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angeliccynthious · 4 years

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time to share m o r e things because I do suppose you guys who like this AU would like to know: - Lace do be here, and she does of course come here from Pharloom when Hornet (most likely) leads all these weavers to Hallownest. Lace doesn’t really know what to do with her life so she just spends her time casually doing whatever Lace does. She meets the void siblings and chaos ensues. not really though its more like they are curious of her and she too is curious of them. - Perhaps other characters from Pharloom come here too? All I’m thinking of rn is Lace just being here. Idk. - Hornet occasionally helps Quirrel out in the archives, and when Ghost is not wandering around with Grimmchild, they help too. Ghost honestly does whatever the hell they want and goes wherever they want to go. You go lil buddy. - Whenever Hornet basically gets kidnapped mostly everyone is goddamn pissed off. Ghost may be losing their shit but trying to keep cool, Hollow is just silently an g r y--- yeah. PK gets mad too because he does not like hearing her name, because it just makes him think of if he could of saved her from being kidnapped. But it’s a good thing when she comes back since she gets tackle hugged by her siblings. PK is somewhat hesitant, but he just-- gives her a nice hug. Yes, a nice one. He’s trying to dad. But he is of course relieved to see her. - Radi and probably Hollow have seen each other, and Hollow just stares at her and shes doing a big “wtf.” because this is the poor child she tortured. Radi says no and she gets the hell out of there, leaving a surprised and confused Hollow I suppose. They’re just wondering why tf is this moth bitch here and if shes actually the Radiance- which she is. I don’t want her to be an outright bad character but shes mostly not the happiest all the time, Ghost and Grimmchild just sorta ‘mess’ with her often. They’re just trying to hang out with you smh. - PK is often carried by WL because she wants to and hasn’t seen him in such a while, and he lets her. Either way no matter how.. somewhat embarrassing it is- he loves it. - On the topic of them, everyone is surprised when they just have another kid.. thats.. of course- not void. PK is afraid that his vessel children will not take it the best, but he is proven wrong as Hollow actively wants to see their new little sister and be a good big sibling. Ghost on the other hand is a bit distant, but of course they and Grimmchild come around and Grimmchild, for the most part, comes and plays with her. In the future, Grimmchild may become a good babysitter lmao. This is all imma share for now I hope yall done mind these constant posts about my silly lil AU heh.

#Hollow Knight #AU stuff #Lace being in Hallownest just seems right and it ties in with my idea that she somewhat babysits the vessel sibs #as I said there #they sibling pile her and Hornet is just so done when she gets back #Hornet left actually to go help Quirrel #Quirrel is there in the archives mostly by himself so she feels as if she should help him #PK honestly isn't the most comfortable with Lace around #well #after he hears this woman tried to kill his daughter #Radi is trying to lay low but Ghost n Grimmchild wont fuck off #wyrmroot shit ya know #gotta love the ship #and gotta have Hollow being good big sib #future Cynthia saying damn look how I changed this #now the siblings dislike her because she tried to kill Hornet lmao #poor Lace im so sorry #Lace #Hornet #Quirrel #pale king #ghost #grimmchild #Radiance #White Lady #if I missed anyone then oops #im tired and im just trying to tag every character

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pinksparklelps · 4 years

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-Hollow, Ghost and Hornet-

• Ghost takes handfuls of candy at those take one bowls

• Hornet scolded them at the beginning but was tired of their shit halfway thru the night

• Hollow wasn't planning on going but Ghost dragged them along anyway

• Sibling bonding amirite

• Hornet sometimes gets candy cuz she gets mistaken for a trick or treater

• Shes just keeping her siblings in line but they dont need to know that

-Lace-

• Stalking Hornets group

• Occasionally flirts with Hornet and gets smacced by Ghost

• "dont touch the sister"

• She doesn't listen

• "c'mon gimme some sugar little spider-"

• "fuck off Lace"

-Grimm n the troupe-

• The local clowns

• Grimmkin celebrate Halloween everyday because spooky time

• "ITS MARCH"

• "Spooky Scary Skeletons go brrrr"

• Grimm takes Grimmchild trick or treating

• He becomes a child himself

• Halloween is his favorite

• Brumm stays back to hand out candy and make sure Divine doesn't terrorize the town

• He isn't successful

-Quirrel-

• Decided to let the siblings go alone

• Hornet can handle it right?

• Likes to hang around Monomom or the library

• "Quirrel go celebrate you can leave"

• "mmmnah"

• "CHILD-"

• Monomom has to drag him out of the archives

-The Dreamers-

• Lurien simps PK so he attends the yearly party just to bask in his presence

• Herrah couldn't care less

• She goes to prank everyone

• Mostly the king

• Monomon is that friend who wants you to stop but also keep going to see what happens

• Lurien freaks out about Herrahs plans against the king

• He can't stop her

• fucking twig man

-Tiso and God Tamer-

• Tiso wants to do Halloween stuff but

• "real warriors dont do such childish stuff"

• God Tamer ignores him

• She takes her beast to prank people

• Beast gets candy as reward

• Tiso is silently jealous

• Let him have candy too

-Pale Fork and White Lady-

• They host the Halloween party duh

• PK doesn't want Grimm there but he shows up anyway

• WL is sweet and made party bags to take home

• A small 'thanks for coming!'

• Shes the best mom

• Ghost crashes the party and fucks with fork man

• "UNHAND ME VESSEL"

• "no fuck you"

• WL laughs at him but helps tiny husband anyway

-Radiance-

• she wasn't invited to the good spooky times

• :(

• Rift shows up just to give her a small gift and some candy

• Moths nice to moths

• Be nice to momma moth

• Radi will fuck with PK

• Ghost will allow this

Bonus!

My Ocs!

-Rift (moth) and Atma-

• Silently pining for each other

• Fucking oblivious cuties

• Rift is short so Atma takes her to the store and puts random hats on her

• Atma scares her too

• Chaotic vessel does chaotic things

• Rift gets mistaken for a child sometimes

• Angy moth floof up

• "FUCK YOU IM AVERAGE SIZE"

-Zillah, Amaya and Rift (vessel)-

• Shadow squad pranks the entire town and never get caught

• Amaya occasionally messes with Atma and Rift (moth)

• "ey whens the wedding?"

• "aMAYA-"

• Zillah uses her mossy camouflage to scare the mosskin

• She also draws on the walls of the palace while PK is distracted

• Rift (vessel) hangs with the Grimm Troupe most of the night

• heehoo fire gang cool

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I wasn't feeling inspired anymore so the special doesn't exist. This is what you get instead.

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cotillion-the-rope · 4 years

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Not Hollow Chapter Four: Search

“We’re going to kill the Radiance,” Hornet said as she strode into the living room where Hollow had seemingly decided to wait.

Hollow looked up at her from where they sat on the couch. It was impossible to even guess how they felt about her declaration or about Grimmchild still hanging limp and unconscious in her arms. The lack of response made her entrance not quite as dramatic as she would’ve liked… oh well.

“I don’t know how yet, nor do I care,” those were things to figure out later, “but we’re killing her.” Because fuck any other plan to deal with her, the only way to make sure she was dealt with permanently was for her to die. “Or at least I am.” It’d be unfair to ask or expect them to face the source of their suffering. Especially since even though she helped them train with their nail fairly frequently, they weren’t anywhere near as strong as they once were. There was a good chance if she brought them into battle with her that they’d end up being more of a hindrance than an asset. … Could she kill the Radiance by herself though? … That was another issue she’d figure out later. “You don’t have to help with the killing her part if you’d rather not face her.”

Hollow nodded as they seemed to relax a little. Good, they approved.

“As soon as Grimmchild recovers, I’ll head out to start searching for a way I can access the Dream Realm.” She needed to make sure Grimmchild would be okay and all three of them needed to eat some anyway. Rushing things unnecessarily wasn’t going to help anyone.

When Grimmchild woke up a few hours later he made his displeasure known immediately, teleporting out of Hollow’s bedroom and flying into the kitchen to make distressed and mildly angry mewling sounds at mostly Hornet. He was scolding her about the whole Ghost thing, wasn’t he? … Well, she did kind of deserve it.

“I know,” she said, hiding a sigh of relief over the fact that he was evidently perfectly fine. “We’re going to fix it, I promise. But first,” she stood up grab him by the tail, pulling him down to her eye level, “you need to understand that you made it worse.”

He flinched. Good, he definitely understood her.

“What made you think going in there was a good idea? It drains anyone who isn’t made of void and that’s you. If I hadn’t gone in there to investigate you probably would’ve died from it. And you caused Ghost to crack.” Not necessarily, it could’ve been something else, but the timing was just too close for it to be a coincidence. “So you made things so much worse for them and everyone else in Hallownest.”

He stopped flapping, letting himself hang upside down by his tail in her grip. Pulling his wings in on himself, he chirped in an almost dejected tone. An attempt at an apology?

She glared at him. “You better be sorry.” Ghost had gone through enough without that … and Hornet had let them. That was besides the point though, she’d had no choice. She’d tried to stop them in Greenpath and warned them in the City of Tears but they’d continued on as she knew they would.

“And now, you’re going to help me kill the Radiance, got it?”

He perked up, making an interested mewl. Then he started flapping again and she let him go. He then flew around her head, making similar sounds to the ones he made when spitting fire but not actually doing so. He was apparently ready and eager for battle, good.

“I need a way to access the Dream Realm though. I know you can access it pretty much whenever, right? So is it possible for you to bring me with you?” That would be the easiest solution.

He paused to think for a few seconds before shaking his head. Not surprising but still a disappointment. That just meant Hornet needed find another way. And now that she’d had some time to calm down and give it some more thought she maybe had a potential lead on how to do it.

If Ghost couldn’t do it naturally – as evidenced by the fact that Hollow couldn’t – they’d had to have learned it or gotten something that let them do it. Either way it was a skill they’d most likely gained sometime after she’d lost track of them in Crystal Peak. It maybe wasn’t the best place to start, especially with how long they’d been out of her sight after that, but it was something. So after a quick nap, she’d head out that way and hope for the best.

Crystal Peak was one of the places she’d explored the least in all her time watching over Hallownest. It was way too bright and the way sounds echoed off the smooth surface of the crystals was unnerving. And at times it seemed as if the crystals let off their own almost ringing sound that was even more unsettling. So overall it was not a place she liked, give her the complete darkness and skittering of unseen things present in Deepnest over this any day. She was here on a mission though so she had to stay.

Except she wasn’t sure what she was looking for. When Ghost had entered Herrah’s Dream to break her Seal, something had flashed in their hand that they’d swung similar to a nail. Her hiding spot hadn’t given her a good view of it and she hadn’t been looking to see it anyway. And she hadn’t been present when they’d dealt with the other Dreamers. So there was no way for her to know what it even was let alone where she might find another one, assuming there even was another one. If not, she’d have to figure something else out.

It only took her about an hour of searching before she felt ready to give up. She didn’t know what she was looking for and didn’t even know for sure it was in Crystal Peak. She’d lost track of Ghost for a while after they’d entered the place, they could’ve gone to a number of other areas and gotten the power from one of them instead. She needed a better lead if she didn’t want to waste time searching every inch of Hallownest. … Would the Teacher’s Archive have information on what she was looking for? Perhaps, it was probably her best bet for any more information. So… off to Fog Canyon she went.

But not long after entering she regretted it as she just barely managed to dodge the exploding center of an ooma. “Are you trying to get us killed?” she growled, glaring at Grimmchild, the one at fault. “I told you not to attack them.”

He mewled innocently at her, even tiling his head a little as if he was trying to be as cute as possible. Well she wasn’t swayed by it this time. She should’ve insisted he stay behind to keep Hollow company, too late now though.

“Never do that again.”

The very next ooma they ran into, he did it again. Leaping away before the fireball even hit it, she managed to dodge fairly well this time. That didn’t make it okay though. And she wasn’t taking a third chance so not in the mood to deal with sending him back home after coming all the way out here, she started unspooling some thread. It didn’t take long to fashion it into the beginnings of a collar and leash combo and muzzle.

Grimmchild flew in to investigate what she was doing, just as she’d hoped for, making it easy to jump him and attach it before he could even react much. As soon as he realized, he yanked back but it was too late. He chirped and mewled in distress, the muzzle letting him open his mouth not even half way.

“I told you twice not to attack them. You’re smart enough to understand my words as well as what’s going on around you so you should’ve known better. Now, let’s go.” She tugged on the leash part of the thread as she resumed walking. He continued to complain and tug against the restraint but she ignored it. He was forced to eventually come along lest he fall to the ground and get dragged because she wouldn’t hesitate to do that. She was not messing around right now, she was on an important mission.

Hornet had been to the Archive a few times before back when it was still up and running. The first time had been with Herrah before the Dreamers had gone to Sleep though she’d been too young to remember much of it other than Monomon was a giant jellyfish and Lurien – he’d been there too, it had been some kind of meeting or something – had been a jerk and she’d bit him because of it much to the delight of everyone else in the room. She hadn’t been back since it had ceased being operational though.

It was vastly different now, didn’t even feel like the same place. The halls were empty except for the occasional floating ooma or uoma and utterly silent. It was almost kind of creepy in a way but she ignored it.

All was going well until she was quickly reminded of that fact that she didn’t know how information was sorted here. And she couldn’t read any of it even if she did know; everything was written in what seemed to be a weird code or shorthand. Which now that she thought about it, Monomon had been well known for doing that, no one but her, her pupils, and any scholars dedicated enough to figure it out could read it.

Scholarly pursuits were not her thing and thus she was completely out of her depth here. But she needed more information and the best place to get that was the Archive so… what did she do? … Well she could ask someone who knew their way around the Archive to help. She knew someone like that even if she’d never properly introduced herself to him. And he was a skilled fighter, he might be able to help with killing the Radiance too… if she decided she wanted help with that anyway. … She hated to ask for help in any capacity though. But at the same time, this wasn’t about her pride, it was about her siblings’ suffering so… off to find Quirrel it was.

She found Quirrel’s nail was abandoned by the Blue Lake. If he’d gone and killed himself, she was going to strangle him. … All right, that didn’t make any sense but she’d be pissed because she needed him.

“I’m guessing you can’t track people, can you?” she said turning to look at Grimmchild. She hadn’t bothered taking the leash and muzzle off yet because she was planning to head back to Fog Canyon with Quirrel as soon as she found him. Naturally Grimmchild was still very displeased about it because he couldn’t attack the husks they encountered either but that’s the price he paid for almost getting her killed twice on purpose.

He mewled dejectedly. It seemed to be a ‘no’ because he made no move to investigate the sword. He was truly useless on this mission which was why she hadn’t wanted to bring him.

Maybe she should just go back to the Archive and wait for Quirrel there since there was a chance he would return eventually, right? It’s where he used to live and work after all. And while waiting, she could work on figuring it out herself. … Nah, he might not return at all and going to find him to do it for her should be shorter than the alternative. So, after collecting his nail, she moved on to continue the search.

She eventually found him in the City of Tears in the clearing that housed the statue of the Hollow Knight. He was with the relic seeker – Hornet couldn’t quite remember his name right now – they were even sharing an umbrella as they looked up at the statue.

Hornet jumped off the windowsill she’d climbed up on to get a good look at the clearing to land in front of them, making them both flinch back a little. “Archivist,” she said, looking Quirrel directly in the eyes. “I need your help with something.”

“I don’t really go by that title anymore,” he replied, his tone surprisingly unannoyed. The look he gave her was filled with suspicion though which made sense. Last time she’d shown herself to him, it hadn’t been the friendliest of circumstances.

��I was unaware you ever went by that title,” the relic seeker said, squinting at him suspiciously.

“It’s complicated.” He shrugged. “And uh… may I ask what’s up with the moth baby?” He pointed at Grimmchild. “It seems kind of cruel to muzzle him like that and why is he with you anyway?”

“He deserves it and he’s with me because… I’m his aunt I guess.” That was probably the best way to describe it. “But anyway, here.” She tossed his nail to him. Why he’d ever abandoned it was beyond her.

He caught it with the ease of a practiced fighter. “I left this by the lake because I’m trying to leave my old life behind.” And now he did sound a tad annoyed. Hornet didn’t care though.

“Well, you’re going to help me kill the Radiance first and then you can do whatever you want with it.”

“Uh… what?”

“You heard me. I need help figuring out how to get to her in the Dream Realm.” She hated to do it but… “And I might need help killing her there too.” The Radiance was a god after all. Hornet was a demi-god but that didn’t make her invincible. “And I’m asking you for help because I need information from the Archive.”

“Well, I suppose I can…” Quirrel began before being interrupted by the relic seeker.

“I demand to know what this is about.”

“I don’t have time to explain.” And Hornet didn’t care to explain to an outsider anyway. It was bad enough that she had to deal with Quirrel, no way was she letting anyone else in on this. “Ask you boyfriend about it when he’s done helping me.”

He flinched at the word ‘boyfriend’. “He’s not… we’re not… we’re just…”

Hornet was tired of this conversation. “Let’s go,” she said as she grabbed Quirrel by the wrist and started dragging him away.

“Uh… I guess I’ll see you at the shop later Lemm,” he said, not fighting her at all. “I’ll try to explain things then. Now uh…,” he directed towards her now, “sorry I don’t know your name but… does this mean that the… vessel fellow failed?”

“My name is Hornet and yes, they failed, just like the first one. And I refuse to stand for it any longer which is why I’m finally doing something about it.” Now that she could. She should’ve done something sooner, like before Ghost had taken on the Radiance but better late than never, right?”

“Hmm… I suppose I’ll help in any way I can then.”

And so Quirrel is here now too I guess. I didn't plan for that, it just kind of happened.

A bit past this point is what I had written up to when I decided to start uploading. I have since written more obviously but the next chapter gave me a bit of trouble and I'm still not entirely happy with it so I might do another big heavy edit or full rewrite to the part of it I'm most displeased with. So next chapter might take a bit longer to come out than these other chapters have.

#My writing #hollow knight #Grimmchild & Hornet #Hornet & Quirrel

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