Full Story: Deep Below
Hey pones! Just a quick blog post–I always promise to release the non-pony stories that I’ve written as part of my Patreon for interested parties to read. One of those was Deep Below, a novel-length Splatoon story I’ve been writing over the last year.
This story follows Cole, one of the last human survivors woken from stasis into a world ruled by ink instead of flesh, where the desperate struggle for survival that overwhelmed humanity has been replaced by a thriving, vapid culture of inklings in constant conflict with their octarian enemies. Cole soon becomes an inkling herself, and must adapt to life in this strange new world–ultimately discovering the truth of what happened to her kind, and whether the others sleeping in her bunker should be revived at last.
Cole’s first friendly contact with the new world is Cerina, among the first ocarians to leave the violence of the turf war and join inkling society on the surface. But that society isn’t ready to accept her yet–it still treats her with suspicion and disdain, refusing to see her for who she is. In Cole Cerina soon finds an inkling with a similar past–someone too young, who spent a lifetime devoted to a desperate, brutal regime. Between the two, they might just build a life together.
I’ve been releasing the story on Patreon for a year now, but at long last it’s complete. I wanted to make a version of the story available for anyone to read, without dealing with the truly awful user interface of patreon. For its full release, I’ve given up the working title for its proper release name Vestige. Here it is:
In another world, we would have genfic for sharing stories like this. Without it, I had to get a little creative. But writing this story was a joy–a cross between science fiction, mystery, and a little romance. It’s been sitting on my shelf for so long that Splatoon 3 released and made all the worldbuilding and answers to in-universe mysteries this story provides completely non-canon… but it’s fanfiction anyway. Considering how awful Nintendo did answering these questions in the third game, I think I’m happy with how it turned out.
If you’d like to try an awesome inkling TF story, there aren’t a lot of them out there. I hope you’ll try mine.
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