#tho i do hc that he often healed himself in the white palace bc otherwise wl would fuss

[ruthlesslistener]

10) How they deal with pain. for PK please

10) How they deal with pain.

-He ignores it. If it’s legit dangerous? He’ll stitch it together with a little bit of soul, but unless he’s genuinely pissed by its existence or terrified of what it can do to him, he’ll usually just leave it to heal on its own- wyrms heal fairly quickly, because their lives are usually so focused on conquering and defending their territory, so he’s sort of internalized how they deal with it because he’s dealt with enough wounds over the years to be pretty meh about most of them. He doesn’t care about his body, nor does he care about bringing it pain- the only thing he really fears is the death of his creations and the futility of his existence/actions, so he usually doesn’t see why he’d waste the soul when its perfectly fine mending on its own (and often does without a visible blemish, because PK doesn’t get himself into big physical battles- he’ll fight if he needs to, but he usually prefers flight, because he thinks he has better things to do than risk his life for problems he can kill in a more sneaky manner.)

For mental, though? Well...it’s much of the same XD He considers like 99.7% of his emotions to be flaws or weaknesses, so most of the time he just straight-up ignores whatever bothers him because he considers it below him to be affected by things like that. If it’s an infected child, then he has a right to be pissed, yes, but sadness is only allowed when viewed through a vengeful light, because that is the Radiance transgressing on his territory. Or, at least, that’s how he was when he was younger- as he grew older, and started realizing the extent of what he did wrong, he just...wasn’t able to keep away the exhaustion and sadness, and grew bitter and tired with it, no matter how much he tried to deny it, to be the perfect voice of logic and justice for the people in need. 

But it still wasn’t enough to force him to confront his feelings. Not until it was too late

#reply #mrslittletall #ask game #ask meme #hollow knight #hollow knight headcanons #the pale king #pale king #pale king hollow knight #dude is fucked uuup #tho i do hc that he often healed himself in the white palace bc otherwise wl would fuss #and the retainers would run shrieking #can't have that now can we #esp. not once the void gets in the bloodstream