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"STOP IT. THIS IS NOT OKIE-DOKIE." Desti is a highly controversial character among the SMG4 fanbase. Reason: Divisive/controversial death and its repercussions for the rest of the series. |
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You better win Splatfest for me, okay? |
” | —Desti's last words before succumbing to her wounds at the hands/blade of False Sephiroth's Masamune, SMG4: World War Mario | ||
Desti was a recurring character in the SMG4 series.
Desti first appeared as the main antagonist of SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon 2, where Mario was helping Meggy train for the next Splatfest. Later, after Mario refused to join her team, she sent her Octoposse after him, which resulted in a fight and rivalry with Meggy.
She later resurfaced as one of the two main antagonists for the first half of The Anime Arc before reforming to become one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Mario) of the second half, helping the SMG4 gang to save Meggy Spletzer from Francis. However, in the final battle, she was killed from being impaled by False Sephiroth's Masamune, therefore becoming the first major character ever to die in the series.
She was still posthumously mentioned and shown in photographs or flashbacks in videos following her death up until SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny in which she appeared as a spirit. After Meggy won the Splatfest and Desti congratulated her, she passed on into the afterlife. Following the conclusion of the movie, Luke announced that Desti would no longer directly appear in the series. Despite this, she has still appeared in numerous incarnations since then, contradicting the validity of the Luke's statement.
Background[]
Desti was a female Octoling who hailed from Inkopolis. She was very popular, becoming shocked when Meggy doesn't recognize her. With her high skill in the Turf Wars, she was the leader of her team, as she gave the commands in both SMG4: The Mario Showdown and SMG4: The Splatfest Incident, named the Octoposse, which only consists of Octolings. She became enemies with Meggy and Mario very quickly.
Appearance[]
Desti had fuchsia tentacles, purple-colored ink, tan skin, and bright yellow eyes, with a silver heart tattoo beside her right eye. She dressed in a rather gothic style, consisting of Fake Contacts, a Shirt with Blue Hoodie and Neo Octoling Boots. The Shirt with Blue Hoodie has a unique design containing a light blue octopus wearing a Octoleet Goggles on its head on the left, has light blue lines on the sleeves and the Splash Mob tag on the bottom right of the front of the hoodie is green instead of bright orange. Like many other Octolings, she also wore black, fingerless gloves. In SMG4: WHAT IF...?, she wears a Black Inky Rider.
Personality[]
Desti was usually arrogant, vain, and competitive. She was usually represented as a cruel and sadistic bully to Meggy, and she was shocked when she found out that Meggy didn't know who she was. Her goals and personality were seen as rather simple-minded: she only wants to humiliate Meggy and win Splatfests. She was willing to do anything to win, even if she had to forcefully ask people like Mario to team up with her, steal Splatoon weapons from her rivals, or using unfair cheating as a "strategy". She also did not take failure too seriously.
Despite this, she was deep-down good-hearted, as she insisted on helping find Meggy after her disappearance, shown to have cared for her teammates and also her remorse over her treatment towards SMG4 and his friends. She claims that she still hates Meggy, but in a friendly way.
It is revealed that she wanted to save Meggy because she doesn't want to see her die rather than getting humiliated, showing to have standards against the murder. After she saw Sephiroth's katana sticking out of her stomach, her final request to Meggy was to win the Splatfest for her, showing that she now considered Meggy a friend.
Weapons/Power[]
Powerlevel: B[]
- Blaster: Her primary weapon. However, she is seen to use other ink weapons as well. In "SMG4: Final Hours, her weapon was put on her casket by Meggy during her funeral.
- .52 Gal: Only appeared in If Mario Was In... Splatoon 2.
- Wasabi Splattershot: Only appeared in SMG4: The Mario Showdown.
- Inkweaver: Only used in SMG4: World War Mario as a self-defense.
Trivia[]
- According to Luke and Kevin in The Waluigi Arc EXPLAINED, Desti was originally going to have a role in The Waluigi Arc, starting with SMG4: Waluigi's Time.
- Her good behaviour is based on the diligence, as she estabilishes a connection with The Earth.
- A running gag in her appearances involved her mispronouncing Mario's name before the latter corrects her.
- Her name might be taken from the word "destination" or "destiny" due to her confident, competitive, and ruthless personality. Her name also rhymes with 'bestie' alluding to the fact she becomes a true friend to Meggy.
- Desti was killed in the same month of her first appearance, which is in June.
Desti was the second character to die in a serious manner. The first was Clone Mario, the third would be Francis in the next episode and the fourth would be Greg.
- Desti is the first character to have a reintroduction, due to her total lack of appearances between If Mario Was In Splatoon 2 and Meggy's Bootcamp.
- In About the Anime Arc and 2019 Was The Biggest Year Of My Life, it is revealed that SMG4 had a hard time editing and creating Desti's death as he found it too emotional.
- Desti's confirmed death in SMG4: Final Hours may be the reason why the video is titled "Final Hours" though this may just be a coincidence and the title signals the near end of the arc.
- Desti is the second character to be properly retired rather than slowly shafted away, after Starman3 who was retired due to controversies his real-life counterpart caused.
- Desti's death may have been a reference to Final Fantasy VII as the location False Sephiroth stabs her is the same as the location Sephiroth stabs Aerith.
- Due to her death, Desti is the only SMG4 counterpart or rival character not to be part of SMG3's Gang, with Melony appearing as Meggy's counterpart instead. However, she herself has a counterpart in the form of another watermelon in her likeness.
- Desti was indirectly mentioned in the Sunset Paradise episode "What Comes Next." when Shadow Meggy says that Auri Bori's hypothetical death will be all Meggy's fault, just like "last time".
- She was also indirectly mentioned again in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2021, when Meggy said that she knows what it's like to lose someone to Melony while trying to help her cope with Axol's death.
- Desti is one of the few characters in the series to received a fan-made GMOD model in the form of a "Human Desti" GMOD model, next to Tari and Saiko Bichitaru, both of whom has GMOD models sporting fan-made college attire.
- In SMG4: WHAT IF...?, it was shown in a non canonical timeline where Meggy was killed by False Sephiroth in her place where Desti ended up surviving, effectively taking her spot in SMG4's Gang. She would later confront the False Sephiroth, and avenge Meggy's death indicating they become closer had she not died in the main timeline.
- Despite retaining elements of a Nintendo character as an Octoling, she still appears as merch in the Glitch Productions website. However, she is still stylized differently enough from the octolings in the Splatoon games to avoid copyright issues with Nintendo.
- She is one of the two only major original characters in the series to be dark-skinned, the other being X.
GMOD model[]
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