By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Backstory!
Yeah, it seems like there is a fairly substantial contingent of dedicated Big Man fans. But what do we really know about the Deep Cut crew representing the Splatlands in Splatoon 3? Story Mode didn't really go into as much detail about them as other idols, and their Anarchy Splatcast dialogue is quite limited compared to the newscasts in Splatoon and Splatoon 2 that developed those idols’ personalities. Now that Nintendo is able to recognise which idol is which, it's really time to make each one stand out and develop them.
One way to do that is to hold an interview with all of Deep Cut at once. It's fairly standard for music-based media outlets, like magazines, to try to snag interviews with a whole band, and that's what happened.
Unknown to the interviewer, the three of Shiver, Frye, and Big Man weren't all friends when growing up. They became more close in middle school—or Frye and Shiver, specifically. (This means that, whenever they were in middle school, described as a few years later, Inkling [Frye] and Octoling [Shiver] societies were already integrated.) Frye was a wild child into dancing and eels while Shiver tried to be the more responsible friend. They both loved music and singing, especially the Calamari Inkantation. They decided they wanted to develop that singing and get some music to accompany it, and they had heard Big Man was good with the piano and approached the manta ray. (Though he was scared of the Inkling and Octoling at first.)
