#IT WAS A PURE 50% DITHER AHHHHHH

[argiopi]

@scribbleshanks and I have been developing this.

have a first contact concept?

Hollow is kinda late teenage-equivalent[?] here, since I think they’d be a pretty different person if they had opportunity for a friend support system? stressor? since they were very young, but I also couldn’t place it too close to the sealing because when one person is conditioned to be so extremely reticent it takes a long time for bonds to form.

The collector was constructed later than other kingsmoulds, as part of a batch of replacements for destroyed ones, and has.. maybe, a flaw in the armor-shell that binds the void and is meant to inhibit them. They’re kind of astute in an oblivious way. You know, the kind of observant nature that makes you able to find 46 obscure niches to stow grubs in, without the bare minimum social wisdom to understand that you should not steal children. A piercing fool. hey, the vessel must be pretty upset about its future! <- has not grasped that the vessel is also meant to maintain stoicism.

And this is the first time that someone has acknowledged the extant emotional status of the hollow knight.