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talk about kinoga. NOW.

GAH I JUST THINK THEY ARE SO............. well first of all. they are so cute and handsome. look at them right now

Second of all I have one million feelings about them and it's barely an exaggeration. For those who aren't familiar, Kinoga is one of my beloved splatoon ocs and I think about them all the time. Originally made when I tossed a "what-if" idea about Trito, my first splatoon oc, who was once part of the octarian military, if he runs into one of the old squad members on the surface, and Kinoga was born with the help of @igneouskit. Brainworms ensue. its terminal. check out their toyhouse

(extremely brief rundown for those unfamiliar with splatoon lore the relevant bits are as follows: some octolings are part of a military that were forced underground after a war with the Inklings over land due to rising seas. At some point during the plot, the song Calamari Inkantation is sung by the two idols, which is apparently imbued in the DNA of all creatures and compels octolings to see the surface. In the splatoon 2 DLC, octo expansion, some octolings are recruited by a shady company called Kamabo Co, which entices participants to enroll in tests through a deep sea metro, and offers the "promised land" as a reward. Completing the tests entails collecting parts of a blender, and the "reward" is getting blended into sludge. This sludge can get injected into other octos which causes them to lose their will and consciousness ("sanitization").

timeline-wise much of their story takes place between splat 2, through octo expansion, and is currently in the splat 3 era. When they were still in the military, they ended up hearing the Calamari Inkantation like Agent 8 did. Kinoga and their squad were incredibly close to each other. Unwilling to just up and leave the underground but wanting to give their squadmates a better life, Kinoga hears about Kamabo's "promised land" and wants to seek it out, so they leave the squad to embark on the metros and promises to return. They do not <3 Some of the tests make them encounter sanitized octolings and they begin to question what's really happening in the metros. Their tipping point is when they run into Agara, one of their squadmates that decided to enter the metros to look for Kinoga and ends up being sanitized. Kinoga, facing the crushing realization that their squadmates had followed them, unaware of the danger, narrowly escapes being killed by Agara and eventually makes it to the surface.

This results in them experiencing a good amount of crushing guilt about leaving, they never knew it would lead to the possibility of dooming their whole squad that followed after them because they were loved and trusted. Kinoga had no way of letting the rest of them know that they should turn back and it's so. AAUGH. They have no choice but to continue on, finding life on the surface and eventually making it to splatsville with the belief that the rest of the squad may be gone. Agara and Trito end up running through the metro, Agara gets sanitized and Trito survives, albeit without getting a nasty scar from an accident that nearly got him sanitized.

Trito makes me insane also. he's my funny silly rabbit. I care about him so so much. trito goes through the metros, to maybe catch up with kinoga or meet them at the promised land, trusting that it was worth leaving if Kinoga decided it was worth it for all of them too.

Trito, upon learning about The Horrors in the metro later, realizes what could have happened to Kinoga and Agara and is unwilling to return to the rest of the squad with this knowledge, struck by the possibility that they're both gone. <-also has to realize that these horrible things have been happening to all the octlings that left to go do the metro tests. He too, eventually escapes to the surface and makes it to Inkopolis.

Years later, Trito, on a day trip to Splatsville, encounters Kinoga on the streets, and they lock eyes. and. fuck. They thought they were dead and had dealt with the grief and accepting that they were gone, effectively pushing those thoughts aside, and now they're physically in front of each other and they have to deal with it again. they make me SICK. Kinoga knowing that trito went to the metros and followed them and made it out also. Trito knowing that Kinoga experienced the horrors as well and survived. Neither of them able to return to tell the rest of the squad but they're both here, alive on the surface and aarrghhhhhhh. now they have to cope with this. they hastily exchange contact information, having to leave each other again, and end up meeting later to really catch up.

I'm so normal about kinoga and their relationship to trito post-domes. They don't even realize that they miss each other so much because they accepted that they were already gone. Seeing how much the other had changed. Being each other's only tie to their previous lives and it dawns on them that they never can move on from this. Kinoga struggles to tell Trito that they couldn't bring themselves to go back, not knowing if they could escape a second time, not knowing if any of their teammates were still left, already dealing with occasional spurts of being wracked by grief. Trito feeling the same, wanting to forget the terrible things and find happiness on the surface, but disheartened when learning that Kinoga also couldn't bring themselves to go back to look (though now that the both of them are together.....they do eventually muster the courage to go back to the domes to look for their old squadmates). It like. sucks so bad. They didn't intend to abandon their squad, but they were given circumstances where they just could not, and none of the other squad members could have known and suffer for it. aarghhhhh.

They end up at Trito's place, Kinoga and Trito end up being very affectionate towards each other after reuniting, definitely Trito being clingier...Compelled to hold onto each other and not let go, not after feeling so much regret about leaving in the first place. It's like. they left once before and terrible things happened out of their control, so they're allowed to hold each other as close as they can so it doesn't happen again (THE DEMONS) (GRIPS). it's irrational for Trito especially to think that he'll never see Kinoga again when they have to leave, since they live in separate cities and have to go in the morning. and kinoga knows it's irrational and they do their best to comfort him anyways because. who could blame him for wanting to keep them there after being gone for so long and so unexpectedly. The slow, crushing experience of not fully registering that someone could be gone and it creeps up to them until it hits. auuuuugh. they have to be so tender with each other, not really knowing where to take things afterwards but relishing in the moment of having each other there. riding the high of each other's comfort. fuck. this post is just getting worse as it goes. Trito breaking down in Kinoga's arms because he's had to hold in his grief and having nowhere to put it and then finally being able to release it. just being able to feel Something again. kinoga feeling so heartbroken to see trito like this, remembering that he was always so outspoken and smiling and having him curled up against them unable to say anything. holding him as tightly as they can. Feeling the need to take good care of him. They aren't his squad leader anymore but they still feel compelled to look out for him because then they can feel like they're doing at least something right. whatever. you guys get the gist. I'm way too much of a sucker for like...............pained intimacy. I'm down terrible. I think both of them deserve a little kissy and more. again. very touchy and affectionate with each other, I guess theyre still like "friends" (A WARRIOR'S BOND. OR WHATEVER) and are not "together" like a couple but here are words from igneouskit who put it better then I could ever. they love each other so much and they make me blow up. worlds most situationship

and also one bit I forgot to mention is that Trito has a huge scar on his chest that he hates talking about, it just brings back the fear and pain felt when he got it, and by association reminds him that he's alone from his squad who may never see again, so he's very protective of it. Upon getting back to kinoga, they do find out about the scar accidentally, and Trito lets them. like auuuugh they were so familiar with each other and now get to see what's changed since the last time. exploring eachother's bodies. whatever

Kinoga also ends up feeling really guilty at some point for Trito being immediately so affectionate towards them, they harbor thoughts that they don’t deserve it after having him go through that pain, and trito having to tell them that he made his own decision, nobody was forcing him to go, and besides, did it to see kinoga and now that they’re right in front of him he can give him all the love he’s been holding for them. Auuughhhh. Like don’t worry about feeling guilty for it. It wasn’t their fault. What matters to him now is that they’re both alive and with each other. I feel like blowing up

Even after Kinoga goes back to splatsville the next day trito is still aches about them......like a few days of reunion could never be enough to compensate for the years that they spent apart. every time they meet up after that trito jumps in kinoga's arms and kiss them like it was the first time they'd reunited

anyways. they eventually go back down to the domes to find the others. By that time, Agent 8 had dismantled Kamabo, the Sludge shit was no longer in operation, and octolings have started going to the surface. Kanu, another squad member, left the domes to find Kinoga, Agara, and Trito(jilon was another squad member who left for reasons I haven't decided yet). Denchu, the last remaining member, stayed behind, holding on to the hope that the missing members would someday return (denchu is a whole other can of worms. theyre everything to me and I feel so terrible for them <3). Trito and kinoga meet denchu, they update them on everybody else, leaving agara unaccounted for. Kinoga, who was the only one to see Agara firsthand, knowing that she might be completely unsalvageable, hesitates to bring it up, but Trito insists on going to look for her. aughhh. kinoga wants to spare trito the pain of seeing her dead or unconscious. They do eventually find her </3

She is alive, but not doing well at all, Kinoga desperate to maybe find some way to undo sanitization and restore her to full health, knowing full well that it may not be possible. They take Agara back with them to the surface and Kinoga spends a lot of time agonizing again over having caused this, feeling that agara's state is somehow their fault (ITS NOTT they're beating themselves up so bad for this because they feel responsible for the squad. aughhh).

I think thats all I have for kinoga. for now. obviously there are more thoughts I can get into but currently my brain has just latched so hard on trito and kinoga's fun situation and I love them so much. didn't think I'd get attached to them this bad but here we are </3. I hope everyone who has read this far also enjoys them as much as I do

#THIS TOOK FOREVER TO TYPE. KEPT GGETTING SELF CONSCIOUS ABT HOW MUCH IVE ALREADY TYPED FOR THEM IN OTHER POSTS #my ocs #my art #trito #kinoga #splatoon #splatoon ocs #THEYRE SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#I have been so crazy about them. so crazy. this post doesnt even encapsulate all my thoughts about them #basic arc(?) in chronological order and some thoughts also #cant even describe the like. aching. burning. thinking about kinoga #like I need to kiss them of course but (AGONIES) trito misses them so so much.#loves them so so much and has to deal with it when it floods him all at once during the first encounter #sorry if none of this is like. comprehensible #I've been so ill about them and trito for weeks #these thoguhts are usually for rotating them in discord servers but you all get to get blasted by them all at once #STRUGGLED so bad to write this out because every time I had a new thought I had to go lie down and think about it #anyways. anyways. care about them so much. what ever #its still mostly about trito since he's like my 'main' character but kinoga still gets roped into these feelins #also joked that if trito ever gets a partner itll be like #'this is my partner'#'and this is my friend kinoga who id die for and trust with my life and kiss on the mouth'#more realistically trito just loves all his friends as closely as he would a partner. he has so much love in his heart #blows up I just reread this I think I used ‘crushing’ as an adjective like 4 times. whatever

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blasterdiablo · 8 months

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「 @silveringmistress 」 | continued from 「 X 」

Relief came in the form of a gentle embrace; from both his leading performer and the darkness she ushered in for him.

His eyes slip shut, plunging him further into the dark as his hands trace lines up Asaka's back. Ren knew her form fairly well by this point, having explored it many times in this very room. It was the one constant he'd nary grow bored of; this ritual of theirs to escape the noise, to escape the light. Learning to navigate the pitch black together, using one another as a guide. She truly was the pale blue moon in Ren's abyssally dark nights. She occupied his eyes, his hands, his mind. And granted him peace where there was usually only chaos.

Ren simply hums in response to her offer, moving to rest his chin atop her head and noticing fairly quickly the scent of the exotic perfumes he'd gifted her with from his recent outing. Interested, he lowers himself to her shoulder before closing in on her neck to take in the scent better from where he'd often see her apply it behind her ears. Hundreds of perfumes over several years and he still hasn't found one that best suited her... He leaves a sigh against her skin in unexplained disappointment.

Eventually, as he normally ends up doing, he then rests the weight of his head fully on her shoulder. Depending on her to keep him upright at that moment, as if all the strength it took to keep him active and present to supervise the circus' efforts had all but left his body the moment she closed the door.

❝ ...I want more than that. ❞ He says in a small, yet lowered voice. His hands move from their place at the back of her head where he had been carefully twisting the strands of her hair between his fingers to pull her closer to him, each hand reaching her opposite shoulder. ❝ This isn't enough anymore ❞

They had still been near the door when he decided this was a good place as any to rest. He, who usually burdens Asaka with his weight to carry in moments like this suddenly changes roles against script. If he had the strength at that moment, perhaps he would have carried her to her bed before resting alongside her until he was without bombardment from visions and unpleasant memories. All so that he wouldn't have to let go of her for a single moment.

But he did not.

He was utterly spent from his recent bout of Psyqualia atop his duties to the circus despite Asaka and Tetsu taking on a majority of responsibilities since Rekka joined their numbers. Rekka had come to them with knowledge that had piqued Ren's interest and it had been occupying a lot of his time. But he was still the Pale Moon Circus' Director, and Tetsu wasn't about to let him forget that. It was a pain honestly, it made him want to hide away in this room all the more.

His hold on her lowers to support her center of gravity, hoisting her up against him as he takes a step back to slide his back down against their bolted door. That left him sat on the floor, propped up against the door, holding Asaka there against his chest. And by how his body had relaxed between them both, it was clear he had no intentions on moving from that spot. Not until he had gotten a few winks of sleep there, at the very least.

❝ This is our last night here. Tomorrow... we move into the Theater. ❞

The Theater, as Ren dubbed it, was the Pale Moon Circus' new base of operations. Funded completely by the Sawatari family; it was a grand spectacle compared to the tent city the circus had previously operated from. It was practically a mobile fortress by comparison, able to bring about their shows across the lands and bring amazement to the masses and extend their efforts from border to border.

Of course, the Theater was a perfect place as any for the Director and his Ringmistress. He had made sure of it, ensuring the largest room on the highest floor was catered to him and the star of his show perfectly. Asaka had been far too busy leading the troupe in his stead to take part in the Theater's construction, so it was to be a complete surprise on her part. Ren opened his eyes, for just a moment, and in the darkness a glimmer passed over his sights.

An image of them; within the loge of the theater watching over their show. Strange... Normally Asaka was on the stage in his visions. A bright flash from the lower floor reaches their box, catching his eye, halting his breath. Golden flames blaze brilliantly for the first time in years, but before Ren can confirm the sight the vision ends abruptly, causing him to groan softly against Asaka's shoulder as the power recoiled on him. It was something for him to delve into tomorrow with the pink one's supervision, for now... he was too tired to do anything about it.

❝ But for tonight... Tonight I wish to remain like this. ❞

Despite his weakened demeanor when he was alone with her, his arms locked around her with the intent on keeping her there while his eyes accept the darkness once more. Unspoken words delivered through gestures like this was something Ren often did, but the language was often lost in translation. An embrace as if to say; don't leave me... Leaning against her as if to say; I need you... Light grazes of his lips against her skin, the running of his fingers through her hair, decorating her in gifts and even attending her shows when either Tetsu and Rekka had other things in mind for him to be doing. Words didn't come to Ren easily, if only he could show Asaka what he saw it'd be much easier to show her how much her asylum had meant to him.

Here, he didn't have to be perfect. Here he didn't have to reach expectations or assume any sort of responsibility. Here he didn't have to be hurt by the past. It was just him and Asaka. If he could he'd accept her offer to stay like this forever if he could. But... that wasn't an option. He still had things to do, and until he achieved them he truly couldn't rest. If it was for tonight though, just for one night...

❝ ...If only I had the power to snuff out the light of the sun. Then... ❞

Then tomorrow would never have to come. But alas, the Director's childish reasoning is lost to his descent into the land of dreams. It was difficult to fight against the darkness closing in on him with the comfort and warmth of Asaka in his arms, after all. And despite being more or less asleep at this point, his hold on her is reinforced as though he was trying to prevent himself from letting her go. Never again did he wish to wake up to her disappearance... He's lost both her and Kai before, he's not sure what he'd do if he lost them both at the same time. But Asaka was here now, she wouldn't leave him alone again... and soon enough things would be back to the way they used to be. Right? -

#.//i've been contemplating for a while how to continue threads from legacy to beta and i figured moving them completely vs #.//activity being bounced to the wrong blogs and dealing with the extra long uncuttable reply would be cleaner lolol #FURTHER INTO THE ABYSS「ic」#silveringmistress #QUEEN OF THE PALE MOON CIRCUS「silveringmistress | Asaka Narumi」#VERSE.// THEATER OF THE BRANDED #.//ALSO ITS FINALLY TIME TO UPGRADE THE CIRCUS TO HOWLS MOVING CASTLE LMAO TO FINALLY MATCH THE YGO CARD I NAMED THE VERSE AFTER LOL #.//a moving theater that doubles as a mobile fortress will make for an amazing setting later :]#.//(can't wait for kai to burn it down again lmaooooooooo)#.//also i just love how ren's basiaclly moved into her room for years now and they still call it her room and not their room LMAOO #.//LIKE HE DEF HAD HIS OWN OFFICE/ROOM BUT HE NEVER USES IT LOL #.//it's ren's escape bc its asaka's. Asaka is his safe space;;;;;;;; not that he says it aloud which is very Ren of him lololol #.//AND THATS WHY IT'S KINDA SAD THEY'RE UPGRADING AND HE WANTS THE NIGHT TO LAST FOREVER #.//this isn't new but it's been done and i'mkinda using it as a way to get used to tumblr again whoops. buT U FINALLY GGET TO READ THIS ONE #.//IF I HAVEN'T SHARED IT WITH U YET ALREADY THAT IS LMAO #.//also no pressure to reply to this one lolol

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