Wasp


 * "You really were a fool to come back into the Hive. And for what? A little bit of graffiti, a few pamphlets that will be ash by evening? Poor naïve little dragonet. As though anyone would believe you over their queen."
 * —Queen Wasp to Cricket, The Hive Queen

Wasp is an adult female HiveWing who was introduced in The Lost Continent. During the Tree Wars, she exterminated the LeafWings and became ruler of the SilkWings alongside her own tribe. She can control nearly all of her HiveWing subjects using the othermind, and rules Pantala through this ability as well as militaristic and propagational force. She currently resides in Wasp Hive.

Appearance Edit
Wasp has black and yellow stripes, black horns, and large and completely black eyes that are surrounded by an oval of yellow scales. She is enormous, radiating menace, and she has a chilly voice. Some propaganda posters show her with stingers extending from her claws. She also has a stinger in her tail, unknown to nearly everyone.

Personality Edit
Wasp is twisted, selfish and a megalomaniac. She lied to her tribe for years about the Book of Clearsight's true nature, telling her subjects that the LeafWings were meant to die out and that Clearsight had wanted the SilkWings to fall under HiveWing control, although the book's prophecies ended almost a thousand years ago.

She refused to let any member of her tribes beside herself and the Librarian see the book. However, it was only Wasp who knew, since she used her mind-control powers to permanently possess the Librarian, so the Book's secrets could never be shared. Wasp is very cold, cruel, and ruthless. She doesn't care about other dragons or the two tribes she rules (particularly the SilkWings). As a racial supremacist, Wasp does have a softer spot for her fellow HiveWings. However, they aren't spared entirely as shown when she labeled Cricket (a fellow HiveWing) a traitor since the latter could resist mind-control and opposed Wasp's ideology. Furthermore, Wasp learned sometime later that Cricket was the product of Katydid and Malachite's romantic relationship (which was outlawed by Wasp). There are several other examples of how limited Wasp affections towards her own dragons shown throughout the series. Another example of this is that she has no qualms punishing other dragonets, even members of her own species, for having parents who became spouses/mates without the former's permission even if the forbidden dragonet in question doesn't pose a threat to Wasp's reign or ideology. Queen Wasp can also be inferred to be vengeful, as Sequoia described her to "strike back the moment she's struck," also showing that she is very determined not to be defeated by anything. She was always within the "Breath of Evil's" grasp, although not possessed because the evil appreciated her doings.

JewelEdit
Queen Wasp thinks Lady Jewel is stupid, annoying, and weak, and not a threat to her power, despite the fact that she couldn't be controlled. It is mentioned by Lady Scarab that she has threatened to add Lady Jewel to her Hive mind. Lady Scarab also said Lady Jewel acted like a "vapid banana slug" whenever Queen Wasp was around.

ScarabEdit
Queen Wasp and Lady Scarab have an intense mutual dislike for each other. Queen Wasp threatened to kill Lady Scarab in The Hive Queen.

CricketEdit
Queen Wasp thinks of Cricket as a traitorous HiveWing since Wasp cannot control Cricket, as well as Cricket stealing the Book of Clearsight alongside Blue and Sundew. After Cricket vandalized Jewel Hive, she had threatened to "fix" Cricket.

MalachiteEdit
Queen Wasp controls Malachite and parades him past Scarab whenever she can, as punishment. She also threatened Cricket by saying that he'd kill him.

Quotes Edit

 * "What strange treason is this? […] Why can't I get inside your mind, worm?"
 * ― to Cricket, speaking through the Librarian (The Lost Continent, page 211)


 * "No, […] it's all true. I can control all of them. That's why every dragon in the Hive is on their way to surround the temple right now. I can't move the guards you paralyzed, but I can reach everyone else. The moment you step outside this temple, they will kill you all."
 * ― to Sundew about her mind control through the Librarian (The Lost Continent, page 215)


 * "Oh, I see your game, […] I can take a lot more pain than a broken arm, though. I'm not afraid of anything you can do to this body."
 * ― to Sundew through the Librarian about the bullet ants (The Lost Continent, page 216)


 * "Come out, you sniveling cowards! I know there are dragons hiding in this library! Show yourselves, or I will burn all the books until you die choking on the smoke."
 * ― to Cricket, Blue, Sundew, and Swordtail through a HiveWing (The Hive Queen, page 160)


 * "Then we'll have to throw you into it to slow the flames. You are a tedious talonwringer. I'll do it myself."
 * ― through a HiveWing to a guard that asked what to do if the fire spreads (The Hive Queen, page 161)


 * "That was easier than I expected. You really were a fool to come back into a Hive. And for what? A little bit of graffiti, a few pamphlets that will be ash by evening? Poor naive little dragonet. As though anyone would believe you over their queen. It must have been so hard for you. Feeling so different, so alone. Watching everyone else come together in my Hive mind, but always left out. But I have good news for you, little dragon. You don't have to be different anymore. I can fix you. I'm on my way right now. And when I get there … I can make you just like everybody else. Aren't you lucky? See you soon, little problem dragon."
 * ― through some prisoners to Cricket (The Hive Queen, page 215-216)


 * "That little worm Cricket is here, isn't she? […] The one who thinks she's so very clever, with her pamphlets and graffiti and rumors. Guess what, Cricket? I figured it out. I know who your father is. And he's mine, all mine, and I could kill him in a heartbeat if I wanted to. Or I could let you meet him. Would you like that? Wouldn't you like to come back to Wasp Hive so I … can …"
 * ― through Inchworm to Cricket (The Poison Jungle, page 233)

Trivia Edit

 * Tui jokingly hinted in a Scholastic thread that her downstairs bathroom was once like the continent of Pantala, because "there was a wasp in there and so the room now belonged to the wasp forever."[citation needed]
 * Queen Wasp has still not ever personally said a single word in the series. All of her speaking as of The Poison Jungle is through her subjects.
 * In The Lost Continent, Blue recalled that when he first saw Wasp in his school with Luna, she looked like she was trying to decide between adopting them or eating them. This may have been a very subtle clue to the fact that Wasp herself was a host of the othermind, as in "adopting" is to figure out how to infect Blue and Luna, and "eating" is destroying them because they could hinder its growth.
 * She might also have been deciding about whether to keep them around because of their flamesilk, or killing them because they might be dangerous because of their flamesilk.
 * Tui stated in a Home Base Q&A that Wasp is her favorite villain.
 * It is said in the book that she only eats predators.

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References Edit

 * 1) ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Lost Continent, page 6
 * 2) ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Hive Queen, page 243
 * 3) ↑ The Hive Queen, page 236
 * 4) ↑ The Hive Queen, page 244