The Suckling

EX2 - A3D: A Complex Relationship

"This is Agent 2 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon, filling in for Captain Kuki and the splatoon's personnel reports because she's out at the moment doing, er, captain stuff.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Ahem, anywho.

Kuki started these series of audio personnel logs a while ago and hasn't had the time to continue them.

It's... especially egregious when I consider the fact she's only finished one log during this time frame, seeing as we're both up to our necks with responsibilities, both mundane and professional that get in the way of completing that goal.

So she's made the brilliant decision to push it off onto me, even though I should really be rehearsing with everyone else to get Seven Day Forecast off the ground.

I argued with her about it but then she goes on and on about how I'm the best person for the job because of my experience with podcasting and the fact I made that, and these are her words, not mine, creepily detailed log book about Agent 4 way back when.

Well, sorry for making sure we know important things about the people working for us!

It's not like information security is paramount to our entire clandestine organization or anything."

"Marie, would you stop complaining and just continue the log already? We can't rehearse unless you finish."

"In a minute, Callie. And call me Agent 2, these are highly sensitive- Oh, you know what, just forget it. We've clearly thrown protocol to the wayside so why bother using codenames anymore...

*Sigh*

Alright, better get this over with quick.

Ahem.

Once more, from the top.

This a personnel report on the new Agent 3, or Neo-3, as everyone has been calling him.

Outside of work he's just Tres. No surname, which isn't that uncommon amongst Inklings but it's not something he likes to talk about. Seemed like a touchy subject for him.

Speaking of, while Kuki mentioned he's a decent personable squid in the previous log, at least compared to some other cephalopods on the team, there's plenty about him that we just don't know about.

It's not unreasonable to be concerned about whether or not that lack of information could be detrimental to our cohesion as a unit.

Though I suppose these logs are supposed to fill in the gaps as much as they catalog what we already know about him, which still isn't a whole lot.

Granted, some info is better than no info at all.

We know he's a trash trawler by trade, I'm not calling him a 'Relic Hunter.'

Tres makes a fairly comfortable living schlepping across the blazing hot Splatlands in his ugly as heck junk hauler looking for useful metal scrap and other trash to salvage to sell to prospective clients at his scrapyard.

To add onto that he's shown to be quite handy with a wrench. He'd need to be in order to disassemble all the scrap he's looted and to build and maintain his equipment, something that Marina is weirdly perturbed about.

I find that odd.

Everyone thought she'd see him as a kindred spirit of sorts seeing as they share a gearhead mindset.

It turns out that was not the case.

Rather there have been occasional moments where she has expressed apprehension and even outright hostility against him.