Trainee Wasp
Her ref sheet background colors were so hard to come up with and I still dont like them rrrgggg
Character Bio:
Kinship: The Hawthorns
Lesbian; Nonbinary; she/they
Age: 9 moons; 13 Hyrs
Voice Headcanon: Catra - She-Ra: And The Princesses of Power
Future Title meaning: -bite = a cat who is very skilled in battle; this cat is out spoken and have a "bite" to their words
Role: Trainee
Mother: Lily'mist
Father: Shadow'whisker
Siblings: Aphid
Other notable kin: Soot'storm (uncle), Sheep'puddle (uncle), Bee'briar (grandmother), Larkspur (grandfather), Termite'tooth (grandfather)
Extra Notes: Her previous name was Hornet and her "warrior name" was going to be Hornetswipe but I decided to change it to Wasp bec I liked it! Her new name and title is Wasp'bite!
Character Summary:
Wasp was born to Lily'mist alongside her brother Aphid, the litter's father is Shadow'whisker, though he doesn't act like it much. Lily was AroAce and never wanted a mate, but she did want kits, so she asked Shadow to be the donor of her litter and he accepted because he wanted to carry on his bloodline. The main interactions Shadow has with his kits are him looking at them judgmentally whenever they do something that doesn't live up to his expectations.
Despite how Wasp's father acts, Wasp desperately wanted his attention growing up. Shadow was a strong tom and was close to the great Spider'web! Shadow's judgment towards her and her brother left them with some extreme insecurities that manifested as anger and spite towards others.
This only got worse once Wasp and Aphid were made trainees and Lily'mist and her brother Sheep'puddle disappeared. Monarch Spider'web and her followers, including Shadow'whisker all claimed that Lily and Sheep had abandoned the Kinship and were cowards. Wasp, had extreme trust towards her elders and the leaders of the Kinship, she was and is completely bought into the Spider'web propaganda. The majority of the Kinship also bought this story, so she believed them because why would they lie? why would the kinship believe it if it want true? They were devastated by her mother "abandoning" her and along with this, the majority of the kinship were now extra judgmental to the kits of the Kinship traitors. This made her want to try even harder to be more like her father rather than their mother.
Wasp feels the judgement of the kinship, and they desperately want to prove herself, she wants to be a respected and great member of the Kinship, she wants approval from the more popular members of the kinship. Wasp feels they are being dragged down by being tied to her brother Aphid, Aphid is considered the weakest of the trainees, and the kits of the Warden, Bone and Ash are often cruel to the tom. Wasp is desperate for Bone and Ash's approval however and as a result is often just as cold and spiteful towards her bother in hopes of proving herself to not be like him. They have yet to win their favor, but this only makes her more desperate.
Basically she's placing blame on the wrong people and becoming a little teenaged monster because of her mommy and daddy issues heh...
Also... Really, deep down Wasp knows there is something off about the kinship, she knows that there is something off about the story told about her mother and uncle... but they refuse to even think about it, she cant bear to shatter her idea of the kinship... and they cant bear the thought of what actually could have happened to her mother.
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i think if sanji and yamato took a moment they could be fast friends bonding especially so on fucked up dads and even more fucked up childhoods
they get so close in wano, after the battles and in that short period before they disembark from the land of wano. everyone thinks they're dating because sanji makes an extra set of snacks and drinks when he seeks yamato out for their late night talks and sanji only makes special snacks for girls and people he has crushes on (and luffy but that's something else entirely)
nami and usopp try to figure out if they're dating but she's so skeptical (nami, who finds sanji's flirting cringe even though she humors it endearingly: sanji? pull yamato? be serious, usopp. vs usopp, who has been on the other end of sanji's kindness and can see how charming he can be when he's not twirling: hey, you don't know what he's capable of. there's many attractive things about him. (that makes nami squint her eyes at usopp so he shuts up. immediately))
but when they find yamato and sanji its the both of them exchanging stories on who had the worst dad. "at least you could breathe," sanji says. "my sperm donor put a metal helmet on my face when i was eight because he didn't wanna see me anymore, announced i was dead to the country and threw me in jail."
yamato, equally outraged, "my dad threw me in jail when i was eight too! with other prisoners of war! i thought they were gonna kill me! one plate of food for the whole lot of us"
they both look at each other, and burst out laughing, at the sheer ridiculousness of it. they have to laugh. it hurts too much if they don't. sanji was able to escape long ago but his recent stint in whole cake island has brought memories he left in a life he abandoned back to the surface, and he feels a bit more brittle these days. more than he had had in over a decade.
smiling softly at a memory himself, yamato offers, "it was scary at first, and my hands were bound. but the prisoners. they were so kind, and helped me escape."
"i've gone hungry before, starvation and at the edge of death. but when i look back, i wonder if i would have preferred one meal and a group of samurai for company, who i did not know would be kind to me, or solitary confinement for months at end." sanji takes another drink. "but i wasnt starved in the dungeons. they still fed me." here he pauses, thinks, and adds as an afterthought. "i think you may have been safer with your samurai than i was there alone. my brothers came down regularly and beat me up, experimenting in new ways to discover just how fragile my human skin and my human bones were."
and now nami was there in whole cake island, she knows sanji's bio family are all bastards and they only let them live because sanji wanted to. but she hadn't known just how bad it was for him. and this is usopp's first time hearing this, and brave as he may be, as he is trying to be, he has always had a soft heart. nami hears a sniffle and sees tears streaming down usopp's face. nami blinks as tears she hadn't known were gathering fall down her own, and holds usopp's hand and leads him away. this isn't a conversation they are meant to hear.
sanji smiles when they leave and yamato grins too. they knew they were there, of course they did. sanji's observation haki may not be able as developed as luffy's, incapable of foresight yet, but he can tell when there are people around.
"they care about you so much, you know?" yamato says.
"i do," sanji smiles. "they could be yours too, if you come with us."
yamato takes a moment. "i know." and he sounds so sad but also determined. "i believe its best if i stay here right now. momo may be in a grown body, but he's still a child. and it would make me happy to be able to discover the country oden loved so much. all those years in onigashima, so near, and i've been unable to truly explore the home i call mine."
"whenever you want," sanji says, "luffy will welcome you i'm sure."
"so he's said."
and they're quite for a while. watching the campfire they built for a while.
"he reminds me of ace so much," yamato says softly.
"ace?"
"i think he was to me what luffy is to you. he would've set me free if he could've. he's so free, and i don't think i've ever laughed as much as the night i had with him."
sanji, familiar with ace, the way he lit up any room he was in, the charm he oozed and the easy smiles he had, says. "i know what you mean. the time he travelled with us was one of the best weeks ever. we were so surprised such a well mannered man could be luffy's brother."
and yamato laughs. because the ace he met immediately tried to kill him.
but sanji knows the sparkle in yamato's eyes, and so he starts explaining how they met ace. burning ships and travelling together in a desert. and when yamato laughs next, it's filled with love and joy and grief. not the kind of laughing you do to hide how much your heart hurts over the childhoods you had. and so sanji talks and talks about ace, informs him of their other brother sabo. the one he is yet to meet, but have heard stories of. he hopes yamato meets the other brother one day, the second in command of the fucking revolutionary army. the one who now holds ace's mera mera fruit powers.
yamato deserves nice things. he's learning he does too.
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