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Darling Beckett twins 🐝
AWWH thank you so much!! She looks so lovely in your style, I love the shading 💕
A little fanart of one of @percysephone‘s bloodborne ocs!! Queenie and her old-timey beekeeper get up have stolen my heart.
Brief explanation for a few of my Bloodborne OCs! Less brief explanation under the cut 🐝
The Becketts are outsiders to the city of Yharnam, originally from a more rural area which was laid waste to in their childhood. They are the surviving remnants of a community of apiarists who had developed a complex symbiotic relationship with a Great One. This entity is embodied by the collective of the Hive the way that an animal is embodied by the collective of its cells. It whispers its Runes to humans, and should they accept, they become a part of the Hive collective. There are runes beyond that of Forager, Nurse and Queen, but these three are the ones essential to guarantee the survival of the Hive.
Foragers are essentially the ‘worker bee’. They usually would guard and sustain the Hive via tasks such as gardening, and gather resources for the Queen. In the Queen’s infancy, the Foragers are tasked with gathering organic matter of the Queen’s choosing for the Nurses to synthesize into the royal jelly which allows the Queen to pupate and grow. To complete that task, they tend to have less physical need for food, drink, and sleep. Since their bodies are prone to arcane burnout, in a healthy community there is a great number of Foragers; with one dying and regenerating every year to provide their own flesh as a part of the royal jelly. This process is key to the successful development of the Queen. A Forager’s regeneration can take 1-3 months, with help from other Foragers and Nurses. Unfortunately, as Beatrix is the only remaining Forager, they burn out much, much faster, with little time to recuperate.
The Nurses are less populous than Foragers, but a healthy hive will have a group of them. They tend to the Queen and the Hive on a day-to-day basis, performing the typical roles of an apiarist. Their primary job, however, is as the Queen’s attendants: they are personal guardians and caretakers. In their infancy, the Nurses are responsible for synthesizing the royal jelly: a mix of the honey made by the Hive and the organic matter provided by the Foragers. Their role evolves as the Queen grows.
The Queen is responsible for the direction and continued existence of the Hive. Even in her infancy, the Queen’s arcane emanations allow the Hive to propagate itself. The Queen is almost always the direct offspring of her predecessor, but upon birth must be classifiable as Kin: a bridge between human and Great One. Upon her birth, the Hive grants her the Royal Rune. The Queen is also highly adaptable. In consuming the royal jelly, the Queen will begin to take the form of the organic matter which composes it. Clover is the current Queen, and is the youngest of the Beckett siblings. Her wish is to become human like her big siblings.