Baylee

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## Backstory

Baylee is an Octoling and a member of Team Kaji. She is also Agent 8. She grew up in the Octarian Domes, training to become an Elite Octoling. Due to her skill with many weapon types, especially Sloshers, she quickly rose through the ranks until she was placed in charge of a troop on her 18th birthday--Troop 88. As leader, she had 7 other Octolings below her, all Elite, and each with her own handcrafted weapon from Marina Ida.

* Marina Ida, 2nd-in-Commmand, and Chief Engineer, who brandishes the Octo Brella (BRELLA)
* Myst, AKA Sunny, an Assassin who wields the Tentasniper (CHARGER)
* Flo, a Tactician who uses the DJ Blaster (BLASTER)
* Ripple, the elder of twin Octolings, who carries dual Octanas (SPLATANAS)
* Creek, the younger twin who uses an Octobow (STRINGER)
* Tide, the energetic user of the Octaling (SPLATLING)
* Azure, Baylee's best friend, who uses the Octave Dualies (DUALIES)
* Baylee herself used the Octo-Slosher (SLOSHER).

Only months after her promotion, the gossip of the Domes told that a young Inkling girl had defeated their benevolent leader, DJ Octavio. Shortly thereafter, Marina and a few others in Dome #29 vanished. Marina, with her skills, soon showed up on wanted posters. Apparently she had attacked Sunny, but Baylee ignored the chatter. True, Sunny *had* needed an emergency surgery, but why would Marina attack? No, there was no foundation to the gossip.…

Baylee lives up under the guidance of DJ Octavio, whom she had been trained always to respect and obey. However, one day, while eating a Salmin-Fil-A *Salmonid Deluxe Sandwich*, she heard a crash, and despite the DJ's instructions never to leave the cafeteria until the bell rang, she decided to investigate. As she rounded the corner, she heard a strangely familiar heavenly melody. As she watched, her commander-in-chief was attacked by a young Inkling boy, one of the foreigners she had been taught always were evil. And yet, she somehow felt that the boy was not really in the wrong as he attacked the DJ. Now the music of a pair of Inklings seemed to melt away her anger. Now she knew what she had to do. Now she knew that this changed everything....

Baylee had to know if anyone else had heard the music—if it had affected them the same way. She pulled Azure aside and told her what had happened, asking her to come to the surface with her. She knew it sounded crazy—no Octolings could live on the Surface with the squidkids. But Azure agreed—she had heard the Inkantation, too. But when they went to leave for the surface, a shot fired out of the darkness. Sunny stepped from the shadows, Tentasniper at the ready. Baylee gasped.

”Baylee. Azure. Surely… surely you aren’t thinking of leaving…?”

“Myst. You-you heard it too? The melody?” Baylee began to hum the opening bars, but Sunny flinched.

”So. Marina wasn’t the only one….”

Baylee looked up in surprise. “So Marina really did go to the surface?”

Myst’s uncovered eye was concentrated on them, but Baylee could see the sadness in it. “She was affected by the music. She left-I should have stopped her.” Then a hardness came over her. “I won’t make the same mistakes twice.” She raised her Tentasniper.

”Sunny! Don’t do this! Come with us!” Azure cried out. “We can go be with Marina-our whole troop. Please!”

Sunny blinked back a year and whispered, “Only my friends call me Sunny.…“

A great battle ensued, until Myst knocked the Octo-Slosher from Baylee's hand. Seeing what had happened, Azure dodge rolled to the side, but she wasn't fast enough. As Baylee watched, Azure was taken out by Myst. Before Myst could fire again, Baylee took off, hardly able to see anything through her tears but her friend's ghost flying upwards. As she ran, she tripped and fell over a ledge. Myst looked down, and believing her dead, left. Baylee awakened to an old Inkling calling her… and the rest is history.

## Surface Life

When she finally reached the surface and destroyed Tar Tar atop the NILS statue, Baylee searched for a place to call home. Pearl and Marina found her an apartment of the wharf, and Baylee spent a good deal of time in the Square. However, after the Super Mario fest, she found herself feeling a little stir-crazy. When she heard about new feats taking place in Splatsville, she chose to move.

## Splatfest Choices

The following it a list of Splatfest teams that Baylee joined, and why.

•No Pulp-she thinks pulp is gross because of the texture.

•Inkling-she finds them cute, and the Squid Siters are Inklings!

•Spoon-she doesn’t want all the liquid dripping through the tines of a fork.

•Modern-retro has no place on the Surface!

•Treat-why would you want to trick your friends?!

•Guac-the better choice, but salsa is good too!

•Hero-she’d rather not talk about villains at all

•Friend-she has no known family, so it was an easy choice.

•Pancake-waffles are too filling!

•Wizard-safety first; heal yourself with spells!

•Tortoise-slow and steady wins the Fest!

•Time Travel-she could go back and save Azure….

•Narwhal-unicorns are way overrated, and after all, narwhals are sea creatures!

•Chaos-she had enough of order in the Octarian Domes!

•Ketchup-Mayo isn’t good with fries.

•Egg-chicks are adorable!

•Treat-again, why scare your friends?!

•Super Star-invincibility is way better than “you don’t get hurt… the first time.”

•Paper-origami is one of her pastimes

•Gear-be prepared!

•Grass-the rep was a cat, what did you expect

•Sweet-to match the treats!

•Dark Choco-it’s more refined

•Nessie-another sea creature!

•Wisdom-if you are wise, you will gain power and courage!

•Strawberry-sweet, and pink is her favorite color. Plus strawberry is the best anyway.

•Love-what is life without friends?

•Big Man-he is so squooshy

•Ghost-they are so huggable and they don’t rattle or eat your brain…

Hug-I mean look at why she picked Egg, Grass, Big Man, and Ghost…