Damian Ponceuses

"When there may be a queen, there must be a king!"

- King Hornet's introduction

Damian Ponceuses is a supporting character in Miraculous Red. He is a student in Miss Quatre's class at Collège Françoise Dupont and Baxter Eberusu's best friend.

During the events of Evilgranter, Damian recieves the Hornet Miraculous. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Hornet, Damian becomes the superhero King Hornet, a hornet-themed superhero who helps Red Noir, Verre Arc, and Wolf Girl face off against the titular villain and will usually help the heroes during particulary difficult missions.

Physical appearance
Damian is a young tall teenager. He has long brown hair that is usually shown straight downward with acouple of bangs, with his right bang being longer than the rest with a golden ombre, he also has blue eyes.

Civilian attire
Similar to how Baxter wears his outfit, Damian wears almost the same identical clothing to that of Baxter. He wears a black jacket with a yellow short-sleeved shirt underneath. He wears dark colored jeans, and white sneakers.

As King Hornet
When becoming the superhero King Hornet, Damian loses the golden ombre on his bangs as his bangs on the top of his head become shorter. He wears a black mask that covers up his eyes and now supports golden eyes. He wears a black jumpsuit that now resembles that of a Hornet's color, having yellow stripes around the suit. He also has a yellow belt around his waist and black boots. He also has his Hornet Blade attached behind his belt if not being used.

Personality
Damian is an extremely laid-back yet collective teenager, who is nearly always seen calmly smiling when not put into a tense situation. Damian prefers to be patient and only act when the time is right, choosing to usually stay out of unnecessary conflict and wait for a valuable opportunity if things come up to him. Damian is also a very intelligent individual, usually seen as one of the best players in Ultimate Mecha Strike IV, though he can be somewhat socially awkward, hence his close friendship with Baxter Eberusu. Damian is strongly displeased with popularity and usually doesn't seem to care about it.

However, as King Hornet, he actually changes his personality completely. King Hornet is rather confident in himself, notably for his habit of using honorific speech regardless of who he is talking to, this is to show a display of how a usual king would act towards his land. Due to his attitude as this, King Hornet tends to somewhat makes the girls around him fall madly in love with him, despite not showing the fact they are deemeed as queens to him. When he announced that "when there is a queen, there must be a king", he was clearly talking about the user of the Bee Miraculous to deem themselves worthy as his "queen". King Hornet also shows faith in those with a strong passion and a strong heart, even acknowledging them as great heroes and can easily gain respect from the heroes of his work.

As King Hornet
King Hornet has enhanced skills, such as speed, strength, and resistence. His most prominent physicall skill is his agility, allowing him to jump to great heights around Red Noir and Verre Arc's level, usually seen as the third best hero behind Red Noir and Verre Arc.

King Hornet is also capable of using his Hornet Blade as a weapon, being able to cut through anything with ease, though it is the weaker variant of the Red Blade, still it's destructive power could rival even that of Red Noir's Red Blade, though it is not in this case.

His special power, Hornet's Nest allows him to close his eyes and begin to either create or control a hive of hornets from Paris itself to help aid him and the heroes into action, usually the hornets have yellow-like aura surrounding them giving them control of superpowers too. He can then move his arms around being able to control them all at once and control them into stinging and actually paralyzing the villain in the process. It's power is very similar to that of Queen Wasp's power, only except King Hornet cannot leave a hole behind on them, allowing him to use it up to ten minutes at a time, usually the miraculous would revert back to civilian form after five minutes, this is not the case in the Hornet Miraculous' case as it's capable of ten minutes instead due to how weak usually the venom takes in the villains body after being stunged, which allows King Hornet to continously keep having hornets sting the villain to make the progress go faster with each sting can ease up the proccess of the venom into the villain, paralyzing them permamently.