Royal Jelly (song)

"Royal Jelly" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album The Sent-In Clowns. It is also proposed as a song that could feature in Camelorum Adventures. While incomplete, it's a parody of "Sugar" by Maroon 5.

Background
The original image that this song was attached to was a Sims 4 render uploaded to DeviantArt on January 30th of 2016, titled "Barry Meets the Worcestershire Pig." It was a tie-in to "How Do You Like Me Now? (Cheshire Pig)," which was uploaded on September 15th of 2015 to DeviantArt. That image was a response to Mara-ra-ra's "I miss Wonderland," first published to DeviantArt on May 3rd of 2013.

She first published her image as a request by diaper fetishist MoonlessNightSky, to depict diapered Alice from American McGee's Alice series, also in a straight jacket. However, running across the image haphazardly while searching for images of straight jackets, the Dozerfleet founder was randomly inspired by the thought of a rewritten "How Do You Like Me Now?" by Tobey Keith being performed by the Cheshire Cat as a way to taunt Alice for being in a rubber room and straight jacket. An early caption was submitted of such a plot twist, but Mara-ra-ra had the post flagged as "spam."

Undeterred, the Camelorum post featured Carly Rancine having been mistaken for Alice. The post was going to feature the Cheshire Cat taunting her. However, at that time, the Cats and Dogs expansion for The Sims 4 hadn't quite been released. Therefore, without any other cats to use, a pig was substituted, with a throwaway joke to explain how the Cheshire Cat got turned into a pig.

Thus, the Cheshire Pig became a recurring character in Camelorum Adventures. In January of 2016, however, the mythology of the flying, talking pigs was expanded upon. If the Shire of Che could have a pig of this nature, why couldn't the Shire of Worcester have one as well? Why must it be known only for a type of sauce? Thus, the Worcestershire Pig was born as a character.

The image upload of Barry Navoz encountering "Worch" featured a song parody attached, mirroring how Carly's encounter with Cheshire had a parody song. But instead of Tobey Keith, it would be Maroon 5 getting lampooned this time.

Story
By this point in the timeline, the staff and inmates at Camelorum have become aware of the existence of the Cheshire Pig. However, they don't know that the halls are being also haunted by his cousin, the Worcestershire Pig! While Cheshire is deliberately a prankster and provocateur, Worcestershire seeks to give advice. However...he's usually really terrible at it, coming off as being like the Malicious Advice Mallard.

Barry wants to win over Carly's affections, in spite the fact that dating while incarcerated is ill-advised. He is suddenly confronted out of nowhere by Worch, who suggests he try to win her over with chocolate. After Worch clears up Barry's confusion over his identity, he goes back to offering Barry dating advice. However...most of it is poor advice or nonsensical. Worch unwittingly accuses Barry of being shallow, and a cheater, while offering advice on how to get Carly to not notice or care about these character flaws.

He also encourages Barry to spend money on Chinese takeout, accusing Carly of being a lazy cook who's deathly afraid of bees. Barry cuts off Worch's song and dance routine by reminding him how most of his given advice is impossible, given Barry is in prison. Worch promises to return at a later date and give more advice. Barry encourages Worch to take as long as he'd like, as Barry is in no hurry to have himself or Carly insulted like that again any time soon.

Reception
The image was favorited on DeviantArt by Prodigal-Gamer, and received 164 total views on the site from 2016 - 2021. This was a decline from the previous image, which received 5 favorites and just a little under 500 views in only a slightly longer stretch of time.