Inklings

are apart of the Cephaloids faction.
Inklings are a very intelligent specimen of Cephaloids that aren't able to swim in water, but able to do so in their colored ink. They are known for being mostly the POV of the series.

Biology
Inklings are mini-more aquatic versions of humans that evolved out of squids after the drowning of human territory. Inklings' Ink is the color of their hair and is able to be transfered into weapons to use as an armed force. Inklings can also ride down their color of ink. However, Inklings aren't good swimmers and no matter if they fall into an Out Of Zone area in activities or fall into a lake outside of Turf wars and such, it takes time for them to reach land.

Inklings can come in any ink color and skin tone but always have an eye patch around their eyes that are always black unless a pigment disease is inherited which is less likely. They are seen as sort of flexible and can turn into their squid forms which has their ink color and eyes. They can travel through ink in this form.

Throughout a life cycle, Inklings are born as babies and appear to be, as quoted from Nakita, "An odd, terrifying child hybrid between a squid and a human,". They have a human body but a squid face and head but grow out of it to have more of a human appearance. Usually the common age demographic are squid kids or pre-teens and teenagers usually from 10-17. Once an Inkling has grown out of this age range, usually they become colossals and take care of other important jobs.

Inklings seem to value their family but let their offspring live alone around their "squid kid" times as the kid would get into tournaments, do jobs, or defenses.

History
After evolving, Inklings built nations off of seas along with Octolings that are great at buoyancy and could easily be made off of pure water. At the time, Anikuras began to fill within the species, most notably Grande and Magnifying. The two built the skeletonal structure of modern Inkopolis but weren't able to finish it due to certain problems revolving around a red gem. The gem was then casted away into the sea, presumed to be never seen again and the dangers of it was passed down to new offspring and generations.

The Inklings and Octolings and Octarians were at peace and didn't have any issue of each other. A monarchy ruled over them and kept them balanced which always consisted of an Inkling and Octoling queen and king. After the Anikura Drive however, the monarchy was ditched for an influencer based government. Around this time, Demise casted a spell to rise the tides around Old Inkopolis (Resserence) and made the land too scarce and small for both species to live without being crowded. So, Queen Cethod and the Octopus King Crimsonite went into war with each other which both leaders were killed in. Near the final conflict, Magic was asked to help the Inklings. Not wanting to use his powers for bad, Magic fled the scene along with Phoenix on the Octoling side. Magic and Phoenix would go on to be solo fighters while Forest attempted to aid the Inklings with his plant powers but disappeared after a while. After the Inklings lost many oppourtunities and Octavio rose to the throne, the Squidbeaks were made which consisted of the most trusted soldiers and generals; General Cuttlefish, Shulker, Ammoses, Judd, and Krisipher. Krisipher died as a traitor when he bombed Inkopolis capital in favor of 1,000 gold and was excluded from history records as a member. With the team, they gained the upper hand on the Great Zapfish and banished the Octarians and Octolings to the underground.

Years after the war, Octavio rose up again and removed the Zapfish. However since all the original members were gone, a New Squidbeak Splatoon was made which consisted of Rider, Hawk who sacrificed his life to get Rider out of a neverending pit enchanted by Sygil, Gloves and later Goggles, Emperor, Hachi and Nana. Prince was too young to be apart of it but would also be considered.

The Squidbeak disrupted all corruption and brought equality between the Octolings and Inklings. This equality still stands to this day.

Government
Inkopolis Inklings don't have a known governor and appear to be lead by influencers, dominantly Callie and Marie and later Pearl and Marina. However, there has been Inklings spotted outside of Inkopolis, supposedly outcasts, that live under a monarchy called Outlings by the Inklings.

The Outlings are currnelty ruled by Queen Corconia as their last queen, Cethod, died in the war.

Culture
There is no apparent religion other than belief in the Cephalopod god Aerus for Outlings and the Zap Fish for both

Their community is mostly filled for competition with Turf Wars and large events to fight over a certain 2 item debate called a Splatfest which is scored on the percentage of votes, normal mode wins, and pro mode wins. The winners celebrate and usually carry on the fact they've won until their next lost. Each Splatfest side is usually held by a Celebrity which have their own fanbases.

Inklings name themselves either after items, elements, and more, usually in another language but sometimes not, or after their favorite equipment like Goggles and Rider. Outling Inklings however are always named after colors with the exception of Corconia and Dakro.

Location
Most inkling reside in Inkopolis as the Outlings reside in Magic Valley.

Objects
Inklings are armed with weapons in Turf wars, etc. or defenses. They use shooters,blasters, chargers, rollers, sloshers, brushes, splatlings, dualies and brellas. These weapons vary from range, frequency, ink coverage, strength, and their own unique abilities.

Inklings have a special emended within them that they usually use in turf events. This special is activated when meter fills up and they are able to do multiple specials that depend on the weapon or clothing used.

Inklings also gather clothing that increase a certain stat so they can preform better. Some