Love the creativity, and very well executed!!
Firstly, this is absolutely beautiful. I love it.
But secondly… Did the octopus kill the robot and then inhabit its body like a shell? Because that’s what it looks like to me, and now it’s pretending to be poor for money. I don’t know why a robot would need money in particular though… Is it in a robot city and needs to get across town for some reason? This would make sense if it needed money for the fare. Which assumes that octopii are not appreciated in Robot Town. Does this then mean that there is a war between the sea creatures and the robots? If so I’m going to side with the sea creatures, only because they were here first.