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Y'know, most people are terrified of stinging insects. Even the ones that say 'bees don't scare me' or somesuch will still flip out if they think one of the things has landed on their head.
It doesn't make much sense. Even the 'biggest' of the hornets only gets to be about three inches long. Granted, most of the time, it hurts like crazy if you DO get stung by something, but that doesn't mean you need to go into drooling, raving panic mode when you see a honeybee alight upon a flower.
Ah... but then. we have Suzume. Miss Suzume is not just any ordinary bee... though this may be obvious, it needs to be said anyway. Most people -still- panic and freak out when the bee is mostly humanoid and trotting after them to ask directions to the nearest convenience store.
It's a hard start to life when you have to say you were born of a drunken bet, but this is where Suzume's story begins. A pair of scientists were drinking together one night when one of them, mocking the other's past exploits when sloshed (this may sound familiar... ) said 'I bet you can't make something scarier than you made last time.' Famous last words... because three days later, when Suzume pulled her wet, naked body out of the tank and buzzed enthusiastically, the first scientist fled. Without even paying off the bet. Imagine that!
It's hard to define what Suzume is, as she mixes the qualities of many stinging insects. Suzume can sting multiple times and secrete a sticky, acidic goo... which might lead you to believe she has been spliced with a Japanese giant hornet. However, she can also make honey and (with the correct resources) bundles of short-lived offspring, which is more akin to the common honeybee. And then she's got vines on her left arm, which is... well, that's just effin' weird, ja? Whatever she is, though, she missed out on one thing... wings. Science couldn't make a pair of wings to keep her hefty, seven-foot-tall body aloft, so they didn't bother. Suzume has to resort to walking (or cute, six-legged predatory crawling) to get where she needs to be, though she can climb pretty much anything.
Much like her predecessor, the scientist viewed her as an adorable cuddly friend instead of a nightmare, and set her loose on the world... though in her case, she had to get dressed first. And, with a little huffy statement that 'I'm the only one, so I get to be Queen!', she selected a 'royal' outfit (only made royal by the fact that she wears a crown and the little 'cape') and set out to... well... live, I guess~!
Suzume is fairly simple-minded in her demeanor, and she spends most of her days looking for things that taste sweet to nibble on. This means she hovers around pastry shops and whatnot most of the day, wishing she had money. She's a Queen, but the only money she has, she gets from her creator. You can tell when she has none because she just stands there, eyeing pastries she wants. She's making sure they don't go anywhere, mind. And she waits for someone to (hopefully) get it for her. And if someone buys it for themselves, she cries. It's a vicious cycle. Her honey is sweet, but she doesn't consider it to be food... it's utilitarian for her, most of the time, and only nibbles on it when she's really hungry or pouty.
Just as a warning, because of this cycle, she has PERFECTED her pout-sniffle-fingerpush-adorableeyes routine. She knows the right times to sniffle, the right times to sob, and the right times to flash some cleavage to remind her would-be patron that... well... she's a woman. She has boobs. They might be rewarded! It's very difficult for the average person to say no to her, even if she is a seven foot bee. And no, she doesn't sting people if they don't buy her things.
She does, however, sting them when she's looking for companionship. While she adores cuddling and warmth most of the time, at least once a week her eyes glaze over and she gets overly amorous. This is the time she seeks a companion, stings them, takes them back to her 'lair', cuddles them, nibbles on them, coats them in honey, and (almost all of the time) slurps them up into her abdomen to convert them into extra honey... or, more rarely, royal jelly (that's the only way she can make this delicacy, in fact). Her 'companions' are usually too blissful to notice... she's a very good cuddler, and they usually get mountains of blonde and a pair of bosoms in the deal as well~! Her preferred companions must be cute, and fairly humanoid (and normal-sized, to facilitate a proper leg-and-arm-wraparound maneuver).
So. In short, we have a girl who lives solely to nibble upon sweets, pout cutely, and cuddle adorable friends to their doom. Surely she must be harmless, right? Well, no... she's not easily angered, but if you get on her bad side, she's extremely dangerous. Along with using her honeyglobs as ensnaring projectiles (it's difficult to escape a honeyglob the size of a small car) and stinging people (neurotoxins for combat differ from the light anesthetic she uses for cuddling), she can also hock acid loogies. And acid loogies BURN. Not to mention she's tough, and has four arms with which to wail upon someone.
Her stinger carries different kinds of venom, and she can create different consistencies and types of honey, but not all of these have been documented. Of note is the royal jelly she makes, which is a pink, quivery, sticky goo (it looks like pink pudding) that is her absolute favorite treat. It might have side-effects if a non-bee nibbled on it, though. Be careful~
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