Old Scars (Splatoon GMOD)

Ever have an idea that starts out great, but then it keeps going and suddenly everything's stupid again? Yeah, that be this. Hey, first main comic longer than four panels, at least.

I can't shake the feeling Marie is quite the Octo Racist during Octo Valley. Calling them Octoslobs, demanding you kill every single one and all that. She has every right to be, perhaps. She saw how evil Octavio is, had to repel them once before, never learned the backstory of the first Turf War. And now those octoslobs come back and, as she disocvers later down the line, kidnapped and enslaved her cousin and best friend just to spite her. I can only imagine she leaves the story with one hell of a bias towards the Octarian forces...and THEN Octolings migrate to the surface. As War Agent 3 said in one of the previous asks, one can only wonder if Marie wanted Four to emulate the human massacres of old if she designed the Mk2 Hero Shot after a human weapon (the P90). And it goes without saying that War Marie has this bias and fucking then some.

So what happens to change this? I think two events; the success of Hero Mode and Octo Expansion. Only after finally saving Callie from the Octo scourge does Marie start to calm down about the situation, wanting nothing more than to just be by her side again. And then she sees what happens in the Metro when Agent 3 reports back to her, and there's no way she DIDN'T see the fight at the statue. Like, come on. But then, she sees something she never thought she would; an Octoling, one of the older enemies that 3 slaughtered by the hundreds back in the Canyon, doing some good. Fighting for the safety of all. A...good guy. It shatters her bias and gets her thinking...yes, maybe not all Octos are bad...

War Marie, on the other hand, locks in her hate after Callie dies. She lost pretty much everything from Callie's death at her hands, all set up by the Octo forces. They took all she suffered for two years to find. And Agent 4, as far as she's concerned, failed. She failed to save Callie. She failed to defeat Octavio. She FAILED to destroy those takoyaki brains and stop their plans. Sure, Agent 8 is released and Octo Expansion DOES happen in her timeline, but it's too late. Octos are scum, the devil. They, and Four, they're all to blame. She just kept making excuses until the bitter end, so much she refused to adknowledge the truth.

...Well, there's a little more than that, but saying more would spoil the story to Crimson Gaze, which IS happening. It's just that We Become Monsters is taking precedent due to its Halloween nature. Anyway, I imagine main!Marie still harbours that resentment, deep down. She can't control it, it's just...there. That sort of bias don't go away because of one small good thing that is contrary, I know that. So it goes without saying that she's still gonna freak when she first sees Eight. But then, she discovers she's the one to save the world and was one of the many moved by the Sister's Song. So she'll warm to her in time. Cuttlefish sure did.

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