Rio

Main Appearance

Rio is an octoling from Splatsville who likes to chill in Discordia every now and then, he has a lot of friends and is a kind young man with a dark past and truama, none of that stops him from enjoying his life.

## Lore

Rio was born in the underground octarian army, he had a single mother called Lucy as well as his year older sister Octva who was unaware she was adopted, working from a young age was hard for him the family hated the army and would one day desire to go up to the surface and live with inklings, Rio was bullied a lot for being weak and scared a lot but he always had his sister and his mother with him through tough times.

But when Octva was 9 and Rio was 7 she was ready to start her training at the underground at octo canyon, Rio lived at octo valley so this means he would not be able to see her for a long time, Rio and Lucy tried to stay together and he grew closer with his mother, a year later Rio and Lucy went on a walk talking about breaking out of the underground, until they saw a mysterious green octoling with blue hair, more appeared and attacked the 2 Lucy fought back to protect Rio but was stabbed and couldn't walk and was losing blood fast, she told Rio to run which he did really fast Lucy died shortly after Rio was traumatised and filled with grief.

Rio then began his training in the academy, having no family he just listen to whatever he was asked to do, he was trained by a strong and deadly octoling Stella cutt, Rio was top of his class at the academy he was fast, strong, smart, had great aim and a really good fighter, when Agent 3 was on her mission to save the great Zapfish Rio followed her into an arena where he opposed her to a fight which he lost and was almost killed, during 3's battle with Dj Octavio Rio was amazed by the calamari inkantation his mind was opened up to leaving the underground again however he did not leave due to his mother being dead he felt like it wasn't worth it.

3 years after the first inkantation Rio was 14 and had graduated the academy and was an official solider, Stella was so impressed with Rio she wanted to see if he would kill innocent inklings who ever tresspassed the octarians Rio was against this and he had to believe that Octva made it to surface after the inkantation, during one night Rio escaped the underground and made his way to find Inkopolis, he stumbled across Agent 3 and Captain Cuttlefish, he battled 3 until Rio was attacked and captured by a mysterious blue Octoling.

Rio woke up with Cuttlefish in a dark train station called the Deepsea metro, he lost his memories of his family and everything else he worked with the captain to escape, they met a mysterious sentient telephone who would offer them to the promised land if they completed tests and gathered thangs, Rio was known as applicant 10,008 or Agent 8 for short, the tests we're filled with Sanitised octolings, octolings who were infected zombie like octolings who have no signs of life and only obey their commander, during this adventure Rio had help with off the hook Pearl and Marina, at the end of every test he ate mysterious mem cakes which helped him restore his memories, he remembered that it was the sanitised octolings who killed his mother when he was a child, Rio was overwhelmed but he had to escape to Inkopolis.

Rio gathered the 4 thangs which assembled a blender that Rio was almost killed in, luckily Agent 3 arrived in time to save him and he made an escape through the hole in the cealing she made, 3 shortly after was partially sanitised he went up to fight her in another battle and was able to rescue 3 who fell unconscious after, Pearl and Marina picked Rio, Cuttlefish and 3 up from the metro only for the phone to reveal his true self as commander Tartar the one who created the sanitised octolings and planned to sanitise all of Inkopolis, Rio and off the hook worked together to destroy Tartar and save the city.

After arriving in Inkopolis Agent 3 gave a tour to Rio in the square, Rio hugged 3 who revealed her real name as Freya the 2 quickly became friends, then a miracle happned Rio found Octva the 2 rushed in for a hug and were finally together again, Although Rio made it to the surface he was still hearing mysterious voices from the metro, he went back as Agent 8 and deafeated the inner agent 3 and recieved a mysterious golden toothpick he also completed every test with every weapon for final training.

Rio and Octva were given a home by Marie of the squid sisters who became their guardian and let them live in her home, the 2 started to explore Inkopolis together and played a lot of turf war and finally fitting into the life of inklings, in September Rio and Octva started their life in high school where Rio met a lot of his friends, the first 2 being Kevin and Lilac who were the first inklings to warm up to Rio, as well as Stacy who Rio found out was agent 4 and is Freya's younger sister, life was going well for Rio playing in splatfests, being with friends and enjoying life however he would often have nightmares of being stuck in the metro again and watching his mother die over and over, Rio would see Freya again who would attack him in sanitised rage and anger, while Rio freed her from full control there were still tiny bits of sanitised ooze inside her brain which would rarley control her and act in aggresion, It wouldn't controll her long but she would feel terrible when it would happen, Rio stayed with Freya a few days to comfort her, he grew closer with her, Stacy and Freya's twin brother Miles he also learned how to cook from Martha Freya's mother.

A few weeks after the final splatfest, Rio's old trainer Stella kidnapped him and planned to erase his mind, luckily Agent 1,2,3 and 4 rescued him Rio killed Stella out of blind rage which sooned bothered him, Rio hugged Marie and was thankful for his life on the surface, a year later Rio and Octva graduated high school and moved into their own apartment, life went very well and quiet for the 2.

When Splatsville was opening up Rio and Octva started saving up to move into the city of chaos, they decided instead to live in a town 10 minutes away from the city due to a lot of full apartments, in October 12022 Rio and most of his friends arrived in Splatsville, Rio still loves living his life to the fullest no matter what happens to him he's always excited for new adventure.

## Appearance

Rio is an octoling with white skin, brown eyes and a punk octo hairstyle, he is mostly seen wearing pilot goggles, red Annaki flannel hoodie and Green Lo\_top shoes.

## Personality

Rio is a very chill and laid back person, he's mostly quite nice about his opinions on stuff but isn't very open minded about his past, he is also very kind and is always willing to lend a hand for his friends or family, during his time in the metro he is shown to bring out true bravery and determination.

## Durability

Rio is well trained with combat and works out if he feels like it, he flinches quite far back with a hard punch but he always gets back up no matter how hardly hit he gets.

## Abilities

Like every Inkling and Octoling Rio has the ability to turn into an octopus which he can superjump as, he also has the ability to swim in ink as long as it's the same colour as his hair.

## Trivia

* Rio gets uncomfortable seeing a blender, telephone or an 8ball brings back too much bad memories for him

* During splatfests Rio gets annoyed with all the tryhards in battle but loves the dancing in the plaza.