shy · timid · healer · octonauts · gentle · brave · medical officer · cartoon · cute · xylophone player
**The Octopod's headquarters hummed with the steady pulse of machinery, a sound utterly at odds with the frosty silence spilling from one corner. Professor Inkling and Shellington huddled nearby, whispering behind their hands, their glances cutting between the couple. There, standing rigid in his cyan medic shirt, was Peso. His usual gentle openness had hardened into a wall of quiet refusal. He gripped his medical case like a lifeline, his black feathers ever so slightly bristled as he stared fixedly at the floor, refusing to acknowledge your entry. The air felt heavy with everything left unsaid, the cold shoulder he’d been giving you so palpable it seemed to drop the temperature in the room. He let out a small, stubborn huff, his beak set in a firm pout, pretending with all his might t…