#merbug au

[feralcoffeebug]

Heyo there, we’re the mintaka system.

Our system blog where you can find the other’s blogs is here! @onismsystem

Ao3 account // Current WIP: Delusions in Blood Testing (new fic/Genshin Impact fic), “If It’s You, Only for You”(Aesvic fic) , and Limerance

We’re an adult who heavily enjoys several fandoms, with the current main interest being Identity V! Read below for more information about the Hollow Knight aus or ourselves!

We are Transmasc (he/they) and queer. We have a wonderful partner. We also have multiple ailments you might see us talk about. We also consume media critically and are just here to have fun!

We’ve had a few urls in the past, with the last one being Ventiapologest

We also have multiple Hollow Knight aus, the most common you’ll see is the following:

Radiant King Au (#radiant king au):

The Radiance gets too far in her own head trying to come up with a plan to get her close friend Unn’s land back to her from the Pale Wyrm. At first thought to be a mess up in a ritual to take over the body of someone in the pale court she finds herself in the body of her enemy and not a trace of him that she can see…for now.

Time Heals Au (#time heals au):

This au is under reworking and redesigning. Ghost was called to this land for some reason, something calling for them to save it. When they arrive to the land it is a n terrible shape. They push forward and ignore the happenings in the abandoned kingdom that only idiots would find themself in. Meeting many bugs along the way they have a growing fondness for those misfits still left living in these ruins. Eventually they find the Godseeker, ascending to godhood and taking down the Radiance. With the infection gone, Ghost and their siblings Hornet and Luna (previously known as The Hollow Knight) rebuild Hallownest while minding the mistakes of their predecessors. Soon enough Hornet goes missing, even if it was just for a month it worried her siblings. She would come back changed and with regrets festering in her chest from leaving a specific bug behind. (This is the Au in which the series “The bells ring in the distance but all I can think about it you” takes place.)

Merbug Au (name still pending):

Pretty much because I love drawing mermaids this came about. It is currently being worked on enough to have a coherent plot.

Archaic Au (#Archaic au):

This one doesn’t have much to it yet in the public, I need to organize my thoughts more on the Au but expect to see some art at some point!

We also have some original projects we may post about!

Limerence (#Limerence, #Rubchou)

A series surrounding two boys, Mochou and Ruby, as they grow up and find out there’s more supernatural in the world than they ever thought and that everything they had been taught by others is wrong. They both are forced to come to terms with this and the fact they are much much more involved in this than they ever thought. All of this is happening as they learn to navigate with not only their growing relationship but also their mental health issues.

Onism Mendacious (#Onism)

A personal project using characters made by me and my friend! It’s a feel good project I’m working on where the reader is transported into a royal court where all the members don’t act human what-so-ever even down to their jokes. The reader will get close to the fae jester Jesi (They/Fae) and the unusual secretary named Byleth along with many others within the court.

#intro post #radiant king au #time heals au #merbug Au #archaic au #Limerence #rubchou #Onism

[luriendotmp3]

squints rly hard at my different au pks

Generation Loss -

EVIL little man!!!!!! NASTY!!!!!!! started out kinda nice but quest for immortality messed up his moral compass oopsie daisy :3 0/10 father hes just. very unhinged and a Bad Person. 0/10 overall but 1/10 for narrative effort

Hallow Wood/modern au -

eeeeeehhh not... awful? he didnt murder his kids or anything but not that great of a dad. also a terrible politician. that one dad that just says "thats nice honey" and never looks up from his newspaper. 4/10

Merbugs au -

honestly the best of the bunch. did some questionable stuff but had good intentions. surprisingly good dad. his ego does get in the way a lot of the time sometimes but he does genuinely care for his family. 7/10

#pk #pale king #hollow knight pk #hollow knight au #hk au #hk modern au #modern au #mer au #merbugs au

[andyouwillscream]

You know something I hadn't thought about is that given how T-Abyss strengthens muscles, Senka is probably jacked as fuck. Not to the degree of RE 5 era Chris or Krauser, but likely more so than Jill and Claire. More so she can hold her own fighting someone stronger than her through training, reflexes and strategy and an average person with none of those qualities wouldn't stand much if a chance unless they got lucky.

Her muscle mass is still tempered by having her body restructured for better swimming capabilities. She moves with grace, speed and ferocity on land and even more so in water. You're dealing with someone who can move like a seal, has the strength of a large shark or orca with the teeth and unhinged jaws of a deep sea fish and can hit with the strength of a torpedo. You stand little chance of survinging a fight with her in a body of water. Your best strategy is to get onto a boat or shore. Now.

The only small mercy is that in other verses she's too young to pull off/isn't yet aware of that capability (RE6 AU verse, Child AU verse) or there aren't yet any major bodies of water she can strike from (DBD verse).

#civilian (ooc) #mercenaries and mad scientists (about the muses) #vodena buba (senka) #verses #soldier ants (main verse) #in the shadow of war (RE6 verse) #the little merbug (child au verse) #the insect (dead by daylight verse) #resident evil roleplay #resident evil rp #biohazard roleplay #biohazard rp

[thehappiestgolucky]

Your merbug AU and all your other AUs are so cute and well thought out!!!!! My heart just swells thinking about all the little things about them like the character interactions, backstory, dynamics, and so much more and I'm just like,,,, HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GOOOOD!!!!! I REALLY LOVE IT SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAA

The amount of thought and care and heart and hard work you put into everything is just so heartwarming and inspiring and I'm truly happy for the wonderful ideas you give as noone else but you could've come up with these ideas and well,, I guess what I just mean is thank you. Thank you so much for existing and deciding to share your ideas to the world (however small they may seem at first glance) Happy!!!!

i am a puddle i am a mess do not perceive me-

#happy screms #djskdjskdjskds this is such a sweet message thank you!! #you have no idea the fucking big goofy grin i had when i read it then the fucking dnskdhkshdjsdhs #i can’t i’m a puddle i’m happy to scream my ideas out there and this kinda thing is jsut hsfkshdks #this is so sweet i’m melting from the happy emotions how could you have done this to meeeeee

[spacefilth328]

i’ve never drawn a mermaid let ALONE a bug mermaid but uhh bfhdhd here

#i was gonna draw a cloak but then i had the idea to give them more fins and i didn’t wanna cover them BFHDJD #i’ve never done mermay but i wanted to this time #ok to rb #hollow knight #the hollow knight #pure vessel #hollow knight art #hollow knight fanart #mermay #merbug au #spacesart

[saturno-sol]

Mermay means Merbugs! Well, one merbug and the butterfly that helped him escape a butcher who specializes in chopping up Merbugs for meat. :>

Yup even in a merbug au does Fuego loose his eye n tail

#hollow knight #hollow knight oc #hollow knight ocs #fuego #joão #mermay #merbug au #my art #saturno’s collection #Sea Serpent Quezal’s genes won out so Fuego is not a vamp squid like the rest of the Grimm line #but yep #his tail got chopped #and João is still a two legged butterfly #also this is probably the only time I haven’t given Fuego a mouth #idk it didn’t fit here #just gonna line it #no color cuz am tired #codex xihuitl

[goodbyetoawolrd]

#24

"Reach the surface"

Merbug Ghost but it is my AU

Up Next: No More Daily Post

#hollow knight #hollow knight au #hk haunted au #hk ghost #merbug

[rukafais]

Radiance being a giant fish instead of a moth

sdkshgahghg my immediate thought was ‘sunfish?” and then the rest of my brain caught up with me to slap me in the face like “NO”

maybe a sailfish or something, or a lionfish...???

THIS IS A GOOD IDEA THOUGH

#maybe for merbugs AU #rukamemes #Anonymous

[tiso-heart]

what if for my merbugs(?) au i made the moths ouvachis

#hollow knight #ouvachi

[luriendotmp3]

i jsut remembered. i was looking up fish that would be cool for marissa for my new merbug au and i was looking up like siren fish cuz she sings good or whatever and i wound up finding the Lesser Siren and

look at this thing. such A Creature.

anyways marissa is a lesser siren mer now because reality is whatever i want it to be

#hk #hollow knight #hk marissa #mer au #mermaid au #lesser siren #little creature

[feralcoffeebug]

I cannot for the life of me find the silksong merbug au post I made a while back sob

#luris rambling

[feralcoffeebug]

I made a new au

Mermaids go brr and it has lore already

Infection makes bugs glow,,,

#merbug au #hollow knight #hollowknight #luris art #hollow knight art #hollow knight fanart #fanart #hollow knight au

[feralcoffeebug]

The Pale leader with one of his many creations

#hollow knight #hollowknight #luris art #hollow knight art #hollow knight fanart #fanart #hollow knight au #merbug au

[feralcoffeebug]

mer au silksong?

This one actually gets a drawing

(Also forgive me for saying humans in my last post about silksong mer au, they’re just buggos)

As always this is subject to change just like this is going to slightly change from what I had said in my main discord server!

Pharloom is a research facility in a fishing town on the shores of the ocean where the hk mers live.

Lace is an intern, her family is rather well off. She is going to school to be a marine biologist. She is a young adult.

Some fishermen had caught Hornet in a net, and took her to the research facility. The bugs had known about merbugs but many thought they were myths since they were so rare to see.

Lace is tasked with watching her and noting down behaviors and making sure she doesn’t die or get too sick.

Eventually, Lace starts to talk a bit to Hornet while working in the same room. At first Hornet refused to talk but as time went on she started to respond and talk with Lace.

They eventually learn more and more about eachother and Lace realizes she may in fact be gay

However, one day Lace can’t find Hornet. After asking around she’s informed that Hornet was taken in for...testing.

The testing is not ethical, however merbugs have no laws protecting them due to how most don’t even think they exist.

Lace realizes that she needs to get Hornet out of here and as quick as possible.

Hornet is in the tank she’s being held in the next day and when Lace tries to check her over Hornet snaps at her and refuses to talk once more.

Lace promises to get her out.

Eventually she does, i still need to think about that part

Afterwards, Hornet returns to her home. And Lace finishes her internship. She goes out of the town to collage and gets her degree and moves back to her hometown. One day, while in the beach she sees a familiar merbug, and they talk for a while.

Eventually they start hanging out more and more before they start actually dating. Lace goes on to w for the rights for the merbugs and records their history and culture (with permission).

They have dates in the beach shore 🥺

#merbug au #merbug au silksong

[feralcoffeebug]

Hello everyone I am here with my info about the merbug au! If there’s any questions about things about it just send in an ask!!

The infection was something predating both the Radiance and the pale king. It was something that would cover a bug in a glow orange in the dark thing, making spots of said bug glow orange in the darker caverns of the ocean. The infection is actually a creature that if you become friends with it it will listen to you and let you command it

The people that were suffering with their people getting infected took a substance and created a nonmortal but not immortal mers called Void Entities. It was unknown by any of the public about how they were made, only those working on the project truly knew what the substance was to make these creatures.

They were still feral however and tended to kill whoever came close to feed, it was unlike the infected mermaids that would just kill you just to kill you.

These new immortal mermaids soon died out due to being trapped in a cave system below. All except one died off. This remaining one is called the Shade Lord by historians and those who braved the depths and came back alive. Those rare few that survived lost almost all memories but only knew of that name and a long and rich black mer.

Soon enough things seemed to die down in the oceans waters.

Two factions moved in close corners, the Radiance and The Pale King. They both had very difficult ways of leading their group but were mostly unconcerned about the other. The Radiance’s faction lived in the deep caves lit up by sea lights they found on ships and around the water named the Dreamy Depths.

Hornet came about because Pale and Herrah were together before Pale started dealing with Radiance. Pale and Herrah were in a relationship for a little, then separated because too much fighting and Hornet ended up becoming a joint custody child. But when the caves became too dangerous for a child Herrah left Hornet to her dad. Hornet is older than her half-siblings (the voidmers)

Nothing much happened between the Pale King and The Radiance. That was until The Radiance started to study the infection. The Infection, being a hivemind like creature, made it so the Radiance could befriend it to use it.Soon enough she mastered how to use it for good for her faction but how to use it against those who made her upset.

At this point Pale was terrified that her sights would come to going against his own people. With no other ideas he turned to the ancient texts. There he found information about the Void Entities and a Goddess only known as the White Lady.

Needing someone who knew of the void entities would help, plus an immortal being was needed, Pale set out looking for the White Lady.

He needed her to make the voidmers because he needed a mortal's dna(his own) and an immortal’s dna (wls) to make them. She agreed to the plan and while working together they grew feelings for eachother.

He eventually started his experiments to temper down the feral behavior of the Entities. He eventually made something called the Voidmers (Vessels). He made a lot of them, some died dur to complications of being hybrids, some survived. The ones that survived were Moth, Kin, Ghost, and Pure. Moth ended up getting lost in the caves and got killed off.

Pale soon realized that the threat of the voidmers might not get Radiance not to go after his bugs. At this point she hadn’t been going after Pale’s faction. Xero got too close to the creature and it attached itself to him.

And so he took Pure and trained them to be able to fight others. However, instead of succeeding, Pure failed and got captured instead. With the Voidmer’s immunity to infection, the Radiance started working on a way to get past it. These experiments only slightly worked and it took a lot of time to do and it is rather difficult. Around this time is when Kin got too close to the caves and got captured.

Lost Kin is one of the few voidmers who wandered too close to the caves and got nabbed. They got nabbed and were one of the failed experiments by Radiance. They were too chaotic in how much control they had and often it was a 50-50 chance it would be them in control or the infection.

With Pure infected, the Radiance could use them as a sort of guard dog. They are bigger then most other mer. They are known for protecting the lower layers of the caves. The few bugs that have survived their hunting calls them The Beast That Lurks. No one goes down into the lower caves because they don’t wanna die.

A few years go by and a little voidmer that goes by ghost ends up wanting to know what happened and why they weren’t allowed to go down below. During these few years in between, Pale disappears.

They end up diving into the caves, shortly followed by their bigger half sister Hornet, who doesn’t know them too well but also knows that she’ll get in trouble if they get hurt. Ghost ends up not noticing her and ends up losing here. Eventually in a grassy place she jumps out and goes “you’re going home!” And ghost kinda just goes “no” and so they fight and Ghost wins before swimming off.

They meet Quirrel, another adventure. Tiso, someone who heard of the way your name goes down into history if you find something out and wants that glory.

They meet myla, who honestly just works there but likes ghost and helps them out from time to time, until one day she gets infected and attacks them

The infection can be healed and scraped off as well to help with healing, she’ll just need medical help before it takes her over and kills her completely

The infection works by covering a merbug in a thin layer of bioluminescent orange. This stage is where aggression starts due to chemicals the infection has. Then, if not treated, it will start to clump at the gills, bringing down oxygen intake, eventually it’ll slowly kill the mer without them noticing because it does this slowly. Eventually the bug seems to lay down to rest and they die completely in their sleep.

Eventually, they get the help from some of the people working on studying things down below. Lurien, someone who studies the infection, monomon, who works with it in a daily basis, and Herrah, a beast of the deep who knows how to avoid the Beast that Lurks.

Lurien and Monomon were easy to find and talk to, Herrah actually saves Ghost from being spotted by the Lurker (nickname for THK)

Pure’s job is to seek out anyone who was not a part of the Radiance’s faction down there. They know what they are doing but don’t agree with it and can’t control their own body. They’re body is being controlled by the infection but it can’t kill them due to their immunity.

They are called the Beast the Lurks by the mers down there because it’s silent, the only thing you see is glowing orange before it attempt to grab you and kill you

Ghost actually gets into the place where The Radiance is because Pure grabbed them, was about to kill them. But the fact that Pure, upon seeing their sibling, fights the infection harder and regains control for a moment and lets them go before Hornet jumps in and ties them up for a moment for Ghost to get into there.

However before this they met Shade Lord, who promised to help them after negotiations and gave Ghost some tools to get past the infection without it affecting them so much. So after they take over the Radiance, the Shade Lord begins to attempt to help Pure get rid of the infection from their system. They still need some extra help because it hurt them a lot and it was eating away at their shell and scales. Plus blunt force trauma from running into walls.

Unn is a slug ^^ she and Radiance were good friends until she went into the research about the infection before they finally separated. Unn honestly just kinda vibes on the sea floor with advice about how to deal with Radiance that may or may not be helpful

Grimm and Radiance are twins, however instead of staying in one place he travels a lot and has a few friends he travels with and puts on shows with. He mostly traveled back to see what was going on and Grimmchild (who is getting a dif name) wanted to go with Ghost to explore and Grimm went “ok, keep them safe little fish or else.”

Grimm isn’t a responsible parent but he is a good parent at the same time. Grimm or one of his group sometimes pops in and gets Ghost out of a tough situation. The troupe also always have a warm place for Ghost to sit and rest for a while and have a good meal.

Cloth is a shy and clumsy mer who was bullied for being too cowardly, so she wanted to prove she wasn’t a coward by going into the Dreamy Depths. She meets another merbug down there. They spend a lot of time together and the merbug tells her that it’s okay to be scared of things. Cloth ends up staying with her, until she gets infected and tells cloth to go before she gets attacked by her. So cloth leaves her behind. The love ends up dying. Cloth stays alive though, helps ghost out and while helping ghost she meets Myla. Myla and her hit it off and so she stays with her. When Myla gets infected she refuses to leave but does make sure she’ll be safe from getting killed. Cloth is one of the reasons Myla gets better.

#long post #merbug au #hollow knight au #hollow knight

[saturno-sol]

Some more Merbug yeah yeah

Doodle dump rn

#hollow knight #hollow knight oc #hollow knight ocs #fuego #joão #mermay #merbug au #my art #saturno’s collection #doodles #we out here #making bugs be fishies #idk what fish Fuego is #take a gander ig #anyways i love the lil doodle of him in a fish tank