#Nightmare heart

[mebis-art-dump]

Higher Beings

#hollow knight #mebi's art #krita #digital art #fanart #higher beings #pale wyrm #hk pale king #the pale king #hk wyrm #radiance #hk radiance #the radiance #nightmare heart #hk nightmare heart #the grimm troupe #hk grimm troupe

[interwovenwordsmith]

Poem about the Higher Beings of Hallownest. (Yes, I made up my mind.) Oddly, this was rather challenging to write. Because some of the Gods' lore is just lacking, and rhyming can be simply stubborn at times. Nevertheless, I tried, and I'm somewhat proud of this. I wasn't planning to write anything today, but music changed my mind, and I was painfully bored.

#poetry #hollow knight #young poets #photopea #pale king #hk radiance #shade lord #hk white lady #unn #nightmare heart #have a good day <3

[flame-shadow]

yahoo! secret santa for @vulturereyy!

#hollow knight #hollow knight oc #flameshadowart #id in alt #othersocs #dysilla #nightmare heart #grimm troupe

[progenycursed]

Unpopular Take on Radiance

Spoiler warning for Hollow knight game.

I don’t think she’s the god of dreams. She’s the god of the old light and the moths. Nowhere in the game that I can find(and I have a lot of hours) is she called the god of dreams. Even in Godhome she is only called the “forgotten god of light.” If she anything, she is the god of the sun. When you start the fight with her, she is literally the sun in the sky.

I think the dream realm works kind of like the physical realm. Each god has a territory they lay claim to. The size depends on how many followers they have, which also effects their power level. For a physical god though, the dream realm wouldn’t be as important to them compared to a god whose entire being is within the dream realm.

In the game it is said that Radiance is ‘a higher being of light similar to essence,’ but she isn’t the only higher being of light, and all gods in the game have essence. The Pale King and White Lady both have white essence. His can be seen in the White Palace dream, his dream. Her’s can be seen in god home. Much like Unn’s whose green essence is floating all around her area in the pantheon. The nightmare heart has red essence. Even what’s left of the lifeblood god in the abyss has blue essence. I think essence is a trait of all higher beings of light, life, and memories.

Mini theory: I also believe that Pure Vessel has a form of essence. In their arena in Godhome, the particles floating in the air, some of its soul, some void, then there are the circles. The empty circles, almost like the dreamcatchers of essence, but with the inside gone. As if it was hollowed out… mini theory over.

But every dream you enter is hers! Yes, because she’s invading the dreams of all bugs. The reason the Hollow Knight plan was created in the first place. The plan that failed, allowing her to continue invading dreams. In fact, it’s stated in the slobbering husks journal entry, that ‘the harder you struggles against it, the more it consumed you.’ The bugs tried to repress her dream, so the dream manifested as the infection. She was set on invading every dream she could, one that she succeeded at by the time the game starts. Thus every dream you enter, is hers. She’s not the god of dreams, she just won the invasion and claimed all the territory. Plus, the tool you use to get into all dreams, is a tool created by the moths while they were still following her. It makes sense that the dream nail was made with her power, so everything it touches, has a little of her influence, her essence.

What of the moths influence over the dream realm? For whatever reason, Radiance lacks a physical from, so if she wanted to interact with her moths they would have to be able to enter her dream. Maybe that’s even why the dream nail was created. The moth tribe seems to have a lot of control over the dream realm, maybe because their possessive god preferred to keep them close. In fact, I believe that she may have tried her best to keep them in her dream almost completely. The moth tribes architecture suggests minimal interactions with the real world. And how they all seemingly abandoned her at once, suggests to me that they all realized at once that she wasn’t that great. Maybe she forcibly held them in the dream realm. If they were there most of the time, they would have a lot of influence and knowledge of the realm.

Like how the dream realm split long ago into nightmares. But it doesn’t say the split happened from Radiance’s dream, but the dream realm in general. Suggesting that higher beings come in two forms, benevolent dreams and malevolent nightmares. A culture that mostly resides in the dream realm, would be aware of the nightmare realm, a realm that might pose a serious threat to them. I don’t think the nightmare heart is Radiance sibling. I’m not even convinced that it has anything to do with her at all. It feeds off of the dying flames of a fallen civilization, that’s why its there. I’m not even convinced that the nightmare heart is THE god of nightmares, but A god of nightmares. But that’s a theory for another post.

If she was the god of dreams, then how could she have been forgotten? If she was the god of dreams, every bug in Hallownest would have entered her realm every time they sleep. It would have been impossible to forget her for this reason alone. But it is never mentioned that the bugs of Hallownest knew of her until after she started invading their dreams. She was only known to the moths until they abandoned her. If she was the god of dreams, that would throw SO many wrenches into the mosskin lore. The mosskin were created by Unn’s dream. But if Radiance is the god of dreams, how would that work? Do they classify as her people too? Did Unn take out a loan on the dream realm to make her people? If she was the god of dreams, why would she allow the Pale King to create a dream? A dream that he would have made while her infection was running rampant.

But what of the void being her ancient enemy? I think it’s her ancient enemy because she’s been in the area the longest. Or maybe because it consumed her real sibling and she thinks it’s trying to get her too? Which is a fair belief, but I think it’s because the void doesn’t like any higher being of light, or light in general. It somehow convinced the lighthouse keeper to turn off the light. Then took that chance to wrap its tendrils into the kingsmold armor in the palace grounds. Invaded the Pale Kings dreams, yet left all the people within and even the dream itself alone. Instead went straight for the throne room, melted all his void guards, and killed him. Filling the room that should be the brightest, and left void particles floating after it was done with him. The void even strikes out at vessels, because even though they are mostly void, they are still the offspring of two beings of light.

Mini hypothesis: What if all the giant bug bodies were other gods that came to the area? What if they all fell to the void? Hypothesis over.

TLDR: no where in the game is Radiance called the god of dreams. She just took over all the dreams because the Hollow Knight plan that was to stop her from doing this, failed. Her being the god of dreams doesn’t fit with other parts of the game lore including Unn’s mosskin, the Pale King’s white palace dream, and the essence of the other gods. She is just the spite filled old light and the creator of moths. Or in another mini theory, possible the godly embodiment of the sun itself, which might explain why the world of Hallownest lacks a sun.

#hollow knight #hollow knight radiance #hollow knight theory #radiance #radiance not the god of dreams #dream realm #higher beings #grimm is not her sibling #Unn #Pale King #hollow knight pale king #hollow knight white lady #hollow knight unn #hollow knight nightmare heart #nightmare heart #white lady

[crazysnor1ax]

Burn the father, feed the child.

#I AM SO UNBELIEVABLY HAPPY WITH THIS ONE ADIDAISOBDOAIBASODIBSA #fun fact: when my friend explained the time loop in LN to me INSTANTLY i was like “oh so it's the grimm troupe from HK. okay cool” #if i had a nickel for every indie game with a cycle i'd have two nickels. which isnt a lot but its weird that its happened twice #snorlarts #grimm #grimmchild #nightmare heart #hk #hollow knight #mono ln #the thin man #the flesh walls #little nightmares #little nightmares 2 #little nightmares ii #ln ii

[candleman27]

Back to hollow knight art

Human! Grimm

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #procreate #character design #hollow knight fanart #grimm troupe #nightmare king grimm #nightmare heart #stage #spotlight #red #cartoon style

[couchcouchcouchcouch]

HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES.

#HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. #POV The Nightmare breaks your concentration and Slays You #i mostly drew the nightmare because its where i met voice of the paranoid #i love voice of the paranoid a lot #i love that the terrified voice in my head gets to be Helpful. and ACT #obviously incredibly prime subject to project onto #anyways i really like this game and when i can find the time and energy ive been trying to find all the paths and achievements by myself #so please enjoy my first post of the new year #i will not promise there will be more #i couldnt decide if i like the colors for the hand breaking our concentration so im giving yall both #voice of the paranoid #slay the princess #the nightmare #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art

[drawingroomanguish]

shoutout to tumblr for doing its level best to crunch these to hell

outfits from this lineup I did ages ago. This was supposed to be done ages ago but a bunch of work got in the way

#tf2 soldier #tf2 demoman #tf2 pyro #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 engineer #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #tf2 sniper #heavymedic #if you squint #tf2 fanart #tagging this is a fucking nightmare #tf2 mercs #art #click for better quality #in my heart they are all trans and/or nb

[beif0ngs]

walk walk fashion baby 🚶🏻‍♂️ 

#One Piece #opgraphics #Monkey D. Luffy #*mine #yay we finally have an animated sequence of all of Luffy's iconic outfits!! #and i honestly love every single one of his looks #but his Alabasta and Punk Hazard and Egghead fit hold a special place in my heart #like he just looks so floofy in those outfits 😊 #man tryna gif this was a nightmare tho because of all the colors #sorry if the gifs turned out kinda iffy :/

[sunclown]

Quiet

#op #one piece #zoro #sanji #zosan #forever thinking sbout thriller bark #never getting over thriller bark #zoro sleeps more soundly hugging sanji because he doesnt get nightmares about not being able to stop him #and sanji sleeps (slightly) better hugging zoro cuz he can feel his heart and presence and know hes still alive #i think that was the point where they got their heads out of their asses #specially sanji #AS IN oh we def like eachother in a more profound way than just this guy is hot and annoying #but didnt quite get to do much or rlly talk about it till after timeskip #but dw theyll pick up right where they left it at which is the reassuring hugs and naps #my art

[absurdumsid]

reposting coloured versions of the doodles from this thread with an update of the korean dialogue thanks to @monolite001 !!!! everybody thank her !

Murder! Sans belongs to ask-dusttale Killer! Sans belongs to rahafwabas Horror! Sans belongs to Sour-Apple-Studios Corrupted! Nightmare belongs to jokublog

#murder sans #dust sans #killer sans #horror sans #corrupted nightmare #nightmare sans #horrordust #<- implied #undertale au #bad sanses #sanscest #sans au #sid art #dust speaks korean hc makes me ILL i LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART

[mebis-art-dump]

Disembodied heart, disembodied head

I like to think of the lifeblood creature as some sort of lifeblood root-like being like white lady or potentially isma, but honestly there's a real chance it is entirely allocated to the dream realm and, kinda like the nightmare heart, is literally just what we see, a giant head (still made of vines though)

#hollow knight #nightmare heart #lifeblood creature #lifeblood beast #hk lifeblood #krita #digital art #fanart #mebi's art #gonna be honest i just drew this because i wanted to test out a brush I didn't realize krita has

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts dream drop distance #khddd #sora #riku #nightmare's end #mirage split #my gif #i was going to write up a whole thing in the tags about my thoughts on this keyblade #but i just know it'll be an incoherent essay because i can't properly articulate my thoughts #the x-blade must be forged through a clash of light and darkness #but i find it so highly significant that sora and riku can create their own keyblade which is so unheard of #this keyblade isn't created with a clash but rather through harmony and balance #not with conflict but with understanding and connection and love #and i always felt as though that's how the x-blade SHOULD be forged. that master xehanort went about it all wrong #because balance and connections are such important themes in these games #it has two handles and looks so regal when combined. all of the shapes feel reminiscent of the x-blade too #it shines so brilliantly with both sora and riku's symbols. the heart and crown which is the iconic logo for the entire series #also the way stained glass is always used to represent hearts. it's so significant! #and yeah the paupu fruit keychain is its own thing to unpack #okay so i ended up writing something anyway but there's still so much more #i just really hope we get to see more of this in future games because it would be shocking if it was nothing more than a cool combo attack

[webonchin]

So... I did something ...yhea

#dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dream x hob #this blog has officialy become sandman terrain #i think this is the first sandman relates art I post hete lmao #i love them your honor #they stole my heart ghaaa #i don't think matthew is the third wheel I think hes more of a wingman like.... literally #i also don't know if Dream actually sleeps....it doesn't matter anyway i think he likes to be included #he probably uses the excuse that he is protecting Hob from nightmares so they can just cuddle #*giggles* #my dumbass forget to add matthew tag #matthew the raven #FPRGOT MY OWN ART TAG #my art

[griffin-ktb]

@nosfelixculpa I’m sorry you’re so right 💀🤚🤚 I should’ve drawn it that way in the first place RHSDJGS

#LET RIKU FLIP OFF ANTI BLACK COAT NIGHTMARE NOMURA #PLEASE #kingdom hearts #soriku #kh #riku #my art <3

[elizakai]

“what’s Nightmare doing signing paperwork all day”

“is he catelogging aus”

“is he signing 100 treaties”

“is he writing fanfiction”

NO. (well. maybe the fanfic.)

you guys what if Nightmare is just a landlord?

over the last 500+ years he’s accumulated property after property and he makes fucking bank. gramps just monopolized the housing industry (s. plural industries. multiversal)

why does he need money? because he wants it duh. also leverage, he can bribe anyone who won’t be intimidated by him.

he pays for his castle of course! he’s much harder to trace if the records for his property are that of an honest, tax paying citizen!

who’s to say nightmare didn’t build the castle himself at this point!

he’s managing legions of properties and renters on the daily, very high maintenance, lots of paperwork to file and mail to send daily.

he went

“How do i make people most miserable”

“I know.”

“I’ll be a landlord”

#nightmare sans #utmv #headcanons #i’m coining this #undertale #ut au #sans aus #dreamtale #dreamtale nightmare sans #bad sanses #underverse #undertale multiverse #idec this is canon in my heart #i think nightmare visited my mind and shared his paperwork secrets because i can’t accept this as anything but real and true #ANYONE ELSE??