#conifernophyta

hi :] i think monomon should have a sun hat 

new hollow knight oc their name is vedra and the yellow faced bumblebee theyre holding onto is meren (more rambles & pics under cut)

i dont really mind myself taking a few liberties with how vedra and meren fit into the preexisting lore of hallownest so take things with a grain of salt i guess ^_^ if it sounds only questionably possible for a vessel thats bc it is and i dont care :] ok thank u for reading

vedra escaped from the abyss and then hallownest entirely sometime between the hollow knights sealing within the black egg and the ghosts return to hallownest and lives in a neighboring kingdom(not really a kingdom but i cant think of a better work atm) and was found and subsequently adopted by a hive of bumblebees which is where meren comes in ! 

admittedly i did more thinking about meren & the hive then vedras origin and make but thats only because theres more to get into with real life bugs . meren and the rest of the hive are yellow faced bumblebees that i have borrowed some social behaviors from a different species of bumblebee(bombus atratus) so that merens hive can have more than one queen . as it stands meren is one of three queens with the others being sort of her sister-analogue familial figures , with meren being the middlest ! i havent drawn up the other two yet but the eldest is missing an arm and has an undecided name that starts with r .

just a little fun tidbit , i came up with merens name but the name ‘vedra’ was suggested to me by a friend who has a conlang with vedra being a wordsmash of “leaf on head” but translated into said conlang