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The trilogy can be read [[https://www.wattpad.com/list/1119830183 here]] on Website/{{Wattpad}}; Platform/{{Wattpad}}; several one-shots can be found [[https://www.wattpad.com/1106482332-my-splatoon-ocs-oneshots-inkopolis-chaos-truth-or here]].
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The trilogy can be read [[https://www.wattpad.com/list/1119830183 here]] on Website/{{Wattpad}}.
Website/{{Wattpad}}; several one-shots can be found [[https://www.wattpad.com/1106482332-my-splatoon-ocs-oneshots-inkopolis-chaos-truth-or here]].
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* AnAesop: In "The Life of an Inktoling", Atubah's father delivers one to the school faculty complicit in Scarlet's bullying of his daughter: if you don't hold people accountable for doing bad things, they'll grow up to [[CardCarryingVillain see nothing wrong with being outright evil]].
* TakeThatAudience: “A Burden To Bear” takes a jab at the people who gave DracoInLeatherPants to [[spoiler:Cyalux]], and RonTheDeathEater to Ruby, with Melissa even looking at the camera while shouting at Ruby’s inner demons, explaining why [[spoiler:Cyalux’s descent into villainy]] was not Ruby’s fault, and also explaining why [[spoiler:Cyalux]] was throughly in the wrong, no matter how sympathetic or enjoyable he may be. [[invoked]]
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* AnAesop: In "The Life of an Inktoling", Atubah's father delivers one to the school faculty complicit in Scarlet's bullying of his daughter: if you don't hold people accountable for doing bad things, they'll grow up to [[CardCarryingVillain see nothing wrong with being outright evil]].
* TakeThatAudience: “A Burden To Bear” takes a jab at the people who gave DracoInLeatherPants to [[spoiler:Cyalux]], and RonTheDeathEater to Ruby, with Melissa even looking at the camera while shouting at Ruby’s inner demons, explaining why [[spoiler:Cyalux’s descent into villainy]] was not Ruby’s fault, and also explaining why [[spoiler:Cyalux]] was throughly in the wrong, no matter how sympathetic or enjoyable he may be. [[invoked]]
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* IntrepidReporter: Off the Hook flies to the heroes' fight against the Octobuster to reveal to latter's leader to the public.
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* IntrepidReporter: Off the Hook flies to the heroes' fight against the Octobuster Octobusters to reveal to the latter's leader to the public.
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* IntrepidReporter: Off the Hook flies to the heroes' fight against the Octobuster to reveal to latter's leader to the public.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Almost the villains in the story are racist towards their opposing race, [[spoiler: with only Ruby and James subverting their racism, and Jess never being racist in the first place]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Almost the villains in the story are racist towards their opposing race, [[spoiler: with only Ruby Diorite and James subverting [[spoiler:James Axowe]] turning away from their racism, and Jess Rubrum never being racist in the first place]].place.
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* ColourfulThemeNaming: Many characters' names correlate with their respective ink colors:
** Samuel Turf''blu'' has ''blue'' ink.
** Samuel's cousin, Sylvia Turf''ora'', has ''orange'' ink.
** Luke Virigree's surname is a portmanteau of "viridian" and "green" (though his ink is lime).
** Melody ''Rose'''s ink is hot pink.
** ''Ruby'' Diorite and ''Scarlet'' Spiker have red ink.
** Jess ''Rubrum'''s ink is also red, and her last name is a term for the short summary of a document, which was often written in red early on.
** ''Jade'' Grady's ink is the same ''green'' as Luke's.
** Summer's ink is yellow, a color stereotypically associated with summer and the sun.
** The aqua-inked Cyalux Clover's name is a portmanteau of "cyan" and "lux", the latter being Latin for "light".
** The purplish-inked Magentark Clover's name is a portmanteau of "magenta" and "dark".
** Lieutenant ''Obsidian'''s ink is black, just like the namesake volcanic glass.
** Samuel Turf''blu'' has ''blue'' ink.
** Samuel's cousin, Sylvia Turf''ora'', has ''orange'' ink.
** Luke Virigree's surname is a portmanteau of "viridian" and "green" (though his ink is lime).
** Melody ''Rose'''s ink is hot pink.
** ''Ruby'' Diorite and ''Scarlet'' Spiker have red ink.
** Jess ''Rubrum'''s ink is also red, and her last name is a term for the short summary of a document, which was often written in red early on.
** ''Jade'' Grady's ink is the same ''green'' as Luke's.
** Summer's ink is yellow, a color stereotypically associated with summer and the sun.
** The aqua-inked Cyalux Clover's name is a portmanteau of "cyan" and "lux", the latter being Latin for "light".
** The purplish-inked Magentark Clover's name is a portmanteau of "magenta" and "dark".
** Lieutenant ''Obsidian'''s ink is black, just like the namesake volcanic glass.
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* ArcVillain: Each installment has a different main villain: Scarlet in ''1'', the Octobusters' leader in ''2'', and Lieutenant Obsidian in ''3''.
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* OCStandIn: Many major characters' appearances are inspired by nigh-nameless characters:
** Samuel, Sylvia, Luke, and Melody are based on the default Inklings found in ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'''s promotional material.
** Natalie and her brother Dylan are based on the default player Octolings.
** Ruby and Obsidian are based on [[EliteMooks enemy Octolings]], with the latter having black hair like the elite variant.
** Samuel, Sylvia, Luke, and Melody are based on the default Inklings found in ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'''s promotional material.
** Natalie and her brother Dylan are based on the default player Octolings.
** Ruby and Obsidian are based on [[EliteMooks enemy Octolings]], with the latter having black hair like the elite variant.
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* VillainTeamUp: In the third story Lieutenant Obsidian and Scarlet Spiker team up, though it is a sharky alliance and Scarlet plans to betray Obsidian, and Obsidian plans to throw Scarlet in a camp once she is done with her.
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* VillainTeamUp: In the third story story, Lieutenant Obsidian and Scarlet Spiker team up, though it is a sharky alliance and shaky alliance: Scarlet plans to betray Obsidian, and Obsidian plans to throw Scarlet in a camp once she is done with her.
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* InterspeciesRomance: There are three inkling/octoling romances in the fic: Samuel/Natalie, Melissa/Dylan, and Jade/Katelin.
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* ShoutOut: Blakeson's speech he gives [[spoiler: during the mass executions bears a striking resemblance to Lieutenant Groves' speech talking about Cutler Beckett's decrees from ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.]]
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* ShoutOut: Blakeson's speech he gives [[spoiler: during [[spoiler:during the mass executions execution bears a striking resemblance to Lieutenant Groves' speech talking about Cutler Beckett's decrees from ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Inkopolis Chaos 3 hardly even takes place in Inkopolis, mostly focusing on Cuttlefish Cabin or Octo Valley. Inkopolis is only visited twice, in parts 6 and 14.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** The saga as a whole is this compared to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic {{spree killer}}.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** The saga as a whole is this compared to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic {{spree killer}}.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: CerebusSyndrome: Inkopolis Chaos 3 hardly even takes place in Inkopolis, a sudden dark turn, while the first two stories could get dark at times, they still mostly focusing on Cuttlefish Cabin or Octo Valley. Inkopolis remained positive and upbeat, the third story is really dark almost all the way through. This is due to Lieutenant Obsidian, [[spoiler:and the threat she poses being world ending. Not only visited twice, in parts 6 that, but her setting up concentration camps and 14.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** The saga as a wholemass executions is this compared an extremely dark turn for the series. Unsurprisingly, once she’s dead, the ending goes back to being positive and upbeat, with her threat no longer being present, and any of her surviving prisoners being released.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: This saga's topics are somewhat more mature than those of ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic {{spree killer}}.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** The saga as a whole
* DarkerAndEdgier: This saga's topics are somewhat more mature than those of ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic {{spree killer}}.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: Inkopolis Chaos 3 takes a sudden dark turn, while the first two stories could get dark at times, they still mostly remained positive and upbeat, the third story is really dark almost all the way through. This is due to [[spoiler: Lieutenant Obsidian, and the threat she poses being world ending. Not only that, but her setting up concentration camps and mass executions is an extremely dark turn for the series. Unsurprisingly, once she’s dead, the ending goes back to being positive and upbeat, with her threat no longer being present, and any of her surviving prisoners being released.]]
* NeverTrustATitle: Inkopolis Chaos 3 hardly even takes place in Inkopolis, mostly focusing on Cuttlefish Cabin or Octo Valley. Inkopolis is only visited twice, in parts 6 and 14.
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* WorldOFTechnicolorHair: Carried over from the ''Splatoon'' setting, the cast has a wide variety of hair colors. Samuel and Bethany have blue, Luke and Jade have green, Sylvia and Georgina have orange, Natalie and Dylan have pink, Melody has pink/purple, Katelin has blue/purple, Ruby and Scarlet's gang have red, Summer and Melissa have yellow, Obsidian and Blakeson have black, Cyalux has light blue and Adelyte has turquoise.
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* WorldOFTechnicolorHair: WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Carried over from the ''Splatoon'' setting, the cast has a wide variety of hair colors. Samuel and Bethany have blue, Luke and Jade have green, Sylvia and Georgina have orange, Natalie and Dylan have pink, Melody has pink/purple, Katelin has blue/purple, Ruby and Scarlet's gang have red, Summer and Melissa have yellow, Obsidian and Blakeson have black, Cyalux has light blue and Adelyte has turquoise.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic serial killer.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: DarkerAndEdgier:
** The saga as a whole is this compared to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadisticserial killer.{{spree killer}}.]] The absolute worst part is when [[spoiler:Ruby sacrifices herself, showing that these villains are an extremely serious threat, they're not playing around. Anyone can die now.]]
** The saga as a whole is this compared to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', with depictions of PTSD, frame-ups, and regular endangerment of Inkopolis otherwise unheard of outside the Octo Expansion and ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''.
** Inkopolis Chaos 3 really makes this clear. Upon Lieutenant Obsidian’s arrival, she [[spoiler:murders a prison warden to get her money back, and it’s done just like that. Even if that warden wasn’t a major character, no other villain has killed someone so suddenly, and it’s quite a shock when she does it.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Sylvia gets traumatized by Sub Lieutenant Blakeson, and remains a shell of her former self for the majority of the third story. Thankfully she recovers, but she is left with PTSD, and it’s still extremely shocking.]] Scarlet Spiker even [[spoiler: murders 11 people just for fun, which was foreshadowed in the first story when she stated she’d wreak havoc on Inkopolis just for fun, and it’s absolutely shocking seeing how she went from a typical bully to a sadistic
* {{Foil}}: Behind their shared red ink, Ruby Diorite has numerous differences from Scarlet Spiker:
** Ruby was once a tragic AntiVillain who thought her actions were good prior to her redemption; Scarlet is a CardCarryingVillain.
** Ruby was quite stoic during her misguided deeds; Scarlet [[AxCrazy shows overt delight at her misdeeds]].
** Ruby is willing to protect her allies at all costs; Scarlet has no qualms with abusing and endangering her gang.
** Ruby is an Octoling; Scarlet is an Inkling.
** [[spoiler:Ruby [[HeroicSacrifice gives up her life]] to save Jade; Scarlet is unwillingly killed by Jade to save the protagonists.]]
** Ruby was once a tragic AntiVillain who thought her actions were good prior to her redemption; Scarlet is a CardCarryingVillain.
** Ruby was quite stoic during her misguided deeds; Scarlet [[AxCrazy shows overt delight at her misdeeds]].
** Ruby is willing to protect her allies at all costs; Scarlet has no qualms with abusing and endangering her gang.
** Ruby is an Octoling; Scarlet is an Inkling.
** [[spoiler:Ruby [[HeroicSacrifice gives up her life]] to save Jade; Scarlet is unwillingly killed by Jade to save the protagonists.]]
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Jade is a tomboy and Katelin is not. Both are [[spoiler: secret agents]] and they're also both dating. In the third story, there usually seen together, and feel upset when apart from each over if the other is in danger.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jade is a tomboy and Katelin is not. Both are [[spoiler: secret agents]] and they're also both dating. In the third story, there usually seen together, and feel upset when apart from each over if the other is in danger.
