A tale of two maggots.
(Wherein the Radiance performs palliative care.)
some time ago i made the connection that as maggots are baby flies, this means that as a fly in hallownest, sly was probably also raised in the same environment as false knight, which answers many questions and begs even more. the end result of all of that theorizing is this almost 10k fic!!!
please be aware that this fic gets into the maggot lore and so includes discussion about chattel slavery and everything it entails; check the tags & extra warnings in the foreword so you make sure you know what you鈥檙e getting into! this is Mostly a fic about how hallownest treated its lower classes very badly, so tpk fans please be aware that the only person in-story with anything nice to say about him is hollow.
this is part of my go the fuck to mimir series, i.e. character studies with a shared framing device which are set during hollow & radiance鈥檚 concentric solitary confinement, and feature radiance telling them stories about the darker side of hallownest to challenge their hard-line pro-pale court mindset/give them something to concentrate on besides what鈥檚 happening to their body irl/not go insane herself from frustration re: Everything.
this one鈥檚 set a couple decades into government assigned sun jail; hollow鈥檚 enmity is at 150% and their confusion is at about 60% whereas radiance鈥檚 enmity has climbed from 0% to about 30% and her annoyance level is at about 200%.
other attractions include:
Who Was Esmy Anyway?
nailmasters!
false knight鈥檚 Hot Takes!
hollow lashing out!
radiance lashing out!
the bpd emotion of being suckered into a caretaker role for somebody who鈥檚 harmed you because they are suffering!
politics!
irl bug biology that makes a bunch of canon stuff a million times worse! i鈥檓 serious, don鈥檛 google it!
even more canon-typical weird, gross, and horrible character death!
local maggot(s) taking various matters into their own hands!!
everyone is traumatized!!!
the bugs have depression!!!!
Yee Haw!!!!!
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Love Hollow Knight! I l would always travel up to Mato鈥檚 hut because I thought he鈥檇 have a ton of extra dialogue, given he says he thinks of us as his child and all. Sadly, he doesn鈥檛 have any more than Oro or Sheo (in fact he probably has the least amount of dialogue of the trio since you can get more by giving Oro the flower and sparing the Nailsmith who heads to Sheo鈥檚), but it was one of very few places it felt less lonely to be in.
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that twitter meme by the way
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Teachings of the Nailsage
"A nail is an extension of ourselves, it is the instrument by which we shape the world around us. It's a sacred duty to keep its edges sharp."
Variants because I was not sure what to do with this comic in general
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