Shiver Hohojiro

Shiver Hohojiro, also known as The Cold-Blooded Bandit is a major antagonist turned supporting character in Splatoon 3. She is an Octoling who resides in Splatsville. Along with co-stars Frye and Big Man, she is a member of the band Deep Cut, who host both Anarchy Splatcast, the news show of Splatsville, and Splatfests. She, along with Frye and Big Man are Anti-Villains in Return of the Mammalians. Her signature color is a deep indigo, and she is also a member of a clan of shark users. She rides a megalodon named Master Mega when the player fights her in the single-player mode. She is voiced by Anna Sato. Shiver is an Octoling with pale skin and a wide, oval-shaped face, with slender eyes and sharp blue triangle eyebrows. Her irises are red, with light red pupils in the shape of an infinity symbol, similar to Marina's pupils, (and matching octopuses in real life). Her Octoling eye mask is thin and sharp, almost appearing to be cat-eyeliner makeup, with red eye shadow blended underneath. Her tentacles are shoulder length, with the left side styled over her face, hiding her left eye from view. Her tentacles have a slight gradient from a light blue to navy blue and are curled upwards slightly at the ends. In addition to the eye makeup, Shiver also appears to be wearing a light red lip gloss. She has the same teeth (asymmetrical) and ears as playable Octolings, ears of which are tinted red at the ends with three piercings with shark tooth earrings, and blue-purple tentacles with darker tips and that flips at the ends which obscures the left eye and matching triangular eyebrows. She wears a sarashi under her purple shawl that has an extended black side with a large silver octopus' charm with two red tassels tied through holes in the ornament attached to the left side, leggings with cuts at the sides, and tabi-like shoes with red wedge soles possibly resembling okobo. She carries a white sensu fan, painted with her family crest in blue which many think the bottom half resembles the marbling of fat in salmon. On the back of her head, circling a large suction cup on one of her tentacles, is a length of white twisted cloth tied in a knot; not unlike the traditional Japanese hachimaki headband. Hachimaki have a variety of styles, and the one worn by Shiver in particular is a common sight during certain Japanese festivals. In Alterna, she also wears a shark mask, which takes inspiration from Japanese kitsune masks with its characteristic red and white design. During Splatfests, any part of Shiver's appearance that is normally blue changes to match the color of her Splatfest team, with the exception of her fingertips, her tongue, her wedge heels, and her octopus's charm tassels, which are tinted with a color that contrasts her Splatfest teams. When Shiver was in her school days, she wore something much different. She wore one tentacle over her eye, like usual, while the other one was held in a ponytail, tied by something like her current headgear. She wore white loafers, a shirt similar to the Black Sailor Suit, and a long, ankle-length black skirt. Shiver is described as 'cold-blooded' (her title even being "The Cold-Blooded Bandit") and acts cold and nonchalant with a ruthless streak while on the Anarchy Splatcast. She's a perfectionist, sending Big Man back to the drawing board multiple times while he wrote Anarchy Rainbow, and she enjoys teasing her fellow newscasters, but despite this, she clearly cares about them. Shiver's story mode appearances contrast with how she presents herself on the Anarchy Splatcast, as she sheds her calm and collected exterior while fighting Agent 3, showing that she has a more competitive, impatient, and crude side; trash-talking the player, sticking out her tongue, growing increasingly frustrated when she doesn’t win, and fumbling with her smoke bomb at the end of her boss encounter. Despite this, if the player beats her, she acknowledges them as her equal. She also has the tendency to occasionally express things in onomatopoeias, such as "FLOOMP" and "KA-GLOMP." Despite her persona, Shiver can be surprisingly understanding, as she was willing to put aside her differences and work with the New Squidbeak Splatoon, even being the one to suggest that Marie become their boss and happily referring to her as such.