thinking very hard about the concept of a machine finding appreciation/fascination for a person's heartbeat or breathing, similarly to how a person would find the hum of a machine's inner parts running to be pleasing to listen to or feel
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Great news for the “Octolings can purr” truthers out there.
Funnier news is they do it for seduction, getting kids off their lawns, and talking mad smack about how they’re gonna beat your ass.
Maybe that’s what this is. Eight threat purring with all their might.
Octarians like music turned up so loud it sounds like the speakers are purring at them.
Octavio has never stopped threat purring in his life.
Marina’s ass is flirt purring constantly around Pearl.
You know her ass was purring so hard she was like a cell phone getting an emergency alert.
ETA: it’s not real apparently, not to that extent anyway. For some reason searching “octopus body language” leads to a LOT of paywalled results and the free results ended up being AI-sourced. Octopuses do make some sounds by expelling water through their siphons, but there is not evidence of them communicating through vibration sadly.
Having said that, you can pull this headcanon out of my cold, dead hands. Im just calling it a trait Octarians developed as they evolved away from our current octopuses and changed to live on land. I just like it adding an alien aspect to them that’s distinct from inklings because I consider inklings and Octolings pretty genetically different and just filling similar niches due to convergent evolution.
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