The Resurgence AU

Info on the Resurgence AU

The Resurgence AU is the name I have chosen for my take on the world of Splatoon. I have a timeline for this AU (A timeline I will not be posting in full here until those stories with the certain story beats come out). This document's purpose is to give people a much clearer picture of my AU and everything in it.

This story takes place 4 years after Side Order. Villains are not killed, only left in a bruised ego state. Commander Tartar jumped ship before Pearl's Killer Wail hit the NILS Statue. As no one could find any remains, everyone assumed Tartar was obliterated. Commander Tartar went into hiding afterwards and when he could, brought Mr. Grizz back down from space. No one knows how Mr. Grizz got down from space but hey, he's not being evil anymore.

Current Timeline:
The floods occur → a group of 30-40 religious humans move to the mountains (think like...Rapture from Bioshock if you know the basic lore for a better idea) → 12,000 years later + evolution → mountain cult → Everest's revelation + journey down to Inkopolis where she meets Tartar very shortly afterwards → Around this time, Mother Finiona discovers August on a shore line, clearly in some form of terrible pain → August grows up → Hush happens → ??? (No spoilers for you)

New Humans: Oye! Don't- don't click off yet- please stick with me. I have neat ideas about this— /silly /j Anyways, to start this off, humans are still around though they've undergone evolution from living in the mountains (Mount Everest in this case) for so long. They've grown much, much, much more pale, almost snow white. They've gotten sharper teeth for a more carnivorous lifestyle, bushy or frizzy, snow white hair. Some of them have amber eyes but interestingly, some of them have almost black eyes (makes for a creepy sight late at night!!). A lot of them have grown to have more body fat to keep warm in such a cold climate. In cases like Everest (though, admittedly, she hides hers at every opportunity), their feet have gotten slightly cloven/hoofed for climbing rocky surfaces. For all anyone knows, the mountain cult that Everest escaped from are the only humans still left over from 12,000 years ago.

Character descriptions:

August: Stingray; Bright orange with light orange accents around the underbelly and end of their tail; tail is noticeably broken; light blue eyes; white T with a light orange, ink pattern at the bottom; black shorts with the same, light orange, ink pattern at the bottom; tall white socks with orange line around the top; black boots with white laces and orange soles; stingray frill with strange, not yet identified orange ink covering the inside, this ink has lighter orange swirls in it; slightly inked left eye; 17; autistic; nonverbal(?) around those they don't trust; loves getting wet; 5'04; they/them pronouns.

Mother Finiona: 4'05; she/her; pink scales with dots of purple all over, barely visible though; translucent blue fin that goes from the top of her head to the bottom of her curled tail; inventor goggles usually on her forehead; blue eyes; white coat covered in pockets, has deep red, ink stains all over it; deep blue toolbelt; blue undershirt with coral patterns; black leggings; doesn't usually wear shoes but I think she'd wear light blue sandals with white soles; 40ish; pastel blue palms; August's caretaker/adoptive mother.

May: Pink axolotl with darker pink frills (dark blue with greenish frills when sanitized); deep blue, almost black eyes; 5'02; wears a slightly baggy sea blue t-shirt with purple shorts and yellow sandals/flip flops; often has headphones on at home to tune out her 100 siblings; 18.

April: Pale blue olm with deeper blue frills; 6'07; wears a paleish pink sweater with purple swirls and salmon pink sweats, with white band aids where her eyes would be if she had any, also deep violet boots with gold accents; 17.

Everest: Frizzy, snow white hair that goes down to her shoulders, sometimes has bits of white ink, sanitized ink and dirt in it; sharper teeth; amber eyes; pale, almost completely white, skin; slightly chubbier; feet are slightly hoofed/cloven (can climb up surfaces easier); 6'02; She/Her (Sometimes referred to by it/its by Inkopolis folk); her current age is 20 (she was 17 when she came down to the Deep Sea Metro); since moving down from the mountains, into the Deep Sea Metro, Everest has abandoned her fur coat (comprised mostly of Himalayan wolf fur with a Himalayan wolf head head but noticeably has black bear and snow leopard in it too) in exchange for a much more athletic and sleek, thin, white long sleeve with the Kamabo Co. logo up in the top left of it, and black tights with a line of white trailing up the left side; Everest also wears white dirt bike gloves with black at the ends; can either have white boots with black soles, pearl white laces, and cream white fur at the top of them or completely white, slip-on, sport shoes.

Commander Tartar: 12,000+ naturally; 7'9; it/he/they; large metal robot with a telephone head; deep blue conductor's hat with the Kamabo logo on it; sharp metal claws, be wary; a little chubby and no one has any idea how a robot gains weight, Everest's theory is that it's because Tartar is slightly organic from its DNA experiments; deep blue conductor's outfit with a black bow tied around neck; Kamabo Logo in the left corner of outfit (suggested to be hand sewn. Who knew an android could sew?); black capris that tuck into deep blue (almost black) boots with golden yellow soles. Tartar's commander outfit just has Tartar wearing a white coat that's noticeably been worn down and resewn a LOT; also wears white gloves and white boots with golden yellow soles; basically just a light color palette in general compared to its normal outfit.

7: 7 is your average sanitized octarian, though she has much friendlier eyes compared to the others. 7 doesn't like fights and will actively avoid them; 5'03; about 19.

Which naturally means that Commander Tartar has her working in every single test that requires these combat ready Octarians. Meanie. I originally imagined her as being cold and almost like Everest in character before giving 7 to my friend to write who promptly gave 7 her current personality. I approved it because I liked it more than the cold 7.

* This might mess with the timeline a little but uh...I'll make it work. Everest arrived in the Deep Sea Metro a few weeks after Octo Expansion. When August's story begins, Everest has already been in the Deep Sea Metro for 10-11 years.
Everest's Age (Runaway/Arrival in DSM): 17, a week away from 18
Everest's Age (Hush): 23-28

* Symptoms of being sanitized in the Resurgence AU are as follows: Initial burning feeling, slow movements and flu-like symptoms in general in early stages of being sanitized; feelings of needing to throw up (will never happen but it'll surely feel like the victim needs to); completely cold body (like touching a corpse); pale green skin + appearance change that matches the ingame appearance of sanitized Octolings and Octarians; urge to follow Tartar's orders exactly; near complete loss of free will; urge to call Tartar either Commander Tartar or Denewiah even in internal thoughts; never, ever calling Commander Tartar just Tartar unless only partially sanitized in cases like Dedf1sh or 7; increased aggression in cases like Elite; loss of IQ in cases like 10,038, 1,869 and most, if not all, octarians.

* Octolings are the more human-like looking ones and Octarians are more tentacle-like looking ones. If you see me not making this distinction, I either forgot or it's an old story where this rule hadn't yet been applied.