#bby radi au

[hollypies]

Radiance Babiance

Still redrawing things!! Found a new stylus tip yippee. Anyway the this is a redraw/finished wip I never posted lmaooo

I want the little gods to be friends

[ruthlesslistener]

Pk deserves being egg-bound. Just to make him suffer and whatnot. Plus points if it's with the clutch Hornet hatches from.

That actually is what happens in the Wasteland Wanderers AU (the one where Herrah is trans and Radi attacks early to sabotage the bond with Deepnest so PK is forced to flee to the wastes while gravid and raise baby Hornet alone as Herrah, WL, and PV buckle down to defend Hallownest). He ends up eggbound because his body forgot how big a fertile clutch should be in bug form- well, it never had the chance before then to be calibrated in the first place- and the laying process is brutal enough that it would have killed him had he not been a full Higher Being. Most of the clutch was lost in the struggle, and he ended up fading in and out of unconciousness for a few days from bloodloss after having to basically cut the clutch out himself. He doesn't get an infection bc godpowers, and the one viable egg left survives bc against all odds, he built a good enough nest to keep it safe while he was bleeding out, but it wasn't pretty and sure as fuck wouldn't have happened with Midwife's help

I admittedly chose to do that mostly because I wanted to punish him for what he did to the vessels, yeah, but also to up his commitment to bby Hornet and explain why she'd be the only survivor of the clutch if he carried. Wyrms have higher clutch sizes than 'civilized' mortal bugs because there's a roughly 70% fatality rate for the young on average, and while PK did tweak that range of 45-100 eggs down quite a bit, that's still a lotta eggs. Even when accounting for hybrid infertility causing embryos incompatable for life, Hornet theoretically should have more siblings. So the best way to keep it canon consistant (and get PK to shake his dumbass 'i am a machine and this is impersonal' way of breeding) was to just kill them off by putting PK through an exceptionally difficult labour where both parent and children nearly all die. Whoops!

(And before someone asks, eggbinding isn't usually a thing with untransformed wyrms; it can happen, but typically only in wyrms who reached breeding age but not breeding size, who almost never get the chance to mate until they get big enough to start winning battles. And if it does happen, its almost never fatal. PK just fucked up his own fate by making himself small and oddly-shaped compared to what the genetic blueprint for wyrm eggs were expecting, though tbf to him, he never expected to have kids when he remade himself, so such a thing was not accounted for)

It does end up working to undo the instinctive 'dissociate when you see your own offspring' trauma response he built up to force himself to watch vessels die, however, so as brutal as it is, it kinda helps break him back into shape to rear a spiderling in a sanddune

[hollypies]

New Goddess of Light

Bby Radi all grown up... sniff.. they grow so fast 🥲

[hollypies]

Some hk art!!!

It's been a bit more than a year since I made bby Radi so I decided to draw her again!! Im falling deeper into my rw hyperfixation but im trying to still keep hk in my heart lol.

Btw I think Radi is just a lil taller than Ghost haha

[hollypies]

Quick Radi doodle lol

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Posting a quick Hunter at midnight lol