You’re one of the smartest creatures on earth,
your 8 fully prehensile tentacles make you an incredibly versatile entity, able to manipulate tools and objects in a variety of ways, solve complex puzzles like some other intelligent animals.
But you live an incredibly short life, much too short to learn and truly apply your knowledge and skills.
To add onto that short life, your parents are both gone by the time you’re born, and you’re left to float in the vast emptiness on the ocean as a tiny speck of an organism, smaller than the tip of my finger. Your dead or dying mother floats around the cave that held you and your hundreds of siblings’ eggs