I realized I don't know if I'm gonna finish this or not so I wanted to post it as is, but there is lore about the octonauts as kids lol
Anyways I turned em all into like 5 year olds lol, and made Inkling a 20 something yr old XD
Lil headcanons 4 the lil guys
Barnacles was a very shy lil guy when he was young. Took alot longer than his sister to stop hiding behind his mama and to start exploring without their mom. Bianca absolutely helped (forced him) with it tho <3 (Bianca absolutely wanted to do a billion things and she COULSNT IF HE WAS GONNA STAY BEHIND so she "lovingly" made him go with her) Hes wearing Iniut traditional clothing from his grandmother here <3 i have some exploration doodles of Barnacles parents somewhere, that ill post later. Barnacles real name is Atiqtalaaq and grew up with Inuktitut and Russian before he learned English.
He also grew up in the DEEP ARCTIC so he didn't really experience as many outer influences when he was younger other than random 80s workout videos and movies...So he uh.. may have decided to choose a random English name to by when he went to university in Manitoba... and he thought Arbuckle sounded like a nice English name.. somewhere along the line he sorta messed up and was misunderstood and well...
Barnacles ended up being his name as fair as anyone was aware. No one really mentioned that it was odd and he didn't even know it was a name of an...arthropod for years. But hey! Kwazii said it would be very cool by pirate standards AND everything thinks the name sounds strong and he kinda likes that, not to mention has grown used to it. I'm not gonna lie I wasn't expecting all this lore but oh well.
Anyways I like the idea that Tweak was just an angry sassy little baby. Extreme rule following and very very direct. She absolutely firmly grabbed adults by the hand, stomped over to whatever the problem was, and demanded them to fix it "cuz thats what they're SUPPOSED to do". I think she also was very strict about the order things had to be done and how you HAD to do things. Autism baby <3 she definitely stomped ALOOOOT to get her points across 😭😭😭 she also had the most intense little justice system ever about fairness. I just love Tweak so much yall
Lil Dashi<3 ough lil puppy 🥺 i think she always looked really peaceful and cute, and then you'd look away for 2 seconds and she probably ate a rock or something and was also covered in mud. Like you wouldn't even have any idea HOW that happened but it did. Also very much a wanderer. Just would absolutely walk up to strangers and listen to their conversations and stare at people. Probably talked with all the venomous bugs and whatever Australia had to offer. Probably tried to POKE all the venomous/poisonous bugs and whatever Australia had to offer...
Lil peso... tiny.. fluffy... pretty much mute as a little kid, only really talked to his mom despite having an older brother and father. Hed spend hours just looking at picture books and pointing to ask for yet another snack. All his relatives pinched his cheeks alot cuz they found him so cute and he'd just squawk and hide 😩 if he liked someone he'd definitely try and bring them food, beads, and candies lol. He also liked knowing that because he didn't say anything he could listen to everyone's drama. Like literally just listened to everyone's drama and told his mama EVERYTHINNNNNGGG. 😭😭😭
Lil shellie<3 he followed his big sis around everywhere like a duck. Whenever he talked it was mostly just asking a billion questions about fish and rocks and he didn't really care about talking about literally ANYTHING else. He kinda just zoned out and didn't pay attention whenever people talked about other things. The only way they could get him to do schoolwork when he was young was if they made it rock or fish or crab or whatever related somehow. He did LOVE hearing stories about his parents traveling all over the world as a young lad though. He was always just kinda unaware tho and that did make his folks a bit concerned but other than the urchin allergy he??? Seemed fine??? Also Pearl dressed him up in little outfits which as long as they didn't have scratchy materials he didn't mind at all lol.
lil Kwazii<3 tiny kitten, huge ginormous ungodly large eyes... when I tell you this lil guy was EVERYWHERE- kittens sorta have a stage where they climb better than they can run lowkey and like... hes get into small spaces, tall places, hard to reach places, HOW DID YOU EVEN REALIZE THAT WAS A PLACE THAT YOU COULD GO PLACES, on top of EVERYONES HEADS places- hed talk really fast and no one could understand him most of the time but his Grandad who had a way of getting Kwazii to slow down 🥺↕️🤌he also stole and was snuck alot of candies lol. He was.. a very curious kitten, which is always a good sign that they feel safe but he was absolutely a handful 😩🥺😭
anyways this is just a self indulgent thing ans I feel like the vegimals would be very confused and feel very shocked about seeing their own dad... and ALL the octonauts (other than the Professor cuz we need ONE ADULT) being younger than them... 🥺
Its a good think Inklings got those extra arms tho hes gonna need them to wrangle all of them 😭😭😭😭
I dont think Inklings heart can TAKE his kids being ACTUALLY LITTLE KIDS now-
Good thing The professor has like 9 hearts,that should be enough for everyone XD