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eliduck · 2 months

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I got a little too overboard with the white lady's roots gon noodle shaped mode

#something i doodled to pass time in class yesterday #eliduck #hk white lady #hk herrah #hk vespa #hollow knight white lady #herrah the beast #hk hornet #baby hornet #hk #hollow knight

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lizbot · 4 months

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vespa

#hollow knight #hk vespa

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alaskaartz · 9 days

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VESPA!!!!

WL and Vespa are found sisters so Hollow, Hornet, and Ghost call Vespa, Aunty Vespa, and Uncle Hive, and Sunny will call WL, Aunty WL and Uncle PK when she's old enough, right now she's 2 so :3

#art #illustration #alaskaartz #hollow knight #hollow knight au #au #hk au #hk #hk vespa #hk hive knight #hollow knight vespa #hollow knight hive knight

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g-----m · 9 months

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BEHOLD

#hollow knight #herrah the beast #hk vespa #hive queen vespa #hk herrah #hk hivesitter au

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roadkill-punk · 11 days

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I've been doodling ideas for HK themed tarot cards, I may never finish any of them, but I thought I'd share some of my favorite sketches so far :3

I've done quite a few more than these, but I like these ones the best right now

I've put (probably too much) thought into the symbolism of the cards and their elements when making these and I've tried to either stay true to the original symbolism or adapt it to something that makes sense in Hollow Knight. If you're interested in a specific one, feel free to ask! Otherwise I really don't feel like writing all that down lol it is a lot of jumbled ideas.

I'm aware two of the aces are flipped the wrong way I can't be bothered to fix that yet.

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p---l---c · 4 months

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dunno what to do for a caption so uhhh did you know that some bees sleep in pairs tucked up in flower buds?? they need cuddle buddies :)

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#hk #hollow knight #hollow knight art #hive knight #hive queen vespa #hk vespa #bee draws #commissions open

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faebug-underscore · 1 year

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I need to stop thinking about the game with the sword wielding magic bugs in terms of real life biology. It is slowly breaking my brain

So for context, this quarter I’m taking a class on honey bee (Apis mellifera) biology & ecology. Which prompted. So many thoughts.

(I’m also gonna talk about non-bees in this later but a lot of it is bees). Without further ado:

an Entomology student rambles about Hollow Knight’s Biology. Some spoilers ahead.

Now, about 10 minutes ago I got out of a lecture specifically focusing on the waggle dance. To summarize, when a foraging bee finds a particularly good food source, she’ll return to the hive and perform the waggle dance. The dance is a figure 8 movement, with the “waggle run” down the center—which communicates the angle and distance of the food source’s location. Here’s a gif for reference:

Keep in mind, bee hives are built vertically. So how do they communicate the angle of the food source?

They use the sun, or at the very least a patch of sky (and the angle they communicate is directly proportional to the sun’s current position!)

Now, if we take a look at Hollow Knight’s map…

The hive is in the BOTTOM CORNER of a map that’s already underground.

My professor did mention that in the absence of sunlight, the bees can use landmarks to navigate, but even still, in my opinion it would’ve made more sense for the bees to have built their hive towards an area like the Howling Cliffs, as it’s near the top of the map, and more importantly, the closest area to Greenpath and the Queen’s Gardens—the 2 locations in the game that actually have flowers.

Now, the reason for this might be that the Hive’s queen is literally a WASP.

Which are NOT honey bees. Plus real life hives have guard bees that can sense differences in pheromones, so I’m not even sure how she got IN there let alone become their queen; it also doesn’t make sense that there’s as many bees as there are, considering the queen is a hive’s only reproductive female, and again: a wasp. Cannot. Lay honey bee eggs. Physiologically. (I say this fully aware of the canon fact that a worm and a tree had millions of children, who have a third parent that is literally sentient darkness. And that said worm also had a kid with a spider.)

The aforementioned guard bees are a group of worker bees as well, and all worker bees are female. Male bees, or drones, essentially exist to fond a new hive, mate with a new queen, and die. Hive Knight is trans!!

Anyways though, it’s not like they could do the waggle dance even if the wanted to, because

They are almost completely round

There is no abdomen to waggle

And they probably wouldn’t need to anyways! Because the bugs in this game can speak! And there are voice lines! THEY HAVE VOCAL CHORDS! Which real life bugs simply do not have.

That’s not to say that bugs don’t make noises, because they do! Crickets have little tines on their wings that they rub together quickly, making a chirping noise to attract mates; Hissing cockroaches can rapidly force the air out of their spiracles (entrances/exits to their tracheal respiratory system) to deter predators. I personally don’t know much on how cicadas make their sounds, but they make them! And not with vocal chords! Insect mouths are built for feeding; speaking? Not so much.

We also have eusocial mantises (well, pretty much ALL bugs in this game are eusocial, but mantises are known for being incredibly solitary and WILL kill each other if given the opportunity. Including in mating. After mating the female eats the male, and sometimes eats his head BEFORE mating. Also, based on their designs, all 4 mantis lords are trans!)

Lastly, it’s never explicitly confirmed what species Quirrel is, but he’s frequently portrayed as an isopod in the fandom.

GUYS. QUIRREL IS BLUE.

In nature, there is only one instance in which blue pillbugs exist: Isopod Iridovirus.

The last 2 times we see Quirrel, after giving up Monomon’s mask, he mentions “feeling his age”, and generally seems a lot weaker and more tired. Isopod Iridovirus is fatal, killing the affected individual within a few weeks. So he probably would’ve been gone soon anyways, as upsetting as the implications of Blue Lake are.

Anyways, that’s all I got for now. Bug biology is incredibly fascinating, and considering Hollow Knight is one of my favorite games figured I’d share some thoughts :)

#entomology #hollow knight #bug biology #hk hive #hk vespa #mantis lords #hk quirrel

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hollowedartist · 2 years

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#hollow knight #hk hive knight #hk Vespa #sooo I had an idea an I haven drawn buzz a lot do I wanted to #i normally just call hive knight buzz anyways an I thought #maybe in the past there were other knights of the hive #but with the infection hive knight was the only one left

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mantis-on-a-table · 1 year

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Today i'll offer y'all some bugs. Tomorrow? Who knows... (It'll probably be bugs again)

#hollow knight #hk grimm #hk vespa #hk white lady #hk herrah #hk hornet #hk hollow #the hollow knight #hk Oro #hk sheo #hk Nailsmith #sheo x nailsmith #....im not gonna tag the rest jxbfbd #malvs doodles

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pan-perkozeq · 1 year

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"Amongst all of the worthy one, you spared me..."

I like Hive presence in the game. Sad thing we know so little about it...

Another concept for my AU - male bees usually have to fight to death as a part of ceremony to crown a new queen so the last one alive becomes the Hive Knight

I added Vespa wings cause why not, plus the bee without wings - especially the monarch - feels like a... Idk... Boiled water without tea?

You got the point

(Based from my family experience. My parents a few hives by themselves so they obviously share their knowledge with the rest of the family)

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yestheantichrist · 1 year

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Do you ever think of baby Hornet? Do you think about her spending time with Herrah, learning her first words, taking her first steps? How her mother held her and told her how important, special, and loved Hornet was? Do you ever think about baby Hornet seeing her mother in eternal slumber and not understanding why she’s not waking up? Do you think she cried at that moment, screamed and sobbed and demanded for someone to please wake her mother up? But no-one did. It was Herrah’s decision after all, and even though they all took pity on her little daughter they sadly can’t do anything about it.

Do you ever think of child Hornet? Living in the white palace that she probably only rarely visited before. Trying her best to fit in despite her Deepnest upbringing, running around the palace halls when she’s bored, biting some poor bugs ankles because she was having a tantrum. Do you think that at one point she realised that she spoke too bluntly, avoided eye contact, and made everyone follow a specific routine. But didn’t have enough of her fathers godlike charm to make her habits seem normal to the City’s residents? Did she ever try to play games with the Pure Vessel? Was Quirrel her babysitter? Did Hornet latch onto the White Lady, knowing that while she wasn’t Herrah, she was motherly and kind to her and Hornet (again, just a child) desperately wanted to have someone be her parent? Did Hornet find out about Herrah’s deal to become a dreamer at that time? Would she even understand it? Would she, so young. Assume that her mothers eternal slumber was her fault?

Do you ever think about teenage Hornet? Going to the hive to be trained to fight by Queen Vespa. But Hornet doesn’t think about that at the time, she’s angry. Angry at the pale king, angry at the white lady, angry at the infection, angry that she’s surrounded by all this drama and turmoil. She misses Herrah, she wonders what would’ve happened if she wasn’t born, would her mother be awake? Would she be happier? But Vespa notices what’s happening, and while she isn’t the expert at dealing with adolescent spider-wyrm hybrids, she at least knows to talk to Hornet about the thoughts and feelings she’s having. And Hornet grows to respect Vespa a lot. Despite starting out as a teacher, Hornet now considers her a mother. And all the more sad when she finishes her training and has to leave. Her first mother became a dreamer, her second left to her gardens, but how does Hornet feel that she’s the one leaving, not her mother?

Do you ever think about Hornet going to therapy???