Pêwân-Bêwân

Pêwân-Bêwân (Hapšâw'l: Beautiful Bugs) was a trendy activity among the youth of Goyhalna most popular in the period between 16 PC and 18 PC. It involved collecting various "breeds" of the Hapšâw'l Coin Beetle.

History

Starting in late 15 PC Goyhalnal newspaper writer Yul'l Fatal (then just Fatal) would start including small illustrations of beetle's in his publications, often in place of punctuation. The quirk was quickly noticed by readers and was generally received positively, as many readers found the illustrations charming. The warm reception would inspire Fatal to start including larger, more detailed illustrations of insects, in particular beetles, after his segments.

In early 16 PC Fatal would start reporting on the different varieties of the Hapšâw'l Coin Beetle, a diverse insect found in the fields of Hapšâw, as well as in many urban areas, which owes it's name to the typically orange stripes on it's typically black carapace, which resemble thin copper rods that Goyhalnans used as currency at that time. Fatal would write daily about the beetles he had seen on that day, categorizing them into breeds based on size, number and angle of stripes, the color of the carapace, and the shininess of the bug. Due to the large amount of space the reports would take up he would move them into their own category titled "Pêwân-Bêwân".

In one of his segments he would ask readers if they had seen any unique variants of this beetle, resulting in many fans appearing at his house with captured specimen. From that day he would start hosting the "Coin Beetle Exposition" every 12 days. The event proved popular with children and teenagers, who would often try to find new and unique variants of the beetle, as well as trade the bugs between each other in an attempt to secure rarer breeds. Fatal continued hosting the event and updating the list of breeds until early 18 PC, when he announced he would be moving on, citing the fact that no new beetle had appeared in the last 72 days. Shortly after he published an atlas containing illustrations of all 94 established "breeds".

Although Fatal encouraged collectors to continue looking for and trading the beetles without a central figure organizing the events the community quickly dissolved, with practically no one interested in collecting the insects by late 18 PC. Fatal would continue to use insect imagery in his writings, though he would expand the kinds of species he'd use, often punctuating with ants, dragonflies, bees or millipedes, The quirk would remain a consistent part of his writing until his retirement in 55 PC.