Hssssssssh - Idk What Im Doing Here

Headcanon that idk if anyone else has but I think it’s funny so I’m posting it anyways

The Pale King isn’t the one who put all the buzz saws in the white palace.

The Radiance did. She did it as a prank, Shade Lord helped set them all up one night.

Featuring a shitty PK and a Radiance sprite bc I can’t draw her for shit

Well I mean technically that too but I’m mostly here for simping for hex

Remember when you had no idea what you were here for? Look at you now!

Yep! I’m now here for simping for hex and hyperfixating on any character I think about for more than 5 seconds wether I like them or not!

how to draw arms ? ? 

I never thought about this before but after I read this, yes he does. Thank you.

Captain Caviar cookie looks like the word Hark

Second! The perspective would look so cool!

Three viable reference options

Which should I focus the drawing like?

Does this to you

Breaking news: happiness hank gets introduced to drugs.

When hahank discovers the party poppers... 🎉

fun fact, “poppers” is slang for a drug here

Today was the day I learned I can only draw hex at certain angles. Also I am so proud of that Garcello

Using the naming convention Leif has, I thought it’ll be fun to give the other ‘moths’ we have names. Which is pretty much anagramming a word related to Life.

Zommoth’s name is Dleiv, an anagram of Lived. Since they used to live but now they don’t. Not only that, it sounds like something of Roach language duel to the strange arrangement of letters, so it fits with how Zommoth and the other cordyceps talk in Roach language or a Roach-like language.

Grandpa moth’s name on the other hand is Levier, an anagram of Relive.

I feel like whatever relation Grandpa has with Leif in terms of descendants, be it being Leif’s actual son or grandson or great-grandson or whatever, I feel like it’s possible one of Leif’s relatives would’ve named one of their children after him. To honor and remember him in a way.

Leiver has some inspiration from Leif, namely the “Lei-” but it sounds removed enough that anyone that would look at Levier won’t instantly be reminded of Leif, especially if they’re still grieving. And Levier won’t be conditioned to act like Leif duel to the resemblance of their name.

Their name may be inspired by Leif, but they are still their own person. And they will always be their own person. Regardless of it after all.

Plus, being an anagram of Relive is kind of a nudge of that hope in the family that Leif will be alive again in one way or another, or that Leif will relive again while Grandpa is alive. And Leif did, in a way.

idk if i've said it before, but another aspect about Hollow Knight's lore that compels me is that its a tragedy, but it's told through the story of the victims. The Pale King is a sterotypically tragic character in that the road to his damnation was paved by his own love, hubris, and damnation, but we don't deal with that downfall directly, and the game offers no sympathy for his situation. Instead, the characters who drive the story are the ones who would normally be the silent casualties accompying the downfall, or the victims of the protagonist's fatal flaw. We're given a story where for once, the focus is not set on the agony of the main character, but of the lives of the people he hurt, and we are privy to that pain and anger and sadness that was inflicted on the voiceless victims. We see the story unfold from their perspective, we watch them deal with the aftermath. And while they were discarded by the main plot of the tragedy of Hallownest after it was all over and done with (that being the fall), their pain isn't depicted as any lesser just because they were forced to be silent. Obviously they too are tragic characters, but they were forced into such circumstances because of their father's hubris and inability to concede defeat, and we see the refuge of his actions change the whole world despite it all, specifically because they loved their sibling too much to let them go.

Idk. It just hits different when you read it from that perspective, especially since it really drives home the fact that no matter how much the Pale King regretted his fall from grace, his emotions meant nothing because it still lead to his children suffering when they didn't deserve it. Hollow Knight is a story about the shadows of what many others would consider to be the main characters, and I love it for that

(Radi might also be a tragic character, as someone who was betrayed by her own people and then came back a monster when trying to chase her own glory, but we don't know enough about her side of the tale to say for sure, but I can say for certain that she makes a terrifyingly good antagonist)