Tide Pool

Note: Most, if not all info here was lifted directly from Tide Pool's page over at the Inkidols Wiki, which can be found here.

"'Until next time: Let's keep it cool...in the Tide Pool!'"

Tide Pool (Japanese: タイダルロック Taidarurokku, lit. "Tidal Rock") is an idol rock duo that serve as the news hosts in Snapper Square, announcing stages, updates and Splatfests. The duo consists of Barry and Reif.

Ft. Deep Dive
While they do have songs just by themselves, Tide Pool has collaborated with the aforementioned Deep Dive in a few songs, most of which being Splatfest music.

Barry
Main Article: Barry

Barry (Japanese: マダ Mada) is a 21 year old Octoling who serves as one of the duo's vocals as well as the guitarist of the two of them.

He has light skin with yellow eyes that have an "X" shape on them. His tentacles are purple, but gradient out into a cream at the back.

His outfit consists of a baggy short-sleeved hoodie over a purple and dark grey turtleneck sweater, a pair a black ripped jeans and a pair of muted purple boots with dark grey soles. As for his accesories, he wears a pair of black, circle-shaped earrings and a pair of black bracelets on both of his hands.

On air and during performances, Barry presents himself as an energetic rockstar, always doing what he can to make sure all eyes are on him. In reality, he's much more mellow and enjoys being able to make friends through his music career with Reif.

His favorite weapon type is the Blaster family. His favorite special also seems to be the Tide Ripper.

Reif
Main Article: Reif

Reif (Japanese: かんじょう Kanjo) is a 25 year old Octoling who serves as another one of the vocalists as well as the bassist.

He has dark skin with purple eyes that have a "+" shape on them. His tentacle are styled like a half-shaved hairstlyed, the small tentacle at the front of his hair being colored like his ink.

His outfit consists of a light blue t-shirt under a black and yellow leather jacket with a black belt, light grey ripped jeans and a pair of black boots with muted yellow soles.

Accesory-wise, he wears silver earrings that have a small ball on a chain connected to them. He also wears small, dark yellow belts around the upper arms of his jacket, three on each side.

Reif has his public image that sort of counters Barry in a way. He's much more serious and snarky, often known for messing with Barry on air. However, small occasions do arise where Reif tends to break character, to where he isn't as serious as he tries to paint himself to be, and is in fact quite playful alongside his aloof exterior.

His favorite weapon type is the Brush family.

History
In the beginning, Barry and Reif were both members of the Octarian Military, Reif actually being an elite compared to Barry and leading a squad that both of them were in. It took up until the second defeat of their leader, DJ Octavio, for them to finally come to their senses and leave their militaristic lifestyle behind.

They spent a few months in Inkopolis at first, tring to find themselves somewhat and, after seeing the fame Off the Hook gained, they decided that they would ultimately try to start a band together. However, they didn't stay in inkopolis forever, catching a plane together to New Sardine in hopes they could start their music careers there.

It wasn't easy, but eventually the two started to rise in popularity among the people of the Big Snapper, to the point where they'd even go on to become the hosts of Snapper News.

Of course, they were never alone in the journey up, as this fame seemed to rise alongside Deep Dive, to the point where both groups are considered to have a "friendly competition" with one another aside from collaborations.

Octo Cookout
Barry and Reif make an appearence close to the climax of Octo Cookout. Starting from second last world to the very last, they serve as help through the tougher part of the Salmo-Octarian Army's HQ. Throughout this segment of the story, Callie also sends Agent 5 some chat logs showing some interactions between her and Tide Pool, revealing their relationships with the other idols.

Fossil Escape
While they do appear in a similar time in Fossil Escape, Tide Pool doesn't play as big of a role for SixSpikes as they do for Agent 5.

Trivia

 * Barry and Reif's names together are a pun on the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system in the world.
 * The "Ft. Deep Dive" variant of "Now or Never!" only plays alongside "Paint the Planet!".
 * Barry and Reif were originally going to be based on two types of octopuses, specifically Barry was originally going to be a Common Sydney Octopus while Reif was going to be a Blue-Ring Octopus. The idea was scrapped, however.
 * That being said, this idea is nodded at through their japanese names, Madako (マダコ, Common Octopus) and Kanjo Tako (環状タコ, Ringed Octopus)
 * In Octo Cookout, one chat log reveals that Barry wrote the song All Out! was based on while him and Reif were hanging out with Off The Hook, their inspiration for becoming musicians. Specifically Barry wrote it with Pearl.

Names in other languages
Let's keep it cool in the Tide Pool!