Scarab


 * "Of course I'm sure. […] I've got history books going back centuries. I've traced the family trees as far back as I can. Not a single HiveWing with mind-control powers, all the way back to Clearsight, as far as I could find. And it certainly didn't come from her SilkWing husbands."
 * —Scarab to Cricket, The Hive Queen

Scarab is an elderly female HiveWing royal who appeared in The Lost Continent and The Hive Queen. Lady Scarab has a close, if critical, relationship with Cricket, and is Queen Wasp's aunt and the mother of Jewel, as well as the sister of Ex-Queen Cochineal.

Appearance Edit
Scarab has lemon-yellow scales, black stripes on her wings, and ruby scales freckling her nose and tail. She has black eyes with flickers of dark red in their depths and wears a pair of spectacles.

Personality Edit
Unlike most HiveWings, she is not haughty and cruel towards SilkWings. Instead, she demonstrates great respect for all dragons and is said to be "fiercely not awful." She also appears to be knowledgeable, having a firm grasp on history. Scarab is rather snappy and snarks about Cricket's theories and questions. She seems to take an interest in painting.

Jewel Edit
While Scarab is Jewel's mother, Jewel tends to find her annoying and unpredictable. Scarab often makes remarks about Jewel's attitude, how she runs her hive, and the care of her dragonets. In a mere conversation between them and Cricket, Scarab's biting comments about her daughter and Cricket irritated Jewel to the point of losing her composure several times. However, Scarab seems to truly care about Jewel and gives her advice no matter what.

Cricket Edit
Lady Scarab first comes up in a conversation between Blue and Cricket. She turns out to be deeply woven into Cricket's history. In The Hive Queen, we learn that Lady Scarab helped cover for Cricket's egg. Lady Scarab often scolds Cricket, but it is unlikely that she actually hates her. In The Hive Queen, she tells Cricket a lot of useful information, discussing the HiveWing bloodline and reasons why they both were immune to Queen Wasp's mind control.

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

Cochineal Edit
Scarab said that Cochineal was a much better liar than she was, which was likely why she was chosen by their mother. According to Scarab, Cochineal's daughters and Lady Jewel could not be mind-controlled by Wasp as they were hatched around the same time as Wasp.

Quotes Edit

 * "Choose an establishment friendlier to SilkWings next time."
 * ― To Luna and Blue about the Sugar Dream (The Lost Continent, page 26)


 * "Maybe they weren't called SilkWings back then. ShimmerWings or Flibbertigibbets or something in the old language. I don't know. But Clearsight married one, and then another one when the first one died, and had an alarming number of dragonets with each one, and then their dragonets and their dragonets' dragonets kept going, marrying Ye Olde SilkWings or what have you, until there was enough of them to be considered their own tribe. HiveWings. Stupid menacing name, if you ask me. It was only about five hundred years ago that we officially split into two separate tribes, you know. My charming great-great-grandmother was the queen who ordered no more mingling of the bloodlines. She was a nightmare."
 * ― To Cricket about Clearsight and (unknowingly) BeetleWings (The Hive Queen, page 182-183)


 * "Not according to the records. But then, if I were Clearsight, I'd tell my kids to keep that information to themselves. If you know the future, but no one else knows you know the future, you've got an advantage, see? HA! Maybe I am related to my family after all."
 * ― To both herself and Cricket (The Hive Queen, page 184)


 * "She parades him past me whenever she can, always with those hateful white eyes. I don't know if he ever gets to be himself. I haven't seen him with his own eyes since the day she took him over and summoned him to Wasp Hive."
 * ― To Cricket about Malachite being controlled (The Hive Queen, page 193)


 * "Someone needs to give my niece a good thumping."
 * ― To Cricket about Wasp (The Hive Queen, page 224)

Gallery Edit
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References Edit

 * 1) ↑ The Hive Queen, page 180
 * 2) ↑ The Lost Continent, page 19