Fossiling

NOT to be confused with the Draculings from Project Inkscribble!

Fossilings are a sapient race of humanoid cephalopods and one of the playable speicies within The Big Snapper. However, similar to the Octolings in Splatoon 2, one has to play through the DLC in order to unlock them.

Background
Fossilings were proably the last of the main races to emerge during the beginning of the Mollusk Era, having spent most of their lives in the deep oceans. Given that their lack of adaption to light at the beginning, the main solution seemed to be that the fossilings had found home in the dense and shady forests. Even as they evolved and adapted to the shift of light, they still found home in the dense forests, even going as far as to set up villages in these places.

Due to their hidden away and docile nature at this point in time, they were never heard of, nor did they ever play a role in The Great Turf War.

Recently, many of these Fossilings have been kidnapped and foricibly recruited into the Octo-Salmonid military. Very few managed to escape to the nearby city of New Sardine, hopefully to start a brand new life there.

Main Appearence
Fossilings, just like their squid and octopus relatives, can change their forms from their humanoid form to what's often called a "Vamp Form". In this Vamp form, th Fossiling has eight tentacles, all attached with their iridescent cloak. This form aslo sports a pair of ear-like fins.

In humanoid form, the Fossilings have round eyes with sceleras that are the color that the player chooses, while the irises and pupils are much lighter. Their eye markings consist of a combonation of sharp and round edges, being much thicker on the outer sides and over the eye. These markings also have a curved lined that starts from the lower outer corner of the eyes and goes down to the bottom for their faces in a wavey-like pattern.

Customization
Both male and female fossilings have 3 different hairstyles.
 * The males have the Hawk (default), Sideswept and Fringe.
 * The females have the Cape (default), Braid and Bud.

Calls
Fossilings speak in a similar gargled voice to inklings and octolings, but with a somewhat softer tone.


 * Geebya! (Female)


 * Nuu-gyo! (Male)

Fossil Escape
Main Article: Fossil Escape

In Fossil Escape, the protagonist comes in the form of SixSpikes ("Six" for short), a fossiling who managed to escape the grasps of the Salmo-Octarian Army and was found by a small rebellion camp composed of other fossiling, being lead by one named Dante.

SixSpikes is tasked with infiltrating the army again in order to retrieve parts and information to help the rebellion work on their "Operation Valdivia".

Trivia

 * The name "Fossiling" is a reference to how the Vampire squid is considered a living fossil.