*insert cool name*

Wraiths: Please stop calling us that

they're a twitch streamer

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

This was actually originally an LMK OC but she makes perfect sense as a HK/SS OC. Her name was originally the Golden Silk Moth but that doesn't feel very HK/SS so let's just say she's introduce herself to Hornet as Yin.

In game, you can generally find her near the same spots that Mr. Mushroom shows up. You can ask her for some advice if you don't know where to go or what to do, and there are some optional doors only she knows how to open, but the information will cost you. Yin has no interest in rosaries though. Instead she'll ask you to do seemingly random missions - deliver or retrieve an item, pass on info to another NPC, defeat a gauntlet of enemies, etc.

Before Lace, Hornet has that excuse to hide behind. She's got a monarch's blood in her. Something above bugs. She doesn't need these mortal things, so it's fine. And nobody can really disprove that even if several of them are that one meme ("That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about pale beings to dispute it") @ her but that's not gonna make her stop.

Until, very suddenly, Lace is here! And Lace is 1) a pale being herself, 2) absolutely not doing self-care and 3) so ready and willing to call Hornet out on anything out of spite.

Sure, the self care they need is different. But like, not that different. Fuel + rest + not putting oneself in grave danger + taking care of wounds. All the basics are there. The two of them are pretty equally matched, they go toe to toe in combat. And Lace has explicit trauma about being treated as fragile or incapable.

All of the sudden, every excuse Hornet has ever had to completely ignore her own bodily needs/safety/wellbeing is out the window. Lace is looking her in the eyes and asking "if we're equals, how come you're so concerned about me not eating when you haven't had a meal in weeks?"