I’ve had too many bug thoughts and had to draw a reference of my Pale King before I lose it.
Anyway reference notes and little tidbits/HC's!
The runes are written in Willowscript! It's a code created by @thealchemybook on tik tok! Go check them out because they also do other cool codes! I just usually go with Willowscript because I like the look of it and I'm currently learning to write in it.
The cloak's pin hides PK's half of the kingsoul. The pin itself is a combination of the king's brand and a complete looking kingsoul. It's kind of PK's way of trying to cleverly hide his actual piece while still going "I really really love my wife and want to show my love of her to the world."
His tail has spines of the end that are much darker than the rest of his body because I liked the contrast that they gave him. I almost made them the same sort of material as his wings but decided against it. The reason it's that dark is also because I took inspiration from Pale ore! It's got those dark bits in it (probably just ground but whatever)
His second pair of arms is not covered in fabric due to them being his "digging" pair and them typically being covered by the rest of his attire.
The way the robe flares out at the bottom was king of inspired by Grimm's neck collar thing. Also the way it parts isn't normal, it's just to show that it does part there so that when he walks he won't trip over himself.
The cape and robes being darker on the inside is purely personal preference and a need for more colours other than "Pale"
The runes are on each of his horns, with the other hidden ones being "Mind" "Ruler" "Ascended" and "Mimicker". This makes his eight (8) horns from the leftmost one in the picture around go: Knowledge, Soul, Pale, Wyrmling, Mimicker, Mind, Ruler, Ascended.
The words are present on every Wyrm, and change as one grows and changes substantially.
The reason the term Wyrmling is on the Pale King is because in wyrm year's he's not fully grown. He's close, but at the time of his rule it would have been another 150 years until he was old enough for Wyrmling to become simply Wyrm.
Mimicker is present because he changed his shape to blend into the bugs of Hallownest, mimicking them. Seeker is there because a large part of his life was him seeking something, a solution to the infection, a kingdom, loyalty, knowledge. Something.
The rest are kind of self explanatory
His wings fold into his back nicely and he can hide them using his magic.
(I also like to imagine that the monarch wing's were the remains of his wings and he had torn them apart before dragging the palace and himself into the dreamscape because he didn't want to be given the option of leaving the white palace and you kinda need the monarch wings to get through the traps but anyway-)
I'll probably draw another reference of him in battle armour because I have fun ideas for that!
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Old art I’m not motivated to finish,, 😐 I headcannon pats family were farmers and he helped on the farm as a kid and teen. I messed up on the Color’s but 🫠
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Naya!
The skirt/dress was hell to draw
Y’all hav a great week 🥖
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