Acht

Acht, also known by their stage name Dedf1sh, is a musician in Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion whose songs can be heard around the facilities of the Deepsea Metro. Once a normal Octoling, they entered the Deepsea Metro's underground test facility and became sanitized, losing their free will.

Full name: Acht Ahato Species: Octoling

Acht is a sanitized Octoling with a pale green skin tone; unlike other sanitized Octolings, their hair color is a gradient of indigo to red. The tips of their fingers are tinted bright red to black. Their attire consists of a thigh-length dress with a slit on the left side with red lace-up stitching, as well as high-heeled knee-length laced black boots. The back of their hair is mostly shaved and features a tentacle in the center back, while the two sides have shaved portions resembling the katakana "ミ" and "ズ" from top to bottom on the left side and "タ" on the right side, spelling out their Japanese first name "ミズタ" (Mizuta). They additionally have heavy bandaging on their left arm (which they explain as having originated in a Jelleton attack). They wear a pair of Octoling Shades as well as large, silver headphones atop a monochrome black and white baseball cap (gray and white in their album artwork) that features the same logo seen on Paul's hat. They additionally wear a cuff bracelet featuring a black to red halftone gradient on their right wrist.

Acht has triangular yellow eyes with three eyelashes, black and yellow pupils shaped like an infinity symbol (just like those of Marina and Shiver), and waterdrop-shaped eyebrows oriented horizontally where the sharp point turn slightly upwards. The tips of their tentacles, as well as the red part of their bracelet, glow in the dark. Acht has a laid-back, somewhat sarcastic personality and tend to speak in a cool, emotionally distant manner, even though not completely emotionless, as they frequently cheer for Agent 8's success. They consider themself a slacker when they were younger, as they were often skipping lectures and describing having to work in the front lines being too much work, and additionally broke the dress code. Acht likes cramped spaces and leaning against walls, and are "more of an" indoorsy person who doesn't go out in public much. When making music, Acht is diligent and hardworking, but underwent sanitization to remove "doubts and conflicts about production" and devote themself to nothing but music. They had learned every genre of music, causing their music to be described as "mimetic". Due to their sanitization, they do not make music considering others, instead letting what comes out of their "inner self" take form.

Acht mentions that they also have skills in hacking, but that they are not as good as Marina. Acht previously worked in the Octarian army. Unlike how Octarians are expected to behave, Acht often skipped lectures and slacked off, which often landed them in the instructor's office. The lack of diligence caused them to be called a delinquent and feared by those around them due to false rumors.[ They express relief not having to work in the front lines, as they describe it as being too much work, having instead being assigned to do some behind-the-scenes security. They used to be friends with Marina, having borrowed records from each other. Acht was pondering if Marina, being an assigned an elite position and a diligent worker, would get into trouble with hanging out with a slacker like them. After Marina's desertion caused chaos in the army, Acht mentions that they were not left with much else to do other than making music. They mentioned that there was a "club way down in the lowest levels of the base", that was the only place they could perform their music without being caught by their officers and high-ranking officials. As time went on, they got more and more into it to they point that music where all they could think about, and they were sanitized at some point before the event of the Octo Expansion to remove "doubts and conflicts about production" and devote themself to nothing but music.