Grace Honeypot

Background
It's a common misconception that all buzzing, flying insects are dangerous and will sting you at any given chance, and while that may be true for some species, the common Honey Bee holds against that concept. Grace Honeypot, much like many other youkai, was born from a story; and this story in particular started with an old Honey Bee Keeper who lived on his own in a secluded area, far from any other person. Every year, he would bring a cart full of jars of honey to local villages and tell stories of what bees are like to young children. Then one day, the old man never came back. Most had assumed he had passed away, some imagined he retired from his job and now lives peacefully in his home, one thing is for certain, he had a legacy. His legacy was a story of a Bee Queen who worked all year round, helping sell honey to humans. This story took embodiment, and Grace Honeypot was born.

At a relatively young age, she moved to Gensoukyou after hearing of a small sunflower field that came out of nowhere and wanted to see if the youkai who could manipulate flowers was behind it. After confirming that it was, indeed, Yuuka's hand behind the flower garden, she took up permanent residence there and started work on making herself a new hive to make honey and raise her bees. Since then, she works a very specific schedule. She focuses heavily on cross pollinating flowers in Spring, then gathering nectar to make honey in Summer and Autumn, all before spending a lot of her Winter selling excess honey while her bees sleep.

Power/Combat
Like any other Honey Bee, Grace can make honey using nectar, as well as making other things like Beeswax, Royal Jelly and Bee Glue. More importantly is she is able to command her bee workers to fight for her through a hive-mind system controlled by scents and pheromones. Grace has a small rapier stinger which she hides inside her dress. It is filled with her own natural venom which is much more potent in comparison to a regular bee's venom, and is actually quite dangerous for humans to be stung with, especially if they are allergic to it. It can easily incapacitate an Indian Elephant.

On her own, Grace isn't much of a threat unless you let your guard down, but when she has some bees available, she can become quite formidable. Her attack patterns consist of letting her bees swarm her target before she attempts to sting them or hit them with danmaku. On her own, the most she tries to do is get her target absolutely covered in honey or royal jelly before going in to attack. Overall, she tries hard to preserve herself while being hard to hit due to her swaying motion while flying.

Personality
Grace is still very young in terms of Queen Bees, so she has a very carefree attitude. She isn't scared to take risks, and in doing so she often gets in trouble with people. Although most people are terrified of swarms of bees, she is actually rather docile and will only get close to someone if she's nosily searching them for nectar or is trying to sell her produce to them. Even when directly threatened, it will take a lot to push her to fight and would rather just try and scare someone away if they were too close to her brood, nest or were even just being aggressive. Saying this, though, she is very unlikely to back down when angered and will swarm her bees in a fit of rage for days upon end until she is calm, or until someone comes and puts her in her place.

Something to consider is that a lot of her childishness might just be a facade or a guise; on one or more occasions she has shown a side of her that can only be described as "shrewd little businesswoman," showing a cunning mind for being able to scam people in to buying her ridiculously priced honey.

Spellcards

 * Buzz Sign "Little Beating Wings": Grace fires out a basic wave of danmaku, followed by a few special bullets that buzz loudly and push other bullets around.


 * Buzz Sign "Left ear;Right ear": Grace floats from left to right on the screen quickly, buzzing loudly and resonating waves of shaking danmaku bullets.


 * Sting Sign "Sweetly Stabbing": Grace buzzes her wings, firing a stream of danmaku bullets to the side of her, then takes periodic jousts at her opponent with her stinger.


 * Bumble Sign "Gathering Bees": Grace shoots bee-shaped danmaku which slowly float towards her opponent in a random, jittery motion that resembles a bee flying around.


 * Bumble Sign "Swaying in the wind": Activating this spellcard, Grace rapidly flies around her opponent in a swaying motions, spraying danmaku bullets from her wings carelessly without much intent to focus at something.


 * Bumble Sign "Spring Flower Dance": Creating a bright, simple replica of a flower out of stationary danmaku bullets, with the center being densely packed with danmaku, Grace dances from petal to petal, pretending to gather pollen from the middle and throwing it at her opponent.


 * Swarming Sign "Obscured Family Gathering": Grace calls upon her bees to swarm her opponent and obscure their vision, all while she fires simple waves of danmaku bullets at them. It doesn't look very impressive due to her opponent not actually being able to see it.


 * Honey Sign "Sweet Comb": Grace fires out specialized danmaku bullets with a very unique property, they are very large and are shaped like octagonal prisms. When they reach a certain distance, they stop moving, then bullets behind it stick to them, eventually building a wall of honey comb.

Major

 * Bees: Grace is the mother of thousands upon thousands of bees, and she loves them all individually. Without her bees, Grace would be nothing.

Trivia

 * Grace is known to catch colds in the Winter, but instead of getting a blocked nose, her royal jelly glands in her mouth secrete copious amounts of royal jelly, giving off the impression that she's drooling endlessly.


 * Although she can be sustained from royal jelly, she doesn't eat her own much, instead she chooses just to eat the honey she has stored in her hive as it is much sweeter and doesn't spoil. Instead she saves her royal jelly to feed her young.


 * Grace is a bit of a business woman, often visiting the Human Village during winter to sell her hive's produce to make money. What she does with this money is unknown, but some believe that deep inside her hive, she has a deposit of saved up money. It can also be noted that sets her prices for different people depending on how much wealth they have; the wealthier they are, the more she charges. Although this can become problematic for when she meets someone new that wants to buy honey, so she often just judges how they look before setting the price. Saying this, her prices are normally ridiculous, but because she is the only source of honey in Gensoukyou, she can decide how much to sell for.


 * Grace has a very odd flight pattern, swinging back and forth, distributing her body weight while her small wings work hard to keep her air born. She wont fly for long periods of time due to how tiring it is. While this may seem to be a hindrance, it actually means she is relatively difficult to hit while airborne. Technically, she shouldn't even be able to fly; her body is far too large to be supported by her tiny wings, but she still somehow manages it.


 * Let it be known that Grace is not the type to waste! She uses a lot of her hive's produce to keep herself clean by washing her hair with honey or using royal jelly as skin lotion. Although it's not the most practical way to clean one's self, it still does the job and leaves her smelling sweet. Her large, hard skirt is even made out of weaved bees wax filled with various pouches and compartments for her to hide things like honey, money or weapons.


 * While being weak on her own, Grace is a considerably formidable force to fight if she has murder on her mind (Although this has never happened before). Even though she doesn't like her bees stinging people due to each bee dying shortly after their first and only sting; there's nothing stopping her from commanding every bee in Gensoukyou to sting an individual, and probably to death.


 * If Grace were to die, her bees would die shortly-after. Even if they were to birth non-youkai Queens to take over, Gensoukyou is a tough place to live in. Who knows what other ecological damage would soon come to Gensoukyou should all the bees die out.