[After Mr. Canis is released from jail]
Canis, looking at a dead houseplant: You couldn't have watered it?
Relda: I did not know that existed until this very moment
Puck: I knew it existed, and I chose to let it die
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Finally got some time so here's a stream of consciousness drabble about Granny Relda prior to the start of the series:
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Life is good.
Not perfect, no of course not, but good. You're happily married to a good man, with 2 boys that have suddenly become young men. You live in a town filled with magic and myths come to life. And it's a beautiful day, a sunny day, when your world is shattered.
Your boy, your youngest, he does something for his brother without considering the consequences. It's not the first time he's gotten into trouble, but it's the most dangerous because a monster is after him.
Before you can process what's happening your husband is rushing off to save him, without a plan, and by the time you get there your husband is horribly wounded and your sons are desperately trying to help him. He's rushed to the hospital and the boys raid the Hall of Wonders while you sit with him because there's nothing that can cure this injury from a jabberwocky, no potions or creams or magic wands, and your husband is dead by the next morning.
The funeral is a blur, and you know that for every Everafter that comes to pay their respects there is another celebrating the death of a Grimm, but you hold it together. And then - your sons leave, and you're alone in a house that was filled only days ago. You're homesick for Germany in a way you haven't been in decades, just to see some of the family you haven't seen in years, and you grab your coat and head to get the Ruby slippers and then it hits you - you can't leave.
The last place you want to be is here with the memories and suffocating silence but you can't leave. You have to stay to keep up the barrier, to prevent any number of violent Everafters from terrorizing the world.
And for the first time fear creeps in. You are the only Grimm left in town and many are restless - what is there to stop any assassination plots against you? So when Mr. Canis visits later that day, you offer him a room in the house.
Things get better, slowly. You get weekly calls from Hank. Jake has sent a letter so you know he's not dead too. (You knew anyway, you've been asking Mirror to check on both of your boys every day, every hour on particularly bad days.) There are Everafters who need help and mysteries to solve.
You are overjoyed when Hank returns to you with Veronica in tow. Veronica is a natural, she fits right in, and you feel you've finally turned the page on a dark chapter.
But there's danger, there always is in your line of work, and when a newly-pregnant Veronica gets too close to a magic blast from a rogue witch, Hank panics.
You try to reason with him, Veronica does too, but he's insistent on leaving. Their bags are packed that night, they're gone the next day, and you are alone again.
Of course there's still Mr. Canis and Snow and so many for company. But Jake is still traveling the world and you have a newborn granddaughter that you have yet to meet. (Veronica swears she'll talk Hank into a visit soon, she just need a few months to convince him.)
Perhaps it's that unfulfilled grandmotherly instinct that prompts you to reach out to the lost fairy boy in the woods. You've heard about him and you've had to chase off his pixies. He may be hundreds of years old, but he's still a little boy who could use a warm meal every now and then.
You're pleased to realize a few years in than you have a satisfying routine. Every day is a new adventure in Ferryport landing. You long to meet your granddaughters (Hank and Veronica have had another girl) but you check up on them through Mirror and you get letters from Veronica every few weeks.
You've just wrapped up a case on a dreary, drizzling morning, when it dawns on you that you're due for a letter from Veronica. You've been so busy you haven't checked on the kids in a few days. It's a Saturday and you expect to find them together, but you stare in confusion then concern as you see your granddaughters sitting in a police station. You check on their parents and nothing makes sense. Mirror has difficulty locating them, says there's powerful magic trying to block him, and when you finally see them they are asleep – still as death, but just sleeping.
You spend weeks, then a month, then a year, then longer, looking for answers and fighting red tape. The girls are alone, shuffled from place to place, and you are doing everything you can to get custody, but it seems hopeless. How can the courts turn over custody to a woman who will not (cannot) leave the tiny town where she lives hours away? You call in dozens of favors and several magical objects and finally, finally they send a caseworker to meet with you and you convince her to let the girls stay with you.
And then you have your granddaughters, you are so happy to meet them –
And their parents are still missing
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How do ya feel about Canis and Granny Relda? Romantic or platonic (whichever you want to talk abt)
oooo I like this one! To be honest, I ship them platonicly bc I don't think Relda ever got over her late husband. They're totally besties tho
What made me ship them was their chemistry in the books, not to mention how they protect each other pretty much whenever need.
my favorite thing about this ship is how Canis acts like a father figure to all the children Relda 'adopted' (i.e. Puck and Red)
I don't think I have an unpopular opinion on this ship tbh
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Hello! I love your comic and wanted thankyou for your great work. I always get super giddy when I see a new chapter (if you couldn't tell by my rambling tags)
Anyway, chapter 15 left me with a few questions. Could you elaborate on why the pure vessel isn't able to see other bugs emote? and when this is said: " The hollow knight. It's hollow" Who is speaking? And why does this convince the pale king?
Aww! ♡⸜(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⸝♡ Thank you so much!! And I love rambling tags! Every time there is a reblog I read through them all. It always makes me so giddy to see people reacting in the tags! It makes me think of sitting in my room, then suddenly hearing muffled exclamations of joy from a few rooms down. Which makes it all the more glee inducing for me.
And I would love to elaborate! The reason the pure vessel can’t see/sense the emotions of other bugs, it entirely because the Pale King is blocking them. Which is also why the pure vessel can’t sense his emotions. That’s the reason he never lets them be around other bugs without himself being present. After several previous failed pure vessel attempts, he has come to a conclusion that many of them failed because the emotions of other bugs were tainting the vessels. The only people he is even remotely okay with being around the vessel without him, are bugs that can conceal their emotions like he can. Like Lurien, when he’s not flustered(chapter 8), and Relda(chapter 11).
For your second question, it requires some explanation. The Pale King was using his foresight ability to look into the future. Checking to see if the Hollow Knight plan will work. However! Void can ‘deny time,’ as one of the white palace lore tablets said, thus it has a nasty ability to mess with his foresight. That’s why when he was in his void lab, when he tried to look into the future, time lines were overlapping and obscured. And while it was clearer once he got far away from the void, he was still trying to look into the future of a void being. So it still wasn’t as clear as his normal foresight is. He has about as much information about the glimpse as we do. But he isn’t used to not being able to trust his visions 100%. So, instead of being smart and asking questions, he just believed it.
And I am going to control my can’t-shut-the-fuck-up-itis and not explain anymore, as this will be an important plot point later in the comic. ( 。 •̀ ᴗ •́ 。) One I am sooooo excited to get to!
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Puck, looking at a plate of broccoli: I'm not eating this green stuff! Ew!
Relda: Good idea, liebling. It's a plate of toxic waste that will turn you into a mutant if you eat it
Puck: [immediately starts shoveling broccoli into his mouth]
Canis: There has got to be a better way to make him eat
Puck: Ahhh...I can feel it working...
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