History Characters / Himenospia

* AnimalMotifs: Serena is mainly a wasp-girl, but it is with her that the army ant motifs from ''Arachnid'' rear their head.

* BewareMyStingerTail: A red wasp causes her to grow a sting out of her womb that converts other women. It is later revealed [[spoiler:each queen has an unique skill determined by the shape of their sting, and Himeno's is domination over other queens]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sure Himeno brainwashes a lot of people and throws Tokyo out of order, but she does it under extreme circumstances and is put against power-hungry antagonists who are ruthless about harming and dehumanizing her.

* PuppetQueen: [[spoiler:Nagisa knew Himeno would be chosen as a queen if stung by a red wasp and made it happen, manipulating everyone so the school massacre, the creation of Himenospia and Serena's arrival would follow. At first Nagisa just wanted both Himeno and Serena to die, but she did end up affected by Himeno's love-inducing sting and so ends up going through the plan while also trying to avoid getting Himeno killed. The trope is averted in the end of the story when Serena becomes allied with Himeno and plans to teach her how to become a Queen of the World.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Subverted; after being made a pawn by everyone, Himeno defeats Serena by turning her into a soldier but Niho, Nagisa and all her no-name mooks get killed in the incident. On the upside, Himeno survives and gets to enjoy some peace as Serena not only stops attacking Himenospia but also decides to let it expand over the whole world.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: Years before the start of the series, Himeno's stepfather forced her to undress before him, and when she ran to her mother for help she got hit in the face with a hot iron instead.

* DistressedDamsel: Himeno is held by Niho on a secret underground prison and is subjected to some colorful kinds of torture. Mizu and Serena hijack the plot as this goes on.

* NiceHat: She wears a sleeping hat throughout the final few chapters, clashing with the serious mood of the ambush attempt on Serena and her lab's staff barricading themselves to keep away from the conflict.

* FailureHero: The author is known to have expressed regret about writing Alice as an InvincibleHero in ''Arachnid'', so Himeno can be seen as an attempt to address that. The result is ''pretty depressive'', though: Alice was a pitiful CosmicPlaything with no positive influences in her life but you could almost always count on her to kick ass with her infinite string traps. Himeno likewise spends the whole story struggling for her freedom just to find she's been a plaything of everyone around her but is ''all around helpless'' while Niho tortures her and her minions get killed left and right. [[spoiler:On top of Niho being killed while Himeno was hoping to reconcile with her, Serena mortally injures Nagisa, who in the end truly loved Himeno despite her manipulations. Himeno is able to turn Serena into a soldier but is left alone, chained and naked in some underground dungeon grieving over the death of her only friend. In the end she is implied to have expanded her territory and actually has Serena's support for taking over the world, but it all happens offscreen before the story abruptly ends.]]

An unpleasant, "allergic to kindness" girl who enrolls at Himenospia to find out just who is this person who got her bitchy mother Rushia brainwashed.

* KnifeNut: Mizu gets so disgusted with how arrogant a ruler Himeno is that she tries to stab her to death right in front of everyone else.

** Serena's looks and name are lifted from ''Majo ni Ataeru Tettsui'', where she was a morally-ambiguous Pope who looked like an {{expy}} of Sailor Moon (hence her name, and of note is that the author has a fan comic of that series available in his Pixiv account).

* ManipulativeBitch: Nagisa hand-picked Himeno from the very beginning to become a decoy queen in order to bait Serena and then get the two of them killed -- and even the influence of Himeno's sting doesn't get her to be honest about what's going on. Furthermore, Mizu is also a piece of her master plan for some reason.

* {{Meganekko}}: Wears glasses that give her a homely look. Naturally, every time she gets serious [[TheGlassesComeOff she takes them off]].

--->'''Mizu''': (What's this? You're starting to act like ''her''.)

* SlasherSmile: While already mean and smug at all times, Serena sports one freaky grin when Niho and Oonuki defy her to help Himeno.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: She's said to have killed multiple rival queens since she became one, and will dispose of Himeno once she's no longer useful despite having a certain fondness for her.

* EyeScream: First thing Serena orders the Torturers to do on-screen is to stab Himeno's left eye, but luckily they don't get to do it.

* LossOfIdentity: Himeno tries to convince Niho that she's turning into a person separate from both Jirou and Tokisaka. Because of the Queen's substance effect, Niho ends up sacrificing herself for her out of love.

* HeManWomanHater: Ronald makes a misogynistic speech on why the independent feminist-esque nation of Himenospia is unnaceptable, though it was actually Serena who had him say all that.

The one who's scheming with the Japanese goverment to act against Himeno and Serena is simply good old "Nagisa". As a child in post-WWII Japan, she was granted her wasp powers and raised her influence over the country during the next few decades, hoping to eventually kill Serena and TakeOverTheWorld.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: First appears in ''Majo ni Ataeru Tettsui'', then in ''Himenospia'' and then in ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' -- seemingly unchanged from ''Himenospia'' to the ''Arachnid'' continuity.

** Since Himeno refuses to sting everyone in Himenospia, Serena takes the liberty of poking a number of unseen girls at school for her own protection.

* FailureHero: The author is known to have expressed regret about writing Alice as an InvincibleHero in ''Arachnid'', so Himeno can be seen as an attempt to adress that. The result is ''pretty depressive'', though: Alice was a pitiful CosmicPlaything with no positive influences in her life but you could almost always count on her to kick ass with her infinite string traps. Himeno likewise spends the whole story struggling for her freedom just to find she's been a plaything of everyone around her but is ''all around helpless'' while Niho tortures her and her minions get killed left and right. [[spoiler:On top of Niho being killed while Himeno was hoping to reconcile with her, Serena mortally injures Nagisa, who in the end truly loved Himeno despite her manipulations. Himeno is able to turn Serena into a soldier but is left alone, chained and naked in some underground dungeon grieving over the death of her only friend. In the end she is implied to have expanded her territory and actually has Serena's support for taking over the world, but it all happens offscreen before the story abruptly ends.]]

* {{Transgender}}: Exploited by Serena, who submits biologically-male people to sex change treatment to make them susceptible to her brainwashing.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Media in ''Arachnid'' were quickly defeated in close combat, but the ones in this story are shown to be a much larger threat with their gatling guns and uncanny durability.

[[folder:Yasuomi Fujimoto]]
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A biochemist who's highly interested in the wasp mutants.