Bugs, Brothers, Babies (Patreon)

Pharynx, Thorax, and Pharynx's latest assignment, babie Ocellus. As he was feeling restless in this new era of peace, Pharynx was tasked with raising Chrysalis' failed heir and hopefully salvaging her into a halfway decent soldier. He failed pretty miserably, Ocellus' sheer nerdy goody-two-hooves sweetie pie energy is just too powerful for him to tame.

Pharynx initially meant to raise Ocellus as his little sibling (because that's what she technically is, they were born from the same Queen-Mother), buuuuut when she was learning to talk she started calling him Daddy and it was then that Pharynx realized this tiny creature was going to wrap him around her tiny finger like a paperclip, god damn it

I rewatched the first episode with Pharynx and Thorax, and one detail I found really cute was that Thorax gets pretty sassy/snarky around his big brother, in a way he doesn't really behave around any other character. Iiiiii'm gonna headcanon this to mean that Thorax sasses his bruv because out of his entire hive, Pharynx is the first person he was ever 100% sure would never hurt him (y'know, besides his twerpy "why're you hitting yourself" thing), so Thorax is an absolute smug little shit to him sometimes, in the way that younger siblings can be.

Pharynx: You know I could snap your neck like a toothpick, right?

Thorax: oh yeah? gonna put down ur baby to punch me? gonna rumple the little blue blankie u bought her? gonna chance waking her up and making her cry? just to hit me? haha do it bitch