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hornetposting · 1 year

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ok whoops i ended up being a bit busy so i wasn’t able to write this immediately!

we all know that the pale king wasn’t a good father to the vessels because, well. mass infanticide to the point of having an entire pit full of your dead children’s corpses isn’t really a sign of good parenting. but what was he like to hornet?

it’s honestly really hard to tell what their relationship would’ve been like just because there’s not a lot we encounter in game that reveals that. so! i’m gonna do a bit of theory crafting here so take what i say with a grain of salt. this is my personal interpretation of the text in game.

first, hornet never actually talks about the pale king. despite guarding the wyrm corpse, she never mentions anything about her relationship with him. contrasting to this, after breaking herrah’s seal hornet is there, mourning her mother. and while i would like to point out this isn’t exactly a fair comparison because the wyrm corpse isn’t actually the pale king’s dead body i just wanted to put this observation here.

in fact, the main reason why we know hornet is the pale king’s child is because of a line from the white lady

but again, it emphasizes more on her relationship with herrah than anything. (the other clue is hornet’s dialogue in regards to the hollow knight, in referring to them as “siblings”. and since we know herrah is her mother it would just be process of elimination as to who their shared parent is)

also small side note, it looks like hornet doesn’t have that great of a relationship with white lady, or at least not a deep one, if how she refers to her as just “the creature” is anything to go by.

it’s honestly odd how hornet never mentions herself why hallownest is so important to her. she’s the princess of it! she’s the king’s daughter! and she’s spent all this time protecting it, and yet we don’t actually know why she’s doing it. she could leave, nothing is stopping her. we know that the weavers left hallownest and that they still cared about hornet if the weaversong, a charm that was most likely meant for her, is anything to go by. there was nothing that could’ve stopped her from leaving with them. who cares about this rotting kingdom anyway? we know who did, the pale king

the entire reason why the vessels were made was because he desperately wanted to stop his kingdom from falling into ruin. and we know his plan failed. we know hornet is at least a little knowledgeable about the vessels, the seals, the infection. she knows the hollow knight is her sibling, that her father is not above such dire sacrifices. she was raised with a mindset of being indebted. she felt indebted to her mother for being born. could you imagine how indebted she felt to her father too?

knowing this, it’s no wonder why despite all this time, she’s still trying to keep together the pieces of a kingdom long lost to infection and ruin. she’s trying to keep her father’s legacy alive still. to the point where she’s willing to essentially stand by while her mother fades away, gone for good, just for a chance that the kingdom could still be saved.

and this is a bit petty but i think it’s a pretty asshole move to have your child protect your kingdom then just peace out to the dream realm leaving her to fend for herself :/

to summarize: hornet’s relationship with her mother is much more emphasized than the one with her father, despite his kingdom being the one she’s protecting. hornet was raised to basically idolize self-sacrifice, her sibling being the hollow knight, the pale king “sacrificing” his child to be a vessel, her mother sacrificing herself so hornet could be born. this makes for an unhealthy mindset that hornet carries to this day.

#hollow knight #this got long. whew #catty.txt #long post #idk my thoughts are a lil over the place #but i cant think anymore

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renae022 · 3 months

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(small sketch)

Blaze, Princess of Hallownest

#sonic the hedgehog #blaze the cat #hollow knight #hollow knight hornet #sonic fanart

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gamequoteshowdown · 3 months

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Quote 1: “We are a path in the woods. We have no beginning, and we have no end, but something cold and unnatural sits watching us from just beyond our edge.” - The Wild, Slay the Princess

Quote 2: "When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" - Cave Johnson, Portal 2

Propaganda

Quote 1: The phrase I submitted was said by the Princess herself, in a form called the Wild. In this form, she has become one with the world, and you have become one with her. You are the Wild as much as the Princess is. And without spoiling too much, the Wild has gotten closest to the truth of who she is than any other Princess. So this game technically has three characters: You, the Princess, and the Narrator. You and the Princess each have many different forms of themselves, which make up the rest of the characters in this game, but the Narrator is just himself. He opens every chapter with the phrase, “You’re on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess.” At this point in the game, you’ve heard this quote at least twice before, and it’s likely you’ve heard it many, many more times. So the fact that the Wild opens with this quote is strange. The quote itself is also interesting in that it directly contradicts the Narrator’s version. “You’re on a path in the woods.” No. We ARE the path in the woods, so we can’t be on it. “And at the end of that path is a cabin.” This is the only chapter in the entire game where you don’t go somewhere that is/was a cabin, or even a building of some sort. “And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess.” She isn’t in the cabin. She is with you, similar to how the Narrator was with you. But this time, it is the Narrator that is foreign to you, as the Wild says that he is “watching us from just beyond our edge.” Her first line is the antithesis of the Narrator’s. Nothing she does aligns with what the Narrator wants. No wonder he wants you to slay her. - Submitter

Quote 2: You should vote for this quote because of course it's funny, but also because it is a great callback to earlier in the game when Cave Johnson says “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” referring to continuing to use moon rocks for portals, despite them making him “deathly ill”. This quote also provides a lot of characterization for Cave, showing how he is slightly insane and has a very big ego, big enough to think that he has the capability to somehow burn down life's house. - @knight-of-hallownest, a person who has quoted this countless times to my face

#polls #tumblr polls #tournament poll #tournament polls #slay the princess #portal #game quote showdown

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bell-symphony · 2 years

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Princess Hornet needed a new adjusted style ... So here we go ! Her new dress, a necklace for her Mother and Deepnest symbolism, and that's it . Watch her as she grows !

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secret-bug-pain-blog · 3 months

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Febuwhump 2024, Day 1 - Helpless (fic below cut)

@febuwhump

Hornet flexed her pedipalps, snapping weakly at their hands, the poison coursing through her veins proving frustratingly difficult to throw off. She could barely move her claws, merely bristle and snarl silently, her vocal chords straining to deliver even a simple rumble of displeasure. Their hands merely tightened on her throat, holding her still as if she were a mere dirtcarver and twisting her head to the side. Hornet squirmed in their grip, clawing weakly at their coat sleeves.

Their hand closed around her cloak's clasp.

For a single moment, Hornet realized just what they were doing. Indignation surged in her throat, followed by raw fury - how dare they?! To strip the robes from a princess, to take the last gift she had ever received from the weavers-

SNAP.

Hornet crumpled to the ground as they abruptly released her, silk rolling over her sides and attempting to snag on her scales as her cloak was pulled off of her. She landed badly enough that she could feel something jolt out of alignment beneath her shell, weakened muscles failing to respond in time to catch her fall. Her yelp was embarassingly muted, more of a whimper than anything worthy of a Princess of Hallownest.

Her limbs strained and protested as she forced herself back onto all fours. Merely putting weight on her limbs was painful, as though her tendons would snap with barely an inch more strain, but she was loathe to let the pirate have an inch of victory.

The mossy red of her cloak vanished behind his arm, and all Hornet could feel was burning, indignant rage.

As she bared her fangs in a snarl, wobbly on her feet against a body that seemed determined to rebel against her, she caught the eye of the captain, staring judgmentally down at her.

The butterfly frowned at her, one arm going to caress the side of her mask. Her hysterical growl did nothing to deter him as he traced along where her mask met her face, her snapping pedipalps always falling just barely short, her claws-

The captain made a tutting sound, as if he thought he were talking to a hatchling-beast, and Hornet lurched forward in an attempt to bury her fangs in his chitin, a brief sense of indignation at the slight overwhelming her common sense. His claws slipped beneath her mask-

-and in an instant, she was bare-faced, her shell exposed to the open air.

Hornet recoiled, her claws flying to her face in a futile attempt to hide her bared muzzle. Her secondary sets of eyes felt nearly blinded in the sudden light, a breeze all too cold brushing against naked setae - the noise she made couldn't rightfully be called anything more than a squawk, a noise so undignified that she would have felt ashamed if not for the far more pressing issue of her mask.

Her limbs threatened to give out within seconds of assuming the pose, too weak to allow for any form of bipedal motion. Her nicitating membranes blinked furiously, a futile attempt to block out the painful light of the cargo hold. She snarled uselessly, helpless to do much more than watch the smooth-tooled bone of her mask vanish behind too-blue wings, her setae set on end as she collapsed once more to holding her weight on her elbows, ignoring the shooting pain that sparked from her shoulder.

How dare he. How dare they?! Hornet's growl grew louder, straining her throat painfully as she stared the bug down. Her legs wobbled beneath her, the set of her arms threatening to betray her at any moment, her venom still stubbornly failing to come to her claws. She refused to lie down and- and take this! She met his eyes the best she could, defiant as she could manage, her setae bristling weakly as she struggled to remain upright.

The pirate did not respond, merely continuing to stare at her as if judging her for her weakness. Hornet could feel her limbs threaten to give out as she stared at him, bristling defensively. She refused to back down. She REFUSED to allow him to get the last laugh.

The pirate looked at her, for a moment, like she was dirt beneath his feet. And then he was gone, her cloak and mask gone with him.

Hornet's growl lasted barely a few seconds before going out in a disgraceful wheeze, her throat burning in a way that suggested she had majorly overstrained it, even though she had done little but express the most basic of unfriendlinesses.

...her mask had been stolen, and she had been capable of doing little more than snarling and squirming like a premature nymph.

Hornet swallowed spit back down, trying to force back the sudden wave of helplessness. She was a princess of Hallownest. She had survived the Infection, she had survived the Fall, she had survived the destruction of the Black Egg temple, she had survived past the death of her final remaining vessel-siblings. She had no reason to falter at this- this-

Her shoulder gave out, and Hornet crumpled to the ground, choking on her own breath. Every muscle in her body burned, as if they'd truly been exerted, rather than poisoned. It hurt just to move, a bruise forming across her side.

She was the Princess of Hallownest. She would escape. She would get out, she would go home, she would see her kingdom again.

The cloying feeling of helplessness burned far worse than the poison.

#whump #my posts #writing #febuwhump #febuwhumpday1 #febuwhump2024 #helpless #manhandling #poisoning #probably some other stuff but we're queueing this at like 2 am so #hollow knight #hornet #nudity #(??? shes more upset about losing her mask than the nudity part but we feel like it may be necessary to note)

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spectruminterests · 3 months

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What other ideas did you also have for the Hollow Knight Modern AU?

I have… a lot. (For context: I originally posted about my Hollow Knight Modern AU here). I tried to type some things out and then tumblr erased it, so instead you get my unorganized ramblings that I have on my notes app. (Under the cut so not everyone has to read them). Essentially, Pale Royal (the Pale King) is the mayor of the oddball town of Hallownest and the somewhat negligent father of five chaotic children.

Character names:

Pale Royal (= The Pale King)

Blanca Royal (White Lady)

Hollis Royal (The Hollow Knight/Pure Vessel)

Kinsey Royal (Broken Vessel/Lost Kin)

Hornet Weaver (Hornet- her mom insisted she should have the Weaver name)

Herrah Weaver (Herrah the Beast)

Greene Royal (Greenpath vessel)

Knight "Ghost" Royal (The Knight/Ghost/player character)

Grimm Nightmare Sr. (Troupe Master/Nightmare King Grimm)

Grimm Nightmare Jr. (Grimmchild)

Dr. Sophia Monomon (Monomon the Teacher, I chose the name Sophia because it means wisdom or knowledge)

Quirrel Monomon (Quirrel, Monomon's adopted son)

Morningstar Claw (Mantis Lord)

Lance Claw (Mantis Lord)

Arrow Claw (Mantis Lord)

Mace Claw (Traitor Lord)

Bretta Scriber (Bretta)

Tiso Shieldsmith (Tiso)

Sybil Erebis (Seer)

Pale and Blanca have an open relationship - Blanca and Herrah get along fine and Pale having a child with Herrah wasn’t a problem for Blanca. Blanca is also bisexual and in a relationship with Dryya, the Hallownest Chief of Police.

Tween Hornet: What are you talking about I have no interest in girly things I like ninjas and swords! *hides princess book under the bed*

Ghost: second grade Force of Chaos

Grimmchild/Grimm Jr.: Second grade arsonist and Ghost's best friend/accomplice

Pale King and White Lady: parenting is easy! Just let the kids figure it out for themselves!

Teenage/Young adult Hollow Knight: the only responsible person in the household. Is slowly going insane taking care of four younger siblings.

Troupe Master Grimm/Grimm Sr.: Similar parenting philosophy to PK and WL. Is *fabulous* Actively encourages his son to be a ball of chaos.

Herrah: Like a crazy cat lady but with spiders. Her home is not a place for the faint of heart.

Teenage Mantis Lords: Sisters Morningstar, Lance, and Arrow. Leaders of the student-run Fencing Club which is really just a veneer for a bunch of kids who want to be TOUGH WARRIORS! Members include Hornet and Cloth.

Traitor Lord: Mantis sisters’ older brother Mace. A deadbeat high school dropout who makes a living as a drug dealer. The family doesn't talk about him.

Lance: "Yes I'm a girl and anyone else who'd like to comment gets STABBED!"

People know better than to mess with these kids.

When Grimm gets a call from the school: "Oh? My son set a fire in the boys' bathroom, you say? Did he tell you why? Because toilet paper is very flammable, he said? Oh well, kids will be kids, it sounds very much like something I would have done at his age... Suspended? Surely that's a little harsh? With all due respect, I think this behavior is teaching him important life skills! Surely that should be more acceptable in a school?"

I'm imagining Grimm Jr. asking Ghost to run away and join the circus with him 😆😆😆

"You'd be a great act, Ghost! I'm sure my dad wouldn't mind having another kid! You could be an acrobat or a clown or a mime... (at this point Ghost gives him a look).... okay, maybe not a mime."

The town of Hallownest is technically their "hometown," but the Nightmares travel. Grimm Sr. just drops his kid off at the local public school whenever he's too busy to take care of him, never mind whether or not he's actually enrolled. Cue a lot of teachers trying to figure out where the hell this kid came from. How much the kid is actually learning, missing school so often and being dropped in random classes is... questionable, but everything is fine! The Hallownest school system has already given up. Grimm Jr. really only goes to school because Dad is too busy to deal with him full time 😆

He's doing his best to just push his kid off on a stranger like in-game 😆

Ghost also often begs for Grimm to come sleep over, which of course causes more chaos than usual in the Royal household. Poor Hollis, trying to maintain some semblance of order.

Bretta is already writing fanfic. Ghost once saves her from a bully by dropping onto him from a tree, at which point Bretta decides she’s in love. Then Bretta mentions this to Greene. Bretta: “Oh, is he your brother? He’s so hot! 😍😍” Greene: “… sibling. And they’re seven.” Bretta: “Oh… so that’s why he’s… they’re… so short….” *is mortified*

Bretta later develops a crush on Hollis and writes fan fiction about them.

Grimm just drops off his kid at the Royal house with no notice and no indication of how long he'll be gone 😆

The whole Royal family is autistic in some fashion, because look at them. Pale is an inventor in his spare time and is always thinking about how to optimize infrastructure in the town of Hallownest. He also works late and forgets to eat or sleep when he's hyperfocused. Blanca (White Lady) spends more time with her garden and her large variety of houseplants than with her children, and everything has to be clean and Just So or she'll make a fuss. She always adjusts her children's and stepdaughter's clothing before they leave the house, much to Ghost's and Hornet's chagrin.

Hollis couldn't break a rule to save their life and comes off as stiff and robotic when trying to interact with people. Their parents are proud of the former and entirely oblivious to the latter.

Kinsey is sensory-sensitive and awkward. Loud noises, bright lights, and busy rooms drive them crazy. This does not stop them from being kind of an extrovert or from getting into trouble with Hornet.

Hornet, for her part, has some sensory issues with clothing (and hates the fancy things her stepmother tries to shove her into with a passion) and speaks in a very blunt but also overly archaic/wordy manner (if you've seen her dialogue in game you'll know what I'm talking about). She has little interest in socializing with people unless a) they're her mom or siblings, b) she's causing trouble, and/ or c) it's something violence-related.

Greene takes after their mom with their love of plants. They also love animals and are better with animals than people. They're super shy and awkward lol

Ghost is well, Ghost. They often struggle to speak/experience speech loss and have a raging case of ADHD in addition to the autism, making them constantly chasing after new and interesting things, unwilling and unable to pay attention unless they're interested, and entirely oblivious to social norms. In other words, they're hell to deal with 😆

Quirrel is Miss Monomon's adopted son and a giant nerd. He's 14 and a sophomore in high school because he skipped a grade as a kid. He has an I ❤️ isopods (group including pill bugs) pin on his backpack and is really into "bugs" and other invertebrates.

Hollis, nicknamed "Holly" by their siblings, is Very Tall (like 6 foot 5 or something), rather gangly and skinny, and AMAB (in part to make their height more plausible lol). At first they look kinda intimidating but they wouldn't hurt a fly, and are just about the quietest, shyest person ever, with one exception: if you hurt their siblings, you incur their wrath. Other than that they will take anything that's thrown at them - bullying, name-calling, way too many home responsibilities for a teenager, etc. - with a stoic front. They have just about no self-esteem and have a bad case of "awkward tall person syndrome," always hunching over and trying not to stand out despite the fact that they are literally head and shoulders above their classmates. Like all their siblings they have white hair (which they keep long), pale skin and very dark eyes.

Blanca (the White Lady) is an albino, thus the white skin, white hair, and very light blue eyes. She's also something of a Karen and acts like being an albino makes her an oppressed minority or something.

She also never leaves the house without makeup.

Tiso Shieldsmith is Hollis's classmate and maybe-friend who moved to Hallownest last year. He's kind of an idiot teenage boy and he calls Hollis "Stick Bug" thanks to their stick-bug-esque physique. He's, obviously, in the martial arts and fencing club, and he's kind of trying to be a tough jock but not always succeeding. I love the way he interacts with Hollis:

"Yo, Stick Bug, my man! I mean, my non-binary guy... I mean, uh...whatever. How are you doing, pal?"

*Hollis stares at him in an expressionless way as Tiso rambles.*

Hollis always refers to their parents as Mother and Father instead of just saying "Mom" or "Dad." It's out of respect mainly, and also because Blanca tends to like everything fancy. The outfit I drew Hollis in is what they normally wear to school, at their mother's request XD

Radiance is a local celebrity with a cult-like fan base. Miss Sybil (Seer) is the school's history teacher and the students are shocked when they discover she's an intense Radiance fan. “Radiance” is a stage name and she's Grimm's cousin (a relationship neither of them particularly care to mention most of the time). Pale hates her for reasons unknown, to the point where Pale has tried to pass all kinds of town restrictions on shows and circuses specifically because of Grimm and Radiance. Grimm either ignores the anti-circus ordinances or finds loopholes, and protesters stormed the town hall at the restrictions affecting the Radiance, enough that Pale had to undo them.

Grimm has some level of ability to break the law in Hallownest in part because the police in Hallownest don't want to deal with him either (lol) and in part because Blanca has used her influence and her relationship with the Chief of Police, Dryya, to discourage the Hallownest Police Department from prosecuting him. “Oh, Mr. Nightmare can’t be in jail, his son is my youngest’s best friend, and the poor man is a single father. I can’t imagine what that would do to poor Grimm Junior. Not to mention I’ve heard that Radiance is actually a relative of his… do you want her fans storming the police department?” (This is, of course, behind her husband’s back.)

Grimm is also very good at finding loopholes, twisting people's words, and generally being a pain in the arse to anyone who has issues with him.

Herrah has dark skin and a fat but very muscular figure. Usually around Hornet and the Royal kids she's all motherly and sweet, but when dealing with people she doesn't like she's intimidating AF.

Obviously the Royal family is white af because... a) they're entitled jerks, at least to a degree and b) look at them.

Hornet has brown/light brown skin but still has the white-blond hair and almost-black irises that run in Dad's side of the family. She gets strangers trying not to stare occasionally, but at least she isn't so pale she could be mistaken for a corpse XD

In fact I imagine that several of the characters often get strangers trying not to stare- Hollis and Grimm Jr. come to mind.

Grimm has dressed his son in red and black since he was a baby; it’s not every day you see an 8-year old dressed in a fancy black and red suit with a cape and makeup that looks like a cross between "vampire," "emo," and "circus."

Tiso: Yo, Stick Bug! What's with the dress? You look like you're going to prom or something!

[Hollis is wearing a white frilly dress that's too long to be anything other than one their mom ordered specially made, along with a fancy necklace and earrings]

Hollis: Mother has tea with her gardeners' club this afternoon and would like to show me off to all her gardening friends (said in a completely calm tone, even with a slight smile)

Tiso: "Show you off?!?” You say it like you're her favorite doll instead of her kid! Are you expected to do anything at her event? That sure doesn't look like gardening clothes. Your mom is definitely being weird, you sure you're okay with this?

Hollis: Of course. It means Mother is proud of me.

Hollis has issues.

They're shy and desperate for approval and their parents are (somewhat unintentionally) walking all over them. They need love and support that's not tying their value to being "perfect." Luckily, their siblings don't want Perfect Obedient Hollis, they want the real, happy them.

#katlyn post #hollow knight #the pale king #ghost hollow knight #fanfiction #the hollow knight #hornet #hornet hollow knight #hollow knight au #katlyn writes nonsense #Town of Hallownest AU

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