#but its not fair to say we don't face discrimination at all bc we do

[abombihoney]

I'm in a worldbuilding mood, beware.

Do you think Bugaria has capitalism? How would it even work, with the currency being edible? And capable of rotting? How would it work if a famine (however unlikely) happened and it was used as emergency food supplies?

Are there any orphan fall backs (orphanages, funds for them, easy supplies, lower prices, etc)? The only (blatantly stated, and without a caregiver) orphans we see are in the ant kingdom, and are a pair of ladybugs, a group commonly discriminated against in game. If there are orphan fall backs, nobody gave them to these two. They mention in game that the older one goes hungry to feed the younger one often enough to be obvious.

Why did nobody question where Leif came from? Did everyone simultaneously recognise them and just... move on? Were there even any records of explorers and scouts in the time that they came from?

Did Rebecca really not remember Leif? She seemed really quick to make friends with a random stranger who knew her name without introduction, something that is typically seen as super creepy and stalkerish.

Is Elizant II even okay? She obviously has at least a few confidence issues, given how happy she is when Leif calls her a good queen.

If Elizant I wasn't in on the Snakemouth Labs, why didn't she wait to send more people in with better equipment? It likely would have ended better for the victims.

Is Snakemouth why the Roaches dissapeared? We know some stuck around while the rest guarded the sapling. What happened to the ones that stuck around?

(Sorry, I just needed to mention these little plot holes and questions.)

i do not know enough about economic systems to know if capitalism is what they got going on. genow straight up says in the art book that like, he didnt really think abt it. i presume he just thought berries as a currency is fun. though i do believe if there is a famine of some kind, it's implied thats what the bees are storing all that honey for

we dont really see a lot of bugaria's society. we only get little snapshots and an orphanage wasnt one of those. perhaps the bigger cities have them? like the termite city? but i figure it smaller areas the kids just go to w/e family member/neighbor/friend wanted the kids and could care for them.

perhaps the fallback the ladybug kids got was that they were allowed in bugaria at all lmao. poor dudes.

back in ye olde days, you could just show up in cities lol. theres no database of everyone that exists. its probably fairly common for bugs to move from w/e and just settle down in the first city they find.

to be fair, only eetl, zasp, gen, eri, and maki know that leif isnt an original part of the party. as far as everyone else is concerned, he's just a part of their team, and came from some small village or smth im sure.

ppl who know leif wasnt an original part of the party most likely assume they picked leif up on their way to snakemouth and like, whatever its not like they care? now they have to split rewards and w/e three ways instead of two but thats what they get for breaking tradition i guess.

old people just be like that. shit dude, there are people i know that apparently they share classes with me and come talk to me by my name, and i have no idea who they are. (i am also just bad with faces)

like, to be fair, leif is also really easy to get along with, he's a chill dude.

i mean, elizant 2 is just going through some imposter syndrome she's fine lol. its just a self confidence issue. she'll be fine lol. she could probably use like, some real good friends, and therapy, both of which im sure are a little tricky to get when ur a monarch.

to be fair, we don't know how there was between leif's scouting party and the deaths of many explorers. considering that the explorers were made after elizants death, it may have been that elizant 1 forbid anyone from exploring it. it's not like she can send an army to a foreign land bc one dude got got by a spider while she was having him sneak to see what's up in there

i mean, the snakemouth roaches deffo disappeared via zombie. but there were other roach civilizations that also disappeared (the sand castle and sand village). so like. we dont got really got an explanation for that one. perhaps they also created their own demise. maybe there was a sickness. maybe they just got up and left.

[viva-la-vie-bohemily]

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