Florella

## Appearance

**Florella** is an Octoling girl with bright green hair to match her main ink color, and bright pink eyes to contrast. Being an Octoling, she has thick black markings around her eyes that resemble eyelashes, tentacles for "hair" with suction cups on the outsides, and long, rounded ears. Additionally, she has visible scrapes/bruises on both of her knees.

Florella wears a hot pink Squid Squad branded t-shirt, black folded up pants, and white sneakers with accents of blue, yellow and black. In addition to that, she wears a pair of fingerless arm warmers with green and black stripes on them.

## Personality

Florella is very outgoing and extroverted, with a highly adventurous spirit and near child-like curiosity about the world around her. Because of this, she likes to spend a lot of time outside to sightsee and explore.

Due to her more outgoing nature, she also loves to meet new people. Typically, she’s the person to initiate a conversation with someone who interests her. She always strives to see the best in people, even at their worst. She cares very deeply for her friends and loved ones, treating them almost like a second family. Florella is also very emotional, however this also makes her very empathetic and understanding of others emotions, regardless of what they’re feeling in the moment. She always tries to help others when they’re at their lowest, especially those close to her. She doesn’t usually resort violence, but if anyone ever hurts one of her friends (physically or in any other way) she will give them a taste of their own medicine and make it hurt.

## Creation

The idea for Florella came from a joke made in RP about Neon being into Octoling girls. I kid you not that is literally it lol

This led people to wonder whether Neon would actually get an Octoling girlfriend. Shortly after, Florella was created! Since then, she’s continued to be Neon’s girlfriend, but also became much more fleshed out on her own.

## Relations and Affiliations

#### **Neon**

Florella's boyfriend! :D What initially interested Florella in Neon was how quiet and reserved he seemed compared to most Inklings around Splatsville. That and also he seemed approachable enough to her. Since then, she’s always pushed Neon to be more social in an effort to take him out of his shell, especially since she knows he can be social when he wants to. Between the two, she was actually the first to catch feelings. She thinks he's funny, and enjoys talking to him/listening to him rant about the subjects he's super passionate about. She adores Neon, and doesn't shy away from giving him as much affection as she possibly can. She doesn't dedicate all of her time to just that, though, it's moreso whenever she gets the chance to sneak some in. She'd much prefer to spend her time with Neon having fun and making memories. She always makes sure to remind Neon that she's there for him if he needs her, the same way he does for her. All in an effort to show just how much she appreciates him :)

#### **Peyton**

childhood besties oh em gee 😍💅

(will update later once Peyton actually gets a personality)

## Abilities and Weapons

By default, Florella can shoot ink that automatically sticks to all surfaces (excluding glass and grates). The ink itself manually evaporates from whatever it covered after 3 minutes. Florella is also capable of transforming into an octopus. This primarily allows her to swim in her ink, which itself allows her to refill on any lost ammo and also hide from foes. In addition, while in octopus form (or submerged in ink) she can also perform various techniques such as:

* **Super Jump** - Florella crouches down into her octopus form, and then rockets straight into the sky after a brief charge up. Super Jumping is typically used as a method fast travel to different locations, however it can also be used to catch up with teammates/allies in battle

* **Squid Roll** - a basic technique where Florella leaps out of her ink while spiraling in octopus form. This gives Florella an easy way to dodge projectile attacks, even being able to deflect incoming fire.

* **Squid Surge** - a basic technique that can only be used on walls. After a brief chargeup, Florella will go flying right up and off of the wall. This makes for a quick and convenient way to swim up walls.

Florella can also easily pass through grates while in octopus form

Florella's main weapon is a custom made Splatana dubbed the "Samurai's Sword" by Neon. The Samurai's Sword, in design, is based on the weapon the Octo Samurai uses in his boss fight, which itself is a roller-type weapon. As such, the Samurai's Sword's "blade" is also a roller. It functions as any other Splatana would, though. By simply swinging the weapon back and forth, a beam of ink will travel a certain distance from the "blade". Splatanas also have charge slashes that, when unleashed, send forward bigger and stronger beams of ink. Typically, charge slashes go upward, but in this case whenever Florella uses a charge slash she slams her weapon into the ground. The Samurai's Sword provides Florella with both a Sub Weapon and Special Weapon. These are:

* **Sub Weapon** **- Graffiti Bomb**. A unique Sub Weapon that takes the form of a spray can. After being thrown, the can will open and release a smoke cloud of the same color as Florella’s ink. This functions similarly to Toxic Mist, slowing any opponent that steps into the smoke while slowly draining their ink. The smoke also deals minor damage the longer they stay in it.
* **Special Weapon** **- ?**

(The names "Samurai's Sword" and “Graffiti Bomb” are placeholders. The weapon's Special is still being decided on)

## Trivia

* Florella's name comes from the element Fluorine, which happens to be right next to Neon on the periodic table
* Much of Florella's appearance and personality are made as direct parallels to Neon to sort of play into the theme of opposites attracting (ex. green is opposite to red on the color wheel, Florella is much more outgoing than Neon is)
* Florella adores all kinds of art, especially music! This is purely because art is a medium that allows people to express themselves in unique ways, visually and/or audibly. Florella herself isn’t a great artist, but she greatly admires those who are skilled in their craft
* Going off of the previous point, Florella doesn’t have any particular favorite genre of music since she loves all music equally!
* Florella doesn’t speak English, so like Neon, she’d probably use a translator when speaking to someone that doesn’t speak her language
* Florella is pan :]
* Florella's last name is German/Latin for "lightning bolt"
* The Samurai’s Sword is actually a homemade weapon that Neon made for Florella. Despite being based on a pre-existing weapon class, the weapon was built (almost) entirely from scratch! Graffiti Bombs were also an original concept that he created to go with the Samurai’s Sword.
* Going off of the last point, Florella was actually the one who came up with the name “Graffiti Bombs”. Considering that and the fact that this is the only weapon that comes with them, that quite literally makes Graffiti Bombs uniquely Florella’s!