, Luke and Sylvia for beating an inkling into a coma.]]
* HateSink: Scarlet is portrayed as an absolutely horrible person with no present redeeming qualities. She is first introduced bullying Melody, then gets very hostile towards Samuel and Luke when they stand up against her. She then beats Samuel up in a forest as petty revenge, and when Natalie comes, she begins making racist comments towards her, making her even more unlikeable. She remains as a sadistic and racist bully for the first half of the first story, [[spoiler: but then gets even worse in the second half, where she starts committing actual crimes, mainly torturing Natalie out of pure sadism and revenge,]] [[spoiler: and if that wasn’t bad enough, her actions in the third story where she slaughters a bunch of random people, including a child, should be enough to prove how she was intended to be unlikeable as possible.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She starts out as a typical high school popular bitch, but later she becomes far worse then that, becoming a [[spoiler:full on criminal who commits evil actions just for fun, even claiming a body count of 11 before her well deserved death]].

* SlasherSmile: She often bears a nasty smile while doing evil stuff, and shes even sadisfically smiling in the offical picture of her. Especially prominent in part 12 of the first story, where she [[spoiler: threatens to cut Samuel and Natalie’s hearts out, then store them on her shelf, while bearing a sadistic grin, with her crazy eyes complimenting the grin.]]
* TheStarscream: She was secretly planning to [[spoiler: betray Lieutenant Obsidian, and overthrow her, so she could use her powers to start a race war]].

* HateSink: A lackey to Scarlet, and definitely the nastiest. While not as hateable as his boss, he still helps her out with her bullying, and is shown to be an aggressive person in general, [[spoiler: even trying to kill Natalie by throwing her off a cliff, while referring to her as “octo scum”]]. [[spoiler: Unlike James and Jess, he never abandons Scarlet or redeems himself, and even calls the heroes “soft and pathetic” in the ending book, showing he’s not changed a bit.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: He is the only member of Scarlet's gang who reforms and later helps out the heroes.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She says this practically verbatim when confronted about [[spoiler:killing Natalie's father]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: It’s stated by Ruby that she sometimes tortures for the heck of it. It’s even confirmed that she [[spoiler:tortured an inkling she kidnapped from Inkopolis, then murdered her afterwards]].

* FinalSolution: Her true plan is to destroy all life on the surface (which includes the species she hates and even her own), then recreate it all in her own image.

* TheGeneralissimo: She got her way into power purely through using fear. [[spoiler:She only became an elite because DJ Octavio was sick of her killing his own soldiers, and she became the leader due to the other lieutenants/commanders fearing her and giving her all the power once Octavio was imprisoned, crowning her the new octarian leader.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She hates Octolings who desert, but she tried to desert herself in the past.

* NeverMyFault: She blames everyone else for why she acts like she does, [[spoiler: even though she was the one who made those choices, and used it as an excuse.]]

* SpreeKiller: After many octolings were disgusted by her for [[spoiler:torturing an inkling to death in front of them,]] she began to [[spoiler:murder everyone who wronged her, but didn’t stop there, as she then started killing innocents, including]] [[spoiler:Natalie’s father, before Natalie was even born]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He [[spoiler:loved his daughter, and her death made him hate inklings even more than he already did.]]

* FantasticRacism: He hates inklings due to [[spoiler:his daughter being killed by them, although the inklings most likely killed her in self defence]].

* TheBully: She’s a major bully towards many people. For example, she bullied Samuel a lot in middle school and regularly bullied Melody in high school.

* TheBully: He’s a nasty bully like Scarlet.

* TheBully: He’s another bully, who works for an even worse one.

* TheBully: She’s a bully, and even admits Melody deserves to be bullied.

[[folder:In general]]
!!The Octobusters

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She literally says these exact words when confronted about [[spoiler:killing Natalie's father]].