The Hive Colony

The Hive Colony is a hive, though instead of regular bees, there are Trickwings! They only let in other Trickwings who can turn into bees, though they do have a seperate, smaller hive of real bees connected to the main hive, the real bees are like servants to the TrickWings. Also unlike real bee hives, male bees (drones) are common, and aren’t treated the same way as real bees, they are treated like the rest of the hives inhabitants, as they can’t really change their gender. (Still a heavy WIP, feel free to provide suggestions!)

## Royalty

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Queen: TAKEN (by HerculesTheSilkwing: Sap)

King: TAKEN (by Artdragon1490)

Princesses (Up to 10): (9 Open) (CrowWP1: Hum)

Princes (Up to 10): (9 Open) (Isle the Seawing: Lion)

Other royalty (Sisters of king/queen, cousins, ect,) (up to 20): Open

## Inside the hive

The Hive is quite different to a normal kingdom, having a society leaning more towards that if a real hive, though unlike real hives they have many more jobs. The Trickwings who live in the Hive live in bigger versions of honey comb, which are big enough to not only fit the Trickwings (in bee form) but also some furniture.

## Food

While in bee form Trickwings will eat Honey and Nectar, but will eat other things while in dragon form. Honey and Nectar are given out depending on class, Royalty, Royal helpers, Higher class, High middle class, Middle class and then Lower class, everyone will get a bite to eat, they make sure of it.

## Info about classes

Your class will generally affect how you are treated in public, when you eat, how luxurious your comb (home) is, and the types of jobs you are likely to be assigned to. Once you are born into a class, you usually can not change class. In order to rise into a higher class you have to go through “The Class Trials”, which are held every month. There are only ever 20 winners and that may sound like a lot, but there are possibly thousands of residents in the Hive. If you do win, you will be pushed up a few classes. Class is shown through a special band that goes just behind the wings. (When in dragon form, the band appears on their wrist.) It has the TrickWing's initials, their parent's initials, their class and their job engraved on it. This band is called a “Waistlet”, as it goes around the “waist” of the bee.

## Jobs

There are many jobs, though it mainly depends on your class for what type of job you are assigned. The only jobs that are not done by TrickWings are pollination, collection of pollen and the process of making it into food as they get real bees to do that for them. Though anyone can be a guard/soldier, scout or teacher, they need to have gone to a special school, so it’s usually higher classes that are teachers but it’s not uncommon to see a middle class teacher teaching the same subject as a high class teacher)

Royalty: None really, other then royal stuff

Royal helpers: They do most things for the Royal family. They are somewhat similar to Hatchery workers, who aren’t born into the class/job.

Hatchery workers: Hatchery workers are a strange class. They are not born into it and can have other jobs. Hatchery workers work in well, the Hatchery (See below this section). Their main job is to care for mothers who haven’t yet laid, eggs, and dragonets.

High class: High class usually are in politics, architecture, city planning, ect. Though some as low as middle class can also have these jobs it’s just more common for high class.

High middle class: High middle class usually do jobs such as engineers, blacksmiths, designers, tailors, ect. Middle and high class also can have these jobs, but it’s much more common for high middle class.

Middle class: Usually middle class are things like mailmen(/women?), Farmers, servants, cooks, and other more labour intensive jobs.

Lower class: Lower class have it rough. They are usually miners (in dragon form), builders, cleaners/janitors, ect.

## The Hatchery

The Hatchery is the only major place outside the Hive (other then mines and flower fields). Since TrickWings are unable to carry eggs in their bee forms, they live in the Hatchery until it’s laid, in which they can go back into bee form. The egg will be cared for by Hatchery workers until it hatches, which is when the mother will likely return to care for their child and take them out of the hatchery and teach them how to turn into their animal form. Unlike “normal” hatcheries, The Hatchery is an underground system of tunnels, hidden by bushes and other foliage around the entrance.

## Beliefs

Although not all TrickWings of the Hive believe in these things, it is quite common.

To the resident TrickWings, if a dragon is hatched from parents that live in the Hive but transform into a different species, they are rejected, as not only would there not be any room. Addititionally, they would not be useful to the Hive and be kicked out to fend for themself.

Most bee TrickWings see petals as a sign of pure love and romance. Since they cannot transport an entire flower in bee form, a TrickWing may go out and find a flower with small enough petals, pluck one, and bring it back for their lover. It is the equivalent of giving your loved one a rose, but it means even more to them, as instead of just going out and plucking one or something they had to go out, search for a suitable flower, delicately pick the petal, and bring it all the way back to show their love. To Hive TrickWings, petals are a sign of true love and dedication.

The worst thing a bee TrickWing could do, to someone inside or outside of the Hive, is giving them a torn or ripped petal. Sometimes a TrickWing may bring back a torn or ripped petal to their partner as a silent way of saying “I’m breaking up/divorcing you, get out of my face! I hate you!” Doing so in public is seen as taboo, and as such is only done in private.

## Guards and soldiers

Guards and Soldiers are separate things, although a soldier may become a guard if there is no need for soldiers. Guards guard the Hive, along with the hive of real bees, which are how they stay fed. They will swarm around an intruding or disrupting dragon outside the Hive to scare them off. This is usually efficient, although sometimes they have to go more extreme measures, in which they will wield tiny metal swords and attack the intruder,, or using tree sap they might try and blind them by getting sap in their eyes. Soldiers on the other hand, are better trained then most guards, and will usually be seen with the guards if there is no need for them, the purpose of the soldiers is to defend the colony, or attack other hives who dare move too close, as they may be a threat to the real bees connected to the Hive colony, either by directly attacking the Colony’s source of food (the real bees) or spreading a mite/disease that will wipe them out. Once alerted about a new hives presence, the scouts will first be sent out to see if it’s a colony of trickwings, or normal bees, if it’s a trickwing colony they will be asked to leave, if they refuse, The Hive Colony will do every trick in the book to either scare them away, or exterminate them. If it’s a normal hive, soldiers will come and destroy it, killing every bee they can in the process