Order is the main antagonist of Splatoon 3: Side Order. It is an entity of pure order created by Marina that runs the entire Memverse, capable of sucking people's minds inside and draining their free will.
While initially only intended to help manage the Memverse's programs, Order began taking Marina's desire for peace and order to the extreme, deciding that all individuality must cease if there is to be stagnation and complete control. As such, it would suck the minds of its creator, Pearl, Acht, Agent 8 and hundreds of other people into the Memverse, hoping to gain enough power to place all life on Earth under its thrall.
Appearance[]
Order’s original form is a black cloud comprised of glitches and noise, with a cartoonish octopus face that glitches in and out of focus and tendrils coming from the bottom of it resembling tentacles. The proportions of the face change rapidly as it glitches.
In its “Overlorder” form, it is a gigantic octopus with eyes made from red 8-balls and a white bonelike structure, though it is covered in the same ink as the Jelletons. After it is defeated for the first time, it becomes “Smollusk”, a much smaller version of its octopus form with black tips at the end of its tendrils and a white color, with natural eyes, though retaining its eight-shaped pupils.
Personality[]
Order is the collective consciousness born from Marina's desire of an orderly word. However, Order went beyond the scope of its original programming and interpreted it as the elimination of free will. As a result, Order seeks to convert everything into a colorless, grayscale world and transform everyone into its obedient drones, believing a world without chaos and free will is one that is good and necessary for everyone.
Order dismisses the idea of change and is highly dedicated to its beliefs that everything should be kept stable for the sake of a peaceful world. Likewise, when Marina attempts to convince it that chaos is just as important and can bring beautiful things from it, Order reacts to this information unstably and lashes out at the idea, believing the thought of it to be illogical. Even upon after its defeat, Order still intends to carry out its plans one day, though it admits that it may have gotten a bit carried away.
As Smollusk, it acts in a more childish manner, calling Agent 8 and their friends "big meanies" and becoming determined to settle the score. However, after beating it with Agent 8's Palette, it eventually gives up on its goals and becomes contempt with just overseeing the Memverse, using it as a means of saving the Octolings.
Trivia[]
- It will face Tabmajin in Tabmajin and Peter Pan in Return to Never Land and will redeem itself as Smollusk and join The Tabbic Divide.
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