Splatoon: Behind enemy lines

Revelations

Have you ever met someone who you just couldn't bring yourself to like? do you ever think that knowing more about them could change your mind? Revelations are quite the eye openers.

Inker's home, Victoria's P.O.V

I am not hurt, I am well fed, and I have a clean place to stay, there is even wonderful music playing in the room, everything seems just fine, so why do I feel so sad?

That's because below the surface I am the definition of a defeated soldier, I may not have been imprisoned, tortured, or punished, but that doesn't change the fact that I have lost every battle I have entered.

My first mission didn't go well, I don't even know who we were facing, but I ended up alone and separated from the others, and just yesterday I had my second battle where I was soundly defeated.

Why can't I ever achieve victory? I should just change my name to something bland and boring like Maroon and be done with it.

Like almost every other Octarian I have trained myself every day so that someday we would rise up and overthrow the Inklings, a race that supposedly preyed on the weak, and cared only for themselves, but none of this had actually happened; my people did not rise, and the Inklings I have met are so kind and forgiving. I just can't understand, everything is so different from what I was told and what I expected.

I don't even know what to do now, yesterday I was furious at Agent 3 for stopping me from getting to the Great Zapfish, in anger I had revealed my people's weakness, that we were desperate for energy.

"Huh... I never thought about what the Zapfish meant to others." Kal's words from yesterday echoed in my head, it didn't make me feel as angry as it should have, instead it made me wonder if I had been equally selfish, what did I do in the last two days; I made a mess of Kal's house, mugged some random Inkling, and tried to splat Inker.

Yet despite me constantly giving them trouble for the past few days, Inker of all people refuse to turn me in, but he is Agent 3! Wasn't he supposed to be some sadistic berserker who annihilated all who stood against him? Yet here he was, sheltering me, keeping me safe, and trying to get me home without anyone noticing, he is so different from what my people, no, what I was led to believe, I still believe that my people need the Zapfish, but so far everything they have said appear to be lies, Inklings aren't evil, Agent 3 is no monster, and we had once been at peace, who knows what else they lied about?

"Not hungry?" Inker asked me

I had been so lost in thought that I hadn't touched my breakfast yet.

"Oh sorry, I was just thinking."

"Save the brainwork for later, you shouldn't think on an empty stomach."

There was about a minute of silence before Inker spoke again.

"I'm not going to keep you in here, but I suggest that you don't go outside, what you did yesterday reassured everyone that there were dangerous Octarians still in Inkopolis, that helmet you borrowed from Kal might not be enough."

Basically he was telling me to stay put, I didn't have a problem with that, I had used my curiosity as an excuse to go outside and try to sabotage the Inklings city, so I didn't really have a problem with staying indoors. Inker is treating me way better than I could have ever asked, and Kal? Kalus the red Inkling had every reason to hate me, I had been messing with him the day I got here, I really should apologize for all the trouble I gave him.

"That's fine, I think I have seen enough already." I reply "How is Kal holding up?"

Kal was just as angry as I was yesterday, but after everything I said, and Inker explaining why he was so determined to pursue peace he seemed to calm down, was he as confused as I am?