dottie & stripes cinematic universe

hey longtime fan here, not sure if you realized this but if my math is right I'm pretty sure summer/fall 2025 would mark 10 years since the release of Splatoon for the Wii U & the subsequent creation of Dottie and Stripes... dns nation needs to know which dates to mark our calendars for

Hello! Sorry to bother you, but I got a coelacanth plush recently and named her Marjorie! Both after Marjorie Courteny-Latimer, but specifically your Marjorie for reminding me how much I love this fossil fish

Man. I love your splatoon OCs so much, my interest in splatoon has kind of tapered off since I ended up having a lot of trouble keeping up with the gameplay difficulty in 3 so now I'm more interested in Dottie and Stripes specifically than the games even! lol

I just want to stop in here quick and say 'thank you' and also 'you're a good sport'- I was the one that sent in the Darius music anon ask (and did so on anon because I was a little bit embarrassed about yapping 😅), solely cus I thought you'd find it amusing- I wasn't expecting you to draw a little comic based around it and it was a very sorley needed pick-me-up on what has been a kind of crummy day otherwise. Cheers for humouring me 🫶

#TunaSashimiForDarius2025

(Also holy cow, ten years since the launch of Splat 1 later this year AND ten years of Dottie and Stripes? Jesus where does the time go.)

Ok this is going to be a little bit rambly but I promise its going somewhere, so;

On the subject of Darius sharing his name with a series of SHMUPs where you fight mechanical fish + marine life of an eldritch origin (Darius lore is mental), one of the series' most enduring in-jokes comes from the second game, curtesy of the music that plays during the first stage. The intro to the song has (english) pilot chatter mixed into it- and its mostly standard stuff, sci-fi technojargon and the like... until all of a sudden the lady speaking just goes "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A THING CALLED 'TUNA SASHIMI'", in what I *think* was meant to be a James Bond style wordplay one liner (cos, y'know, fighting fish innit), but it instead comes off as a contextless non-sequitur. I'm not sure what the policy on throwing links into asks is but it's fairly easy to search- it's the song titled Olga Breeze.

ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY, bringing it back on topic; I now personally headcanon that Darius (the octoling) has never had Tuna Sashimi, and would really like to try some, but something always prevents him from being able to do so. Why? For my own amusement and absolutely nobody else's. The thought of this terminally grumpy and stoic man having a lifelong food craving that forever goes unfulfilled despite his best efforts scratches the same absurd comedy itch as him being weirdly attached to owning an iPad, at least for me. Let My Man Have Some Tuna Sashimi

(ok thats it rambly tangent over thank you for coming to my ted talk)

Is a man not entitled to his peace of ipad Animal Jam?