the octarian domes sucked. well, for some. others absolutely thrived under the systems in place. obviously i didn't thrive! young humanoid octarian girls ("octolings") are almost always drafted into the military. of course along with this comes classes on how to use guns and stuff, other mandatory classes included basic coding and engineering. you didn't really get to choose what your assignment was, you get forced to do it and you either liked it or ended up like me. oh also octarian parents were on average rather absent, not always out of neglect but just because everyone was so damn busy all the time. we all know inklings are hedonists, octarians were the exact opposite, free time was viewed as a problem. why should you have free time when you could be helping? as a result, our society was also very communal, but i guess it depends on which dome you lived in if people were kinder or more militaristic. when i was around 13 or 14, i met iida who was a few years younger than me (oh, it was usual for octarians to refer to each other by last name unless close). she was the absolute epitome of goody two shoes, sort of how we are now. good at school, the teacher's favorite always. well back then i wasn't like that. i hated coding and using guns and standing for hours in test arenas to simulate a "patrol". just wasn't bright enough to really wrap my head around machines and syntax, but i did love music. creativity in the organic sense. where concepts can smush up against each other and be interpreted in so many different ways, not like a robot that has a function it lives to serve. (not saying engineers aren't creative lol) anyway, iida and i bonded heavily over that. but she loved making machines and coding and everything like that too. she was like me but just. better. social, kind, pretty. everyone loved her and didn't really understand why she hung out with the Weird Kid. i definitely had a crush on her but can you BLAME me..??? in the later teen years, we were in the same classes for a small moment despite her being a bit younger than the rest of the class just because she was so. brain. go read #3 etude. okay now that you definitely did that, that happened just a little while before iida fucked off to the surface. it wasn't unheard of for octarians to go to the surface, but it was incredibly stigmatized to do so by the DJ's propaganda and thus society itself. you weren't really allowed to do so unless it was for a good reason. DJ didn't want us to get a taste of freedom. it took a fat moment for the realization of my crushing loneliness to hit me, but it eventually did and i fell into a pretty bad depression. i mean i was already kind of bad but i got worse. rumors spread quickly and around the time the phone began its operations, there were murmurings of mass amounts of octarian disappearances in particular sectors. a guy gets curious sometimes. and sometimes you're doing a show in some fucked up little place that's sort of around those rumored deadzones. most octopi worth their shit would like, avoid, a place like that, but hey, what did i really have to lose at that point. i know the uhhhhh People at Nintendo sort of retconned this, but i knew what i was getting into, somewhat. like suicide with extra stupid steps! i didn't get sanitized to "focus on music" though, i did it so i could stop feeling sad and also maybe make music. i'll elaborate more on sanitization in the green page. i barely remember shit from that time period, it was a few years spent down there. sooo imagine your bestie who you kinda love lowkey fucked off forever without telling you about it, then you go into a fugue state for a few years, then you wake up in white lala land. yeah i got fuuuucked up in the memverse or whatever. dont even ask me how i got all my memories back without reaching the top of the tower okay they call it plot armor main character syndrom etc. (i am not the mc someone sedate me) uhh so yeah i was really happy to see iida and then i got really fuuuucked up again when i learned about. how she just. you know, went on. then i had to endure ENDURE the flirting. oooh my god. it was bad gamers. real bad. have you ever felt that feeling before? when you're so happy to see someone and you love them but you're so jealous you feel like you're gonna fucking explode? how people can move on without you and live their lives like you never happened to them. but you still feel it. you still care. yeah well if you haven't keep it that way. funniest shit ever award is that the singlet realized me as a "kintype" like a week before his ex broke up with him and started thirsting over his best friend, then got thrown away into the trashbin. i dunno! maybe he was asking for it with that foreshadowing. okay im kidding guys. did you enjoy the word vomit please leave me a five star review on yelp.


i cant make music anymore and it kills me. but i can do other stuff so. i try. but i really hope that one day i can make music again