#hollow sky

[chrysoula]

Lumine had spent an uncountable number of years learning to control her emotions. She had to, because even as a child, her mood shifts could blight counties. Her brother had always been the blessing twin; his warm smiles brought the spring, while Lumine’s joy burned. It was inconvenient sometimes, but as long as she had Aether beside her, she was happy. 

Or, well, content. 

It was enough, anyhow. They were twins, balanced and equal. 

And then she’d lost him, and without even thinking about it, she’d shut down most of her emotions. She had to. Without him, her pain could destroy the world, and that would be… inconvenient. But she knew what to do and she did it, because that was who she was. Who she’d always been.

It had been… all right. She searched for her brother. She found Dainsleif instead, who looked at her like he knew her, with newborn hope kindled in his eyes. The way he held himself, as if he too was apart from the world… And he was beautiful, at least to her. His bright soul shone like the star of her homeland.

He wasn’t, couldn’t be Aether, but around him, she was less lonely. Around him, she’d started to relax.

And then he’d…

He’d… deceived her. Used her. Abandoned her to pursue her mad brother, who was also abandoning her.

And after that, her emotions weren’t quite sealed the same way anymore. What had been simple had become nightmarishly confusing, and the more this world mattered to her, the more dangerous she became to it.

#genshin fanfic #lumine #genshin traveler #Lumine is the traveler #though the first half could go either way #Paimon is explicitly not mentioned for Reasons #dainsleif #dainslumi #goddess lumine #hollow sky #possibly side content #rough draft

[forecast0ctopus]

she was putting the moves on this man like crazy

#id fall for it too idk she was charming as all get out #if a woman kissed my hand like that imight pass out idk #she saw his cartoonishly unhealthy slouch and said I Need Him. #star trek #star trek tos #leonard mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #doctor mccoy #natira #for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky #old man posting. will happen again

[trek-tracks]

Spock, observing the proper form of the "protective body lean over the imperiled body of Dr. McCoy" from Captain Kirk

Spock, putting his "protective body lean over the imperiled body of Dr. McCoy" lessons into practice.

#star trek #star trek tos #leonard mccoy #spock #bones mccoy #jim kirk #captain kirk #mcspirk #mckirk #spones #all our yesterdays #for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky

[major-comet]

the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was

which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.

did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?

why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?

only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways

i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.

but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet

#comet posting #they love eachother i promise but my god these boys need to learn to talk about their feelings #star trek #star trek tos #dr mccoy #spock #jim kirk #leonard mccoy #mcspirk #i’m sorry i don’t know why ive been so angsty the past few days #i think it’s the pms #the empath #for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky #star trek tmp #angst #star trek the original series

[majickth]

no thoughts, head empty, just mysterious small town au

grian is a journalist who got into some trouble after digging too deep into a missing persons’ case; pearl invites him over to stay in her small town since he needs the peace and quiet. he thinks itll just be a simple vacation, but finds the town and its inhabitants to be far more than they seem.

#i just imagine this au to be grian running around trying to uncover the town’s weird supernatural mysteries #meanwhile pearl is casually making contact with aliens #ive got more designs on the way #just been really enjoying drawing in this type of style #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft au #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt #mcytblr #mcyt fanart #grian #grian fanart #pearlescentmoon #pearlescentmoon fanart #sky duo #skyduo #sky siblings #majickthart #hermits hollow au #mysterious small town au

[gummi-ships]

Worlds of Kingdom Hearts

#kingdom hearts #kh1 #traverse town #wonderland #olympus coliseum #deep jungle #agrabah #100 acre wood #monstro #halloween town #atlantica #neverland #hollow bastion #end of the world #my gif #and of course the islands but that's not a place you can travel to so i didn't add it #it's cool how the sky gets darker and more ominous as you progress #this was a lot of work plz enjoy

[meatcatt]

@skyistheground had an idea for an isa loop au and this is how I interpreted it

#my art #in stars and time #isat #isat isabeau #isabeau #isa loop au #hollow don't look #tw gun #i imagine this happens at the end of act three after the king scene with bonnie #i know that sky meant 'seeing isa beat the shit out of people would be scary after he's just support guy' #but i think he deserves a gun #as a treat #isat spoilers

[the-wanderer-returns]

the ultimate indie game crossover

#aka three games I like #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #rainworld #rainworld slugcat #slugcat #hollow knight #hk ghost #hollow knight ghost #hk little ghost #sky cotl moth #ink #traditional art #sketch

[bortalis]

#rain world #hollow knight #deep rock galactic #sky: cotl #tf2 #outer wilds #pikuniku #far lone sails #ori and the blind forest #portal 2

[joanofarc]

here’s where the story ends, flowchart (1997, 2003).

but the only thing i ever really wanted to say was wrong, was wrong, was wrong

#flowchart #sean o'neal #erin anderson #1997 #burnt hair #burnt hair records #the sundays #sundays #here's where the story ends #hollow sky #pre-2000 singles and comp tracks #noise pop #indietronica #shoegaze #sing a song

[chrysoula]

I’m rereading my fic Hollow Sky in preparation for an important chapter. All the Kaeya sequences are pretty intense, but I’m very fond of this one.

A spasm of frustration ran through Kaeya and he put his hands up to his face, his long fingers over his eyes. Klee felt like the last bit of Mondstadt he had with him. If she rejected him, too…

His fingers curled under his eyepatch, stretching his skin around what lay beneath. Just a tug and he felt the rage again, so deep and powerful that it stole his breath away. He no longer remembered if they’d poured it into him or if he’d learned it on his own. He loved Mondstadt, but before that terrible night when he’d made his choice and turned his back on his people, he’d hated it too. Sun-drenched Mondstadt, where there were always flowers and songs, where the adults still remembered laughter and the monsters weren’t allowed to torture people. Mondstadt, where parents protected their children.

We weren’t always like that.

It wasn’t the old man’s voice this time. This time, it sounded like his own.

Ice crystallized in Kaeya’s blood, and he didn’t know if that was real or not. The new voice was too much for him. A creeping cold grew inside, a cold he’d fought like hell for years to resist. Alcohol. Alcohol was good for this. Alcohol was what you had left when you froze everything wholesome in Mondstadt. Alcohol, and him.

He needed a damn distraction. He couldn’t handle that voice, or the ice in his blood, or the incoherent circles his thoughts kept racing in as the permafrost inside him grew stronger. He couldn’t approach Xingqiu and Lumine, whom Klee had run to. She might not hate him yet and he didn’t want to push that. Besides, those two made him uncomfortable now.

Behind him walked Hu Tao and Xiao. But Xiao made the back of his neck prickle. The yaksha was his own ancient story and that was exactly the kind of thing Kaeya had been drawn into too deeply already. Besides, occasionally, late at night, Kaeya suspected Hu Tao could just snap her fingers and extinguish everything left of him. It made no sense via either her fire Vision or her funeral director role, but ‘making sense’ had never been a strong point of late-night terrors.

And then there was Mona. She’d been kind to him recently, in her own way. He could really do with some more of that brand of kindness right now. Somebody warm and willing in his arms was always an excellent distraction from himself. It was a pity they were on the move right now, but maybe on a break — he surveyed the bleak and uninspiring landscape — she’d consider—

He actually focused on her and his line of thought curled up like a leaf in the frost. She walked with her head down and her shoulders slumped. She’d been upset by the sky, of course, maybe more than any of them. But Kaeya had been distracted then too, first by concern for Zielle and Kazuha, and then by Albedo, and most recently Klee. Really, what kind of a friend was he?

He adjusted his pace to match hers and drifted closer. After a moment, she glanced up. Damp eyelashes framed her reddened eyes, but her voice was completely steady as she said, “What do you want?”

He cocked his head. “Wait. Before I say, I have to know. Am I currently at risk of drowning?”

That brought out a brief, small smile. “Probably. I have trouble believing that’s ever stopped you from being a pest before, though.”

“Nah, but I like to know which particular forms of death I’m courting at any given time. Have to dress the part, you know?”

Mona snorted. “What do you wear to be drowned?”

Kaeya bit back the obvious response and just raised his eyebrows at her until she blushed and looked down again. But instead of the threat or counterattack he’d hoped for, she said, “Stop that. Stop…stop flirting with me. I don’t like it.”

Kaeya kicked a pebble along. “Hmm. Well then. I can always listen, instead?”

Mona’s hands went to her face and then she shook her head and glared up at him. “No! Why would I want to talk to an uneducated buffoon like you? I’d get more interesting insights out of… out of Razor!”

Being compared negatively to the barely-verbal wolf boy might have stung at another time but he could hardly be fussed about it now. Still, if she wanted to fight.… He protested “Hey, I’m pretty good at listening. You don’t need a big brain for that.”

With a sneer that didn’t suit her pretty face, Mona said, “Of course you are. Gathering information for all your little schemes.”

Kaeya blinked at her hostility and felt the ice crystals in his blood clink together. “Well, yeah. That’s kind of my job, you know? But you have to admit there’s not much scheming to be done out here.”

Her breath hissed between her teeth. “Yes, and you haven’t been doing much listening, either.”

That definitely would have hurt. But didn’t, because he was not going to let her hurt him. He couldn’t. He might shatter if she did.

Instead, cold billowing through him, he said, “Would you prefer I scheme? Shall I try to guess why this is suddenly about me?”

“Ah yes, the famous Captain Kaeya swelled head.” Mona shot him a scornful look. “Tell me how you think ‘this,’ whatever you mean by that, is about you.”

“Admit it, you enjoyed kissing me yesterday and you can’t stand that. Maybe you even want to do it again. Don’t worry, Meg. It’s a common reaction.”

Kaeya had calculated on making her scream at him. But, although she flinched, she also gave him a jaded look. “That’s all you can come up with?”

“Uh. I thought it was pretty good?” Kaeya hunched his shoulders uneasily. Suddenly trying to cheer up Mona didn’t seem like such a good idea after all. She had enjoyed kissing him, he knew that, and he was pretty sure that the idea of kissing him again would bother her. So what was going on now…?

Mona narrowed her eyes. “You lie nearly constantly, did you know that? Even when you’re not lying to me, you’re lying to yourself. It’s extremely irritating.”

Startled into a wry laugh that skated atop his freezing blood, Kaeya said, “That’s what I’ve heard but a man has to have a few pleasures. Come on, Mona, what’s going on?” He hadn’t wanted to ask that directly, not when the answer was so obvious, but at this point it was far more important to redirect the conversation anywhere else than him.

Her scowl didn’t change. “Why didn’t this cursed sky bother you? It affected almost everybody else, but not you and not Albedo.”

Once again, he did his best to steer the conversation. “Oh, it hit Albedo all right. He just did his big brain thing and then tucked it away. Surely you’ve seen him in action before. Anyhow, now who’s lying? I don’t believe for a minute you’re this pissed because of that.”

“You’re avoiding answering the question. So reliable.” Mona marched along without looking at him and he considered just retreating. Maybe he could drop in on Hu Tao instead.

Then Mona added acidly, “Come on, at least make up a story for me.”

Frustrated, Kaeya ran his hands through his hair and then pulled at it. “Fuck, I don’t know, Mona. I didn’t learn sky stories when I was a kid. The stars aren’t real to me like they are for you.”

Her jaw clenched. “Or you have some… immunity.”

“If I do, I don’t know about it,” Kaeya muttered. He’d looked up at the sky and it hadn’t made sense but what did these days? He’d noticed the moons but they’d been a picture in stained glass and he had a lot of experience thinking around stuff that scattered his thoughts. His ability to explain that to anybody was currently nonexistent. Explaining would require far too much thinking he simply couldn’t do.

But Mona had the look of a woman who wasn’t going to let this go. “I can tell that’s true, at least right now. But how about the you who came out at the Pyre? I want to talk to him.”

Something dark stirred under the surface.

Kaeya stopped walking. “That… wasn’t anybody. Just some childhood training coming back again. Bad memories.”

“A lie,” she said in a sing-song voice as she turned back toward him. “Do you know who he is yet?”

Irritating girl. Go to sleep, Kaeya, suggested the voice that sounded like his own. Go to sleep, just for a moment, and let me deal with this.

“No,” said Kaeya, and then added desperately, “No. I can’t, don’t you understand? I made my choice.”

Mona’s face wiped clean of expression for a moment. Then she shook her head briefly and something like sympathy touched her eyes. “It’s not enough, though. It never will be.”

#kaeya alberich #mona megistus #genshin fanfic #hollow sky #my writing #trauma

[noenergyjustfrog]

oh look, it's two of my favourite games combined! (sorry about the visual quality, i'll probably remake this later)

i am working on a fanmade season of the hollow knight! many, many plans have been made! (i have to learn how to do sound design to make the ghost call a reality...)

#sky cotl #skyblr #sky children of the light #thatskygame #hollow knight #ghost hollow knight #season of the hollow knight #skyxhk

[trek-tracks]

Imagine this. You're Spock. You've tried not to get yourself emotionally involved with your crewmates. It's not going very well. Your doctor goes and contracts a terminal illness and doesn't tell you (but luckily your captain can't go three seconds without breaking Space HIPAA or whatever exists in the future) and then tries to run away and die on an asteroid. You take out the Instrument of Obedience, privately thinking that it would be nice to have some control over this maniac you somehow care about's actions. You spend Surak knows how much time downloading and translating an entire civilization's medical library to cure him. No problem. It was just an incurable disease. You didn't need to sleep this month.

Two episodes later, another alien civilization tries to check said doctor out like he's a library book and then writes "withdrawn" on his forehead and pretends they don't have to give him back. He tells you to leave to save yourself; he'll stay. Did you mention you decoded an entire medical archive like two weeks ago for---fine. You go through unspeakable emotional violations to put him back into circulation on the Enterprise. It's cool. You didn't need your dignity anyway.

Two episodes after that, your illogical, self-sacrificial doctor mutinies and sedates you--the ranking officer in charge--undoing the fact that, again, how many hours did you spend? Curing an incurable illness because you couldn't let him die? Singing like an idiot in front of a bunch of snickering Platonians with laurel leaves on your head and no pants to speak of?--so he can get himself tortured to death on your behalf. You convince an empath to save him. He pushes her away because he "can't destroy life." Your captain is crying. The shiny force field shows everyone that you're having very non-shiny emotions. Do Vulcans even believe in hell

You think you've finally reached some sort of sacrificial detente. It's been a while. Neither of you have died on the other's behalf. You've both had to save your captain a few times, but that's normal. All in a day's work. Then said captain wants all three of you to check out a mysteriously abandoned library of time periods. You should have figured you would wind up in some sort of frozen wasteland with your doctor and no perceivable way to return what you'd borrowed. Well. At least there's the two of you so that you can keep an eye on--

He falls down in the snow. His hands are blue. "Go on without me," he says, dramatically. "Alone, you have a chance."

yeah I'd strangle that fucker against a cave wall too

#star trek #star trek tos #leonard mccoy #spock #spones #bones mccoy #jim kirk #captain kirk #for the world is hollow and I have touched the sky #plato's stepchildren #the empath #all our yesterdays #spock: STOP TRYING TO DIE OR I'LL KILL YOU

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

"For how long do you intend to play this little game of yours with me? When will you cut to the chase already? Or are you afraid, Taka?"

"Do you fear I will burn your heart until there is nothing left of it?"

#sky rambles #hollow knight #oc #muse: Taka #grimm #oc x canon #don't worry this is normal this is how they flirt

[majickth]

[ The following is a transcript of notes taken from the online journal of GRIAN ████. Certain words have been removed per request, but the remaining text is otherwise unaltered. ]

Pearl’s was the first face I saw in Hermit’s Hollow. She stood on the cabin’s porch, one hand stuffed in her pocket and the other resting on a dog’s head. She gave me a sheepish smile as I approached.

“Hello,” she said softly.

“Uh. Hi,” I echoed back.

We stood like that for a moment, staring at eachother as if waiting for something to break. For whatever invisible wall stood between us to shatter and crash, throwing away five years worth of unanswered phone calls and texts, burying with it the first argument and everything after.

It took a single bark from the dog to finally make a crack.

“I—“ Pearl swallowed hard. Then, rushing forward all at once, my sister charged forward and pulled me into a hug. “I much prefer seeing your face here rather than on the news.”

Stiff arms slowly returned the gesture, the box I’d been carrying now forgotten on the ground. I’d deal with it later. I was too busy untangling the knot from my throat.

“I’ve missed you too,” I managed at last.

“I’m glad.” Pearl sniffed, wiping her tear-stained face on my shoulder before pulling away with a laugh. “Welcome to the Hollow. You’re going to love it here.”

[ END OF TRANSCRIPT ]

Wanted to do a bit more in-depth lore stuff for the Hermit’s Hollow AU. :] also some nice Sky Sibling moments. Gonna hopefully do more of these in the future as the story unfolds

#hermits hollow au #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #hermitblr #mcyt #mcytblr #mcyt fanart #grian fanart #grian #pearlescentmoon #pearlecentmoon fanart #sky duo #skyduo #sky siblings #majickthart #hermitcraft au

[spockeveryday]

#spock #leonard nimoy #star trek #st: tos #3x08 for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky #02460