#something between the legends of them being sleeping giants/fairies and burial mound markers

[sidhedust]

I'm still on hiatus, but I caved in to drawing and sharing these sketches because I've been playing Hollow Knight to calm my nerves. It's nice to draw more simple shapes for once.

Anyways, this is Luana and Floris (not introduced yet) as...bugs. In a bug version of Tovera. Yeah. Extra explanations under the cut.

I don't know how to communicate their powers and other quirks in Hollow Knightverse speak, since of course my systems are different from HKverse's. But the is one thing I do know is that the snails' manipulation of soul very close to Luana's magic type (as she is one of the few people in the story that can use pure magic as a weapon in and of itself), and they even live in burial mounds, which fits her species well.

As for Floris, he's royalty, a descendant of someone who's treated like an ancestor of all ancestors, a powerful spell-slinging first monarch (so something like the grandson of the grandson of the grandson of the grandson of a Pale Being-like figure) so he can have a few higher being like traits as a treat.

Originally, Luana was a weaver, but since only witch characters weave sigils and the like in story and that isn't her primary way of using magic, I decided to go with the species that more closely resembles her mage class, that being a mixture of neighbor/theurgist.

Floris was also a weaver/higher being hybrid like Hornet, but now he's kinda mosskin-like/higher being hybrid. For spoiler reasons, I can't get into the nuance of his HKverse self's whole biology.

#sidhedust art #hollow knight au #hollow knight #might slap these into the arc 1 zine as a treat. lol #anyways. more notes on the designs: luana's motif is supposed to be kinda menhir like #something between the legends of them being sleeping giants/fairies and burial mound markers #if I stuck with the weaver concept I definitely would've pushed a more loom druidess look though #as for the prince he's straightforward. he gets a little prong like the radiance and pale king because he's heir to bug Tovera #though I suppose [tons of spoilers that are kinda obvious but I can't share yet] #it isn't easy adapting ocs to a new world. lol