Tanken-Freak

**(Reminder: I've check every rule and acceptation, and I've made sure that this Tanken-Freak overrules all of them. This means you can't do anything to this thing Phoenix. This creature's alibi is shut airtight.)**

> ***"One day, I thought to myself:* 'What would a mix of a human and a tank look like?** That night, I had one of those Sanitized Nightmares, and I saw in clear vision that very creature. Standing before me with bloody teeth and lifeless eyes looking down at my paralyzed body. This thing had truly been born from the darkest parts of my very subconscious. And honestly, I'm very proud it was." -SeraphinaKurusu067
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That monster looked like it had been drawn by a psychopathic genius using two colors, Sanitized Teal and Steel Gray. The metal it wore had come from multiple nations, a combination of Dark Blue, Tan, Light Green, Dark Green, Grey, and Brown. Multiple weapons sprouted from the front, sides and rear, all covered in the same teal ink it bore. It's top half though, was not human, but looked similar. It's skin was a sickly pale green with scars bleeding ink. It wore some kind of external ribcage-shaped chestpiece made of bone. The large pack of ink on its back was so heavy, that it remained in a hunched position. It's jaws were large, with teeth that resembled broken shards of glass and knives. The flesh stitches that keep it's jaw from falling off begin to slightly loosen, as its mouth dripped with oil, ink, and blood. It's head had glowing neon blue tentacles instead of hair, with visible neon yellow rings. They overlapped each other like a crown of vibrating spines. The largest tentacle on its head strangely had a skyfrost blue tip, unlike the other Sanitized. The vibrant neon blue tentacle-like spikes on its head vibrated as the beast leaned ever so closely to your paralyzed body. It towers over you, lowering itself until your eyes gaze up at it. When looking at it, you can see the pain, the suffering, and the torture it may had gone through, only to become a soulless monster. It smells your fear. It tastes your soul. With one bite, a curdling scream, and an ear-piercing roar, and it was all over.

## Overview

This monstrosity was known to play a huge part of the secret main antagonist in RP Prompt Chapter 5: Maintaining the Suit. It was the gigantic mutated creature that Seraphina and her crew had found inside of the abandoned superheavy tank factory in Rosso Imperiale's island. The creature was supposed to be a mutation of human and tank, the perfect superweapon, which was powered by a strange artifact currently known as the 'Sanitized Orb'. More on that later. This creature is currently classified as 'Deceased', as most of it's vehicle had been found buried in rubble and flame. Although in the ending of RP Prompt #5's ending, it was said to be alive by crawling into a kettle. In RP Prompt #8's ending, it was shown to still be alive and it now has a hunger for human flesh. In truth, it's tank-half is actually a vessel it uses to drive itself. The top half is it's whole body because when the patient was mutated with the very unstable Primordial Ooze substance, it turned that patient into a deformed monster with no hands or even a bottom half. And instead of a zombified Octoling, it had become a horrifying beast that is speech limited and hungry for blood. It was able to remember only so little before it had finally lost its mind and succumbed to the incomplete Primordial Ooze. This is also the first Applicant of the Underground Metro and the Promised Land.

## Description

The creature stood to be about 30 feet tall, but that was estimated by Seraphina's view. It's weight is currently unknown as well, but it must be incredibly heavy. It's tank half was a full tank that was made from multiple different parts. It stood on 6 tracks(2 on each side, similar to the AE Phase 1 and a center triangular set), except the tracks were suspended, which means that they could bounce up and down. These tracks did have a more similar appearance to HomeAnimations' The Faceless, except each track had three large wheels on the bottom, and one above them. The hull's front was made using an AMX M4 54. Other parts used were most likely from Japanese, Swedish, Italian, Soviet, and Polish tanks. It's turret that had the front and gun mantel of a Maus and the main turret of a T30. The turret's main gun is a 201mm ISU-201 BL-40Y that can fire off large ink blasts, capable of creating puddles that could submerge even a T34, or large Amor-Piercing rounds that can go straight through an IS-8. It's humanoid form starts from the top of the turret, as if it's been integrated from it. It's torso and exoskeleton are all made from either rusted steel or the flexible metals of other different tanks. It stands in a hunched-back position, where it has a large ink-pack on it. That is where the twin 201mm cannons are revealed.(Even though they are called shoulder cannons) The head of the creature resembles an Octoling Male, except it's mouth had with an elongated head. The skin that it at least still had left was the same tint of aqua green and blue that regular Sanitized Octarians and Sanitized Octolings already have. It's hairstyle resembles the hair of the Male Agent 8, with the one long tentacle on the front. That tentacle, strangely had a bright blue tip instead of a yellow or green tip like the other Sanitized have. The rest of its hair resemble multiple row of spikes.(Even though all Octoling hairstyles are just tentacles.) This hairstyle keeps the glowing dark blue that regular Sanitized Octarians have. It's eyes are crazed and lifeless, but they didn't feel like a Sanitized Octoling was looking to attack you. Instead, it is a monster simply luring down to emotionlessly massacre it's next victim. It's arms were long and horrid, with sharp metallic serrated claws, and visible curved edges. It's shoulders were organic, but the rest of its arms were mechanical, with teal fluids exposed in the cracks of the metal. Those claws were covered in its own blood. Three large gill-like scars are visible on its neck. as well as smaller teal scars on its face. Teal tears can be seen coming out of its eyes, and they don't seen to stop. The chestpiece it wears is an enlarged version of the armor that Sanitized Male Octolings wore. The four numbers on the front are scratched off and faded. It's also wears other types of armor like shoulder armor, a piece on it's back, as well as some on its arms. A large twin-cannoned turret can be found on the top of its pack. Probably something else to keep an eye on. Oil, ink and blood drips from it's mouth, with razor red teeth and gray stitches covering its mouth. It's eyes are mostly covered by a large, yet broken pair of Hypnoshades. These are also multiple smoke valves and spots in the hull that is covered by spaced armor. It seems that the people that made it's hull didn't have much steel at the time because it seemed incomplete. Multiple scars can be seen all over its body. This creature was feared by many species, even the Salmonids had feared it. It also wears a golden earpin on its left ear.

## Quote

"Multiple large guns protruded out of this giant metal vehicle, with visible ink canisters powering it. The most notable were seen on the pack on its back, the main turret, and on the tank itself."

"This was Experiment 0 before it was cleansed of its Sanitization. When Pearl had destroyed Tartar's influence of the Sanitized, it too destroyed the beast's influence, causing its body to shut down and sink into the murky waters of Inkopolis. All that came out of the wreckage, was a single Octoling wearing Neo Octarian Armor and cyan hair. The longest tentacle had a bright blue tip."

## Armaments

**Reminder: These were the only armaments documented in the RP Prompt, which means that the Tanken-Freak could possibly be able to deploy more firepower.**

Twin 183mm Shoulder Cannons(1 on each side)

201mm BL-40Y Turret Cannon

Sanitized Ink Supercharger/ Syringe gun/ 105mm Supercharger {It can turn people, Inklings or Octolings into Sanitized}(located on the front of the hull)

2 Ballpoint Splatlings (located on the front behind the spaced steel plates)

6 Blaster-style ink guns(Low rate of fire, high damage coverage. High ink consumption. It will take a while for the canisters to refill after firing its barrage.)

2 aiming front, 2 on the sides; 2 on the rear (Each one has great flexibilty and can be aimed wherever on the side.)

125 gal. howitzer (two turrets)

85mm Rapid-Shooter Arm Cannon

8x Tentakeel Missiles

Autoreloading 4-cannon Inkstrike Turret (can fire four Inkstrikes in one magazine, but with autoreloading capabilities.)

## Abilities

**Reminder: These Abilities have been documented in not only the RP Prompt #5, but from other Prompts and even the Pages in Sanitized Octarians. This means that the Tanken-Freak could possibly be able to use more abilities.**

### **Deception**

This thing can turn itself into either a human, tank, or something else. This was proved from when the creature turned into Alice, just so it can lure Seraphina into it's lair.

### **Mind Reading**

The creature could possibly be able to mind read it's victims, because it used Alice's form to lure Seraphina in, even though it has never seen Alice, which can prove that the Tanken-Freak can read minds and the memories of it's victims.

### **Ink Slowness**

This was to be proved not in the RP Prompt from the battle, but from the book of blueprints Ren had found. It was concluded that during previous tests, the ink was shown to slow down any creature that got stuck in a large puddle of it. The size of this puddle and person/thing that would get stuck does matter. This is also proven by Splatoon's Inkling and Octoling ink. No matter what color it was, it was proven to have some sort of slowness effect.

### **High Intelligence**

Even for what it's shown to have before in the RP Prompt, it was proven that this creature is actually very intelligent. It was able to understand the strategies the group would have, and it knew how Seraphina was about to strike at one of it's ink canisters, after it had learned how it was really hurt when Makoto managed to bash it off the rear. Since it remembered the pain, it had decided to protect those spots.

### **Ear-Piercing Shriek**

Tanken-Freak has used this shriek to time and time again attempting to immobilize and stun Seraphina and the others, but to no avail. It seems that it is immune to the effects of this specific sort of roar.

## Ink Abilities

### **Inky Hair**

This creature's hair(tentacles) can produce ink at will so the monster can splatter it around, making it hard for its prey to hit or escape. Or it can just splat multiple random parts of the area.

### **Tentacle Summon**

Sentient tentacles can be summoned from the large teal ink canisters on its back. This will only happen if the Freak is enraged enough.

### **Ink Swim**

Just like all Inklings, Octolings, Octarians and even Sanitized Octarians, it can swim through it's own ink color and can become much faster as it swims around it. Doing this can also replenish it's ink supply greatly. This means the Freak can be slowed down or can get stuck in a different Ink color.

### Onslaught

The Freak uses its massive arsenal to fire all over it or to whoever is closest to it. It will either be concentrated solely on you, your team, or it will splat as much area as it can to gain more advantage.

### Ink Slash

Just like Grizzco, the Freak can make these slashes of ink as well by slashing the ground.

### Ink Wave

The Freak will punch the ground, releasing multiple shockwaves that can damage multiple opponents at once. This is a more close-range version of the Big Shot's ability.

### Ink Artillery

The Freak will fire four to eight Inkstrikes from the turret above its pack.

## Weaknesses

**Reminder: These were the only weaknesses documented in the RP Prompt, and there are only few still, which means that this creature could still have more weaknesses that could be found.**

### **Ink Canisters**

These can be found on the humanoid's back, rear of the hull and nearby the locations of the machine guns. These specific spots though are incredibly hard to hit, but are worth it because they can dish out a lot of damage.

### **Turret Rotator**

This weakness was found when Kai was able to shoot between the turret and the hull from many miles away. When the rotator was impacted with the railgun bullet, the turret had caught fire, which caused multiple embers and sparks to fly and set the factory on fire.

### **Spaced Armor Sections**

These specific parts on the hull and turret can be found all over. They can either show the locations of crucial modules or it can pop out another ink machine gun. If one is destroyed, another ink gun will pop out of it. Just be careful.

## Special Abilities

Like the Inklings and Octolings, the Tanken-Freak has its own specials too. But these can only be used by the Tanken-Freak for the immense power and explsoiveness can't be matched by any other.

### Sanitized Splatpocalypse

When this Special is Activated, the Tanken-Freak's eyes will shine a bright blue. It will then reveal a multitude of Missile Launchers from its body. They will slowly aim up and rain havoc down on the area, covering it completely in ink. This Special is actually a much more amplified version of the Tenta Missiles and Tentakill Missiles.

### Worldender Wail

The Freak will rear back, as its tentacles glow and vibrate like a beating heart. Once it's finishes charging, it will release a devastating beam of teal Ink capable of drenching entire cities in ink. This beam is not of equal, but twice as powerful as Pearl's Sonic Voice. This is a much more Amplified version of the Killer Wail and the Killer Wail 5.1.

## Origins

Origins of this creature are currently unknown. Evidence of it's existence is also limited because all other evidence other than the book of blueprints Ren had found when he got flown into the wall; and the Sanitized Ink Canister that Kai was able to shoot off the creature as the rest were fighting.

## Story

### During 1 and before Splatoon 2

Before the Sanitization, the Freak used to be an Octoling known as Terrence. Terrence was an Octoling Male who had light blue hair, with a sapphire blue tip. Terence was born deep in Octo Canyon. For years he was trained as a soldier to serve Octavio and his empire. His quickly rose the ranks because of his cunning, effective tactics and unmatched brutality. 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, everything changed for him, and he saw that Octavio's ways were never right to begin with. He had deserted and destroyed multiple outposts until he was finally overpowered and 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. But when Terrence told him to "Fish off." and even proceeded to "tell him on his bullshark" in front of his soldiers nonetheless, Octavio's mercy had ended. He had decided to exile Terrence into the trenches below. The Octarians threw him below into the abyss, where none had returned from. He was luckily alive, when he landed in a 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.

### During Octo Expansion; Before Sanitization

For what seemed like years, Terrence had been wandering the Metro. It took a long time after until he was found by Tartar and the Sanitizer, who overpowered and captured him. It was decided they'd use him as the first experiment of the Primordial Ooze. When it 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 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. They even stitched parts onto his head, to make it more horrific. When the stitches were together, the ink inside his body merged with the parts of whatever it was from. His bone 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

They had spent months forging armor made of 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

It took a long time after until he was found by Tartar and the Sanitizer, who overpowered him and captured him. It was decided they'd use him as the first experiment of the Primordial Ooze. When it 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 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. They even stitched parts onto his head, tp make it more horrific. When the stitches were together, the ink inside his body merged with the parts of whatever it was from. His bone 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.

They had spent months forging armor made of 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.

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, 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 ball came out of its maw and floated up to the as it sank to the bottom, never to be seen again. Once the ball had reached the surface it revealed an unconscious blue haired Octoling with a sapphire tip.

## Description

Aqua-green, similar to the color of Sanitized Octoling ink.