Inkling and octoling

Inklings and octolings (called the same in French; VML: cephalopodomines (cephalopod + homines); decapodomines (decapod (squid) + homines) et octopodomines (octopod (octopus))) are a class of humans in present Moricounie.
== Details ==
=== History ===
Compared to the source franchise Splatoon's idea of them being evolved replacements to humans after exponentially-rising sea levels (probably due to climate change), in this universe, they have evolved the same time as humans, but nominally lived closer to coastal regions, compared to the savanna that the first humans lived in.
As a result, by the time the Sumerian civilisation was established, so were theirs.
For most of their existence humans did not touch them nor did anything to them at all, however they only got noticed by the 1600s.
By 1910, a majority of the planet's octarians/octolings were in Japan, while the inklings were mostly in Europe and the US. So when Japan shook hands with Nazi Germany later on, the octarians also defected to national socialism, whilst most inklings in the USA were as frightened as the Americans when they heard about it.
So, instead of having a Great Turf War independent of this current timeline per se, that war has instead been written as a proxy between the Japanese Empire and the United States of America. And, corresponding to that timeline, the inklings also won, with humiliation towards the octarians as they similarly get reduced by the Allied forces.
Some of them also moved to Moricounie sometime in 2020.
Under a mandate written during the Autumn of the Règlements, both inkling and octoling aggressive behaviour towards each other were summarily banned (shoved into the umbrella of no interspecies relations), lest they get publicly humiliated and ostracised for going against Moricounie's principles of unity. However, all of them in Moricounien soil were arrested anyway.
Since they were technically squids and octopi, they were thought to be immune to COVID-19, and so the quarantining mandate never applied to them. As a result, there were more recorded multicoloured ink stains in places where one wouldn't expect an inkling or octarian/octoling to live in.
Despite their differences, they, at least the Moricounien ones, both condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
=== Current characteristics ===
Both are mostly in between mourbs and mii/normal humans in height, and come in various different hereditary colours, which also affect their eye colour and bodily fluids.
In the Caserne, the weapon assigned to them are enemy-spiders which are small tanks that rotate very fast that spurt out paintballs that cause an intense painful reaction on touch thanks to the balls' heat, speed, frequency and humongous amounts of capsaicin. However, the giant enemy-spider is not under their control, but under Andrew's.
Under studies by the Social Météo, octolings seem to be easily affected by musical propaganda, way more easily than inklings. A voluntary test with octoling Marina and the North Korean propaganda song Korea Does What It's Determined to Do resulted in her immediately defecting to Juche. Knowing this fact, they became careful not to play any Moricounien or any other propaganda in octoling areas, including Calamari Inkantation, which was classified as pro-inkling propaganda, after discovering that octolings defected or were made to defect to inkling societies through this one song, along with making inklings unnecessarily more powerful. Like many other propaganda, this song was instead sanctioned to only be played during wars.
=== Mourabitean cephalopod ===
Mourabitean cephalopoda (the official term uses the Latin term cephalopodum; Latin/VML: Cepalopoda murabiti), or emcees, are a class of mourb-inkling/octoling hybrid.
Emcees look exactly like inklings and octolings. However, they share proportions with mourbs, are slightly taller than them in general, and also share the same genetic facial properties with mourbs, such has larger heads, larger eyes and the three-nose variation. All of their ears are round and smaller, and the tentacular hair of the two source species were also inherited.
== Trivia ==
* The Caserne's usage of what seems to be Minié rifles with bayonets might be a reference to inklings in Splatoon still using the Bamboozler, a weapon used 100 years before the timeline. Miniés were used until the start of the 20th century. However, Moricounien "Minié"s are actually modern Remington rifles that are deliberately modeled like Minié rifles, itself being a carryover from the 2019 Aschsenland period of having the force be based on the British Queen's Guard, especially those with long grey coats, which is also where the idea for the current hakama attire came from.
*Instead of adhering to the squid-humanoid metamorphosis life cycle in the source franchise, it is explained in this universe that all inklings and octarians were already born the way they would be in the future, and almost no metamorphosis takes place. Additionally, octarians were written to have reproductive organs in this universe.
*According to the source franchise, inklings and octolings have become too fragile to water due to their ability to transform overtaking their original physical capabilities. In this universe, inklings and octolings cannot transform, and can dwell in water. They can also breathe underwater because of their natural habitat millions of years ago compared to those of humans.
*The source franchise features an AI that plans to obliterate both races for their lifestyles. This has been overridden with the invasion of Caelorussia into Inkopolis and Octo Canyon and the two races' second sack in 2021, and the background of the Government invading the two territories seem to also match that of the AI, named Commander Tartar.