#hive knight hollow knight

[audtheodd]

A very likely friendship- the troublemakers of the hive!

Day 7! Friend?

(I swear I'll make more info abt my OCs eventually. I'm working on it. Till then here's Pollen as a baby with baby Hornet and Hive Knight)

#hk #hollow knight #hk fanart #hollow knight fanart #hk hornet #hollow knight hornet #hornet hk #hornet hollow knight #hornet #hive knight #hk hive knight #hollow knight hive knight #hive knight hk #hive knight hollow knight #I need to come up with a name for him for my AU because just hive knight sounds weird #hk oc #hollow knight oc #oc x canon #hk oc pollen #small artist #my art #ley-ayyy works #hkam23 #canon x oc #hk oc x canon #hollow knight oc x canon #awr_hk_au #a world restored hollow knight au

[that-one-enby-possum]

Hive Knight theme needs more love, it fucking slaps and no one talks about it

#hollow knight #hive knight #hive knight HK #hive knight hollow knight #hk #read my post it’s important #the bird speaks

[v-toast]

the hive, a home

#id in alt #hollow knight #hornet #hive knight #art

[linterteatime]

My piece for @hkhallowzine ! My old computer really wanted to perish while making this but I didn't allow it ❤️

#hollow knight #hallowzine #the knight #ghost #hk #the hive #fanart #my art #That old computer has been replaced somewhat recently btw #I had saved up some money last year because my old one was starting to be slow at literally everything #now it's so slow it's unusable #anyways #this zine was fun! I don't draw detailed-ish backgrounds very often so it was cool to make one for something like this #artists on tumblr

[cardinailed0]

silley :]

#hollow knight #grimm #quirrel #hive knight #cardinart

[fungal-wastes-my-beloved]

request,,, some Bees

7 months late here you go ahaaha

#hollow knight #hive knight #hiveling #fwmb.png #... *awkward cough*

[flame-shadow]

February's zine! Each scene is a 4-page spread making up a 16-page booklet. Originally, I was just going to draw one bug per page, but I got more than 16 bugs, and I am fond of making scenes and telling stories anyway, so that's what I went with. :)

Bonus flat view of the zine below the cut

#hollow knight #zine #monthly zine #flameshadowart #id in alt #this zine was fun to do #oh god now to try to tag everything i guess-- #lesser mawlek #infected balloon #lance sentry #maskfly #ooma #Caelif and Fera Orthop #death loodle #deepling #pilflip #distant villagers #jiji #aspid hunter #heavy sentry #husk guard #watcher knight #gorgeous husk #poggy thorax #gruz mother #hopper #hive knight #soul warrior #leaping husk #crystal crawler

[hornet-mylove]

#hk hornet #hiveling #hive soldier #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #my art

[tbdragoonfly]

#art #animation #hollow knight #hk bee #bee #hk the hive

[cyndr0n3]

There is 1 reason I haven't posted this earlier and thats because tagging would be a nightmare.

A couple of characters with no corrolation whatsoever...

#A little bit later than normal sorry y'all :P #pale king #hive knight #hollow knight #cyn #doll #murder drones #leif #vi #bug fables #bowser #yoshi #super mario #cheezborger #fwench fwy #chikn nuggit #gangle #zooble #the amazing digital circus #pusheen #stormy #pusheen the cat #spam bots #jevil #deltarune #ena #ena dream bbq #the snatcher #hat kid #a hat in time

[pocochiiiiii]

Flowers and bees

#hollow knight #my art #hk #hive knight #hk hive knight #Hiveling

[alaskaartz]

VESPA!!!!

WL and Vespa are found sisters so Hollow, Hornet, and Ghost call Vespa, Aunty Vespa, and Uncle Hive, and Sunny will call WL, Aunty WL and Uncle PK when she's old enough, right now she's 2 so :3

#art #illustration #alaskaartz #hollow knight #hollow knight au #au #hk au #hk #hk vespa #hk hive knight #hollow knight vespa #hollow knight hive knight

[g-----m]

BEHOLD

#hollow knight #herrah the beast #hk vespa #hive queen vespa #hk herrah #hk hivesitter au

[thehoneyknight]

HoneyDream Act 1: Honey

-Chapter 1: The Vessel

Summary: We lost all memories and were broken. After the fall we were found in an unfamiliar place staring at an unfamiliar Shade on the surface of an unfamiliar substance. We were fixed, and then we followed. There is a strange light in her Hive- does it lead to our future?

#bee vessel #bee vessel au #hollow knight #honeydream #hive knight #if there are any issues with the links or stuff on the ao3 side please let me know. thanks for reading :D

[tonythr]

Floating platforms in Hollow Knight are weird, lore-wise

Soooo I haven't seen anyone actually talk about this, but those things just keep *bugging* me.

These things.

Why did Team Cherry put these particular platforms in the background?

Ok, there are numerous floating platforms in this game, of course, because the player needs them to traverse big spacey rooms vertically. They're not even an issue lore-wise, because their existence can be explained by them being attached to the fourth wall, which is what the player looks at the Knight through. It's basically a game construct that we are not supposed to think about as a part of the suspension of disbelief.

BUT THOSE THINGS are not attached to any wall! They're just. Floating. There. In the air. Without any support. And THEIR existence can't be explained by the game wanting to provide the player some convenience. The Knight can't interact with them, we never see anyone else use them or even acknowledge them, so they MUST be something that TC put there for lore reasons, as a part of that beautiful thing that we call environmental storytelling... Right?

That or they just put them there without really thinking about the implications that this anomaly creates. But that's a boring and very unlikely explanation, so I'm just going to discuss what that might mean for the game's lore, assuming they're put there intentionally.

So, I have several thoughts on why those platforms might exist as a part of the in-game universe.

First theory. Hallownest is literally frozen in time

Ok, so this is probably the most obvious one. Throughout the game we see some evidence of the Kingdom being literally put on hold with the intention to keep it alive indefinitely.

This is pretty much what is implied in the tablet in the Pale King's workshop - that PK was trying to literally pause Time itself, so that the inevitable Dawn would never Break.

(Quite an interesting theme, actually - the idea of avoiding the inevitable not by trying to actually avoid letting it happen, but by delaying it by an infinite amount of time. It deserves its own post, really)

So, with Time itself being literally frozen, it's pretty safe to assume that this is exactly the reason as to why some parts of the Kingdom are literally stuck in one place, right? I mean, it's pretty much a trope to have floating rocks and buildings in a place that is stuck in some kind of time stasis. I'd say this is a pretty solid assumption, but when we actually look at some of the other parts of Hallownest we see that it's pretty lively for a place that is frozen in time. The rain is pouring, the stalactites are falling, all those machines in the Crystal Peak are still working...

Some of that stuff can actually be explained by either the Radiance's influence or the Knight's movement. The Infection is presented as the inevitable force of change that resurrects everything and moves it towards Light. The air thickens, the bugs arise from the dead, the Infection takes over the Crossroads, the Moss cultists get turned into mush, and so on. Meanwhile, other creatures possessing a Will are also capable of bringing change to this land. The Knight constantly breaks things, forces the ground to crumble beneath its feet, and overall just brings destruction to Hallownest, bringing the world closer to its natural end. It's no wonder that the stalactites start falling conveniently right as the Knight passes underneath them.

BUT there are still many things that can't be explained so easily. Like, if the Kingdom is supposed to be frozen in time, then why is the rain still pouring? Why is the Wyrm's ash still falling at the Kingdom's Edge? Why is the sand still falling from the ceiling? Why do larger things seem to be fixed in place, while smaller things are seemingly unaffected by the Kingdom's stasis?

That and the fact that at no point we see these floating platforms being acknowledged by the game's lore in any way other than those two places makes me think that this theory is probably incorrect, unlike the next one.

Second theory. Those two particular places are just that special.

The only two places where we actually see floating platforms being a part of the background (if I'm not missing any) are located near some of the most mysterious places in the whole game.

First, we have the ones that are located near the Colosseum of Fools. To be honest, even the interactable platforms there just seem useless, as some of them don't even protect us from the Bellflies. They all look like some kind of decoration (alongside with those strange thin pillars with circles on top of each) leading us along the road towards the corpse of a huge beast which the Colosseum is located inside. What even is this creature? Is it a higher being? Is it a Wyrm (don't mossbag me, he's wrong about those things being its claws because we see a third one in the foreground lying aside from the main structure, detached from the body)? Is the Lord Fool its reincarnation? Is it connected to the Ancient Civilization? How are there so many warriors there? Why does it still thrive after everything that happened to Hallownest? There are so many questions about that place left unanswered that I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the magic of the Colosseum actually affects time and/or space around it, making it possible for the floating platforms to exist.

Second (and this is the most important one), we have the platforms that are located inside and outside the Hive. As far as I know, this is the only place in the whole game that has this many floating platforms located in the background.

This basically confirms that this is absolutely NOT a coincidence and is a part of the intentional in-game lore. The whole place is floating!

The Hive seems to be in its own kind of stasis, probably due to its isolation. Vespa says that going against nature is a folly, so this anomaly is probably something... natural.

And you know where else floating things are a natural occurrence?

The Dream Realm.

So, the Hive and the Dream Realm are both places that are tied to the Light, which is a kind of force or energy that can alter reality and even create new realities, which are not necessarily bound by the usual laws of space and time. The Hive is not located in the Dream Realm, and it's safe to say that it's not some kind of in-between-the-worlds situation like with the Lifeblood Core, so the stuff that's going on there is less crazy than what we see in the Dream Realm, but it is also the only material place that is connected so heavily to the Light, so it is safe to assume that the anomaly that lets the platforms float is directly connected to that mysterious force.

The only thing that I can't understand is how the Light in those places connects to the Colosseum of Fools. It's not a well-lit area, and even inside the arena the only source of light is just regular fire. Could it be that this mysterious force is not defined by the Light itself, but by something more... incomprehensible?

I wonder what that force even is. The Radiance is definitely not the only source of it, and we know we're gonna see some really shiny stuff in Silksong. I personally hope for more platform lore.

#hollow knight #hollow knight lore #hollow knight theory #Hallownest #the hive #the dream realm #colosseum of fools #the radiance #silksong

[crystalchespin]

Shoutout to the five hive knight fans out there!!!!!

#hive knight #hollow knight #hornet #hk hornet #hive queen vespa #hk knight #hk ghost #i hate tagging things ohmygodkf #my art