Hey! Hello! Hi! You can call me Sawdust or Soybean!
Welcome to my sideblog where I yap about my coroika PIrate AU :'D I wanted to create a sideblog so this stuff doesn't get jammed on my main: @sawdusst
My ask box is always open! Feel free to ask me questions about the AU or send questions to the characters themselves :DD Character Q&A's are my favorite thing ever.
I'll try to draw stuff every now and then, but for the most part I'll just be posting my writing on this blog for the pirate AU :]
Anyways, here are all of the infodump posts from my main blog after the cut!
UPDATED Best 8 Infodump!!
Info on Rider, Gloves, Emperor, Prince, etc.
Antagonists & Such (Splatsville Hierarchy, X-Blood, Hivemind, Barreleye)
Situations!! (Krakens, Tako, + Extras on Prince and Emperor)
Hey gamers! I decided that I would like to redo the infodump posts and organize the main thread a little more-- the information has changed quite a bit since the last time I talked about these guys as well :'D I'll have specific posts for world building and others just for characters!
Anyways, this post will mainly focus on the Best 8 of Splatsville! Their personalities will stay mostly close to canon tbh, I don't think I've changed them around too much--? Eh, whatever, enjoy!
Infodump under the cut :D
Here is the link to the main thread
For a bit of context, I've split the best 8 in half;
Wireglasses' Crew consists of himself, Ocho, 8-Bit, and Shady + their respective teams. Same goes with the remaining four of the best 8, consisting of Tako (Shellmet), Barreleye, Hornmet, and Mitsuami + their teams. (Except for Mitsu, I don't think she has her own team yet..? Not really sure yet)
Wire's crew:
The Wireglass Pirates!! One of the strongest pirate crews to ever patrol the seas at the time. They've created a pretty fearsome reputation for themselves, a lot of smaller sailing crews will go on routes to avoid them.
The main crew members' bounties are in the high 900k's, Wire's bounty almost reaching a 1 million cash! :D
They have no known allies, although they're sort of buddy-buddy with Barreleye's crew. They don't really attack each other while at sea but it's also really really awkward when the crews do run into each other.
Sometimes Barreleye and Wireglasses' crew will meet up and trade resources-- although most of the time they end up just hanging out and playing cards.
Uses black labels in battles which disable their opponent's weapons and can also prevent them from using their specials as well if stuck directly onto them
Black Labels are considered illegal, they're very hard to attain unless you either make your own or smuggle it from somewhere.
Wireglasses:
The Captain of the crew!
He also goes by Captain Wire
Mainly uses a cutlass and/or the splattershot pro, depending on the circumstances
He likes playing cards and staying with his crew. They play cards sometimes to pass the time. He is scary good at playing card games like Speed or Hearts.
Sometimes he gambles during stops— he’s won a few, lost a few (Sometimes he’ll cheat at the gambling table whenever he feels like it)
He's also pretty firm in negotiating trades. He gets a little bitter whenever trades don't go his way--- just because he's firm about it doesn't mean he's good at it
Wire sometimes gets a little too serious in battles. He's ruthless towards his enemies and just overall gets overconfident during battles
Ocho:
Master at pick-pocketing and picking locks; If you flip him upside down and shake him around a lot of spare change and random trinkets he found will come out
Sometimes whenever the crew plays cards, Ocho likes to cheat (even though he doesn't always admit it)
He's sometimes sent off to run errands for the crew if they are split up.
Second in command, sometimes helps with other stuff around the ship. EXCEPT FOR MOPPING he hates mopping the deck. He will complain the entire time/hj
Uses a set of throwing knives and/or .96 gal, depending on situation
He's a bit of a sore loser when it comes to almost everything
He likes collecting little trinkets; sometimes it's stuff from trading posts and other times it's random stuff he'll pickpocket off people.
Ocho rarely calls other captains by their proper titles. He mostly uses their names— which Barreleye doesn’t like (Ocho is mainly avoiding Barrel’s title just to annoy him)
Ocho has a boyfriend!! He is dating my friend @autoboros ‘s OC, Lock :D (hi auto!! waving at you)
They spend time together between voyages
Most of the time they meet up at the docks and spend some time together :3
8-Bit:
She LOVES explosives and has probably tried to make her own at some point (But got told off by Ocho and Wire)
She takes care of the canons on the ship
Uses a dynamo roller most of the time, though sometimes she'll have smaller bombs that she throws.
Like Ocho, she cheats in card games, but not as often as he does. She’ll get all offended if you accuse her of cheating.
8-Bit also sometimes makes really weird drink combinations whenever she’s bored, the rest of the crew just tries it to be polite— but it mostly turns out to be a disaster.
Due to an incident, 8 Bit is banned from the ship’s kitchen— she is no longer allowed to cook for the crew ever again (womp womp)
8-Bit and Ocho compare bounties whenever they appear in the newspaper. She's jealous that his bounty is higher
Shady:
Sniper of the crew!
He has an eyepatch for when he’s aiming his shots.
Shady keeps a journal of the places they go to
He is also in charge of navigating the ship wherever they go places.
His accuracy goes head to head with Skull’s, it’s only a matter of reaction time and who fires first
Shady likes reading the newspaper to pass the time whenever he is bored at sea. Most of the time he’ll just be sitting in the crow’s nest and reading the paper for hours at a time. His favorite columns are the sudoku puzzles.
Shady usually stays behind to watch the ship sometimes while the crew goes to run errands. Every now and then he’ll tag along though :D
Shady does have a smaller dagger on him just in case for close combat. Normally in battles he’s well-hidden and enemies have trouble finding him :D
Barrel's Crew:
I’m gonna be 100% honest, I still haven’t come up with a name for their crew. So far I can’t find any names that really stand out to me at the moment so I’ll have to keep thinking about it :’]
The crew mainly uses heavier weapons compared to other pirate crews.
They’re all in all a very loud bunch, mostly Barreleye though.
Even though they’re pirates they prefer to have fair fights— they won’t fight someone who is unarmed.
They have a lot of other allies :D Although their relationships with other crews are mostly one-sided. Neither of them get benefitted its more like people they're acquaintances with
They first got their bounties after accidentally exploding a few navy ships-- and also """"accidentally""" stealing a few of their resources.
Tako (Shellmet):
She used to be in Wire’s crew but she eventually left to join Barreleye’s crew. She also became the new captain after Barrel stepped down for a little bit.
She left because she was against the whole black labeling thing. Wire wasn’t too happy to hear about Tako leaving the crew, he’s still bitter about it but there’s nothing he could really do to change her mind about it.
Tako uses a cutlass and the hydra splatling, depending on the situation.
As second in command of the crew, she makes sure the ship is in tip top shape every day. Sometimes she’ll try to help out with repairs
Tako met Barrel in a tavern where Barrel was arm-wrestling other patrons for fun. Tako arm wrestled him and won
While she was in Wire’s crew, Tako used to whack the other crewmates with a broom whenever they annoyed her, she’ll still do it whenever the crews run into each other
Barreleye:
He carries a blaster and sometimes uses a cutlass.
He is LOUD. Sometimes he’ll fire off the cannons just for fun and gets scolded for it by the rest of his crew.
Barreleye is friends with Gloves and was the one who convinced him to set sail in the first place! :D Although they don’t really see each other often
Barreleye makes a lot of silly blunders that his crew usually has to drag him out of.
His bounty was first posted after he exploded a navy ship on accident. It was a long tangle with the navy but the crew ended up being victorious from the whole ordeal. The crew had bounties after that incident as well.
Barreleye doesn’t really get along with other pirate crews— mostly Hivemind or the X-Bloods.
Sometimes he gets a little overconfident in his own abilities, both in silly situations and serious situations
Mitsuami:
She wanted to join a sailing crew initially. Hornmet was the one who convinced her to join Barrel’s crew!
Mitsuami has her tri-stringer but no sword, in close combat situations she’ll sometimes freeze up and panic. She’s still trying to get better with those situations though!
Her accuracy can almost catch up with Shady’s. She’s only missed around 3 times but she doesn’t really like to talk about those times
Mitsuami is absolutely terrified of pirate crews with higher bounties such as Wire’s crew or the X-Bloods. She tries to avoid them whenever she can
Mitsuami sometimes cooks stuff on the ship for the crew to enjoy. She likes going to snack shops whenever the crew goes anywhere
She freaked out when she first saw her bounty listed in the newspaper but later saw it as something cool :D
Hornmet:
Hornmet and Mitsuami have been friends for a decently long time, before both of them joined Barrel’s crew :]
Hornmet is the shipwright of the crew! She is mostly in charge of repairing something in case it gets broken or needs fixed
Sometimes she’ll help with the canon repairs as well
For the most part, she uses her tri-slosher in battles
Every now and then she’ll use throwing knives for longer range attacks.
Hornmet loves the thrill of being a pirate, she has no interest in reading maps and stuff
Like Barrel, Hornmet sometimes gets herself in situations due to her overconfidence
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That's all for now! :D If I think of anything else I might put it in a separate post or something... but that's everything for now :] Thank you for reading and have a nice day/night!! I'll write some stuff up for the S4 and others next hopefully :D
i wish i could draw something for it but i am out of town at the moment :'D so maybe I will draw something later
I'm honestly feeling a weird mix of emotions about it— I'm both astonished that it's already been a year since I started writing about it and I'm pretty proud of how far it's come :'D But still I'm so so SO happy with how much it's grown and changed. and also im so thankful for having a group of friends now to share the brainrot with and to bounce ideas off of— I wish I could put it to words but its so crazy how a year ago today I was just starting to sketch up the first designs and thinking of plot ideas..
I want to say thank you so much for all of the support from my friends and keeping me motivated throughout the tough slumps❤️
