Off the Hook

Off the Hook, or Pearl and Marina are minor characters in Splatoon 2, the tritagonists of its DLC Octo Expansion and set to reappear in Splatoon 3's upcoming DLC Side Order.
==Appearance==
Pearl is a female Inkling with a mask similar to Callie's of the Squid Sisters, a dress with a zipper, and a crown that changes color like her hair. She also wears pink tights, white shorts under her dress and white boots. Pearl has gold eyes that also have a similar eye design with the Squid Sisters as well. Marina is an Octoling with the color cyan at the end of her tentacles and her tights, wears headphones, a short black tank top, black shorts, and black boots. Marina's eyes have pale green pupils along with a pinkish line with circles at the end of the lines. Their clothes sport large zippers that are styled after their eyes: A plus symbol for Pearl and an infinity symbol for Marina.
In the Octo Expansion, Pearl wears a sweater dress with a necklace, white shoes, and a gold, jewel-encrusted crown. Marina wears a white bandana on her head, a white tank top, jeans, shoes, and a necklace as well. Their necklaces are designed around their eyes like the zippers on their regular outfits from their studio in Inkopolis Square. Many fans compared Pearl and Marina's Octo Expansion attire to that of the famous rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Promotional art for Splatoon 3 show them sporting new attire to compliment the new band they formed in the downtime between the Final Splatfest and the start of Splatoon 3, the new band dubbed "Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook". Similar to how they replaced the Squid Sisters with hosting Inkopolis News in Inkopolis Square after the Squid Sisters did it in Inkopolis Plaza, Off the Hook were replaced in Splatsville by the new group Deep Cut, consisting of Big Man, Shiver, and Frye, hosting Anarchy Splatcast.
A teaser trailer for the Splatoon 3: Side Order DLC shows Pearl using a drone to communicate with Agent 8 as they enter the building that is now in the place of Deca Tower in Inkopolis Square, and meeting Acht, AKA Dedf1sh, who helps them figure out how to explore the factory and battle the opposition within and figure out what happened to Inkopolis Square as a result. Marina's whereabouts are unknown at this time.
==Personality==
Pearl acts much like Callie, whereas Pearl has a tomboyish attitude and has angry-like eyelashes. Marina acts like Marie, however, Marina smiles a lot and has sad eyelashes. In most of the game during the news, Marina refers to Pearl as "Pearlie", implying that they are in some sort of relationship between each other. It's been also shown at the end of the main campaign mode that they have a friendly rivalry with the Squid Sisters as both of them are idols in Inkopolis.
==History==
As revealed in some Sunken Scrolls, both of them had certain backstories. One Scroll reveals that when Pearl was young and singing at a local festival, she caused a very loud noise, but fortunately, no one was hurt. Marina was revealed to be a member of the Octolings serving under DJ Octavio, leader of the Octarians, but for some unknown reason, she left implying that she was inspired by the Squid Sisters' performance in the first Splatoon to become a singing idol.
In the Octo Expansion, Pearl and Marina are contacted by Cap'n Cuttlefish (in the latter on accident), and they help out with Agent 8 on his/her tests. Later, Pearl and Marina start a chat room, with Cuttlefish not knowing how to correctly type in. After Agent 8 collects the four Thangs located around the Deepsea Metro, when Agent 8 and Cuttlefish got off of the train, Commander Tartar ambushes the two by putting them in a blender created from the Thangs. Marina tried to hack Tartar to free Agent 8 and Cuttlefish, but to no avail. Luckily, Agent 3 (gender determined after getting the third Thang), stops Tartar by crashing into it and breaks the blender after responding to the distress beacon Marina activated on Agent 8's CQ-80. Upon noticing the employee version of the CQ-80 that Agent 3 had on them, Off the Hook suggest using it to find the way out of the Deepsea Metro. As Agent 8 makes their way up through the various stages of the escape route, just as they reach the final elevator to the surface, they are intercepted by Agent 3, having been brainwashed by Tartar to fight and stop Agent 8 from escaping, having already taken Cuttlefish hostage when Tartar recovered and ambushed them.
After Agent 8 defeats and frees Agent 3 from Tartar's brainwashing, the two, along with Cuttlefish, are next seen outside the statue, having reached the surface. Pearl and Marina are seen flying in with a fleet of helicopters led by their dual top rotor chopper and offer the three a ride to Inkopolis. While Pearl is rapping with Cuttlefish, the head of a statue rises up, and Commander Tartar reveals his plan to wipe out Inkopolis out of disgust at what it saw with the Inklings and Octarians, believing neither of them are worthy of the vast knowledge of humanity it had been entrusted with. Marina then tells Agent 8 to cover the statue with as much ink as they can using her prototype Hyperbombs. When Agent 8 was done inking the statue, Pearl did the final blow by using her custom Killer Wail, the Princess Cannon, and screamed as loud as she can, thus defeating Tartar once and for all, saving Inkopolis from certain destruction.
Some time after the Final Fest, Pearl and Marina decided to go on the road to carry out their plans for after the Splatocalypse, with Agent 8 joining them on the world tour. During this time, they found new bandmates and formed the group Damp Socks feat. Off The Hook, producing two new songs in "Candy-Coated Rocks" and "Tentacle To The Metal".
However, Marina also wanted to help all the Sanitized Octolings from the Deepsea Metro, so she began work on a virtual reality project known as the "Memverse" to help them regain their memories that were taken away during the sanitization process by Commander Tartar. During her efforts, she created an AI known as "Order" to serve as the liaison for the VR world. Unfortunately, something goes haywire in Order's programming, and it is convinced a world of order, where everything is the same and never changes, is for the best, and takes over the Memverse, capturing Marina, forcing her back into her Splatocalypse Splatfest outfit, and possessing her, turning her into "Marina Agitando", trapping her in the Control Room of the Spire of Order as the boss of the floor.
When Agent 8 and Pearl arrive in the Memverse, with Pearl taking on the appearance of a drone as support to Agent 8, they attempt to enter the Spire and help Marina when they hear her send out a transmission for help. At the elevator, they meet up with Acht, also known as Dedf1sh, a Sanitized Octoling who is actually old friends with Marina from their time serving in DJ Octavio's Octarian Army. Acht had tried to save Marina herself, but was unable to and was injured by a Jelleton attack, leaving her left hand and lower arm bandaged for the time being. Introducing Pearl and Agent 8 to the Palette system for them to use to ascend the Spire, Acht stays in the elevator as they make their way up to the 10th Floor and find Marina there as her boss self. Fighting her and managing to damage the device she was trapped in by covering it with ink, Marina is soon released, but is confused and puzzled by what happened, before Order appears in person to reveal it no longer needed Marina as a host body, and blasts Agent 8 and Off The Hook out of the Spire before transforming it into a much more taller and difficult structure to climb.
Freed of her possession by Order, Marina changes back into her Damp Socks feat. Off The Hook outfit, and is able to also restore Pearl back to her normal appearance wearing her Damp Socks feat. Off The Hook outfit, before explaining how this is all her fault, apologizing to Acht for what led to her getting injured in the first place, and offers to help Agent 8 make it up the Spire to stop Order by using her laptop to hack into the Spire and provide permanent boons to Agent 8 to make navigating the Spire easier on future attempts, such as additional lives, armor, and increased damage to their weapons while reducing damage from enemy attacks, even offering to scramble the floor options for Agent 8 if the current options are not to their liking, along with the upgrades in the vending machines whenever Agent 8 stops for a rest break on one floor before proceeding again.
Upon reaching the Control Room at its new position on the 30th Floor, Marina joins everyone as they attempt to confront Order, trying to reason with her AI that its views of an orderly world are not what everyone wants, but Order sees Marina's attempts to negotiate as a betrayal and goes berserk, transforming into a Jelleton octopus known as Overlorder to carry out its endgame. Agent 8 attempts to fight and defeat it, but Overlorder refuses to give up and begins to draw everyone from Splatsville and Inkopolis in the real world into the Memverse to trap them there indefinitely. Marina desperately tries to override it, but can't break through the security as Acht rushes to her side moments before they are being drawn in themselves.
However, Agent 8 is able to use their willpower to override Overlorder and stop it, while also giving Pearl, Marina, and Acht a chance to help as Acht, with her wounds healed, joined Marina after Marina summoned a DJ station for them to use together, and Pearl, back to her normal appearance, unleashes a "BOO-YAH!!!" scream that shatters the Control Room walls, while Overlorder suddenly finds itself unable to resist having its tentacles dance to the music. However, refusing to admit defeat, Overlorder traps all the Color Chips for the Palette in its Jelleton portals to try and handicap Agent 8 in their fight, but this proves to be its downfall. As Agent 8 destroys each portal, the Color Chips are recovered, boosting Agent 8's power considerably. Upon recovering all of them, Pearl, in her drone form, unleashes a Color-boosted Killer Wail strike on Overlorder, overloading its body to where it explodes spectacularly, but when the dust clears, Overlorder/Order has been reduced to a small paralarva octopus known as Smollusk, who is very upset at having its plans ruined by Agent 8, Acht, and Off The Hook. Nevertheless, with having saved the Memverse, the good guys are able to use an elevator that appears to ascend back to the real world and the real Inkopolis Square.
However, some time later, Agent 8 returns to the Memverse to find Off The Hook and Acht waiting for them. Marina explains that the Palettes that Agent 8 uses in the Spire are part of the memories of some characters, like Off The Hook, the Squid Sisters, and Deep Cut, that Smollusk trapped in the Memverse. In order to reconfigure them to fix them, Agent 8 would have to take them up the Spire and use them against Smollusk in the Control Room and beat him with them to complete the reconfiguration process. With each one, Smollusk still maintains its frustration with Agent 8, Acht, and Off The Hook over ruining its plans, but begins to reconsider its actions were in the wrong after all as things go on. By the time Agent 8 brings their own Palette up to be reconfigured, Smollusk has given up on its original plans and accepts its intentions were in error, and once Agent 8 beats it, Smollusk accepts being the benevolent AI of the Memverse again, but does ask that Off The Hook, Acht, and Agent 8 come back up to fight it again occasionally as it enjoys fighting them now.
==Gallery==
Off the hook.jpg|2D artwork of the two
Worldpermiereoffthehook.jpg|Pearl and Marina in the Splatfest World Premiere artwork
Off the Hook Intro.jpg|Their intro before the game starts
Octoling pearl.jpg|Concept art of Off the Hook. Note that Pearl is an Octoling instead of an Inkling.
Off the Hook Studio.jpg|Pearl and Marina chatting in their studio
Octo Expansion Off the Hook promo.jpg|Off the Hook in the Octo Expansion
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Marina ida taking picture with a inkling boy.png
File:S3 Banner OffTheHook.png|Banner in Splatoon 3
==Trivia==
*Pearl was originally an Octoling but was switched to an Inkling in the final game.
*There are speculations that Marina may have escaped being sanitized, which explains how Marina has the cyan at the end of her tentacles, just like the other sanitized Octolings and Octarians. This is debatable among fans.
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