#oc: our lady the unsullied lamb of the altar

[clay-pidgeon]

what is the apiarian court about?

the apiarian court is titled after the ruling body of the apiarian city, where the story takes place. specifically, two members of the apiarian court: Our Lady, the Unsullied Lamb of the Altar, the figurehead ruler and glorified (arguably deified) generator of the city, and their personal knight/"apiarist" Unpaid Penances Numbering a Thousand. everyone has "nathaniel hawthorne comics fucked up puritan names"

the apirian city is named this because . its bees. Everythings very bee-themed . lamb is a queen bee in their emblematic motherhood, they worship a queen bee god, they have a lot of bee stuff going on. its structured vaguely like bees

penances is a knight and i am not researching military chains of command this early in the . 4 pm but ive compared her to a walmart manager so do with that what you. she has ocd and is rather antisocial and is an egg and generally keeps to herself and then one day shes summoned to the apiarian palace and shes like fucufkcufuckruck i did a crime or something didnt i fuckkkkkk and theyre like No . Lol . Youre the apiarist. she goes Hwuh . Huh . Like our lady rhe unsullied lamb of the altars personal boytoy bodyguard ? likethag?? theyre like Yeah :) we did tests and shit . normal and noninvasive in nature LOL. so she does the apiarist ceremony and in less than a day her entire world is turned upside down and then she gets to talk to lamb like Holyshit youre our lady the unsullied lamb

and for context the job of being "our lady" is both a) figurehead mascot and b) semi immortal battery for the slightest bit of magic the city has. its a glorified generator and the vast majority of it goes to keeping the bee-mother (god) in check, because if she leaves they are Thoroughly Fucked. everyones screwed! so our lady is supposed to do minimal physical exertion, kept in somewhat good (physical) health, and generally is pampered. cant touch anyone though! literally banned from doing that until they get an apiarist at age *vague hand waving*. like 20 or something. idk. the apiarists job is to protect and be the ladys only friend (and also some other stuff dont wory about it :)) and also to kill the (again, normally immortal) lady when the city is Really fucked and can only be saved by the nuclear explosion of energy from a dying our lady. this also kills the apiarist . because yuri

SO that aside! the unsullied lamb is well aware of her status as a deified sacrifice and has made peace with it. he (uses they/he/she #gender) is a rather...over enthusiastic person, who is kind of obsessed with pen because holy shit shes literally never had a conversation with someone even vaguely their own age (and they were born at the exact same minute!thats how they match em. its weird). its okay though pen thinks of him as a literal actual god so the obsession is mutual. lambs a little fucking touchy freak who is excited by the prospect of having anyone to do anything with and pens like ubhubdhhsbs s .?? hebmh?? because again this is like if you were a walmart manager and then 24 hours later you were married to the second coming of christ

theres not much of a story because they genuinely dont have thag weird of a relationship within the context of the setting. youre supposed to be codependently obsessed! theyre not that weird or subversive. Listen krillverse has insane transgender aromantic people rejecting their fate i can make up a fucked up city and then create two ppl who kiss in it.Anyways sligjtly semi-inspired by TLT because im reading gideon the ninth and some seeped i but this was actually a rosa canina royalty au i realized didnt work the way i wanted it to w the character