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fascinatedhelix · 4 years

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Note: Might rewrite the Hollow Knight/Chaotic crossover thingy and add images. Because I mistakenly wrote it in the format of a story outline rather than a series of headcanons like I originally intended. Some actual general headcanons (don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled for the... light novel-style fic, I guess) below:

Players can’t scan Hallownest nor its contents because Chaotic itself has the presence of a Higher Being (going along the “Chaotic is/is connected to the Cothica” theory), and Ghost, now ascended, doesn’t want to deal with yet another “dream entity” threatening their people. Even when they do learn that’s not the case, they don’t really undo it, because by then they’ve received enough tales from the Perrans that it’s a bad idea.

The leaders of the main four tribes are initially shocked to learn that the rightful King of Hallownest and Princess of Deepnest are, by their own standards, children. Children who’ve been in arrested development for centuries and only just started growing again, but children no less. Even Hornet’s so small compared to them that she has to be given a booster seat to see over the railing of the Underworld Colosseum.

Queen Aszil develops something of a fondness for the Hollow Knight, or Prinn Zilfor as she begins to call them (a gender neutral title for prince/princess and a Danian name meaning “Pure/Noble”). A battle-scarred warrior with a soul of steel and swordsmanship skills to match; what’s not to love? I HC the vessels as being unable to speak like normal - soulspeak, the “language of the gods,” functions more like telepathy than speech and when they speak it to mortals it is flat out intimidating - so they communicate via letters. “Zilfor” is much more eloquent in writing than they initially come off.

Grimm Jr quickly gains a reputation as a diplomatic tool, because his brand of cute plucks the heartstrings of members of pretty much all the tribes. The Underworlders in particular were delighted to meet the little firecracker; I imagine UW kids are about as bitey and fiery as he is.

The Danians outright avoid invading the Nests because the last time they tried, they got driven out by native forces beyond their understanding. A plague of the mind, the Radiance’s plague, almost spread into Perim through the Danians, and in response, the queen of the time shut off all contact with Hallownest and destroyed any mention of the incident, save for documents labelled “Only Open During an Emergency” for the queens after her. Illexia’s read the documents, thinking they involved the M’arrillians, but Aszil has not. I imagine Aszil would be at least moderately horrified to learn that the Hollow Knight’s wounds are not just from battle, but from acting as a living prison for a divine plague.

The Underworlders do try invading, but are quickly driven out because they accidentally dug their way into Deepnest trying to avoid the Danians. The hostile environment and swarms of man-eating monsters very quickly send them packing.

It gets pretty quickly established how little interest the Nests have in the Cothica. Much to the confusion and even bemusement of the other leaders, Hornet tells them that they have no need for such things, as Hallownest has plenty magic and godly power on its own. Godly power is a lot less tempting when you’re already something of a demigod. On the muges’ side of things, they’re relieved, but also deeply concerned, because unlike their leaders, they can actually tell that Hornet, Ghost, the Hollow Knight, and a few other entities in the Nests really are Higher than most creatures.

The humans begin losing interest in Hallownest when they realize they can’t scan anything, except for a smallish group of eager explorers who like the challenge. Like spelunking but way harder because there are giant bugs trying to chase you off and actual spike pits with acid.

Monomon is a M’arrillian, or at least “ethnically” so. Knowing her, and knowing the Deep Mines, I imagine that if she was around at that time, she’d be an exile. Though she helped with the Vessel experiments, I don’t think she’d approve of taking over the dryland and possibly destroying all the life and diversity there. She’s a scholar, a scientist, and her quotes (used and unused) all point to her being all about variety, learning, and life, so I can’t imagine she’d want anything to do with Aa’une or his megalomaniacal plans.

Designs for the illustrations/comics are going to be at a midway point between the art styles of the canon materials, with design adjustments on both sides as necessary. On the average, most bugs are about human size. Creature designs might be slightly simplified for ease of drawing to match the ease of drawing the bugs.

And that’s all I got for now. When I come back to this I’ll get to writing that crossover thing for reals.

#hollow knight #let's get chaotic #chaotic cartoon #crossover nonsense #plans

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