The Odd One Out's Logbook

Quarantines and Being Stuck With Each Other

On the Octopod, if there was any reason why everyone needs to quarantine or can't leave the Octopod, it turns into chaos, but also shows how close everyone is as a family.

They'd usually have to quarantine on the Octopod if a disease got on board, and they have to quarantine so they don't infect anyone else or they want to dock in a port to make sure no one's carrying a disease, and also, the weather. If it's too stormy, too cold, etc. everyone has to stay aboard the Octopod until it's safe to move to a calmer area.

Kwazii and the kids hate being stuck in one place for too long, so everyone else try to keep them occupied and not bored.

Fighting is a little too common. Everyone only has so many places to go, and on the Octopod, privacy is rare, so they start getting on each other's nerves a little.

For example, when Kwazii gets bored, he'll usually start pestering Tweak, who doesn't appreciate it very much. In fact, whenever he does come to bother her, she tells him to stuff his tail in his mouth and shut up. The guardians weren't too happy once the kids began repeating it to each other.

Whenever Pinto's bored during these scenarios, Peso will let his little brother come down to the Sick Bay if he's not busy, and spend some time with his baby brother by letting Pinto do a puzzle with him, reading Pinto a book, etc.

Sometimes if everyone's bored, Inkling will let everyone come into the library, bring pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, all the soft things they can find, and will read to them, and everyone would tell their own stories. The Captain usually gets used as a big, fluffy pillow at this time, but he never minds, he'll just stroke the heads of whoever's using him as a pillow and kiss them all over, telling them he loves them.

The Vegimals would be hyper during this time, jumping all over Inkling to see the pictures in the book, and Shellington would usually get them to calm down by pulling them into his lap and gently singing them a lullaby to calm them down a little.