Somehow, we are still unsure if the white part is a mask or a face.
>>720376016Thanks for the update im glad you took the time to post this.
We know it's clearly a mask because of the masks representing health. And you collect mask fragments to raise the maximum, so...
>>720376016they would have taken the mask when they locked her up
>>720376016It's a mask.The game calls it a mask.
they literally tell you it’s a mask in the games
>>720376016It is a mask. The maskmaker tells you that you already have a mask.
>>720376127This.
>>720376016It's clearly her head. Both the Hollow Knight and Knight Who Happens To Be Hollow But Isn't The Hollow Knight have the same heads
>>720376215dont all people have masks?
Among bugs, the Mask IS the Face. Without their masks, bugs expose their animal features (and their animal natures). So a bug without a mask is a bug without a face.
>>720376127taking her cloak and weapon is one thing, taking her mask would have been a line even they wouldn't cross. There are some things sacred even to all the bugs
>>720376016Dialogue from the Mask Makers in both games seems to indicate that some bugs are born with masks, while others need them created. So it is a mask, but one that is part of her. I think Hornet makes reference to the fact that Widow appears to have had her mask forcibly removed (I think in her Hunter's Journal entry?), which supports the fact that weavers have natural masks.
>>720376016>-- - ---- ---- ---, ---- --- ---?
>>720376404you just made that up
>>720376016It's a mask because it being a face makes me less erect
>>720376540it would be extremely painful
>>720376016If I pull that mask off, would she die?
>>7203765404 u
>>720376404>>720376552he is right, the mask represent their sapient. Without the mask they are nothing but mindless beast, thats why the jailor let the mask stays put. Cause what fun there is to torment bunch of mindless beasts?
>>720376284it's too early to think too deep anon
>>720376249Also the millions of failed kin, no reason to carve masks for disposable experiments, so they must have them naturally.
>>720376681>mindless bugs also have masksthat's bullshit but I believe it
>>720376759beneath the mask...is another mask.
>>720376617shes a small girl
>>720376016Seems like only first generation Weavers have actual heads that look chitinous, later generations spider like creature wear masks at least as a tradition.
>>720376127Bugs have mad respect for masks and even the most sicko crimials wouldn't dare to touch it
>name is Hornet>is a spiderhmmm
did you guy see all the other spiders and weavers? they all have 4 legs and beastly as fuck. Hornet looks bipedal because her father is a god. I think human exists in this world as ultimate high tier being. We are born with sapient. The ability to grant other bugs sapient is considered godly and holy. White wyrm probably modelled his form after human
>>720376016theres literally mask makers in both games
>>720376948she was trained and raised by bees
>>720376948>Nickname taken after her masterIt just makes sense without any explanation
>>720376885>spineThey are bugs, they don't have spines. I just assume Hornet meant back.
>>720376948The part before the final boss in Silksong is a flashback that goes through Hornet's entire history.
>>720377173hornet and little ghost has spines. They are an anomaly among the bugs. Their bodies are very different from all other.Pale king probably modelled his form after human and passed that down to hornet and lil ghost.
>>720377173>I just assume [HEADCANON]
>>720376986The Hollow King did not bestow sapience among the bugs, that was revisionist cope by his government to legitimize his rule. Just like how he claims Hallownest is the first and only civilization when that's clearly untrue, the weavers and mantises and moths all existed before he rolled in to town.
>>720377173It'd be interesting if anthropomorphism in HK world is something that comes with becoming more sentient and like higher IQ or more godlike powerful.
>>720376016>Somehow, we are still unsure if the white part is a mask or a face.Retard it's a mask, go talk to the mask maker.
>>720376016Dialogue with mask maker in Silksong confirms it's a mask.
While we're talking lore, doesn't the act 3 ending pretty much confirm that the radiance ending is the canon ending of the first game?
>hehe i'm a lil spider, let me just get some cool silk pow-ACH!!!CURSED!!!
>>720377173it's funny because the nervous system located in verterbrate spines is actually in the front of bugs' bodies, not their backs.
>>720377589is this the origin of the weaver? they were just mindless little bugs?
>>720377561No because it doesn't explain the Shade Lord's appearance.
Bugs are too weird.I don't trust like that.Fuck em.
>>720377669What do you mean? The only only ending where the knight takes on the form we see in act 3 is the radiance ending, no? Isn't the implication that the knight now just exists in the void?
I could destroy everyone in hollow knight with my hand alone
>>720377718my canon is human the ultimate high tier being. Everything we touch or in close proximity with us is granted soul or some spark of soul. Likes how we anthropomorphize everything and anything, pic related. White wyrm and every other godly bugs were probably once upon a time, someone's pet.
>>720376016I think it is her real face. There is a flashback where we can see her as a baby,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShB9kffj-Wk
put it back on
>>720377718Bugs are not weird, they're cool>fuck emdo not
>>720377654It seems like it. The final boss gave them silk and with that sentience, but then spideers have managed to gain independent control of silk themselves, resisted the big bad and fled, dispersing around the world.
praying mantis is the only bug that can turn its head
>>720376016No one cared who she was until she put on the mask
Feeding buggies sugar cubes until they get fat <3
>>720377413He possibly did with his direct entourage like mother Silk did with the weavers
>>720377561Isn't delicate flower the canon ending?
>>720378389>>720378262who is stronger 1v1, radiance vs pale king vs mother silk
>>720377718Most of the bugs are cool and some are even cute>fuck em Don't mind if I do
>>720378375>fat>exoskeletonhow
>>720378403its the best good ending. hallowed nest is safe, radiance is dead, the void is sealed, and our little ghost might still alive in there, some where.
>>720376681You just made that up too
>>720378467Seems like Radiance and Void are more of a forces of nature, elements of creation, so they are stronger. Dynamic between them is like Titans vs Greek gods.
>>720378573it is canon. little ghost is shade lord now. one of the song of silksong is called sister of the void.lil ghost is the void now. He rules that shit.
>>720378573He clearly IS still alive in there considering he showed up, had the void lift hornet and lace out after they fucked up the super super jump and set them gently on the ground.
>>720378126>throw pic related off a cliff>bounces of the ground ad survivesyep, weirdo
>>720378678Void yes, Radiance doesn't seem like one though, especially since HK only happens because she's a SORE LOSER
>>720378389There was also the ancient bug civilization thst built the soul statues and other stuff, like the creepy bug you get shade cloak from that even responds when you dream nail it.
>>720378752BASEDmy little ghosthe is so fucking badassquiet hero.not emotionless but extremely dull emotion wise.not without a will, instead his will molded the void itselfwithout a voice because his actions do all the talkLittle ghost is so fucking great as a character
>>720376806>zombies also wear clothes
>where does honey come from?>bees just fucking make it, i guess>find out it's all a trick in the human boxes>the queen bee goes around laying eggs>normal bees make honey for the eggs>but the queen bee can't access part of the human box>but the normal bees can and they keep adding honey>humans steal the honeyhow in hell did we figure that one out?
>>720378759sucks to be a giant fat fuck huh>be elephant>trip>die
>>720378126Some bugs like beetles and bees are coolOthers like flies and cockroaches are cuntsAnd mosquitoes literally killed more humans than anything else in history
You don't need a mask
>>720378895nooo not the zombies, the actual animal bugs walking around like the literal cockroaches in pharloom's surface
>>720376016Pretty sure NPCs in the game mention that she has a mask several times
it's more like a helmet than a mask
>>720378936you vil wear ze mask
>>720377751Pay closer attention to the ending sequence and you should see this entity flash for a brief moment. This is the Knight's true form after his ascension in Godhome.
>>720378525They just get bigger
>>720378761I imagine they are like any force of nature strong, but easily manipulated by rules and science and shit. What pale king and potentially other godlike smart being can exploit. They are like a genies, all powerful but bound by rules.
>>720379005MOOOODS!!!
>random artist tries to unmask a never before unmasked character Cringe
>>720379154>artist tries to make an thing of imagination a realityyeeesh, how could they
>>720379034no this is his true form
>>720376016Was Hornet always of spider decent in the first game
>>720379005needs silky pubes
>>720379338Yes
>>720379034super form>>720379274actual formthe endings don't disprove either since knight dips into the void after anal raping mothra, he returns to the void with his brethren, except for Hollow Knight.do you fuckers even anime? Shadelord can easily be a megazord type superform.
If a human popped up out of nowhere what would the bug peoples reaction be?
>>720379274man I fucking love this trope. the main character of the first game is now the strongest and only show up in some glimpse and rare situation to save the day
>>720379436>sex
>>720379416In the non-godhome good ending the hollow knight also returns to the void, but he is nowhere to be seen in the silksong ending. Also the knight only gets the shadelord form in the godhome ending.
>>720379034This is Knight giving purpose (to kill radiance) to all the rest of the chaotic Void. Knight's void like form is more basic.
>>720376016Eskimo kissies... smoochies...
>>720379436worshipfearisolation faction vs cozy up to human faction
>>720376016>“But do you still love me even without the Mask on?”
>>720376016How? You can meet a mask maker in the game that flat out tells you Hornet wears a mask.
>>720379436you’d destroy their mind
>>720376016it's clearly a mask , retard
>>720376016there's mask master in the game and he tells you that hornet doesn't need a mask since she's already wearing one
>>720379586and their burrow too. Hallownest is probably someone's yard.
>>720379436Humans are too big and alien, like 4th dimension creatures, they can't even perceive them.
>>720377007Bees are also not hornets
>>720379668some definitely can, likes dragon fly
Explain me the cursed ending lore
>>720379668More to the point, if the "surface" we see is truly the surface of the planet, I doubt humans are around anymore
>>720376016They're just black goo
>>720376016Who cares when Hornet is well used goods
>>720379436>>720379668>>720379767What makes you guys think humans existed in the first place?>muh nail>muh needleit's just cute design, the bugs clearly make their own needles and nails and they are way too small to have been used by a human.
>>720379436Are bugs here not human sized? Thought someone was talking about size of a dew on the grass in game
>>720379767human as super ancient primordial gods? nuclear wars destroy the surface and gives raise to sentient bugs. some shelter remains after all those years with human in cryo.could be possible as a setting, maybe prequel game.
>nikakado post appears>after that this cuck retarded shit is being postedYou make it too obvious
>>720379436>Another cringe human self insert isekai
>>720379856Only retards who fapped to her give a shit.
>>720379952why the fuck not I loved the bug life, ant bully and arthur and the invisibles as a kid. still do really
>>720379864The scale is something that has evidence for both interpretations. Sometimes you see little scuttling background creatures that are very very tiny but then other times you have comically huge vegetation. I personally like the small bug theory because the idea of a thumb-sized Hornet is cute.
>>720379997lol noonly schizo cares because he hates these threads
>>720380050Then be a bug. Bug up and make your bug OC
>>720380076there are bees in the game, we know the size of bee right.
>>720376404So they're like teeny little Bionacles?
>>720380121how the fuck do I bug up
>>720380076I think they're probably slightly larger than the average doll.
>>720376016Here's the face of the weaver midwife in Hollow Knight.
>>720379668I've held eye contact with bugs. Also many species know exactly what we are, in their insectoid way. Hyperdimensional sure, but not incomprehensible.
>>720377589Garden of Eden moment?
>>720380148Yes, HK is essentially Bionicles but bugs
>>720380129There are 5 bee enemy types in hollow knight and they range from half the knight's size to 10x bigger.
>>720380203I assume Hornet only has 2 eyes due to being half of the Pale King.>>720380204
>>720380191Just bee yourself
>>720379856Silksisters she was supposed to be for us...
>>720380264Would kiss that thing
>>720379952>Not wanting to have a game where you are a giant intervening on the behalf of the little people either hurting or aiding them depending on your mood
>>720380264what the fuck was her problem?
>>720380392Black&White exists. And the tard giant is my personal slave
>>720380409She's just a little hungry, give her a hand
>/v/ posters literally look at this and scream: "MY GOAT"
Okay but why are bugs singing? Why do they like singing so much?
>>720380194If we're to go with terrestrial physics and genetics, this would require drastic mutation, like severe microchimerism from endoskeleton dna.
>>720376948Hot take they should have put a hornet named Spider in the game.
>>720378761The Radiance is the God of Dreams, which is why PK initially had defeated her by having the Moths just forget the Radiance, if she's not in anyone's mind, she doesn't really exist.She comes back because someone had built a statue to her atop Crystal Peak, which meant someone could start remembering her.She also has a partial counterpart in the Nightmare Heart, which is probably the actual God behind Grimm, with the association being strengthened by making Grimm partially based off the Vampire Moth.
>>720380194based on the bee size, pale king wyrm form is around our knee height. all other bugs are nail sized
>>720380490The question is why don't we sing more often
>>720380531This is a retarded train of logic to go down because explaining the void or radiance with anything but "lol magic" is just not gonna happen
>>720379005Hornet. Stripped. Bared. Caged. Shamed. It's actually a really cool game moment.
>>720380531>this is what the bell beast looks like without the cartoon moe filter
>>720380736show me what little ghost and hornet looks like without the moe filter
>>720376284No, for some people it's their actual face.It's a mask for all the spiders I'd say though.
>>720380707Fair enough. I've never even played, but why not both?
>>720379436I used to have this idea that all the Humans died out and the Gods needed worship to survive so they used the only things that had survived: bugs, to become their new worshippers and followers instead.
>>720380628you will never be an arthropod
>>720376016isn't it obvious
>>720380789
>>720381221Would
>>720380484MY GOAT
>>720376016>Character is named Hornet>Draw a spider???
I don't know why but for some reason silksong really made me feel more aware of the bug people's weird biology more then than the first game or even other bug people games. I think it's just how many more times they talked about their "shells". It really knocked itninto my head that they are crispy crunchy creatures.
>>720381926Game loreShe is a half spider, half worm
>>720381926>Character is named Wolfgang>Could he still be alive????
>>720379439except now you have to explain why he didn't just solve every problem of act 3 by himself
>>720376016she looks like a nortubel character
>mount fay after the second bench>the part with the water>btw you can break the light :)FUCK TEAM CHERRY
>>720376016Since theyre chitinids i think their mask is also their hide
>>720382242Because void is its own thing still.Using an analogy, if he was made of water he wouldn't be able to control all the water in the oceans. But if he was near a city he could stop a tsunami happening there. He can't order all water to be still, only some part of it.
>>720382374>tfw mount fay courier quest
>>720379859it's everybody's favourite stupid ass theory, along with trying to interconnect different settings into some shared universesee also: snowy level in kirby 64
>>720379436>holy shit what the fuck is that AAAAAAAAH WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
>>720382749what is the reason why he couldn't just pop over from beneath hallownest and OHKO lost lace as soon as the problem began? was there traffic?
>>720380484For all the Shadelord annie-may powerscaling wankery, I think the first tier of Knight's statue in godhome is the coolest.>No bug, nor beast, nor god
>>720380484I blame flash game nostalgia for the popularity of this game
Do the masks make the bugs sentient? Just the weavers? Where did the first mask come from then? There are clearly intelligent bugs who don't wear the mask.
>>720383025Why do humans wear clothing?
>>720382909It could be simply that he didn't know it was happening yet. The time scale in those kind of games is always wonky. It could take Hornet anything from hours to days to get to the bottom of void lake, and it's simply a fact that knight got to her just as her flower broke.
>>720382989>creepy-cute toony bugs>flash game nostalgiaYou can just say cartoons are for stupid babies, what even is this retarded cope? Have you motherfuckers never seen 2D animation before? Outlines too thick for your refined tastes?
>>720379668If they're bug sized I don't think they could perceive us as anything but a titanic moving mass. A living mountain.
>>720382242He was trapped in the flower dimension from the alternative godhome ending.
>>720383125Bugs didn't commit original sin.
does she say shaw if she sits on your lap
>>720380484A Mind to Remember A Will Unbreakable.No Voice But the Weight of their DeedsAn Idea Instilled, to create the strongest thing in the world.MY GOATYGOAT
Where can I find the key of the Apostate?Where can I find an ornate key? I'm lost as fuck and I'm running out of places to explore
>>720383408Only if you pet her
>>720383575Apostate key is in lower putrified ducts if I'm remembering correctly. You can enter that area from either bilewater or memorium if you have the double jump.
>>720383703spoilers bro he didn't ask for all that
>>720379436depends on what they do, I'd capture them and make them fight like those japanese insect brawls
>>720383183it's the visual inconsistency of painted backgrounds with simple vector toons in the foreground
>>720380648>she comes back because someone had built a statue to her atop crystal peak>which meant someone could start remembering herThese are contradictory, if someone was able to build a statue of her then she wasn't actually forgotten.
>>720379436>legendary hero goes to fight the giants >disappears, with tons of stories about how he must have died gloriously in battle against the monsters >you eventually find him chilling in a bowl eating a comically sized peice of fruit
>>720383762Do you ever shut the fuck up? Are you blind, too? The whole game is dynamically lit.
>>720377654Literally all the bugs in the hk universe were mindless bugs until a godly being gave them sentience in some form.
>>720383025Masks are individual. They grant you a personality, and thus an ego, to think and act separately from the hive.
>>720383127To be fair, The Flower counteracts the Void, the White Lady even says the Knight wouldn't touch it if it knew what it could do.It's possible he in a pure Void form literally couldn't help until the Flower was gone.
>>720381102Actually a cool idea. It fits well!
>>720383930I own your game, I can give my opinion, and in my opinion, your game is ugly
>>720383762>painted backgrounds>vectorsI'll file you under the "motherfuckers who never seen 2D animation before" then.
>>720384129>90 minutes
>>720376885>mask was forcibly removedSounds like the masks are inherently bound to the sapient bugs' faces.
>>720383850The Moths built the staute ages before.Miners broke through the top of Crystal Peak and found the statue.I suppose remembering her is a bad choice of words in that sense.
>>720384157yes, I dropped it because of how ugly and empty it was
>>720376016Its called a mask a few times in game
>>720384227And you didn't refund it considering you're under two hours of playtime?Boy, you are a special kind of cuck.
Are the bugs in that world human size or similar size or they are bug size and everything is happening in a micro scale and for whatever reason there is lava 5cms below the ground and fucking ice peaks just 5 cms above ground level?
So is this nigga gay or what? He’s got a little bit of zest to his voice if you know what I’m saying
>>720379436Sex with the human men
>>720378897By looking at bees before we had games
>>720384335I think they're between human sized and bug sized.
>>720384425Bug girl onahole...
>>720384227Did you even leave the forgotten crossroads?
>>720384284I share my steam with my family and I'm not a poorfagmy brother played it
>>720382242Considering all endings are somehow canon, my personal interpretation is that after dream no more and some of the godhome endings there’s an implication the knight is just chilling in the endless void with all their siblings.
>>720384587what do they play
>>720378897bees produce more honey than they need anyway, they can become "honeybound/locked" if they produce too much honey where they start placing it in the egg chambers, leaving the queen with nowhere to lay eggs which will kill the hive over time
>>720378897>stealit's called paying rent. they're free to make hives in their stupid bear infested forests without good flowers if they don't want to give me honey.
>>720384573you're the retarded child no one likes... brutal
>>720378897>human see animals fight bees to get the honey>they get stung when trying to do the same>human learn that bees fear fire and smoke>use fire and smoke to kill the colony and get the honey>some time later>human start to plant crops>human see bee hives around crops>do as before but then no more bees>notice that bees make hives in left over boxes and shit around the crops>human make boxes for hives to grow by the crops to get easy access to honey>bees still dying when collecting>notice that bees grow their gives naturally in separated walls>design boxes to have separated walls so you can easily collect honey one wall at a time>don't have to kill the bees anymore>advance from there until you develop a way to trick bees into making honey they can't use at all
>>720384425Damn... Oxygen levels must be off the chart
>>720384679what kind of highschool level insult is that? lol
>>720384918not an insult just realityyou should strive to be better, don't live on resentment
>>720376016There are bugs that wear masks, and bugs that have shells. Masks are masked-shaped, and are seen a few times in HK with bugs who remove them, usually when attacking. Hornet, and the knight, have shells, not masks. They make up their entire head are not just covering their face.This is muddied because shells are also referred to, metaphorically, as masks. This leads to the confusion in this thread.
>>720384635Tag
>>720384972Furthermore, notice how Hornet's head is clearly different from the midwife's:>>720380264This is the difference between shell and mask.
>>720384425I think Hornet is exactly the right height so that her head is at waist level to a human man.
>>720385437Perfect for headpatting!!!
How do you think having tentacles infesting your shell feels....
>>720380484Him showing up for 30 seconds in a cutscene made Silksong go from a 7/10 to a 9/10 unironically.
>>720376016Mask stays ON
>>720376016>b-b-bugs are not furshit
>>720384383She already got bugged multiple times
>>720385990You'll never score
>>720384635Connect 4
>>720376016No, we know it is a Mask because she tells the Mask Maker that it is. I kind off wish at the end she took it off so we can see her face. I doubt it looks anything like the Midwife, but I like most interpretations that it is a very spider like face that is more soft. Remember though that masks allow bugs to focus and remove certain undesirable natures. If she removes her mask, it means she is lifting a constraint and might do something unpredictable.
Missed opportunity. She should be taking the mask off in the final screen if you finish in XX hours.
>>720380484>Game spends over 20 hours building upon Pharloom and Grandmother Silk as a goddess and her Kingdom>Silk as a mystical defining property>Grandmother Silk the local tyrannical deity>Weavers as a now gone but powerful civilization and culture so important that Hornet gets new abilities from interacting with their remaining bodies and shrines>The Void shows up ONCE>Completely BTFO's all of them and hijacks the storyline as the current apocalyptic event>Is literally described by Hornet as a curse even worse than the Haunting caused by Grandma Silk>at the true ending its revealed that the portion of Abyss that nearly devoured Pharloom is literally just the mindless serpent entities trying to eat Grandma Silk and her lashing out>The moment this guy shows up he casually beats up the local abyss entities and is essentially THEIR bossMY FUCKING GOAT
>>720386246Im going to rape you
>>720386289I'm pretty sure it was more literal. Masks are made for all the bugs with a literal dune sandworm head so they can fit in society along all the ones born with an actual face.All the instincts were something separate, everyone infected by Radiance goo still had a mask on.
>>720384375He's just an artist. There are actual gay bugs in Silksong that are genuinely pretty fuckable too!
>>720382242Because Silk was forcing the Void up away from herself. The Knight couldn't control it, because it was trying to violently destroy an invader and inadvertently destroying Pharloom. Remember that Silk and Soul are linked and Void reacts to Soul and seeks it. So the silk going back up to Pharloom just meant that the Void traveled up it. Even if the Knight could control it, trying to attack Silk even harder would have just meant that more Void gets forced to the surface, destroying even more shit up there.
>Hurr take off mask at the endNah fuck off retards. Shit like this ruins everything
>>720384335It is hard to tell just how "big" everything is. We know Pharloom is entirely contained underground, unlike Hallownest, where the Crystal Peaks were on the surface. There is a secret above the Cradle to get to the Surface and find a ruined village.
>>720386772>Fight him>Get conjoined heart>Implications out the ass that he and his lover were conjoined siblings that were separated.Not just gay, but gay incest. Man Team Cherry, really pushing boundaries here.
So were are all the bone fragments coming from?Bugs don't have bones, they have exoskeletons.The Marrow is basically a giant beast with all the ribcages around
>>720380692Fucking truth nuke right here.
>>720387653Team Cherry approving of all the Hornet x Ghost incest porn.
>>720387724We have many instances of creatures that aren't bugs in Hollow Knight, but never anything on that scale. Wouldn't be surprising though. All the Skarr/the ants have Bone weapons, imagine them taking down some kind of mammal for them.
>>720380692Fact. Singing and dancing are some of the most primal human activities and are meant as a communal bonding experience. The fact that we turned them into a performance that you can be judged and ridiculed for if you're not good enough is psychological torture on a cultural scale.People feeling the urge to sit around a fire and exchange songs is literally them trying to answer to a call from inside their very DNA.
>>720380490Vibrations. it's serious science thing that is discussed enough.
>>720376016Wait, if she is a spider then why does she only have 4 legs?
>>720389654She's half limbless wyrm. So her limbs are an average of 8 and 0.
>>720389654She's only half spider.
>>720376016I find it funny people keep drawing her fucking her half brother
>>720388280there's also the weird void worshippers
>>720376127Maybe she'll die without mask
>>720376016Bionicle rules.
>>720384335The existence of bells at the scale shown in Silksong makes it impossible for them to be bug sized.Bells simply cannot produce those long resonant tones at a tiny scale.
>>720378074Very cute
>>720390537For theee
>>720376016she is a spider, a member of the Beast Tribe/Deep Nest in Hollow Knight 1.
>>720379436>iron giant wielding a massive slab of iron not shaped like any nail or needle>helmet get knocked loose >the bugs recoil and vomit from pure horror upon seeing the eldritch tier mammalian features Would be kino not gonna lie.
>>720383125A woman made man eat an apple so God IP banned them from Eden.
>>720391176heide knight my beloved
>>720378467pale king with as much prep time as needed (he ended up killing both of them and gave the void mind)
Anyone else start the witch crest quest and then go and get infested with maggots and then jerk off to then idea of her shell being completely infested with creepy crawling wriggling things?
>>720376127Taking a Weaver-kin's mask would be tantamount to literal actual blasphemy for them.
>>720378467Mother Silk explicitly destroyed all her rivals in and around the area she would forge Pharloom and is implicitly far older than both the Pale King and the Radiance. She is also notably IMMUNE to the methods used to bind and dispose of Gods in the setting, whether by beating her into submission (she entraps Hornet anyway), cursing her to keep her trapped (breaks out and returns in full regardless), or outright using the very thing that killed the Radiance in the form of the Void, which she outright resists and is the entire reason why Act 3 happens.Had the Weavers not betrayed her and caused her to go mad with grief, and had the Pale King not specifically founded Hallownest in what were effectively the fucking boonies, she'd have run roughshod over everyone.
>she>her
>>720392868>far older than both the Pale King and the Radiance>source: my ass
>>720379436They'd just think we're a weird new type of bug. We lack any features that would inherently repulse them and many of them have seen or fought worse.
>>720392868>pale king goes to the middle of fucking nowhere to make his kingdom>accidentally builds it on top of the moth tribe and their insane dream godpoor dude cant catch a break
>>720392992>We lack any features that would inherently repulse themi dunno about thatIRL bugs don't like our skin oilswe would probably be seen as gross slimy things
>>720380076The literally bug-sized scale explicitly doesn't make sense with how massive Pharloom's Citadel is. They're far more likely to be human sized.
>>720382242Because Silk was resisting and forcing the Void away from her, by latching onto Pharloom causing the Void to travel up her silk and devastate the city. He COULD have stopped it if she wasn't resisting but because she was, directly intervening would have just hastened Pharloom's destruction.
>>720384335The bells and other constructs in Pharloom (including literal pipe organs) would not function if they were bug sized.
>>720393340but they do function. therefore they would.
>>720392982Pharloom is mentioned multiple times to be old as dirt, extremely advanced and the region explicitly had multiple other civilizations and rivals to Silk before she destroyed them. We don't know how old Hallownest is exactly, but there are multiple non-deity characters still around who met with the Pale King in his post-Wyrm form so it's maybe a couple thousand years old at an upper end. As for the Radiance, we don't know how long she and her moth creations existed either, but I personally doubt they were significantly older than whatever deities were present in Pharloom's region before Silk exterminated them. We also know that when the Pale King had founded Hallownest, the Weavers had already migrated there, meaning that they can't have been made recently at all nor was their break from their mother a recent affair - it had to have happened well before Hallownest's founding.
>>720393340And arthropods with spiracles and book lungs would suffocate instantly at human scale.
Petting Hornet with cotton swab
>>720393940Most of these bugs are being ascended to sapient thought through literal God magic, so I don't think that bioligical hiccup really applies. Especially because several of the larger bugs would blatantly collapse under their own weight due to the sheer size and thickness of their shells even in a realistic environment.
>>720382075don't worry anon, I laughed
>>720376016Her true faceis a mix of transmetal 2 blackarachnia and mary jane watson
>>720377413pale king granting sapeience is 100% realthere's a corpse in the cliffs next to the wasteland that gives dialogue about losing it's mind when it's dream nailed
I like the idea that they're human sized because that means I can imagine myself having cool adventures in the magic bug world.
>>720394664Is your imagination really that limited?
>>720392868>>720392982>>720393839I will give that maybe the Radiance would stand a better chance if she hadn't been weakened and forgotten for literal ages, but it's unlikely. Silk is a well experienced godkiller by the time Silksong starts and has never lost to any rival in an actual contest of strength. At most, back at her height, the Radiance had the faith of all the moths but I'm not sure that would be rnoughto bridge the sheer gap given Silk did her thing well before she could mainline off of the raw faith of all of Pharloom.There's also the fact that the literal Void which ended the Radiance for good, even in the non-Godhome endings was NOT enough to destroy Silk and she was actively resisting it hard enough that Pharloom would probably be destroyed by it long before it could kill her. There's probably a reason the Godseekers came all the way out to Hallownest of all places with its mostly dead, sealed, or heavily diminished deities instead of going to Pharloom with its still alive and immensely powerful god.
>>720394664There's bugs of all sizes, but the most vegetation We see are shitty roots and moss, so they're tiny.Also just shrink fantasy My man it's that easy.
>>720395027We see grass. And roots can be enormous and larger than people even IRL.
>>720394859I mean, then I'd either have to imagine myself being way too big to interact with anything in the setting, or imagine myself shrinking down, which I just don't like the idea of, probably for deep psychological reasons.>>720395027They could just have different vegetation from ours.
>>720395131I can accept human sized Hornet, but moss has no right to become big. All moss must be small blobs, no exception. Total moss racism.
>>720380484Bro passed on one game ago, and still manage to hijack the sequel to make it all about HIM
Hornet is as small as possible while still being able to take an average sized human penis without pain or damage. So maybe the size of a medium dog or 5th grader. I feel this is a decent compromise between people who want small bugs and people who want big bugs.
What do spiders need all those eyes for anyway?
>>720395756The better to see you with my dear
>>720395131Counter-example, Isma's Grove has gigantic vines with leaves bigger than the knight.
If she's a spider what kind of bug was the knight?
>>720396214>he didn'ted played hollowed knight 1: voidheartlole
>>720396214A literal nothing bug.
>>720396214Half shrunk down wyrm half root.I don't know why that kinda adds up into a guy that looks kinda like the generic skinny beatles. Or whatever zote is.
>>720381221they don't even have 4 legs you daft wazzock
>>720396375he's a void blob dudehis sole identifying feature is a mask like any other bug could have
>>720396214Half Wyrm half divine mycelium. Aka "we have no idea what the actual fuck this is".
>>720396375I chalk that down to the Void stripping out any identifying features and reducing its victims to vaguely uneasing nothingness in a shell.
>>720393083Bugs love our skin oils. Fleas, flies, lice, etc
>>720396214Half worm half nothing. Like literally one out of hundreds homunculus made after the pale king jizzed into the abyss
I love how kind and polite Hornet is.
>>720396785Shouldn't it be the Pale King as the artist commentary and the White Lady crying?
>>720397064the pale king jizzed into the white lady's treepussy IDIOT
>>720397094Until she slaps you in the face or threatens to kill you.
>>720397458t. creep who tried to molest her or peep on her in the bathtub
>>720397458junior should have shown more face to his elder
>>720379005How did they make a stick figure wearing a toilet seat so sexy?
>>720379668This is why women can't see my dick
>>720397956she's literally engineered to be the perfect bugwife
>>720397904Hornet is NOT a xianxia cultivator.
She's just Muffet under the mask.
>>720395662>So maybe the size of a medium dog or 5th graderJust say "Midna", don't make it weird.
>>720398238>generates her own power>face slapping>is an elder with a youthful body>Jadelike beautyAnon, you are courting death with your foolishness
>>720382909The void is fucking huge is my guess and he didn't even know Hornet was there until some void tendrils started sperging out.That or she was doing fine on her own and he only helped when he saw she was about to die.
>>720386130Not by a human tho
>>720382242He has no reason to helpHis job was always to kill the Radiance/stop the infection, he got no reason to help Pharloom and neither does Hornet reallyHe only helped because Hornet's his sibling and she was gonna get killed
>>720397094All those years of taking bug cock must have mellowed her out
If the white thing is not her actual face then how did she drink the nectar you can buy at the Halfway Home in Greymoor?
>>720400009put her hand in and absorbed it
>>720387653I see team cherry was inspired.
>720386130>720399379Uh oh melty
>>720397094I'm surprised at how appealing a character she is despite being "plain"? Normally her archetype would be boring but she just comes across as determined and cool
>>720376016>Reverse Ralsei
>>720401076Good and tasteful writing will do that
>>720400858>>720387653>incestnic->gayguards, send him to the prisons
>>720382909GM Silk is literally making a cocoon of Silk that keeps away the Void, little bro is obviously completely made up of Void at this point.
>>720401076I like how frank she is about everything while using refined speechthe hunter journal entries also help by showing other sides of her like her staunch support of total fly death (which is even more understanble if she gets captured)
>>720402042Don't compare my bug to that gay furry dogshit.
>>720387653Its not gay if you're twins, that's just super masturbation.
>>720401076She just has a good balance. Tomboyish but still ladylike. Straightforward but not tactless. Aloof without being careless.She cute.
>>720404154Nuke of truth
>Pressing down on the human’s shell, it gives way, emanating a soothe warmth.>Prodding forward betrays this softness however, and my digit reached some sense of firmness underneath.>I found myself lost exploring their body, a nervous cough snapping out of the trance.
>>720380148>>720380218>Bionicles without maskswat
>>720384635nine sols
>>720404497Now do more.
>>720404348>no image of Hornet sitting cross-legged on top of a big human penis
>>720380789>hornet looks like without the moe filterIsn't she literally pitch black?
>>720379256This but unironically.
>>720397094Is she? She just seems bitchy to everyone she meets.
>>720406218She's friendly to Sherma and other little boys.
>>720380484MY FUCKING GOAT!!!!!!!
There was a fast black bug on my wall and I smashed it with my slippers
>>720406361Are you sure it's dead, anon? What if it parried your slipper?
>>720406293Hornet being a /ss/ demon was not the development I expected, but a welcome one nonetheless.
>>720380789taking my chance to post these
>>720406682
>>720406682H-hornet is so sexy..
>>720406764
>>720376016You can go to the top of mount fay and hit the mask maker with a charged attack to make their mask fall off and show their face. It's a mask.
Forgib?
The true ending was basically everything I wanted in terms of fan service without going past shit I knew Team Cherry wouldn't do.>Ghost makes an appearance>He saves hornets ass>Canonically Ghost IS the shade lordThe only thing that would have made it better without going far into the "TC would never" category is>Ghost showing up in red memoryFor things TC would never do, Hornet mentioning Ghost sparingly in some of the journal entries even before Act 3 or them showing how Ghost affected her as a person would have been neat, but I'm sure TC didn't really want to make references to Hollow Knight until they absolutely had to.
>>720406947ew
>>720406947>not naked>turbo autismo instead of Hina
>>720406764why the fuck is grimm a beetle he's a fucking moth
>>720379351extremely h-hot…
>>720379351Silky stray pubes on the corner of Hornet's mouth.
>>720398891The funny thing is I actually originally typed Midna, then made the conscious choice to go back and change it to what I said.
>>720406987If they don't do any sequels, can Ari just give us some nice comics, I want sibling bonding after all the trio has been through.
>>720405636That's just the vesselsConsidering Hornet's dad was PK (pure white) and her mom was Herrah (dark gray (btw I think most of the normal bugs that are colored black would be a really dark gray instead of the perfect pitch black that should be void exclusive)) I imagine hornet's skin would be a medium gray tone. The black is probably supposed to be armor, going by HK where you see all the segments and pointy bits. In universe armor = shell and it seems most bugs just have it naturally but clearly it can be artificially made and removed (see false knight) but this is either more difficult than humans removing metal armor, or is something only some bugs can do and others might not even know is possible judging by the slab. PK's robe looks like clothes so he's probably naked under them too. Dunno about Herrah but hornet takes more after her dad.>most bugs have natural shells>these may be removable depending on the species>some are born without them like the false knight thing>the vessels are born without shell, the armor HK wears isn't pitch black>hornet probably also doesn't have one naturally and is just wearing HK like armordon't ask me about the masks though, I have no clue what's going on there
>>720408141Zote and Shakra are both pitch black.Also keep in mind we only ever see the Pale King with his wings wrapped around his body, he's never actually shown to be pure white under there.
>>720407304>filenameWhat?
>>720389946PULL MY SPIDER TRIGGER
>>720408357His robes and wings are separate things. In the White Defender fight we see his wings' silhouette at the same time as his robes, plus the shape and size doesn't match.There's plenty of bugs drawn in black like zote and shakra but since they're not void they're probably not supposed to be shadows house tier. At the very least it would be a highly reflective black like some beetle elytras are.
>>720408430https://files.catbox.moe/0wx9lm.png
>>720409130Cute
>>720401906Did you play the music? Gives you a bit of extra backstory.
