#shellington

[octonaut-blog]

Going off the shirt idea

[starryqueen-18]

My otter pet Shellington! Ain't he a darling?

[dido00oo]

I drew this of shellington (ignore the leg I did this in like 5 mins and didn’t have a rubber)

[help-doctor]

FINALLY DONE!!!!

just working on an AU I was thinking of call it the beast AU or something I hope you guys enjoy it!!!

[vbettez]

“shellington, either it is a sea cucumber or it’s not”

“it’s snot”

[crowned-in-chaos]

SHELLINGTON THE GOOBER

he's just a little guy

[crowned-in-chaos]

SHELLINGTON

He is great

I really need to get back into stylising character design

Also I kinda went haywire with the blue. Really need to figure out how to do colours too

anyway bye

first attempt ^^

[octonaut-blog]

More headcanons but in a different, dark-ish flavor, so warning in advance: struggles some of the more carnivorous members of the crew have/had.

Shellington gets a terrible sort of tightness in his jaw and an itching in his teeth.

A Sea otters diet is made up almost entirely of benthic invertebrates (clams, urchins, squid, crabs ect) and their teeth are designed to crush through the hard shell of the exoskeleton of the things they eat.

It gets so bad that he'll wake up in the middle of the night crying because it aches. He would naw in anything to try and get it to go away, and even resorted to biting into his tail.

He didn't tell anyone about this until much later in his career as an octonaut, ashamed and scared of what the others might think.

That fear is long gone now though, and there are always cold teething rings in the kitchen freezer now.

Kwazii gets the urge to attack anything that moves too quickly away from him. Especially little things.

It's manageable when he's In water. Fish are too quick to catch, but out of the water is a different story.

His pupils go wide and every muscle in his body coils at the slightest indication of a smaller thing fleeing from him. He can't help it when his claws flex and his tail flicks and he trembles with the sheer physical restraint of not giving in.

He kept himself far away from the Vegimals when they were small(er), the violent urge to chase and catch and harm too great for him to bear.

What's worse is that he gets such a thrill out of it. He's unsettled by how fun he finds it, how much the idea of hurting something (not to eat, not to sustain or protect himself, just because) gets him worked up and giddy.

He doesn't like the lack of control.

Or how much he feels like he needs to sometimes, like he needs to claw his own fur out if he doesn't inflict damage onto something.

He's gotten better at keeping the urge under wraps, but the signs are there.

Only Barnacles knows the extent of what exactly the impulse is, and how much Kwazii struggles to contain it.

A less threatening urge is his want to bite, but that's usually more innocent, and Shellington and Barnacles are his go to chew toys(they don't mind).

Barnacles took many years to adjust.

Instinct is never dormant for him. It was never a matter of getting rid of it, rather, learning how to navigate and train himself to refuse it.

Polar bears are considered one of the most carnivorous mammals on the planet, that doesn't just go away.

Now, he has always been peculiar for polar bears, as they prefer being solitary once they grow older. He never grew out of the want to be near others though, even when Bianca left to start her life. Other than that oddity about him he is still a polar bear, a polar bear that hunted to survive for all of his young life, even into his adulthood before becoming an octonaut.

The scent of blood still makes him salivate, and he drinks in the smell instinctively before shame leaves a bitter taste in his mouth. He hates how much he misses it sometimes, that thrill, the taste, the satisfaction of hunting, killing and eating.

If it gets bad enough he'll be plagued with dreams that leave him hungry, restless, and guilt stricken.

Visiting Bianca can be hard. It's easy to fall into the routine they had as cubs and he's relapsed into hunting with her a few times.

The guilt eats him alive for not regretting it more.

She does her best not to do anything that might tempt him when he does visit, but she also can't bring herself to force him not to join her if he's so inclined. Barnacles is her brother, and Bianca cares about him deeply, but his decisions are his own to make, and she has seen both the good and the bad it does him when he has "relapsed". (She doesn't like that he calls it that, that he makes it seem so wrong).