Hi everyone, its been a while since I've posted anything to this amino so instead of reintroducing myself I am going to be talking abit about a certain consistent theme across the splatoon 2 single player campaign.

*WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL BOSS OF SPLATOON 2 READ AT YOUR OWN RISK*

Octolings.

One of the main NPCs you fight against in the single player missions, as one of the main bulks of the octarian forces (and my personal favorite designs for an enemy in a videogame), they teach the player about predicting the movements of players in the main multiplayer matches. As such these NPCs are equipped with gear similar to an inkling, however there is one change when it comes to these bipedal octopodes; and that is their eyewear.

In the first Splatoon, the Octolings wore these goggles, which are impractical when you look at them objectively, however when we fast forward to Splatoon 2 we see these glasses being used.

Now these do look very similar to something, and no I'm not talking about the blatent Terminator eye syndrome in the left lense, I am talking about the similarities to the glasses worn by Callie of the Squid Sisters during the final boss.

These glasses are dubbed as the "Hypno-shades" by Dj Octavio during the final boss after Marie sniped them off of Callie during Phase 2 of the fight as he utters this line of text.

Besides these glasses having different lights illuminating the glasses, they look shockingly similar, this gives food for thought to the theory that DJ Octavio used these goggles as mind control devices for his octarian forces, using Callie as a potential test subject.

But why Callie? And why would he use these on the Octolings?

One simple answer.

Marina.

We have seen fanmade characters of octolings coming to the surface for one reason or another however Marina shows this concept off proudly, but did you ever think on why she came up there in the first place? The Sunken Scroll's page #2 may have the answer, as we see Marina with two octarians enjoying the initial confrontation with Octavio during Splatoon 1.

What if this event lead Marina and other Octolings to the surface to co-exist with Inklings from a newly acquired passion for music and inkling culture? If so, Octavio would then worry that the bulk of his army leaving Octo Valley and Octo Canyon and rendering his army useless, thus to combat this, he kidnaps Callie and develops an eyewear that he can use to manipulate the minds of the wearer and potentially control his army better.

I am not the first to point this out as the user Green Octoling came up with the same kind of theory a few days earlier, however this version of the theory added a better reason to why these glasses are used.

As this is all up for interpretation at this point, I need to list the major hole in this theory, Why haven't we seen other Octolings in Inkopolis besides Marina? Maybe they are either in hiding, or they are just not yet present in Inkopolis square or the Inkopolis plaza, unless you count in hackers of course.

As this is a theory, I would like to know your thoughts, are these shades mind controlling these soldiers of the Octarian army? Or are they merely meant for looks? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for reading everyone, I'll catch you next tide!

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