#the lost knight

[coniangray]

The proud princess, the lost knight and the flowers in the cave

In s1 ep 8, the party plays DND and after they finish their campaign, Dustin, Lucas and Will respectively asked what happened to the lost knight, the proud princess and those wierd flowers in the cave.

Now, I do believe that the order they said this and who said what is also symbolic, but first I want to start with this general symbolism:

We only see one knight in the whole show, and he was also crowned as the leader, the heart of the group, who is only mike wheeler in the painting with the whole party fighting the thessalhydra/tiamat.

So, in those words, mike is the knight.

It doesn't take much to realize that the proud princess is El, given how she's the only one who not only turned out proud of her powers and who she is as a whole by the end of s4, but also the only one involved with flowers.

The weird flowers in the cave:

In s4 ep1, El mentions how she missed the spring flowers in Hawkins, but she finds it pretty in Lenora too

In s4 ep2, mike, after reading the letter El sent him, collects a bouguet of purple, yellow and pink flowers to gift to El once he'd arrive in Lenora.

(tagged from mike)

In s4 ep9, the flowers "in the cave" are rotting, as the upside down is taking over and bleeding into Hawkins, therefore destroying what they know as their reality.

So, what about them?

The flowers in the begging of s4 are bloomed, untouched by any upside down infection, but yet had to be cut in order to be given as a gift. This mugh be me over exaggerating, but I do think that cutting the flowers (in this case having someone else to do it, since that wasn't Mike's handwriting in the card to begin with, aka he most likely told Karen to buy flowers from Hawkins/ just a hc) might be him pretending that everything is great in their relationship.

BUT

The flowers literally rot in the end of s4, and as we see, El is in front of the others while mike is standing next to will

Therefore, the proud princess has finally accepted herself and therefore is proud of that.

The lost knight is still lost, unable to figure out his unrequired love for the cleric.

And the flowers are rotting.

And the cave?

I'd like to believe that the cave is the upside down itself. This is the blind leading the blind but I'd love to think how the "cave" works as a metaphor for either the gates or the upside down to complete this sense of closeness and fear of the unknown.

Who said what, and why they said it:

This is most likely stupid, but I think that Lucas saying about the lost princess emphasizes the foreshadowing of him trying to get mike back with el in s3 and that Dustin saying the knight also respectively foreshadows him and Mike joining hellfire and coming closer by time.

To add insult to injury, I think that will said the flowers in the cave to foreshadow the love triangle between will, mike and el and the whole situation with the flowers in s4.

Now reminder that this was just a silly scene as a conclusion to s1 which can also mean nothing, but I think the duffers give a laugh about those subtle hints about this scene.

If you want more info about el's letter and how she covered her hard time in Lenora with lies targeted towards mike, you can click here

#byler theory #no beta we die like my respect for noah schnapp #byler #ao3 #your son looks like a girl #els letter to mike #dnd #the wierd flowers in the cave #the proud princess #the lost knight #paladin #cleradin #mileven #mike wheeler #will byers #eleven hopper #willelmike #coniangray #theory #strangetr things #stranger things #stranger things theory #theories #flowergate #knightgate #princessgate #lovegate #lovegates #mileven breakup #inspo core

[orion46037]

#hollow knight #the knight #lost kin #pure vessel #hornet

[v-toast]

back on my lost kin was oro's student bs

#its been so long and i missed them #id in alt #hollow knight #nailmaster oro #lost kin #art #ask me to explain this hc and i will not shut up

[pricklenettle]

inspired by this post, Danny’s lost in the ghost zone and comes across pariah dark’s keep. I had to draw it and had The most fun with the spooky green ghost zone

#danny phantom #my art #dp #danny fenton #fright knight #the ghost zone #i think it would be cool if the other side of the portal was really huge and obvious #and then of course danny gets lost and has no idea how to get home anyway #i was having a long art block and this series really got me drawing again #so thanks to the original prompt! #I got to use my dip pens for this one too #which I haven’t for a while #so that was fun #the quality of the lines changes so much between ball point pens fine points like micron #and dip pens

[azulhood]

Danny photobombs the Justice League.

So after each fight the superheroes might give a statement or something to tell people everything is fine, the threat is over, pretty normal right?

Superman had just got home from work and defeating yet another one of Lexi's robots, the TV's playing as background noise while he gets himself something to eat, then stands there with some leftover pizza as his interview/statement comes on.

He watches and goes 'could have done that better' or 'should not have said that.'

And then, seemly out of nowhere, this kid in a Hazmat suit appears in the background.

He's holding a map and squinting at his surroundings as if lost, also he's glowing.

The thing is that Superman hadn't noticed the kid, not a heartbeat or nothing.

Which Clark finds weird and makes a note to do some research the next time he's in the watchtower.

The event is put to the back of his mind.

Not forgotten but not deemed important since the kid seems like he isn't a threat.

Then the kid appears in other heroes interviews/statements.

Footage of the Flash fighting captain cold? He's there, almost in the crossfire and Barry didn't even notice.

Green Arrow celebrating a hard won battle? He's by the cop car as the villain is put in the vehicle.

The final nail in the coffin is when he appears in Gotham when batman is telling people to stay calm and inside during a huge scarecrow attack.

Danny on the other hand just wants to go home.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #batman #danny phantom #danny is so lost #was he supposed to take a left turn at fright knights haunt #or a right? #the JL is kinda worried #Green Arrow and lantern bet that its a ghost

[qcomicsy]

They even had the exactly same gay haircut

#AND ALMOST THE SAME SHIRT HOLY SHIT #going insane #something something you and you father are distorted mirrors of eachother #Jason Todd #Bruce Wayne #Redhood #Batman #Red Hood Lost Days #Batman The Knight

[notthesaint]

Fungi knight - my design for broken vessel

#i cannot access in my account for reasons.. but i queued this.. #this artwork and my other art about this somehow blew up suddenly IDK AKJHSJKS #hollow knight #hollow knight art #hollow knight fanart #broken vessel #hk broken vessel #hk lost kin #lost kin #i am quite busy.. but i managed to draw yay #my art

[girlkisserr]

heres my piece from the Hallowhome Zine! thank you to the mods for giving me this opportunity

Bonus drafts below

first piece + laid out idea: i wasnt satisfied with it seeing as it felt. empty

second draft: idea was there but i couldnt make the 3d aspect look nice at all

final is whats posted, and i actually took the palette from here! milk candy specifically, so thank you to OP for that

#||lost kin doodles #hollow knight #hk #i was never happy with my drafts at all so i settled for what i do best and its relatively simple shapes #i bashed my head against a wall for a long while trying to come up with this lol #hollow knight zine #hallowhome

[moonwatcher1000]

My entry for @silksongeveryday ‘s dtiys

+ timelapse under cut

I really had a fun time trying to figure out how to draw lost kin

#hollow knight #hk hornet #hk lost kin #hk hollow #hk ghost #sseday300dtiys

[shawkydokey]

Higher beings, these words are for you alone

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #Lost Kin #Pure Vessel #Greenpath Vessel #well originally i scheduled this post to be posted on last December but turns out I wrote December 28 2024 my bad #so im posting this now ig

[silksongeveryday]

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 426

The hornet council attempting to summon Silksong

#hollow knight #silksong #hk hornet #hollow knight hornet #silksong hornet #hollow knight fanart #hk fanart #yeah sure this is cursed but I feel like I’ve lost my mind #EDIT: silksong has a confirmed rating in austrailia as of April 2nd apparently I think it’s working

[ryllen]

have u never been scared by malleus draconia? be scared now because i enable him to use 12 pokemons specifically to destroy you

#picked Chandelure and Drifloon for silver bcs to make the overal color nice but also because in a way silver is a lost child; a lost soul #twst #twisted wonderland #pokemon #malleus draconia #lilia vanrouge #sebek zigvolt #twst silver #crossover #ceruledge #giratina #lunala #spectrier #fanart #i know spectrier rider is not supposed to be ceruledge; but what the hell they are knight horse pair matched by heaven; it should have happ

[orion46037]

doodles

#hollow knight #the knight #hornet #pure vessel #lost kin #green path vessel

[v-toast]

awkward family meeting

#id in alt #hollow knight #nailmaster mato #nailmaster sheo #nailmaster oro #ghost #lost kin #nailsmith #art #no one knows what to say #idk if its clear but ghost and LK are waving at each other btw :]

[artkaninchenbau]

Top 3 Genders and their Perks (in no particular order)

#My art #I dunno man I thought this'd be funny to draw but it lost the charm in the process (or it wasn't that funny to begin with) #Struggling to find the motivation to draw at all so the fact that I managed to finish this is a miracle frankly #But hey I had my fun going overboard with the knight so yippee yeehaw #Just turning the brain off and doing hatching everywhere forever. It's a great time 10/10 would reccomend

[mebis-art-dump]

Attempted as best as I could to clean up Pure Vessel's collar

Also, while we're at it, have some "Pure Vessel's long cape is actually its natural cloak, which simply gets "trimmed" when violently tearing apart its harness"

#hollow knight #fanart #mebi's art #pure vessel #hk pure vessel #hk the hollow knight #the hollow knight #think of it like broken vessel except it gets cut short before screaming #like a haircut #Im assuming 'the hollow knight lost an arm at some point' is common knoledge so I omitted explaining that or how would it be relevant here #even if someone didnt know this before they can surely notice it in this comparison