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ashcoveredtraveler · 7 months

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Color of Hemolymph/blood

TW for blood... obviously...

So I was thinking about this when initially writing my fanfic as literally in the first chapter, many bugs are, ya'know bleeding. The colors of blood that I used for that initial chapter was silver and red to make it simple for my tiny lizard brain. I might change that section of the fic eventually, but I would like to have a set color of blood for most of the insects in Hallownest, (I say most as I usually have a tendency to forget shit). Some of the blood colors will stay the same while others I will be taking liberties with.

Pale King&Hornet&White Lady(color: Silver)- This is one the only outliers of all of the other bugs and plants in Hallownest as they are pale beings. I was originally thinking that their blood could literally be soul, but I don't think they are all made out of soul. Pale doesn't = soul, I am pretty sure they are partly made of pale essence, which allows efficient control of soul.

Vessels(color: Black or black with sliver speckles)- Originally I thought that all of the vessels would probably have black blood, void. However, I think that the vessels that are more talented or simply hold more soul have pale essence in their blood, thanks to their parents.

Beetles(color: greenish blue)- So most beetles have green/blue colored blood, so I think that would work out

Mantises(color: green/yellow)- Mantis originally have this colored blood anyway so might as well keep it, can't think of anything better for them.

Butterfly(color: milky white)- The original color for butterfly blood is colorless, but that's boring. So a milky white color for the blood would work well.

Moths(color: pale gold or bronze)- This is the only blood color that is based on my own headcannon and has nothing based on reality at all. Since moths come from the Radiance, they would have a similar essence to her, correct? So why not pale good blood. But then I thought, how does Grimm fit into this, and would he be able to fit into this? So the moths who are more akin to the Radiance would have a pale gold color while the moths akin to Grimm would have bronze colored blood.

Plants based beings(color: clear with green specks)- original: I remember when I was a kid I would just rip apart some plants and dissect them. Clearish liquid with a tint green would always come out of it. I think clear blood with specks of chlorophyll would match for them.

Spiders/anything in Deepnest(color: maroon)- So spiders have multiple different types of blood. I saw yellow, blue, clear and many mixes between those colors. I think that a purplish red color would work out for the spiders.

Crustaceans/Pillbugs(Color: Blue)- So interestingly, pillbugs aren't insects and are crustaceans. They are in fact the only crustaceans that fully live on land. Anyways, most crustaceans have blue blood as their blood contains copper. And I like the color blue for blood.

#hollow knight #headcanon #hk headcanons #hollow knight world building #world building #blood #what blood do insects have?#obviously all of this isnt true #split family au #minimal research done on this #literally looked on the first results on google for some of these

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