Candy (Agent 8)

* Candy (but picrew)
* Official draft art of Candy

**Candy**, also simply known as **Agent 8**, is the original canon Agent 8 who was transported to the AE timeline with the meep team due to a matter reform. Due to not being from this world, they can’t touch anything related to the original Agent 8 and has to wear specialized gloves to prevent destruction.

## Appearance

8/Candy's appearance consists of a black leather cropped top, with only one sleeve which reaches to the middle of her elbow and a leather skirt. They also wear high heels and yellow wrist bands on her left arm and right leg with the numbers "10,008" on them. They have fair skin and wavy hair, which reaches different lengths, her front left tentacle curls at the end and reaches around above her chest, whereas her front right tentacle reaches slightly below her chest and does not curl, their back two tentacles however only reach up to her shoulders like the normal tentacurl hairstyle does. Each front piece of hair has one suction cup each on the upper part of the tentacle, additionally, their hair fades from a dark brown to a hot pink. Candy also has silver eyes with two eyelashes on each, one on the upper part of her eye and one on the lower part (like most female octarians).

## Lore

As Candy’s lore matches up for the most part with the canonical agent 8 in the actual splatoon games, here are some bulletpoint notes on different things with her lore:

* Candy was transported to the AE world exactly 2 years and a half after she escaped the deep sea metro
* Candy canonically was transported to this world right after she was done hanging out with their agent 3
* As of currently, there is no agent 8 in her original world, presumably people would most likely think she went missing
* Candy has to wear special gloves so that they don’t accidentally make anything blow up if they interact with anything the agent 8 from this universe has touched, additionally she cannot touch the canonical agent 8 from this world and Eleri or else they will both explode (as she was told)

## Personality

In summary, Candy’s personality can be described as reserved, creative, and excitable. She is friendly to newcomers but often has a lot of social anxiety, which leads to them not talking a lot or seeming slightly anxious when they speak to people, additionally she frequently gets lost, and generally arrives at places late. Candy rarely appears in most threads due to not having much communication with the rest of the meep team. Despite that in most situations where she is actually present she deals with things with caution and rationally.

Additionally, she is pretty tech savvy, learning some things from Marina before she got transported here, and adding on to her introverted nature, she generally is helping the meep team from behind the scenes even if it isn’t noticeable. It is also shown that she is a really good therapist

## Trivia

* **Candy** is a self insert of the agent “Agent 8” in the Alternative expansion universe
* **Candy** has diagnosed ADHD innatentive and GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)
* **Candy** is an INFJ
* As most octarians, **Candy** has a liking towards music
* Despite liking things to be orderly, she has a hard time keeping her own personal items organized
* **Candy** is not fond of chaos, and sided on the “Side Order” team for the Splatoon 2 Final fest
* Unlike the canonical agent 8 from the game splatoon, **Candy/8**’s hair gradients from a brownish red color to the normal pink that agent 8 is seen to have
	+ Additionally, her fingers seem to have a slight pinkish gradient to them as well
* **Candy** seems to often be tired, and seems to sleep a lot while the meep team is on their chaotic adventures, however when they arent asleep and is awake, they seem to be able to help in the best way they can
* **Candy** is most likely the most calm person on the meep team
* In her original universe, **Candy** got her name from Agent 3 when the two were hanging out at Agent 3’s house watching animes and eating ice cream
* In Splatoon 2, **Candy** mained E-liter and the bloblobber, but since Splatoon 3 came around, she seems to be a big fan of the Splatana wiper
* **Candy** likes to draw
* As **Candy** has a helpful nature, they’re willing to someday help Voppi restore her hometown to its colorful, unbleached self
* **Candy**'s pupils can narrow almost like a cats, they can narrow into slits or expand pretty wide
	+ This is most likely due to a genetic mutation
* Candy does not have a phobia of blenders themselves, but rather if her hand or body goes anywhere remotely inside the machine

## Gallery

Draft drawing of CandyThe picrew of candy (Picrew by KetArtDragon)Gacha version of Candy by @Voppi MeepArt drawn by @DewdropDrawsStuffDigitalized version of the previous sketch, along with Eleri's and Razi'sA doodle of the Agent 8s chattingFinalized version of the Agent 8 group drawing (by @DewdropDrawsStuff)Candy's part from the group drawing (By @DewdropDrawsStuff)