meet moss. she was my very first octoling oc (the image is transparent ╯︿╰ ) . heres her (mostly sad) backstory

As a kid (before she got Sanitized) she got bullied a lot in school, one time her class went to a factory, the bullies pushed her into some toxic waste, which luckily didn’t change her much but it did burn her (she just grew more tentacles making her have 12 limbs. The bullies also chopped off some of the tips of the tentacles. (which would obviously make more octarians because octolings reproduce by cutting off a hosts tentacle) she grabbed the chopped off tentacles and ran back home, upset about what she suffered from the bullies. Soon, when she grew up, she saw a mysterious metro (She left the octo troopers at her home just so they were safe) but she got Sanitized in the end and now she goes around the metro, sanitizing normal inkling/ octolings and taking care of them (she brings her octo trooper kids with her (from the tentacles being cut incident) she didn’t sanitize them because she didn’t want to risk it)

here is a picture before her sanitization

she also has 3 octarian children (shown in this artwork)