Queen Wasp

### Special Powers

Stingers in claws and tailMind control (from breath of evil, mind control immunity to her aunt, cousin and sisters, and dragonets injected once)

## Relations

* Queen Cochineal (mother, deceased)

* Lady Yellowjacket (sister)

* Lady Vinegaroon (sister)

* Lady Jewel (cousin)

* Lady Scarab (aunt)

* Lady Bloodworm (sister)

* Lady Cicada (sister)

* Lady Hornet (sister)

* Lady Mantis (sister)

* Lady Tsetse (sister)

**Wasp** is an adult female HiveWing who was introduced in *The Lost Continent*. During the Tree Wars,she nearly exterminated the LeafWings and became ruler of her tribe and the SilkWings when Queen Monarch gave up her throne and listened to Wasp lie that the Book of Clearsight asks for the LeafWings and SilkWings to live under the rule of Queen Wasp. She can control nearly all of her HiveWing subjects since she injected them 2 times when they were in their egg.She rules Pantala through this ability as well as militaristic and propagational force. She currently resides in the flamesilk cavern in Wasp Hive.

## Appearance

Queen Wasp has black and yellow stripes and large and completely black eyes that are surrounded by an oval of yellow scales[2]. Some propaganda posters show her with stingers extending from her claws.

## Personality

Queen Wasp is twisted, selfish and is a megalomaniac, much like Ex-Queen Scarlet. She also acts like Blister, with an eerie stillness around her. 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 tribe besides herself and the Librarian to read or see the book. However, it was really only Wasp who knew, due to the fact that she used her mind control powers to permanently possess the Librarian, so the Book's secrets could never be shared. Wasp is 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 illegal romantic relationship. She has no qualms punishing other dragonets, even members of her own tribe, for having parents partnered up without the former's permission, even if the forbidden dragonet in question does not pose a threat to Wasp's reign or ideology. She also has no qualms about using her tribe as pawns and cares little about those who die while she hosts them. Wasp is vindictive and strikes back the moment she is struck. The breath of evil describes her as all poison from the core out. She is also sadistic and has a evil sense of humor, cruelly taunting Cricket with the knowledge of her having her father in her talons. She also appears to loathe Cricket more than any other, taking any opportunity to torture the young dragonet through her soldiers.

She is paranoid, shown when she appeared in Snowfall's vision. Snowfall realized how similar they were and how Wasp was afraid of other tribes, resulting in the decision of taking over them entirely. According to Wasp herself, "the world is evil. The only way to survive is to be the most evil."

## Special Abilities

Queen Wasp can mind control almost every HiveWing except Cricket, Lady Scarab, Bumblebee, and most royalty .

HiveWings being mind controlled have pure white eyes described by Cricket as "Their eyes . . . their eyes were all wrong." and "the dragons’ eyes were all white, like pure glassy marbles, like empty snakeskins, like dead blood-sucked grubs." They also speak in an eerie unison, intoning whatever Queen Wasp wants them to do.

She mind controls the HiveWings by injecting HiveWing eggs twice with venom from a retractable stinger on the tip of her tail, each time marking them with a stinger symbol. She can also inject adults with venom but if in the last three generations there was a SilkWing then it might not work.

## Biography

### *The Lost Continent*

Blue mentions early in the book that he has seen the queen only once, when she visited Cicada Hive to inspect Silkworm Hall. He claimed that she once paused and stared at him and Luna, giving him the distinct feeling that "she was trying to decide between adopting them or eating them."

Later, when Blue and Io try to escape Cicada Hive, Queen Wasp uses her mind-control ability on the HiveWing families in the park, including Katydid, Bombardier, Aphid, and more, to capture Blue and bring him to her. The attempt in capturing Blue proved ultimately unsuccessful with the help of Cricket.

After that, when Blue, Cricket, and Sundew enter Wasp Hive to steal the Book of Clearsight, they discover that the Librarian, the greatest occupation in HiveWing history, is being constantly mind controlled by Queen Wasp. Sundew is able to take the mind control out of the Librarian momentarily, by bringing her to the ground and then using a bullet ant to bite her and give her so much pain that Queen Wasp's control goes away. However, while the Librarian helps them escape with the Book of Clearsight, she suddenly becomes mind controlled again. Sundew fights the Librarian once more, although it doesn't do any good, since she severs the rope keeping Blue aloft and he tumbles down to his capture.

### *The Hive Queen*

Queen Wasp mind controls Cricket's neighbors because a 'Traitor' (non-mind-controllable HiveWing) had escaped to Cicada Hive. She then released some while Katydid, Bombardier, and a phalanx of Cricket's neighbors marched the 'Traitor' away to Wasp Hive.

### The Poison Jungle

Queen Wasp indirectly appeared in the book when LeafWing guards appeared in the treetops carrying a HiveWing prisoner blindfolded and tied up, which prompted Hazel to note that they must be at the riverside of the jungle already, and Wasp confirmed it by speaking through the HiveWing's mind, claiming that she would kill them all and finish what they started. As the prisoner tried to break free, Wasp continued speaking through his mind, claiming she knew who Cricket's father was and subtly threatened to kill him. Later, when Hawthorn was revealed to be controlled by the othermind, at first, Sundew accused Wasp of controlling him, but the othermind revealed that in reality, Wasp was just controlled by them as well all along, confirming her to be controlled by the othermind, and not the other way around.

### The Dangerous Gift

Wasp is mentioned several times throughout the book. She then appears in Snowfall's visions and reveals her thoughts and secret paranoia. Wasp knew in the vision she wasn't in control and yells at the othermind to stay out of her head but they ignore her.

## Relationships

### Jewel

Queen Wasp thinks her cousin, Lady Jewel is stupid and weak. It is mentioned by Lady Scarab that she has threatened to add Lady Jewel to her Hive Mind on more than one occasion. Lady Scarab also said Lady Jewel acted like a "vapid banana slug," whenever Queen Wasp was around.

### Scarab

Wasp and Scarab have an intense mutual dislike for each other. Wasp threatened to kill Scarab in *The Hive Queen*. Wasp is also shown to have done terrible things to Malachite and Katydid just to spite her.

### Malachite

Wasp controls Malachite and parades him past Scarab whenever she can, as punishment. She also threatened Cricket (Malachite's daughter) by saying that she'd kill him.

### Cricket

Queen Wasp absolutely despises Cricket due to her immunity to her Hive Mind and Cricket appears to act as her main enemy, Wasp hating Cricket above all of the other dragonets and takes satisfaction in tormenting her, sarcastically calling her "my young friend" and sadistically taunting her with the knowledge that she had her father at her mercy. 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. Cricket doesn't like her tribe's queen any better, giving up any belief that she is good by The Hive Queen and is determined to save her tribe from the tyrant.

## Quotes

*"**Give up, wingless. You cannot escape me.**"*- Queen Wasp, speaking to Blue through the mind-controlled HiveWings in the park. *(The Lost Continent)*

*"**What strange treason is this? Why can't I get inside your mind, worm?**” (roaring) -*Queen Wasp to Cricket, speaking through The Librarian. *(The Lost Continent)*

*"**Where is the Flamesilk? Who can see him?**"*-Queen Wasp, speaking through the mind-controlled HiveWings in the park in Cicada Hive*.(The Lost Continent)*

*"**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 215)

*"**I'll kill you for this.**"*- Queen Wasp after getting stung by the bullet ant. (*The Lost Continent)*

“***There is a traitor in this Hive. Do not let him escape.***” - Queen Wasp, speaking through Cadelle. *(The Hive Queen)*

“***That is not an option.***” - Queen Wasp, speaking through Cricket's neighbors in *('The Hive Queen)*

**"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

* She technically never actually appeared in The Lost Continentor The Poison Jungle. She was only mentioned and voiced through the HiveWings she mind controlled. She appeared once in The Hive Queen when injecting the eggs in the Nest in Jewel Hive when Cricket was hiding with an orphaned egg, later hatched as Bumblebee.
* 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."
* It is suspected that Wasp's reason's for hating Cricket is because Cricket is a secret heir to the throne, fans speculating the Malachite (Cricket's father) may be the HiveWing's Queen's brother, nephew, cousin or some other relative who's daughter could prove a threat to the throne.
* 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.
* At miniature size, the Wasp grows **a pair of translucent insect wings from her back**, a result of genetic modifications provided by Hank Pym. These grant her the power of flight, at speeds up to 40 mph (64 km/h).
* She **can control nearly all of her HiveWing subjects using the othermind**, and rules the HiveWings and SilkWings through this ability as well as through militaristic and propagational force. She currently resides in Wasp Hive.