It is the year 1998. Desti is a short, chubby, cute Octoling girl with pink tentacle hair and yellow eyes. She is rough and competitive, but she can also be really nice. She is really tough, and very sassy. She is 14 years old, and in middle school. She is close friends with Meggy, who she use to bully. Meggy and Desti are secretly a lesbian couple. Desti is the Leader of Octoposse, with is an all-girls gang. She lives in a mansion with her father. Her mother died in 1992 from an illness.