Innocent airhead and her burnt out, long lost older sis
Basically, Driplet's Creator design, which canonically is what she used to look like before being seperated from Inkwell, her mother, has a red face. Since the red face, besides the lighter red half, is similar to DBBQ!ENA, I came up with the AU headcanon that is this: Inkwell actually had 2 daughters. Driplet, the chaotic gremlin, and her previous daughter, who was seperated too long ago for Driplet to recall, is ENA, Driplet's older sister. The way it works is that a long time ago, a portal snatched up ENA when she was small, dumping her into the world shown in Dream BBQ. Driplet was VERY young when the incident happened, so, as far as she was aware, she was an only child. Inkwell, desperate to not lose her only remaining child, basically became a helicopter parent, protecting Driplet in EVERY CHANCE POSSIBLE. Driplet perceived it as being extremely loved, while Inkwell perceived it as: 'If I don't keep Driplet in my sight, she'll end up like ENA'. But then, Inkwell's past haunts her, as, in an attack led by unknown forces on the Creators, Driplet, overwhelmed by the war, runs away, only for, low and behold, her to slip and fall into a portal, just as her older sister did. After years of searching for both daughters, Inkwell gets attacked by people from the enemy's side, and, in a last ditch effort to save herself, Inkwell quite literally SPLITS herself into the sides she's comprised of. The part of her from Kinito's world, Maia Mudpuppy, landed in the Webworld, the Inkling side of her, Dribble, tumbled into Inkopolis Square, the Pikmin side of her, a no-named Brown Pikmin was sent careening into the Sun Speckled Terrace, and lastly, the part of her that makes her physical body, the ENA part of her, falls into a hole, later found by ENA and Froggy. This part of Inkwell is the part that her entire consciousness is in, so she takes one look at ENA, and realizes, holy canoli, it's one of her daughters. So she tries to hug her. Only for ENA to proceed to punch her square in the face. She doesn't remember the portal incident, and therefore finds Inkwell to be highly delusional. After a while, things return to normal. Driplet stays with Inkwell, and ENA visits, from time to time.
