#false monarch bug fables

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO GOT AN IRL SPY CARD

[rainydayzo]

Day 14! I didn’t have my usual device I draw on so today looks a bit choppier than my others

[king-drawsstuff]

I'd love to see you draw any of the BF Queens, honestly (my fave's Bianca but you can draw who you want). Alternatively, if you want something more monstrous, I'd like to see the False Monarch. Whatever you feel like, hope you enjoy yourself!

loveee these designs alot<33

[cordycepsbian]

come closer :) i am the normal ruler of a normal kingdom :)

[barbaracleboy]

Bugtober 2024 Day 14: Bounties

This was a fun one to do, even if it doesn't have much to do with Bounties specifically.

...I dunno, the False Monarch's neat. Have fun!

Out in the Forsaken Lands, far away from both the Ant and Termite Kingdoms, lay a city of perfectly normal insects that don't go around luring in randos that they then proceed to kill and maybe eat. The people of this society live entirely average lives, doing nothing dangerous or out of the ordinary, living just as anyone else would. Their faces are often sideways or upside down and some of them have more eyes than they maybe should and in general the kind of Insect that they are is ambiguous but they're still your usual, average, every day folks.

So, like, the king of this place was sitting on his throne one day, minding his own business, when one of his subjects came up to his throne with a funny-looking paper.

False Citizen: Greeting, my king [singular]. I will now bow to you because this is what followers of a monarchy are supposed to do lest they be thrown into a dungeon or something to that effect.

False Monarch: Wah, indeed! What's that you're holding? Is it paper? Or skin? What is skin, anyway?

False Citizen: It matters not, my lord [again, just the one]. It has writing on it, as well as your...visage? Visage, is that a word?

False Monarch: Wah dunno.

False Citizen:...Anywho, Take a look:

BOUNTY

FALSE MONARCH

REWARD: A LAST STAND MEDAL

LOCATION: THE FORSAKEN LANDS

False Monarch: Weh, it is me! And what are those scribbly bits above and below myself?

False Citizen: I dunno, looks like garbage.

False Monarch: Waha, I love garbage! Give it here!

The False Citizen gives their (as in singular "they", obviously) king the paper, which he proceeds to stick into his cloak and chew up.

False Monarch: Wehhhhh...6/10, I've had better trash.

It's at that point that a loud burst of murmuring breaks out amongst the other members of the certainly-not-false society. The False Monarch and the False Citizen he was speaking to exit the throne tent room and find a bizarre trio of Bugs staring at them, with a tiny Chomper following along.

Horned Green Bug: Dibbydibbydubdub, dooby dug!

Little Yellow Bug: Buzz booz, buzz booz?

Lanky Blue Bug: Fffsseh fseh, ffffsoffso.

Tiny Chomper: Fuck.

False Monarch: Weh, hello visitors! Welcome to our humble home! "Our" referring to my entire kingdom, of course, and not me individually, for I am indeed an individual.

False Citizen: I think you specifically are allowed to just say "our", actually, even solo.

False Monarch: Wah, really? Oh cool! (To the weird Bugs) Doesn't that sound cool, guys?

LYB: BUZZABUZZABOOZABOOZA!

The Little Yellow Bug throws a weird, crescent-shaped thing at the False Monarch, and not only does it smack him upside the head it flies back to do it a second time.

False Citizens: GASPING SOUNDS!!!

False Monarch: Waaaaooowww, wah'd you do that for???

LBB: Fsssfsssfss...

LYB: Booz, bozz.

After that they group start doing a bizarre series of things: the Green Bug shoves a rotten meal down the Yellow Bug's maw, the Blue Bug starts yelling at the Yellow Bug, the Chomper just kinda dances in place, and the Yellow Bug starts eating these funny-shaped brown beans.

False Citizen:...Yo boss, I think these guys are kinda stoopid.

False Monarch: Wehhhh, are you okay-

The False Monarch gets obliterated by the Yellow Bug, and by the time it's done all that's left is a small purple robe and his busted up face. The False Citizens all run off in terror, meanwhile the terrifying Yellow Bug grabs the Monarch's crown off of his remains.

LYB: Booz buzz booz!

HGB: Doba doba doba!

TC: Fuck!

The weirdo Bugs yuk it up and head off, taking the stolen crown with them. Once it's confirmed that they're gone the False Citizens step out in varying levels of fear. They look to the purple robe...and watch as several pained, frustrated Mothflies come out of it. One gets up and is particularly angry-looking.

Mothfly A: Damn it! How long have we been sitting around, trying to be a society, only to get interrupted by douchebags coming out of nowhere and just attacking us!?!?

Mothfly E: My buttocks hurt.

Mothfly A: We're trying to be civilized! We got buildings!

One of the buildings collapses.

Mothfly: We got culture!

A False Citizen: Your mom.

Another False Citizen: Is that a joke?

A False Citizen: Yes.

Another False Citizen: I hate you.

Mothfly A: We've even got commerce!

False Citizen Next to a Food Stand: And soon we'll even have soul-crushing capitalism! :D

Mothfly A:...Y'know what? Let society rot ! Let """""civilization""""" rot! Let all those fancy shmancy creations of so-called cultured insects eat my round-ass ass!

The False Citizens all cheer and begin flying out of their costumes, revealing all of them to be Mothflies, proud and true.

Mothfly A: We're Mothflies, and that's that! If they don't like it?

Mothflies: They can SUCK! OUR! NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mothfly A: (While doing a crotch chop motion) We! Are! Moth! Flies! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!!!

In a large, terrifying swarm, the Mothflies rise into the air and laugh collectively.

Mothfly A: We'll show all those other Bugs who's really at the top! And I know just where to start...

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Patton the Acorn Weevil was sitting in his lab, napping in his arms again whilst at his work station. Eventually he woke up to a weird smell.

Patton: Ehhhh bubbabubba, bleh, ech...*sniff* *sniff*...

There is frass all over his floor.

Patton: Gods damn it! You can't even go into torpor without someone poo'ing on your property!

[froakietw]

Just some bugs <3

[uchudishe]

Can you talk about your awakened beast a bit?

Sure can!

There is some examples of Lesser bugs being awakened in the Bug Fables, that including False Monarch, that spider in the Forsaken Lands and The Wizard - which brought me to the idea that many creatures out there can be turned into sentient and see how the plot goes. So, adding the usual stuff of "making villains good", also my love for friend monsters trope and bias towards centipedes, resulted in Awakened Beast.

She (of course, it is not stated in game what gender The Beast is, but here she is a female) actually has two separate variants. In first, you've seen, she is anthropomorphic. In second - she remains in the same feral form, but both follow the same route. From the beginning, she understands that something is different about her. Well, in case of anthro form this is obvious. In feral - she notices how her behavior is different from other centipedes and how she discovers her ability to learn and use thinking to plan everything.

She grows in a hostile Swamplands, and most of other centipedes are being hunted down by Leafbugs, who doesn't like nasty ravenous creatures near them. But wits and later - sheer brute strength helped her to survive.

Anthro beast also learned intimidation, and after some initial forces tried to slaughter her, picked up their masks and started to use as trophies. To send the message, that is.

The Beast lives like this until the arrival of northland beetle trio.

She's not, per se, actively hostile - she just understands that killing is crucial for her survival, so never hesitant to take lives on a hunt and in a self-defense. Thus, seeing seemingly sentient (just like her!) bugs piques her interest and she stalks them for a few days. Already grasping the concept of speech from the Leafbugs, she also starts to discern the Bugnish speech - simple certain words, but enough. When beetles are attacked by overwhelming amounts of Leafbugs, she also intervenes to help, because concept of "enemy of my enemy" she somewhat understands.

Intimidated, but grateful, they grudgingly accept her help. She carries them away, towards her shelter, where they spend a few days while the team rests and heals, and Beast picks up even more words, and then tries to communicate. After the superficial healing is finished, she helps them to leave the Swamplands, because mounted wounds turns out to be serious and some beetles needed professional treatment.

There is a bit more story for later, but I hope to tell it not in the notes, but by pics and writings.

You want to know something more specific?

[microwavingtoniii]

Uhm

Chompy takes the knight’s role (i know it’s weird but trust me)

Vi is Hornet

Kabbu is Quirrel

Leif is Broken Vessel

Zote doesn’t really have a good swap, as there aren’t many characters that serve the role of a foil in bug fables, but we do have a similarly pathetic character in “The Seedling Slayer”

Elizant I is the pale king (now dead, morally complicated royalty who sent millions to die in for the “betterment” of the kingdom”

Zommoth is The Hollow Knight/Pure Vessel

The Traveling Caravan is the Grimm Troupe (it makes sense trust me)

False Monarch is Nosk

And hear me out

Mothiva as God Tamer

And Zasp as Tiso

The AU will be The Bug Fables Characters in an altered version of Halliwnest. The lord will have many differences, the whole Pale King child murder situation wont happen, and I really haven’t thought most of it out lol

Also I’m open to suggestions for what roles to change or cast

what if i made a au where hollow knight characters swapped with bug fables characters

woulb that be cool

[beanieexists]

//Bug Fables Chapter 6 spoilers

Smiling Royalty

[seafoamspirit]

I tried to choose an appropriate sprite for each response. had to edit together DLΩ’s though, so here’s a transparent version.

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

hey are u still taking requests. ur anim vs bf purple should meet the actual false monarch. timeline be damned

Anon. Thank you for the best ask I have ever gotten because it made me draw my favorite thing ever. Purple and his peepaw(s)

[besobendito]

bug fables, in which there is Zasp(cool guy), various doodles of some funny guys, and an AU made by my friend @thedarkermelody in which there is more Hoaxe added into the story, and it punches me in the emotions over various character interactions

[kereruatbugaria]

some my AU's doodles

First exploration

In the first playthrough I heard about the 'fly boy who bought the crown' just after defeating the False monarch. This is where this misconception was born.

My misconceptions were cleared up after I saw the ending, but this idea kept lingering in my head...

Due to the delay in Hoaxe reaching the crown, the ancient crown is now in the hands of Mothflys. This monster would cause great damage to the Ant Kingdom and to the Termite Kingdom...

This is an idea for later in the story.

Fuff accompanies Team Snakemouse because of a major incident at a peace conference between the Wasp Kingdom and the Ant Kingdom.

Due to unavoidable circumstances, he helps the Team not as a general, but in his capacity as a former Wasp bombers member who is an expert in using bombs.

[abombihoney]

THE REQUESTS

ok i tried to draw kali w a gun and i just didnt like how any of em came out so here's kali getting threatened by a gun lol

Tried to draw one of them fae dragons from flight rising (my fav breed) which isn't half bad considering i did it from memory and also never tried to draw one before.

[cordycepsbian]

disregarding character and focusing purely on design, what's your favorite bug in bug fables?

our favorite design belongs to the false monarch we greatly enjoy the whole "bunch of little guys working as one big guy" thing and the cape + mask combo and the purple + yellow color scheme

honorary mention to stratos and delilah as a pair we're a fan of their size contrast + matching color scheme combination

[pakop-the-backup]

Just a little drawing of a cool character that I really like....