Odd that Inkling is the one the artist chose to be paying attention given how they are probably the most canonically scatterbrained character in all of Smash. They cannot even tell the different between them and Octolings and won a war out of sheer coincidence, so they do not exactly strike me as the "student that pays attention in class" type of people.

Inkling being a teacher's pet is more wholesome than I would have imagined.