Tetsua Crumb

Tetsua Crumb (known by the townspeople as the Wasp Woman) is an inhabitant of Harvest. She can be found in the Abandoned House, but meeting her is entirely optional.

History
Tetsua is an old woman who lives in a run-down house that is host to several wasp nests that she raises. Tetsua is shunned by the other townspeople for her deep affection to wasps which she believes are superior to bees.

Testua holds wasps in high regard due to their predatory and (in her mind) self-serving nature over bees' collectivist behaviour. She even compares the wasp's ability to sting multiple times to sexual intercourse, whereas bees dying from stinging is akin to sacrificing oneself to their god.

Steve is told about her when his mother tells him to go have a word with her after her wasps started bothering his baby sister. However, he does not need to do this.

In addition to being an optional character, she can be killed without incurring penalties. If Steve strikes her, her head will fall off and her corpse will fall on its side, revealing her lower body to be a wasp's abdomen.

Quotes

 * "I am Tetsua Crumb. The ignorant of Harvest call me the Wasp Woman... a pejorative, no doubt, born of their fear and a poverty of imagination."
 * "Regard the wasp. Wasps produce nothing for others, but only for themselves. Wasps build nests and more wasps, nothing more. They spread into eaves and attics, not to make honey for supermarkets, but to buzz and rustle on their own paper, perpetuating their own agenda, growing, stealthily, surely... the most relentless of insects."
 * "When a bee stings, it rips itself apart and dies for its audacity. This appeals to those worshipping a God that demands sacrifice and atonement. But the wasp is promiscuous. They are not as sympathetic to the masses because they don't die when they sting. They live to sting another day... and they take pleasure from that."
 * "Yes... a great deal of pleasure... the wasp is a sensual being, not a labourer, hedonistic instead of industrial. Some think them quick to anger... in truth, they are easily swayed to ecstasy... they penetrate your flesh... and the muscular contractions in their thorax as they pump venom could be likened to the muscular contractions of ejaculation... each painful welt... an act of love."

Trivia

 * Tetsua is portrayed by Persis Forster.