Star

Star is one of the main protagonists of Fresh Start. She was raised in the Octarian military, before being freed by the Calamari Inkantation. She takes the role of Agent 8 after waking up in the Deepsea Metro.

## Appearance

Star is a tall 15-year-old octoling with dark skin and pale purple tentacles. She has wide, deep purple eyes, and her tentacles are styled into a ponytail. She has round ears and the usual octoling eye markings. She has freckles across her cheeks and nose. Her bangs resemble that of an enemy octoling.

Star's main outfit in part one of Fresh Start consists of the Annaki Drive Tee from Splatoon 2, over a denim skirt with black leggings underneath. She wears the Punk Cherries from Splatoon 2 and the Half-Rim Glasses in black.

Star's outfit in the Deepsea Metro is similar to the feminine outfit Agent 8 wears in-game, although the high-heeled boots are replaced with a more practical flat-soled pair, similar to the masculine Agent 8 outfit.

Star's outfit when with the Octarians consists of the octoling armor from the second game. Her hair was loose, and shorter in the back.

During turf war or splatfests, Star's ink will change to the color of the team she is representing.

## Personality

Star is cheerful and playful, although she also gets pretty shy at times. She works hard because she is afraid of messing up, but is a lot more easygoing once she lets her guard down.

## History

### Before Fresh Start

Star was raised as a soldier in the Octarian Army, who was stationed in Octo Valley. Agent 3 encountered her in the "Octoling Invasion" mission, although Star was quickly taken out by her. She was out of range of the Calamari Inkantation during Agent 3's fight with DJ Octavio, and because of this she stayed with the octarians. Shortly before Octavio's escape from the snow globe in Octo Valley, she was transferred to Suction Cup Lookout.

### Fresh Start: Part I

While stationed in the "Octoling Strike" mission of Octo Canyon, Star noticed Deedee making her way through the mission, although Deedee was able to slip past before Star could apprehend her. Deedee dropped her phone on the way out, and Star picked it up to turn it in to her superiors. Before bringing it to where her higher-ups were stationed, she began messing with the phone, and accidentally activated the music player, which had been playing the Calamari Inkantation before Deedee entered the mission. As the song played, Star was freed from her hypnoshades long enough to remove them, and formulate a plan to escape the octarians.

While on her way out, she returned to Octo Valley, where she was encountered by Agent 3 and Cap'n Cuttlefish. Agent 3 attacked, before she and Star were both kidnapped and Star awoke in the Deepsea Metro. She formed an alliance with Cap'n Cuttlefish as she tried to escape, after being introduced to the Metro by the telephone. After boarding the train, Pearl and Marina made contact with the two of them via Cuttlefish's radio. She began completing tests in order to find the four thangs, and was able to retrieve them all within only three days. After bringing the thangs to the telephone, the telephone assembled the thangs and told Star and Cap'n Cuttlefish that it could now show them the way to the promised land. After realizing that the four thangs fit together to form a giant blender, Marina activated the distress signal on Oomi's CQ-80, which was received by Agent 3, who destroyed the blender, freeing them. Star then began her escape to the surface, leaving Cap'n Cuttlefish to watch over an unconscious Agent 3. She made her way through the first several escape phases, before being encountered by a partially sanitized Agent 3 on the elevator of the surface. She takes out Agent 3 with some difficulty, and afterward finally reaches the surface and is picked up by Pearl and Marina. Before they can make their way to Inkopolis, they are faced with the NILS statue and Commander Tartar, and she is tasked with defeating the statue and saving the world. While backed up by Off the Hook, she uses Marina's hyperbombs to cover the statue with her ink to stop it from charging, before Pearl lets loose her battle cry to combat the statue's laser. After defeating the statue, Pearl and Marina dropped her off in Inkopolis Square.

After only a couple hours in Inkopolis, Star encountered Deedee leaving Octo Canyon, who wasn't paying attention and ran into Star. She apologized, and offered to buy her lunch, which Star accepted. Deedee showed her around the square, showing her some of the ins and outs of Inkopolis. They played turf war together until it started getting dark, at which point Star stated that she did not actually have a place to stay. Deedee offered to let her stay at her apartment, which Star accepted gratefully. While Deedee was often busy with her work as Agent 4, they would usually hang out and play turf war together in the evenings.