You Can Play As Either A Male Or A Female Octoling In Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion

Do the Octolings have hairstyle options like the Inklings?

I'd rather be the male Octoling but his hair/tentacle isn't great..

So close...

Pre-ordered a while ago, and I look forward to its release!

What if I want to be genderfluid non binary?

Ursula (Little Mermaid, Disney) has tentacles on the bottom of body part...

@Mr_Pepperami Then you write a long post on tumblr or start a twitter campaign about how special you are and how oppressive Nintendo is

@SmaggTheSmug Hahahaha so true 😉

Didn't we know this from the official reveal trailer?

I can't take the hype any longer, HURRY UP ALREADY!!!

This was obvious from the very first trailer.

If the Octoling Boy has different/better hair than that, I'm definitely changing to him.

@Equinox they have conveniently placed ink around their bodies

Splatoon's customization is my favorite part of the game, glad they're sticking to it!

I also see it only takes a mere mention of gender for some to consistently look like fools. Amusing, really.

I hope to see what type of hair styles the octolings will bring....

I've pre-ordered and am defenitely more excited I can play as a male. I was worried it would be limited to online matches after beating the story.

Hang on, wasn't this confirmed ages ago? I'm pretty sure a lot of the promotional art showed off Male Octoling.

I mean, they're literally species-fluid non-binary octopi/squid-kids that can instantly transition with a tap of the ZL button and have their gender, skin and eye colour changed at will by dipping into the menu. I've changed the gender of my squid multiple times, sometimes just to suit a particular piece of clothing. Watching the recent U.K. competition at MCM, some of the girl players played as boy Inklings and even more of the boy players played as girl Inklings. In fact, I can't actually think of another game where so many players - given the option - seem to pick the gender they weren't assigned at birth.

It seems odd to class Splatoon as some sort of bastion of traditional identity notions when the characters can't even settle on being a single species and half the players end up playing as the opposite sex anyway.

But still, take that SWJs.

@RupeeClock

I think Octarians and Octolings are quite different.

Once again it looks like the male avatar was an afterthought, similar to splatoon 1

Girl Octoling > Guy Octoling by a mile

Of course you can choose the gender of your squid, that was never up for discussion. @Dom

@RupeeClock Wait really? Didn't one of the sunken scrolls ago Octavious in human form?

@Mr_Pepperami Well they are made out of ink so technically they're fluid in one way at least

Having a female Octoling is historically inaccurate. Boycotting this product
#notmysplatoon

@Taffy Nice try, but it would me more believable if you wrote "Having a MALE Octoling is historically inaccurate". There were no male Octolings in Splatoon 1.

EDIT: In the actual game I mean. I think the sunken scrolls had pictures of male Octolings.

@RupeeClock Nah that's not remotely true. The sunken scrolls show male Octolings in Splatoon. The mooks in Splatoon are Octarians not Octolings except in those few Octolings stages. The Splatoon Art book also has lore, it's quite fascinating.

@Equinox lmao