So.. I may or may not be the reason these "Clones" of Cap'n Cuttlefish and Octavio are spreading around twitter.
Some context: about a month ago, in a chat with some friends in discord, when we made a really interesting discovery about the Octo Expansion Artbook.
See that bright pink Octopus with that familiar green scar?
Yep. There is an actual clone of DJ Octavio in the art book named Itawasa.
I decided to share the news about this mysterious fella and it actually gained some traction on twitter because of it, though most activity with him was in a Twitter GC with a good portion of Twitter's well known Cuttletavio artists (yes, including Nova) I am part of.
Then about a week ago I had a silly idea: what if we gave Itawasa a boyfriend like Cuttletavio?
And then we all put our braincells together and made a "Clone" of Craig named "Surume" (because Surume and Atarime (Craig's Japanese name) are the same thing, it was too perfect not to use), and then it just kinda blew up on twitter.
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