#hk meta

[bobbinbugs]

Anne Carson, Antigonick / Team Cherry, Hollow Knight.

#the visual similarities here. woof. #hornet #hornet hk #hornet silksong #meta #bobbinbugs originals #silksong #holow knight meta #hollow knight #hk meta #heaaavily inspired by an rgu post formatted the same way! #lace #antigone #antigonick #anne carson

[fungal-wasted]

So let's talk about Quirrel, huh?

He's easily one of the most loved characters in this game, and for really good reasons. He is a nice friendly face we can find around the kingdom, and he provides good company, advice and some thoughts about the places he visits. But later on, we find out he has a duty with this kingdom, and that he was called back to fulfill it.

One thing I personally always liked about him is that he is often respectful about the places he visits. He isn't there to steal, look for glory, or take advantage of this ruins. He believes he was drawn to Hallownest by the tales of other travellers, and his obsession about uncharted places.

But if you peer into his thoughts, this never feels quite natural. He remembers people he shouldn't he knows of places he should not know of, and this all comes clear once he reaches the Archives and the truth of his journey is revealed to him.

And in a way that changes everything he's ever seen. His thoughts at the Blue Lake are:

"To live an age, yet remember so little… Perhaps I should be thankful? All tragedy erased. I see only wonders…"

And isn't it painful? Because suddenly, the places in this kingdom aren't just some distant lands to him, they were part of his life, his home. Maybe he passed next to the very place he used to live in and yet he probably didn't even notice. There are people lost in memory, that he used to know and never found out what happened to them.

So now, him going about the guards in the city being in eternal duty, the miners working endlessly, or just any simple wanderer are viewed in a new light. That could have been him, or anyone else. That those were people who had friends, family, vibrant and unique personalities, and yet he and a few others are there to witness Hallownest in its decay.

The Archives are a whole other thing too. Did he remember Uumuu for what it was, or did he just know its weakness like an instinct? Is it worse to know and have the duty to destroy it, or to not know and feel like the decision was robbed from him? In the end, when that is done and he stands in front of Monomon's tank, he knows what he is there to do, and now he knows why. But it still feel overwhelming, because all he has then is hindsight. Yeah, he may remember the wonders of the land, but it is a place that's changed. Whatever led him to take this duty is gone, and the scenario he finds is one where Monomon, the last trace of the world he used to know, is choosing to end her life and what she stood for initially, in order for the Knight to achieve their goal (which at this point is still uncertain).

I just, think of the walk from the Archives towards the resting grounds. Did he pass by the City? Did he go through the Infected Crossroads? Did he, with his gained knowledge, visit the other dreamers in this new light?

And what is there for him to grieve when there is so much there that was lost you don't even know where to start? When it feels so arbitrary that he was even granted this second chance? When he becomes aware that there were definitely parts of his life, significant ones, that he won't be able to pay respects to?

But yeah, at least he got the chance to see this place he cared about once again, as it is shown to him, despite its past history.

And that's Quirrel

#hollow knight #quirrel #hk quirrel #analysis #hk meta #hk spoilers #hollow knight spoilers #just AUUUUUUUUUGH

[hollow-knight-stats]

Charm Poll Boost

Hey folks! We recently put out a poll about charm preferences, and we’d love to hear from you. Thank you to everyone who’s responded so far! We’d also appreciate it if you could boost the poll, whether you’ve already taken it or not. It’ll be a great help to us and the eventual results we can conclude from the data!

The link will be in the reblogs!

#hollow knight #video games #gaming #survey #nintendo switch #hk meta

[ladybugboots]

let me help you

#ok it took me a long while to get around to post this for multiple reasons so whatever #alt caption: the threads that bind us #click for quality please!!!!! i never say that but ik it looks like shit on mobile #hollow knight #hornet #the hollow knight #ghost #fan art #id in alt text #okay so i'd love to know what ppl make of the caption #bc i had something in mind but when i asked some friends i got a different responses #hornet killing the vessels as her duty but she sees it as maybe mercy killing bc she pitys their fate #so she's saying it to that vessel #and then thk saying it to ghost by way of their self impalement (orz) #and ALSO. ghost to thk: helping kill the broken vessel either to take their place or end the radiance whichever ending #and my friend thought of hornet to ghost because of her needle coming in #and then a bit of a stretch and kinda meta but hornet by killing that vessel allows ghost to get the mothwing cloak lol #hk spoilers #<HELP

[saltyfinalboss]

doodles + some donation reqs from the fundraiser streams so far ^_^

tysm to those who donated and i look forward to streaming for this event again if it becomes an annual one!!

#hollow knight #hk #my art #digital art #finalbossdoodles #the knight #lol #cookie run #kirby #saltandvinegart #silksong #lacenet #1k #stream art #veigar #meta knight #galacta knight #pitaya dragon cookie #hollyberry cookie #poppy #lace #hornet

[spidertroupeart]

mspaint shit from today while i wait for my stylus to arrive

#hoo boy there's a lot here #donutarts #kirby (series) #meta knight #shovel knight #king knight #specter knight #gall #don't starve together #hollow knight #ghost hk #sam and max #sam sam and max #gay

[maddieandangel]

This was Supposed to be a Halloween doodle, but life got in the way and now it's almost Christmas dhshshf oops

Anyway! Ghost dressed as Meta Knight!!

#hollow knight #little ghost #the knight #hk ghost #hornet #hk hornet #meta knight #kirby

[katlynthecat]

im still having problems drawing meta knight, but i think the swap stuff turned out pretty decent this time. i had a lot of fun making their designs, especially hornet's.

i realized at this point that im just making a whole au, as these guys have been running rampant in my mind.

#kirby #hollow knight #crossover #hollow knight crossover #kirby crossover #hornet hollow knight #hornet hk #meta knight #meta knight kirby #species swap #dynamic poses with orbs are hard but i somehow made one im proud of (the hornet swap)

[xneoncrayon]

💖 The world is not so scary when I’m cuddled against you 💖

My Hollow with @metakit ‘s Quirrel :]

#ronadoods #hollow knight #hollowquirrel #quirrelhollow #hk thk #hk quirrel #I'm Meta's spouse so I get to draw our versions of our kins together and none shall stop me

[grammarpedant]

The sawblades in the White Palace aren't literal, no, they're representative of the Pale King's state of mind. Mental defenses, perhaps- exacting ones. The platforming gauntlet that the sawblades create requires you to be perfect in order to pass, perfect spacing, perfect timing, sometimes to within only a few pixels or a handful of milliseconds.

One could interpret this as the Pale King's standards for himself, I suppose- one very much traverses the White Palace in his role, surrounded by sycophants ready to bow at one's feet. Perhaps the sawblades represent the exacting standards he demands of himself- and of the world he lives in.

For he demands this perfection not only of himself. It should come as no surprise that this is the same character responsible for thousands upon thousands of dead children, artificial beings that he created only to throw into a pit like so much refuse for the crime of being not quite perfect enough for his purposes.

In the Dream of the White Palace there are statues that generate SOUL infinitely, not unlike the Kingsoul charm that represents his union with the Root. In his mind he has infinite chances to try again, to throw himself at his exacting gauntlet over and over again in the search for perfection, and it never costs him anything to do so.

No cost too great, he thinks, even in the ignominy of death. But who is paying? Who is still paying, even an eternity later?

Hornet, mourning at Herrah's deathbed. Quirrel, aching and exhausted at the Blue Lake, more than half his life erased. The Flukes in the sewers and the Mantises in their acidic wastes, fighting Deepnest on Hallownest's behalf. The Moths, dead and gone. The Radiance, bereft and raging. The Dreamers. The Hollow Knight, chained up and aching for its father's approval. The thousands... and thousands... of fucking dead vessels.

The sacrifices he imposed on others... all for nothing. - Hunter's Journal, entry for the Hollow Knight

#hollow knight #verso writes #meta #verso plays hollow knight #i will block you if you try for pale king apologism in my notes #anyway do you see why i NEED to write the Murderbot HK crossover. #SecUnit : Vessel :: The Company : Pale King #queue

[ruthlesslistener]

you eever think how pk and wl being together and their fondness for ogrim is like an agriculture (i think thats the right word) reference

No but that's really fucking cool and big brained of you anon, holy fucking shit. I figured that the union of Mind and Life was a sort of metaphor for eking out a balance between expansion and respecting the land, or some sort of metaphor for civilization booms (since innovation coexisting with nature is how you get big civilization booms historically), but that being a reference to agriculture?? Genius. Especially if we take the timeline of Hallownest to be a sort of mirror to the progression of time over a desolate area, with nothingness -> the Void Sea rising and forming caverns through erosion -> recession of the Abyss leaving behind blank rock and fossils -> Unn's mosses and other primary successors like lichen and fungi colonizing the bare rock and turning it into livable soil -> the coming of the White Lady and her rooted plants representing secondary succession. Radi and PK are kind of outliers to that unless we view them specifically as the evolution of the minds of bugs, in which the Radiance's era = blind religious devotion, and the Pale King succeeding her = the intellectual renaissance of the bug kingdoms, where religion still hasn't entirely phased out of having an extremely prominant role in life, but intellectal pursuits that would once be called blasphemy are now accepted and encouraged, and an age of learning and innovation has sprung forth (not unlike the European Dark Ages tbh). And Ghost's ascention to the Lord of Shades comes as a neat little tieoff to both these issues as well, with the Void being a very literal cleansing force, and the success of their character arc being based upon self-determination and personal innovation insted of being bogged down by the chains of the past and other's expectations.

(Which, all of this sounds presumptuous as hell when I actually sit back and look at it, but come on. You cannot tell me that the Radiance doesn't give off major 'pray to me and I will heal all wounds' vibes, while the Pale King is very much 'I gave you mind for a reason, learn to heal it yourself'. Granted, Radi probably DID actually tend directly to her people's wounds, and the Moth Tribe are certainly advanced in terms of essence-weaving and other aspects, but the beetle tribe was def. left in the dirt here, and I have to assume that the moths ditched Radi for a reason other than just 'pretty new light'. Increased independance without realizing that PK would leave them to fend for themselves was probably that reason.)

As for Ogrim, I legit just thought it was a joke about how plants and worms (wyrm and root) both love poop. WL is a rooted being whose success entirely depended on the nutrients in the soil around her before she became a god, while PK, gross as it is, probably was drawn to the smell of fresh dung because it either indicated that prey was close by, or because soil rich with nutrients provided by it often had a lot of food growing in or nearby it compared to the otherwise-barren sands of the Wastelands. So both would have their brains wired to find the pungent smell of mulch, rotting debris, and dung to = survival and good things, bc its important to both of their ecological niches. Which means that Ogrim probably smells great to them both and is why Ghost is fine tramping all over the Fungal Wastes and the Waterways without a care, as they have both those genes going for them. It's kinda like how dogs are wired to think rotting squirrels and cow poop smells super awesome and great to roll in, but thinks lilac perfumes are gross. They're just built different

(Granted, I made this assumption because PK straight-up gave Ogrim a charm to make him stinkier, and WL didn't seem to be at all bothered by his scent, but then again I usually think about the characters from a biological pov first and a societal pov second. For example, its very likely that most of the bugs in Hallownest hate the 'heroic odor' of Defender's Crest because they are creatures that normally feed on fresh meat and vegetation, and that the ones who like it are bugs who prefer rotting foods, or make their homes in decaying enviromments. So the concept of there being an agriculture metaphor somewhere in there with WL's plants, PK's innovation, and Ogrim's poop completely flew over my head there, shdheh.)

#fun fact radi isnt affected by defenders crest so she has no opinions on the matter #hollow knight #the pale king #the white lady #ogrim hk #hk ogrim #anon #reply #hollow knight meta

[fungal-wasted]

Something I never understood-

How did they put the Radiance in the Hollow Knight? She exists in the dream realm only and the infection is the only form of her in the real world, from what I understood.

Is there any explanation for that?

Big disclaimer but I'm not an expert and I rarely make posts like this (although I do love to write them). So if my ideas are less than traditional or can be disproven uh... sorry. SDKFDJKF Anyways, enjoy this.

So I did a little bit of a research for sources and checked out the Archives's tablets along with Mossbag's attempt to decipher them (link in the replies). The first two tablets presented in the video are the most relevant to me here. The first one talks about the process of the seal itself, and while it doesn't explain how the Radiance was sealed "inside" the Hollow Knight it goes in detail explaining the layers of the seal.

The Radiance (Light) is contained within the Vessel, who's contained within "shell" which could refer either to its mask or the black egg itself, and a seal. The seal is created outside, at the locations of the dreamers and within the dream realm of each one. From the game we can gather that the dream realm seems to be tied or attracted to something in the waking world. The dreamer's seals are where they lay sleeping, the dream warriors are at their graves/corpses, and the most intriguing one, the White Palace, is within a Kingsmould's mind outside the palace grounds. So in that sense it is easy to conclude that the Hollow Knight is the gate to find the Radiance.

But while the White Palace and Dreamers' seals all seem to have happened on the people involved's own volition, the Radiance was not contained willingly. I don't have a definite answer so below the cut I'll just explore some ideas that come to mind.

First of all, seals of binding come to mind, as some way to make a connection or to create some sort of stasis on what the seal contains. I think some sort of spell had to be cast in order to bind the dream realm "location" and the waking world equivalent together, and while I have no idea of the specific mechanics, it would seem as if that is what keeps the Radiance within, and why it takes to bring the Hollow Knight almost to their death to release this connection.

Now, the question is how they came to be together to be placed in a seal in the first place? Here's where speculation starts.

What do the Kingsmould and the Hollow Knight share in common? They're both beings made of inner void and an outer shell. According to the Archive's second tablet, the Pale Light, espcially the Pale King's seems to be associated with the flow of thought. however, in absence of this thought, it is Dreams that would seem to set into bug's conscience, which is the Radiance's domain. When a life ends, it would seem that the flow of thought is broken and what remains is the essence of Dream. Moths are potentially more attuned with Dream, it doesnt mean they lack mind, but it likely means they have more awareness of the Dream realm adn the essence around them, and is why they likely conducted rituals for the deceased and such, but that's for another story.

Going back on topic: what if we thought of void as a magnet to light, similar to a black hole?

The Kingsmould could be seen as a vessel or container of its own, but in this case, it was a structured location that was hidden. It's a bit similar to the Godseeker's tribe in that manner. Still, it could be a possibility that void can be a container for this light, as it is its opposite.

Then, the Hollow Knight -and vessels-, are meant to work in a similar way, but with the added fact that they're beings designed to mimic a bug. If they are designed to have no mind to think, then the Pale Light and it's flow of thought shouldn't reach them. If that can't fill their conscience, then what should? The Radiance. So I guess what I'm proposing here is that the Hollow Knight was used to find the Radiance, and let her fall within this void.

The key part of this plan to work is that the Radiance is kind of trying to cling and lash out at someone that was never "alive" to begin with and therefore never had a mind. (The White Lady implies the Abyss is the places vessels were bron, where they died, and where it began. If we go by my logic, it could mean that the veseels went straight to the state of emptiness after death, were filled with void, and were basically a bait to find the Radiance and seal her away.

And yet, the failure of this plan is that mind and dream seem like inherent properties of life, but even if higher beings were the ones to explicitly grant it to some mortals, it doesn't mean that beings out of PKs reach have no mind, or that it can only be granted by him. Maybe higher beings are just catalysts to a process of growth, creation, and the end of the mortal cycle, that could occur on its own by mortals, even if at a slower or different pace. Which is why the vessel plan is a failure. Somewhere in the property of life is some level of soul, energy, mind and dream. Vessels being made of ineer void does not make them exempt from this rule, and it was this oversight that cost so much in the end. While I'm unsure whether the void had a will as a whole before the Shade Lord, I do think that in this effort to exist and regulate itself are the basic properties of life, and it includes a flow of thought, because in the end that is what a conscience is.

#hollow knight #radiance #pure vessel #pale king #hk meta #meta #vessel #hollow #void #analysis #there's a lot under the cut #theory #but a lot of it is just my hypothesis #with maybe some opinions at the end #again this is more like a personal analysis rather than hard truth #the more objective facts are the things i left before the cut and what comes later are my theories

[maybe-arts]

TOOK ME A BIT

but yeah heard about art prompt on ahit server so i fucking rushed to draw mu

#kirby #kirby series #kirby fanart #a hat in time #ahit #ahit mustache girl #mustache girl #king dedede #(or rather a cosplay of him) #listen dedede and her share a lot of color scheme #also sass #and hammers #point is i adore both #i might do a companion piece with hk as meta #bc i will not pass up two ships overlapping #maybeart #artists on tumblr #digital art

[thevalleyisjolly]

All you need to know about how my brain works is that my two favourite shows to binge rewatch are Staged and Total Forgiveness.

#the valley is posting #what can i say? i really like funny and painfully real meta shows that play with the boundaries between screen and person #i have been extremely restrained thus far about how much i enjoy staged as a genuinely good piece of filmmaking #incredibly written; extremely funny and also devastating; meticulously acted; breaks my brain every time #the georgia birthday party bit in s3e2 remains to this day the funniest thing i've ever seen outside of hk cinema #anyways there might be some staged blogging coming your way soon (now)

[reallycrispypersona]

Callisto : I never want to do this again

Crispy : Sure ( i will drag them)

#magolor #meta knight #marx kirby #angel #bill cypher #the knight hk #brazil #estrangeiro #random doodle #doodle #flower #random computor guy #sans #sans ut #underpant #garuru sgt

[natto-axolotl]

choose violence ask game. hollow knight

hi nonnie!!! unfortunately the last time i was super into HK was 2021 but i will try.

the character everyone gets wrong: lurien. he gets watered down into a pk fanboy almost every time i see him.

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom: never ever thought about this, never ever will

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr: not going to go into detail bc everyone's moved on and it was bad but it was a lot of weird discourse that happened a couple years back

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?: discourse.

worst discord server and why: this is personal beef, but the daily HK server that imploded from surpassing the Users Prone To Discourse threshold in horrific flaming fashion. it's been literally almost 3 years though so we're all good.

which ship fans are the most annoying?: anything with grimm. terribly sorry this is not a particularly romance-inclined fandom and i cannot think about them being in love in canon

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?: grimm. sorry.

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about: I haven't been keeping up with this fandom at all lately so i really dont know WJBDEJDBEN HAHA

worst part of canon: there's nothing i really don't like about the game :D

worst part of fanon: I don't reaaaally like the intense babying of pv and ghost in post canon "everyone lived" fics. let them have agency man.

number of fandom-related words you've filtered: none!!!

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them: lurien!!! this is because i briefly ran an rp blog as him, but also because i think it's interesting to think about what would've brought a character like him to be so devoted to pk's cause, and what kind of person he was when hollownest was in the prime of its life. funny towel man.

worst blorboficiation: grimm. SORRY SORRY SORRY

that one thing you see in fics all the time: strangely contrived prose to refer to the body language of all the characters. i get it but Why

that one thing you see in fanart all the time: ghost being drawn with other indie protags. little baby is officia delegate of hollow knight.

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc): everyone loves memeing on pale king as being a guy willing to kill his own babies to save his kingdom but i genuinely want some exploration of him beyond just a surface level flanderizing "lol. lmao he threw his kids off a cliff" joke. Hupis Incarnate

there should be more of this type of fic/art: i love gijinkas/humanizations esp modern day gijinkas never stop making gijinka content. also anything to do with the radiance. i love the radiance.

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...: CORNIFER AND ISELDA AND THE FIVE KNIGHTS AND (hk fixation kicks back in 2 years layer)

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...: lace/hornet. we don't even know the BACKSTORY. but do you think yuri can bloom on the battlefield.

part of canon you found tedious or boring: actually have never played HK lol

part of canon you think is overhyped: like 40% of the grimm troupe expansion. it's cool but the fanbase latched on too hard.

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores: KINGDOM'S EDGE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT MONOMON AND THE SIMPLE FRAMING OF THE INSTRUCTIONS AS BEING FOR HIGHER BEINGS. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK.

ship you've unwillingly come around to: lemmquirrel, i see it and im like "neat! middle aged bug yaoi and the aimlessness of a quest to reacquaint yourself with purpose! i haven't read sbabl ever!"

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse: (stares at camera) Shipping.

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing: when silksong (me too. but give them some time.)

#natto blabbos #natto answers #ask #anon #ask meme #ask game #hollow knight #long post #send me any hk meta you find if you want!!! i still do love this game but it's taken a backseat to Everything