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* Queen Elizant II is frequently compared unfavorably to her mother, Elizant I. Although she puts on a stern and commanding appearance, in reality she is worried that she cannot live up to her mother's legacy, who had a HundredPercentAdorationRating.

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* Queen Elizant II is frequently compared unfavorably to her mother, Elizant I. Although she puts on a stern and commanding appearance, in reality she is worried that she cannot live up to her mother's legacy, who had as she was a HundredPercentAdorationRating.UniversallyBelovedLeader.
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* Think one of the members of Team Snakemouth would have a TragicBackstory? How about all 3 of them?

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* Think one of the members of Team Snakemouth would have a TragicBackstory? TragicBackstory or is a straight-up {{Woobie}}? How about all 3 of them?
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** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and he left a family behind that wouldn't live to see him again. When he meets his descendants, he's haunted by the fact that one of them is a dead-ringer for his late wife and can't bring himself to face them until he learns the truth about his past.

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** Leif... [[StoicWoobie Oh boy]], [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and he left a family behind that wouldn't live to see him again. When he meets his descendants, he's haunted by the fact that one of them is a dead-ringer for his late wife and can't bring himself to face them until he learns the truth about his past.

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It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but the life of a bug is not easy...

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It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but the life of a bug is not easy...\\\

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** Vi's relationship with Jaune, and by extension, the Bee Kingdom, is extremely strained. [[spoiler:[[AllTheOtherReindeer She was bullied and harassed by the other bees for wanting to be an explorer rather than wanting to work in the honey factory.]] The worst of it came from her older sister, [[BigSisterBully Jaune]], who openly mocked and insulted her for this, thinking that she had no chance of doing anything meaningful. Queen Bianca only noticed something was wrong when Vi ran away, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt extremely guilty for letting it happen]].]]
** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:but only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Beast in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and he left a family behind that wouldn't live to see him again. When he meets his descendants, he's haunted by the fact that one of them is a dead-ringer for his late wife and can't bring himself to face them until he learns the truth about his past.]]
*** In Queen Elizant's war room, Leif discovers that an old friend of his is still alive, only for it to turn out that her mind's slipping due to her old age and she doesn't remember him at all. It's a small detail, but it really adds to Leif's tragedy as a [[spoiler:FishOutOfTemporalWater.]]
* Queen Elizant II is frequently compared unfavorably to her mother, Elizant I. Although she puts on a stern and commanding appearance, [[spoiler:in reality she is worried that she cannot live up to her mother's legacy, who had a HundredPercentAdorationRating.]]
** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades ''twice'', both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his Fire magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this.]]]]
* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands before he even spoke his first word, meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time as a garbage collecting loner before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.
** WordOfGod adds a sad new angle to [[spoiler:the death of his parents. They didn't abandon him because of malice or apathy, but because it was the only way they could possibly protect him from the Dead Landers. They ''loved'' their son, which adds another tragic angle to the Wasp King: he ''did'' have people who cared about him, and one can't help but wonder if he would have gone down the path he did if they survived, or if he at least knew of their sacrifice.]]

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** Vi's relationship with Jaune, and by extension, the Bee Kingdom, is extremely strained. [[spoiler:[[AllTheOtherReindeer [[AllTheOtherReindeer She was bullied and harassed by the other bees for wanting to be an explorer rather than wanting to work in the honey factory.]] The worst of it came from her older sister, [[BigSisterBully Jaune]], who openly mocked and insulted her for this, thinking that she had no chance of doing anything meaningful. Queen Bianca only noticed something was wrong when Vi ran away, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt extremely guilty for letting it happen]].]]
happen]].
** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:but but only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Beast in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
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** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and he left a family behind that wouldn't live to see him again. When he meets his descendants, he's haunted by the fact that one of them is a dead-ringer for his late wife and can't bring himself to face them until he learns the truth about his past.]]
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*** In Queen Elizant's war room, Leif discovers that an old friend of his is still alive, only for it to turn out that her mind's slipping due to her old age and she doesn't remember him at all. It's a small detail, but it really adds to Leif's tragedy as a [[spoiler:FishOutOfTemporalWater.]]
FishOutOfTemporalWater.
* Queen Elizant II is frequently compared unfavorably to her mother, Elizant I. Although she puts on a stern and commanding appearance, [[spoiler:in in reality she is worried that she cannot live up to her mother's legacy, who had a HundredPercentAdorationRating.]]
HundredPercentAdorationRating.
** When [[spoiler:the the Wasp King invades ''twice'', both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his Fire magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this.]]]]
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* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands before he even spoke his first word, meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time as a garbage collecting loner before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.
** WordOfGod adds a sad new angle to [[spoiler:the the death of his parents. They didn't abandon him because of malice or apathy, but because it was the only way they could possibly protect him from the Dead Landers. They ''loved'' their son, which adds another tragic angle to the Wasp King: he ''did'' have people who cared about him, and one can't help but wonder if he would have gone down the path he did if they survived, or if he at least knew of their sacrifice.]]
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* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands to die before he even spoke his first word meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time collecting trash before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.

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* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands to die before he even spoke his first word word, meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time as a garbage collecting trash loner before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.monster.
** WordOfGod adds a sad new angle to [[spoiler:the death of his parents. They didn't abandon him because of malice or apathy, but because it was the only way they could possibly protect him from the Dead Landers. They ''loved'' their son, which adds another tragic angle to the Wasp King: he ''did'' have people who cared about him, and one can't help but wonder if he would have gone down the path he did if they survived, or if he at least knew of their sacrifice.]]
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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Beast in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]

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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But [[spoiler:but only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Beast in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
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* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands to die before he even spoke his first word meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time collecting trash before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.

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* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands to die before he even spoke his first word meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time collecting trash before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.monster.
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** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades ''twice'', both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his Fire magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this.]]]]

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** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades ''twice'', both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his Fire magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this.]]]]]]]]
* It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. [[spoiler:As a baby, his parents abandoned him in the hellish Dead Lands to die before he even spoke his first word meaning that he had to spend his childhood desperately fighting for his life against the horrific [[EldritchAbomination Dead Landers]]. Somehow he survived and when he made it to the Wasp Kingdom, for one reason or another nobody liked him and he spent his time collecting trash before abandoning the kingdom altogether. Nobody missed him.]] It doesn't come close to justifying the atrocities he committed in pursuit of the Everlasting Sapling, but there's still something profoundly sad about the way his obsession with having some form of control or power in his life utterly warped him into such a horrific monster.
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"Fish out of Temporal Water" is the actual trope name, not "Temporal Fish Out Of Water".


*** In Queen Elizant's war room, Leif discovers that an old friend of his is still alive, only for it to turn out that her mind's slipping due to her old age and she doesn't remember him at all. It's a small detail, but it really adds to Leif's tragedy as a [[spoiler:TemporalFishOutOfWater.]]

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*** In Queen Elizant's war room, Leif discovers that an old friend of his is still alive, only for it to turn out that her mind's slipping due to her old age and she doesn't remember him at all. It's a small detail, but it really adds to Leif's tragedy as a [[spoiler:TemporalFishOutOfWater.[[spoiler:FishOutOfTemporalWater.]]

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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]

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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster Beast in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine Oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his he left a family spent a very long time worrying what happened behind that wouldn't live to him... see him again. When he meets his descendants, he's haunted by the fact that one of them again later before he finds out all of is a dead-ringer for his past, he late wife and can't bring himself to talk to face them until he learns the truth about his past.]]
*** In Queen Elizant's war room, Leif discovers that an old friend of his is still alive, only for it to turn out that her mind's slipping due to her old age and she doesn't remember him
at all...all. It's a small detail, but it really adds to Leif's tragedy as a [[spoiler:TemporalFishOutOfWater.]]
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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorsGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]

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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorsGuilt [[SurvivorGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them.]]]]
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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria... [[spoiler:but only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorsGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them]].]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]

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** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria... [[spoiler:but Bugaria: His master and his best friend Bit... [[spoiler:But only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorsGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them]].]]
them.]]]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine oh Oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]



** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades... twice, both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this...]]]]

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** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades... twice, invades ''twice'', both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his Fire magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this...this.]]]]
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** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the evens of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]

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** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the evens events of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Rest easy...]]
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but the life of a bug is not easy...
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* In Snakemouth Den, when the Spider attacks Vi & Kabbu, the former abandons the latter, and he's left to fight the Spider all by himself. [[HopelessBossFight He can't]], and the Spider wraps him up in webbing, and he says his last words... Fortunately, [[BigDamnHeroes Vi comes back]].
-->''"Everyone...I failed. I really was just a rookie in the end..."''
* Think one of the members of Team Snakemouth would have a TragicBackstory? How about all 3 of them?
** Vi's relationship with Jaune, and by extension, the Bee Kingdom, is extremely strained. [[spoiler:[[AllTheOtherReindeer She was bullied and harassed by the other bees for wanting to be an explorer rather than wanting to work in the honey factory.]] The worst of it came from her older sister, [[BigSisterBully Jaune]], who openly mocked and insulted her for this, thinking that she had no chance of doing anything meaningful. Queen Bianca only noticed something was wrong when Vi ran away, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt extremely guilty for letting it happen]].]]
** Kabbu traveled with 2 other partners to get to Bugaria... [[spoiler:but only he survived the adventure. His friends were both killed by the Monster in the Wild Swamplands, and he felt [[SurvivorsGuilt that he didn't deserve to live and be an explorer because of his failure to save them]].]]
** Leif... [[TraumaCongaLine oh boy, where to even start?]] [[spoiler:Leif died years before the evens of the game, and his body and memories were inherited by a Cordyceps Fungus, making him a ParasiteZombie. Not only this, but his partners abandoned him, and his family spent a very long time worrying what happened to him... When he meets them again later before he finds out all of his past, he can't bring himself to talk to them at all...]]
* Queen Elizant II is frequently compared unfavorably to her mother, Elizant I. Although she puts on a stern and commanding appearance, [[spoiler:in reality she is worried that she cannot live up to her mother's legacy, who had a HundredPercentAdorationRating.]]
** When [[spoiler:the Wasp King invades... twice, both times she's barely able to fight him off because of his magic, and on the second time, is forced to give up the Ancient Artifacts that will lead to the Everlasting Sapling. [[HeroicBSOD She almost gives up her position as queen because of this...]]]]

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