#pure vessel thoughts

[pure-vessel-thoughts]

Here is your freshly prepared warm Soul drink, crafted with love and care, fresh and fine.

oh thank you thank you!!!! training was hard today so this is extremely appreciated (⁠｡⁠•́ w •̀⁠｡⁠)

#pure vessel thoughts #hollow knight #incorrect quotes #hollow knight incorrect quotes #pure vessel answers

[salthien]

the vessel discovers one of life's simple joys: small plush toy.

a little doodle of a scene from ch 18 of @queruloustea's that makes two of us, then - please please read this fic, it's so lovely. i want to do something nicer and more involved for it but i am still adjusting to drawing Bugs and Bugs Interacting so it will have to wait until i'm more confident :')

#hollow knight #the hollow knight #pure vessel #quirreI is just offscreen having an existential crisis but he is one of the aforementioned Bugs i am still learning to draw. #by god i need to do him justice. it is Important. #also if you're reading this queruloustea hello hi! i hope you don't mind the tag and a little fanart :') #i simply love how you write this creature and it inspires so many thoughts. shrimp emotions #lorne art #tmtout

[sevilai]

Vessels born outside the abyss and therefore not containing any void is that anything

edit: to clear up any confusion this is my take on what Little Ghost would look like jjfhc

#mainly I just thought it'd be cool to draw #I wanted to do Hollow too but it would just be Pure Vessel 2.0??? #I'm going to draw so many bugs I don't care how tired I am #my art #hollow knight #hk ghost #hk little ghost #hk vessel #little ghost #digital painting #digital art #Outshine AU

[ghostplasmas]

#yeah #hollow knight #the hollow knight #hollow knight the hollow knight #the pure vessel #pure vessel #hk art #rain world five pebbles #rain world #i think we're gonna have to kill this guy #damn #ghosts art #art #my art #too much 'PV being serious' #where is PV with no thoughts head empty #but in the silly way not the bad way

[ssomepersonn]

the beasts...

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #the knight #ghost hk #hornet hk #the hollow knight #my art #the hornet in the first one is BABY hornet ftr + thats pure vessel i thought itd be cute in a ghost time travels au idea way #also i think that hornets “mask” genuinely is her head #hence the spider mouth doodle from my other post #by that further i think hollow once they are Huge Big can have a mouth as a treat #ghost is. mysterious #q

[probablyanalienindisguise]

Can you give Hollow a kiss on the forehead I think they deserve it

Bro does NOT know what affection is

#asks #the hollow knight #hollow knight #LOOK AT TYEM LMAO #Locked away: check #Starved of any contact to be a pure vessel: check #Emotionless until thought given: check #GIVE THAT BUG TLC OR SOMETHING

[nonuggetshere]

FINALLY FINISHED THE CONCEPT SKETCHES FOR THE 5 GREAT KNIGHTS

I'm happy with most of them, might draw them a couple more times to truly settle on their designs

Also I know macebug most likely wasn't Hegemol's weapon but I love the idea of a little dog friend that he can slam around like a ball

#hollow knight #pure vessel #the hollow knight #isma #ze'mer #dung defender #white defender #hegemol #grey mourner #dryya #fierce dryya #ogrim #spooky arts #Very happy with Ogrim. Thought he was going to look awkward in my style but he's actually one of my favourites in this set #Might work a little bit more on Dryya and Ze'mer later #As you can see I couldn't decide on Dryya's hands djdhfjf

[littlebittyhollowbugs]

Here's why I believe the vessels do infact possess the ability to speak! (It just doesn't come so naturally to them!)

So we know that the void corrupting their bodies is what supposedly destroyed their ability to vocalize themselves "No voice to cry suffering" as the pale king would say. I have multiple sources of evidence to suggest this isn't entirely the case!

1- the king was wrong about the void, and specifically the way it would effect the vessels, in more ways than one!

"No mind to think" and "No will to break" are both clearly and blatantly untrue and sort of the point of the whole game.

Both the hollow knight and Ghost are shown to posses strong wills, and individual thoughts and desires.

2- the pure vessels cut dream nail dialogue!

It's not "can not speak" it's "do not speak" Which implies that it is very much possible! (and also I wonder about the implications of pv thinking this in particular? I know it's cut dialogue but still.. very interesting.)

3- the collector!

The collector is not only a void being but more of one than any of the vessels, who do posses bodies of Wyrm and Root.

it is most likely a Kingsmould, or was one originally at least. And does not have an actual body of its own.

So the only other void beings in the game (the Kingsmoulds) are confirmed to posses the ability to speak. How this came to be in the collectors case is unknown but it certainly came to be!

I don't see why it would be impossible for any vessel to be able to!

#One day I shall post my collector headcanons #For indeed I do have some #I have headcanons about almost everything tbh #Feel free to ask me about my theories/headcanons/thoughts anytime btw #I'm insane about this game #Hollow knight #Hollow knight theory #Hollow knight headcanon #Hollow knight vessels #hk ghost #hk little ghost #hk the knight #hk the pure vessel #hk pv #hk thk #hk lost kin #hk broken vessel #hk collector

[yrlocalghost]

happy birthday, bug jesus

#hollow knight #hk hornet #hornet #the hollow knight #pure vessel #hk thk #hk ghost #idk why i thought taking a screenshot of the cut dream nail dialogue would be better than just writing it #apologies for posting so much in the tag lately. there is something wrong with me

[grollow]

Hollow + Heartcanon

(arcane-map)

oh, a heartcanon for the forbidden blorbo! <3

I like to imagine that Hollow knew they weren't empty all along. Some people might question why this gives me the warm fuzzies, though, so let me explain:

The idea that they were so deeply entrenched in denial has never sat that well with me, in part because I think of them as extremely, pathologically rational. It also... kind of makes them seem more... I don't know what the right phrase to use here is. Obviously if they are so badly neglected as to truly believe they're empty, or at the very least, be so deep in denial of not being so, it makes for what happened in the Black Egg to be more painful. I think a lot of the fandom enjoys that concept. But I don't.

For me, the idea that they knew and went through with it anyway, not because they believed they were empty, but because they were so devoted to their father (and potentially others, I like to think Hornet would be on this list) that this was the only way they saw to save Hallownest? That's so much more tragic, because instead of helpless victim, we have someone who did everything - everything - in their power knowingly for someone they loved.

There's still the obvious element of "they had to be masking like crazy and yes, that's highly abusive" so before someone @ s me and tries to say I am pretending they did not, understand: I like the idea of them knowingly making this choice. I like the idea that they realized, but continued to walk into it, because "what other choice do I have? I cannot let my loved ones down" It just adds a layer of less helplessness to the mix, and I enjoy imagining Hollow as extremely competent and driven by devotion (however misguided) and love.

I also believe that someone so deep in denial would have a lot harder time adjusting to and becoming part of a society so different from their own, whereas someone who *knew* better, would likely have observed more, studied, and while still having deep scars that may not ever fully heal, will have a slightly easier recovery path in that they can actually see where they're trying to get to. If that makes sense.

#mixed thoughts ask game #headcanons #hollow knight #hk thk #hk pure vessel

[featherlouise]

I'm gonna have to ask u to keep ur questions to yourselves

#look at the sillies #thinking of a caption why was my first thought 'idk mating dances' #ANYWAYS #my art #regrettably #hollow night #hollow knight gijinka #hk pv #pure vessel #thk #the hollow knight #hk hornet #silksong hornet #one of these had WAY more effort put into it lmao

[pure-vessel-thoughts]

strong temptation to bite the people o care about

not to be aggressive

not a CHOMP, like more of a nom :3

born to :3, forced to :

#pure vessel thoughts #hollow knight #incorrect quotes #hollow knight incorrect quotes #pure vessel answers #pure vessel

[sincerely-sofie]

People seemed to really like the last Hollow Knight art dump. Here's some more!

#hopefully Tumblr plays nice with this post. unlike the other one. #going through all my 9000 unfinished fanfics of Hollow Knight + sighing wistfully + sobbing at how bad I missed this fandom #didn't even realize the nostalgia in those fics #I think HK was the last fandom I really got into before I decided to 99% check out of fandom culture #I scheduled this post--- how much y'all wanna bet I forget that I did so and get startled by notifications on a post I don't recall making? #EDIT: YEP I FORGOT THIS WAS GOING UP WHEN IT DID AND POSTED MORE HOLLOW KNIGHT THOUGHTS AT THE SAME TIME IT WENT UP #hollow knight #hk #hollow knight comic #hk little ghost #hk ghost #hk pale king #hk pk #hk nightmare king #hk tnk #hk grimm #hk brumm #hk mato #hk pure vessel #hk thk #hk hollow #stuff by sofie

[larkle00]

so a little while ago i was like "wow haha my pure vessel gijinka looks like sephiroth" and then i realized. theyre the same character in different fonts.

#larkle's thoughts #final fantasy vii #sephiroth #hollow knight #pure vessel

[ria-starstruck]

after everything, does your father still shine so brightly in your memory that it blinds you to his flaws?

#i started disliking the dialogue so i took it out of the queue for a bit but have since realized i can't change it w/o changing the whole th #thing. AURGH. #another of me trying 2 formulate what i feel abt the path of pain cutscene #traditional art #hollow knight comic #hollow knight pure vessel #hollow knight hornet #hollow knight path of pain #art #hollow knight fanart #artists on tumblr #hollow knight #hollow knight hollow knight #hollow knight pale king #tbh i thinnk this is a bit ooc for the hollow knight? #like i feel they'd perceive themself as perfect/keep up the thought that they're perfect #but maybe this makes more sense as an everyone lives/post black egg kinda shtick #when the hollow knight has reason to see they aren't perfect they weren't perfect #but they also don't want to see their dad as flawed #so they recategorize that memory as pale king recognizing their flaws but believing in them anyway #ofc this would b the shallowest realization or else if u think much further than that #like. that makes pk exponentially shittier for sure for sure #like . well hm. in canon he probably did suspect (path of pain memory) but also probably was like In Denial or some shit (path of pain) #buut . i can go on about this but these tags r getting ridiculous

[ruthlesslistener]

New headcanon just dropped (partially courtesy of @bettsplendens and @slimeel ): Hollow naturally has a tail that grows slowly with each successive moult, much like a rattlesnake's rattle, but because it didn't greatly affect their balance and was just a potential liability in fights, PK used to dock it at each moult (as lost limbs regrow in insects, and while Hollow is an insect-mimic thanks to PK, that's a trait that was included in the whole deal). They remained docked from the Sealing through their escape of the Black Egg Temple because they were incapable of moulting to regenerate it while under Radi's posession, and it took a long while and a lot of stern talking-tos from Hornet about them no longer needing to be battle-ready before they stopped docking it themselves and just let it grow back

#hollow knight #the hollow knight #the pure vessel #hollow knight headcanons #self harm tw #in pk's defense: he had a genuine reason and would also do the same to himself if he thought it necessary #in pk's opposition: dude. fucking really