#Auri and Grimm <3

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Anyways, I really like how this turned out. :] They're just so,,, dapper.

#Auri <3 #he <3 #the pale king #troupe master grimm #Gim <3 #Pale Nightmare #these two <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #hollow knight #mostly just a neat little doodle page #sometimes I just have to draw them bein' cool together to cope with how fucked their relationship is in this au lmao #I love how angular and pretty Auri turned out here especially #he just gets pointier every time I draw him lmao #Also #they both look hella fly in opposite colours #I'm glad I made the decision to make Auri's suit black and Grimm's white #it is just... #it's a vibe :] #I'm rarely this pleased with my own art #let me have this #/lh #rot's art #nyctophobia au

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ANOTHER FRIEND SPAM!!!

I tried to draw an image for all of my friends who were kind enough to join something I had made! I am so grateful for all of them, it was a challenge, but it was lots of fun! 

I really want to go practice backgrounds, because as much as I love my fun funky shapes, I feel like I gotta start challenging myself.

1.) Harpy Lance for Tisefe 2.) Autumn for Scarllet 3.) Heïreck for @donutdrawsthings 4.) Leo for Noastar 5.) Marmal for @rose-grimm-spirit-does-dumb-shit 6.) Barb for @brak-pak 7.) Ternary for @auris-borealis 8.) Juillet for ThatOneGUy31415 9.) Petro for iinterstellar 10.) Flynn and Jameson for Octo

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#TigToggle #friend characters #gift #art

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Here is our line-up for Golden Triangle Comic Con! You can see Rynil, Grimme, Emi, Drekonah, Rehthea, and Auri this Saturday.

We will be at table A2 near registration at the entrance. We are hosting a panel called "Intro to Cosplay" from 3:00 to 3:25 where we will go over all the basics. Rehthea will be live-streaming at table G8 so make sure to drop by! Event Tickets Location Schedule Map

#golden triangle comic con #comic con #convention #anime con #mississippi #ministry of silly suits

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Help, I just think their relationship dynamic is really funny.

#hollow knight #hollow knight au #au #Auri <3 #pale wyrm #wyrm #I needed to get a design for big Wyrm Auri created #Grimm #troupe master grimm #these two <3 #I feel like Grimm just says a bunch of shitty pickup lines #and Auri gets all flustered over them #This is technically ship art #but also a shitpost #does this ship even have a name??? #well #I'll just use this tag to talk about them: #Auri and Grimm <3 #Grimm having subtle eyelashes is my life #I don't care if him having lashes makes sense #I just like it

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"Look, man—" I spent like, way too long on this, especially since I drew many of the frames while tipsy, so pray for me. It is actually my magnum opus now, honestly.

Also, if you know where this audio is from and the exact video, then I love you and will kiss you. /thr (/j)

#hollow knight au #hollow knight #au #Auri <3 #the pale king #troupe master grimm #Auri and Grimm <3 #shitpost #spending too long on a shitpost again I see #I should really stop drawing while drunk #but am I gonna? #naaaah #unus annus audio #hollow knight memes #yes #I am still on unus annus memes #momento mori #tbh the entire unus annus dynamic is just Auri and Grimm in a nutshell

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BAD/OLD ART POST

There were a few pieces that I hadn't shared before because I didn't like them too much, but I've decided to share them anyway because why not??

This one was drawn on March 22nd this year and I believe it was the first time I drew Grimm (and you can definitely tell). I drew this in reference to a short seven-page fic I wrote months ago. It's actually what kickstarted this whole AU, lmao. Wrote a fic where these two argued and got inspired to make an actual plot. ��� Auri has also gotten hella angular since then, lmao.

This one was drawn on May 17th, so kinda old. I just didn't post it before because I just don't like it all that much, lmao. This one was also based off of a short five-page fic that I wrote that is,,,, actually relevant to this AU and not a part of the main story wtf??? Maybe I should post that, lmao. Tell me if you wanna see that, I guess.

This last one, I drew on June 10th. Again, it's not old. It's just art I was unsatisfied with. Mostly because I dislike the background and wish that I had actually planned it out a little more before going into the lineart phase, lmao. But, hey. At least this was the piece that dictated that Hollie has sleeves. 🙏🙏🙏

#hollow knight au #hollow knight #au #hollow knight art #just a bunch of assorted art #art that I don't like #for one reason or another #Auri <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #Hollie and Quirrel <3 #troupe master grimm #the pale king #quirrel my beloved #the hollow knight #pure vessel #just a collection of stinky art #i mean #it's not that bad #but still #didn't know how else I should post it #rot's art #nyctophobia au

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hmmm OK. I think I got something, sorry if this has already been answered,

How did they meet?

Also just to keep the conversation wheel turning so there's more then just one question to answer/thing to say, I'll just include one of my own headcanons and you can weigh your thoughts in if you want /nf

I feel like Grimm would 110% be the type, where in public, he'd just sort of subtly flirt (and probably be suggestive with it) trying to get pk to blush/be flustered. Just very smooth subtle slips into conversation and little gestures. I can see him probably doing stuff like, if he is going to whisper something, leaning in reeaally close (way more so than he actually needs to)

No, it has not been answered, and you are a God send bc I wanted to talk about this. /pos

Okay, so when they first met, Auri sort of tried to eat him almost,,, LET ME ELABORATE. So, before they met, they were both extremely solitary individuals. Auric was (and still is) afflicted with anxiety and EXTREME tokophobia. He was afraid to interact with other Wyrms for fear of being killed in a territory dispute, or (in his opinion) worse, ending up mated. He was a relatively small Wyrm compared to others (a little runt bitch baby, lmao) and so, he stayed solitary and far away from other Wyrms. He was not able to speak to mortal bugs either. I mentioned this in my Higher Being post about him (you can find it here for more elaboration), but when he was a Wyrm, he was only able to communicate with others telepathically. I often describe it as the ability to "project his voice into others' heads." Vesla actually does this all the time to communicate (she does not have a mouth), but unlike her voice, Auric's voice can be incredibly painful to hear when he wants it to be. As a Wyrm, he was unable to control his voice at all and simply hearing it would be debilitating for any normal bug. Even if it hadn't been painful for others, Auri wasn't exactly interested in speaking to them anyway, being that they were mostly mindless and lacked sentience. So, he was incredibly lonely and unsocialised. Grimm, similarly, didn't really have many companions either. Before his Troupe, he worked relatively alone. He would travel to different fallen kingdoms and find someone to perform the Ritual. His life was a constantly repeating cycle of boredom. His only companion at all was the voice of the Nightmare King within his head (and the two of them really hate each other and fight constantly).

So yeah, the two of them were both really lonely hermits who did not know how to socialise very well (especially Auri).

They first met by chance one evening during a pretty nasty storm. Grimm was wandering the wasteland and desperately looking for a place to take cover from the weather, when he happened upon the cave. When he slipped inside, he realised pretty fuckin' quick that he was not alone in the cave (RIP). Auri was in the midst of a nesting cycle (I also talked about that in the aforementioned Higher Being post), and he was not enthused or happy to be disturbed. Being fatigued and well-fed, however, he did not make an active effort to attack Grimm though (lucky man, I stg). Grimm was initially quite scared for his life!!! But, upon speaking to the Pale Wyrm, he realised that he was actually rather reasonable for a giant, carnivorous apex predator. Also, Grimm was the first ever person who he could actually speak to without hurting. Being that Grimm is the Vessel of a Higher Being, he was able to communicate without any hardship. This whole thing is what led to Auric believing that Grimm himself was the Nightmare King, which was a misconception that Grimm actively fed into and never corrected until the proposal like,,, a century later. But ANYWAYS (getting rambly and off-topic here,,,), Grimm asked big Wyrm Auri if he could sleep in his den until the storm calmed and Auri reluctantly agreed. From that point forward, the two of them began building up a rapport and became amazing friends. Being that Grimm was an entusiastic traveller himself, he adored it when Auri told him about the places he'd been and things he'd seen. Their relationship took on a more romantic context about fifteen years after their meeting, which is hilarious to me because Auri was still a big, giant Wyrm LMAO. Idk how detailed I should get after that, but yeah. Overly-detailed summary. <3 And as for your headcanons about Grimm, I 110% agree! I've always felt he gets a kick out of pushing Auri's buttons and being flirtatious in public. He also strikes me as the really touchy type, enjoying physical closeness. /pos

#answered asks #Auri <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #I am sorry that was way too long #I just word vomited on you #but I have been holding back on elaborating about their past on my blog for FAR too long #au asks #nyctophobia au

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This statement of mine becomes progressively more and more true every time I write something.

#neurodivergent mind prison rambles #hollow knight #fic related stuff #Auri and Grimm <3 #I love angst fr

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Not me over here having an existential crisis about how to draw Grimm and Auri smooching.

#neurodivergent mind prison rambles #no actually #every time I think about it #I'm just like #* squints * #''How tf do I make their faces fit together?'' #hollow knight #Auri <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #pain

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Eep, so since some people mentioned being interested in the fic I wrote related to the drawing I did of Grimm carrying Auric bridal style see this post here, I went back and edited it and have now posted it. So, if y'all were one of the homies interested in it, here is the link.

I'll probably get around to writing some more fics on this account (including the main one) sometime in the future, but Gods know when, lmao.

#hollow knight au #hollow knight #au #fanfic #Auri <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #I don't call him Auri in the fic tho because that wasn't his name yet #oneshot #I am sleep deprived #and these two have taken over my entire life #disclaimer: #I am not that great of a writer #bear with me here

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You guys should all ask me questions about Auric and Grimm, bc now I'm thinking about them and I want to ramble about them. /thr (/lh)

#Auri <3 #Auri and Grimm <3 #distract me please

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https://youtube.com/shorts/vOQELqwVQF4?feature=share as inspiration-

Auric- "Why are there 800,000 Geo missing from my savings!?"

Grimm, wearing the equivalent of a gucci jacket- "Wormy, I'm a ✨️Material Gal✨️"

Auric, absolutely fuming- "GET OUT OF MY PALACE!"

I LOST IT OVER THIS, THANK YOU.

#answered asks #hollow knight au #Grimm just wants to be his sugar baby #Auri and Grimm <3 #Auri <3

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I love old man yaoi.

#Auri <3 #he <3 #the pale king #troupe master grimm #hollow knight au #hollow knight #au #hollow knight art #see? I fixed the anatomy as promised lmao #I like how this one turned out #Auri's new design scratches an itch in my autistic brain I love #I love their moufs fr fr #Also their height/size difference has me WEAK bro #pale nightmare #them <3 #nyctophobia au #rot's art

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I had to do it, boys. This has no right looking as nice as it does. I really spent like five hours on this. I like to think that their crime was public indecency. <3 Original beneath the cut.

#hollow knight #hollow knight art #shitpost #but I spent like way too long on it #I needed to make this and my friends enabled me #Auri <3 #he <3 #the pale king #troupe master grimm #Pale Nightmare #barbie #barbie movie #barbie mugshot meme #their height difference <3 #it's life what can I say #meme #rot's art #nyctophobia au

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I don't normally post WIPs here, but I really like this sketch and I won't be able to finish it for a while, so go ahead and have. (I promise I'll fix the anatomy in the final version gjhjgnmghf)

#Auri <3 #he <3 #the pale king #troupe master grimm #I love my new design for Auri so much fr fr #his mouf... :] #he deserves to smile #hollow knight #hollow knight art #sketch #wip #current wip #pale nightmare #nyctophobia au #rot's art

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Hi, I know I've been dead for like a month, but I am back to post this. I made a gjinka of she for funsies. <3

#hollow knight #hollow knight art #she <3 #Radi <3 #the radiance #I don't think I've ever drawn her before #I just sketched her in my maths notebook and I liked it enough to line colour and fully render it #I'll probably be posting some more gjinkas sometime soon #I've drawn Auri and Grimm like several times #I just haven't lined or cleaned any up yet lmao #gjinka #hk art #hk gjinka #back into hiding for the next month lmao #oh right and the gradient on her hands isn't indicative of anything #I just think it looks cool #cool long nail hands scratchy scratchy my beloved #rot's art