YoYoCheese
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ABXY is Chirpy Chips. They changed the names of most of the bands in the English version. (Off the Hook, for instance, is The Tentacles in Japan.)
I recommend checking out the soundtrack on YouTube when you've got the time. It's some good stuff.
Admittedly I got this info from the official Splatoon Tumblr. So the whole broken English thing can be traced back to there.Those look like translations of the Japanese tweets, like what it'd look like if I cleaned up the broken english I got when I ran them through Google Translate. Pretty sure Japan has a gender-neutral word equivalent to he/she, I'm guessing that's translated as "it" here.
I did not look at "No. 10008" as the proper name of Agent 8. That would cast the experiments as very long-running, and definitely not Cuttlefish's doing. That does tie into a couple of the other tweets, so have some broken english.
The silent protagonist can be done right in some cases. Like, Link. Or maybe even Gordon Freeman. Barebones examples sure, but the reason why the Agents are silent is because they're our character or Inkling. And while they can be confirmed to be a boy or girl, the Inkling we create fills the void, they're silent yes, but only because it's our Inkling. It's why they don't say things. Nintendo isn't just going to go and write dialogue for the Agents just because the "silent protagonist trope is overrated".
Something to note from the Tumblr post
"While it seems that most Ocarians are pure evil, it appears this one has had its very nature changed somehow by having heard the Squid Sisters’ Calamari Inkantation"
This is also alluded to in one of the scrolls in Splatoon 2, apparently
It basically talks about how those Octarians who heard the Calamari Inkantation in Splatoon 1 were changed forever, and you can see Marina in the crowd. So, it appears the implications at all Octarians are Brainwashed (Except Octavio) are strong as shit