Mame

Mame Kan

**Mame** is a octoling and side character who resides in Inkopolis in Inferiority. He can be described as slow but kind.

Mame Kan is a 16 year old student at inkblot high school, his weapon of choice is an N-zap 89.

He has pale skin, pink hair and red eyes (previously navy but left red due to partial sanitisation

## **History**

### Inferiority Wiki

Mame was born in Octo Valley but in a region where Male octolings where seen as rare but inferior amongst his family members who were all female he was also seen the same way, apart from his sister Momoka who looked up to him the most out of every octoling in the district.

Him and many octolings (male and female) were kidnapped and taken to the various testing facilities and separated from his family and kept in cells labelled by the number they were given. Each day they were sent out to complete various tests and miraculously passed all of them though having near to no prior knowledge of using weapons or common knowledge of octolings (And inklings!)

Every day, less and less octolings returned from the tests, and once the facility narrowed down the octolings to the last few who were deemed superior(Not letting them know that and continuously referring to them, to their faces, as inferior lifeforms)

Eventually the facility decided to make them even stronger by sanitising them, once again separated into groups by age to get them ready for the sanitisation process.

While Mame and others didn't understand what this meant, he was confused but thought this was going to be a reward for getting this far, he went to the front of the line and then realised what what happening. It was too late, he was strapped down and the iv drip was placed and the fluid was forced into his body.

But, a malfunction with the speakers used to coordinate the test subjects occurred and blared the calamari Inkantation which freed everyone throughout the facility.

The other octolings ran into the room and started to attack the facility workers, in the process, the drip was ripped from his arm leaving a very noticeable scar.

He didn't feel too different though when he looked at the iv drip, half of the fluid was gone. He didn't care. He ran around searching for Momoka but he found her passed out and laying in the lap of Choko with Kichiro holding onto her hand looking for a pulse.

According to them, Momoka got so scared she fainted but they couldn't leave her. Mame thanked them and they exchanged names and escaped together to the surface.

And eventually found their new home in Inkopolis.

## **Trivia**

### Interesting facts

* His design is based on Bee's in-game octoling after he changed it from and inkling(Who was originally Kohi.)
* His sexuality is pansexual because he doesn't understand the concept of gender identity.
* His name in English literally translates to "Bean Can"
* He speaks in a mix broken inkling Octoling for reasons speculated to be as a result of his partial sanitisation and can be distinguished by [ and ] around his speech as a "fixed version" as writing all his speech the same would be rather slow.
* A lasting side effect from the partial sanitisation period left his eyes able to switch between red and navy blue between blinking.
* He grew up in an area where male Octolings were rare and seen as inferior, he grew up with very little self-confidence.
* His sanitisation was only partial which leaves him with some minor disfigurations like blackened fingertips and green spots of where the ooze stuck to his skin.
* His name came to be as the fist thing he found after escaping the underground was an empty bean can he picked up.
* He has a connection to Salem Ito as they were both living in the same village and were listed to be in the same sanitisation group but only one of the two was taken.

## Personality & Traits

He is a shy and quiet boy who prefers to watch everything go by and see how things go down, he speaks little but when he does it is very broken speech for reasons speculated to be as a result of his partial sanitisation. He is very shaky and overall nervous to talk to people but easily warms up and trusts people making it easy to make friends but also foes.

Born and bred in Octo Valley gave him the identification of "Tako no tani no shōnen", which roughly translates to "Boy in the valley of octopus" as he was one of the few surviving male Octolings then living in Octo Valley, hence all of the rival Octolings being female.

Mame, and various others were taken underground to be sanitised but eventually reached the surface after being saved by the Calamari Inkantation along with his fellow Octolings upon the Great Escape.

## Family

### Members

His family is mostly unknown to him and everyone else, ne records of his parents were kept at their old home so it is speculated they escaped the kidnapping or were eliminated in the tests early on, the only family member recorded was his sister Momoka but his file specifies 4 siblings who are also unknown.

From a young age, Mame's family were distant and avoided being around him because in their region in octo valley, families with a male child are looked down on, cursed even. So everyone kept their distant from the few males...well except Momoka of course. She loved her brother more than anything and everyone else.

She was willing to be looked down on for being near him and the other males, since they grew up in a smaller community and also had little to no access to other communities to see males weren't rare they believed all areas where like this.

#### Relationships

Momoka:Very strong relationship and wouldn't survive if separated again.

Salem:Neutral relationship, both classes as outcasts and outcasts gotta stick with eachother.

Kichiro:Strong relationship, very respected for helping his sister.

Choko:Strong relationship, very respected for helping his sister.