#but maybe this makes more sense as an everyone lives/post black egg kinda shtick

[ria-starstruck]

after everything, does your father still shine so brightly in your memory that it blinds you to his flaws?

#i started disliking the dialogue so i took it out of the queue for a bit but have since realized i can't change it w/o changing the whole th #thing. AURGH. #another of me trying 2 formulate what i feel abt the path of pain cutscene #traditional art #hollow knight comic #hollow knight pure vessel #hollow knight hornet #hollow knight path of pain #art #hollow knight fanart #artists on tumblr #hollow knight #hollow knight hollow knight #hollow knight pale king #tbh i thinnk this is a bit ooc for the hollow knight? #like i feel they'd perceive themself as perfect/keep up the thought that they're perfect #but maybe this makes more sense as an everyone lives/post black egg kinda shtick #when the hollow knight has reason to see they aren't perfect they weren't perfect #but they also don't want to see their dad as flawed #so they recategorize that memory as pale king recognizing their flaws but believing in them anyway #ofc this would b the shallowest realization or else if u think much further than that #like. that makes pk exponentially shittier for sure for sure #like . well hm. in canon he probably did suspect (path of pain memory) but also probably was like In Denial or some shit (path of pain) #buut . i can go on about this but these tags r getting ridiculous