#vakshi

[hikariyuushiart]

I wanted to practice some vague new camera angles, so have some Snap Dragon Club hosts!

[gaynudibranch]

Vakshi as a izakaya waiter lol, thought it was cute and I wanted to draw him in a workers get up cause vakshi is awesome!

@hikariyuushiart

[shinkothetoongirl]

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Shinko: “Tell these lovely people about yourself!”

Bee boy: “Um... very well. My name is Vakshi, of the Beeple. I just live in the Outskirts of Versille, tending to bee things. Sometimes I stop by to help Larkspur with their field work. Um... is that good enough, do you think?”

Shinko: “Sure! I think that works bee-utifully!”

Vakshi: -giggles- “That’s wonderful. I like that one.”

[hikariyuushiart]

Here's the artworks from today's stream! Had a lot of fun, and hope to get just as much done on Friday! ^_^

[hikariyuushiart]

I was going through potentially making gifs of the boys but couldn’t decide on an animation to do, so have a spread of a whole bunch of expressions I suppose lol

[hikariyuushiart]

Ask about character

Ofcorse Vakshii

Always intrested in his gender jorney and how his beefolk culturaly feel about it either way thats my current ask :3

lol of course. I bee-lieve I've talked to you about it before but never really publically as, in the comics, it's only really hinted at but not outright talked about.

So for a bit of context, Vakshi is one of the beefolk. Beefolk mainly work for their Hive, and they basically have fairly strict roles for 'workers' and 'drones', their general equivalent of female/male roles respectively. (It's my understanding that this isn't completely true in real honey bees, but for the sake of lore, this is how it works for beefolk in Sanctus).

Workers grow up to be a number of vital roles: caregivers, guards, collectors, cooks, and if necessary, a rare few growing up to become a Queen or Princess (essentially the Queen's adoptive daughters who act as extra eyes and hands of the Queen; their word is just as powerful if the Queen herself is not present).

Drones are essentially your artisans, your construction workers, and everything else.

Now Vakshi's story is nothing groundbreaking, at least not in his eyes. He just knew for a long time that being called she/her felt off and didn't know why. He doesn't really wish to change his body physically (outside of maybe having less fluff) or even his role in his Hive. He just feels he's not really being true to himself if he's not being called he/him.

When he finally decided to come forward about this with his squad, the group of the Bee Guard which he cares for as Captain, of course there was plenty of murmurs and confusion. Did being called he/him mean that Vakshi wanted to be referred to as a drone? Was something wrong with them? But also, did it really matter?

So while there was plenty of initial confusion, the general consensus was that his squad has been willing to refer to him with masculine pronouns moving forward. Sometimes they slip up, but Vakshi's always been patient with them, in training and in general. He knows they're all trying their best, and that's all he could ever ask of them.

Outside of Vakshi's squad is a completely other story, at least Hive-wise. In the Snap Dragon Club, people are less familiar with the strict gender roles of the Hive and have no problem calling Vakshi by his preferred pronouns. XP

[hikariyuushiart]

Saw a thing and decided to draw a storyboard of the Snap Dragon Club hosts running from an explosion.

In which I learned that, if in a panic, Mack would run on all fours lol

Also that Acasi would keep super close to the ground to make use of all his muscles cause snek.

For those curious of the inspo, it's this:

[hikariyuushiart]

Thinking about my next comic project. Thinking of returning of having the 4 bois of the Snap Dragon Club returning. But if I want it to be about them, I want this to be able to stand alone without needing to read The Grand Opening or The Wanderer's Tale. So that way, if you wanna see more things that have these 4 in it, you can seek it out if you'd like.

This was a test run of how I'd set up panels to potentially re-introduce the hosts of the Snap Dragon Club.