18 Works in Mentioned Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
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A knight without a kingdom, bereft of duty, without her monarchs, is no knight at all.
Dryya wakes in the Queen's Gardens months after her death, confused and alone. The White Lady is gone. There are no more infected mantises polluting her Lady's realm, just a scattered collection of mutated wild animals. She has stood valiantly at her post for three centuries. Without her Queen, what is she to do?
Without purpose for the first time in almost a millennia, Dryya must forge herself a new one: she will reassemble her lost knights and do what she can to put the broken remnants of her King's realm back together. But much time has passed since her quasi-exile in the Gardens, and much that once was is now lost. Despite her long centuries as a warrior of unparalleled might, Dryya will learn that the toughest battles are those that come when there are no enemies left to fight.
Disclaimer: This is an intensive character study and an extremely long-form fic, covering the events of Dryya's very long life from the birth of Hallownest to long after its fall. Slow burn. Extremely extensive flashbacks which start early on. Read the tags.
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- Part 1 of The Pale Remnant
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A ficlet where the Pale King goes for a stroll through the palace at night and mourns his lost sons.
Takes place in my Alternate Universe.
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After five years of being stuck in a dream, a vessel named Ghost wakes up in an unfamiliar place with a strange talisman in their claws. They quickly get knocked out by a guard, but not before they see a flash of a memory that's not their own—and has the scent of a missing sibling. And that talisman activates when it comes in contact with the memory. Meanwhile, a princess named Hornet secretly watches a guard knock out an intruder who shares the scent of a lost sibling—and she can't stop herself from rescuing them.
Ghost's talisman has just activated a trail of memories that only four can see—Ghost, Hornet, a former knight named Senti, and an unwanted heir named Phantom. Each has been desperate to find a sibling (or siblings) who disappeared five years ago, and as it turns out, this memory trail was left by those very siblings. Following the memories, these four must work together to travel across the kingdoms of Hallownest and Pharloom and uncover the truth—and they will set off a chain of events that will shake this world to its core.
Or: I forced my current four favorite characters (Ghost, Hornet, Phantom, and Second Sentinel) to party up, then sent them on a quest to find their siblings
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- Part 1 of Memory Trail
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Ghost wasn’t sure what compelled it to return to the Blue Lake before making its way to the Black Egg Temple, but finding Quirrel there, getting a chance for final goodbye, is a pleasant surprise.
However… they recognize the far-off look in his eyes, the exhaustion in his voice. They know they will never see him again once they leave—and not just because of their own fate.
It’d be hypocritical of them to stop him, and they refuse to be a hypocrite. Refuse to deny him that rest that he deserves.
…It has never claimed to be selfless, though, and it will gladly take a final moment of selfishness and stay with him a little longer. -
If to be tool means being devoid of life, feeling and myself. Better not be tool at all. by Saltynotstraight
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
17 Nov 2025
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My name is Ray. I am a seventeen year old.
The past few days i've come to terms with the fact of my mother's lack of genuineness on me. And in my strain to stop battling against myself, from justification of her actions and resignation—i've written. Through the reflection of a piece of fiction that's saved many before. I think it also serves well as a reflection on depth of the character.
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The knight’s perspective of the true ending of Silksong
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...or, 6 times the Knight met Hornet, and 6 times they learned something.
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- Part 2 of Copper's Hollow Knight fics
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🪻No voice to cry suffering (so I will give up mine)🪻 by ThatOneRandomMultifandomArtist (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
17 Oct 2024
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No cost too great.
No mind to think.
No will to break.
No voice to cry suffering.
Born of God and Void.
They shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams.
They are the Vessel.They are the Hollow Knight.
(THIS WAS MANY YEARS AGO BEFORE ANY OF THE S.A.F. STORY CAME INTO PLAY)
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- Part 1 of Snow and Forest Side Stories
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- English
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- 465
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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“I run in a void … [or] maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire the void.” - Haruki Murakami
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The Knight has learned the truth, and now they prepare to face their final battle.
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Sapients: A Compendium of Knowledge on Known Intelligent Species by tilebiter
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
28 Apr 2024
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An excerpt from Sapients - a multikingdom collaboration with the goal of cataloguing all intelligent, non-divine species of the known world. Several species pose… problems… for the shut-in scholars trying to gain information about them. One species in particular.
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Hornet is struggling more than usual with some old wounds, Quirrel stops by to help.
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Hornet watched all who entered the old kingdom.
She tested those that might try to break its painful equilibrium.
She found one that met her strength with strength at last.
It came from two voids. It surpassed every obstacle. It was enough.
It should have been.
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Hornet watched all those who entered the old kingdom. Had she only fought it twice and observed it no more than that, perhaps she would have been content.
But instead, it grew harder and harder to hope the little ghost of Hallownest was any emptier than their birth-cursed kin had been.
So how was she meant to hope it could supplant the vessel? -
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Scribbling away at the Hunters Journal Grimmchild observers and becomes increasingly confused.
(Grimmchilds Pov so the narration is a little funky)
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A Conversation Between Queen and Child. by Joyoustar
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
05 Feb 2023
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Hornet asks to meet with the White Lady. The topic? The vessels come up into Hallownest.
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Delicate Petals for a Compassionate Soul by orphan_account
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
14 Jan 2022
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Hornet recalls some memories with her little sibling when she goes to put them at peace in the Resting Grounds.
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A random citizen of Hallownest observed their closet king, in his god-tier stealth mode, sneaking in the wild. The royal gossip news unit finally got to do its lovely job. Meanwhile, Nightmare King Grimm had been having a no-good, totally shit, downright most stupid time of his life - and the one being responsible for all was oblivious.
Chaos ensued.
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Pendry checks on Thorn a few days after the initial treatment.
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- Part 3 of Off Balance
- Part 11 of Little's Sickfics
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What if the Knight could carry other bugs? What would it do when it came across Tiso, seeming dead in Kingdom's Edge? It had grown close to Tiso. It will not let him died in the ash.