The L Guy

Ps: I don’t know how recently you saw the things I wrote, but I added a little extra recently if you didn’t see, check it out if you want.

@TheLGuy I’m doing a LOT of work, I enjoy it though, I’m in engineering you see, tough stuff. Overall I’m great, glad you’re doing well too.

@EwanKidner Yea, I'm doing fine. Could be better, but I'm doing alright. You?

@TheLGuy Just keep going at the pace you set yourself, no need to worry. I'll do my own thing while I excitingly wait for the remake!

On my youtube channel- which goes by the same name as my wattpad. It should be fairly easy to find

@TheLGuy Where do you post videos?
            
            Also, remember when I said this in the list of important songs from the soundtrack I provided:
            
            Donkey Kong Bananza (Remix; Main Theme) - (for King K. Rool battle at Planet's Core)
            
            Forget about that, but keep it for a scene in your story when they battle through the Generals of K. Rool's army, right before they enter the Heart of Gold at the Planet Core, where the Banandium Root itself is. The Phase 1 Battle against King K. Rool there should have this instead, as it is different from the music played during the King of Rot battle on the surface (listen to all of it and you'll see the difference once you compare the two):
            
            https://youtu.be/LSjfuoWrZXs?si=v80jCkPn8p8ofyhk

@Ryannosaurus-rex I'm good, but thanks for the offer

@TheLGuy very well

@TheLGuy You could always edit them and other major things from DKCR into the story later. I can even find them for you and list them, if you want. Just a suggestion.

@N3xwatts To put it simply- I basically forgot about them. It's been a short bit since I've played DKCR, so I'm basing the levels/chapters off of memory. They completely slipped my mind during the writing process. Speaking of, I have a lot of the chapters already written. I just haven't had the time to edit them until now. As such, you can expect a few things in the game to be omitted in the story. That may or may not include the Munchers-

@TheLGuy About the latest chapters of Splatoon Country: Arrival of the Tribe, why didn't you include the giant purple bat and its minions? Unless you plan to show them in a future chapter of this fanfic, of course.
            
            Also, are you also going to feature the Munchers in the Forest region?

One more thing for now, you can add a little detail about Akikta, perhaps he could be a prodigy, he’s even gotten the title of ‘professor’ obviously he’s not the professor that made Tartar and owned Judd, but he’s still a professor, his official title is ‘Prof A. Miles’ but he just prefers his name, so he tells people that, perhaps at one point, orca calls and calls Akikta ‘Professor miles’ and Nakji asks about it, Akikta explains, but Nakji teases him, saying ‘okay prof-ess-or Aki, you gonna teach me math or something?’ But he rolls his eyes and says ‘I’m not that kind of professor you silly little sis’ and Nakji says ‘hey’ all pouty

We see that the octarians who went into the memverse were still green after coming out, what if it turns out that Marina, not only couldn’t help the ones who were exposed the longest, but she didn’t consider, she put their cleaned minds back into their poisoned bodies, a villain exploits this, and sends out a signal that reactivates the sanitisation and undoes her work, she meets a normal looking octoling’s later that turns out to be Tako from the soa story, she recognises Tako from the deep sea metro database, but never found her, assuming she was dead, she asks how Tako looks normal, Tako says ‘over 7 years ago, a masked guy, Ak… something, he helped me, I never saw him since, but he completely undid what happened to me, there’s no remnant left in my body’ then Marina, realises that someone has the ability to fix it, but she hasn’t seen Akikta in ages, so just ‘ak’ and ‘mask’ doesn’t do much, only ring a bell, perhaps if she meets Akikta again, he can explain ‘I was the one who made that serum, luckily the one in the metro was weaker than my own, it took me mere minutes to figure out a solution, and only a couple hours to make an anti serum, it was no problem for me’

Here’s a bit more
            
            Akikta during the soa story, remember what I said about sanitation serum and Akikta being the creator and knowing how to reverse it in the previous part, I wrote a prototype scene for you if you want it, here
            
            The savage green skinned octoling tried desperately to escape the device Akikta put on her, ‘don’t worry, you’ll be fine, once I give you this’ Akikta said, pulling out a needle with a yellow serum in it, she octoling struggled as he approached, but he wasn’t worried, he knew that once he injected her, she would be fine, he quickly administered the serum, almost getting bitten in the process, the octoling’s temper grew calmer, she looked dizzy, then got tired, after several minutes, she regained composure, her skin started to turn a normal colour, ‘where am’ she spoke, but suddenly, she barfed out the green serum that had gone inert’ Akikta approached her ‘hi, I’m Akikta, what’s your name?’ He asked ‘I’m… Tako’ she replied, ‘how did you get here?’ Akikta asked curiously, ‘I don’t remember, I just remember going through a bunch of tests, then I started forgetting things, then I heard a voice in my head telling me what to do’ she sounded upset ‘hey, it’s okay, your free now, I helped you’ Akikta said, the octoling spoke ‘where are the mem cakes, I thought you needed them?’ She asked, ‘oh, well, funnily enough, the cakes aren’t technically your memories, the memories are still in you, they’re just locked, the mem cakes act more like keys to your memories, rather than actually being the memories themselves’ Akikta explained, after all, he invented the serum, he understood it better than even whoever had used it on this poor girl, he probably just wrote down what he saw, or maybe lied to them to control them, whoever it was, it was good that he apparently wasn’t around anymore
            
            After this scene, Akikta can let the octoling go, and because her affect was fully reversed, as you saw, even her skin was fixed, in fact, this brings something up later,

27. I work in science a lot, and do a lot of unit conversion, at one point my daughter comes to Akikta and says to me ‘what was his name again?’ I say ‘he’s Akikta kilometres’ Akikta says ‘huh’ I say ‘I mean miles, I do a lot of unit conversion, I must of done that automatically out of habit’
            
            How would Akikta react to me accidentally trying to unit convert his name
            
            28. Nakji comes and hugs Akikta, my daughter sees this and says ‘so he’s comfy huh?’ Nakji says ‘very’ muffin says ‘I see’ then she goes behind Nakji, pulls her off Akikta, picking her up, then puts her to the side and hugs Akikta instead, Akikta, like Nakji earlier, feels like he’s being crushed by a hydraulic press, Nakji says ‘hey, he’s my brother and hug buddy’ muffin replies by making a mocking face at her, winking and sticking her tongue out and going ‘mmmm’ to her, then says ‘not anyone’
            
            How would Akikta and Nakji react to that
            
            29. You mentioned Akikta thought the name ‘muffin’ sounded like a pet name, I actually tell Akikta ‘like me, she has a long name, in fact she has 2 first name, and 3 last names, her second name is Rosie, she also goes by that sometimes, but I just call her muffin, because that’s her first name, her mother named her that, I gave her the name Rosie, you just call her either’
            
            Do you think Akikta would start using  that name instead? And what do you think Nakji along with everyone else would call her, just so you know, they don’t hear muffin in their language, they hear the English word ‘mu-ffin’ because it’s her name, not a word she’s using

25. At one point, the Atlantis systems go through a reboot, and start speaking in English fully, they are relaying important information, Akikta doesn’t want to translate everything because he’s a bit mentally tired from everything, so Callie says ‘what do we do’ I tell her ‘you can translate’ she says ‘I don’t know I word of your language you know’ I then pull her close to me and stick a device in her ear, she says ‘ow, what’s that’ I go to Akikta and take his translation devices out, I say in English to Callie ‘that device is an advanced neural device that allows you to perfectly speak and understand our language, you’ll be able to speak and write in it perfectly, Akikta and the splatoon hear Callie say in English ‘really? Huh, what?’ Then she gets excited and says ‘this is so cool’ I write a line in English and give it to her, she reads it perfectly
            
            How would they all react to this
            
            26. I am working with a strange chemical, pearl comes over to check it out when I leave for a few seconds, then accidentally spills some in her mouth, she asks if it’s poisoned, I say ‘no, it’s a specialised oil I was making for Akikta to help his mental state, make him less tired, and help his performance, it enhances brain activity, makes you smarter’ someone asks pearl if she feels smarter, she says she doesn’t know, I say ‘hey, what’s 3 + 2’ pearl says ‘5’ I say ‘what’s 5 times 3’ she says ‘15’ I then ask ‘what’s 3741.5 times 568²’ she says ‘1,207,097,696’ as if that was a simple math question, she calculated that in a fraction of a second in her head, I say ‘pearl is now one of the smartest people on the planet until the affect wears off’
            
            How would they all react to this

‘Oh cod, look at what the salmonids did to Marie’ completely oblivious to the fact that besides the tying up, Akikta did all that by accident
            
            Do you think Akikta would be like ‘uuuumm, yeah, I saw the salmonids doing that and I scared them off’ or something, he’s the only one that knows, also, what would everyone else think about what happened to Marie
            
            24. I’m also here, let’s say Akikta gets this reference, I say ‘it would appear this was the way to Amarillo’ I tell Akikta, ‘before getting here, every night Callie was hugging her pillow’ then I say ‘but hey, Callie found sweet Marie who waits for her’
            
            Obviously, me and Akikta are the only ones that get that, do you think Akikta would find that funny, also, how would the others react to Akikta’s reaction of what I said

@EwanKidner I actually have already decided to take your (as well as a few others) suggestions into account way back when. These newer suggestions are also interesting and will be taken into consideration!

Making it impossible to get his help even if he was willing.
            
            Moving on, Akikta can perhaps, find out that inklings came from the memory crystals, and that they respond to certain musics, even though he isn’t into music himself in this version, or maybe he is still if you want, he experiments with a small sample of dna he found, and perhaps finds certain melodies that affect them like calamari inkantation, but unlike that song, he could make ones that have melodies that weaken them, or perhaps a noise frequency that makes it so that when they hear calamari inkantion, it actually causes them to getter weaker, rather than better, or maybe even use an alterna lullaby that would be in the memory crystal data, and if he manages to make enough of it, they go to sleep via memory crystal programming, he doesn’t even have to sing, he could just whistle or something, although perhaps he could sing the lullaby one and after making amends with the splatoon, one of them says that he had a beautiful singing voice, not that he would notice himself though.
            
            Lastly for now, we know Inka had a crush on Akikta and he was a bit oblivious, I personally don’t think he needs a love interest, perhaps you could have the inka plot line, and Akikta is still oblivious, but in the new version, he is asexual and aromantic, and THAT is why he is oblivious, because he genuinely can’t understand it as he is not someone who feels that, I’ve seen many romance things in stories, and I think this would be a new take as not many stories generally contain aspects like that, some do, but I think it would add a little more to the plot line personally.
            
            
            
            So what do you think of this advice, think you might take it?’

He made it as a way to control the memory crystals of alterna better, like capturing and controlling data received inside of them such as memories, Akikta made sure it was harmless to humans, but since the serum is what the inkfish are made from, and Akikta didn’t consider them for obvious reasons, sanitisation serum affects them, where their ‘souls’ are actually a form of chemical data that can be manipulated within them, this would make Akikta feel even more guilty with over 10000 suffering because of his creation, let’s say that some of it may have leaked out during the time of alterna into the world, or maybe when alterna was destroyed, a barrel Akikta kept got dragged out, then after one of these happened, Tartar found it drifting near the metro, and started to mass produce it after seeing it affect inkfish, Akikta can discover the serum if he passes by the metro, but keep the fact that he made it to himself, although maybe he could find a sanitised octoling, and unlike Marina, he knows perfectly well how it works, even knowing several differences to how Marina came to understand it in side order, and he knows how to make a serum that reverses the affect, so he helps one octoling, curing without even needing mem cakes because of how well he understands this, maybe after the soa story, we can see the octoling again, then that’s when everyone else finds out akikta’s other secret when the octoling explains that someone called ‘Akikta’ fixed it, perhaps it can turn out that the memverse didn’t actually fully heal everyone, some octolings that were exposed longer were too far gone, and they realise that they will most likely not be able to cure the remaining octolings who were exposed over a long period of time without Akikta’s help, but he’s obviously gone, and they don’t know if they can fix what happened to him, or if he would even help them after leaving him in Atlantis, maybe in the later stories, it could turn out Akikta actually escaped at one point

@EwanKidner Thank you! I'll be sure not to overwork myself. And ye, I have. I'll respond to them soon!

@Corrupt_Phoenix Really appreciate your comment. It may not seem like much, but it really means the world to me. And yeah, I know all of this is just a hobby of mine and something I shouldn't stress about. I've definitely improved on not stressing myself out over my fanfics, but I still do pride myself on finishing/working on any project I start in a timely-ish manner. I know what it's like to read an author's work(s) and then they suddenly drop off the face of the Earth, usually never to be seen again. I don't want to be one of those people who write a story others enjoy and then never finish it, or at the very least, say I won't be.
            
            With all that being said, you're about right! With any luck, this month will be the month I finish writing everything relating to the B.f.L. arc, but we'll see. Anyway, stay tuned! I have a feeling I'll really blow your socks off for what'll be showcased in the rewrite.
            
            P.S: I'd say my kitten is acclimating well to her new environment, but I honestly can't gauge if I'm doing a good job or not. I've grown up with dogs and only ever been around dogs, so this is completely new territory to me. She is eating and drinking, though, so I suppose it's only a matter of time until she gets comfortable around me and my family. Rest assured, I will provide my kitten with the best living experience I possibly can!

@TheLGuy Happy New Years to you too! I hope that you enjoyed it with those close to you, as well as Christmas!
            Also, its ok to slack off/not make much progress on the rewrite. After all, this is a hobby you are supposed to enjoy, not a job/chore to be stressed about. Take your time, make sure your take care of you needs and more importantly, you new kitten. While I'm not much of a cat person anymore, I still do love how adorable cats can be from a third person view.
            But also, I wanted to respond WAY earlier in your first update, but didn't have the time as well, with my job giving me so many shifts that took away my free time lol.  But 26 total chapters, with 22 revised and reviewed is really good progress. If I were to assume that the total chapters in each arc/book haven't changed, this would put you in the middle of B.f.L.,  which is really awesome in my eyes. But depending on if certain chapters or POV's were removed or lengthened, I could be innaccurate in my assumption.
            Now with the January update, since not much progress was made, I would assume that 1-2 chapters were either written out, or revised, but I'm not going to pester you too much on that. 
            But reiterating, take care of yourself, and take all the time you need, because I am also looking forward to the rewrite and everything that changed.

@EwanKidner 15. Well, it would answer a few questions he had about that specific scenario, but he'd be nonetheless peeved at you for getting him to think he was eating Nakji. Also, I'm sorry to say but I don't think I can do that. Not because I don't want to or dislike the idea, but because unless I'm actually writing a draft or a short story, I can't really get words to flow out of me all that easily, which prevents me from writing silly things like that. Sorry again.
            
            16. The agents would probably ask if you could build them similar devices, since it'd make fieldwork a whole lot easier. Pearl, Frye, and Shiver would want some of their own for personal use. Marina and Akikta would be genuinely impressed, both because the technology shown would surpass anything the octarians and Alternans could cook up.
            
            17. Eight would immediately and repeatedly thank you profusely for all the gadgets, promising to use each one to its fullest and to return them all undamaged. Four and New Agent 3 would think that's cheating. Akikta questions why not just give her one of the three devices as all three seem to be overkill, especially the infinite ink and impenetrable defense.
            
            18. Akikta would definitely keep quiet, especially knowing how fierce the Splatoon (or in this case, Callie and Marie) can be.
            
            19. He'd panic, for sure. Rather than pat it out, he'd probably let the fear get to him and start running around in circles looking for water or some type of cloth to smother the fire. 
            
            20. Pearl and Frye would definitely laugh at her. Marina would shake her head in slight disappointment, knowing she was better than to make a mistake like that. Big Man would be worried, same as Shiver though she wouldn't show it as much. I feel like the agents would have a mix of reactions, with Captain being the most nonchalant out of them. Most of all, Callie would be clowning on her cousin, probably for revenge for all the times Marie got on her for putting on the hypnoshades again.

@EwanKidner 9. Frye, Pearl, and New Agent 3 would definitely steal that, but only Frye would openly use it if you were there. The other two wouldn't want you to know they stole it. Akikta would probably get secondhand embarrassment from the one-liner, despite knowing he himself can't talk.
            
            10. Akikta would definitely be astonished at the fact that you and your daughter grow like weeds, but probably not as much as another person since Akikta also comes from a family of giants. Though, he'd think it's EXCESSIVE that you were his height now when you were just 7. Also, he'd probably think the mother did not like their child all that much, since he'd see muffin to be more of a pet name.
            
            11. Akikta would initially take insult to your comment, but after thinking about all the things he'd been through, he'd come to realize you were ultimately right. As such, he'd happily accept the offer to be trained by you.
            
            12. He'd probably think you're overreacting, since at that point, he'd been outside of cryosleep for a week and a half at most and felt fine. Since his grandfather was the one to work on the cryo-pod he slept in, he wouldn't think there was even a chance side effects would crop up.
            
            13. Considering all the other stuff they'd seen you do up to this point, it probably wouldn't surprise them much, if at all. They'd be asking you a billion and one questions tho, Akikta especially.
            
            14. I think everyone but Akikta and Nakji would find the information to be cool. Akikta only because you have your hand in his chest and basically just said you could squeeze his heart if you wanted and he couldn't do a thing about it. Nakji might even see the comment as a threat to her brother but would refrain from doing anything outlandish.

@EwanKidner 1. I think like everyone else, Akikta, Marina, and Inka would initially be surprised. However, only those two would sort've understand that that makes sense, as it'd explain why and how you're so perceptive. The rest of them would be at a loss for words tho, not to mention embarrassed, since unless your name is Matt Murdock, how do you lose to a blind guy? Lmao
            
            2. A lot of them, Akikta especially, would question why you haven't restored your sight if you can. I'd imagine none of them would imagine living a life blind, willingly or not.
            
            3. Seeing as this is Akikta we're talking about, he wouldn't have left them with the briefcase in the first place. His curious mind wouldn't allow him to. But, for the sake of this question, let's say he does do exactly that, in which case, he'd feel overwhelming guilt and blame himself for something he couldn't have possibly predicted.
            
            4. Everyone would definitely feel like they owe you big time... again. Even the more aggressive ones like Frye and Pearl would be forced to swallow their pride and suck up to you momentarily.
            
            5. With this explanation, Nakji would be a lot more understanding and respectful of your preference. She knows what it's like to live in hostile situations, so the last she'd want is to remind someone else of their own experiences with a similar living situation.
            
            6. I think the first question that would be on the more level-headed people's (Akikta, Marina, Inka, Captain 3, Agent 8) minds would be why you'd need such a stimulant in the first place. Agent 4 and Frye would find the creation to be somewhat cool. Marie would more than likely chew you out for leaving such a dangerous substance out in the open like that, even if you did tell Callie not to touch it.
            
            7. Akikta and Nakji wouldn't think much of it since those two specifically would know how one builds up their pain tolerance. Nakji through experience, and Akikta through the war story you told him earlier.