Terrence

"To a good friendship!" - Terrence

## Overview

Terrence, who was in the canon universe, somehow became doubled into the Meepverse. This was after Octo Expansion, specifically when Agent 8 had destroyed TarTar's superweapon, and when he escaped the clutches of the monster known as the Tanken-Freak. As he's canon enough to be related to major events, he often stays away from the Metro so he won't affect their timeline as much. He's also a recurring member of the Meep Team.

Terrence is the Octoling that was transformed into the Tanken-Freak, or the monster that roams the Underground Metro Subway. He was also Octavio's former Second-In-Command, and was known as Commander Frostbite, the most ruthless Octarian in his Empire to this day.

## Appearance

Terrence an Octoling Male with the Classic Agent 8 Male hairstyle. He has cyan hair, and the longest tentacle having a cerulean blue tip at the end. There are blue splotches on the tentacle that glow when in complete darkness. There are smaller tentacles can be seen overlapping on his hair. They point to the back of his head and overlap each other, resembling scales. The outlines of them glow a brighter blue and appear to not have suctions on them. He has teal eyes, but this teal is exactly the same teal coloring as Sanitized Ink. His right eyebrow has a notable cut on it. No scar is seen. When looking closely at his mouth, you can see some of his skin overlapping the right part of his mouth. Instead of rounded ears, his ears are still a bit more triangulated, like an Inkling. His right ear has a scar on the bottom.

During his time in the Octarian Empire, he wore a sleeved version of the General's Neo Octarian Armor. This set of armor was only given to warriors of steel-hard loyalty and relentlessness and and is honored among Octarians. This fabric sleeves of the armor is made of a special polyester fabric that is sleek like rubber, but also comfortable. It resists against both extreme cold and heat, and even deflects electrical currents. A row of steel plates go down from his right shoulder to his left side, which is normal. There is one band of steel that is on his left shoulder. The steel plates are made of flexi-steel, which is very lightweight, but also durable, enabling the wearer to be more agile while not worrying about getting hurt as much. His armor is marked with a small blue Octopus on the shoulder armor, back, gloves and pants. His combat boots have a set of 3 silver spikes facing upward on the front. The shoulder pads are inspired from the Null Armor Set. They used to have spikes on them, but they were filed down to not look as menacing. His gloves have silver linings on the fingers, which are used to give a more painful punch. His thumb though isn't entirely covered on both gloves though. Only up to the third segment. There is a noticeable tear in his left glove, as well as some of his right sleeve torn off. He wears a golden and silver earpin on the top of his left ear. He wears a pendant resembling a teal slashed 0 on a chain, which he refuses to take off.

### Season 3

When taking on the Lemon Mask, he ditched his old wear and took on a skintight black bodysuit. Several flexible high-tech armor plates are attached to the bodysuit, making the Ancient Armor he wears. This armor is light grey with tints of glowing blue and white. On his face is a gas mask that has the same colorations and patterns as the Ancient Armor, with tubes going from the valves to the back of his head. His eyes are a Soulless Lemon Yellow.

### Post-Season 3

After Season 3, he woke up to a highly altered transformation. His skin became a dark seafoam green with noticeable teal scars all over him. Dark grey pieces of armor made of bone were attached to most of his upper half. His arms had the same seafoam scales but appeared more beefy, with the addition of short claws on his hands. His face looked much more reptilian with his eyes becoming black with red and teal pupils. His pupils were noticeably thinner than they normally were. He had grown jagged red teeth that covered his jaws. Two streaks of green covered some of his maw, resembling a drape. His hair was blue with yellow rings, but they didn't have teal tips. His lower half appeared human, and it looked like the top half was being covered by the large scaly appearance.

### After-Operation

After an important surgery, Terrence spent some of his time healing in Alterna. His body appeared to be weaker, and he hasn't been able to train as much as he wanted to. He usually wore the black bodysuit that Arya gave him but when he wanted a change, he donned a different set of clothing. He wore a dull red shirt with a blue octopus on the front, as well as several stripe-like patterns on the rest of the shirt. He wore a set of intact jeans and a pair of white and black sneakers with metal soles. He covered his hands with a pair of fingerless gloves, as well as kept the teal 0 pendant.

## Personality

Terrence is all-around a good guy. A loyal member of the Meep Team, dedicated to protecting those who can't stand for themselves, and is often the voice of reason when things go awry. He's a very fun guy to be around and is often pretty chill. When flustered, his cheeks become cyan and the tips of his ears become cyan too.

Though he does have his flaws. He's often insecure and vulnerable when talking about certain topics. When reaching his breaking point, he often panics and is prone to minimal seizures. The more stressed he becomes, the more his skin changes to seafoam green and the more his cyan hair becomes a dark blue. It's often hard to calm him down when in this state of stress

### Season 3

Much like his appearance, his personality had drastically changed. Since he took on the hypnobud from Willow, he's become more emotionless with what he says. He sounds the same, but when talking to him, you can't feel the warmth he gives off when he's kind. When he took on the Lemon Mask, his emotions have been completely drained from him. He speaks like a zombie, in simple words or phrases before pausing. He acts like a robot, where he's flexible and his movements are controlled but it doesn't feel human but more like someone from the background is puppeting him as he moves.

### Post-Season 3

Fortunately he was returned to normal after the events of Season 3. Though noticeably he's much more wary around Willow, and has grown a major resentment to lemons. He also feels much more vulnerable because his body hasn't fully healed yet. Though sometimes his emotional state has become a little unstable at times. If things get too hectic, he may snap and violently act out to try and make the situation stop. Sometimes if things become too stressful, he mentally "overloaded" and goes into a state known as a 'stress fever' where he basically gets a fever out of stress. It often leaves him bedridden for a day or two.

## Special Companion: Midas

Midas is a Goldie Hatchling that Terrence has been taking care of when he first arrived in Inkopolis. He's very eccentric and protective of Terrence, willing to leap onto people and smack them with his small frying pan.

During his Q&A, Terrence tells of how he and Midas met.

## Physical Attributes

While Terrence is very skilled at using ranged weapons like Ink guns, he's very adept at using martial arts, specifically arts that mainly use the upper body. As an Octarian General, he was intensively trained by Octavio and his other most treasured warriors. The moves he uses were documented inside an old Octarian journal of martial arts moves that only he has. By concentrating his power equally through his legs, arms and chest, he can quickly switch between offensive and defensive positions in order to deal with any enemies. His quick reflexes and strong figure also make him a deadly foe in close-quarter combat. After discovering his slightly increased speed and strength, his combat skills are now even better than they were before.

### Other Status Effects

Due to the multiple tests he went through involving the Incomplete Ooze Variants, as well as the Special Octarian training he had received since at the age of 6, he currently gained multiple different side effects from his Incomplete Sanitization.

* Slightly Increased Strength, Speed, and Stamina
* Faster Swim Speed
* +15% Resistance to Enemy Ink
* Heightened Sight, Hearing and Smell.
* Numb to most physical pain, including cuts and stabs.
* Taste is slightly heightened.
* 25% Resistance to elemental temperatures(Cold & Heat)

## Weapons

### Main Weapon: Modified Inkzooka

The Modernized Inkzooka has the capabilities of the Special Inkzooka from Splatoon 1, but decreased. It can't create tornadoes from the shots. Packs a very heavy punch, as well as range, but you need to charge it first. (Mini Splatling charge, large Ink coverage, 96. gal ink consumption.) Aiming it downward can propel the user upwards at a high height. You can also fire it midair. Rocket Jumping requires a lot of control and timing. This will unfortunately drain your Ink Tank, and skilled Chargers can easily knock you out while in the air. Firing seven consecutive shots from the Inkzooka will completely drain your Ink Tank.

### Reserve Weapon: Scarlet Shot Mk. II "ALRUDON"

This gun is a special variant of Splatoon 2's fully upgraded Hero Shot. Instead of the classic yellow, this weapon is coated in a bloody crimson. There's also a yellow line painted on the Scarlet Shot to give it a bit more detail, both on the gun and the back. After some vigorous repairs, he modified it with bars of yellow and black that are similar to CAUTION tape, and he painted a lighter print over the yellow mark. The barrel in the center of the gun was given light gray paints over the grey bars and clear plastic windows to reveal the ink color used by Terrence. The Scarlet Shot is the gun from the first Agent Terrence killed as an Octarian General. He holds this gun very dearly to his heart. It has the same capabilities as the fully upgraded Hero's Replica from Alterna, as well as its predecessors, but with less ink consumption and more coverage. He specifically uses this weapon in more close-range combats because even he knows that there are some instances where an Inkzooka should NOT be fired in.

### Sub Weapon: Blast Bomb

Blast Bombs are an amplified version of the Burst Bomb that can cover a much larger surface area upon impact. They use the same amount of ink as Burst Bombs, but do much more damage, and have a wider spread. These new Bombs resemble Mk. 2 Grenades, which were used by the Americans in WWII. The outside layer of the bomb is made of rows of grooves that go down the grenade. At the top, there is a latch that is pushed up to activate the bomb. The grooves are where the ink color is changed.

### Special: Tentakill Missiles

This Special weapon is a more lethal variant of the beloved Tenta Missiles. Instead of firing ten, this fires twenty missiles that can each cover a large area. Tentakill Missiles can also locate and briefly track opponents; while aiming and firing, a crosshair will stay on all locked-on targets on the user's screen and will follow each target until all the missiles have reached their destination, same as the Tenta Missiles. This variant of the Tenta Missiles is solely based on Turf coverage or taking out multiple enemies at once.

Like the Tenta Missiles, this upgrade is lemon-colored with lime green accents going along. There are three sections when looking at it from the side: The Top, Center, and Bottom. The Top and Bottom sections are the same, consisting two Missile ports each, with two lime green diagonal stripes going down the sides. If looked at closely, the Bottom sections have small writing on the side. The Center sections each have 6 missile ports with multiple lime stripes going down different sections. This variant has a special accuracy improvement that confirms when the target, or targets, are dead.

When the Special is activated, the Missiles will be summoned from the sides, and then smacked together on a Tripod that is set in front of Terrence. Once the position is set, the Missiles will be set on the Tripod. Then he will hold onto a rail that connects the two. Above the rail is a monitor that comes out, which he uses to identify and target specific opponents. He looks in his monitor with his right eye.

This radar has all the latest settings, including:

* GPS (Where you are)
* Rangefinder (Left Side; Used to confirm how far away an enemy is from him)
* Layout of the Area (Top Right Corner)
* Crosshair for aiming
* Ammo Count (How much he has left)
* Limiter (How much time he has left on the Special)
* NUT BUTTON (Used to fire the missiles. ***NUT*** sounds also included in Standard Package & Premium Package)
* SPECIAL QUOTE (Enemies will see it when hit by rockets. ***Dialogue and Holographic Picture*** included in Standard Package & Premium Package)

Once he is done confirming what targets he wants, the missiles will fire on confirmed targets. After this special is activated and fired, the markers appear to all players that show where the missiles land. If missiles are targeting a player, the player will see a ring with three, eight, or twenty-one arrows around their character showing how many missiles are still left. The number of missiles fired at each opponent differs based on how many have been targeted. If one player is targeted, they will receive all twenty missiles. If more than one player is locked on to, they will each receive five missiles.

## Story

### Before Splatoon 1: **Birth & Childhood**

Terrence Grayson was born deep in Octo Canyon, in Beaker's Depot. His father was an Octoling General named Nicholas Grayson, and his mother, who is an Inkling, now Octarian technician named Emilia Tentalia. He never had many childhood memories, since he spent most of it training as a soldier to serve Octavio and his empire. **At the age of 12, he killed his first Squidbeak Splatoon Agent.** This got Octavio's attention and decided to give this boy personal training from some of the most recognized generals and higher-ups the Octarian Army had to offer.

### During Splatoon 1 and before Splatoon 2: **Realization & Exile**

He quickly rose the ranks because of his cunning reflexes, quick-thinking and unmatched brutality. Using his skills of melee aggressive combat, combined with high-caliber ranged attacks, he was always victorious in his frequent missions. Eventually, he became Octavio's loyal second in command. He was as ruthless as they came, never sparing a single Inkling or Octoling that stood in his way. When he had heard the Calamari Inkantation though, everything changed for him, as he saw that he never wanted to fight them in the first place. As he turned out, he was wearing a specific pair of Prototype Hypnoshades that he was ordered to make by Octavio. Unfortunately, he had found out the true purpose of those shades when it was too late. It turns out he was under its hypnotic influence for a year. There he saw that Octavio's ways were never right to begin with. After stressing out for a few minutes, calming down for another, and then thinking for 10 more minutes, he had formulated a plan to carry out his revenge against Octavio. To cover his tracks, he first continued to take out smaller squads along the edges, while pretending he was still in Octavio's control. Once his plan was set into motion, he had deserted and started destroying multiple outposts without being caught. It was until he had broke into a heavily guarded fortress when he was captured. When Octavio was deciding his punishment, he told Terrence that he was heartbroken from his betrayal, and even offered him a chance to return as his general. Terrence on the other hand gave him an answer so defiant, with eyes flaring in blue light. He told him to "Fish off." and even proceeded to "tell him on his bullshark" in front of his soldiers nonetheless, and Octavio's mercy had ended. While many voted for splatting him on the spot, he had decided to exile Terrence into the trenches below. The Octarians threw him below into the abyss, where none had returned from. Luckily for him, he lived. This miracle was due to his quick-hearing when he heard the sound of a pebble that landed down before him. As he fell, he had thrown a Burst Bomb that exploded upon impact. He landed in the puddle of bright blue ink that was fortunately his color. When he came to, he had found himself in the Underground Metro, where he had wandered the place for a very long time.

### Before Octo Expansion; During Splatoon 2: **Pain & Suffering**

For what seemed like years, Terrence had been wandering the Metro. It was a long time of exploring until he was found by Tartar and the Sanitizer, who overpowered and captured him. It was decided they'd use him as the first Octoling experiment of the Primordial Ooze. But first, they had tossed him in a lab prison, and he spent months being studied on by the two. They forced him to complete several grueling tasks to analyze his attributes. They stuck him in a tube and fed him nourishment through a breathing mask, and prodded him on a lab table giving him scars and marks. They even went as far as to pin him against Sanitized Octarian grunts with only his bear hands. Though on the day of the injections, it would become worse than all the pain he's suffered before. When the final prototype was injected into him, everything went very wrong. The poor Octoling went through days of suffering and pain as his body molded, mutated and transformed into a monster. His legs were reduced to monstrous claws, and his arms became horrid and long, but the skin couldn't handle it and they reduced to ink and whatever was left. It wasn't long before those arms became crushed into nothing from the weight and lack of muscle, so they replaced them with cybernetic parts. His humanoid face became more monstrous as his mouth became a large maw of red sharp fangs. His own lower jaw was on the verge of falling off due to the stress of the transformation. They had used strange ropes of red flesh to sow up its mouth, before it could split in two. Its hair became long and dark blue, like the Sanitized you see now. One rare occurrence was that the largest tentacle on it's head had a bright blue tip instead of a yellow or green tip. When the stitches were together, the ink inside his body merged with the parts of whatever it was from, creating a large scar along his snout. His spinal structure was bent to the point it forever stayed in a hunched-back position. And when he tried to yell in pain or scream for any sign of help, it only came out as ear-piercing roars and screeches of madness and pain.

### During Sanitization: **Lost Rampage**

They had spent months forging armor made of the destroyed Octoweapons from years ago, for this beast only. This armor was capable of defending against any damage, especially ink, which was shaken right of. They had even fused its lower half with technology that only existed in human times. To this day, no one knows where or even HOW they got such blueprints, or how they are intact to this point. To make up for it's legs, they made a giant behemoth made of steel and fire capable to traversing land, sea and even ink itself. This beast had rampaged through city after city, killing many Inklings, Octolings and even Octarians. All that was left of its rampages was fire, ruin, corpses, and destruction.

### After Sanitization: **Freedom**

During the time Agent 3 kicked TarTar, he had ordered the Tanken-Freak to surface from the seas and destroy Inkopolis from the waters. While Tanken-Freak was getting to the city, as well as wiping out the local Salmonid population, Agent 8 was exploring the Kamabo facility, as well as fighting Agent 3. Just as the Freak was about to fire on the city, Pearl had destroyed the Superweapon, as well as TarTar. Without TarTar's influence, the Tanken-Freak's body had shut down and sunk into the waters. A glowing green orb came out of its maw and floated up to the surface of the brimy waters as the now soulless Freak sank to the bottom of the Abyss, never to be seen again. Once the bubble had reached the surface it revealed an unconscious blue haired Octoling with a cerulean tipped tentacle.

### Splatoon 3

Since being picked up from the beach by the Meep Team, he's been receiving random migraines, as well as hints of PTSD forming. His eyes tend to change from white to black. Such incidents tend to leave him vulnerable and emotionally unstable.

## Trivia

* **Terrence** is a self-canon addition of the Octo Expansion universe.
* Terrence is identified as Agent 19 of the Inkopolis Capital Squidbeak Squidron
* **Terrence**, ever since being picked up, has confirmed signs of PTSD
* He is highly expertised in Martial Arts, and was taught by an Octarian that went by the name of 'Coach'
* He is also a high expert in sword-and-shield CQC, and was taught by a species of being called a 'Linkling'
* As most Octarians and Octolings, **Terrence** has a liking towards music
* His favorite songs are "Fly Octo Fly" and Splatoon 2's Calamari Inkantation
* **Terrence** likes to have an "organized mess". He knows where everything is and keeps it in his own space.
* Despite his past traumas, **Terrence** sided on Team Order because he doesn't like the loudness of Team Chaos.
* **Terrence** tries to be calm on the Meep Team, but when his friends are being threatened, his emotions often get the best of him and release his monstrous side
* In Splatoons 1 & 2, **Terrence** mained the Scarlet Shot and Brella Breaker , but after the events of Octo Expansion, he now mains his trusted Modified Inkzooka.
* **Terrence** is a pretty good cook, and sometimes cooks human recipes for his teammates when he's motivated to
* **Terrence's** Moop Team alter-enemy is **Talon**
* **Terrence** has a crush on a girl member of the **Meep Team**. Though this is extremely unknown who.
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## Gallery

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