Frye Onaga

Frye is a 22-year-old squid girl humanoid, its species known as an "Inkling", who is part of a musical trio called "Deep Cut". Alongside "Big Man" and "Shiver", the three of them produce a culturally diverse musical style, mixing and matching elements from japanese, indian and south american styles. Her apperance consists of medium brown skin and a round face, with darker brown lips and large eyes under round yellow triangle eyebrows. Her irises are golden, with yellow pupils in the shape of a diamond. Her Inkling eye mask is fairly large and exaggerated, and ends with points that lift off the sides of her face. On top of her eye mask are thick yellow eyelashes with an orange gradient at the ends. Her top teeth are sharper and more prominent than other Inklings, and sometimes peek out of her closed lips like fangs.

Frye's yellow hair tentacles are thin and wavy, and reach about shoulder length. She styles them in two parts: one lock tied with an off-white cord framing the left side of her face, and the other tucked behind her right ear, baring most of her forehead. Her tentacles end in a light purple gradient. Frye's ears are longer and pointier than those of other Inklings, with a slight orange blush at the tips. Her right ear is pierced with three moray eel tooth-shaped earrings. Additionally, her fingertips are purple.

Frye has a fun, yet rebellious sense of fashion, with a possible root in traditional Indian culture. Her outfit consists of a sleeveless yellow turtleneck crop top under a small yellow shawl made from a shiny translucent material. She wears off-white pants that are extremely baggy, pulling inspiration from the traditional costume of certain Indian dances. Three holes on the left side of her pants reveal she wears black leggings underneath. Around her waist is a thin tan rope belt; hanging from it on the left side is a large golden squid charm with two purple tassels tied through holes in the ornament. On the top left of her head is a golden-colored hat resembling chunks of fried squid. Her feet are partially covered by off-white toe-less socks, revealing purple toes.

Frye is peppy and reckless, often wearing her emotions on her sleeve. She is known for her fearlessness and audacity, often rushing headfirst into dangerous situations without fear or hesitation. This tends to get her into trouble, which her bandmates Big Man, a manta ray and Shiver, a blue octopus girl hybrid have to save her from. Though she can sometimes appear menacing or brag about her abilities, it is all in good fun, and at her core, she is a kind and fun-loving individual. Frye can also be slightly airheaded, indecisive and a bit of a prankster.

On the romance side of things, Frye does not mind the gender orientation of their partners and is more than willing to make their bond flexible if both desire so, taking more on a dominant approach or a submissive one, a switch through and through.

She possesses a deep love for singing and dancing, being trained in both at a young age and becoming very physically fit as a result. She likens the different forms of her eel attacks to dances, and often dances when excited. Because of this, she is also extremely gluttonous, as evidenced by how she frequently talks about food. She has stated that she is not picky and will eat anything.

Frye was born into the Onaga clan, a family of eel charmers well-known for representing the Splatlands. She was raised by her grandfather, as her parents have been traveling the world since she was a child, and grew up alongside a younger brother and younger twin sisters. Due to being busy with dance lessons and eel training, Frye notes not having had the time to make "real friends" as a child, although she used to sneak out quite a bit. She met Shiver and Big Man through their familial ties during their childhoods, but remained nothing but acquaintances with them at the time. In middle school, Frye was noted as "a little bit wild, a little bit reckless" student; in school, Frye was classmates with Shiver, and the two began looking out for each other, then started to bond over their shared love of singing. They would often go to the school rooftop and sing together, before deciding they wanted accompaniment, which lead to them seeking out Big Man, a pianist. This led to the formation of Deep Cut as it is known today.

A few years later, Deep Cut were made the hosts of the Anarchy Splatcast, a podcast station where hosts comment on news from the Inkling and Octoling society, events and other updates. Deep Cut is regarded in their society in as heroes, due to their committment to the people of Splatsville, even taking on a bandit approach to their strategies to steal treasure from various sources with the purpose of selling them and raising cash for those residents struggling financially. Deep Cut's currenct manager is "Marie", a grey haired inkling girl from the famous pop duo "Squid Sisters"