on vessels and void
Also known as how I explain the vastly disparate sizes of the vessels despite them all being the same age.
So. We know that Vessels are born of god and void, that they’re at least partially composed of void, and that they are not bugs.
What does this mean?
Well, allow me to explain.
All of this is technically pure speculation on my part, but it’s the only thing I can think of that explains all the in-game evidence we have -- I basically take it as canon.
Let’s get going, shall we?
(I use it/they for vessels at complete random, as their relationship to gender is fundamentally alien and they have no real concept of it at all)
So, of the vessels we know of, three are gonna be important: the Knight, the Broken Vessel, and the Hollow Knight. First, their heights. The Knight is tiny, the Broken Vessel is a little bit taller, and the Hollow Knight is massive.
And then where they spent the vast majority of their lives. The Hollow Knight, presumably, spent almost all its time in the White Palace; the Broken Vessel seems to have stayed in the Ancient Basin; and the Knight, well, they left the kingdom entirely.
We're pretty sure that the vessels all hatched in one huge event.
We know for a fact that they made the climb out of the Abyss all at once; we see the Knight and the Hollow Knight within metres of each other, and the only difference in height is their horns.
All the other vessels falling as the Knight ascends are also Knight-sized.
So what gives, huh? Why does the Knight stay baby-sized for their entire life, while the Hollow Knight towers over almost everyone else?
Well, remember where they spent time.
The Hollow Knight was raised by the King in the White Palace. We know the King was directly manipulating void to make the wingsmoulds and kingsmoulds. We know he was experimenting.
He has a void workshop in the Palace itself -- though, given the White Palace you explore in-game is almost certainly a projection of the King’s last paranoid dreams and not any kind of reflection on what the place was actually like... I personally find it pretty compelling that of all the non-sawblade things included in the memories are the White Lady’s room, the throne room, the memory with the Hollow Knight... and his workshop. I dunno, I think that speaks of how important those things were to him in life. Regardless! I think we can assume pretty safely that he has some source of void within the palace itself.
Alright, so what? Well, the Broken Vessel was also in the Ancient Basin.
And the Knight?
Left the kingdom.
Void, void, no void.
This brings me to my hypothesis:
Vessels require access to a source of living void to grow at all. If they have no access to void, they will remain at hatching size forever.
The Hollow Knight had ready access to void, and was trained in its use. They had close proximity to it at almost all times; between the palace’s location in the Ancient Basin as well as whatever shenanigans the King pulled to get void into his workshop, the Hollow Knight was able to grow to its full size quickly.
It’s not a groundbreaking revelation, but it’s the only thing that fits the evidence we have. I think it works very nicely, so it’s part of my canon for the universe.
Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk there’s a whole heck of a lot more where this came from!
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Me: I don't know what to do with Veronica's character in post s8 au, I don't want her to be Just Lance's sister and Kuron's friend with Pidge's storyline slapped on her, but also I'm not really sure about her character. Sure there's the whole lying to her family thing but I don't think that's enough?
Brain: ok so what if Veronica started out as trying to look for what was Lance upto but she ends up being so obsessed with finding the truth that not only she repeatedly puts herself in harms way but also the original goal falls on wayside.
This could be her way of dealing with trauma which is getting engrossed in the Mission and a problem to fix while suppressing her grief and refusing to actually acknowledge her problems and her own emotions a foil to Kuron's arc that is him being literally driven by emotions. She's angry at Lance for leaving without a word and angry at her family for their clinginess, however she keeps it to herself and just avoid them pretending everything is fine and normal
Also a foil to Lance who started as trying to figure out what was going on but as soon as he realized that 1) Allura and Kuron are still sorta alive 2) he can bring them back, he got obsessed with it consequences by damned.
Plus through her we can actually explore how quintessence actually effects and changes humans rather than become aware of the end result
Also there's something a character who is obsessed with truth but is also such a frequent liar
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headcanons i have about Craig the scientist :)
as are most of the characters i have headcanons for, Craig is on the autism spectrum. he has a flat effect to his voice and facial expressions, doesn't really get most social cues, doesn't know how to react to others in pain the "right" way, misunderstands metaphors and speaks in quite a direct manner because it makes the most sense to his brain. he's quite a literal thinker. he also tends to hyperfixate so hard on a task that he forgets his basic needs and hygene, and thus has quite an unkempt look underneath that hazmat suit of his (which i will get into later!). Barry often ends up needing to get Craig something to eat because of how long he hyperfixates on something.
Craig sometimes doesn't exactly pay attention to his tone of voice, so sometimes he can say something that, to him, sounds completely normal, but because of his tone, can end up sounding really ominous to other people by accident ("We know who you are, Barry.")
Craig has traumatic cataract in his left eye (or wherever the fuck craig's visor crack is supposed to be in canon lol) from the explosion in 'Level 2' and is half blind in that eye. his eye has a very clouded look as a result of the injury. he's also got a huge scar there too that required some pretty gnarly stitches later, and his skin is almost completely numb around that area.
Craig also never really had the best eyesight before the injury, so he's always wearing these big ol' nerdy glasses underneath his helmet. and yes, they are tacked together with a band-aid lol
Craig is one of the few scientists who is not a clone of Peter Simpkins, the late friend of both Professor Brains and (in my headcanon'd canon) Craig. i like to think that Craig and Simpkins knew each other when they were first recruited by Legitimate Research and was pretty close to both him and Brains, and since Simpkins died, Brains has kind of taken more of a liking towards Craig (mostly out of loneliness and needing someone to help around at the lab, but he has a genuine fondness for him under his demanding and angry exterior).
There's a bit of a fan theory that Craig is the same guy as the scientist in the 'Robot Bird' rock opera, which i like to believe is the case. i mean, he's got the same monotone voice as Craig, it's gotta be him. i hope this does end up becoming canon because i think it'd make for an interesting conflict between Barry and Craig!!
Craig may or may not be related to Lab Lady.
Craig's counterpart in the mirror universe is named Kayla.
Craig is demiromantic and is questioning his sexuality (he thinks he might be bi or pan), though he definitely knows he loves Barry <3
Craig has an unhealthy habit of wiping his embarrassing memories, like, a lot. he wipes memories of awkward accidents in the lab, particularly painful failures, and most importantly, the memories of losing literally all his stuff and his career to Barry, which is why he doesn't immediately recognise him in the shorts. Craig has a lot of trouble recounting stories from the past because of this memory-wiping and felt a sense of emptiness, which getting hit in the head certainly didn't help with, so he tried inventing that apple in the Multiverse Madness event to get some of them back. it was pure dumb luck that Barry didn't end up witnessing what happened to Craig in the 'Robot Bird' opera and both are completely unaware of the disastrous can of worms that could have opened. bro's gonna end up like wallflower blush if he doesn't keep that memory erasing under control
and finally...
under his helmet, Craig has messy dirty-blonde hair, a rounded face that has a few stray facial hairs he forgot to shave, a long scar down the left side of his face, hazel coloured eyes and pale skin. this design is inspired by the designs made by @dexterno-artz and @schnabel53 respectively :D
this is a sketch of my finalised(ish) craig design!!! i've shown earlier versions of this guy in a couple of older posts but i haven't really revised his design much until now. i kinda had the idea of him looking like a stereotypical nerd and then made him messier. i might tone the amount of hair he has down a tiny bit but also i really like the nerdy bird's nest thing he has goin on :) i like to think he literally hasn't brushed his hair in several weeks and it's just become a bird's nest from nights of staying up doing science stuff
how i feel about barry tbh. he's literally so dumb i love him
(also apologies for the photos being kinda blurry and me forgetting to turn off the filter. again. in my defence it looks really nice and orange on my phone)
sometimes i like drawing him saying stuff from the shorts to get a feel of how he'd look when talking and make sure he looks juuuust nerdy enough for me to go "yep that's craig". also his big,g, handns,s,
drew this as a quick side profile sketch to get a general idea of how i want to draw him from this angle. he's talking to barry offscreen and falling in love with him <3
stupid little comic with a stupid little interaction that would definitely happen between these stupid little guys <3 barry being a little asshole every now and then is very entertaining to me. i need to see him antagonising craig and starting an old couple bickering argument with craig, that would heal me i think
i think i'll post more of this design in the future, i really quite like it a lot :)
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