A.S.A. Octonauts Headcanons:
Dashi was born in Molokai, Hawai’i to Erica and Pi’ilani Kona, and raised in Long Beach California
Her mother and father were both raised in Molokai. Later moving to California for business, but you’ll count on them visiting family every holiday season. So she was never really far from home.
Dashi has always found the water to be her safety net. Before she could even sit up her father put her on a board, teaching her the ways of the ocean the moment she opened her eyes.
She has fond memories of going to the beach and surfing with her parents. Riding the waves as if she were a part of them. They may have lived in Long Beach all her young life but Seal Beach is where she thrived.
But it wasn’t necessarily the waves, or the beautiful dock that stretched out towards the ocean. Instead it was the moments she shared with her parents. Boogie Boarding the shore line, taking on the playground nearby, walking the shopping district, getting ice cream at the nearby parlor. These were the moments she cherished most.
As she grew older she began entering competitions, carefully training under the guidance of her father. Not only did she take on surfing, but other sports as well. Volleyball, Water Polo, Kayaking, long distance swimming. If it was near the beach, she did it. Although it was hard to top her love of the surf.
She was a busy bee as young as she was but that didn’t mean she skipped out on her other interests. Dashi loved to read, spending long afternoons when the water was too cold to swim, devouring books. But of course we all know that Donna Doxie was by far her very favorite of those.
Alongside reading she found a kinship with computers. Through her computer classes at school she was introduced to an entirely different online world, and this is where she met Ryla.
You’d think they would’ve met out in the wild, but it was through a chat room that they were really able to meet and connect. Ryla was about the same age as her, maybe a little older, and she seemed to have quite the love for exploration. They became penpals, talking to each other for hours on end until the sun rose in Ryla’s world and the moon appeared in Dashi’s.
When she was about twelve years old their parents set up a way to meet in person and it was the greatest decision ever made for the pair. In the winter, when they weren’t visiting family, Dashi would travel with one of her parents to Australia to visit Ryla, or Ryla would come to her. Together they’d explore each other’s universes, taking on the culture’s and nature brought with it.
Ryla’s mum was a scientist, an explorer of caves herself. When Dashi visited, with the permission of her own guardian, the two girls would run off and find their own places to explore (with the highest safety precautions of course).
This was how Dashi found her love of photography. She wanted to capture every moment she had in Australia and that first Christmas her parents gifted her a camera of her very own.
Dashi would take hundreds of pictures, hand picking the best ones. Then when the girls visited one another she had an entire album to show off from their adventures.
Pi’ilani moved his family to California to take on his friend’s business for a few summers while he traveled. During the summer the business blossomed and when Pi’ilani’s friend returned he was so surprised by the impact that he offered Dashi’s father 50% of the company.
Pi’ilani is not only one of the owners but he oversees a lot of training for surfers and swim teams. During the school year he coaches highschool volleyball while his wife Erica runs a flower shop by the beach.
Both sides of their family live in the same area on Molokai so when her family flies over everyone gathers at one house and party for days.
Koshi was born when Dashi was about eleven. She of course takes after her sister through hobbies and personality, but she’s also a little more determined to become a detective rather than a surfing champ like her sis.
The Kona family would later adopt a young boy named Bandit (Blonde Australian Shepard). He was a shy kid, often hard to talk to after years of bad foster families. The Kona family was more than happy to welcome him into their home and give him the safe space that he clearly needed.
He lived with the Kona family for a few years, but one summer Bandit suddenly disappeared and hasn’t returned since, he was about 15 when he left. Unfortunately because of her duties she was never able to go searching for him, she still beats herself up over it.
(Koshi does too. She might never admit it out loud but she feels partially responsible for his disappearance as the day before the two got into a massive fight.)
Dashi loves the color pink. (Wow I never would have guessed! – Can you taste the sarcasm??)
She never really had a favorite gup until the Octo-Agent Initiative was created (I mean it’s not a gup but still) it’s definitely the Octo-Ray
Dashi is a huge music lover, she doesn’t play any instruments but she does like to sing (especially with the captain) – Heavy metal relaxes her . . . ya’ll this is CANON I am literally crying rn 🤣
Scary Movies with Kwazii (although she definitely watches the psychological horrors without him) and Rom Coms with Barnacles (She’s got taste okay?)
She and Tweak were INSTANTLY friends. They literally saw each other and did the spiderman meme. Girls gotta stick together.
Speak of girls. Girls Night happens every Saturday at 8 on the dot. She and Tweak spend hours laughing, watching movies, making snacks, and doing each other's hair. Literally any girl’s night activity you could imagine, they’ve done it. Not because they always enjoyed that particular activity, but it’s literally for the joke of it. (Peso sleeps in the game room whenever this happens, just so they have privacy because he's a sweetheart and doesn't want to ruin their fun by needing sleep)
(They once forced everyone to watch all the Barbie Movies with them, then compiled all the lore into a powerpoint just so they could discuss and rank every movie. Literally everyone knows the Barbie-Verse Lore and it's hilarious. Anytime someone brings up any headcanons/controversy it’s like WW3)
Codish and Tominnow were immediately added to the group, Kwazii was kinda just thrown into it (sometimes he brings Emma along).
YA’LL I NEEDED DASHI TO REACT TO BARNACLES AND PESO FINDING RYLA (hUrT????) IN THE CAVES OF SAC ACTUN! I WAS DEPRIVED FROM MY REUNION!!! I HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!!!
As I have said before . . . she is best photograph
The character development was insane.
With so many hobbies that Dashi has, it's hard to pick one career. When she was in highschool she chose to lean into programming. Online she’s known as 5h4rkby73-83 (SharkByte-83), and has become a very well known hacker for hire. She of course never did anything malicious, more often than not it was to rewrite injustices, fight back on negative parties, or find important life saving info that had been “wiped” from the internet.
Ryla is also a part of this circle as well, including a few faceless others that have helped them fight back against scammers as well as some vicious gangs who decided to try their hand at dark web related schemes.
(Their strongest ally is a user named 5H3PH3RD-3316 (Shepherd-3316) who’s been a great help in taking down certain parties in Mexico and South America. Shepherd pops in and says hi to her every now and then although most of her online days are over, but she does check in every few months to see how everyone is doing.)
After graduating she decided to go into the government field, looking for jobs that would take her insider skills. Keeping up a front irl as a surfing icon to sway any potential stalkers online.
That’s when the A.S.A. got a hold of her and she’s been with the Octonauts ever since.
The Kona Family: (Current Household - Not Extended)
Pi’ilani Finau (Father), Erica Akana (Mother), Dashi, Bandit (Adopted Brother), Koshi Mālie (Younger Sister)
Captain Barnacles ( 1 & 2 ) / Kwazii / Peso / Tweak / Shellington / Inkling / The Vegimals
[ This is a Octonauts AU, in no way is this canon to the OG storyline. ]
(Can ya'll tell I might've had a few more details on where Dashi grew up than everyone else? I'm actually half Californian lol. My mom grew up in Long Beach and when I was a kid my favorite place to go was Seal Beach. I loved swimming when I was little and just being there was heaven. They had a little beach shop (that I'm pretty sure still exists) that I begged to go into every time we visited my grandparents. They had everything from jars full of dead sharks to beautiful geodes and those little pearl necklace kits (you basically opened up a can with a oyster inside and took out the pearl yourself and you wore it in a necklace)
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