Damica

Species: Inkling

Age: 21 (Splatoon 2), 26 (Splatoon 3)

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Demisexual

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Light-Blue

Ink Color: Light-Blue

Height: 5’ 8"

Physical Description: Has a normal-fit body shape. Has star-shaped cheek marks that glow a bit when he's happy. Has fluffy, poofy tentacle-hair with 2 longer tentacles on both ends of his head that have star-shaped ends to them.

Weapon of Choice: Splat Rollers. Mostly likes the Krak-On Kit.

Fighting Style: Loves to get front and center during the action to score heavy hitting attacks. Will do all he can to keep his team safe while still keeping the enemy back.

Personality: Damica is a friendly and kind Inkling who looks out for his friends and loves to help out those in need around the city. Likes to chat and keep up with everything going on with his friends and allies. Even during agent missions, he does whatever he can by heart and will only fight harder if necessary.

Hobbies: Helps train newcomers to Turf Wars, help out around the city whether as Damica or Agent 3, hang out with his friends/squad, go on agent missions, do patrol at any time of the day around Inkopolis

Favorite Foods: Hard to have a preferred taste, likes to eat out with friends however

Clothing Styles: Likes to try out different clothes depending on the mood, mostly wears casual clothes such as T-Shirts and Jeans.

Interesting Traits: Damica has the unique ability to call forth special traits from every type of squid to help out during tasks or fights. Only one trait is active at a time, but he can do it anytime he wants. For example, using the traits for a giant squid, Damica grows in size and has powerful attacks and defense, but he tires out quickly if in the form for too long.

Relationships: 

Sunshine: His best and closest friend. Protects her from harm and helped her slowly overcome her shyness.

Beats: A friend he loves to play with and get in touch. Comes over Beats' studio at times to play games or listen to some of the new music he's making.

Vivian: A lovely friend that he trains when it comes to being an agent or turf wars. Loves her energy and sometimes adventures with her.

Mystery: A large and mysterious friend. Does whatever he can to help teach him about Inkopolis life and any troubles the large Inkling goes through.

Ridge: Thinks of her as not just an enemy but someone who is in need of help. After she reforms, has a mutual respect for her, even if there's trouble with her here and there still.

Phage: He's unsure about her as despite her nerdy outside, he feels as if she's hiding something. Tries not to look into it however. 

Jani: Despite her scary exterior, knows she needs help and does whatever he can. Stays out of the way if she gets into street conflicts however.

Backstory: Damica was the only child of his family growing up as they wanted someone to raise as their own. Damica and his family lived a pretty normal life together, until Damica learned of his unique trait. During one day in school, he was protecting someone from bullies, in which he grew a spooky appearance to scare them off due to using the vampire squid traits. The faculty took notice and notified his parents. From then on, Damica and his parents learned together how his new ability work and helped him control it so that way no more accidents happened. Unfortunely, this new ability also caught the attention of Octarians, which meant they wanted a piece of it. After learning to control it, as well as control his inkling form at age 14, a news flash came on about his hometown where a group of dangerous Octolings attacked for reasons unknown to them. Due to this, the family grabbed their belongings as quick as they could and drove away, but the Octolings took notice quick and followed after them, managing to corner them in a street still under construction. Seeing how they were surrounded, Damica's mother told him to run while they were going to distract them. He didn't want to. He was too scared and confused to listen, but his mother quickly helped him calm down and told him to look at her.

"We've taught you everything you need to know. Now's you're time Damica. Be brave and kind out there for us"

After giving his parents one final hug and "I love you", Damica sneaked his way out while his parents retaliated as a distraction, throwing objects at them from nearby the construction site to buy time. The Octolings took the bait and heavily wounded the parents so that they couldn't cause anymore trouble while some other Octolings tried to look for Damica, who was hiding behind a pillar watching what was going on, still hoping his parents was ok. He then watched as the leading Octoling of the attack makes one more final blow to his parents, killing them for good. He gets shocked and tears form, backing up only to make noise as he trips, catching the attention of some Octolings before he suddenly realizes and runs off. He tries to outrun them, but a few managed to catch up and corner him in an alleyway, only for Damica to then grow huge in size from the giant squid traits he activated and scare the Octolings away after punting a few away with a swing of his giant fist. He then went back to hiding as the other Octolings tried to look for him, only to give up after a few hours. After the event was over, Damica realized he was all alone. He cried to himself over what happened, sitting down near the streets outside of Inkopolis, thinking of what to do, reminding himself of the last words his mom ever said to him. He then got up, took a deep breath and went into the city.

He figured to might as well sign up to Turf Wars since he was of age, hoping to get enough money to help get him started. It was proving to be quite the challenge however as he struggled at first to get money due to most of his battles being loses, but as he practiced more, he soon gravitated towards rollers more as he liked to be in the front and gets single hit knockouts. It helped get him necessary money for food and clothing, but not enough for his own place, so he had to get an apartment for the time being until he had enough. During one day however, he noticed some inklings in need as they wanted help during ranked battles, so Damica agrees to help out and becomes a temporary member for teams in need of a quick rank battle win, getting a bit of praise for the help. The positive support encouraged him to keep on helping out, even to the point where he's extend his help outside of battles, asking anyone if they needed help during their lives. And so for 5 long years, Damica kept on battling, helping out others and growing up to learn the city life. The positivity he felt from helping others kept him moving on despite the terrible beginnings as it made him feel like he could do great things, just like his mother said long ago.

During one interesting day, Damica walked around the new hotspot of Inkopolis, Inkopolis Plaza when he notices a peculiar figure calling out to him, as he took notice of Damica's good deeds around the city and wanted him to follow him somewhere where he'd believed he would be of great use. The figure would soon be revealed to be Captain Cuttlefish and Damica would be appointed as Agent 3, where he'd help retrieve the stolen zapfish from the Octarians. Thankfully all the training during Turf War helped him prepare for the moment so he had no trouble going through it, even if the Great Octoweapons proved themselves to be quite tough. However, during his fights across the many territories the Octarians set up in, he saw them for the first time in years...Octolings.

He then gets traumatizing flashbacks to the moment he saw his parents died in front of his own eyes, learning then only how much he grew and improved his fighting skills as he could now face them head on, only this time, he wouldn't be so kind to them. He didn't just splat them, he made sure they could feel pain even after they respawned as he wanted them to be scared of him so that in his eyes, they'd never try to hurt anyone else. During the rest of his run thought Octo Valley, the other agents, 1 and 2, took notice of Damica's increased rage as he fought more and more Octolings and asked if he felt ok, only for Damica to give no response. He then makes it to the final Octoling Site, his rage had only built up to the point where he wanted to make sure they could feel everything, making harsh blow after harsh blow to the octolings there, until 1 was left. She was too scared to move as she saw the brutal fight that endured, seeing Damica turn to her and corner her, his roller held up against her. He gets it ready to swing, only for the Octoling to cry and plead to him.

"Please don't hurt me! I didn't do anything bad! Please! Let me go!"

Seeing the Octoling cry in the corner reminded him of the time he was cornered in the alleyway, causing him to step back. He stares a blank stare, then looked around, seeing the mess he caused due to his blind rage. He was becoming as ruthless as the Octolings who killed his parents and from then on, he knew he didn't want to make that mistake ever again. So, he lets the Octoling go, taking the Zapfish still, but making sure she was ok. After making one last stand against DJ Octavio, he saves the Great Zapfish and agrees to keep his identity a secret...for the most part.

After coming back to the Valley, he noticed an Octoling looking sad, and with a scar on her face. He recognized her as the one he spared from their encounter in the final Octoling site. He comes over, asking the Octoling if she was ok before getting a sudden smack to the face. He fell to the floor in a bit of pain, but quickly shook it off as the Octoling apologized, Damica saying that it's ok. He sits next to her, talking with her as the two watched a sunrise together while the Octoling recounts what happened when she returned and how she's only here to escape the domes and everyone who treated her wrong. Damica looks in worry, knowing it was his fault that she was like this now, before getting an idea. He suggests for her to stay with him for as long as she needed so she can get accustomed to city life before living on her own. She hugged him and thanked him for the suggestion, agreeing after seeing it was no trouble to him. As they got up together, Damica asked for her name, realizing the two never exchanged names. The Octoling responded with her name "Sunshine" before Damica reveals his name to her as well.

After that, life only improved from there. He met new friends, made a team called the "Star Squad", and learned to help out not only in Inkopolis, but around Octarian places as well as he figured they would need all the help they can get so that there'd be no more need for conflict.