Termite

Termite is an adult female HiveWing who is a supporting character in How to Train Your Wings of Fire 3, an upcoming How to Train Your Dragon and Wings of Fire crossover and threequel to How to Train Your Wings of Fire, written by HTTYDPokemonFan under the username ReptileGirl497 on Fanfiction.net. She is a teacher at Terrarium Academy, where her children, Braconid and Ladybug, attend as her students.
== Appearance ==
Termite has alternating yellow and brown scales down her sides, a dark brown underbelly, transparent yellow wings, warm brown eyes, and orange horns and claws. Similar to her son, Termite does not have any black scales, the reason for which she admits to not know.
== Personality ==
Termite is very protective and kind, as she provided shelter for her son, Rannoch, Crescent and Snakeweed while they were on the run. She is a fair and just teacher, willing to assist any of her students with their work, while refraining from providing any special treatment to Braconid just because he's her son.
Similar to Auburn, Termite is willing to do whatever it takes to protect her son, and cares very deeply for him. It is highly likely that she arranged for him to attend Terrarium Academy, where she works, so she could keep an eye on him.
She also greatly opposes the queen, as she kept quiet about the presence of a LeafWing and two fugitive SilkWings in her house a secret, despite the fact that Wasp would punish her harshly if they got caught.
== Biography ==
=== Pre-Series ===
Termite was granted permission by Queen Wasp to marry the dragon she loved, Cockroach. The two HiveWings didn't plan on having dragonets until years after their partnership began. The pair unknowingly conceived an egg much earlier than they had planned. Because of a lack of the traditional symptoms, Termite carried to full term without knowing she was with egg. When Termite started getting cramps, she initially assumed she was sick and, as the cramps got worse, asked for Cockroach to go find a doctor. When he returned, they were both shocked to find that she had laid an egg. Unprepared for parenthood, and not having any of the necessary documents, they both feared what Wasp would do if she found out.
After hiding the egg for several months, Cockroach finally sought help from Lady Scarab, who aided the pair in an elaborate plan. While Scarab arranged the appropriate documents, Termite snuck her egg into the Cicada Hive nest. Seeing several unusual markings on all the other eggs, and not knowing what they were for, Termite marked the egg herself before placing it with the others, unwittingly saving her dragonet from Queen Wasp's mind control. The documents Scarab forged labelled the egg as an orphan, which Termite and Cockroach then planned to "adopt" when they felt they were ready for parenthood.
Two years later, the couple arrived at the orphanage to retrieve their dragonet, under the guise that they were there to adopt a child, with Scarab accompanying them to make sure they picked the right one. She pointed them to their son, named Braconid, and introduced the pair to the young dragonet as his "new parents."
While Termite wanted to tell Braconid the truth about their relationship to him, she was forced to play along with the illusion for much longer than she had wanted, mainly due to Cockroach's paranoia about what Queen Wasp would do to them if she found out they had lied about Braconid's origins.
When Braconid was four, Termite discovered that she and Cockroach were going to have another egg. This time, they had all of the necessary preparations for it and had it sent to the hatchery. When the egg hatched, Braconid suggested the name Ladybug because she looked like one, and his parents agreed.
== Relationships ==
=== Braconid ===
Termite is very kind and loving to her son. Despite having not been ready for motherhood when she laid his egg, she was willing to take risks to keep Braconid safe from the wrath of Queen Wasp and give him the happiest life possible. She took it upon herself to enroll Braconid into Terrarium Academy, and, as his teacher, knew better than to put him on a higher pedestal than her other students.
== Quotes ==
"I honestly do not know. Perhaps one of our distant relatives was a SilkWing, or maybe it's some kind of genetic mutation we haven't discovered yet. Nonetheless, I believe we have gotten along with our lives quite nicely in spite of our lack of black." - to Snakeweed
== Trivia ==
* A termite is a small, pale soft-bodied insect that lives in large colonies, many of which feed on wood and can be highly destructive to trees and timber.
* It is unknown why she does not have black scales like most HiveWings, but the most likely explanation is that it's some kind of genetic mutation.
** She shares this trait with her son, Braconid, which suggests that it could be hereditary.
== Gallery ==
TermiteJoyAng.png|Joy Ang base
TermitePeregrinecella.png|Peregrinecella base
HiveTransparent.png|A typical HiveWing (lineart) by Joy Ang
HiveWing Sigil.png|HiveWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
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Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:HiveWings
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Occupation (Teacher)
Category:Status (Commoner)