#soulmaster

[cheese-soldat]

Soul Master hollow knight when i fucking get him

#Soul Master #Soulmaster #Hollow Knight #hk soul master #hollow knight soulmaster

[biggestpball]

hk but sw au hehehe

#i first drew ghost vs Soulmaster then #i jst cant stop #some mandalor nailmasters hehehehh #hollow knight #hollow knight ghost #nailmaster #great nailsage sly #monomon #monomon the teacher #quirrel #soulmaster

[raaan127]

#animation #spine #madewithspine #game #game animation #gameanimation #undead #broken sword #king #soulmaster

[thehanty]

Oh.. hm... What's ITS name?

#soulmaster #soul #solustale #crushtale #hanty #byhanty #bythehanty

[ebijinua]

soul masterering

#hollow knight #hk soulmaster #hk soul master #painting #theSOULMANN

[hollownest-whore]

Glad I've started to try breaking away from fanon ideals and develop my own ver/interpretation of hk

#i used to be flat out wrong #then i was a fanon complaint creator #n looking back at my recent stuff im happy i got to just be silly #Lurien x Soulmaster does not count that still is a vile creation #theres more stuff i wish i could do but its so fanon ingrained to be one way id probably be broken like a crab leg

[dromaeo-sauridae]

I WILL JUST FLOOD U I NEED TO KNOW

ok

ok real talk

how do you feel about

[drumroll]

Monomon/ Soulmaster

YOURE INSANE

#HEHAGSGAHSHEHAHA THAT CANT BE REAL RIGHT #monomon would destroy that man. soulmaster is such a little baby bitch #people talking to me

[6clawdy6]

Day 31, BLOODBATH

Thank you for joining me for Goretober 2022! Hope to see you next year for more Halloween shenanigans!

All rights reserved.

#wilbur soulmaster #clawdy #spectator #clawdy the spectator #clawdyrecords #winrostudios #goretober2022 #goretober #bloodbath #blood warning #bathtub

[lizbot]

"Like Nya or something" - The solemaster.

Everytime I see the Soulmaster I can't stop thinking about his cat ears. Canonical cat man he is.

#hollow knight #lurien the watcher #hk soul master

[linterteatime]

All the hollow knight gijinkas i have made so far, with links for easy find (◕_◕)

Troupe Master Grimm, Divine, The Radiance, Brumm, Broken Vessel

Quirrel, Mantis Lords, Traitor Lord, The Knight/Ghost, Tiso

Hornet, Lace, Myla, The Collector, Bretta

Pure Vessel, White Lady, Pale King

Marissa, The Hollow Knight, Iselda, Xero, Eternal Emilitia

Monomon The Teacher, Cornifer, Cloth, Jiji, Soulmaster

Hive Knight, Queen Vespa, Grey Mourner, Traitors Child, Marmu

God Seeker, Blue Child Joni, Herrah The Beast, Midwife

Nightmare King Grimm, Markoth, Gorb, Zote The Mighty, No Eyes

Grimmchild , Dung Defender, Moss Prophet, Grub, Grey Prince Zote

Paint Master Sheo, Nailmaster Oro And Mato, Nailsage Sly, Nailsmith, Lurien The Watcher

Salubra, God Tammer, Pale Lurker, Seer, Thistlewind

Small changes to Pure Vessel, Troupe Master Grimm, The Radiance

Fierce Dryya, Mister Mushroom, The Hunter, Snail Shaman

Isma, Revek, Steel Soul Jinn, Tuk

Flukemarm, Fluke Hermit, Dream Warrior Galien, Relic Seeker Lemm

Milibelle, Nosk, Elderbug, Maggot

Grimmkin Novice, Grimmkin Master, Grimmkin Nightmare, Elder Hu

Distant Villagers, Grimm Steed, Massive Moss Charger, Kingsmould

Unn, Cristal Guardian, False Knight/Mighty Hegemol, Watcher Knights

Gruz Mother, Vengefly King, Leg Eater, Menderbug

Willoh, Grubfather, Hot Spring Bugs, Mask Maker

The Last Stag/Old Stag, Brooding Mawlek, Little Fool, Soul Warrior

Ummu, Bardoon, Soul Twister, Volt Twister, Mistake, Folly

Extra stuff for the gijinkas + Fixes for old ones

Greenpath Vessel, Ellina The Chronicler, oblobbles, royal retainers

White Defender, Lord Fool, Winged Nosk, Grub Mimic

(Greenpath enemies): Mosscreep, Mossfly, Mosskin, Volatile mosskin, Fool eater, Squit, Obble, Gulka, Maskfly, Moss knight, Mossy vagabond, Durandoo, Duranda, Aluba

(I will make more dw)

#hollow knight #hollow knight gijinka #gijinka #gijinkas #the hollow knight gijinka post #<- in case i lose it somehow lmao #not art #i will update this every time i make new ones but i will also link it in those new posts themselves instead of reblogging it #because i think reblogging every time this may be a bit annoying for some ppl #anyways #this is good to have #also just in case someone doesn't know #i have made also more hollow knight gijinka stuff with some of these designs unrelated to me showing the designs themselves #not linking those here tho but you can try to search for them in my blog with hollow knight gijinka i think #if the hashtags work whoops

[chubbs-the-fish]

so how is soul gathered, and does it regenerate in non-Vessels? could Hornet pseudo Bloodbend? i.e Place/stab her hand onto a tree and drain it? or drain it a Little bit and drain it again later? i'm imagining her fighting a very powerful enemy and directly converting what she drains into Soul Silk to entomb the enemy.

I think I've talked about this before, but I'm more than happy to do so again!

Soul is the natural energy that exists in the world. It animates living creatures. Only strong beings have enough to actually harness to cast spells. Higher beings naturally generate and store vast quantities of soul (with notable exceptions like void beings that can absorb and store but do not generate). Some beings have an aptitude for generating Soul in excess, to the point they can cast spells easily (snails, moths, and weavers are all species with a natural aptitude). Some beings (soulmaster and his minions) and artifacts (Soul totems) are good at drawing ambient Soul from surroundings or people and can use it to cast basic spells.

Ghost is essentially stealing Soul whenever they hit a living creature with their nail, since they can't generate any Soul themself.

Hornet is producing her own Soul, in fairly vast quantities, both because she is half Wyrm/higher being, half Weaver, who produce plenty of soul themselves. She can't take if from other beings like Ghost does, and if she uses too much of her own soul she risks passing out or worse.

#asks #headcanons #lswg

[bobbinbugs]

Quirrel was not suicidal

As a 3-year hollow knight fan, I see "Stag Beetles and Broken Legs" get recommended a lot. A lot a lot. Considered by many to be the definitive Hollow Knight fanfiction, it generates fanart and gushing recommendations every time it's mentioned.

But there's one glaring issue of interpretation I've gathered: It frames Quirrel at the Blue Lake as suicidal.

And I don't think that's correct at all.

Once you get down to it, everything in Hallownest is about death and avoiding it. The Pale King's eternal kingdom, the Soulmaster's shaping of soul, the Radiance's aimless reanimated vengeance... in clinging to life, they strip themselves of dignity, and cause unfathomable suffering for naught. Characters who think they will never die, like Tiso, meet their unceremonious end, unburied and unmourned. "All things must accept an end," in the words of Vespa's ghost.

A minor character reiterating one of the central themes of the game: hold that thought.

Few characters have immortality aside from gods. Even with gods, immortality is highly conditional: but that's a different essay. In otherwise "mortal" characters who lasted too long, they seem ghostlike themselves: the pale mourner evokes the classic white lady archetype, and dissipates into thin air once her business is finished. The seer appears to have a conditional immortality as well: once the maximum essence is collected, she, too, dissipates, having finally assured a new Wielder has come.

Quirrel seems to operate on this conditional immortality as well. Considering he left long enough ago for the plan to be put into action, the fail of it, and for the fallen kingdom of Hallownest to become "ancient". Like the Mourner and Seer, he probably should have reached the end of his natural lifespan long, long ago: and, as we see Monomon's mask protect him from killing blows in the prequel comic, it's fairly logical to conclude it's also extending his lifespan. No point in creating a back-up plan if the back-up isn't protected, right?

And what happens if you remove the lifesource?

Well... let's put it this way. "I begin to feel my age" takes on more weight than a quip about how much time has passed, or the burden of memory. Without Monomon's protection, his statement metamorphoses into an admission: Quirrel is starting to feel, body and mind, that his artificially-extended lifespan is catching up with him.

So that's the first half: accepting death. The second half is fulfilling your purpose for living: Let's talk about the Nailsmith.

The Nailsmith is a character who lives to forge nails. That's his art and purpose: to forge a Pure Nail. Once his purpose is completed, he loses his will to live: after all, it's completed. The way the ghosts pass on, and how Ghost too disappears when their purpose (defeat the radiance) is completed, the Nailsmith asks the player to kill him. Even his thoughts revolve around his worthlessness. His dream nail dialogue reads "My life's work achieved… What more is left…?" To the Nailsmith - and the oligarchs of the game - completing your purpose means you have outlived your usefulness. But there is a key difference between the Nailsmith's final* thoughts and Quirrel's final thoughts. For comparison:

"All tragedy erased. I see only wonders..."

This is not the dialogue of a suicidal person. Quirrel is not self loathing. He doesn't feel worthless. He's grateful for the long life he's lived, and the blessing that he gets to experience it twice over. And this is his dream nail dialogue: it's objective truth he's not putting on a brave face but harboring darker thoughts. Genuinely, I would not call these the thoughts of someone who wants to die: this is the thought process of someone who wants to live. You may extrapolate or choose to ignore, but I don't think it's founded to interpret Quirrel as suicidal.

And that establishes difference between the Nailsmith and Quirrel: Quirrel doesn't seem burdened by his lack of purpose. In fact, I don't even think he considered Monomon his purpose to begin with. We know from the Nailsmith that fulfilling your purpose means you've outlived your usefulness; you die, or you find a new purpose. But the Nailsmith's purpose was smithing nails, and he devoted himself to it. Quirrel is called back to Hallownest, but spends 90% of his time in it just... fucking about, to put it crassly. He does want to solve the mystery of his being called, but he takes his time. He doesn't consider his purpose is to serve Monomon; he's not overtaken by a passion or skill; Quirrel is a traveler. He's just after the wonders.

At the end, he does exactly that. He lived a long, full life for himself and no other, seeking out wonders and taking his time. He finished what he was called to do, but it's telling even his final goal - seeing the Blue Lake - is a goal for himself, and not something he was told to do. He spent most of that long life not knowing he had a purpose someone else set, and doing what he wanted.

(quirrel voice i was put on this earth to accomplish 1 thing but i forgot what it was so thankfully i can do whatever i want)

Despite his final thoughts being of someone who loves living, Quirrel is... almost absolutely dead. The file is called quirrel_death_nail.png. One of his first lines in the game is advising you to loot weapons from corpses, because the dead "shouldn't be burdened with such things," and the last sign of him is his abandoned nail. Furthermore, he abandons his nail at the time Hallownest is most dangerous, with the Radiance so close to being free. Self defense is more important than ever, and a character as wise as Mr. Either-you're-alert-or-you're-dead wouldn't abandon his nail at such a crucial moment! Overall, Hollow Knight is a game that keeps in the classic tragic opera tradition of killing off as much of its cast as possible before the final curtain, and Quirrel is no exception. You can argue that quirrel_death_nail.png is the death of "Quirrel the wanderer," but I'm not going to lie, the signs aren't in looking good.

But I don't think he drowned. Just for fun, let's bring a common fan interpretation into the fray: Quirrel is commonly interpreted as a pillbug. (So do I - it's just too perfect.) Neatly, pillbugs are actually crustaceans, and have gills! Given the general aquatic theme of fog canyon and his final stop at blue lake, the effect is less "giving up" and more "return to homeland/true nature," which is what Quirrel's arc is all about. I wouldn't worry about him drowning.

But if he's dead, and his last stop was at Blue Lake, but he didn't drown, what did happen to him?

Remember the Seer and Pale Mourner, and their conditional immortality? Keeping in line with the other ghosts-that-haven't-died in the resting grounds, I like to think Quirrel, upon completing his task, likewise fades into light. The location, lack of clarity between immortal, alive, or dead, and completion of unfinished business all line up for Quirrel to go the same way. This idea is a bit more of a stretch than all the others, but I believe it suits him. It's fair. It's graceful. It's direct contrast to an unburied corpse or an unmarked grave, like all the Fools at Kingdom's Edge.

So, In conclusion: Quirrel didn't drown himself. He doesn't think he's worthless or that he doesn't want to live. He saw his time is up - and perhaps had been up for a while - and does not scrabble or cling, but bows out with grace. In turn, the wandering scholar earns the rarest jewel in all of Hallownest: a dignified passing.

Rest in peace, Quirrel. You've earned it.

#anyway this is why i refuse to read sbabl #aside from the complexes #quirrel #meta #bobbinbugs originals #hollow knight meta #hollow knight #long ass post. made this while depressed #bon appetit #UPDATE FIXED A GLARING ERROR OR SIX #TUMBLR SAVED IT WEIRD AND LEFT BEHIND A COPYPASTE I DELETED. OOPS OOPS OOPS #in tumblr's defense firefox was crashing a lot for no reason that day

[biggestpball]

#Soul Master #Soulmaster #Hollow Knight #drew this for my friends haha #its a SoulMaster only activity

[vulturereyy]

this may be unhinged of me to say but what if the reason Lurien's telescope is pointed at soul sanctum is because he doesn't trust the soulmaster but also because he secretly believes the outcome of the research there has merit, even if he doesn't condone their measures. And what if in his lonely spire he tries to replicate their findings but with himself as a consenting test subject.

#this may be a reach but #i had an idea for 'lurien can actually fight and defend himself but he's a mage' #and no one really knows that because he doesnt have to fight like ever #but imagine...

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

:]

Surprise! A neon souls post that’s not the red and blue gays /lh

I haven’t drawn him enough in this au (almost not at all) and I needed to. Especially when he has some interesting lore I’d like to share because it’s been eating me up from the inside these past couple days.

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Higari is ill, chronically, and is simultaneously one of the strongest and weakest racers.

His condition caused him to take a step back from racing as it worsened, and now he only races every now and then as he’s taking a break.

The Formula™️ did not mix with his blood properly in the way intended, and the concentrations constantly shift and change.

He was born with far too many markings than his body knows what to do with and since the concentrations change, the locations of which markings work properly also shift.

Instead of having light markings on the arms, they takes up his entire arm almost and even his hair.

He was taken in for “treatment” and “observation” from the Soulmaster as a child and experimented on a lot.

AFO managed to stabilise the issue by forcing most of the formula to concentrate within his arms. This helped, but it isn't a permanent solution.

Due to this, he has the strongest ability to create almost anything out of the holograms and control them. But he is physically weak.

He often will pass out and cough up very highly concentrated blood.

Due to his situation, he was subjected to a lot of soulless training and gets stolen to be experimented on occasionally.

The scientists at hq are trying to figure it all out.

#bnha #eclair’s art #power loader #higari maijima #neon souls au #cw blood #?i guess #technicaly #anyway i just wanted to draw him #i love him sm #and neon souls is fun always

[justsomeectoplasm]

Hollow update:

FUCK YOUUU SOULMASTER YOU BITCH.

I finally defeated him after like, 2 days of trial and error with my charms (I wanted to use shaman stone to spam the vengeful spirit spell but I realised after my 99th death that I don't use it as often.)

Anyway soul sanctum is a nightmare with how many bodies there are holy hell.

Anyway, heading off to crystal peaks! I can't wait to see Myla again. I love her little songs.

#hollow knight spoilers #hollow knight #Hollow update