I've seen people calling the splatoon 3 characters that're in the promo trailers and amiibos by specific names. Am i missing something or are those just fandom names??
if this posts 2x not my fault my phone hates me. they're not random! the names appear in the gameplay footage promos when different teams win and when they're launched off to start a turf war. their names also show on the random inkids in the plaza of the game when there's no inernet connection. for example yukas the curly haired purple octo, hirooooo is the poster octo, and veronika is the poster squid
splatoon 1 and 2's promo/poster characters have names also and can also show up in the plaza! splat one's poster kids are kaori + john(?) and splat two's are surume + cuttlefrsh
splatoon promo kids name list cause its always a pain to try to look for them for me personally and i realized. i could change that!
NOTE: weapons are ALWAYS inconsistent with the promo kids. their names may be assigned to different models as well. their first appearance is what they are usually seen as, and whatever weapon they "main" are based on renders/what they use in trailers.
SPLATOON 1
The skin tones are very inconsistent with everyone pictured.
TOP ROW: Kaori, John, Mizuho, Rul
BOTTOM ROW: Pit, Laura, Yuriko, Yuya
Kaori and John are the "Agent 3"s. Yuriko and Yuya do not have official renders.
SPLATOON 2
The skin tones are inconsistent, mainly with those with darker skin tones (unfortunately).
TOP ROW: Surume, Cuttlefrsh (Cuttlefresh in the earliest known trailer), Kou, Kensaki
BOTTOM ROW: KelpShot, Splashley, Tof-U, Yari
Surume and Cuttlefrsh are the "Agent 4"s, though Cuttlefrsh/Male Agent 4 is only ever depicted once (discounting coroika). Yari does have a transparent render, I just prefer the one with the roller (though, I wish I could find the transparent version of it).
OCTO EXPANSION (bonus)
BONUS: even though the renders used to represent Agent 8 are wildly inconsistent, there's two regular octoling renders that people believe are linked to them. Their names come from Octolings that look very similar to them in the offline version of the lobby. (Patricia and Steven). Sometimes Patricia is referred to as Naomi due to misinfo. They're like, promo kid adjacent to me.
SPLATOON 3 (the most popular and consistent)
VeronIKA and TakoTruck's skintones are inconsistent :(
Eyecolors for VeronIKA, Hirooooo, and AnemoneNo1 are inconsistent
TOP ROW: VeronIKA, Hirooooo (five o's), AnemoneNo1, TakoTruck
BOTTOM ROW: Stephanie, kAyOss (the k is not meant to be capitalized im dumb, image is inaccurate), C4L4M4R, YARRwhal
VeronIKA and Hirooooo are the "Neo Agent 3"s (though, Hirooooo is only used once for the artbook)
There is also an instance where Hirooooo's name is misspelled (only four o's) but i didnt want to find the image
BONUS
Tof-U is technically present in one of the gameplay showcases(?) I believe it's an error
kAyOss used to look different and was most likely combined with the unrelated promotional character shown next to them (who was used for Wireglasses/Glassless in Coroika)
okay thats all! I'll reblog and add on any additions if necessary
side order posting tonight. id be actually surprised if 4 wasnt in it tbh. i mean like yeah they got overshadowed by 8 within the year but for while they were like the face of splatoon 2. surume/cuttlefrsh are extremely underrated in this essay i will