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demanding attention by scratching and pawing at the door of your blog like a cat

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maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

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Oh oh gosh when you write angst you really know how to do it

And everyone crying please they need to hug and talk about it to eachother please please they need the group therapy.

Do you have any angsty headcanons for your favorite characters/ocs?

Aside from the known phobias demonstrated by Barnacles and Kwazii (claustrophobia and arachnophobia)

All the Octonauts are still unsettled by the events of Ring of Fire

Professor Inkling thought about intense the situation had gotten. He normally isn’t required to be involved in missions, but when it came down to only 3 members being in the Octopod needing to all step up, he definitely fell short for a moment. Inkling felt horrible still. He’s been reviewing manuals and training tapes to refresh his skills. He couldn’t allow himself to be useless.

Dashi kept thinking about the Omura’s Whale and how close they all were to being burned by lava. How stressful rescuing the whale was. The Z-Gups weren’t particularly fast and not having contact with the captain and the rest of the crew, and how if that training video didn’t play right then would she have thought of a way to save everyone?

Shellington held the Vegimals tighter than usual. He learned quickly about what all went down at the sea weed farm. Of course he was proud of the Vegimals for acting quickly and saving creatures, but he felt awful for not being there.

Peso had a lot on his mind. He needed time to truly process his emotions. His cousins were now safe on Vegitoa (the island that spawned post Ring of Fire), however he couldn’t shake the possibilities their eggs being harmed. It was a scarily close call with the cracked egg. He’s fully aware of how not every egg hatches, even medical school acknowledged that fact, but it didn’t change how much of an emotional toll it was.

Tweak kept having nightmares. She would flashback to the moments the tremors got even more intense, how the Octo-Repair Station began to crumble around her and Kwazii. The fires, almost getting crushed in the compost compactor, and getting pinned under debris. Sure she toughed it out, but it scared her.

Kwazii was no better. As lieutenant, whenever the captain isn’t around he takes command. That includes ensuring the safety of the crew. So Tweak almost being harmed throughout their time in the Octo-Repair Station stuck with him. And then when they got separated briefly and he almost drowned, all he could think about was if Tweak was ok. Thank goodness she found the Octo-max suit and a spare air tank.

Captain Barnacles couldn’t sleep nor stop thinking. He thought about the chin strap penguins and Peso’s daring rescue of the egg, Inkling doing all he could to operate the Octopod, Dashi and Shellington racing against the clock with the Omura’s Whale and the lava, the Vegimals being alone handling the seaweed farm and an active volcano, and Kwazii and Tweak being trapped in the repair station. What hurt him most? He wasn’t there to protect them all. These thoughts would follow him all the way into Above and Beyond.

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First encounters (part 2)

Sorry it’s been a hot second since I’ve done much on tumblr. But here’s to those commenters on my last post for inspiring me to continue sharing my stories.

Enjoy and have an amazing day/night!

Kwazii paced back and forth in the launch bay trying to figure out what to do about the captains…. Situation. After announcing over the octo alert for the crew to meet there it only took about a minute for the others to hop out of the travel shoot and stand next to the launch bay wall computer.

“Kwazii? Why’d you call the octo alert at this time?” Shellington asked with a big yawn. Peso looking ready to fall asleep and Dashi with her headphones on around her neck.

“Mateys!!” Kwazi said a bit startled at shellingtons question. It snapped him out of replaying the scene from before. He looked back with a wide eye, a slight tremble to his hands.”w-well um- I heard some strange noises commin’ from th’ library…” kwazi started, taking a deep breath as he told his tale.

“So I crept through th’ dark, looking’ fer the source.” Kwazii narrated using his hands to mimic him walking down a hallway. “An I found… uh… the captain…” kwazii trailed off the image of his friends' tentacles waving confusedly from the lips of the monster. His captain. Devouring the poor shrunken professor. Kwazii shuttered at the memory.

The others watched with mixed emotions. Confusion, consern, and some skepticism. After a few seconds shellington finally spoke up feeling a bit unnerved. He had never seen kwazi act like this before. “Well…? What about the captain?”

Kwazii snapped back to the moment and shook his head trying to get the words out of his throat as flashes of the captain plagued his mind. “He…” the pirate shutters and takes a steadying breath. “He… Ate… the professor.” Kwazii said firmly. The others all looked at eachother then back to Kwazii. Dashi and Shellington raised questioning eyebrows and peso looked with confusion and concern.

“What? Ya don’t believe me?!” Kwazii asked incredulously.

“It’s a bit hard to believe such a story when something like that would be nearly impossible.” Shellington explained.

“But I saw it with me own eyes! And there’s no time to just stand around talking. What if the professor is in danger?!” Kwazii said loudly.

“Let’s just check the cameras then. If the captain… “ate” the professor we should be able to see it right?” Dashi offered. Turning toward the large launch bay computer panel.

“That’s a great idea Dashi! He was just in front of the window when he… yea…” Kwazii trailed off the unsettling scene replaying in his head again, causing him to wince. Dashi selected the library camera, an image of the library from one of the higher bookshelves showed a good bit of the large room. The window in clear view, along with part of the small upper walkway on the stairs. The video cuts to about an hour before their meeting. The library was still and fairly dark except for the watery moonlight filtering through the window.

Inkling wandered around messing with his new collar, not really needing much light due to living in the twilight zone of the ocean. They could hear him mumbling about something then a beep and he shrank. Inkling let out a sound of excitement at that. Seeing the world from a new perspective. Dashi sped through some of the footage, seeing the small pink octopus move along the floor then beginning to scale a few shelves, wandering and exploring a new world it seems. More skipping a head and it seems that inkling had gotten rather high in a shelf near the window. Then a new figure entered the library. The large silhouette is easily recognized as the captain in his usual gear. Dashi slowed the footage down a bit here. Barnacles seemed to be shaking his head a lot and mumbling but the camera wasn’t picking anything up. He started to look through some of the books. Using his octo compass as a small flashlight as he read the spines. The group watched as inkling took notice and hopped onto a book that was flat on the shelf with about half sticking out into the open air.

“Hello? Is someone there?” Inkling called out on the book. Inching closer to the edge. Barnacles froze, looking around for the sound.

“Barnacles is that you? I was just testing out this amazing new technology tweek just dropped off-.” Inkling said excitedly as he reached the edge of the precarious book. It started to slide and inkling was cut off as he and the book fell. They watched as the small cephalopod jumped back to a different shelf. Landing with a small splat as the book landed with a loud thud to the ground. Barnacles immediately turned and ran to the book. Picking it up and looking at the shelf. Inkling and barnacles froze as they made eye contact. The large bear set the book aside and gently scooped up the small professor in a single huge paw.

Inkling rambled about the tech that he had read from tweek’s notes. Not noticing how close he was to the captains face as he looked off to the side in thought, brainstorming possible uses for this impossible technology. They noticed Kwazii entering the library as the captain shoved inkling forward into his mouth. Peso and Dashi gasped while Shellington just stood there slack jawed. Kwazii couldn’t help the bit of pride at their horrified reactions to his very real tale. None of them could look away from the scene infront of them.

How the captain turned as Kwazii quietly asked if it was him. As the large bear slurped up and easily swallowed the squirming tentacles of their friend. And how Kwazii in the recording looked like he was going to be sick, turning and running with his tail between his legs. Then the captian just stumbles back out the library. Even as the octo alert sounds. Dashi stops the video there with a shaking paw.

“Do ya believe me now?” Kwazii asked, trying to keep the pride from his voice. Now was not the time to be cocky about being right that their captain ate another crew member in the dead of night. The others just nodded solemnly. “Good then we gotta get some sorta plan goin’. We gotta get inkling outta the captain. Dashi, where did he go?” Kwazii said. Taking the lead as the others were still dealing with the shock of what they just watched.

Dashi shook her head a bit to shake off those confusing emotions. She pulled up the other cameras. And they watched him go out of the library, down the hall and to the bed pod chute. And then into his own room.

“Looks like he went back to sleep…” she said.

“Maybe w-we can just go up there and ask the captain nicely to release inkling?” Peso peeped looking up to Kwazii. “I’ll go for sure. Gotta make sure that that skurvy ghost is kicked outa that captain.” Kwazi said with a determined look.

“I said I’d protect everyone from that hungry ghost and I mean it.”he turned back to the monitor thinking a bit then snapped his fingers. “Oh yea! I uh forgot to mention that there was a second part to that story I told ya peso.”

“There’s more?!” Peso exclaimed. Remembering the spooky tale.

“It’s called ‘if they do get possessed what should ye do’. Thought it wasn’t as fun as the story itself so I.. left it out. Heh.” Kwazi nervously laughed as peso gave a small glare. “But anyway! Listen maytes! For those who are haunted must be carefully cornered. Then under the moonlight ye must call out the specter and challenge them to a duel. If ye win you’ll be left alone. If not. Then ye will be eaten just like yer other crew!” Kwazii said dramatically arms waving along with his explanation.

“But what about inkling? He’s already been… eaten.” Dashi asked. Looking over the camera feed again on the much smaller screen on the control panel. Unable to really comprehend what had happened.

“Then we get ‘em out! I’ll sneak up on the cap’n and give a good jump kick to the gut! Tha’ll make him spit out inkling.”

“What about the duel? And inkling after the fact?” Peso asked.

“Hmmm… yer right. Maybe you could hide on the sidelines and catch inkling and help him get out as I challenge the ghost!” Kwazii said determined. “Dashi you’ll lock the pod off until I’m done dueling with that ghost.”

“I still don’t think it’s a ghost…” shellington said.

“Then what in the 7 seas would possess the captain to want to eat professor inkling?!” Kwazi asked.

“I’m not sure, but it can’t be a ghost. ghosts aren’t real Kwazii.” Shellington explained. “Maybe it’s something to do with the captain being an apex predator. Even as the captain he has to take special supplements due to how carnivorous normal polarbears are. But he doesn’t want to hurt any creature after becoming an octonaut. Maybe he just missed a dose of his supplements?” He tried to reason.

“I’ve been keeping an eye on our supplies. It doesn’t seem to be that.” Peso interjected.

“So it’s gotta be the hungry ghost! Besides we don’t have time to dilly dally! Inkling could need our help!” Kwazi said already heading toward the travel shoot out of the launch bay. “Just remember the plan. Come on peso!” He said as he hopped into the vacuum powered shoot.

Peso gulped but nodded. Grabbing his medical bag and following kwazii up. The others looked at each other with a shrug. Keeping an eye on the two using the cameras.

To be continued…

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If you ever need to feel better, just watch Mr. Rogers.

Tenna knows that and does this for Kris whenever they feel down about themselves.

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it's almost summer do you guys want my stupid hyperoptimized lemonade recipe that takes half a day to make and whips absolute ass

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Found this little guy at work. He's very cute, but very sad. Gonna see if I can help cheer him up :)

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i love hearing about the declining birth rate like yesss that is a major problem considering our dominant economic model. a problem i plan on contributing to 👍 joining the war on declining birth rates on the side of declining birth rates

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Explore, Rescue... Squirm

Would you still love the crew if they were worms, tumblr.

No? ... oh, uh...

Would you like them better if they were worms... /on a string/ ?

*chucks a handful of sea salt smelling Squirmles at you*

(sorry if the colors are dull. My drawing tablet's brightness is like having a staring contest with Jesus so I kept everything a little pale. I can go back & make fixes though!)

Not a single thought behind these let-me-do-it-for-you eyes. Look at these goobers.

I'm trying to be nicer to myself about my drawings so I will say that despite the weird idea this was a lot of fun to make & I want to make more. I actually enjoyed using my tablet for once, and I'm actually starting to like how my art style looks on it. I actually liked it enough to even put a signature on it. (I hope that doesn't intrude too much on the pic)

I love each one of them and I must make more.

Octo-Squirmles are happiness.

Sorry for the self-gushing in this post I'm just really happy today for some reason.

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GUYS THERE'S A OCTONAUTS HOTEL ROOM

like i'm not joking this is just a real thing

its like it's real it's not even defunct or anything you can like actually go there apparently WHAT

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being the last one to send a message before the chat falls into sudden silence always feels like u just made the worst faux pas of your life and you go sorry guys was that weird and they're all like no sorry I was just looking at a leaf on tbe ground leaf.jpg like oh ok