Can't reply on this account yet, so here's a reply from main. Your comment made me giggle - that's basically what these characters are ;P
i'd say it's very nuanced but yeah agreed and would happily read your elaboration
the inklings aren't conciously deciding to be evil, but they're still being evil. they're genociding salmonids and octarians, the only reason octarians are welcome in inkling society is because the inklings are too busy doing ritual self harm to even notice them, with splatoon 3's solo mode theyre probably gonna start committing a third genocide, character limit :(
i think that like, story mode octolings dont literally die when i splat them, theyre probably connected to a far away respawn point? i dunno, but with the other octarians i dont think that applies so yeah
yeah the octarians and inklings are both functionally immortal which makes it really difficult to actually genocide them but the inklings are nonetheless trying their hardest
and tumblr too i guess if your mutuals are the kind to rb spoilers
i'm staying away from everything this week + until i finish the story mode, just to be safe... im terrified of getting spoiled