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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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  • 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. He can't, and the Spider wraps him up in webbing, and he says his last words... Fortunately, 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 Tragic Backstory or is a straight-up Woobie? How about all 3 of them?
  • 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, as she was a Universally Beloved Leader.
  • It's not just the heroes who had it rough, the Wasp King's backstory is an incredibly sad one too. 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 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.
    • Word of God adds a sad new angle to 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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