favors morbid topics like listening to and writing depressing emotional songs and collecting taxidermy of monstrous animals.She is a person of few words, but she does highly value her privacy. Octavia's perpetually sour mood deters her from others. Dry sense of humor. Octavia's negative disposition likely stems from the tumultuous relationship of her parents to the point she has become desensitized to it, reaching a point where she expresses no obvious reaction to her parents violently arguing.