yolan/beelien* loredump. some kink related, mostly not
(beelien is a placeholder name but knowing me I’ll probably keep it. as goofy as it is)
the majority of the species are asexual (as in, can’t reproduce) workers. queens and drones are fertile. they can also change sex, similarly to clownfish.
workers do not have an assigned gender at birth and generally choose for themselves. transgender queens and drones are uncommon, but as seen with yolan, enjoy acceptance within their society.
yolan lived as a drone woman before becoming a queen. she came to the hive as a consort for the former queen, but didn’t end up consummating the relationship, as the queen had several already she was more familiar with. yolan would help out the workers around the community when they needed an extra hand instead. her closest friend among the other drones is eathe, younger brother to the queen and supervisor of the adolescent drones (his nephews)
a while after yolan arrived, a freak accident destroyed a good amount of food reserves, leading many workers and drones to leave for more abundant places. soon after this hard season was over, the queen unexpectedly passed, leading to a scramble to find a replacement. there were no queens in the lineage who were old enough to rule yet, so the community coalition of drones and workers decided a drone would need to rule in the interim- preferably one who was open to becoming a queen
the communities beeliens live in are much like large villages. people often live communally by choice, being very social. workers tend to live together, with those who work closely with the coalition or the queen living closer to the center of the land they live on. in childhood, beeliens are in a sense adopted as they mature. they will often take the name of the group who took them in as a sort of community surname.
(for example, eathe is the child of queen mabry and her consort sielo, but was raised by a worker, yarl, and a drone, thens. this makes his full name eathe sielo yarl-thens de mabry. in the community he’d informally be referred to as eathe yarl-thens, and outside of it, eathe de mabry. yolan, being from a different community, is referred to as yolan de kyile. her full name is yolan belar fonsa de kyile.)
despite moving to the community later in life and not being a member of the matriarchal family lineage the majority of people there belongs to, yolan is generally well-liked, keen to learn, and not so old that the coalition has to worry about her dying anytime soon. along with the fact that she is open to and interested in becoming a queen when they approach her, it ends up all working out
transitioning from drone to queen involves eating royal jelly. the more you eat, the faster it works, so yolan is encouraged to have as much as she can handle in between learning about policy and the ins and outs of being a queen. by the time she begins developing queenly traits, she’s also noticeably fatter than she used to be. fatness is desirable and beautiful among beeliens, so she’s happy to have put on weight
(she also realized pretty early on that she’s turned on by getting stuffed and gaining weight. which shouldn’t be surprising considering it is The Author’s Undisguised Fetish, but to her it’s just another perk of transitioning)
after becoming queen, yolan has several clutches of eggs over the next few years. many of these are fathered by her friend-turned consort and primary partner, eathe. they are deeply devoted to each other
consorts in general have various relationships to the queen- some are purely sexual while others are romantic. many of yolan’s consorts are also involved with her other consorts