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progenycursed · 3 days

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what’s the pale kings relationship to each of the dreamers? I kept re-reading your comic and noticed how friendly PK and Lurien are, like really friendly like when PV first eats or in the first enhancement (?) to PV. And it got me thinking how PK and Lurien see each other and that lead to how the Dreamers see PK and how the PK sees them. uhh sorry if my wording is weird lol

At long last! Wall of text be upon ye! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Since the comic is still a fair ways from the dreamers being chosen, this information might change in the future. ┐(´～｀)┌ At this point in the comic(chapter 16), the dreamers have not been chosen. With all the set backs with the vessels, the Pale King hasn’t been able to figure out what all the Hollow Knights bindings would look like. He needs to know what the final product is going to be and how the void behaves so he can make the bindings as secure as possible. Can’t make a trap without knowing what materials one is working with. Can’t make a prison cell if you don’t know how the biddings are set up. So at this point, the eventual dreamers, are just people living their lives. Each with their own relationship with the Pale King.

Lurien:

Mentor mentee. Pseudo friendship

Lurien idolizes the king. Coming from an ant colony, a strong devotion and non romantic love for their leader is common place, expected, and instinctual. From this base point, his admiration only grew after the king healed him, gave him his dream job, and extended his life.

So how the pale king acts around him, throws him through a loop. Lurien expects a regal leader, calm, composed, with the highest of manner and indifference to the individual. But instead, he gets very enthusiastic god that sees no reason to hide his emotions or interests, sees no reason to use something as trivial as manners, and genuinely cares about all his people. Lurien wants to try to match that energy and casual nature, but he can’t throw away natural instincts and a lifetime of social training. So he can never really relax to the degree he wants. He is a very well spoken individual that always knows what to say, so when he tries, it’s not uncommon for him to forgets all of it when he talks with a literal god king.

For the Pale King, Lurien is the closest thing a mortal can get to being a friend. Which doesn’t sound like much, but for a being that outlives every mortal he comes across, and with higher beings tendency to hate one another, friends are few and far between. So to him, Lurien is one of the most important people to him. He enjoys his company, but he is well aware that Lurien will always sees him as a god king. So he can’t be as himself as he would like around.

And for those wondering, neither of them have romantic feelings for the other. Lurien has never even entertained the idea. If he ever did, the idea would be appalling to him. The king is his leader, not some romantic crush. As for the Pale King, wyrms are not designed to have romantic feelings. Cause if two fully grown wryms stuck together to raise their young, they would decimate the local ecosystems to feed them, and their offspring would still starve. So the Pale King, doesn’t really experience romantic love. So sorry-not sorry to the shippers on this one, there is no romance between these two in this comic.

Monomon:

Science buddies.

There first meeting was an accident. She needed to talk to the king so she went to find him. In his lab, fixated, working on kingsmold and wingsmold. Not knowing better, and slightly intrigued at seeing void, she approached, and learned first hand what happens to anyone in the lab with him. Unlike other impromptu lab assistance thought, she enjoyed it. She offered advice, suggestions, feedback, and knew when to duck out of harms way. Leading to engaging discussions, new breakthroughs, and not a fixation-breaking dead body. It was only when the fixation ends, did the pale king realize she was there. Sure he was talking with her, working with her, having full discussions with her, but he was fixated. Steps are skipped when you are fixated. For example, the steps to meeting people:

Step 1: Consciously acknowledge there is a person

Step 2: Can talk, interact, and work with said person

He just, skipped step 1. Onto how they see each other.

To her, the pale king is another hardcore science nerd like her, and an untapped resource of knowledge. Few others can keep up with her intellect, curiosity, and drive to learn more. Sure he is the king, but he is another scholar first in her mind. So she is known for just dropping in to see him if she has a new discovery or all her assistants have fallen asleep during one of her multi day science experiments. Her only issue with him is his tendency to keep some things hidden or abstract. He won’t explain anything about the void aside from it’s dangerous for mortals. And when she asks about his experience as a higher being, he explains it in a way that no-one could understand.

For him, she is the only mortal that has a level of intelligence, knowledge, and scientific enthusiasm that is any where near his. She can keep up with his fixations and science/engineering spirals. She can keep up with his ramblings, doesn’t hate them, engages with them, and is willing to act on them with him. And she is smart enough so as to not die or get hurt during any experiments. The age difference does cause problems though. She is a fraction of a fraction of his age, and their are many times that becomes apparent. There have been many a conversation where it becomes clear him and his experiences are alien to mortals. She also lack political grace, so she doesn’t understand there are some things that are better left unknown to mortals.

That is where it ends for the both of them. They don’t have any sort of relationship outside of being science buddies. They never make small talk, neither care to talk about their personal lives with each other. Not for any negative reasons, but because they would rather talk about science. Neither want to risk changing their relationship, so they are never interested in trying.

Herrah:

Political leaders.

When she first went to meet him after her spouse died, she expected a fight. To prove she was the true deepnest leader as she had done with her own people that questioned her. She had all her arguments prepared, and even weapons if it got heated. Instead, when she introduced herself as the new deepnest leader, he just accepted it. No argument, no protest no questioning of her skills. Just Okay, so about the trade agreements. It was with that one sentence that she realized that maybe, just maybe, all the stories she heard about the pale king may have been biased. So she decided to make her own opinion.

Most of the politics between Hallownest and Deepnest are handled by ambassadors. The two of them rarely meet. Usually only doing so in the most serious of political situations. As he isn’t allowed in Deepnest as he is to bright for all the night vision people creatures living there. And she hates going to Hallownest, because it is to bright, clean, and uppity.

Herrah is a smart and cunning leader of the beasts, and show knows better than to pick a fight with a civilization that vastly outnumbers hers. Especially since their standing with the Mantis tribe is, rocky at best. That paired with their well established trade relationship, she plays nice. For the most part. She will still poke at their boundaries to see where the line is with the Pale King. To her, he is a leader that sits behind his walls of luxury and never involves himself with the lower class. A pompous, dainty leader that knows little of the world around him. Just like the rest of the Hallownest upper class that infest the palace. So she likes to try and push his and Hallownests boundaries to test him. To her great irritation, he rarely reacts in a way for her to get a good handle on what kind temperament he has. And he treats her like a common citizen which pisses her off to no end.

For the Pale King, he both likes and dislikes Herrah in different ways. He doesn’t know much about the Deepnest culture, and never understood the whole ‘bloodline’ thing that ran the leader position for so long. To him, she is just another mortal leader. So he treats her like everyone else. When she speaks with anyone, she is blunt and straight to the point. A trait he wishes many of his citizens would have. So many of his citizens talked in long winded political speeches with hidden meanings and requests sprinkled throughout. Making it very difficult for him to respect their privacy and not read their minds just to get to the damn point!

For the dislikes, when she has to get involved in a political conversation instead of her ambassadors, she will barge into the palace and demand to speak with him. Refusing to leave until he shows up. Even the other Deepnest leaders didn’t do that. But it is well within the behavior the spiders employe in their political practices. ‘Poking the wyrm’ as they all liked to call it. Testing the limits of his patiences by pushing the borders between the lands, harassing his citizens whenever they are in the city for negotiations, and the constant threats and posturing that is their ‘trade negotiations.’ He knows how to deal with them, and unlike the other Deepnest leaders, she is far more willing to work with his kingdom and actually think instead of just playing tough. Unlike some other political leaders he has to deal with.

And because I know this question will be asked after all that:

White Lady

Best friend and platonic soul mate.

As a wyrm, he doesn’t really have romantic feelings. It’s not advantageous for his species, so there was no reason to evolve it. Very similar to the White Ladies’. Keeping the mate around would lessen the offsprings chance of survival. So neither of their species is designed to feel romantic love. But the White Lady does feel lust.

My head cannon for their relationship is different than what a majority of the fandom thinks. I don’t think he pursued her. I think she pursued him. It’s cannon, from her mouth directly, that she has a “voracious desire” to breed. (◯Δ◯∥) So I image the moment he was within line of site, she was on him, flirty up a storm. Leaving him, just, absolutely baffled. This was not a behavior he had ever seen from another higher being, let along it being directed at him.

That was how it was for the first hundred cycles or so. Her, trying various ways to seduce him. Him, trying to ignore the horny tree as he learned how to build a kingdom. But as the cycles went on, they slowly began to learn about each other. Whether they wanted to or not.

For her, this was the longest another higher being put up with her flirting without either teller her to ‘f*ck off’ or attack her for being annoying. When he didn’t chase her off, she just started talking with him. Asking him what he was doing. Confused that he was trying to help bugs that weren’t his. He didn’t make them, they weren’t his offspring, why did he care? It was baffling, but intriguing to learn what it was he was trying to do.

For him, it was the longest another higher being had been around him and not attacked. She was persistent, and wouldn’t take ‘I’m not ready for kids’, ‘I don’t even think that is possible,’ for an answer. But she never threatened him or his budding kingdom, so he put up with her. When she started asking questions, he shared his plans to at least placate her. What he wasn’t expecting though, was her actually listening. Which was a new experience for him. Sure some of his new people tried to listen, but his goals were far beyond what they could comprehend. Their eyes always glazing over shortly into the explanation.

With each new interaction, they learned more about the other. She began to see him as something besides a way to procreate. He began to see her as something besides a pushy plant begging for a drink. They would talk for days with each other. Both learning what it meant to be able to relate to another being. They began to enjoy each others company. Getting to a point where they could enjoy each others company without having to say a word.

They became friends, not only enjoying each others company, but actively seeking it out. They began to build the kingdom and rule together. When he cast off his shell, she followed shorty after, spreading her from so far that her main body shrank. They were each others best friend. The only person who understood them on every level in every way. They could vent to each other, bounce ideas off each other, joke with each other. They were always interested in the others newest fixation and would always ask questions. Knowing how much it meant that someone was interested enough to want to know more.

It was’t long until their people started calling them soul mates. A concept neither of them fully understood, but it was accurate enough they never refuted it. Going so far as to confirm their union to the people of Hallownest by solidifying it with each other. The titles of king and queen no longer just symmetrical titles, but official in the strange customs of the mortals. Swearing their commitment to the other with a medallion, then each taking a piece to always keep with them.

Those are, at least at time of writing this, the relationships between the dreamers and the pale king. With a bonus ship thrown in. Again, not sorry about not being on the Lurien/Pale King ship. That will be a running theme in this comic. Loving relationships that don’t end with fucking. Because I want some variety dammit! (ﾉ｀□´)ﾉ⌒┻━┻

#progeny cursed #hollow knight #hollow knight pale king #pale king #hollow knight lurien #monomon the teacher #lurien the watcher #herrah the beast #white lady #answered asks

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vulturereyy · 10 months

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Hi! If it isn't much of a bother...could you share some Mettah HCs? <3

I'm so sorry it took me so long to answer this! The short answer is... I'm really bad at open ended questions ahah and the things I say don't always feel like they're ?? satisfying to someone who asked a question?? But I've put this off long enough, so I'm just gonna go off the top of my head:

Mettah's childhood nickname(s) from Hegemol were often food related, including but not limited to: Honeydrop (which his also his surname, so she was Honeydrop Honeydrop for a time), Nectar, Honeydew, and his favorite was a mix of these words to call her his little dollop of ____. Most of these names focused on her orange color.

Lurien, on the other hand, stuck for calling her his sunshine. Both because she was orange, and because she is the light of his life.

Mettah is just barely taller than Lurien, and she lauds that single inch over him like a throne.

Mettah is not a fighter, and doesn't take up true combat training from either of her fathers, but she does learn self defense.

Her weapon of choice is a crossbow, when she has to use it.

Mettah is well-versed in the arts by Lurien, and is a painter almost as skilled as he is. However, she eventually grows into her own style of outsider-esque art, and moves toward making art with a message or purpose.

Mettah puts her art skills to use to paint and graffiti pro-union propaganda for the menderbugs as the kingdom starts back up, and becomes a big advocate for worker's rights.

Lurien offers the side of the spire for her various murals, and he cannot be more proud.

Mettah loves the city just as much as her fathers do and did, and follow in their footsteps to take care of it in her own way.

Mettah is a disaster sapphic who is down bad for anyone who is niceys to her tbh and also anyone who is gruff and stoic. and also anyone inbetween.

Mettah loves her favorite (family friend) uncle, @grollow's Grimm, and definitely doesn't have the eyes for his daughter. Don't worry about it.

"Your head looks like a pastry!" Is the very first thing she ever said to Grimm once she could speak. She's been holding that in since she was a water-bound nymph.

Originally, Mettah was not going to be biologically Hegemol's. My Lurien is trans and has the facilities to carry an egg, and thus, Hegemol was worried for Lurien's health if he were to be the sire, just given their size difference. However, I settled on the fact that she would be both of theirs, as the two of them could seek out assistance from the White Lady in peering into Lurien's clutch in the early stages and culling all but the one that would be best for his health to carry. They did not specify any traits except for Lurien's and the egg's health. (Lurien wouldn't have been able to safely carry more than one egg at a time anyway so a cull would have happened no matter what)

I decided that she was Hegemol's after I drew all these images, so I think I'm going to give her two little horn nubs like her beetle father to match this :) But a mostly-damselfly egg would have also been the safest for Lurien to carry, hence why she looks so much more like him than Hegemol.

They don't know where she got her orange. Recessive gene magic babey. She is for sure theirs though.

Mettah loves arson. Like, a lot.

#asks #oc: mettah #lurimol #thanks for the ask!! I hope this is satisfactory!

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ebijinua · 7 months

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hallownestian dictionary update #2

current words: 20 / 200

feel free to help assist in the dictionary by adding your own words, and i'll see if they're gud enough to be added in. :>

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words starting from #13 to #20

Rodule (/rAH-duel/, /ɹˈɑːduːl/), verb.

/ Frantically moving from one place to another. /

"Lurien's butler roduled across the spire to catch up to his liege."

Aclod (/ACK-load/, /ˈæklo͡ʊd/), verb.

/ To motion one's arms; to wave goodbye to someone. /

"Lemm acloded his last client before stopping his shop for the day."

Dolecrotter (/dOHl-craw-ter/, /dˈo͡ʊlkɹɔːɾɚ/), noun.

/ Phrase used in the Groundwest Providence of the city. Describes bugs who entered through the City of Tears from either the Royal Waterways or the lower, still developing King's Station. /

"My family was full of Dolecrotters! They still proudly identify with such a title as if the King himself appointed it."

Taumig (/tAW-mehg/, /tˈɔːme͡ɪɡ/), noun.

/ Derogatory phrase. Phrase used in the Surfwest Providence of the city. Mainly used by the Upper Caste. Used to portray the bugs of Groundwest and Groundeast Providence as 'inferior or otherwise poor and lacking of importance'. /

"This night's a blessed night. I got called a Taumig by those there upper caste members. Have you as well?"

History — Taumig is a combination of two words, "Tautaginosac (/tAU-tah-gee-no-sack/, /tˈɔːɾɐd͡ʒˌiːnəsˌæk/)", meaning "ruthless savage" and Migoserafe (/mih-go-see-rAH-fay/, /mˌɪhɡo͡ʊsˈɪɹɑːfˌe͡ɪ/), meaning "inferior body". Combined, Taumig means, "A ruthless savage with an inferior body". The idea was said to have come after a Gluttonous Husk was furious at finding out a poor citizen from the Groundwest Providence somehow snuck into the upper caste society and took some of their food.

Biquiddac (/beh-qui-dac/, /bˈe͡ɪkwɪdˌæk/), verb.

/ To refine something, like an object or one's self. /

"The workers biquiddaced the fabric on the chairs, making sure they were of fitting quality for the incoming husks."

Hoygrammed (/hOI-gram-ed/, /hˈɔ͡ɪɡɹæmd/), verb.

/ To hoard, keep close to. /

"You give an unfortunate bug some Geo and they'll hoygram it like no tonight." / "She hoygrammed the Geo that was gifted to her."

Cosepper (/cOH-seh-per/, /kˈo͡ʊsɛpɚ/), noun.

/ To refer to the four-legged bugs that assist in transporting bugs across the city. /

"Don't forget to call for a Cosepper. They're active today so don't miss any of them."

Jornatti (/jORn-nah-tee/, /d͡ʒˈoː͡ɹnɑːtˌiː/), verb.

/ Feeling weak; A weakened state of emotional, physical, or mental reasoning. /

"I don't feel well today. I oh so do hate feeling like a jornatti sometimes."

#hollow knight #hk #hallownestian dictionary #hallownest #dictionary #hk au #hollow knight au

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irishplaguedoctor · 7 months

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Blog Directory

Hey guys! Welcome to my official blog! I'm putting a blog directory up so it could be easier to navigate my stuff! Simple really, all my art is labeled as #noireart but if you are looking for something specific this might help you!

General Tags:

#noireart

#noireanimation

#noire sketches

Hollow Knight AU Tags:

#ghost the assistant: Both the Pure Vessel and Ghost escape the abyss together; however, the Pale King only needs one vessel for his plan. So, the king decides to gift Ghost to his loyal servant, Lurien the Watcher.

#twilight child au: Ghost eventually escapes the abyss after finding another way out; however, instead of leaving Hallownest, they meet the Radiance at Crystal Peak and are subsequently adopted by her.

Undertale AU Tags:

#dragons...i guess au: This follows a general gasterblaster au with Gaster being the original blaster, and Sans and Papyrus inheriting the same powers.

Crossovers:

#lobotomytale (Lobotomy Corporation x Undertale): Asterisk and the sephirah all work together to run the L Corp. Wing: Lobotomy Corporation; a facility that uses abnormalities to generate electricity for the City. However, the true motive for L. Corp's creation is something that runs much deeper than what anyone would expect it to be.

#voidbuddies (Hollow Knight x Undertale): The Pale King and Gaster messed with the VOID and now they have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

#hollowumbra (Hollow Knight x Nihilumbra): Just two void-born entities having fun together.

#blog directory

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mayashesfly · 2 years

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I like to think that Quirrel and Lurien’s Butler knew each other.

But unlike the other takes on what their relationship might’ve been, I like to think that Quirrel viewed Amin, my name of Lurien’s Butler, as more of like a mentor figure because he’s like at least 40 years old or something along those lines, and Quirrel was around 16 to 20 years old when they first met.

It started when Quirrel had finally graduated senior high and Monomon was planning to officially appoint him as her assistant.

She decided to go to Lurien, who was already an acquaintance of hers duel to previous meetings regarding how much information in The Archives can be used in general education and public libraries in the City of Tears, on how she should approach and announce this to the public especially to the Higher Class.

(Lurien lightly pleaded her not to make this announcement in the first place since that would bring even more hell on his plate when he deals with the Higher Class but he knows full well Monomon probably would anyway, if not for Quirrel’s sake, then for the chaos it’ll bring. But Monomon reassures him that as long as she won’t tell that Lurien the Watcher helped her in any way, then the Higher Class would most liiiikely not bother him with it.)

And so he did.

During this time, Quirrel was in a nearby room trying to stay calm and composed. But, frankly, he was a little nervous. He was going to be Monomon THE Teacher’s Official Assistant after all. And though he might feel close with Monomon herself, making it official is still a big deal itself.... not to mention he was not of high birth in the first place. And, unlike in The Archives where he feels relatively safe, it would be told to the entirety of HALLOWNEST!!

Amin quickly took notice of this, with how much the poor newly graduate kept subtly fidgeting in his seat. He also knows the feeling of suddenly being appointed to an Important Figure after all and being close to them as well.

So, he talked to him. Tried to reassure him. Ease his worries. Answer his questions to the best of his abilities.

“It’s true that we both feel close to Master Lurien and the Teacher respectively. And that, they feel the same way as well. But it’s still a fact that neither of them will fully know what it feels like to be one of us, the same way we will never fully know what it feels like to be one of them. That’s why we have to stick together. And I don’t mind showing you the ropes. You may feel like it, but you’re not alone in this okay?” Talking to Amin really helped Quirrel alot. It was true that Monomon won’t fully know what he’s currently feeling at the moment, and that was fine. Atleast he has someone else that knows what it feels like, and someone he can also talk to when it comes to these things.

His wise words made Quirrel respect him alot. And he was glad that he can call him a friend.

#may asher rambles #hollow knight #quirrel #monomon #lurien #lurien's butler #drabble #I made this quickly since I lack the time #unfortunately

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